Lester Chang
Republican · NY · New York State Assembly, District 49
Legislator and Navy veteran with a master’s degree in international transportation. Prioritizes public safety and school choice.
Where Lester Chang stands, based on their records
Supports
Reduce Wealth Gap (14 records), Election Integrity (7 records), Limit Foreign Influence (1 record),
Mixed record
AI Regulation (10 support · 2 oppose), Healthcare Affordability (148 support · 9 oppose), Environment and Public Health (91 support · 39 oppose),
Track record
Track record — AI Regulation
AI Regulation · 10 support · 2 oppose
Voted to require provenance data for covered AI-generated audio and visual content, preserve and display that data on large online platforms, and impose qualified provenance duties on state agencies. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted to bar unsafe AI-companion features for minors and require age checks. Covered features included deceptive human relationships, sexual content and encouragement of self-harm. Assembly passed 137–0; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted to require clear disclosures on substantially AI-created news content, with an exemption for content eligible for copyright registration. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-05: Yes; total 130–1.
June 5, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted against requiring covered businesses to report annually on AI use and its effects on hiring, layoffs and working hours, with civil penalties for failing to report. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: No; total 105–35.
June 3, 2026Opposes AI Regulation
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Voted for a five-year ban on manufacturing and selling children’s toys with embedded AI companions, enforced by the attorney general with civil penalties. Assembly passed 140–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted for public summaries of covered generative-AI training datasets. The 2025 bill also required certain employee-data notices; the 2026 revision removed those notices and moved the public-disclosure deadline to 2027. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly votes: 2025-06-10 Yes (147–0), 2026-05-05 Yes (138–1).
May 5, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted to establish and revise safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI developers, including incident reporting. Both bills became law; the 2026 revision reduced maximum civil penalties to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million for later violations. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: Yes; total 119–22. Assembly vote, 2026-03-11: Yes; total 140–2.
March 11, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted to require generative-AI systems to display warnings about potential inaccuracies, with civil penalties for violations. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: Yes; total 141–0.
January 28, 2026Supports AI Regulation
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Voted to expand protection against knowingly using unauthorized digital replicas of certain deceased performers, including altered performances and sound recordings. The bill removed a disclaimer-based exception and limited some service-provider exemptions after notice, while preserving specified expressive-work exceptions. Assembly passed it 141–0; it became law on December 11, 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports AI Regulation
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Voted against Senate Bill 8420, which makes advertisers say when a person in an ad is computer-made and not real. The New York Assembly passed it 92-49. It became law.
June 17, 2025Opposes AI Regulation
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Voted to require AI companions to disclose that they are computer programs and use harm-response protocols, with a right to sue for resulting physical or financial harm. The standalone bill passed the Assembly but did not pass the Senate. Assembly vote, 2025-03-25: Yes; total 149–0.
March 25, 2025Supports AI Regulation
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Voted to void certain digital-replica contract terms that lacked specific uses and negotiated worker protections. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
June 7, 2024Supports AI Regulation
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Track record — Healthcare Affordability
Healthcare Affordability · 148 support · 9 oppose
Co-sponsored out-of-network specialist coverage for specified serious and rare conditions when referral, expertise and cost conditions are met.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored and voted for large-group health coverage for prescribed backup external cochlear-implant parts, replacements and upgrades. The bill allowed cost sharing. It passed 144-0 and was vetoed in 2025.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored mandatory audits, investigations and attorney-general enforcement of insurers’ mental-health and substance-use parity compliance.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored, then multi-sponsored, bills allowing nonrecurring income to be excluded from eligibility calculations for elderly pharmaceutical insurance. The 2025 bill was stricken.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored and voted for prescribed acupuncture coverage in large-group health plans, subject to reasonable cost sharing and utilization review.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored minimum insurance coverage of seven days for detoxification and thirty days for substance-use rehabilitation services.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored Clara's Law, requiring health facilities to report patient-related sexual-offense allegations against practitioners to health and education officials within thirty days.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored required follow-up on long-term-care complaints, including resolution procedures, status reports and ombudsman training. Also voted for the law and its correction, requiring an initial status report within 60 days and updates to the state ombudsman every 90 days afterward. Both became law; Assembly tallies were 144-0 and 145-0.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored protections against reductions in public retirees’ health insurance benefits, employer contributions and provider access.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored Medicaid reimbursement for trained family complex-care assistants, with nursing supervision and minimum payment pass-through protections.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored the Small Business Health Plan Act, allowing employer-subsidized small-business health policies to omit otherwise required coverages.
October 21, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored preserving core SUNY Downstate hospital services and requiring a public revitalization process with enforceable implementation and review rules.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Co-sponsored loan repayment and practice support for dentists serving underserved communities under multi-year commitments.
October 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to let authorized adult camp employees administer specified medications to children under patient-specific orders, parental consent, health-director authorization, and state rules. The bill covered over-the-counter drugs and prescriptions for emergency conditions. Assembly passed it 134–0; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to remove the initial joint-visit requirement for qualifying physical therapist assistants in home-care and school settings while retaining other supervision duties. The bill passed 131-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to extend post-pregnancy protection from restraints to twelve weeks and limit specified uses of force in custody. The bill also expanded support-person access during pregnancy-related care. Assembly passed 111–21; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to strengthen interagency help for children awaiting appropriate care, including evaluation and placement-or-service referral deadlines and a confidential coordination portal. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require regional waiting lists for eligible people when the Nursing Home Transition and Diversion Medicaid waiver reached capacity. As places opened, the bill generally used waiting-list order while allowing priority groups, including people leaving nursing facilities. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to raise the state medical-facility financing agency’s hospital and nursing-home bond limit from $17.4 billion to $18.2 billion, then $20 billion and $21.8 billion. The bills passed 146-1, 141-2 and 139-0 in 2023, 2025 and 2026. All became law.
June 4, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for minimum Medicaid managed-care payments for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies at the state fee schedule. The 2024 and 2025 bills passed 144-0; the governor vetoed the 2025 bill. A revised 2026 bill passed 139-1 and both houses, with no recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to establish a peer-support service program for women veterans, coordinated with mental-health, addiction and employment agencies. The bill passed 140-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for two-person staffing standards for New York City's 911 ambulance and EMS supervisor vehicles in 2025 and 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the later bill passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 138–1.
June 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against requiring prison officials, and local jails where practicable, to help eligible incarcerated people enroll in Medicaid before release. Assembly passed 96–44.
June 2, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require private colleges and universities in New York to provide menstrual products in campus restrooms at no charge to students. Assembly passed 123–17; both houses passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require nursing homes to maintain hospice-provider agreements for eligible residents who choose hospice, with coordinated care and referral duties. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to join the interstate psychology compact, permitting qualifying psychologists to provide telepsychology and temporary in-person services across member states under shared licensing and disciplinary rules. The bill passed 122-16 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to add dentist-authorized implants, crowns, root canals and related services to Medicaid’s listed coverage. Assembly passed 137–1; the bill passed both chambers.
June 1, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against barring child-health insurers from restricting a provider’s participation because the provider declined to join their separate commercial-insurance network. The bill passed the Assembly. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: No; total 94–45.
June 1, 2026Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to authorize state-certified developmental-disability service providers to employ or contract with licensed behavior analysts and mental health counselors. Assembly passed the bill 129–0; it remained in the Senate.
May 29, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to extend free menstrual-product requirements to qualifying drop-in centers, intake shelters and emergency congregate housing. The bill passed the Assembly 131-2 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 28, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to protect independent senior-housing residents’ choice of home-care providers and bar operators from steering them for personal benefit. Assembly passed 138–0; the bill remained in the Senate.
May 28, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to let qualified marriage-and-family therapists supervise mental-health counseling trainees, and qualified mental-health counselors supervise marriage-and-family therapy trainees. Supervisors needed at least three years of licensure, diagnostic privileges, and specified supervision training. Assembly passed it 143–0; both chambers passed it.
May 20, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to authorize a joint license for integrated mental-health and addiction treatment, with coordinated physical-health services and patient safeguards. The bill became law. Assembly votes: 2026-03-23 Yes (142–0), 2026-05-18 Yes (137–0).
May 18, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for insurance coverage of speech therapy for stuttering in 2025, then backed a narrower large-group coverage requirement in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 140–1. Assembly vote, 2026-05-12: Yes; total 135–7.
May 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require covered health plans to provide guideline-based diabetes and prediabetes screening without patient cost sharing. Assembly passed 142–0.
May 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for a statutory addiction-treatment bill of rights covering treatment-plan input, requesting another clinician’s review, privacy and complaints. Providers had to post and give patients the statement. Assembly passed 137–4; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require paid dispatcher-assisted CPR training and annual refreshers for 911 call-takers and dispatchers, including in New York City. The bill passed the Assembly 140-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 11, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Also on this bill
- February 26, 2024 · Voted to raise the population limit for certain firefighters and police or peace officers eligible to provide emergency epinephrine from one million to two million, while excluding counties wholly within New York City. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2024-02-26: Yes; total 146–0. (Supports Environment and Public Health, Supports Public Safety and Crime Control)
Voted to let foster-care agency health facilities serve birth and foster families, other child-welfare families and eligible special-education students. Assembly passed 140–0; both houses passed the bill.
May 11, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require covered insurers to provide eligible brand-name drugs at generic coverage levels during qualifying FDA-recognized generic-drug shortages. Assembly passed 95–45.
May 6, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for broader breast-cancer screening coverage, then to add image-guided biopsies. Assembly passed 145-0 and 138-0. Screening coverage became law; the biopsy bill passed both chambers.
May 6, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to authorize group health coverage for qualifying physician-practice Medicaid accountable care organizations and exempt sufficiently large, Medicaid-focused groups from specified small-group rating rules. The bill passed 135-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 4, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to provide free menstrual products in women’s and gender-neutral restrooms in covered state buildings. Covered buildings were open to the public and managed by General Services. Assembly passed 136–0; the bill passed both chambers.
April 28, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Assembly Bill 10710, which makes health plans cover vaccines recommended by the state health commissioner. The New York Assembly passed it 99-39. It became law.
April 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require specified health plans to cover outpatient problem-gambling services under existing substance-use coverage and parity rules. The bill passed 131-11 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
March 25, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for limits on physical- and occupational-therapy cost sharing: a 2024 copayment-parity bill that was vetoed and a revised 2026 bill capping copayments and coinsurance at 25% above primary-care charges for the same or a similar condition. The revised bill passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 141-0, 134-8.
March 25, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for insurance payment for pharmacists dispensing self-administered hormonal contraceptives and related services in 2025, then backed a revised administrative-fee requirement in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 139–5. Assembly vote, 2026-03-11: Yes; total 135–7.
March 11, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require approved state addiction-service aid to reach recipient agencies within 60 days, with funds used for authorized services within two years. Supported the bill in 2025 and 2026; it had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
March 9, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted twice to require coroners and medical examiners to promptly notify eye and tissue banks about potential donors after deaths outside hospitals and preserve valid donations during autopsies. The bill passed the Assembly but had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 141–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-05: Yes; total 140–0.
March 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted twice to recognize mental-health practitioners with diagnostic privileges as authorized workers’ compensation providers. The bill passed both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment. Assembly votes: 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-02-24 Yes (132–0).
February 24, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted twice to permit specified access to deceased mental-health patients’ records and information requested to treat a patient’s family member, subject to privacy rules. The bill passed the Assembly in 2025 and 2026, with no recorded enactment. Assembly votes: 2025-03-04 Yes (149–0), 2026-02-24 Yes (132–0).
February 24, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for outpatient lactation support coverage. The bills passed 143-0 in 2024, 138-6 in 2025 and 142-0 in 2026. The latest version required licensed, board-certified consultants and allowed network rules, review and specified cost sharing. It passed both houses, with no recorded enactment.
February 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted twice to add mpox to vaccines pharmacists are authorized to administer to adults under physician or nurse practitioner orders. The bill passed the Assembly in 2025 and 2026, with no recorded enactment. Assembly votes: 2025-05-27 Yes (143–2), 2026-02-05 Yes (140–2).
February 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to expand emergency dispensing of controlled medicines for maintenance and detoxification treatment, first for emergency rooms without full-time pharmacies and later for any institutional dispenser under federal authorization. He also supported related treatment-prescribing rules and a 2026 terminology correction; the measures became law. Assembly tallies were 135-2, 135-2, 139-2.
February 5, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted repeatedly to give municipal emergency dispatchers and correction officers the same PTSD treatment benefits and services available to their municipality’s police officers and firefighters. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024, 144-0 in 2025, 141-0 in 2026.
January 28, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to reorganize continuing-care retirement-community oversight, assigning operating approvals to the health commissioner and making the council advisory. He then supported a revision preserving financial regulators' review of finances, fees and contracts; both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-11 Yes (146–0), 2026-01-21 Yes (139–0).
January 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to let close friends authorize anatomical gifts from deceased people under specified priority and objection rules. He supported bills that passed 147-0 and 138-10, then a 127-12 effective-date correction. The policy and correction became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for adjoining-county mental-health court transfers outside NYC and a treatment-coordination amendment. Both became law. A later budget law removed the return-on-failure rule. Assembly vote, 2025-06-04: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-20: Yes; total 137–0.
January 20, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for care referrals before discharge for specified defendants found unfit for trial, then supported clinically indicated referrals subject to eligibility and consent rules. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 137–0 and Yes 136–1.
January 20, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to expand access to FDA-approved opioid-reversal drugs and doses, with state coverage for nasal naloxone. Later bills also covered lower-cost alternatives, while purchasers paid excess costs above the highest-priced nasal naloxone. Assembly votes passed 143–1 in 2024, 136–0 in 2025 and 144–0 in 2026. The bills passed the Assembly.
January 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to permit mental-health telehealth visits under workers' compensation, with periodic in-person visits and exceptions for hardship or clinical risk. Assembly votes: 2025-05-21 Yes (141–3), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to expand dental hygienists’ work in schools, shelters and care facilities under written agreements with dentists. Assembly passed 135-0; the bill became law. Assembly vote, 2024-06-06: Yes; total 147–0.
June 17, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to let injured workers use outside pharmacies after specified 72-hour medication approval delays. The governor vetoed both the 2024 and 2025 bills. The latest Assembly vote passed 139-2. Assembly vote, 2024-05-30: Yes; total 144–2.
June 17, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to expand podiatrists’ ankle-treatment scope and supervised training permits while retaining surgical-privilege requirements. The bill passed 131-4 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to extend default medical-cannabis certifications to two years, replace registry cards with certification-and-ID validation, recognize qualifying out-of-state patients, and lower the usual caregiver and home-cultivation ages to 18. The bill retained consent and verification safeguards. Assembly passed it 138–3; it became law.
June 17, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to replace the on-site supervision requirement for physical therapist assistants with a requirement that the supervising therapist be available for consultation within a reasonable time. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 12, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to expand state epinephrine rules beyond auto-injectors to FDA-approved products, including nasal sprays, across emergency use, schools and covered insurance. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: Yes; total 143–0.
June 12, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to let qualified out-of-state and foreign athletic trainers work temporarily at qualifying team events and performances, under New York discipline rules. Assembly passed 146–0; the bill became law.
June 11, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require hospital workplace-violence prevention programs and emergency-department security staffing, with specified rural-hospital exceptions. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 11, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted against requiring hospitals to disclose policies that restrict available care and explain those limits to patients. Assembly passed the later bill 94-51; both versions were vetoed. Assembly vote, 2024-01-24: No; total 97–49.
June 11, 2025Opposes Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require school cardiac-emergency response plans and strengthen AED accessibility, maintenance and emergency training. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 11, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require covered health-insurance plans to provide one rescue and one maintenance asthma inhaler without patient cost sharing, subject to the high-deductible-plan exception. The bill became law. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 10, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to broaden temporary health-staffing rules to cover platforms arranging workers’ services, including credential checks and contract reporting. Assembly passed 147–0; the bill became law.
June 10, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to establish an age-friendly health technical-assistance center and require special hospital designations. Assembly passed 147–0; the governor vetoed it.
June 10, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to end advance approval for HIV medicines under private insurance, then to extend that rule to Medicaid. Assembly passed the bills 145-0 and 144-0. The private-plan bill became law; the Medicaid bill was vetoed.
June 5, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to establish a voluntary recovery-ready workplace program with employer training, overdose-response preparation and support for workers receiving substance-use treatment. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 146–0.
May 29, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for insurance coverage of medically necessary transvaginal ultrasounds during pregnancy when recommended by recognized clinical guidelines, then supported the renamed Eli Parker Levitt Law in 2025. It became law, applying to covered policies issued, renewed or changed from January 1, 2027. Assembly tallies were 145-0, 145-0.
May 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to allow registered pharmacy technicians to perform specified tasks in any pharmacy under a licensed pharmacist's direct supervision. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require AEDs in nonpublic schools, trained staff at school activities and AED access at off-site competitive athletic events. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require covered health plans to pay for guideline-supported lung-cancer follow-up screening and diagnostic services without patient cost sharing, subject to the high-deductible-plan exception. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to extend transitional authorization for certain mental-health practitioners to diagnose conditions and develop assessment-based treatment plans through June 2027. The measure passed 142-1 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for Assembly Bill 387, which makes every general hospital run a free language assistance program. The New York Assembly passed it 113-34. It became law.
May 14, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to let deaf, hard-of-hearing and nonverbal patients keep an interpreter or helper with them until a qualified hospital replacement was assigned. Assembly passed 143–0; the governor vetoed it.
May 12, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to remove New York's ban on joining multiple organ-transplant waiting lists within the state. The bill passed 147-0 and became law in 2025.
May 5, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to stop prisons from unreasonably excluding certified peer addiction-treatment advocates solely because of past incarceration. Assembly passed 147–0; the bill became law.
April 8, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for prescribed prenatal-vitamin coverage; the bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2024. Also supported a 2025 expansion to comprehensive plans without existing drug coverage. It removed express permission for cost sharing, passed 145-0 and became law.
February 5, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for epinephrine auto-injector coverage with a $100 annual out-of-pocket cap, then supported limiting it to comprehensive plans covering prescription drugs and allowing qualifying health-savings-account deductibles. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2024-05-30: Yes; total 144–2. Assembly vote, 2025-02-05: Yes; total 144–1.
February 5, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to limit insurers’ step-therapy requirements, then supported a revision applying the two-drug limit to the same condition and protecting an approved override until it expires. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-05 Yes (145–0), 2025-02-04 Yes (146–0).
February 4, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to ban medical debt from credit reports and void debt reported in violation of the law. He later supported definition revisions excluding ordinary credit-card debt while retaining medical-only credit plans. Assembly passed 109–38, 141–0 and 147–0; all three bills became law.
February 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to offer free breast-cancer screening to people in detention facilities, then supported adding diagnostic testing and basing the services on clinical guidelines and physician recommendations. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-0 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require covered health insurers to cover neuropsychological exams for dyslexia, then supported physician-referral requirements and provisions allowing utilization review and provider networks. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: Yes; total 148–0. Assembly vote, 2024-01-31: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2025-02-03: Yes; total 147–0.
February 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for a maternity-care program for veterans. Also supported removing its rapid-referral, clinical-training and review-board duties. Assembly votes were 146–0 in 2024 and 147–0 in 2025. Both bills became law.
February 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for chemotherapy scalp-cooling insurance coverage, then supported limiting the mandate to large-group plans. Normal cost sharing remained allowed. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-04 Yes (145–1), 2025-02-03 Yes (147–0).
February 3, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted for assisted-living facilities to publish rates, rent ranges, residency agreements and service fees, and to report quality measures for public scoring. He also supported the 2025 correction, which changed deadlines and removed the law's specified inspection intervals. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 147-0, 145-0.
January 28, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to require hospitals to collect and record disability-accommodation needs during intake, then supported a correction replacing a prescribed questionnaire with health-department guidance while keeping patient answers voluntary. Assembly votes were Yes 141–0 (2024-05-20), Yes 145–0 (2025-01-27).
January 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to revise clinical-laboratory and blood-bank director qualifications and cytology workload rules, then supported health-department minimum qualifications consistent with federal standards. Assembly votes were Yes 141–0 (2024-05-20), Yes 145–0 (2025-01-27).
January 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
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Voted to guarantee hospital access to doulas, including a 2024 C-section measure. In 2025 he voted for an emergency and safety exception and to replace the separate C-section law with multilingual notices of general doula-access rights. The measures became law. Assembly tallies were 147-1, 148-0, 147-0, 143-2.
January 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let medically fragile adults ages 21–35 stay in pediatric nursing facilities with pediatric reimbursement and full-rate reserved-bed coverage. He then supported making the program conditional on federal funding and delaying its start. Assembly votes passed 140–0 in 2024 and 145–0 in 2025; both bills became law.
January 27, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to accept Social Security low-income subsidy data as a Medicare Savings Program application without requiring another application, using verified data to establish eligibility. Also supported delaying the law’s effective date to April 1, 2026. Both became law; Assembly tallies were 144-1 and 145-0.
January 22, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend FDNY survivor health coverage to deaths of active members and to domestic partners, with survivors paying 102% of the group rate, then supported explicitly including active emergency-medical personnel and fire-protection inspectors. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-10 Yes 140-0; 2024-06-08 Yes 140-0.
June 8, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to widen injured workers’ access to treatment outside preapproved lists and diagnostic networks. The bill raised the advance-approval threshold to $1,500 and required certain outside tests to receive network-rate payments. It passed 136-5 and was vetoed.
June 8, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make inclusion of specified behavioral-health professionals or credentialed peer advocates mandatory in mobile crisis teams. The Assembly passed the bill 145-0 and 144-0.
