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Emily Gallagher

Democratic · NY · New York State Assemblymember, District 50

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New York State Assemblymember for District 50 and former educator and public historian focused on housing, renewable energy, government transparency, and street safety.

Where Emily Gallagher stands, based on their records

Supports

AI Regulation (1 record), Healthcare Affordability (3 records), Environment and Public Health (13 records),

Campaign finance information not available

Track record

Track record — AI Regulation

AI Regulation · 1 support
  • Prime-sponsored legislation prohibiting employers from using wage-fixing algorithms with personal or behavioral data to set compensation.

    January 21, 2026Supports AI Regulation

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Healthcare Affordability

Healthcare Affordability · 3 support
  • Passed her Substance Use Disorder Treatment Bill of Rights, requiring treatment facilities to clearly communicate patients' rights and protections from abuse.

    June 26, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring state-certified substance-use treatment providers to operate tobacco-limited or tobacco-free facilities.

    January 16, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring drug manufacturers to disclose and explain large price increases, with public reporting and penalties for noncompliance.

    January 16, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Environment and Public Health

Environment and Public Health · 13 support
  • Passed the No Toxic Tents Act, removing a state requirement that tents contain hazardous flame-retardant chemicals.

    June 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Passed the SUNNY Act to legalize plug-in solar panels and remove regulatory barriers for renters and apartment residents.

    June 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Passed legislation allowing a Newtown Creek tributary to support a Blue Highway freight project intended to reduce truck pollution and congestion.

    June 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Secured state-budget funding with Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha for a first-in-New-York green social-housing pilot with permanently affordable rents and resident governance.

    June 26, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Introduced the Pipeline Leaks and Safety Act, requiring gas utilities to publish maps and schedules for planned line repair, replacement, and retirement.

    February 6, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored a study of whether designated fossil-fuel peaker power plants in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island can be closed.

    August 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored an extended-producer-responsibility program for gas cylinders, including collection, recycling, and public education.

    May 5, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored an extended-producer-responsibility program requiring tire producers to finance collection and recycling.

    May 5, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation allowing local water and sewer authorities to charge surface-runoff fees to support stormwater systems.

    February 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation banning anti-fogging sprays and wipes that contain PFAS chemicals.

    February 4, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring state-certified substance-use treatment providers to operate tobacco-limited or tobacco-free facilities.

    January 16, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring major projects near environmental-justice communities to use enhanced public-participation plans.

    January 16, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Co-sponsored the All-Electric Building Act to stop fossil-fuel hookups in most new construction and move buildings toward clean electricity.

    November 1, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Reduce Wealth Gap

Reduce Wealth Gap · 2 support
  • Secured state-budget funding with Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha for a first-in-New-York green social-housing pilot with permanently affordable rents and resident governance.

    June 26, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Joined advocates and legislators in calling for higher taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers to fund public services.

    March 10, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Labor Rights

Labor Rights · 2 support
  • Prime-sponsored legislation prohibiting employers from using wage-fixing algorithms with personal or behavioral data to set compensation.

    January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation restoring the right of public employees and their unions to strike.

    January 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Anti-Corruption

Anti-Corruption · 4 support
  • Prime-sponsored a public database identifying businesses that receive state procurement contracts.

    April 11, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring tax assessors to disclose when computer-assisted models or statistical formulas are used to value property.

    February 24, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation creating a court process to remove an election commissioner for misconduct, incapacity, neglect, or legal disqualification.

    January 16, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Led Assembly passage of the LLC Transparency Act to disclose the people who own limited-liability companies doing business in New York.

    June 20, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Government Efficiency

Government Efficiency · 4 support
  • Publicly urged passage of the REST Act, which would let local governments establish rent-stabilization protections after finding a housing emergency.

    May 20, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring tax assessors to disclose when computer-assisted models or statistical formulas are used to value property.

    February 24, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation expanding the State Commission of Correction from three to nine members and adding expertise requirements.