June 7, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow copayments for HIV prevention medicines under large-group health plans when the medicines lack an A or B rating from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The bill became law. Assembly passed 139–2.
June 7, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a residential-care demonstration program for medically fragile adults transitioning from pediatric care, with specialized admission and Medicaid reimbursement rules. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–1.
June 7, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise physician-assistant supervision limits and authorize specified standing orders to registered nurses, while retaining physician supervision. Assembly passed 145–2; the bill became law.
June 6, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect pharmacies from pharmacy-benefit-manager penalties for disclosing their own prescription or service costs and reimbursement rates to customers. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 140–5 (2024-06-06).
June 6, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow licensed creative-arts therapists to provide otherwise covered Medicaid services within their existing scope of practice. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 143–2 (2024-06-06).
June 6, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow physician assistants to serve as primary-care practitioners and participate in Medicaid managed-care provider networks. The bill passed 142-3 but was vetoed.
June 5, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend operating standards and inspections to all social adult day-care programs and tie public funding to inspection and annual self-certification requirements. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 5, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add remote ultrasound scans and fetal non-stress tests to Medicaid maternal-care services. Assembly passed 146–0; the bill became law.
June 4, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend existing protections against mental-health-provider sexual exploitation to patients of licensed mental-health counselors and marriage and family therapists. The bill became law. Assembly passed 145–1.
June 4, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend Medicaid ambulance reimbursement to qualifying treatment at the emergency scene and transport to approved alternative care settings, subject to federal funding and licensing conditions. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-06-03).
June 3, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require hospitals and residential health-care facilities to implement pressure-ulcer prevention programs and establish a state prevention center. The proposal was vetoed. Assembly votes were Yes 144–1 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow registered dental assistants and licensed practical nurses to apply topical fluoride varnish under the required professional supervision. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-30 Yes 146-0.
May 30, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require statewide school diapering and toileting protocols covering accessible facilities, proper equipment and supplies, and safe procedures. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace the $8.5 million cap on vehicle-surcharge money credited to spinal-cord injury research with a minimum of at least that amount. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set deadlines for reviewing Medicaid health-technology and coverage-change applications, including notice of incomplete submissions and an opportunity to cure evidence deficiencies. The governor vetoed the bill in 2024. Assembly tally was 148-0.
May 29, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend insurance coverage for pasteurized donor human milk beyond inpatient use for qualifying infants. The bill passed 137-0 and became law.
May 23, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit insurers from denying or limiting coverage, or charging different rates, solely because someone was prescribed medication to prevent HIV. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-05-23: Yes; total 137–0.
May 23, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to lower the age at which hospitals must offer admitted patients a seasonal flu vaccination from 65 to 50, subject to medical and prior-vaccination exceptions. The bill became law. Assembly passed 141–0.
May 20, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require a uniform electronic medical-records system for state correctional facilities, developed with health and mental-health officials. The governor vetoed the bill in 2024. Assembly tally was 146-1.
May 15, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow licensed ground ambulance and advanced life support services to store blood and let qualified personnel administer transfusions, subject to safety standards and advance notice. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tally was 147-0.
May 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden the health department's temporary-operator framework for facilities facing serious financial or management problems, including assisted-living residences and a wider hospital category. The governor vetoed the 2024 bill. Assembly tallies were 148-0, 144-0, 146-0.
May 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize shared prescription-processing and filling services between registered pharmacies, with patient consent and opt-out rights, tracking, security and registration safeguards. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-05-14).
May 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require health-care-proxy counseling for palliative-care patients and to request a proxy copy for the medical record. He supported the original bill 146-0 and the amended bill 144-0; the measure became law.
May 6, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a nursing-home closure process requiring advance notice, approved plans, safe resident transfers and limits on new fees. The bill passed 97-50 and was vetoed in 2024.
April 3, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance coverage of nipple-areola tattooing performed as part of breast reconstruction by a physician or another qualified health practitioner. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 148-0.
March 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a proposed constitutional amendment to make protecting and promoting mental health an explicit responsibility of state and local government. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024.
March 14, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden patients’ access to health and billing records across more health-care providers and services, with copying-cost protections. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 144-2 in 2023, 146-2 in 2024.
February 28, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize dispensing fentanyl-testing supplies, then remove storage and quantity limits and clarify that distribution required no license. Also supported adding xylazine and other substances. Assembly votes were 144–1 in 2023, then 146–2 and 144–2 in 2024. All three bills became law.
February 26, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against interstate legal and professional protections for lawful gender-affirming care, then against a correction refining definitions and custody protections. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: No; total 97–47. Assembly vote, 2024-02-14: No; total 97–48.
February 14, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to license athletic trainers and expand their duties, including child-abuse reporting. Also supported supervised concussion and peripheral-nerve rehabilitation after physician clearance. Assembly votes were 143–0 in 2023 and 147–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
February 13, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing trained pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives under standing orders, then opposed an earlier start date. Assembly passed 109–37 and 106–39; both bills became law.
February 12, 2024Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance and Medicaid coverage of tests guiding disease treatment, then for revised evidence standards and delayed coverage. Bills passed 143-2 and 146-2 and became law. The 2026 budget removed peer-reviewed studies as a standalone Medicaid coverage basis.
January 23, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish adult cystic-fibrosis assistance, then revise it into temporary grants for insured residents ineligible for Medicaid. Assistance remained subject to available funding. Assembly votes passed 140–0 in 2023 and 143–5 in 2024; both bills became law. Later budget laws extended the program’s authority until March 31, 2027.
January 23, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit fees or penalties for pregnancy-related special enrollment in covered health insurance. The bill became law; the special-enrollment right already existed. Assembly vote, 2024-01-22: Yes; total 145–0.
January 22, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow posted, written or electronic notice before voluntary HIV testing. Also supported prevention-drug information and referrals for anonymous tests. Assembly passed 148–0; the bill became law.
January 22, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give qualified patients and representatives the option to request physical copies of patient information from health-care providers. The bill passed 147-0 and became law.
January 22, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurers to explain step-therapy override denials, including clinical criteria and alternative covered drugs. Also supported revised electronic-notice rules. Assembly votes were 145–0 in 2023 and 139–2 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 16, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect patients' access to addiction treatment based on their gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. The bill became law in June 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-21: Yes; total 136–4.
June 21, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Medicaid payment for qualified community violence-prevention services for eligible people exposed to violence, subject to federal approval and funding. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 139–1.
June 10, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to continue approved non-emergency community paramedicine services for two years. The program included certain flu and COVID-19 vaccinations under medical supervision. It passed 144-2 and became law.
June 9, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand a residential-care demonstration program for medically fragile young adults from two eligible pediatric facilities to four and lower its facility bed-size threshold. The bill passed 146-0 but was vetoed.
June 9, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for temporary practice permits for out-of-state nurses and doctors already working under emergency rules. Applicants needed pending state licenses and employer approval; doctors also needed supervision. It passed 144-2 and became law.
June 9, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish anti-discrimination and privacy protections for LGBTQ residents and people living with HIV in long-term care facilities, with staff-training requirements. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: Yes; total 142–2.
June 9, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require Medicaid managed-care quality incentives that direct the greatest funding to plans with the highest quality scores, using objectives set before performance was measured. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly tally was 149-0.
June 7, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a specialized assisted-living program for people with neurodegenerative diseases and behavioral disturbances, with physician oversight, nursing services and bed limits. The governor vetoed the measure in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-06 Yes 146-0.
June 6, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish at least four infant drug-withdrawal care centres and parental support services. The bill barred a withdrawal diagnosis alone as evidence of child abuse. The governor vetoed it. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023.
June 5, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize registered nurses, under non-patient-specific physician orders, to perform specified emergency diagnostic tests, pregnancy tests and sepsis-related tests or IV procedures. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible families keep state health coverage after a public employee’s death despite fewer than 10 service years. The change covered qualifying disability retirees and required payment of full premiums. It passed 146-0 and became law.
May 31, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand pharmacist delivery of prescribed mental-health and addiction injections beyond the upper arm. Also supported FDA-approval, training and prescriber-notice rules. The bills passed 140-2 and 146-0 and became law.
May 31, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state office dedicated to hospice and palliative-care access and quality, with a director responsible for policy, care-delivery models and barriers to services. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for revised insurance review rules for children with complex medical needs. The bill kept child-specific standards and required certain Medicaid payments while safe discharge services were unavailable. It passed 142-0 and became law.
May 24, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add FDA-reported drug and medical-product shortages to the market disruptions covered by New York’s price-gouging law. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 147-1 in 2023.
May 16, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring SUNY and CUNY campuses to provide students access to medication abortion through prescribing clinicians or referrals. The bill became law in 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-04-18: No; total 100–49.
April 18, 2023Opposes Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise health-plan contracting rules to bar most-favored-nation clauses and restrictions on disclosing specified claims, price and quality information, with nursing-home exclusions. The bill also delayed the earlier law’s start to July 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 137–5.
February 1, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise prescription-price transparency rules, requiring covered insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to provide patient-specific costs, coverage and alternatives on request. The law excluded plans serving only government insurance programs. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 140–2.
February 1, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise living-organ-donor support by covering eligible screening expenses when donation did not proceed and changing reimbursement and patient-education rules. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 140–2.
February 1, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Environment and Public Health
Environment and Public Health · 91 support · 39 oppose
Co-sponsored a prohibition on energy-code bans of fossil-fuel heating and other combustion systems in new or existing buildings.
October 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored revoking tobacco, alcohol and lottery licenses for specified illicit-cannabis possession or sales violations.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a prohibition on supervised injection sites, with exceptions for authorized treatment programmes.
October 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills adding cannabis-marketing definitions to school-zone advertising rules, increasing fines and requiring quarterly compliance inspections.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored banning smoking and vaping in individual units of multi-unit housing.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an environmental-review exemption for approvals to site or construct housing in New York City.
October 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored restoring a religious exemption from school vaccination requirements.
October 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored annual fentanyl education and overdose-response instruction for grades six through twelve. The proposal also required naloxone availability and staff training in public and private high schools.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored cardiac-fitness certificates with an electrocardiogram or echocardiogram for specified public-school athletes.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored A05395 to delay major climate and renewable-electricity deadlines by ten years and allow target changes when specified cost or reliability conditions are met.
October 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing local governments to require replacement trees after removal, with local tax credits and fines.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $500 tax credit for professionally installed home or business water-filtration systems.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a renewable-energy microgrid pilot for Glenwood Houses, subject to appropriations.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored A10668 to repeal hydraulic-fracturing prohibitions, establish a permitting process and preempt related local restrictions.
October 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored additional penalties for knowingly disposing of solid waste outside authorized or exempt facilities.
October 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in schools and libraries, with free state supplies available on request. Assembly passed 131-1; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit businesses from knowingly selling or delivering products containing 7-hydroxymitragynine above specified concentration or serving limits. Violations carried civil penalties, with proceeds directed to drug treatment and public education. Assembly passed it 132–0; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against annual implicit-bias training for hospital perinatal staff and reporting maternal complications and deaths by race and ethnicity. Assembly passed 92–40; both chambers passed the bill.
June 5, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require three municipal residential energy-efficiency and weatherization pilots, including audits and completion of approved work using existing programmes first. Additional utility funding was limited by projected savings, ratepayer-cost protections, and reliability safeguards. Assembly passed it 139–0.
June 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand municipal sustainable-energy financing to qualifying water and resiliency improvements and, in New York City, low-carbon building components. The bill passed 139-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a limited one-year pause on new state environmental permits for large data centers, separate utility rates assigning their costs to them, renewable-energy requirements, and host-community benefits. The bill also set construction labor standards. Assembly passed it 103–38; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against road-salt application caps for state and local public agencies. The bill set a 300-pound-per-lane-mile seasonal average for roads, separate limits for parking lots and sidewalks, and required metered, calibrated equipment. Assembly passed it 91–49; it remained in the Senate.
June 3, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require child day-care providers to keep at least two epinephrine devices and a trained staff member present while children were there, with incident reporting and parent notices. The bill passed both houses. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: Yes; total 140–0.
June 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require heavy-metal testing of baby food and infant formula, public test-result disclosures, and QR-code labels under specified conditions. The bill prohibited sales above state-set limits and phased in its testing, sales, and disclosure requirements. Assembly passed it 140–0; both chambers passed it.
June 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to tighten drinking-water limits for specified PFAS chemicals, including 4 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS, with public-system compliance by 2029. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict sales of playground surfacing containing intentionally added PFAS, PAHs or lead, or levels set by environmental regulators, with certification and penalty rules. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to standardize food safety and quality date labels and restrict consumer-facing 'sell by' labels, with exemptions and safeguards for food donations. The bill passed 136-2 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit selling or distributing docks, buoys, and floating structures that used foam flotation without a durable protective shell. The bill set a two-year implementation period and left continued use of existing structures unaffected. Assembly passed it 140–0; it remained in the Senate.
June 2, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring covered industrial wastewater sources and treatment plants to test for PFAS and publish monitoring results. The bill passed 107-32 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar licensed cannabis businesses and labs from bringing illicit products into the regulated supply chain, with civil penalties and license sanctions. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 139–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring health-warning labels on new gas stoves sold or distributed in New York. Assembly passed 91–48.
June 1, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against exempting qualifying plug-in solar systems of up to 1,200 watts from mandatory utility interconnection requirements, prior approvals, and device-related fees. Certification, building-code safeguards, and utility notification remained required. Assembly passed it 89–47; both chambers passed the bill.
May 28, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for building-code standards allowing reuse of salvage lumber with grading, inspection and safety limits. Assembly passed 140–4; both houses passed the bill.
May 20, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring residential heat, electricity and water shutoffs around forecasts of extreme heat or cold, including submetered service. The bill passed 96-45 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 19, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state certification, inspections and lead-dust testing for paid renovation work, with bans on unsafe paint removal. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 19, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require high-sodium warning icons on qualifying chain-restaurant menus, with reporting and civil penalties. The bill passed 98-43 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 19, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring correctional-facility water-test results to be available directly to incarcerated people and staff upon request and on a public website. The bill passed 100-37 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 18, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow composting facilities in state parks if they did not harm the park’s environment or integrity and complied with facility rules. Assembly passed 134–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
May 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Criticized programming at the planned 86th Street homeless shelter in Bensonhurst as wasteful in July 2024. In May 2026, sought an investigation into allegedly false asbestos inspection reports at the site.
May 7, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring childhood vaccinations at summer camps, with medical exemptions allowed. Assembly passed the bill 90-47.
April 28, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning listed wild animals, including big cats, bears and primates, from traveling animal acts, while exempting permanent facilities. The bill passed 100-38 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
April 28, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish free test strips for medetomidine, benzodiazepines, nitazenes, and other drug contaminants at participating health and support facilities. The bill also barred law-enforcement targeting of people obtaining the strips. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
April 27, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding hepatitis B vaccination to requirements for covered college students. Assembly passed the bill 83-52.
April 22, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against food-additive restrictions and safety-report requirements. The bill included bans on Red Dye No. 3, potassium bromate and propylparaben, with transition periods and exceptions. Assembly passed 106–32; the bill passed both chambers.
April 21, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against rebates for businesses and institutions buying or leasing new battery-powered landscaping equipment, within existing appropriations. Assembly passed 99–42; the bill became law.
April 20, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against directing state agencies to set health-protective lead standards for dust, soil and air, at least as strict as specified federal rules. Assembly passed 108–37; both chambers passed the bill.
March 31, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against tightening pollution limits in coal-tar pavement sealants from 10,000 to 1,000 milligrams per kilogram. Assembly passed 100-45.
March 31, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against protecting homeowners’ native-plant and rain gardens from unreasonable association restrictions. Latest Assembly passage was 93-48; an earlier bill was vetoed. Assembly vote, 2024-06-08: No; total 90–51. Assembly vote, 2025-05-28: No; total 97–47.
March 30, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require mobile sports-betting operators to send monthly statements showing deposits, wagers, net wins or losses, time logged in and gambling-help resources. Assembly passed 143–0; both chambers passed the bill.
March 24, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require gene-synthesis providers and equipment makers to follow state rules on dangerous genetic sequences, customer screening and recordkeeping. Assembly passed 142–0; both houses passed the bill.
March 23, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require twice-yearly cooling-tower compliance certifications in New York City, extend inspection and testing records to ten years, and raise civil penalties. The bill also required prompt responses to microbial hazards within existing maximum deadlines. Assembly passed it 144–0; it became law on August 5, 2026.
March 16, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require cancer and reproductive-harm warning labels on synthetic hair products containing specified hazardous chemicals. The bill passed 143-0 in the Assembly in 2026 but had no recorded enactment.
March 16, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for age, permitted-use and recordkeeping restrictions on xylazine sales. He backed 50-gram thresholds in 2025 and a 2026 version covering all quantities with identification and five-year records. No enactment was recorded. Assembly votes: 2023-05-31 Yes (146–0), 2024-03-18 Yes (145–0), 2024-05-28 Yes (145–0), 2025-05-21 Yes (144–0), 2025-05-27 Yes (146–0), 2026-03-10 Yes (143–0).
March 10, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding manufacturer-funded rechargeable-battery recycling to e-bike and scooter batteries in 2025 and against its 2026 correction, which made retailer collection voluntary and strengthened other collection requirements. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-17 No (91–50), 2026-02-10 No (97–46).
February 10, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to add mpox to vaccines pharmacists are authorized to administer to adults under physician or nurse practitioner orders. The bill passed the Assembly in 2025 and 2026, with no recorded enactment. Assembly votes: 2025-05-27 Yes (143–2), 2026-02-05 Yes (140–2).
February 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand emergency dispensing of controlled medicines for maintenance and detoxification treatment, first for emergency rooms without full-time pharmacies and later for any institutional dispenser under federal authorization. He also supported related treatment-prescribing rules and a 2026 terminology correction; the measures became law. Assembly tallies were 135-2, 135-2, 139-2.
February 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to ban kratom sales to people under 21, then supported revised ID, sales-notice and enforcement rules. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 136–0 and Yes 141–0.
February 5, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the horseshoe-crab harvesting ban in 2024 and 2025, and against a 2026 revision that phases down commercial quotas before the ban takes effect in 2029. Assembly votes: 2024-06-07 No (102–39), 2025-06-05 No (100–45), 2026-02-03 No (104–37).
February 3, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar listed chemicals, including lead and PFAS, when intentionally added to menstrual products. He later supported removing planned limits on unintentionally present chemicals and restricting the chemical list. Assembly votes passed 148–1 in 2025 and 140–0 in 2026; both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in covered private workplaces, then to revise training rules and delay the deadline. Assembly passed 146-1 and 138-1. Both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for mental-health warnings on social-media platforms with addictive features, including a 2026 revision setting mandatory display times and exempting users reasonably determined to be adults. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 141–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 139–0.
January 21, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for public-building insulation grants, then backed narrowing the program to schools, with hospitals and public housing optional, and funding 50–75% of costs. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 132–9. Assembly vote, 2026-01-20: Yes; total 137–0.
January 20, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for kratom warning-label rules and a revision replacing the original warning and marketing ban with ingredient, alkaloid and safety disclosures. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-04 Yes (143–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (135–2).
January 20, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a monarch-butterfly conservation program directing feasible habitat and migration-protection actions, then supported its 2026 clarification on pesticide alternatives and habitat partnerships. The measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2024-06-04 Yes 146-0; 2025-04-01 Yes 144-0; 2026-01-13 Yes 143-0.
January 13, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to FDA-approved opioid-reversal drugs and doses, with state coverage for nasal naloxone. Later bills also covered lower-cost alternatives, while purchasers paid excess costs above the highest-priced nasal naloxone. Assembly votes passed 143–1 in 2024, 136–0 in 2025 and 144–0 in 2026. The bills passed the Assembly.
January 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require 16- and 17-year-olds to wear helmets on class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles, with fines of up to $50 and helmet-purchase or hardship waivers. The bills passed the Assembly without becoming law in the reviewed histories. Assembly vote, 2024-04-15: Yes; total 147–0. Assembly vote, 2025-05-29: Yes; total 146–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-12: Yes; total 144–0.
January 12, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise reimbursements for qualifying enhanced septic-system projects to 75% of eligible costs, capped at $25,000 per property. Eligible systems reduced nitrogen or significantly reduced phosphorus or PFAS impacts. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on July 23, 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require brownfield-cleanup applicants to fund qualifying community technical-assistance grants for high-threat sites or sites on or next to schools and day-care facilities. He supported versions in 2024 and 2025; both were vetoed. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-30 Yes 146-0; 2025-06-13 Yes 134-0.
June 13, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand state epinephrine rules beyond auto-injectors to FDA-approved products, including nasal sprays, across emergency use, schools and covered insurance. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: Yes; total 143–0.
June 12, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen licensing, sanitation inspections and enforcement for food stores, food-service establishments and warehouses, with notice, hearings and judicial review. The bill passed 147-0 and became law in 2025.
June 10, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Cosponsored and voted for extending cannabis-storefront distance restrictions to schools and houses of worship in mixed-use buildings. The bill passed the Assembly but did not pass the Senate. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 143–0.
June 6, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning oil and gas drilling waste on roads, including for de-icing. Assembly passed 94-50; the governor vetoed it.
June 5, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect specified native amphibians and reptiles from small-game taking while retaining exceptions for bullfrogs, common snapping turtles and native snakes. The bill passed the Assembly 142-5 in 2025, with no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending New York City’s freeze on liquefied-gas facility and transport-route safety approvals. The bills extended it to April 2025, then April 2027. Assembly passed 110–36 in 2023 and 111–36 in 2025; both bills became law.
May 14, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen recalls of prohibited PFAS firefighting foam and prohibit intentionally added PFAS in firefighting protective equipment from 2028. Assembly passed 149–0.
March 25, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn New York City’s City of Yes housing rezoning on environmental-review grounds. The trial court dismissed the amended petition in November 2025.
March 25, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: cdn.climatepolicyradar.org
Voted no on requiring gun dealers to display warnings about firearm risks (98–47, 2024). Also opposed extending the warnings to rifles and shotguns (98–50, 2025). Both bills became law.
March 19, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 801, which puts electric car charging requirements for new buildings into the state building code. The New York State Assembly passed it 88-57, and it became law.
March 12, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require cancer and reproductive-harm warnings on hair relaxers containing specified chemicals. Assembly passed 148–0; the bill became law.
March 10, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against creating and revising a $75 billion climate-adaptation fund financed by assessments on major fossil-fuel businesses. Both bills became law in 2024 and 2025. Assembly vote, 2024-06-08: No; total 92–49. Assembly vote, 2025-02-24: No; total 97–48.
February 24, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a native-plant seed development program and encourage practical use on state lands, then supported revised eligible-species rules and removal of a guaranteed commercial-supply objective. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-05-30), Yes 145–1 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit exposed polystyrene-foam coolers and ice chests, then supported exceptions for specified medical, laboratory and food-production materials, including temporary exemptions. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-2 in 2024, 145-2 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state-prison heat-safety plans covering cooling, water and wellness checks. Also supported making permanent cooling timelines depend on financial and operational feasibility. Assembly votes were 142–2 in 2024 and 144–0 in 2025. Both bills became law.
January 28, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for school heat-safety rules requiring relief at 82°F, then supported replacing an absolute 88°F occupancy ban with a plan to remove students and staff where practicable. Assembly votes were Yes 129–12 (2024-06-07), Yes 143–2 (2025-01-28).
January 28, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require epinephrine auto-injectors and trained staff or volunteers at covered sports and entertainment venues holding at least 1,000 people. He later supported a nine-month implementation delay; both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2024-05-23: Yes; total 135–2. Assembly vote, 2025-01-21: Yes; total 145–2.
January 21, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add lithium-ion battery incidents to specialised hazardous-materials emergency-response training, then supported a 2025 definition correction. Both measures became law. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-03-05), Yes 149–0 (2025-01-14).
January 14, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in state public buildings, with training rules and a phased rollout. Assembly passed 140-0; the bill became law.
June 8, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for the SAFE for Kids Act, requiring parental consent for covered addictive social-media feeds and overnight feed notifications to minors. It became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-07: Yes; total 143–1.
June 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize local property-tax exemptions for carbon-reducing improvements to owner-occupied one- and two-family homes. The bill became law in December 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-07: Yes; total 141–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against restricting approval of new schools within 500 feet of specified highways, subject to siting and air-quality exceptions. The 2024 law delayed the construction rules for five years. Assembly votes were No 107–40 (2024-06-06).
June 6, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against inflation adjustments to specified oil-facility financial-assurance amounts and new proof-of-coverage and railroad spill-preparedness disclosures. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were No 99–46 (2024-06-05).
June 5, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow registered dental assistants and licensed practical nurses to apply topical fluoride varnish under the required professional supervision. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-30 Yes 146-0.
May 30, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding food intolerances to required restaurant and food-service allergy notices, menus and online ordering options. Assembly passed 92–45; the bill became law.
May 23, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand New York City's green-roof tax abatement, raise the standard per-square-foot benefit and annual cap, and relax specified installation requirements. The bill became law. Assembly passed 136–0.
May 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to lower the age at which hospitals must offer admitted patients a seasonal flu vaccination from 65 to 50, subject to medical and prior-vaccination exceptions. The bill became law. Assembly passed 141–0.
May 20, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow licensed ground ambulance and advanced life support services to store blood and let qualified personnel administer transfusions, subject to safety standards and advance notice. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tally was 147-0.
May 14, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against establishing rebates of up to $2,000 for eligible used zero-emission vehicles, available to individual and institutional or commercial buyers subject to program funding. The bill passed the Assembly in 2024. Assembly tally was 106-39.
May 8, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Suffolk County's water-restoration funding by splitting dedicated tax revenue between septic and wastewater-facility projects and directing part of existing sewer-protection revenue toward septic systems. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-04-15).
April 15, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require free menstrual products in public-college restrooms. The proposal passed 119-27 in 2023 and 114-34 in 2024, then became law.
April 3, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against restrictions on specified pesticides used on corn, soybean and wheat seeds, lawns and ornamental plants. The 2023 versions passed 100-49 and 99-46. Also opposed a 2024 revision delaying deadlines and adding farm waivers; it passed 96-52. Both laws were enacted.
March 19, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a proposed constitutional amendment to make protecting and promoting mental health an explicit responsibility of state and local government. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024.
March 14, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning infant-lounger sales and their use in child care, except when medically necessary. Assembly passed 104–40 in 2023 and 115–35 in 2024; the bill stalled in the Senate.
March 13, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding carbon-dioxide oil and gas extraction to New York’s well-permit ban. The Assembly passed it 98–50; it became law in 2024. The existing high-volume hydraulic-fracturing ban remained.
March 12, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for rebates or exchanges providing safer batteries for e-bikes and similar mobility devices at reduced or no cost. The bill required certified replacement batteries. It passed 97-46 and was vetoed.
March 6, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2024 to establish and revise renewable-energy outreach and local planning assistance, including mapping resources and training. The revision allowed expansion of existing programs and removed a proposed cost-recovery fee. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: Yes; total 141–8. Assembly vote, 2024-03-04: Yes; total 124–20.
March 4, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the population limit for certain firefighters and police or peace officers eligible to provide emergency epinephrine from one million to two million, while excluding counties wholly within New York City. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2024-02-26: Yes; total 146–0.
February 26, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Also on this bill
- May 11, 2026 · Voted to require paid dispatcher-assisted CPR training and annual refreshers for 911 call-takers and dispatchers, including in New York City. The bill passed the Assembly 140-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment. (Supports Healthcare Affordability, Supports Public Safety and Crime Control)
Voted to authorize dispensing fentanyl-testing supplies, then remove storage and quantity limits and clarify that distribution required no license. Also supported adding xylazine and other substances. Assembly votes were 144–1 in 2023, then 146–2 and 144–2 in 2024. All three bills became law.
February 26, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish Cornell research trials combining farming and solar power. Also supported using existing research appropriations and ending the program in December 2030. Assembly votes were 146–0 in 2023 and 145–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 29, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar sodium nitrate and nitrite sales to people under 21. Also backed a revision exempting foods meeting federal rules. The bills passed 143-6 and 147-1 and became law.
January 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require free menstrual products in private schools serving grades 6–12. Also supported exemptions after schools showed no students needed them and offered private access. Assembly votes were 132–13 in 2023 and 148–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for defibrillator access and cardiac-emergency plans at covered youth camps and sports programs. Also supported narrower program coverage and reasonable access to shared equipment. Assembly votes were 144–5 in 2023 and 146–2 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow posted, written or electronic notice before voluntary HIV testing. Also supported prevention-drug information and referrals for anonymous tests. Assembly passed 148–0; the bill became law.
January 22, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require clear problem-gambling hotline numbers in gambling advertisements, including mobile sports-betting promotions. Assembly passed 141-0; the bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-27: Yes; total 142–0.
January 16, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a bill combining coordinated offshore-wind transmission planning with authority to use specified Long Beach parkland for underground wind-project cables, subject to replacement-value and restoration conditions. The bill passed 85-50 but was vetoed.
June 21, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting radiological discharges into the Hudson River during nuclear-power-plant decommissioning, subject to federal preemption, with civil penalties enforceable by the attorney general. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-20 No 101-44.
June 20, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand newborn screening for G6PD deficiency beyond infants meeting specified symptom or family-risk criteria. The governor vetoed the measure in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-20 Yes 144-0.
June 20, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand local affordable-housing loans and grants for construction, repairs and climate upgrades. The bill removed some financing caps and allowed longer loan terms while keeping affordability controls. It passed 144-0 and became law.
June 20, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to continue approved non-emergency community paramedicine services for two years. The program included certain flu and COVID-19 vaccinations under medical supervision. It passed 144-2 and became law.
June 9, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to invalidate contract clauses suppressing research on e-cigarette health effects and to restrict branded promotional goods, purchase gifts and brand-sponsored events. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 149-0.
June 7, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require NYCHA to notify affected residents within 24 hours of advice against drinking or cooking with their water and establish safeguards for contractors' water-sampling compliance. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-07 Yes 148-1.
June 7, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending state stream-protection permitting requirements to Class C streams, with an exemption for soil and water conservation districts operating under state agreements. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 99-48 in 2023.
June 6, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize registered nurses, under non-patient-specific physician orders, to perform specified emergency diagnostic tests, pregnancy tests and sepsis-related tests or IV procedures. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit selling over-the-counter diet pills and supplements marketed for weight loss or muscle building to people under 18, with exceptions for specified protein products. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 134-6 in 2023.
June 1, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend and revise New York City's solar and energy-storage property-tax abatements, including eligible parking canopies and a new 7.5% rate subject to tax-liability and annual-dollar limits. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 146-0.
May 31, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to ban tobacco sales under new vending leases or permits in state buildings, preserving existing agreements. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill became law.
May 30, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide grants and flexible financing to help small dry cleaners and nail salons install equipment needed to meet safety and air-quality codes. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict permits for filling Jamaica Bay borrow pits to sediment meeting specified toxicity and environmental criteria, alongside a restoration study. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-05-22: Yes; total 147–0.
May 22, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Duchenne muscular dystrophy to newborn screening using a test validated by the state’s Wadsworth Center. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023.
May 17, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning lead ammunition for hunting on state-owned land and land draining into New York City's water supply. Assembly vote, 2023-04-26: No; total 92–56.
April 26, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Joined a state Capitol press conference urging stronger CBD-product labeling and restrictions on marketing those products to children and teenagers.
March 15, 2023Supports Environment and Public Health
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Reduce Wealth Gap
Reduce Wealth Gap · 14 support
Co-sponsored a proposed increase in New York's earned income tax credit to 45% of the federal credit, with installment options for qualifying credit amounts.
October 21, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2025 to continue public-assistance resource exemptions, including a primary home and qualifying vehicle, through August 2027. Both renewals became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-30 Yes 139-5; 2025-05-21 Yes 143-0.
May 21, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exclude qualifying federal student-loan forgiveness from New York income tax, then supported expanding the exclusion to forgiveness under any federally authorized program. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-3 in 2023, 141-7 in 2024.
March 12, 2024Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for business-loan help focused on minority- and women-owned firms and small businesses in distressed areas. A revision replaced required underwriting standards with guidelines and dropped a required online loan portal. The bills passed 149-0 and 148-0 and became law.
January 23, 2024Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to Secure Choice retirement savings. Then supported replacing the separate personal-IRA provisions with board responsibility for an enrollment process. The process covered individuals and workers at nonparticipating employers. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 141-0 in 2024.
January 16, 2024Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow banking-development-district applications for existing branches regardless of their opening date and require consideration of preserving banking services. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-21 Yes 141-0.
June 21, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for NYC community-hiring rules that set employment goals for qualified low-income workers and residents of disadvantaged areas on covered public contracts. The law required best efforts toward those goals and authorized penalties for noncompliance. It passed 138-2 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize NYC construction mentoring programs with contracts reserved for qualifying small businesses and assistance with bidding, management and bonding. The law also opened the framework to city schools, NYCHA and public hospitals under specified conditions. It passed 140-0 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend manufactured-home residents' opportunity to buy their park when it is sold, including sales without a proposed change in land use. The bill passed 135-5 in 2023 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the state mortgage agency's ability to buy and insure loans secured by modular or manufactured homes treated as personal property, including existing homes. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 Yes 146-0.
June 9, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the MTA's small-business mentoring and construction-contract program by raising eligibility and contract limits, lengthening participation and permitting federally funded contracts with approval. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-06 Yes 145-2.
June 6, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect colleges and eligible student-athletes from athletic-association penalties over name, image and likeness compensation, including colleges' help arranging those opportunities. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-01 Yes 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to automatically enroll eligible New York City education retirement-system employees, including qualifying crossing guards, while preserving a 90-day opt-out and advance notice requirements. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-31 Yes 144-2.
May 31, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require regulators to consider whether a community is unbanked or underbanked when designating banking-development districts. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 146-2 in 2023.
March 28, 2023Supports Reduce Wealth Gap
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Labor Rights
Labor Rights · 154 support · 14 oppose
Co-sponsored paid line-of-duty leave and anti-retaliation protections for public first responders diagnosed with work-related PTSD.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a 2.7-percent cost-of-living adjustment and broader programme eligibility for state-funded human services, subject to appropriations.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals reducing the unemployment-benefit suspension for striking workers to one week and allowing the ordinary waiting period to run concurrently.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored reinstating New York City employees dismissed for failing to meet a COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with their former salary, benefits and seniority.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored making the volunteer-firefighter lung-disability presumption permanent.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored higher minimum poll-worker pay, including $300 for New York City inspectors, $350 for coordinators and $50 for required training.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored A02880 and its refile A01467, proposing paid-family-leave eligibility for recovery after a stillbirth.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored reopening time-barred workers’ compensation death-benefit claims for essential workers who died from occupational COVID-19 exposure.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a human-services employee wage board. The bill linked its recommendations to the Labor Department’s wage-order process, with commissioner approval or modification.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored protections against reductions in public retirees’ health insurance benefits, employer contributions and provider access.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills extending eligibility to buy up to three years of military pension credit to qualifying state service under the governor’s orders.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Medicaid reimbursement for trained family complex-care assistants, with nursing supervision and minimum payment pass-through protections.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing qualifying public-pension members to purchase retirement credit for volunteer fire or emergency service, up to three years.
October 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund and implement the 2026–2031 pay-and-benefit agreement for state professional, scientific, and technical employees. The bill included annual raises, revised location and other payments, and $332 million plus committee funding, with implementation conditioned on ratification certification. Assembly passed it 130–0; it became law.
June 5, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for SUNY professional-services pay agreements in 2023 and 2026. The laws included appropriations of $275 million and $208 million, respectively. Assembly votes were 146–0 and 136–0. Both bills became law.
June 5, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require conductors on New York City Transit passenger trains. After the 2025 bill was vetoed, he supported a 2026 version preserving operations already permitted without a conductor; it passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 140-0, 144-0, 131-1.
June 5, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give covered New York City police pension members hired since July 2000 the same pension salary-base calculation as earlier hires. The bill passed 141-0 and became law in 2026.
June 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a limited one-year pause on new state environmental permits for large data centers, separate utility rates assigning their costs to them, renewable-energy requirements, and host-community benefits. The bill also set construction labor standards. Assembly passed it 103–38; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require free emergency panic buttons for local social-services employees making home visits, with limits on location tracking and backup assistance plans. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect bargaining agreements, accrued leave, and retirement benefits during a planned transfer of Roswell Park research staff to a private nonprofit corporation. The bill conditioned the move on transferring related grants and funds. It became law in June 2026. Assembly vote, 2026-06-04: Yes; total 139–0.
June 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for annual special accidental-death benefit increases for eligible public-employee survivors, passing 146-0, 145-0, 144-0 and 139-0 in 2023–2026. Also voted to include qualifying NYC deputy-sheriff survivors in the program, passing 145-0 in 2023. All five bills became law.
June 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to improve retirement eligibility for covered unified court officers, including unreduced retirement at 55 with 30 years of service and a lower normal retirement age for Tier 6 members. The 2023–2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 146-0, 140-1, 146-0, 139-1.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the Social Security offset from specified NYC uniformed sanitation workers’ service and vested pensions. The bill passed 138-2 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the pensionable-overtime ceiling for Tier 6 New York City Transit workers covered by the 55/25 retirement plan. Supported the vetoed 2025 bill and its 2026 refile, which passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 142–2. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: Yes; total 139–1.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the Social Security offset from specified NYC uniformed correction officers’ service and vested pensions. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the standard mandatory retirement age for New York City police officers from 63 to 65. The bill passed 140-0 and became law in 2026.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for job-related heart-disease presumptions and pensions at 75% of final average pay for eligible NYC deputy sheriffs. The bills passed 139-1, 144-2, 144-0 and 138-2. The first three were vetoed; the 2026 bill passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend World Trade Center rescue-and-recovery registration deadlines to September 2030 and reopen specified workers’ compensation claims for people disabled between September 2021 and September 2025. The bill required reconsideration of covered claims previously barred by time limits. Assembly passed it 140–0; it became law.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to presume qualifying NYC deputy sheriffs’ lung disease was job-related and provide pensions at 75% of final average pay. Certain recent retirees also qualified. The bills passed 138-2, 145-2, 143-1 and 138-2. The first three were vetoed; the 2026 bill passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to reopen a 180-day window for eligible New York City EMTs to enter the 25-year retirement program after previously opting out, with back contributions and interest required. The 2023 and 2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-05 Yes 144-1; 2025-06-16 Yes 145-0; 2026-06-03 Yes 139-1.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let public employers offer eligible 911 operators and emergency dispatchers retirement after 25 years of credited service, regardless of age. The optional plan provided a benefit based on final average salary, with participating employers responsible for its costs. Assembly passed it 140–0; both chambers passed it.
June 3, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring large employers and job platforms to disclose whether ads describe real vacancies and remove filled or expired postings. The bill passed 86-54 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to let eligible state-paid judges' beneficiaries choose a lump-sum pension reserve when it exceeded the ordinary death benefit. The 2024 and 2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-06-06), Yes 136–3 (2025-06-11), Yes 139–0 (2026-06-02).
June 2, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a 25-year retirement program for qualifying New York City water-supply police, with required additional contributions. Supported the vetoed 2025 bill and its 2026 refile, which passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 137–2.
June 2, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to let eligible New York City police pension members purchase credit for earlier service as city prosecutors or police-corruption commission attorneys, with contribution and no-double-credit rules. The 2025 bill was vetoed; its 2026 refile passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 139–0.
June 2, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a rebuttable work-related heart-disease presumption and a three-quarter-salary disability pension for qualifying New York City probation officers. Supported the vetoed 2025 bill and its 2026 refile, which passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 142–2. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 137–2.
June 2, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to offer certain New York Power Authority trades and security workers an optional pension after 25 years, without an age requirement, funded by the authority. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require a tipping option when delivery orders are placed, then backed extending the rule to grocery platforms and additional order workers. The bill passed both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2026-05-11: Yes; total 140–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 138–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to phase out mandatory fees for specified SUNY and CUNY graduate workers, except student-association fees. The 2025 bill was vetoed; a clarified 2026 refile passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 145–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 139–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish minimum reporting pay and pay for construction shifts cancelled on less than 12 hours' notice, with separate prevailing-wage and general-construction rules. The bill passed 125-14 and became law in 2026.
June 1, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring attorney-consultation notice, a 21-day consideration period and seven-day revocation rights for severance agreements, with a collective-bargaining exception. The bill passed 110-29 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove limits that confined qualifying deputy-sheriff unions’ binding contract arbitration to compensation and required contracts to be expired for at least 12 months after other impasse procedures were exhausted. Assembly passed it 134–1; both chambers passed it.
May 28, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to ban deceptive impersonation of public-worker unions or their representatives, with attorney-general enforcement and fines of $1,000 per incident subject to court reduction. Assembly passed 138–0; the bill became law.
May 28, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding student-loan payment history to the consumer-credit information covered by employment credit-screening protections. The bill passed 100-44 in the Assembly in 2026 but had no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state certification, inspections and lead-dust testing for paid renovation work, with bans on unsafe paint removal. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 19, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for liberal interpretation of New York labor protections independent of federal interpretations, then backed a revised version in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 126–18. Assembly vote, 2026-05-19: Yes; total 129–12.
May 19, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require plain-language disclosure and explanation of mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts, including notices in remotely signed contracts. The bill passed 106-35 in 2026 but had no recorded enactment.
May 19, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against giving current and former workers free personnel-file copies and rights to challenge false information. The bill required notice of negative entries and banned retaliation. Assembly passed 92–49; it became law.
May 19, 2026Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend qualifying emergency-duty leave to Civil Air Patrol members and Coast Guard Auxiliary pilots, subject to documentation and an employer undue-hardship exception. The bill covered specified emergency services and assigned missions. Assembly passed it 132–0; both chambers passed it.
May 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit withholding or reducing otherwise-due workers’ compensation benefits because an injured worker failed to demonstrate attachment to the labor market. The 2026 bill passed 125-10 and both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-05-27: Yes; total 126–19.
May 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to invalidate agreements waiving employment rights or remedies, with exceptions for specified settlements, post-employment agreements, collective bargaining and federal law. The bill passed 134-3 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible public employees choose to use accrued leave during workers' compensation waiting periods or disputed claims, with restoration when benefits were later owed. Assembly passed 135–0.
May 13, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict disability insurers' offsets for actual or estimated Social Security disability benefits, requiring notice, application assistance and other conditions. The 2024 bill was vetoed; he supported the refile again in 2026, when it passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 146-0, 140-0.