    January 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring traffic-infraction hearings to be held in person rather than solely by mail or electronic submission.

    January 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control

Public Safety and Crime Control · 8 support
  • Won inclusion of a New York City pilot in the state budget requiring the most persistent speeders to install devices that limit driving to five miles per hour above the speed limit.

    June 26, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Called for passage of the Second Look, Earned Time, and Marvin Mayfield acts to expand sentence review and earned release opportunities.

    May 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation creating criminal liability when corporate decision-makers knowingly cause a catastrophe involving death or serious injury.

    February 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored the Gender Identity Respect, Dignity and Safety Act to protect transgender, gender-nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex people in custody.

    February 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored the Terry Cooper Autopsy Accountability Act to strengthen independent autopsy access and evidence preservation after deaths in custody.

    February 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation treating correctional facilities as publicly assisted housing for enforcement of state human-rights protections.

    February 4, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation expanding the State Commission of Correction from three to nine members and adding expertise requirements.

    January 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring side underride guards and warning devices on certain large trucks operating in New York City.

    January 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Housing Affordability

Housing Affordability · 7 support
  • Secured state-budget funding with Assemblymember Sarahana Shrestha for a first-in-New-York green social-housing pilot with permanently affordable rents and resident governance.

    June 26, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Publicly urged passage of the REST Act, which would let local governments establish rent-stabilization protections after finding a housing emergency.

    May 20, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored creation of a state Social Housing Development Authority to build and preserve permanently affordable housing.

    February 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored a New York City small-business rent-stabilization system with a commercial rent guidelines board.

    February 14, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring landlords to report rent concessions so regulators can calculate and enforce legal regulated rents accurately.

    January 16, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation creating an implied warranty that newly built homes are free from mold caused by defective workmanship.

    January 16, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Led Assembly passage of the LLC Transparency Act to disclose the people who own limited-liability companies doing business in New York.

    June 20, 2023Supports Housing Affordability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Social Programs and Welfare

Social Programs and Welfare · 2 support
  • Prime-sponsored creation of a state Social Housing Development Authority to build and preserve permanently affordable housing.

    February 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation protecting community services when religious corporations sell, mortgage, or lease real property.

    January 16, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Women's Reproductive Rights

Women's Reproductive Rights · 1 support
  • Prime-sponsored the Gender Identity Respect, Dignity and Safety Act to protect transgender, gender-nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex people in custody.

    February 14, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Election Integrity

Election Integrity · 1 support
  • Prime-sponsored legislation creating a court process to remove an election commissioner for misconduct, incapacity, neglect, or legal disqualification.

    January 16, 2025Supports Election Integrity

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Data Privacy

Data Privacy · 1 support
  • Prime-sponsored legislation prohibiting employers from using wage-fixing algorithms with personal or behavioral data to set compensation.

    January 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Civil Rights

Civil Rights · 12 support
  • Passed her Substance Use Disorder Treatment Bill of Rights, requiring treatment facilities to clearly communicate patients' rights and protections from abuse.

    June 26, 2026Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Called for passage of the Second Look, Earned Time, and Marvin Mayfield acts to expand sentence review and earned release opportunities.

    May 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Publicly supported the Access to Representation Act, which would fund legal representation for New Yorkers facing deportation.

    March 10, 2026Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Publicly called for passage of the New York for All Act to limit state and local participation in federal civil immigration enforcement.

    January 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored the Gender Identity Respect, Dignity and Safety Act to protect transgender, gender-nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex people in custody.

    February 14, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored the Terry Cooper Autopsy Accountability Act to strengthen independent autopsy access and evidence preservation after deaths in custody.

    February 14, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation treating correctional facilities as publicly assisted housing for enforcement of state human-rights protections.

    February 4, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring traffic-infraction hearings to be held in person rather than solely by mail or electronic submission.