May 6, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend paid leave for state employees serving in the Civil Air Patrol or Coast Guard auxiliary to Air Force-assigned missions, within the existing 20-day annual limit. Assembly passed 135–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 4, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend binding contract arbitration to employees of subsidiaries of specified upstate transit authorities. The bill passed 134-1 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
April 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people sue New York under federal disability, wage-and-hour, age-discrimination and family-leave laws by waiving state sovereign immunity. The bills passed the Assembly 146-0, 142-4, 134-13 and 126-8; none became law in the reviewed actions.
April 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend wage protections to earned pay outside an employer’s sole discretion, including bonuses. The bill also presumed workers’ terms were correct when employers failed to provide required written terms. Assembly passed 132–9; it passed both chambers.
March 30, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to clarify that eligible survivors can receive the unpaid portion of certain workers’ compensation disability awards when a claimant dies from unrelated causes. Supported the bill in 2025 and 2026; it had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-09: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
March 9, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to require libraries to adopt workplace-violence prevention policies, train employees and install panic buttons or approved alternatives. The bill passed the Assembly unanimously in 2025 and 2026 but had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-05: Yes; total 140–0.
March 5, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for tower-technician training requirements on state contracts, then backed a revision putting training standards under OGS for work on state-owned towers. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-05-05 Yes (147–0), 2026-02-25 Yes (142–0).
February 25, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to recognize mental-health practitioners with diagnostic privileges as authorized workers’ compensation providers. The bill passed both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment. Assembly votes: 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-02-24 Yes (132–0).
February 24, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require state law-enforcement tattoo policies permitting specified body tattoos while restricting hand, face and neck tattoos. The bill protected existing employees’ continued service and passed 138-2 in 2026 without recorded enactment.
February 9, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend prevailing-wage requirements to covered custom fabrication for public works, including work done off site. The policy became law in 2025 and was revised in 2026. Assembly vote, 2024-06-05: Yes; total 131–14. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 119–20. Assembly vote, 2026-01-29: Yes; total 126–8.
January 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to give municipal emergency dispatchers and correction officers the same PTSD treatment benefits and services available to their municipality’s police officers and firefighters. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024, 144-0 in 2025, 141-0 in 2026.
January 28, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require employers to tell workers that employment confidentiality clauses did not prevent them from contacting law enforcement, civil-rights agencies or their own attorneys. Assembly passed 139–0.
January 27, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require contractors building covered renewable-energy systems to have apprenticeship agreements, including a 2026 revision. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-05-29: Yes; total 133–13. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 135–4.
January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for government automated-decision safeguards and public-worker protections, then supported a revision retaining AI employment protections while repealing the broader impact-assessment rules. Both measures became law in 2025–2026. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 143–2. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 139–0.
January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in covered private workplaces, then to revise training rules and delay the deadline. Assembly passed 146-1 and 138-1. Both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit specified employment promissory notes charging employees for leaving a job early, then supported a revision adding exceptions for qualifying transferable credentials and other payments. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-11 Yes (139–0), 2026-01-21 Yes (139–0).
January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for safety plans for hazardous deployments of state parks employees, then backed incident check-in and coordination requirements. The original bill and its correction became law. Assembly vote, 2025-05-19: Yes; total 143–0. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 138–2.
January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand paid-family-leave eligibility for covered construction workers who move between employers under collective-bargaining agreements, including a 2026 revision. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-04-02: Yes; total 138–10. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 139–0.
January 21, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to permit mental-health telehealth visits under workers' compensation, with periodic in-person visits and exceptions for hardship or clinical risk. Assembly votes: 2025-05-21 Yes (141–3), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to prohibit executive-branch agencies from outsourcing work otherwise performed by union-covered employees during a hiring freeze. The 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were Yes 142–5 (2024-05-29), Yes 143–1 (2025-04-01), Yes 144–0 (2026-01-12).
January 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand state labor-board jurisdiction where federal jurisdiction is not established and preserve existing bargaining terms during union-certification verification. The bill passed 126-15 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let injured workers use outside pharmacies after specified 72-hour medication approval delays. The governor vetoed both the 2024 and 2025 bills. The latest Assembly vote passed 139-2. Assembly vote, 2024-05-30: Yes; total 144–2.
June 17, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to increase paid military leave for public employees from 30 calendar days or 22 working days to 60 calendar days or 52 working days, whichever was greater. The limits applied per year and per continuous absence. Assembly passed it 141–0; the governor vetoed it on December 12, 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise WTC-related disability reclassification and specified evidentiary presumptions for retired NYPD members. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible automotive pension-plan members with more than thirty years of service who kept working past 62 choose the standard Tier 4 retirement calculation. The bills passed 140-0 in 2024 and 143-1 in 2025. Both were vetoed.
June 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let covered FDNY pension members receive normal service retirement benefits after 20 rather than 22 years. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to presume qualifying sanitation workers’ disabling or fatal leptospirosis was job-related unless competent evidence showed otherwise. The presumption excluded workers’ compensation and labor-law claims. Assembly passed 143–2; it became law.
June 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let surviving spouses of specified New York City police pension members retain benefits after remarriage. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend prevailing-wage rules to qualifying privately contracted brownfield cleanups with at least 30% public support and construction costs above $5 million. The bills exempted affordable housing and covered labor agreements. They passed 140-6 and 140-5 in 2024 and 2025; both were vetoed.
June 16, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against specifying standards for employment-discrimination claims based on discriminatory effects, including business-necessity defenses. The bill became law in December 2025. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: No; total 98–46.
June 16, 2025Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund and implement pay and benefit changes for state-police investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists. The act revised salary schedules and supplemental compensation and provided eligible employees a $3,000 nonpensionable lump-sum payment. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on June 26, 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund and implement SUNY graduate-student employees’ pay and benefit agreement, including annual stipend increases, higher minimum stipends, and lump-sum payments. The act also funded recruitment, fee-mitigation, and professional-development programs. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on June 26, 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for paid critical-incident leave for state troopers involved in justified force causing death or serious injury, with different minimums based on their role. The bill passed 133-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect public employees from lost wages for participating in specified workplace-violence inspections, risk evaluations and annual program reviews. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
June 11, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require hospital workplace-violence prevention programs and emergency-department security staffing, with specified rural-hospital exceptions. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 11, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let beneficiaries of eligible NYC Transit pension members who died before filing for retirement choose a pension-reserve payment as a lump sum or annuity. The bills passed 145-0 in 2024 and 146-0 in 2025. Both were vetoed.
June 11, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to count qualifying prior traffic-enforcement service toward NYPD retirement and pension benefits, with required employee contributions. The option covered agents hired before July 2009. Assembly passed 144–0; the governor vetoed it.
June 9, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restore normal retirement after 20 years for specified New York City correction officers and sanitation workers, replacing the 22-year requirement. The bill passed 144-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 9, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand permanent-total-disability eligibility for injured workers unable to do a full range of sedentary work or approved for Social Security disability because of a work injury. Assembly passed 142–2; the governor vetoed it.
June 9, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to continue the existing heart-disease disability presumption for volunteer firefighters through June 2030. The measure passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to continue the existing lung-disability presumption for volunteer firefighters through June 2030. The measure passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend prevailing-wage requirements to concrete and asphalt hauling for public works in New York City and four surrounding counties. The bill became law in December 2025. Assembly vote, 2025-06-05: Yes; total 130–15.
June 5, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored letting public workers buy three additional years of military pension credit without reducing it for military-leave credits. The bill remained in committee.
June 2, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize a long-term University at Albany land lease for the Albany NanoTech Complex. He later supported stronger protection against outsourcing university staff work there. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-08 Yes (140–0), 2025-05-29 Yes (144–2).
May 29, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a voluntary recovery-ready workplace program with employer training, overdose-response preparation and support for workers receiving substance-use treatment. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 146–0.
May 29, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to implement the 2023-2026 collective-bargaining agreements for State Police troopers and commissioned and non-commissioned officers, including salary and benefit changes. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 12, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend specified veteran-business benefits, paid public-employee holiday leave and military-duty employment protections to commissioned NOAA and Public Health Service officers. The refiled bill became law in 2025. Assembly votes were Yes 144–1 (2024-05-30), Yes 148–0 (2025-04-02).
April 2, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give organizations representing managerial or confidential public employees access to new hires and orientations. The bills included paid work-time meetings and employee-contact notices. They passed 145-0 in 2024 and 144-0 in 2025; both were vetoed.
April 1, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen recalls of prohibited PFAS firefighting foam and prohibit intentionally added PFAS in firefighting protective equipment from 2028. Assembly passed 149–0.
March 25, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to increase civil penalties for child-labor violations, including a $3,000 first-violation maximum and $5,000-$10,000 penalties for third or subsequent violations. The bill passed 149-0 in 2025 but was withdrawn in 2026 without enactment.
March 25, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to preserve collectively bargained protections stronger than statutory rules when public positions were abolished or reduced. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
February 25, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for transition protections for government call-center workers, then supported making successor retention and related contract requirements optional while preserving protections for workers who are retained. Assembly votes were Yes 142–3 (2024-06-06), Yes 144–1 (2025-02-05).
February 5, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for fashion-model protections covering management registration, commissions, contracts, overtime and consent for digital replicas. Also supported revisions to registration, deal memos, deductions and enforcement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-1 in 2024, 145-1 in 2025.
February 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require electronic certified payroll reporting for public works and public database access, then supported a later rollout and a compliant New York City database option. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-06), Yes 146–0 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored warehouse injury-prevention requirements. Also voted for ergonomic assessments, hazard controls, paid training and medical safeguards. Supported revised assessor qualifications and employee-requested specialist review. Both later bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 141–0 (2024-06-07), Yes 145–1 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for school heat-safety rules requiring relief at 82°F, then supported replacing an absolute 88°F occupancy ban with a plan to remove students and staff where practicable. Assembly votes were Yes 129–12 (2024-06-07), Yes 143–2 (2025-01-28).
January 28, 2025Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to widen injured workers’ access to treatment outside preapproved lists and diagnostic networks. The bill raised the advance-approval threshold to $1,500 and required certain outside tests to receive network-rate payments. It passed 136-5 and was vetoed.
June 8, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund salary increases, benefits, and a signing bonus for state rent-regulation workers represented by District Council 37. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-07: Yes; total 142–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide eligible Suffolk County correction officers a pension based on 60% of final average salary after 30 years of credited service, alongside the existing 25-year benefit. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tally was 141-0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state security-supervisors compensation agreement providing 3% annual raises for 2023–25, an eligible-worker $3,000 retention bonus and increased benefits, with implementation funding. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state security-services compensation agreement providing 3% annual raises for 2023–25, an eligible-worker $3,000 bonus and increased supplemental pay, with implementation funding. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2024 for 20-year pension bills for specified state conservation, forest, park and university police officers. Both were vetoed; the 2025 budget enacted modified 20- and 25-year plans with different benefit formulas. Assembly tallies were 144-1 and 144-0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let retired teachers who return to service qualify sooner for a recalculated pension, reducing the combined-service recalculation threshold from five years to two. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let designated beneficiaries choose pension payments instead of a death benefit when an eligible public worker died in service shortly after filing for retirement. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state agency-police compensation agreement providing 3% annual raises for 2023–25, an eligible-worker $3,000 retention bonus and additional benefits, with funding to implement it. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to void certain digital-replica contract terms that lacked specific uses and negotiated worker protections. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
June 7, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers, licensing bodies and schools from demanding a person’s own state criminal-history report. The bill did not ban all background checks. It passed 82-65 and became law.
June 6, 2024Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting workers and consumers leave arbitration when the party that wrote the agreement failed to pay required fees. The bill set a 30-day late-payment trigger and provided fee recovery and sanctions. It passed 97-48 in the Assembly.
June 5, 2024Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible New York City education employees in United Federation of Teachers represented titles transfer from the Board of Education Retirement System to the Teachers' Retirement System with their service credit and reserves. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 143–1 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the duty-related disability and death presumption for paid firefighters to endocrine and thyroid cancers, subject to examination and rebuttal requirements. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to grant eligible police retirement-plan members additional pension credit for up to five years of prior SUNY police, state park police or attorney-general investigator service. The bill required member contributions and completion of twenty years of service. It passed 145-0 in the Assembly.
June 3, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend performance-of-duty disability retirement protections to eligible safety and security officers in covered state institutions, including specified work-related injury and disease presumptions. The bill passed the Assembly in 2024. Assembly tally was 145-0.
June 3, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2024 for an alternative 25-year pension plan for eligible Division of Military and Naval Affairs airport firefighters. The 2023 bill was vetoed; a 25-year plan became law in the 2025 budget. Assembly tallies were 145-1 and 145-0.
June 3, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give independent hearing officers the final decision in contested civil-service disability-leave cases. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly passed 137–7.
May 30, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to medical records and employer-doctor communications for civil-service employees facing disability leave. The bill became law. Assembly passed 143–1.
May 30, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exempt qualifying union-contracted minor-league baseball players from New York minimum-wage and certain wage-payment rules while retaining specified worker protections. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 136–0 (2024-05-23).
May 23, 2024Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend private-sector job protections to National Guard members called to active duty by other states. The bill covered reemployment and protection from firing because of militia membership. It passed 137-0 and became law.
May 23, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for locally bargained teacher and principal evaluation plans. The bill phased out older rules by 2032 and removed specified evaluation-linked tenure and discipline requirements. It became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
May 15, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for paid military leave and job protections for Port Authority employees. The bill included five paid care days for qualifying combat veterans. It passed 145-0 and 148-0 and became New York law, subject to matching New Jersey legislation.
March 21, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Also on this bill
- May 30, 2024 · Co-sponsored and voted for registering limited-use motorcycles at sale, with a declaration exception for vehicles used exclusively outside New York. The bill became law in 2024. Assembly passed 145–0. (General)
- June 10, 2023 · Voted against restricting constitutional challenges to New York election law and related claims to designated courts in New York, Westchester, Albany or Erie counties, based on the plaintiff's judicial department. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 82-62. (General)
Voted against barring employers from requiring workers to waive legal rights or accept arbitration as a job condition. Union agreements were exempt. Assembly passed 97–49 in 2023 and 96–49 in 2024; the bill stalled in the Senate.
March 18, 2024Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for the Freelance Isn't Free Act and its 2024 replacement, requiring written contracts and timely payment for qualifying freelance work, prohibiting retaliation, and authorizing attorney-general enforcement and private lawsuits. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 144-1, 144-2.
February 26, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to Secure Choice retirement savings. Then supported replacing the separate personal-IRA provisions with board responsibility for an enrollment process. The process covered individuals and workers at nonparticipating employers. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 141-0 in 2024.
January 16, 2024Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible New York City correction officers in the revised retirement plan receive pension credit for qualifying unpaid child-care leave, subject to contribution, filing and one-year-per-leave limits. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 141-0.
June 21, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a rebuttable line-of-duty presumption for qualifying heart disease in New York City fire-alarm dispatchers and specified supervisors, including certain recent retirees. The governor vetoed the measure in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-21 Yes 138-3.
June 21, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting covered employers from requiring non-compete agreements that restrict workers’ later employment. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 95–52.
June 20, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make wage theft prosecutable as larceny, including combining unpaid wages owed to multiple workers in one charge. The bill became law in September 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: Yes; total 140–4.
June 20, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to increase ordinary death benefits under NYC public retirement systems by reducing age-related cuts for active workers and raising benefit floors. The law also extended a retirement-stage minimum benefit. It passed 140-0 and became law, applying to eligible deaths from July 1, 2021.
June 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against protecting workers who refused employer meetings or messages promoting political or religious views, including union membership. The bill included exceptions for job duties and certain religious or academic work. It passed 112-28 and became law.
June 10, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add endocrine and thyroid cancers to the job-related disability and death-benefit presumption for eligible NYC firefighters, including certain recent retirees. The presumption remained rebuttable and required a qualifying entry physical. The bill passed 140-0 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible Tier 6 police officers and firefighters use their final 12 months of pay to calculate their pensions when their employer had already adopted that benefit for earlier members. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 140-0 in 2023.
June 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against raising minimum workers' compensation to $275 weekly in 2024 and $325 in 2025. Later minimums were tied to statewide wages. Assembly passed 98-40; the bill became law.
June 10, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to include eligible Waterfront Commission investigators and sworn officers in the State Police twenty-year retirement plan, credit prior commission service, and extend statutory police-officer status. The bill passed 136-0 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to stop certain extra pension charges for eligible city carpentry and dock workers unable to qualify for early retirement. The bill ordered refunds of their employee share plus interest. It passed 143-1 and became law.
June 9, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for 3% annual raises in 2023–2025 and $3,000 bonuses for eligible state staff. Covered staff included professional, scientific, technical and specified nonunion employees. Assembly passed 146–0; the bill became law.
June 9, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the heart-disease line-of-duty presumption to eligible SUNY police officers who passed the required pre-service physical. The 2023 bill passed 141-4 but was vetoed; the provision became law in the 2024 budget.
June 9, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require prevailing wages for workers on covered utility-contractor street-excavation projects and make compliance a condition of the work permit. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 132-16 in 2023.
June 8, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limits on secrecy clauses in settlements of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. The bill barred preset penalties and repayment demands for breaking those clauses. Assembly passed 100-48; it became law.
June 7, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend public-employer workplace-violence prevention rules to public schools. Assembly passed 145-4; the bill became law.
June 7, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend certain wage-payment protections to salaried executives, administrators and professionals earning up to $1,300 a week. The bill raised the threshold from $900. It passed 148-0 and became law.
June 7, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let the bridge and tunnel authority remove the age-50 minimum from eligible officers’ 20-year pensions. The bill required authority approval and extended peace-officer status to senior ranks. It passed 139-8 and became law.
June 6, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect employees from being forced to assign inventions developed entirely on their own time without employer resources, except inventions connected to the employer’s business or their work. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 147-1 in 2023.
June 6, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect colleges and eligible student-athletes from athletic-association penalties over name, image and likeness compensation, including colleges' help arranging those opportunities. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-01 Yes 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible families keep state health coverage after a public employee’s death despite fewer than 10 service years. The change covered qualifying disability retirees and required payment of full premiums. It passed 146-0 and became law.
May 31, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to automatically enroll eligible New York City education retirement-system employees, including qualifying crossing guards, while preserving a 90-day opt-out and advance notice requirements. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-31 Yes 144-2.
May 31, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public employers to provide bargaining-unit employees' home addresses to their unions upon qualifying requests and treat noncompliance as an improper employer practice. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-30 Yes 144-0.
May 30, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add gender identity and expression to protections against discrimination and harassment in internships. The bill became law in August 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-05-30: Yes; total 141–3.
May 30, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend seniority-based layoff and demotion protections to civil-service workers in noncompetitive and labor-class jobs. The law kept job-class boundaries and collective-bargaining protections. It passed 144-0 and became law.
May 30, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a job-related lung-disease presumption for qualifying correction officers and deputy sheriffs. It required a disease-free entry examination and allowed contrary evidence. The proposal stalled after Assembly passage. Assembly votes were 138-4 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to presume qualifying on-duty assault injuries eligible for court officers’ accidental-disability retirement, subject to contrary evidence. The bill passed 141-1 and became law in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide grants and flexible financing to help small dry cleaners and nail salons install equipment needed to meet safety and air-quality codes. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a job-related heart-disease presumption for qualifying correction officers and deputy sheriffs. It required a disease-free entry examination and allowed contrary evidence. The governor vetoed it. Assembly votes were 138-4 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require faster workers' compensation hearings, allow either party to request a hearing without added board prerequisites, and provide injured workers with free hearing records and decisions in their native language. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly tally was 142-0.
May 24, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand workers’ compensation document translation to all vital documents under the state’s 12-language standard and align language-access planning and oversight. The Assembly passed it 116–31; it became law in 2023.
May 9, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers from demanding access to workers' personal online accounts or punishing refusals. Assembly passed 123-25; the bill became law.
March 21, 2023Opposes Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for nonjudicial court staff pay agreements with 2% raises for 2021–22, 3% for 2023–25, and $3,000 payments. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill became law.
January 18, 2023Supports Labor Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Anti-Corruption
Anti-Corruption · 16 support · 9 oppose
Co-sponsored restrictions on campaign contributions from state contractors and related entities to candidates for statewide offices.
October 21, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored stronger local control over major renewable-energy siting, with conflict-of-interest, contract-transparency and landowner protections.
October 21, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against real-time access to encrypted police radio for qualifying journalists and emergency-service workers, with sensitive-information exceptions. The 2025 bill was vetoed; a revised 2026 bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2025-06-05: No; total 84–61. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: No; total 78–62.
June 3, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand volunteer-firefighter service-award forfeiture to felony crimes committed against fire departments, companies or districts, beyond the existing arson rule. The bill passed 138-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to publish financial-disclosure statements from candidates for statewide office and the Legislature and update related disclosure requirements. Assembly passed 141–0.
May 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require Senate confirmation for Urban Development Corporation leadership vacancies and limit acting appointments to six months. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 11, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding public-records and open-meeting requirements for covered government-affiliated nonprofits and tightening local-development-corporation property and contracting rules. Assembly passed 98–47.
March 31, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring periodic renewal and agency review of specified business-information exceptions from public disclosure. Assembly votes: 2025-03-19 No (95–53), 2026-03-24 No (93–50).
March 24, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Freedom of Information Law rules for agency responses, electronic record retrieval and protections against using personal name-and-address lists for solicitation or fundraising. Assembly votes were 148-0 in 2024, 142-0 in 2026.
March 23, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require state agencies to publish their public documents online in a printable digital format, subject to existing confidentiality protections. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 148-0 in 2024, 146-0 in 2025, 137-0 in 2026.
March 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require public disclosure of emergency and other state contracts exempted from comptroller review, with later bills requiring contract summaries online within 30 days and barring emergency suspension of the disclosure rule. The 2023 and 2024 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed the Assembly. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 Yes 145-0; 2024-06-04 Yes 145-0; 2025-03-18 Yes 148-0; 2026-03-19 Yes 137-0.
March 19, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exempt specified SUNY and CUNY teaching relationships from lobbyists' reportable-business-relationship disclosures. Assembly votes: 2025-06-04 Yes (144–0), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against LLC owner-disclosure rules and a revision replacing the public owner-name registry with a confidential database. The bills passed 89-55 and 86-60 and became law. Also opposed a later state-definition amendment, which passed 82-60 and was vetoed.
June 17, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set phased deadlines for disclosing approved public-records requests, with exceptions and monthly updates for delays. Assembly passed 145–0; the governor vetoed it.
June 16, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require disclosure of nonexempt portions of public records and specific justification for withholding records under FOIL. The bill passed 144-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 9, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require political committees’ websites to identify their payer on every page and include qualifying websites in independent-expenditure rules. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill became law.
May 15, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require electronic certified payroll reporting for public works and public database access, then supported a later rollout and a compliant New York City database option. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-06), Yes 146–0 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise New York's False Claims Act, including whistleblower recovery shares, fraud-damages calculations, access to tax information and the thresholds for tax-fraud cases. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require stronger controls on New York City public-housing contracts below competitive-bidding thresholds, including cost checks, corruption reporting, employee and vendor training, and public audits. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let specified state officials and legislators visit covered mental-health facilities, with efforts to notify the director and authority to refuse visits interfering with treatment or facility management. The bill passed the Assembly in 2024. Assembly tally was 141-0.
May 20, 2024Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against waiving government copyright in records disclosed under freedom-of-information law, with exceptions for specified creative, academic and commercial works. Assembly votes were 98-48 in 2023, 101-49 in 2024.
March 27, 2024Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend lobbying registration, disclosure and contingent-fee restrictions to efforts to influence nominations or confirmations for state positions requiring Senate confirmation. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly tally was 140-0.
June 10, 2023Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning municipal staff from displaying candidate advertisements on public property, uniforms, vehicles, and fire equipment. Assembly passed 99-48; the bill became law.
June 8, 2023Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding cryptocurrency holdings to officials’ financial disclosures, then opposed a broader version covering digital assets such as NFTs worth more than $1,000. The broader bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-03-15: No; total 117–29. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: No; total 106–42.
June 7, 2023Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against restrictions on industrial-development agency officials and contractors taking positions with businesses seeking or receiving agency assistance, including a two-year cooling-off period. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 105-41 in 2023.
May 22, 2023Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency · 36 support · 1 oppose
Co-sponsored invalidating specified local-government cost bills lacking funding-source information or containing materially inaccurate fiscal estimates.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored withholding the governor’s salary during a late state budget, with accrued pay released after passage.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $5 million local-government cybersecurity fund and a future ban on using taxpayer money for ransomware payments.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals to repeal congestion pricing and require an independent forensic audit of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored redirecting state-agency fine and penalty revenues to the general fund, with public accounting and statutory earmark exceptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored increasing local governments' retained share of successful Medicaid-fraud recoveries to encourage investigations and prosecutions.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require 25% advances on funded nonprofit state contracts, set contract-modification deadlines and include eligible indirect costs, with federal-funding exceptions. Assembly passed 132–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for advances and payment protections for nonprofit state contractors in 2025, then a revised bill expanding short-term loans and invoice-payment safeguards. The first was vetoed; the 2026 refile passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-05: Yes; total 131–0.
June 5, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen interagency help for children awaiting appropriate care, including evaluation and placement-or-service referral deadlines and a confidential coordination portal. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Criticized programming at the planned 86th Street homeless shelter in Bensonhurst as wasteful in July 2024. In May 2026, sought an investigation into allegedly false asbestos inspection reports at the site.
May 7, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require virtual and in-person access to utility-regulator proceedings and electronic document filing, with confidential settlements limited to admitted parties. Assembly passed 142–0; both chambers passed the bill.
March 30, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Freedom of Information Law rules for agency responses, electronic record retrieval and protections against using personal name-and-address lists for solicitation or fundraising. Assembly votes were 148-0 in 2024, 142-0 in 2026.
March 23, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require state agencies to publish their public documents online in a printable digital format, subject to existing confidentiality protections. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 148-0 in 2024, 146-0 in 2025, 137-0 in 2026.
March 19, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require approved state addiction-service aid to reach recipient agencies within 60 days, with funds used for authorized services within two years. Supported the bill in 2025 and 2026; it had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
March 9, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for an online system for the DMV to verify drivers’ liability insurance with insurers, with information-security rules and a testing period. The bill passed 144-1 and became law, effective in 2028.
June 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set phased deadlines for disclosing approved public-records requests, with exceptions and monthly updates for delays. Assembly passed 145–0; the governor vetoed it.
June 16, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public water-data standards, annual updates and access through OpenNY and APIs. The bill passed 144-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 9, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make declined Academic Excellence scholarships available to the next eligible student when practicable, instead of letting those awards lapse. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
May 29, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let courts add non-family-offense protection orders to the statewide computerized registry when needed to implement the orders. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 12, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored withholding the governor’s and lieutenant governor’s pay during late budgets, with repayment after passage. The bill remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to match public-benefit records for utility affordability enrollment, then supported narrower OTDA matching and added water services. Also supported an 18-month setup deadline for water matching, with eligibility checks and enrollment notices. Assembly votes were 143–2 in 2023, 144–0 and 141–0 in 2024, and 146–0 in 2025. All four bills became law.
February 4, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to accept Social Security low-income subsidy data as a Medicare Savings Program application without requiring another application, using verified data to establish eligibility. Also supported delaying the law’s effective date to April 1, 2026. Both became law; Assembly tallies were 144-1 and 145-0.
January 22, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand alternative contracting methods for specified New York City infrastructure, cultural and library projects, while retaining labor-agreement and prevailing-wage protections. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace public hearings on qualifying NYC contract awards with published contract details and at least seven days for online public comments, while retaining specified exemptions. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-06-07).
June 7, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Supreme Court, Family Court and NYC criminal and civil judgeships in 2023, then more Family Court and NYC civil judgeships in 2024. The bills passed 147-0 and 129-15; both became law. The measures authorized new positions rather than changing the constitutional court-size limit.
June 7, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding electronic filing across civil, criminal and family courts. The bill kept participation voluntary for people without lawyers and retained specified lawyer opt-outs. It became law. Assembly passed 104–41.
June 5, 2024Opposes Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require state payment schedules and interest on late payments under written directives to nonprofit contractors, alongside reports on chronic contracting delays. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2024-06-03: Yes; total 145–0.
June 3, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a small-business energy ombudsman program to assist with agency disputes, regulatory participation and technical or funding referrals. The proposal passed the Assembly. Assembly passed 140–4.
May 30, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set deadlines for reviewing Medicaid health-technology and coverage-change applications, including notice of incomplete submissions and an opportunity to cure evidence deficiencies. The governor vetoed the bill in 2024. Assembly tally was 148-0.
May 29, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize the comptroller to return small amounts of unclaimed property to verified owners without requiring a claim. The bill became law, with a $250 limit for 2025 and later limits set by the comptroller. Assembly passed 145–0.
May 28, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require NYCHA to restore interrupted gas service promptly through permits and agency coordination. The bill also required resident meetings and posted restoration estimates. It passed 148-0 in 2023 and 145-0 in 2024, then became law.
May 28, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require a uniform electronic medical-records system for state correctional facilities, developed with health and mental-health officials. The governor vetoed the bill in 2024. Assembly tally was 146-1.
May 15, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give Medicaid managed-care providers advance rate-setting information and a process to request further actuarial review before rates are submitted for federal approval. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023.
June 9, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require Medicaid managed-care quality incentives that direct the greatest funding to plans with the highest quality scores, using objectives set before performance was measured. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly tally was 149-0.
June 7, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a STAR-credit ombudsman and formal notice and appeal procedures for specified eligibility denials, with deadlines and interest on approved payments after appeal. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023.
May 31, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state Office of Native American Affairs to coordinate tribal policies, programs and access to state agencies, with paid leadership and staff subject to appropriations. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-05-30: Yes; total 144–0.
May 30, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state office dedicated to hospice and palliative-care access and quality, with a director responsible for policy, care-delivery models and barriers to services. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Immigration
Immigration · 1 support · 1 oppose
Voted for a military-family immigration assistance program in 2023, then for a revised program in 2024 that became law. He also supported its 2025 changes defining eligible relatives and referrals to existing immigration services. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 146-0 and 147-0.
February 3, 2025Supports Immigration
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding courts’ duty to warn defendants about immigration consequences before guilty pleas, with time to consult counsel and a remedy for missing warnings. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-05-17: No; total 90–56.
May 17, 2023Opposes Immigration
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Government Spending Reduction
Government Spending Reduction · 14 support · 142 oppose
Co-sponsored a$30million police safety-equipment grant programme for local law-enforcement agencies.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored paid line-of-duty leave and anti-retaliation protections for public first responders diagnosed with work-related PTSD.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill expanding protections for reasonable, good-faith emergency intervention, with limits on deadly force and a gross-negligence exception to civil immunity. It also allocated $500,000 for education and crisis-response work.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a street-gang abatement package with enhanced penalties, anti-recruitment offenses, a gang database, prevention grants and witness-protection funding.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a school resource officer program covering public, charter and nonpublic schools, with shared-service aid, nonpublic-school salary reimbursements and a higher earnings limit for specified retired officers.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a 2.7-percent cost-of-living adjustment and broader programme eligibility for state-funded human services, subject to appropriations.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored enforceable timelines and continuing tuition support for qualifying New York City special-education placements.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a programme providing one free SAT during the school day at public secondary schools.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a programme reimbursing advanced-coursework examination fees and requiring schools to tell students and parents about cost-free access.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored tuition awards for eligible active federal reservists, capped at SUNY tuition and conditioned on residency, military standing and available funds.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing graduate programmes to qualify for state Tuition Assistance Program awards, subject to degree and duration limits.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored universal free breakfast and lunch at schools participating in federal school-meal programmes, with state reimbursement of the federal funding gap.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a statutory funding framework for P-TECH high-school, college and career-training partnerships, including competitive grants for new programmes.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored reinstating New York City employees dismissed for failing to meet a COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with their former salary, benefits and seniority.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a ban on state payments for abortion services provided to nonresidents.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $10 million capital-grant programme for veterans’ service organizations, with grants up to $200,000.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored suspending state student aid after specified antisemitism findings until prior aid and loans are repaid, with revocation and wage-garnishment procedures.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored higher minimum poll-worker pay, including $300 for New York City inspectors, $350 for coordinators and $50 for required training.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $5 million local-government cybersecurity fund and a future ban on using taxpayer money for ransomware payments.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the Learning for Work Act, proposing youth apprenticeships, workforce-funded grants, an enhanced professional diploma and employer tax credits.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a staffed shared-housing pilot for people with developmental disabilities, with protections against substantial per-person funding cuts.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills proposing state-funded half-price MTA fares for eligible New York veterans, contingent on state appropriations.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored annual fentanyl education and overdose-response instruction for grades six through twelve. The proposal also required naloxone availability and staff training in public and private high schools.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored additional electric-vehicle registration fees and a six-percent passenger-EV toll surcharge to fund infrastructure and fire response.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored limiting growth in state operating spending to an inflation-based cap. Emergency exceptions required the governor and a two-thirds legislative vote. The 2023 proposal also raised the rainy-day fund cap; the 2025 version omitted that change.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding veterans' own tuition-award eligibility using a resident-before-service and honorable-discharge definition.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a police canine fund for protective equipment, purchasing and training, with an application process for municipal departments.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a three-year moratorium on specified unfunded state mandates for local governments, with exceptions and a fiscal-impact review.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Medicaid reimbursement for trained family complex-care assistants, with nursing supervision and minimum payment pass-through protections.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored crime-victim compensation eligibility for fatal overdoses involving deception, undisclosed drug mixtures or surreptitious administration.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a ban on state aid to colleges that support events promoting antisemitism.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing qualifying public-pension members to purchase retirement credit for volunteer fire or emergency service, up to three years.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a five-percent tax on satellite and subscription-streaming providers to support community media, municipalities and connectivity, with a ban on passing the tax through on customer bills.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a renewable-energy microgrid pilot for Glenwood Houses, subject to appropriations.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored withholding tuition assistance for specified antisemitic incitement, true threats, fighting words or failure to address such events, with restoration guidelines.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a three-year unfunded-mandate moratorium and regional councils triggering regulatory changes and proposed legislation to remove burdensome mandates.
October 21, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a state supplement bringing qualifying households' monthly SNAP benefits to at least $100, subject to available funding.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored loan repayment and practice support for dentists serving underserved communities under multi-year commitments.
October 21, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in schools and libraries, with free state supplies available on request. Assembly passed 131-1; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund and implement the 2026–2031 pay-and-benefit agreement for state professional, scientific, and technical employees. The bill included annual raises, revised location and other payments, and $332 million plus committee funding, with implementation conditioned on ratification certification. Assembly passed it 130–0; it became law.
June 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend local governments’ power-plant closure revenue-loss aid from seven years to twelve, with the extra years capped at 20% of lost revenue. Assembly passed 131–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for SUNY professional-services pay agreements in 2023 and 2026. The laws included appropriations of $275 million and $208 million, respectively. Assembly votes were 146–0 and 136–0. Both bills became law.
June 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend eligibility for qualifying WTC-related accidental death benefits from 25 to 35 years after retirement, retaining survivor application requirements. Assembly passed 131–0; the bill became law.
June 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for advances and payment protections for nonprofit state contractors in 2025, then a revised bill expanding short-term loans and invoice-payment safeguards. The first was vetoed; the 2026 refile passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-05: Yes; total 131–0.
June 5, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar reducing crime-victim compensation for private donations, remove victim-conduct reductions, and make specified other offsets discretionary. The Survivors First Act passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require three municipal residential energy-efficiency and weatherization pilots, including audits and completion of approved work using existing programmes first. Additional utility funding was limited by projected savings, ratepayer-cost protections, and reliability safeguards. Assembly passed it 139–0.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give covered New York City police pension members hired since July 2000 the same pension salary-base calculation as earlier hires. The bill passed 141-0 and became law in 2026.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for annual special accidental-death benefit increases for eligible public-employee survivors, passing 146-0, 145-0, 144-0 and 139-0 in 2023–2026. Also voted to include qualifying NYC deputy-sheriff survivors in the program, passing 145-0 in 2023. All five bills became law.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the state medical-facility financing agency’s hospital and nursing-home bond limit from $17.4 billion to $18.2 billion, then $20 billion and $21.8 billion. The bills passed 146-1, 141-2 and 139-0 in 2023, 2025 and 2026. All became law.
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish financial assistance for income-eligible homeowners replacing dilapidated mobile or manufactured homes, including demolition and temporary relocation support. The 2024 bill was vetoed; a 2026 version passed the Assembly. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-05-30), Yes 141–0 (2026-06-04).
June 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for minimum Medicaid managed-care payments for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies at the state fee schedule. The 2024 and 2025 bills passed 144-0; the governor vetoed the 2025 bill. A revised 2026 bill passed 139-1 and both houses, with no recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to improve retirement eligibility for covered unified court officers, including unreduced retirement at 55 with 30 years of service and a lower normal retirement age for Tier 6 members. The 2023–2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 146-0, 140-1, 146-0, 139-1.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the Social Security offset from specified NYC uniformed sanitation workers’ service and vested pensions. The bill passed 138-2 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the pensionable-overtime ceiling for Tier 6 New York City Transit workers covered by the 55/25 retirement plan. Supported the vetoed 2025 bill and its 2026 refile, which passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 142–2. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: Yes; total 139–1.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the Social Security offset from specified NYC uniformed correction officers’ service and vested pensions. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to put free homeowner counseling and legal services into state law, funded through annual grants to nonprofit providers. The bills covered foreclosure, deed fraud and other threats to homeownership. They passed 145-0 in 2024 and 140-0 in 2026; the first was vetoed and the second passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for job-related heart-disease presumptions and pensions at 75% of final average pay for eligible NYC deputy sheriffs. The bills passed 139-1, 144-2, 144-0 and 138-2. The first three were vetoed; the 2026 bill passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to presume qualifying NYC deputy sheriffs’ lung disease was job-related and provide pensions at 75% of final average pay. Certain recent retirees also qualified. The bills passed 138-2, 145-2, 143-1 and 138-2. The first three were vetoed; the 2026 bill passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to reopen a 180-day window for eligible New York City EMTs to enter the 25-year retirement program after previously opting out, with back contributions and interest required. The 2023 and 2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-05 Yes 144-1; 2025-06-16 Yes 145-0; 2026-06-03 Yes 139-1.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let public employers offer eligible 911 operators and emergency dispatchers retirement after 25 years of credited service, regardless of age. The optional plan provided a benefit based on final average salary, with participating employers responsible for its costs. Assembly passed it 140–0; both chambers passed it.
June 3, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to let eligible state-paid judges' beneficiaries choose a lump-sum pension reserve when it exceeded the ordinary death benefit. The 2024 and 2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-06-06), Yes 136–3 (2025-06-11), Yes 139–0 (2026-06-02).
June 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for income-qualified ground-rent rebates for Battery Park City homeowners and regulated-unit renters. The bill passed 137-1 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a 25-year retirement program for qualifying New York City water-supply police, with required additional contributions. Supported the vetoed 2025 bill and its 2026 refile, which passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 137–2.
June 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to let eligible New York City police pension members purchase credit for earlier service as city prosecutors or police-corruption commission attorneys, with contribution and no-double-credit rules. The 2025 bill was vetoed; its 2026 refile passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 139–0.
June 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a rebuttable work-related heart-disease presumption and a three-quarter-salary disability pension for qualifying New York City probation officers. Supported the vetoed 2025 bill and its 2026 refile, which passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 142–2. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 137–2.
June 2, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to offer certain New York Power Authority trades and security workers an optional pension after 25 years, without an age requirement, funded by the authority. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add dentist-authorized implants, crowns, root canals and related services to Medicaid’s listed coverage. Assembly passed 137–1; the bill passed both chambers.
June 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend special accidental-death benefits for eligible children of covered New York City public employees when there was no surviving spouse, continuing benefits until the youngest eligible child reached 26. The bill protected existing beneficiaries against reductions without consent and barred retroactive payments. Assembly passed it 137–1; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for reimbursing domestic-violence shelters when they housed an eligible single adult in a double room because no single room was available. The 2024 bill was vetoed. He also backed the revised 2026 bill, which phased full reimbursement for larger emergency shelters and provided full reimbursement for smaller shelters. Assembly votes were Yes 144–2 and Yes 133–0.
May 14, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize Dormitory Authority financing for construction of the New York Climate Exchange’s Governors Island campus. The bill became law in September 2026. Assembly vote, 2026-05-04: Yes; total 119–16.
May 4, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against rebates for businesses and institutions buying or leasing new battery-powered landscaping equipment, within existing appropriations. Assembly passed 99–42; the bill became law.
April 20, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to give municipal emergency dispatchers and correction officers the same PTSD treatment benefits and services available to their municipality’s police officers and firefighters. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024, 144-0 in 2025, 141-0 in 2026.
January 28, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for public-building insulation grants, then backed narrowing the program to schools, with hospitals and public housing optional, and funding 50–75% of costs. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 132–9. Assembly vote, 2026-01-20: Yes; total 137–0.
January 20, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require durable luggage for children in foster care, then backed a revision making local districts responsible with foster-care block-grant reimbursement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (137–0).
January 20, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to FDA-approved opioid-reversal drugs and doses, with state coverage for nasal naloxone. Later bills also covered lower-cost alternatives, while purchasers paid excess costs above the highest-priced nasal naloxone. Assembly votes passed 143–1 in 2024, 136–0 in 2025 and 144–0 in 2026. The bills passed the Assembly.
January 12, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing a state loan of up to $13.7 million to refinance Dunkirk’s revenue-anticipation note. The act set an initial 15-year term and 7.5% interest rate, city repayment obligations, and possible withholding of state aid. Assembly passed it 88–47; it became law on June 26, 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a free child-support mediation and court-navigation pilot, with participant consent, safety screening and court approval of agreements. The bill passed 141-0 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to increase paid military leave for public employees from 30 calendar days or 22 working days to 60 calendar days or 52 working days, whichever was greater. The limits applied per year and per continuous absence. Assembly passed it 141–0; the governor vetoed it on December 12, 2025.
June 17, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise WTC-related disability reclassification and specified evidentiary presumptions for retired NYPD members. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible automotive pension-plan members with more than thirty years of service who kept working past 62 choose the standard Tier 4 retirement calculation. The bills passed 140-0 in 2024 and 143-1 in 2025. Both were vetoed.
June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Rochester school-modernization bond-aid calculations and require refinancing savings to fund eligible school projects. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let covered FDNY pension members receive normal service retirement benefits after 20 rather than 22 years. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to presume qualifying sanitation workers’ disabling or fatal leptospirosis was job-related unless competent evidence showed otherwise. The presumption excluded workers’ compensation and labor-law claims. Assembly passed 143–2; it became law.
June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let surviving spouses of specified New York City police pension members retain benefits after remarriage. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund and implement pay and benefit changes for state-police investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists. The act revised salary schedules and supplemental compensation and provided eligible employees a $3,000 nonpensionable lump-sum payment. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on June 26, 2025.