    January 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring major projects near environmental-justice communities to use enhanced public-participation plans.

    January 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring disclosure of certain civil-rights settlements to the attorney general's Civil Rights Bureau.

    January 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation protecting community services when religious corporations sell, mortgage, or lease real property.

    January 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring restaurants and alcohol sellers to provide a physical menu when a customer requests one.

    January 16, 2025Supports Civil Rights

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Corporate Accountability

Corporate Accountability · 15 support
  • Passed the No Toxic Tents Act, removing a state requirement that tents contain hazardous flame-retardant chemicals.

    June 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Passed the SUNNY Act to legalize plug-in solar panels and remove regulatory barriers for renters and apartment residents.

    June 26, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation creating criminal liability when corporate decision-makers knowingly cause a catastrophe involving death or serious injury.

    February 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Introduced the Pipeline Leaks and Safety Act, requiring gas utilities to publish maps and schedules for planned line repair, replacement, and retirement.

    February 6, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored an extended-producer-responsibility program for gas cylinders, including collection, recycling, and public education.

    May 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored an extended-producer-responsibility program requiring tire producers to finance collection and recycling.

    May 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored a public database identifying businesses that receive state procurement contracts.

    April 11, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored a New York City small-business rent-stabilization system with a commercial rent guidelines board.

    February 14, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation banning anti-fogging sprays and wipes that contain PFAS chemicals.

    February 4, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring landlords to report rent concessions so regulators can calculate and enforce legal regulated rents accurately.

    January 16, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring drug manufacturers to disclose and explain large price increases, with public reporting and penalties for noncompliance.

    January 16, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring disclosure of certain civil-rights settlements to the attorney general's Civil Rights Bureau.

    January 16, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring restaurants and alcohol sellers to provide a physical menu when a customer requests one.

    January 16, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation creating an implied warranty that newly built homes are free from mold caused by defective workmanship.

    January 16, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Led Assembly passage of the LLC Transparency Act to disclose the people who own limited-liability companies doing business in New York.

    June 20, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — Public Infrastructure

Public Infrastructure · 9 support
  • Passed the SUNNY Act to legalize plug-in solar panels and remove regulatory barriers for renters and apartment residents.

    June 26, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Won inclusion of a New York City pilot in the state budget requiring the most persistent speeders to install devices that limit driving to five miles per hour above the speed limit.

    June 26, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Passed legislation allowing a Newtown Creek tributary to support a Blue Highway freight project intended to reduce truck pollution and congestion.

    June 26, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Introduced the Pipeline Leaks and Safety Act, requiring gas utilities to publish maps and schedules for planned line repair, replacement, and retirement.

    February 6, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored a study of whether designated fossil-fuel peaker power plants in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island can be closed.

    August 13, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored creation of a state Social Housing Development Authority to build and preserve permanently affordable housing.

    February 28, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation allowing local water and sewer authorities to charge surface-runoff fees to support stormwater systems.

    February 6, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Prime-sponsored legislation requiring side underride guards and warning devices on certain large trucks operating in New York City.

    January 16, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nysenate.gov · researched September 12, 2026

  • Co-sponsored the All-Electric Building Act to stop fossil-fuel hookups in most new construction and move buildings toward clean electricity.

    November 1, 2021Supports Public Infrastructure

    Source: nyassembly.gov · researched September 12, 2026

Track record — General

General · 3 records
  • Received StreetsPAC's endorsement in the 2026 Assembly District 50 Democratic primary for her street-safety and public-transit record.

    June 5, 2026

    Source: streetspac.org · researched September 12, 2026

  • Received the New York League of Conservation Voters Gives Green endorsement for the 2026 Assembly District 50 race.

    June 4, 2026

    Source: nylcv.org · researched September 12, 2026

  • Received the New York State United Teachers endorsement in the 2026 Assembly District 50 Democratic primary.

    May 29, 2026

    Source: nysut.org · researched September 12, 2026

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