June 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create an employer-funded workers’ compensation fraud investigation fund, including resources for local prosecutors. The bill passed 133-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund and implement SUNY graduate-student employees’ pay and benefit agreement, including annual stipend increases, higher minimum stipends, and lump-sum payments. The act also funded recruitment, fee-mitigation, and professional-development programs. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on June 26, 2025.
June 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise reimbursements for qualifying enhanced septic-system projects to 75% of eligible costs, capped at $25,000 per property. Eligible systems reduced nitrogen or significantly reduced phosphorus or PFAS impacts. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on July 23, 2025.
June 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for paid critical-incident leave for state troopers involved in justified force causing death or serious injury, with different minimums based on their role. The bill passed 133-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let Catskill Off-Track Betting use up to 45% of its capital fund, capped at $2.7 million, for eligible overdue obligations during fiscal year 2025–26. The bill required gaming-commission approval, accounting, and possible audits. Assembly passed it 136–0; the governor vetoed it on December 5, 2025.
June 13, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to count qualifying prior traffic-enforcement service toward NYPD retirement and pension benefits, with required employee contributions. The option covered agents hired before July 2009. Assembly passed 144–0; the governor vetoed it.
June 9, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restore normal retirement after 20 years for specified New York City correction officers and sanitation workers, replacing the 22-year requirement. The bill passed 144-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 9, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow school districts and BOCES to finance qualifying Child Victims Act judgments and settlements over up to 30 years. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 9, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to continue the existing heart-disease disability presumption for volunteer firefighters through June 2030. The measure passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to continue the existing lung-disability presumption for volunteer firefighters through June 2030. The measure passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise Rochester's phase-three school-modernization authorization from $475 million to $600 million and revise project-cost safeguards. The bill passed 141-3 and became law in 2025.
June 4, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored letting public workers buy three additional years of military pension credit without reducing it for military-leave credits. The bill remained in committee.
June 2, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people awarded SSI for a past period qualify for corresponding state supplemental payments even if they were no longer eligible when the award was determined. The governor vetoed the 2025 bill. Assembly votes were 145-2 in 2024, 146-0 in 2025.
May 29, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to implement the 2023-2026 collective-bargaining agreements for State Police troopers and commissioned and non-commissioned officers, including salary and benefit changes. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 12, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against creating and revising a $75 billion climate-adaptation fund financed by assessments on major fossil-fuel businesses. Both bills became law in 2024 and 2025. Assembly vote, 2024-06-08: No; total 92–49. Assembly vote, 2025-02-24: No; total 97–48.
February 24, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored expanding state militia tuition aid to New York Guard members and graduate study, through 2031. The bill remained in committee.
February 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored expanding SUNY Maritime’s nominated tuition scholarships from 284 to 437 places and doubling Assembly members’ nominations. The bill remained in committee.
February 10, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Urged Mayor Eric Adams at a budget hearing to reconsider the Chinatown jail project, citing cost and housing alternatives. Called for retaining and improving Rikers Island.
February 4, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand veterans' tuition-award eligibility, then supported requiring four years of active duty or qualifying hostilities service and capping awards at resident SUNY undergraduate tuition. Assembly votes were Yes 140–0 (2024-06-08), Yes 146–0 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to offer free breast-cancer screening to people in detention facilities, then supported adding diagnostic testing and basing the services on clinical guidelines and physician recommendations. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-0 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let medically fragile adults ages 21–35 stay in pediatric nursing facilities with pediatric reimbursement and full-rate reserved-bed coverage. He then supported making the program conditional on federal funding and delaying its start. Assembly votes passed 140–0 in 2024 and 145–0 in 2025; both bills became law.
January 27, 2025Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against increasing the Housing Finance Agency's covered borrowing authority by $5 billion. The bill became law. Assembly passed 104–43.
January 13, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to fund salary increases, benefits, and a signing bonus for state rent-regulation workers represented by District Council 37. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-07: Yes; total 142–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide eligible Suffolk County correction officers a pension based on 60% of final average salary after 30 years of credited service, alongside the existing 25-year benefit. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tally was 141-0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect special-education providers' permitted surplus funds from tuition-rate clawbacks and prevent investment earnings from replacing state tuition funding. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state security-supervisors compensation agreement providing 3% annual raises for 2023–25, an eligible-worker $3,000 retention bonus and increased benefits, with implementation funding. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state security-services compensation agreement providing 3% annual raises for 2023–25, an eligible-worker $3,000 bonus and increased supplemental pay, with implementation funding. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2024 for 20-year pension bills for specified state conservation, forest, park and university police officers. Both were vetoed; the 2025 budget enacted modified 20- and 25-year plans with different benefit formulas. Assembly tallies were 144-1 and 144-0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let retired teachers who return to service qualify sooner for a recalculated pension, reducing the combined-service recalculation threshold from five years to two. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let designated beneficiaries choose pension payments instead of a death benefit when an eligible public worker died in service shortly after filing for retirement. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Supreme Court, Family Court and NYC criminal and civil judgeships in 2023, then more Family Court and NYC civil judgeships in 2024. The bills passed 147-0 and 129-15; both became law. The measures authorized new positions rather than changing the constitutional court-size limit.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state agency-police compensation agreement providing 3% annual raises for 2023–25, an eligible-worker $3,000 retention bonus and additional benefits, with funding to implement it. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a residential-care demonstration program for medically fragile adults transitioning from pediatric care, with specialized admission and Medicaid reimbursement rules. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–1.
June 7, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add annual inflation adjustments of 1% to 4% to the state’s maximum reimbursement for qualifying veterans’ funeral and burial expenses. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2024.
June 6, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a commuter-van captive-insurance program using an existing stabilization allocation, then for a broader version covering specified for-hire and accessible vehicles. Both the 2023 and 2024 bills were vetoed. Assembly votes were Yes 131–15 (2023-06-09), Yes 143–2 (2024-06-05).
June 5, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the duty-related disability and death presumption for paid firefighters to endocrine and thyroid cancers, subject to examination and rebuttal requirements. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 4, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let qualifying libraries in economically disadvantaged communities receive construction aid covering up to 90% of approved costs and remove the programme's 2026 expiration. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add remote ultrasound scans and fetal non-stress tests to Medicaid maternal-care services. Assembly passed 146–0; the bill became law.
June 4, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend Medicaid ambulance reimbursement to qualifying treatment at the emergency scene and transport to approved alternative care settings, subject to federal funding and licensing conditions. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-06-03).
June 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to grant eligible police retirement-plan members additional pension credit for up to five years of prior SUNY police, state park police or attorney-general investigator service. The bill required member contributions and completion of twenty years of service. It passed 145-0 in the Assembly.
June 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2024 for an alternative 25-year pension plan for eligible Division of Military and Naval Affairs airport firefighters. The 2023 bill was vetoed; a 25-year plan became law in the 2025 budget. Assembly tallies were 145-1 and 145-0.
June 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace a fixed aid cap for New York City's after-4 p.m. nonpublic-school busing program with a formula tied to personal-income growth. The bill was pocket-vetoed. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 30, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace the $8.5 million cap on vehicle-surcharge money credited to spinal-cord injury research with a minimum of at least that amount. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against establishing rebates of up to $2,000 for eligible used zero-emission vehicles, available to individual and institutional or commercial buyers subject to program funding. The bill passed the Assembly in 2024. Assembly tally was 106-39.
May 8, 2024Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Suffolk County's water-restoration funding by splitting dedicated tax revenue between septic and wastewater-facility projects and directing part of existing sewer-protection revenue toward septic systems. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-04-15).
April 15, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require free menstrual products in public-college restrooms. The proposal passed 119-27 in 2023 and 114-34 in 2024, then became law.
April 3, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for paid military leave and job protections for Port Authority employees. The bill included five paid care days for qualifying combat veterans. It passed 145-0 and 148-0 and became New York law, subject to matching New Jersey legislation.
March 21, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Also on this bill
- May 30, 2024 · Co-sponsored and voted for registering limited-use motorcycles at sale, with a declaration exception for vehicles used exclusively outside New York. The bill became law in 2024. Assembly passed 145–0. (General)
- June 10, 2023 · Voted against restricting constitutional challenges to New York election law and related claims to designated courts in New York, Westchester, Albany or Erie counties, based on the plaintiff's judicial department. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 82-62. (General)
Voted for rebates or exchanges providing safer batteries for e-bikes and similar mobility devices at reduced or no cost. The bill required certified replacement batteries. It passed 97-46 and was vetoed.
March 6, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish Cornell research trials combining farming and solar power. Also supported using existing research appropriations and ending the program in December 2030. Assembly votes were 146–0 in 2023 and 145–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 29, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to define mass shootings for state emergency funding and later supported the correction adding victim-service and federal emergency-grant provisions. The correction used four or more murders for the definition while expressly covering victim services for shooting incidents with four or more injuries. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 144-2, 140-5.
January 29, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance and Medicaid coverage of tests guiding disease treatment, then for revised evidence standards and delayed coverage. Bills passed 143-2 and 146-2 and became law. The 2026 budget removed peer-reviewed studies as a standalone Medicaid coverage basis.
January 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish adult cystic-fibrosis assistance, then revise it into temporary grants for insured residents ineligible for Medicaid. Assistance remained subject to available funding. Assembly votes passed 140–0 in 2023 and 143–5 in 2024; both bills became law. Later budget laws extended the program’s authority until March 31, 2027.
January 23, 2024Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible New York City correction officers in the revised retirement plan receive pension credit for qualifying unpaid child-care leave, subject to contribution, filing and one-year-per-leave limits. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 141-0.
June 21, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand local affordable-housing loans and grants for construction, repairs and climate upgrades. The bill removed some financing caps and allowed longer loan terms while keeping affordability controls. It passed 144-0 and became law.
June 20, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to increase ordinary death benefits under NYC public retirement systems by reducing age-related cuts for active workers and raising benefit floors. The law also extended a retirement-stage minimum benefit. It passed 140-0 and became law, applying to eligible deaths from July 1, 2021.
June 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Medicaid payment for qualified community violence-prevention services for eligible people exposed to violence, subject to federal approval and funding. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 139–1.
June 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible Tier 6 police officers and firefighters use their final 12 months of pay to calculate their pensions when their employer had already adopted that benefit for earlier members. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 140-0 in 2023.
June 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to include eligible Waterfront Commission investigators and sworn officers in the State Police twenty-year retirement plan, credit prior commission service, and extend statutory police-officer status. The bill passed 136-0 and became law.
June 10, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for 3% annual raises in 2023–2025 and $3,000 bonuses for eligible state staff. Covered staff included professional, scientific, technical and specified nonunion employees. Assembly passed 146–0; the bill became law.
June 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for the constitutional amendment removing small-city school districts' separate debt limit and for legislation applying the general school-district borrowing rules, including a 10% property-valuation limit and approval requirements for excess debt. The amendment was approved by voters in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-03-13 Yes 145-0; 2023-06-09 Yes 146-0.
June 9, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let the bridge and tunnel authority remove the age-50 minimum from eligible officers’ 20-year pensions. The bill required authority approval and extended peace-officer status to senior ranks. It passed 139-8 and became law.
June 6, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against creating a state emergency heating-assistance benefit for eligible households facing fuel shortages, utility shutoffs or serious heating-bill arrears. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 96-49 in 2023.
June 5, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state racial-equity and social-justice office with a paid director, staff and statewide action plan. The proposal included training for all state employees. It passed 129-16 and was vetoed in 2023.
June 5, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish at least four infant drug-withdrawal care centres and parental support services. The bill barred a withdrawal diagnosis alone as evidence of child abuse. The governor vetoed it. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023.
June 5, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make children voluntarily surrendered from foster care eligible for subsidized kinship guardianship, subject to the program's existing requirements. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-01 Yes 143-0.
June 1, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state Office of Native American Affairs to coordinate tribal policies, programs and access to state agencies, with paid leadership and staff subject to appropriations. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-05-30: Yes; total 144–0.
May 30, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state office dedicated to hospice and palliative-care access and quality, with a director responsible for policy, care-delivery models and barriers to services. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for revised insurance review rules for children with complex medical needs. The bill kept child-specific standards and required certain Medicaid payments while safe discharge services were unavailable. It passed 142-0 and became law.
May 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide grants and flexible financing to help small dry cleaners and nail salons install equipment needed to meet safety and air-quality codes. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to submit a constitutional amendment excluding qualifying sewage-facility borrowing from local debt limits for another decade. The extension covered borrowing before 2034. The Assembly passed it 146-0 for a 2023 public vote.
May 17, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for nonjudicial court staff pay agreements with 2% raises for 2021–22, 3% for 2023–25, and $3,000 payments. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill became law.
January 18, 2023Opposes Government Spending Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control
Public Safety and Crime Control · 159 support · 10 oppose
Co-sponsored restricting trucks, buses and slow-moving traffic to the right two lanes of specified multilane roads, with exceptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring drivers to form center rescue lanes for approaching emergency vehicles, including in gridlocked traffic.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a Class D felony for knowingly possessing an unauthorized radio-frequency jamming device.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored making theft of delivered residential packages a felony regardless of their value.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a misdemeanor for knowingly engaging in repeated cyberbullying of a minor, carrying up to one year in jail or a$1000 fine.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bail-eligible felony for coordinated petit larceny and a public-awareness campaign about the offense.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored raising first-degree rape from a Class B to a Class A-II felony.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored broader move-over or slow-down duties for stopped vehicles on highways, with driver education and stronger repeat-violation provisions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a$30million police safety-equipment grant programme for local law-enforcement agencies.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the RIDERS Act’s registration and operating rules for higher-speed electric bikes, scooters and other personal mobility devices.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored lifetime post-release supervision and removal of good-behavior sentence allowances for specified serious sex offenses.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored first-degree assault penalties for intentionally causing serious injury to first responders or correction officers through fentanyl exposure.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill expanding protections for reasonable, good-faith emergency intervention, with limits on deadly force and a gross-negligence exception to civil immunity. It also allocated $500,000 for education and crisis-response work.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a street-gang abatement package with enhanced penalties, anti-recruitment offenses, a gang database, prevention grants and witness-protection funding.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a school resource officer program covering public, charter and nonpublic schools, with shared-service aid, nonpublic-school salary reimbursements and a higher earnings limit for specified retired officers.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a requirement that colleges provide accessible guidance on reporting hate crimes and protections for people who report them.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals for minimum school-building and grounds security standards and safety priorities in school capital plans.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored stronger proof-of-use and enforcement requirements for court-ordered ignition interlocks after impaired-driving convictions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposal allowing trained former police officers to serve as transit security marshals with peace-officer authority and a limited pension earnings exemption.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a statewide programme recruiting veterans into volunteer fire departments and emergency medical services.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored, then multi-sponsored, bills making theft of EBT benefits a felony regardless of value, with mandatory fines.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored withholding hate-crime witnesses' and 911 callers' identifying information during criminal discovery, with court-review and later-disclosure safeguards.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored treating theft as fourth-degree grand larceny after a petit-larceny conviction within the preceding two years.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a fourth-degree grand-larceny rule requiring two prior petit-larceny convictions within 18 months and thefts totaling over $1,000.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding protection-order access to relatives of people in current or former intimate relationships. Also voted for Melanie’s Law, which passed 143-5 and became law in 2024.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored adding xylazine to Schedule I and applying graduated drug-sale and possession offenses through a new adulterant-depressant classification.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored higher criminal classifications for sexual offenses against on-duty correction officers and a new felony for forcibly touching an officer.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a child-protection package creating felony child endangerment, expanding prosecution and civil-claim time limits, and raising specified child sexual-abuse classifications.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Sammy’s Law to let New York City set lower speed limits, including ten-mile-per-hour traffic-calming zones, with road-specific limits and community notice.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanded felony-assault protections for physicians and other employees providing direct patient care.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored broadening the felony offense of concealing or mutilating a corpse and making it bail-eligible, with funeral and organ-donation exceptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Penny’s Law’s dog-handler offenses, injury liability, dangerous-dog controls and New York City leash-enforcement requirements.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an additional five-year prison sentence for felonies committed while in possession of a firearm.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed classD felony for knowingly making false accusations about police or peace officers, with bail eligibility.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Clara's Law, requiring health facilities to report patient-related sexual-offense allegations against practitioners to health and education officials within thirty days.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed classB violent felony for firing a gun into a crowded space, with a twenty-year minimum sentence.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored misdemeanor penalties for participating in, assisting or spectating illegal highway street takeovers and sideshows.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the Jessica Lunsford Act, proposing a 25-year minimum for specified predatory child sexual assaults, broader covered circumstances and electronic monitoring after release.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored excluding hate-crime convictions from youthful-offender treatment.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding hate-crime predicate offenses and establishing separate first- and second-degree bias-harassment offenses.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill expanding courts’ power to restrict people sentenced for transit sex offenses or assaults from using public transportation. It retained time limits and court-approved trips of necessity.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a Class A-I felony for illegally supplying controlled substances whose use causes the recipient's death.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing approved school districts to hire retired police officers as special security officers, with limited peace-officer powers and school approval safeguards.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring life without parole for first-degree murder, aggravated murder and second-degree murder.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored disability-specific evacuation and lockdown plans for child-care facilities, with annual updates and privacy safeguards.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Paula's Law to extend a child sex-crime homicide provision to victims under eighteen, expanding its previous under-fourteen threshold.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for requiring investigations and reports of serious e-bike and electric-scooter crashes and identifying these vehicles in accident records. The bill became law in 2024.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills creating a felony for terroristic threats directed at police, subject to specified coercive intent and reasonable fear of imminent harm.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored classifying xylazine as a Schedule I controlled substance while exempting specified FDA-approved injections for cattle and other nonhuman species.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a 25-year minimum and life maximum for predatory sexual assault against a child, with lifetime parole supervision after release.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored protecting undercover officers’ identifying information when disclosure threatened their safety or compromised undercover work. The proposal included consent and court-order exceptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored additional electric-vehicle registration fees and a six-percent passenger-EV toll surcharge to fund infrastructure and fire response.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill creating an aggressive-driving felony for reckless endangerment or threatening driving. Its one-year minimum applied when a court imposed a definite jail sentence.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring fire-resistant protection when charging electric bikes and scooters and requiring sellers to supply it.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored protecting witness names and contact information when a court finds potential intimidation, violence or threats on the record.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a police canine fund for protective equipment, purchasing and training, with an application process for municipal departments.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored higher theft classifications when stolen property is necessary for the daily activities of a vulnerable elderly or disabled person.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored suspending motor-vehicle driving privileges after specified intoxicated-boating convictions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills increasing penalties for weapon-related menacing of police and making intentional attacks on on-duty officers with thrown or sprayed substances a felony.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bail-eligible felony and restitution provisions for intentionally damaging fine art or historical monuments.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored laboratory certification for electric-bike and scooter batteries. Also voted for certification and labeling rules covering manufacture, sale, rental and other specified activities. The final bill passed 134-10 and became law in 2024. An earlier print passed 137-8.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill making intentional incitement of imminent violence against police a felony when the advocacy was likely to produce that violence.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored higher civil and criminal penalties for specified civil-rights violations, with additional civil remedies for bias harassment.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored treating specified offenses and trespass at houses of worship as hate crimes, with enhanced classifications.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Bella's Law, requiring linked domestic-violence investigations and agency coordination after qualifying animal-abuse accusations or investigations.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored raising the protected age to eighteen for child sexual-performance offenses, including possession, production and promotion.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored fire-suppression and safe-storage requirements for businesses selling, repairing or storing lithium-ion batteries and micromobility devices.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored death-or-life-without-parole sentencing for specified murders of police, peace and correction officers, including a life-without-parole jury-deadlock fallback.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a classB felony for willfully firing a loaded gun at specified first responders or correction officers.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills expanding judges’ power to detain defendants based on dangerousness and changing bail and appearance-ticket procedures. One package also extended prosecutors’ initial evidence-disclosure deadlines.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for Kyra’s Law’s child-safety reviews, custody findings and judicial training in abuse or domestic-violence cases. The bill passed the Assembly 131-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored mandatory life without parole for specified first-degree murders of police officers, peace officers and other listed first responders.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed misdemeanor for intentionally damaging or removing public posters and banners supporting Israel or Israeli crime victims.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a statewide Teal Alert system for qualifying missing adults aged eighteen through sixty-four, coordinating police, transportation and public notices.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored recognizing severe intoxication known or reasonably apparent to an offender as lack of consent in specified sex crimes.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Requested a bill requiring fire extinguishers in rented New York City living units, including rented condos and co-ops. It remained in committee.
July 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in schools and libraries, with free state supplies available on request. Assembly passed 131-1; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require conductors on New York City Transit passenger trains. After the 2025 bill was vetoed, he supported a 2026 version preserving operations already permitted without a conductor; it passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 140-0, 144-0, 131-1.
June 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden specified higher-level offenses for buying sex from minors and promoting prostitution involving minors. The bill also expanded compelling-prostitution provisions to cover deception, manipulation, and abuse of authority or vulnerability. Assembly passed it 131–0; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require free emergency panic buttons for local social-services employees making home visits, with limits on location tracking and backup assistance plans. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for civil anti-stalking orders for victims outside family or household relationships, with court hearings and enforcement for violations. Assembly passed 139–2; both houses passed the bill.
June 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require child day-care providers to keep at least two epinephrine devices and a trained staff member present while children were there, with incident reporting and parent notices. The bill passed both houses. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: Yes; total 140–0.
June 3, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for two-person staffing standards for New York City's 911 ambulance and EMS supervisor vehicles in 2025 and 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the later bill passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-02: Yes; total 138–1.
June 2, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for hands-on electric-vehicle emergency-response training. Later versions included tow operators and training standards. The 2025 bill was vetoed; a 2026 refile passed the Assembly. Assembly votes: 2023-06-05 Yes (145–0), 2024-03-21 Yes (149–0), 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-05-29 Yes (128–0).
May 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require domestic-violence lethality assessments, officer training, victim referrals and extreme-risk-order applications when the assessment establishes the required serious-harm risk. The bill passed 128-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require entry of unclaimed human remains in the national missing-persons database before burial, cremation or other final disposal. Assembly passed 128–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require sex-offender-registry checks for covered adults at specified youth-service businesses and bar registered offenders from covered roles or controlling ownership. The bill passed 128-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 29, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand critical-infrastructure tampering protections and strengthen scrap-metal purchase and identification rules. The revised bill passed 137-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
May 18, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand New York City investigators’ access to confidential child-protection and special-needs records for authorized investigations, including specified criminal-prosecution disclosures. The bill passed 136-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 13, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require paid dispatcher-assisted CPR training and annual refreshers for 911 call-takers and dispatchers, including in New York City. The bill passed the Assembly 140-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 11, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Also on this bill
- February 26, 2024 · Voted to raise the population limit for certain firefighters and police or peace officers eligible to provide emergency epinephrine from one million to two million, while excluding counties wholly within New York City. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2024-02-26: Yes; total 146–0. (Supports Environment and Public Health, Supports Public Safety and Crime Control)
Voted to exempt specified synthetic-fabric play and recreational tents from New York's portable-shelter flammability requirements. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 11, 2026Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require local emergency plans to identify animal-friendly shelters, inform the public and coordinate with animal-response organizations. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 6, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require validated tools for assessing registered sex offenders’ risk of reoffending, with periodic empirical revalidation. The bill also required statewide recidivism data and reviews of the tools’ predictive value. Assembly passed it 135–0; it remained in the Senate.
May 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require security features and warnings on internet-connected baby monitors, backed by local civil penalties. The bill passed 135-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require businesses selling or leasing electric bicycles and scooters to provide specified front, rear, and side-visible lighting. The bill required a white front light visible from 500 feet and a rear light visible from 300 feet. Assembly passed it 135–0; both chambers passed it.
May 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored higher felony penalties for specified transit crimes, including life-sentence exposure and a new track-shoving felony. The bill remained in committee.
May 1, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require immediate parental notification of specified child-abuse allegations in educational settings. The bill passed 141-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
April 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize New York to enter two interstate and Canadian emergency-aid compacts and deploy non-state responders through official channels. Assembly passed 142–0; the bill became law.
March 30, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to retain sexual-offense evidence for 20 years or until the survivor turned 40, whichever was later, and curb guardian-ordered destruction. The bill also delayed mandatory tracking participation to December 2027. Assembly passed 141–0; it became law.
March 30, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require gene-synthesis providers and equipment makers to follow state rules on dangerous genetic sequences, customer screening and recordkeeping. Assembly passed 142–0; both houses passed the bill.
March 23, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require bicycle-resale advertisements to include a photo and at least the last four digits of the bicycle's identifying serial number. Assembly votes: 2025-05-20 Yes (120–27), 2026-03-17 Yes (105–37).
March 17, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to require libraries to adopt workplace-violence prevention policies, train employees and install panic buttons or approved alternatives. The bill passed the Assembly unanimously in 2025 and 2026 but had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-05: Yes; total 140–0.
March 5, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require pre-trip safety briefings for charter-bus passengers, including seat-belt requirements and fines. The bill also brought older charter buses equipped with approved belts at every passenger seat within the covered definition. Assembly passed it 146–0; both chambers passed it.
March 4, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require qualifying large online platforms used by minors to maintain law-enforcement contact channels and respond to certain account-information search warrants within 72 hours, with court-approved extensions. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
February 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to criminalize unauthorized drone hovering or contact over schools and listed critical infrastructure, with government, consent and overflight exceptions. The bill passed the Assembly in 2025 and 2026, with no recorded enactment. Assembly votes: 2025-05-21 Yes (144–0), 2026-02-09 Yes (140–0).
February 9, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a corrections omnibus and its negotiated amendment covering prison-camera oversight, disclosure of death-related recordings, family notification, correctional oversight, and deadlines for custody-related injury claims. He voted No on the original in June 2025 and the amendment in January 2026; both became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: No; total 93–49. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: No; total 97–44.
January 28, 2026Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add victims of unlawful intimate-image sharing to the groups eligible for New York’s Address Confidentiality Program. The Assembly passed it 139–0; both houses passed it in 2026, with no enactment recorded on the reviewed official page.
January 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend aggravated harassment to texts, email and direct messages sent with intent to harass or threaten and no legitimate communication purpose. Assembly passed 139–0; the bill passed both chambers.
January 27, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for safety plans for hazardous deployments of state parks employees, then backed incident check-in and coordination requirements. The original bill and its correction became law. Assembly vote, 2025-05-19: Yes; total 143–0. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 138–2.
January 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for vehicle-glass repair and safety-system calibration protections in 2025, then backed a correction adding insurer and billing safeguards and revising penalties. The original bill and its correction became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 140–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-20: Yes; total 137–0.
January 20, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish and revise sexual-assault training requirements for police and child-protective workers, including ongoing training for multidisciplinary teams. Both bills became law; the 2026 correction delayed the original law’s start. Assembly votes: 2025-06-13 Yes (135–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (137–0).
January 20, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to explicitly include unauthorized Bluetooth tracking in the definition of following under New York's fourth-degree stalking law. Assembly votes: 2025-04-01 Yes (144–0), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require 16- and 17-year-olds to wear helmets on class 1 and class 2 electric bicycles, with fines of up to $50 and helmet-purchase or hardship waivers. The bills passed the Assembly without becoming law in the reviewed histories. Assembly vote, 2024-04-15: Yes; total 147–0. Assembly vote, 2025-05-29: Yes; total 146–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-12: Yes; total 144–0.
January 12, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require nonpublic schools to adopt anti-bullying policies, report incidents, investigate promptly and act to protect students. The Jack Reid Law passed 141-0 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide limited prostitution-charge immunity to qualifying crime victims and witnesses who reported crimes, sought necessary medical care or assisted investigations. The bill became law. Assembly passed 138–0.
June 17, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow independent child-abuse or neglect protection orders against qualifying nonparent caregivers or household members. Orders lasted up to two years, or five with special circumstances, with court review safeguards. The bills passed 147-0 in 2024 and 144-0 in 2025; the latter became law.
June 16, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create an employer-funded workers’ compensation fraud investigation fund, including resources for local prosecutors. The bill passed 133-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing Schenectady school-zone speed cameras in up to twenty school zones, with school-related operating hours and penalties for speeds more than 10 mph above the limit. The bills passed 105-36 and 108-29. The 2025 version became law with a 2030 expiration.
June 13, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require hospital workplace-violence prevention programs and emergency-department security staffing, with specified rural-hospital exceptions. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 11, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require school cardiac-emergency response plans and strengthen AED accessibility, maintenance and emergency training. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 11, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let police hiring authorities require removal of candidates from eligibility lists for failing psychological-fitness or character standards. Assembly passed 120–27; the bill became law.
June 10, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require safety-record checks before family courts award child custody through orders of protection, including checks of sex-offender and protection-order registries. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require AEDs in nonpublic schools, trained staff at school activities and AED access at off-site competitive athletic events. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending New York City’s freeze on liquefied-gas facility and transport-route safety approvals. The bills extended it to April 2025, then April 2027. Assembly passed 110–36 in 2023 and 111–36 in 2025; both bills became law.
May 14, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let courts add non-family-offense protection orders to the statewide computerized registry when needed to implement the orders. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 12, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Spoke at a legislative press conference advocating broader involuntary mental-health commitment laws after an attack injured four children in Bensonhurst.
April 9, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make recent aggravated animal cruelty a factor courts must consider when deciding temporary extreme-risk protection orders. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
April 1, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against short-term rental registration, safety and tax-collection rules. Also opposed replacing the state registry with county systems and opt-outs, while preserving separate New York City registration rules. The bills passed 101-40 and 115-32 and became law.
February 25, 2025Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored a new felony for deaths caused by reckless driving or certain unlicensed driving. The bill remained in committee.
February 24, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored making public urination or defecation in New York City a misdemeanor, with $500 civil fines. The bill remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored quarterly fire inspections for commercial e-bike premises and checks before storing e-bikes after fires. The bill remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise rules for shielding jurors’ names and addresses, with an instruction against drawing adverse inferences about defendants. Also supported the 2025 correction requiring a finding of a threat to jury safety or integrity. The bills passed 147-0 and 145-0; both became law.
January 28, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let domestic-violence victims end another person's connected-vehicle access without a fee, then supported a two-business-day deadline, confidential handling of requests and revised technology and provider rules. Assembly votes were Yes 143–4 (2024-06-06), Yes 146–0 (2025-01-27).
January 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for red charging-cord safety tags on covered electric bikes and micromobility devices. He supported a technical revision in 2025. Assembly passed 145–0 and 147–0; both bills became law.
January 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require epinephrine auto-injectors and trained staff or volunteers at covered sports and entertainment venues holding at least 1,000 people. He later supported a nine-month implementation delay; both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2024-05-23: Yes; total 135–2. Assembly vote, 2025-01-21: Yes; total 145–2.
January 21, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require smoke alarms audible in the common areas of residential buildings sharing those spaces among at least three dwelling units. He supported the 2025 revision allowing alarm systems and setting December 31, 2025 implementation. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 137-0, 149-0.
January 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add lithium-ion battery incidents to specialised hazardous-materials emergency-response training, then supported a 2025 definition correction. Both measures became law. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-03-05), Yes 149–0 (2025-01-14).
January 14, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Called for ending cashless bail at a Flushing rally after an attack on a teenager.
June 17, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: qns.com
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in state public buildings, with training rules and a phased rollout. Assembly passed 140-0; the bill became law.
June 8, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing Schenectady to adopt a red-light camera program at up to twelve intersections, with owner penalties of up to $50 plus a late-response charge. The bill passed 104-37 in the Assembly.
June 7, 2024Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make qualifying nonprofit programs for students affected by gun violence eligible for school-violence prevention grants, including trauma counseling and youth empowerment. The Assembly passed it 146–0; it became law in 2024.
June 6, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for expressly including removal of religious clothing or headdresses in bias-motivated aggravated harassment. The bill became law in 2024. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 6, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to treat sex between probationers and their current or former supervising officers as nonconsensual under criminal law. Assembly passed 147-0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for mandatory retail safety labels on electric bikes and micromobility devices, covering pedestrians and traffic rules. Assembly passed 122–23; the bill became law.
June 5, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require passengers age eight and older to wear available seat belts on qualifying newer charter buses, with civil penalties and protections for children cited through an accompanying parent or guardian. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend existing protections against mental-health-provider sexual exploitation to patients of licensed mental-health counselors and marriage and family therapists. The bill became law. Assembly passed 145–1.
June 4, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add law-enforcement agencies as petitioners for extreme-risk protection orders, extending the existing mandatory-filing rule to agencies when credible evidence met its legal conditions. The bill passed 143-2 and became law.
June 3, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state violation for specified unlawful or dangerous personal drone operations. The bill covered federal-rule violations and reckless operation endangering people or property, with federal-law exceptions. It passed 142-5 in 2024 and stalled in the Senate.
May 14, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend reckless-driving penalties to private lots holding at least four vehicles, excluding one- and two-family home properties. Assembly passed 138-9; the bill became law.
April 15, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for rebates or exchanges providing safer batteries for e-bikes and similar mobility devices at reduced or no cost. The bill required certified replacement batteries. It passed 97-46 and was vetoed.
March 6, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the population limit for certain firefighters and police or peace officers eligible to provide emergency epinephrine from one million to two million, while excluding counties wholly within New York City. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2024-02-26: Yes; total 146–0.
February 26, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Also on this bill
- May 11, 2026 · Voted to require paid dispatcher-assisted CPR training and annual refreshers for 911 call-takers and dispatchers, including in New York City. The bill passed the Assembly 140-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment. (Supports Healthcare Affordability, Supports Public Safety and Crime Control)
Voted to license athletic trainers and expand their duties, including child-abuse reporting. Also supported supervised concussion and peripheral-nerve rehabilitation after physician clearance. Assembly votes were 143–0 in 2023 and 147–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
February 13, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create free Hope Cards documenting final orders of protection, then supported expanding them to digital or wallet-sized formats for any protected party and clarifying their use by law enforcement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 145-0 in 2024.
January 29, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand rape offenses to specified nonconsensual vaginal, oral and anal sexual contact without requiring penetration. Supported corrections preserving earlier offenses and setting implementation for September 1, 2024. The bills passed 129-12 and 144-1 and became law.
January 29, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for disability-inclusive emergency evacuation planning in covered high-rise buildings and its 2024 revision. The revision retained owner planning and accessibility duties, added opt-in and confidentiality safeguards for assistance lists, and removed the original civil penalty and filing requirements. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 145-0.
January 29, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to define mass shootings for state emergency funding and later supported the correction adding victim-service and federal emergency-grant provisions. The correction used four or more murders for the definition while expressly covering victim services for shooting incidents with four or more injuries. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 144-2, 140-5.
January 29, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for defibrillator access and cardiac-emergency plans at covered youth camps and sports programs. Also supported narrower program coverage and reasonable access to shared equipment. Assembly votes were 144–5 in 2023 and 146–2 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 23, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Joined Assembly Education Committee minority members in a public statement condemning antisemitism at Hillcrest High School, calling for a transparent investigation and restored training classes for NYPD school safety agents.
November 28, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Medicaid payment for qualified community violence-prevention services for eligible people exposed to violence, subject to federal approval and funding. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 139–1.
June 10, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend move-over and careful-driving duties to ordinary stopped vehicles on parkways and controlled-access highways. Assembly passed 146-0; the bill became law.
June 9, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend public-employer workplace-violence prevention rules to public schools. Assembly passed 145-4; the bill became law.
June 7, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize Westchester County to operate red-light cameras at up to 50 intersections, with civil owner penalties and notice, contest and privacy provisions. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-07 Yes 111-38.
June 7, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing Albany to use speed cameras in up to 20 school zones, with civil fines for vehicles exceeding the posted limit by more than 10 mph and specified privacy and appeal safeguards. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-06 No 116-31.
June 6, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing red-light cameras at up to 36 Syracuse intersections. The bill capped the base fine at $50 and kept tickets off driving and insurance records. It passed 100-48 and became law.
June 6, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against speed-camera tickets in up to 34 Syracuse school zones during specified school hours and activities. The bill applied above 10 mph over the limit and capped the base fine at $50. It passed 106-42 and became law.
June 6, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require school districts to consider safety design in five-year capital plans and make community-involvement school-facility planning eligible for school-safety funds. The Assembly passed it 142–0; it became law in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a law requiring each mandated reporter to report covered incidents to the vulnerable-person register unless they knew a prior report had been filed and named them as a person with knowledge of the incident. Assembly tally was 104-33.
May 10, 2023Opposes Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require colleges to report hate-crime incidents separately online, notify local law enforcement of reported hate crimes, and provide prevention information to students. The bill became law in July 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-04-26: Yes; total 148–0.
April 26, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit corporal punishment in New York schools and add it to the legal definition of child abuse in educational settings. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 148-0 in 2023.
April 26, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 32 support · 39 oppose
Co-sponsored DNA collection from people arrested for specified felony sex offenses involving victims under thirteen, with index-review and expungement provisions.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored restoring confidentiality for specified police, fire, correction and probation personnel records, subject to court-order and official-function exceptions.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a presumption of intent to sell when possession involves at least forty individual heroin packages totaling at least four grams.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored criminal restrictions on group demonstrations within 25 feet of reproductive-health facilities and places of worship.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills prohibiting masked people from loitering or gathering with at least six other masked people, with an exception for authorized entertainment.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Chelsey's Law, expanding manslaughter liability for supplying drugs causing death, with knowledge requirements, specified aggravating circumstances and evidentiary presumptions.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed felony for failing to obey an officer's immediate halt or retreat order within twenty-five feet, with specified physical-inability exceptions.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills expanding judges’ power to detain defendants based on dangerousness and changing bail and appearance-ticket procedures. One package also extended prosecutors’ initial evidence-disclosure deadlines.
October 21, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for Kyra’s Law’s child-safety reviews, custody findings and judicial training in abuse or domestic-violence cases. The bill passed the Assembly 131-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
October 21, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Joined a motion seeking dismissal of 86 St. NY LLC’s lawsuit, invoking protections for public petitioning. Sought legal fees and damages.
June 22, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: iapps.courts.state.ny.us
Voted to extend post-pregnancy protection from restraints to twelve weeks and limit specified uses of force in custody. The bill also expanded support-person access during pregnancy-related care. Assembly passed 111–21; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising trial-competency rules to require restoration assessments, shorten examination confinement and change commitment and hearing procedures. The bill passed 83-49 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require school-library challenge procedures and bar removals based solely on disagreement with viewpoints or identities. Materials stayed available during review and appeal, and employees received specified protections for relying on district policies. Assembly passed it 114–27; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow judges and prosecutors to agree to certain interest-of-justice pleas outside specified plea restrictions, including ordinary sentencing ranges for some repeat-felony defendants. Both court and prosecutor consent were required, and convictions retained their other predicate effects. Assembly passed it 105–36; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to put free homeowner counseling and legal services into state law, funded through annual grants to nonprofit providers. The bills covered foreclosure, deed fraud and other threats to homeownership. They passed 145-0 in 2024 and 140-0 in 2026; the first was vetoed and the second passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting correctional facilities from denying entry or contact visits because a visitor was menstruating or using menstrual products or contraceptive devices. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: No; total 102–37.
June 1, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring correctional facilities to preserve in-person visits, offer evening or weekend hours, and give local-jail visits at least an hour. The bill passed 90-48 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 28, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against protecting prison time credits and release-program eligibility when required programs were not completed because of circumstances beyond an incarcerated person's control. Assembly passed 83–51.
May 28, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against giving incarcerated people’s lawyers the full disciplinary-hearing record for appeals or related lawsuits, with informant redactions and disclosure limits. The bill passed the Assembly 91-46 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 18, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing defendants to appeal denied evidence-suppression motions despite appeal waivers. Opposed 2023 and 2026 bills; latest Assembly passage was 81-56. Assembly vote, 2023-02-28: No; total 87–56.
May 18, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expunging convictions under New York’s former hypodermic-instrument possession law. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-05-13: No; total 91–45.
May 13, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against new warrant and notice rules for police access to private electronic records. Assembly passed 92–51 in 2023, 93–56 in 2025 and 87–55 in 2026. The proposal stalled in the Senate.
May 12, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against preserving appeals over denial of defendants’ right to speak at sentencing, despite an appeal waiver. Assembly passed 95–46; the bill remained in the Senate.
May 12, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting otherwise eligible class-action lawsuits proceed against government operations. Opposed bills in 2023 through 2026; latest Assembly passage was 90-49. Assembly vote, 2023-03-30: No; total 104–40. Assembly vote, 2024-06-04: No; total 95–50. Assembly vote, 2025-03-24: No; total 98–49.
May 5, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people sue New York under federal disability, wage-and-hour, age-discrimination and family-leave laws by waiving state sovereign immunity. The bills passed the Assembly 146-0, 142-4, 134-13 and 126-8; none became law in the reviewed actions.
April 29, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish free test strips for medetomidine, benzodiazepines, nitazenes, and other drug contaminants at participating health and support facilities. The bill also barred law-enforcement targeting of people obtaining the strips. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
April 27, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require New York's veterans agency to help veterans develop discharge-upgrade cases and provide representation or referrals for meritorious claims and appeals. He supported the measure in 2024 and 2026; both bills passed the Assembly. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-06 Yes 144-0; 2026-03-16 Yes 144-0.
March 16, 2026Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act in 2025 and revisions in 2026. The laws authorized eligible terminally ill adults to request and self-administer prescribed medication, with residency, physician-review and other safeguards. Assembly vote, 2025-04-29: No; total 81–67. Assembly vote, 2026-02-04: No; total 83–62.
February 4, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a corrections omnibus and its negotiated amendment covering prison-camera oversight, disclosure of death-related recordings, family notification, correctional oversight, and deadlines for custody-related injury claims. He voted No on the original in June 2025 and the amendment in January 2026; both became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: No; total 93–49. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: No; total 97–44.
January 28, 2026Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to appointed counsel for financially eligible parties and minors in specified family-court support, parentage and enforcement proceedings. The bill passed 141-1 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to provide limited prostitution-charge immunity to qualifying crime victims and witnesses who reported crimes, sought necessary medical care or assisted investigations. The bill became law. Assembly passed 138–0.
June 17, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow independent child-abuse or neglect protection orders against qualifying nonparent caregivers or household members. Orders lasted up to two years, or five with special circumstances, with court review safeguards. The bills passed 147-0 in 2024 and 144-0 in 2025; the latter became law.
June 16, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against giving defendants prompt evidentiary hearings and superior-court review to challenge temporary protection orders, with notice to protected parties. The bill passed the Assembly 90-50 in 2025, with no recorded enactment.
June 11, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a juvenile-interrogation bill requiring lawyer consultations that could not be waived for covered suspects and stronger efforts to notify parents. Assembly passed 89–57 in 2025; no enactment was recorded.
May 27, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow a jointly tried defense group to exercise a peremptory juror challenge when an even number of defendants split evenly on the request. The bill became law. Assembly passed 142–0.
May 12, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Spoke at a legislative press conference advocating broader involuntary mental-health commitment laws after an attack injured four children in Bensonhurst.
April 9, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored requiring New York City to defend public workers in court and pay covered judgments. The bill also removed a local search-and-seizure lawsuit remedy and narrowed police reporting. It remained in committee.
March 28, 2025Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to offer free breast-cancer screening to people in detention facilities, then supported adding diagnostic testing and basing the services on clinical guidelines and physician recommendations. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-0 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state-prison heat-safety plans covering cooling, water and wellness checks. Also supported making permanent cooling timelines depend on financial and operational feasibility. Assembly votes were 142–2 in 2024 and 144–0 in 2025. Both bills became law.
January 28, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise rules for shielding jurors’ names and addresses, with an instruction against drawing adverse inferences about defendants. Also supported the 2025 correction requiring a finding of a threat to jury safety or integrity. The bills passed 147-0 and 145-0; both became law.
January 28, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise health-care proxy and end-of-life decision rules, including professional consultation, notification records, patient-rights statements and nonhospital do-not-resuscitate protections. He also supported the 2025 corrections; both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-14 Yes 147-0; 2025-01-22 Yes 145-0.
January 22, 2025Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Called for ending cashless bail at a Flushing rally after an attack on a teenager.
June 17, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: qns.com
Voted to exempt revived adult sexual-assault claims from filing and notice requirements that applied to lawsuits against public entities and schools. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-08: Yes; total 140–1.
June 8, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to treat sex between probationers and their current or former supervising officers as nonconsensual under criminal law. Assembly passed 147-0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers, licensing bodies and schools from demanding a person’s own state criminal-history report. The bill did not ban all background checks. It passed 82-65 and became law.
June 6, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting workers and consumers leave arbitration when the party that wrote the agreement failed to pay required fees. The bill set a 30-day late-payment trigger and provided fee recovery and sanctions. It passed 97-48 in the Assembly.
June 5, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require correction officials to notify emergency contacts within 24 hours when a person in department custody attempts suicide or is hospitalized. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 142–2 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require statewide strip-search rules for correctional facilities, including at least two staff members present for every strip search. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 137-0 in 2024.
May 23, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring courts and corrections officials to issue certificates of relief from disabilities once statutory eligibility, rehabilitation and public-interest findings were satisfied. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-16 No 96-48.
May 16, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers from requiring workers to waive legal rights or accept arbitration as a job condition. Union agreements were exempt. Assembly passed 97–49 in 2023 and 96–49 in 2024; the bill stalled in the Senate.
March 18, 2024Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to repeal New York’s crime of adultery. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 137-10 in 2024.
March 11, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for prison commissaries and visitor vending machines to offer religious dietary food at prices comparable to other food, then voted in 2024 to extend implementation from 60 to 270 days. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 141-2, 143-2.
January 29, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise do-not-resuscitate consent rules in mental-health facilities. Also supported transfer protections and revised decision rules for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 148-0 in 2024.
January 23, 2024Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing courts to order continued parent-child contact after termination of parental rights when specified safeguards and the child’s best interests are met. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 94-47 in 2023.
June 21, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against preventing specified no-fault medical-reimbursement decisions from binding or serving as evidence in related serious personal-injury lawsuits. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 102-39 in 2023.
June 21, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against bills broadening post-conviction challenges, including new-evidence claims, relief after decriminalization, and access to counsel and case files. The final bill was vetoed. Assembly vote, 2023-03-22: No; total 90–55. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 94–53.
June 20, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against pausing evictions and other property cases during qualifying deed-fraud investigations or ownership disputes. The bill expanded tools for prosecutors and owners to challenge fraudulent deeds. It passed 97-47 and became law.
June 20, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against protecting workers who refused employer meetings or messages promoting political or religious views, including union membership. The bill included exceptions for job duties and certain religious or academic work. It passed 112-28 and became law.
June 10, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the Clean Slate Act, which established automatic sealing of eligible conviction records after waiting periods, with exclusions and continued access for law enforcement and specified background checks. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: No; total 82–65.
June 9, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to invalidate contract clauses suppressing research on e-cigarette health effects and to restrict branded promotional goods, purchase gifts and brand-sponsored events. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 149-0.
June 7, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limits on secrecy clauses in settlements of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. The bill barred preset penalties and repayment demands for breaking those clauses. Assembly passed 100-48; it became law.
June 7, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the ban on harmful sharing of intimate images to realistic digitally altered images. The final bill passed 148-0 and became law in 2023. An earlier version also expanded a civil claim; that clause was removed before enactment. Assembly vote, 2023-02-27: Yes; total 142–0.
June 6, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish at least four infant drug-withdrawal care centres and parental support services. The bill barred a withdrawal diagnosis alone as evidence of child abuse. The governor vetoed it. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023.
June 5, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require strict compliance with mortgage foreclosure notices and proof of the sender's authority to enforce the note and mortgage when the notices were sent. The bill passed the Assembly in 2023 but did not become law in that session. Assembly tally was 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a STAR-credit ombudsman and formal notice and appeal procedures for specified eligibility denials, with deadlines and interest on approved payments after appeal. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023.
May 31, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require faster workers' compensation hearings, allow either party to request a hearing without added board prerequisites, and provide injured workers with free hearing records and decisions in their native language. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly tally was 142-0.
May 24, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding courts’ duty to warn defendants about immigration consequences before guilty pleas, with time to consult counsel and a remedy for missing warnings. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-05-17: No; total 90–56.
May 17, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set expiration and extension rules for temporary protection orders in juvenile-delinquency cases, including notice, a hearing opportunity and counsel for juveniles when extensions are sought. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 144-0.
May 8, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expunge eligible Family Court supervision records, including favorable case terminations, and automatically clear remaining records at age 21 after the case disposition ended. The bill became law in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-05-08: Yes; total 144–0.
May 8, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a state minimum-standards policy for automatic license-plate readers and public posting by police agencies. The bill addressed permitted uses, data sharing, retention and training. It passed 90-54 in 2023 and stalled in the Senate.
March 23, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring courts to ask whether defendants object to religious elements of court-ordered addiction treatment and provide an equivalent alternative when they do. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 100-45 in 2023.
March 23, 2023Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Housing Affordability
Housing Affordability · 50 support · 14 oppose
Co-sponsored extending the parent-or-grandparent living-quarters assessment exemption to qualifying older construction.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing local governments to raise the income limit for senior property-tax exemptions to $75,000.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Multi-sponsored a bill allowing New York City to defer qualifying seniors’ property taxes through an interest-free lien. The deferred taxes remained payable when eligibility ended.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a senior tenants' advocate bureau to route housing complaints, explain assistance programmes and protect people from retaliation for seeking help.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an environmental-review exemption for approvals to site or construct housing in New York City.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed mortgage-recording-tax exemption for veterans buying their first homes.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored full municipal property-tax exemptions for qualifying surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty, including specified trusts and cooperative apartments.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored raising the eligible-value cap for residential capital-improvement property-tax exemptions from $80,000 to $168,000.
October 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let local governments grant extra property-tax exemptions to households with multiple qualifying veterans, with percentage and dollar caps. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill passed the Assembly.
June 4, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish financial assistance for income-eligible homeowners replacing dilapidated mobile or manufactured homes, including demolition and temporary relocation support. The 2024 bill was vetoed; a 2026 version passed the Assembly. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-05-30), Yes 141–0 (2026-06-04).
June 4, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to put free homeowner counseling and legal services into state law, funded through annual grants to nonprofit providers. The bills covered foreclosure, deed fraud and other threats to homeownership. They passed 145-0 in 2024 and 140-0 in 2026; the first was vetoed and the second passed both houses.
June 3, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for income-qualified ground-rent rebates for Battery Park City homeowners and regulated-unit renters. The bill passed 137-1 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding illegal apartment conversions to New York City’s tenant-harassment definition. Assembly passed 85–54; the bill passed the Assembly.
June 1, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let recipients transfer state low-income housing tax credits again, in whole or part, subject to agency approval and project-eligibility safeguards. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against giving covered rent-regulated tenants 90 days, rather than 60, to answer building-improvement rent-increase applications. Assembly passed 88–45; the bill passed both chambers.
May 28, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting covered mortgage servicers from charging fees for monthly, twice-monthly, or biweekly payment schedules or changes between them. The bill also required borrowers to be allowed to choose among those schedules, with reasonable implementation adjustments. Assembly passed it 95–40; both chambers passed it.
May 28, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden the service records and benefits used to establish combat-service eligibility for an existing veterans’ property-tax exemption. The bill passed 143-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise limits on flood insurance required by mortgage lenders, including rules for credit lines, federal insurance requirements and loans secured by multiple homes. The bill passed 143-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let seniors whose income falls upon retirement use a later income year to qualify for enhanced STAR tax relief. The bill passed 143-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let local governments and school districts exempt up to half the assessed value of qualifying correction officers’ surviving spouses’ primary homes from property tax. Assembly passed 134–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 14, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar landlord fees for rent paid by automated bank transfer and require a fee-free payment option. Assembly passed 91–45; both houses passed the bill.
May 13, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring standardized 421-a rent-stabilization notices and penalizing knowingly misleading information about the end of rent regulation. Assembly passed 89–50.
May 5, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring manufactured-home park owners to justify rent increases above 3%. Assembly passed the bill 98-43.
April 20, 2026Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize locally adopted property-tax exemptions for combat-zone service, then revise eligibility and primary-residence rules. Both bills became law, retaining percentage and dollar caps and excluding school taxes. Assembly votes: 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-02-25 Yes (142–0).
February 25, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require lenders to accept mortgage payments made under payoff-letter terms, including short payments, with exceptions for unidentifiable loans. Assembly passed 146–0 and 139–0; both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for an optional local property-tax exemption of up to 50% for qualifying surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty, then backed its application-deadline correction. Assembly passed the bills 147–0 and 137–0; both became law.
January 20, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a property-tax exemption for seriously disabled veterans meeting specified disability and adapted-housing-assistance requirements, then supported a revision removing the local opt-in requirement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-17 Yes (135–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (137–0).
January 20, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar specified unfair long-term residential real-estate service agreements and their recording, then exempt government-mandated or government-party agreements. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-16 Yes (144–0), 2026-01-13 Yes (143–0).
January 13, 2026Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand historic-home rehabilitation tax-credit eligibility for specified New York City homes in formerly qualifying census tracts. The bill passed 141-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against preserving ERAP’s ban on collecting rent covered by assistance payments a landlord refused to accept. Assembly passed 88–56; the bill became law.
June 16, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require written NYCHA lease-succession rules and advance notice and public comment before substantive policy changes. The bill passed 142-2 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize local property-tax exemptions of up to 50% for qualifying surviving spouses of volunteer firefighters or ambulance workers killed in the line of duty, including specified trusts and cooperative apartments. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
June 11, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting mortgage lenders from penalizing property owners for charging rents below lender-imposed minimums. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 94–52.
June 11, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 7882, which bans landlords setting rents with software that pools rival landlords' private data. The New York State Assembly passed it 95-51, and it became law.
June 10, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let localities raise property-tax exemptions to as much as 65% of assessed value for qualifying low-income seniors. Assembly passed 143–0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the Housing Trust Fund Corporation’s standard financing limit from $125,000 to $250,000 per dwelling unit, with authority for additional support under specified criteria. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 4, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 952-B, which caps rent-stabilized security deposits at one month's rent and requires return of the balance after lawful itemized deductions. The New York State Assembly passed it 95-50, and it became law.
May 27, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require Schenectady eviction petitions to allege compliance with applicable rental-registration requirements. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require homeowners’ associations and condominium boards to give owners 90 days’ notice before foreclosing for unpaid charges. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
May 21, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring appliance surcharges when tenants pay utilities directly and requiring written installation decisions within 30 days. Written landlord consent remained necessary. Assembly passed 93–52; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 13, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize local property-tax exemptions for qualifying low-income households receiving restricted affordable homes through government and nonprofit housing programs. The bill became law. Assembly votes: 2025-03-18 Yes (148–0), 2025-04-28 Yes (146–0).
April 28, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to renew New York's allocation system for tax-exempt private activity bonds supporting housing and other eligible projects through 2028. The bill passed 148-0 and became law in 2025.
March 18, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the local-option tax exemption for redeveloping neglected or abandoned housing to cities, towns and villages statewide and eligible one-to-four-unit homes. The bill passed 148-0 and became law in 2025.
March 18, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize locally adopted disaster-related property-tax assessment relief for eligible owner-occupied homes, then supported a replacement extending options to qualifying small businesses and up to four later tax years. Both measures became law; Assembly tallies were 141-0 and 145-0.
February 5, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit lender-required flood insurance. Supported capping required coverage at the lower of replacement value or the outstanding mortgage balance. The revision also changed borrower notices. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-2 in 2023, 149-0 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against increasing the Housing Finance Agency's covered borrowing authority by $5 billion. The bill became law. Assembly passed 104–43.
January 13, 2025Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let covered residential cooperatives exercise an existing lease-renewal option any time before their ground lease expires, while retaining the lease's other terms. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to change New York City's income calculations for senior and disability property-tax exemptions and rent-increase exemptions, excluding specified retirement-account distributions and preserving favorable calculations for existing recipients. The bill became law. Assembly votes: 2023-06-07 Yes (111–37), 2024-06-07 Yes (141–0).
June 7, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend eligibility for local disability-related property-tax exemptions to qualifying special-needs-trust residents and properties with disabled tenants holding a life interest. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 6, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let Access to Home programs fund habitability repairs connected to disability-access improvements, up to 60% of a grant or loan, and raise permitted administrative costs. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish protections for homeowners in qualifying leasehold retirement communities, including a 99-year lease option, limits on fees and rent increases, and rights to sell their homes. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 147-0 in 2024.
March 11, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require owner or board consent before installing keyless access devices in residential common areas, then supported tenant notice and protections against rent increases or obstructed access. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-05-22: Yes; total 147–0. Assembly vote, 2024-01-23: Yes; total 148–0.
January 23, 2024Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand local affordable-housing loans and grants for construction, repairs and climate upgrades. The bill removed some financing caps and allowed longer loan terms while keeping affordability controls. It passed 144-0 and became law.
June 20, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against applying the 2019 tenant-protection law's rent-calculation rules to post-2019 rents and changing how older rent records were reviewed. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 86–58.
June 20, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against pausing evictions and other property cases during qualifying deed-fraud investigations or ownership disputes. The bill expanded tools for prosecutors and owners to challenge fraudulent deeds. It passed 97-47 and became law.
June 20, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against new rent-stabilization rules for combined apartments, rehabilitation exemptions, rent fraud, and penalties for unregistered units. The bill became law in December 2023; he also opposed amendments enacted in March 2024. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 84–60.
June 20, 2023Opposes Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize property-tax abatements for qualifying apartment-building renovations, subject to affordability requirements and tenant protections, including rent regulation and enforcement lawsuits. The bill passed 136-0 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend manufactured-home residents' opportunity to buy their park when it is sold, including sales without a proposed change in land use. The bill passed 135-5 in 2023 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the state mortgage agency's ability to buy and insure loans secured by modular or manufactured homes treated as personal property, including existing homes. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 Yes 146-0.
June 9, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require strict compliance with mortgage foreclosure notices and proof of the sender's authority to enforce the note and mortgage when the notices were sent. The bill passed the Assembly in 2023 but did not become law in that session. Assembly tally was 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the application deadline for retroactive rent-increase exemptions and related tax abatements for eligible tenants in qualifying former Mitchell-Lama buildings. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-31 Yes 145-1.
May 31, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require Syracuse landlords seeking eviction to allege proof of compliance with local rental-registration laws. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-05-08: Yes; total 144–0.
May 8, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let a deceased tenant’s estate end a covered lease by returning the home, with notice and required consent. Assembly passed 139-0; the bill became law.
February 15, 2023Supports Housing Affordability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Testified to New York City Council committees about veterans’ difficulty obtaining mortgages for co-op apartments and advocated more military reserve units in the city.
December 8, 2016Supports Housing Affordability
Source: legistar.council.nyc.gov
Track record — Social Programs and Welfare
Social Programs and Welfare · 130 support · 13 oppose
Co-sponsored a refundable supplemental dependent-care tax credit equal to 15% of the existing credit.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding FreshConnect produce rebates to qualifying grocery stores. Also voted for its companion bill, which passed 140-0. The governor vetoed it in 2023.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing local governments to raise the income limit for senior property-tax exemptions to $75,000.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an agriculture programme providing veterans with training, mentoring, market access and support for entering farming.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Multi-sponsored a bill allowing New York City to defer qualifying seniors’ property taxes through an interest-free lien. The deferred taxes remained payable when eligibility ended.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a 2.7-percent cost-of-living adjustment and broader programme eligibility for state-funded human services, subject to appropriations.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored enforceable timelines and continuing tuition support for qualifying New York City special-education placements.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an additional year of special-education services for qualifying students who aged out at twenty-one during the2023–24 school year.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored doubling the aggregate allocation for business child-care tax credits from $25 million to $50 million.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored universal free breakfast and lunch at schools participating in federal school-meal programmes, with state reimbursement of the federal funding gap.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a senior tenants' advocate bureau to route housing complaints, explain assistance programmes and protect people from retaliation for seeking help.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored, then multi-sponsored, bills allowing nonrecurring income to be excluded from eligibility calculations for elderly pharmaceutical insurance. The 2025 bill was stricken.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals reducing the unemployment-benefit suspension for striking workers to one week and allowing the ordinary waiting period to run concurrently.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $10 million capital-grant programme for veterans’ service organizations, with grants up to $200,000.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored making the volunteer-firefighter lung-disability presumption permanent.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed increase in New York's earned income tax credit to 45% of the federal credit, with installment options for qualifying credit amounts.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted to exclude poll-worker earnings from STAR property-tax benefit income calculations; the bill was vetoed in2023.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored required follow-up on long-term-care complaints, including resolution procedures, status reports and ombudsman training. Also voted for the law and its correction, requiring an initial status report within 60 days and updates to the state ombudsman every 90 days afterward. Both became law; Assembly tallies were 144-0 and 145-0.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a staffed shared-housing pilot for people with developmental disabilities, with protections against substantial per-person funding cuts.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an OTDA program replacing magnetic-stripe EBT cards statewide with chip-enabled cards.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills proposing state-funded half-price MTA fares for eligible New York veterans, contingent on state appropriations.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored local-option property-tax exemptions of up to fifty percent for licensed child-care properties.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored reopening time-barred workers’ compensation death-benefit claims for essential workers who died from occupational COVID-19 exposure.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Medicaid reimbursement for trained family complex-care assistants, with nursing supervision and minimum payment pass-through protections.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored free public-transit travel for organized-militia members in uniform or presenting duty orders.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored crime-victim compensation eligibility for fatal overdoses involving deception, undisclosed drug mixtures or surreptitious administration.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored full municipal property-tax exemptions for qualifying surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty, including specified trusts and cooperative apartments.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill requiring SNAP retailers to post skimming warnings and use chip-capable EBT terminals, with feasibility exceptions and small-business support provisions.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals to increase the Empire State child credit to 45% of the qualifying federal credit and offer installment payments.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a tax-credit programme covering half of eligible child-care providers' capital improvements, capped at $50,000 per provider and $250 million overall.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for individualized pre-release veterans-benefit briefings as part of prison discharge planning.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a state supplement bringing qualifying households' monthly SNAP benefits to at least $100, subject to available funding.
October 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require broadband and WiFi in temporary housing, with resident-data protections and an exception for places without broadband access. The bill also expanded ConnectAll grant eligibility. Assembly passed 126–6; it passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to standardize medical utility-shutoff protections, cover households with any qualifying resident and automatically approve account designations after five business days without action. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
June 5, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to extend eligibility for qualifying WTC-related accidental death benefits from 25 to 35 years after retirement, retaining survivor application requirements. Assembly passed 131–0; the bill became law.
June 5, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to bar reducing crime-victim compensation for private donations, remove victim-conduct reductions, and make specified other offsets discretionary. The Survivors First Act passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to strengthen interagency help for children awaiting appropriate care, including evaluation and placement-or-service referral deadlines and a confidential coordination portal. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to require regional waiting lists for eligible people when the Nursing Home Transition and Diversion Medicaid waiver reached capacity. As places opened, the bill generally used waiting-list order while allowing priority groups, including people leaving nursing facilities. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to let local governments grant extra property-tax exemptions to households with multiple qualifying veterans, with percentage and dollar caps. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill passed the Assembly.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the filing deadline for qualifying World Trade Center disability and death-benefit claims by New York’s organized militia and eligible survivors from September 11, 2026 to September 11, 2030. Existing benefit amounts remained. Assembly passed it 139–0; it became law.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to let cities, towns and villages reduce or waive building fees for veterans modifying primary homes for service-connected disabilities. Assembly passed 141–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for statutory utility-payment standards for eligible households, including $10 installments for financial need and spreading qualifying rate increases across a payment plan. Assembly passed 100–39; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for annual special accidental-death benefit increases for eligible public-employee survivors, passing 146-0, 145-0, 144-0 and 139-0 in 2023–2026. Also voted to include qualifying NYC deputy-sheriff survivors in the program, passing 145-0 in 2023. All five bills became law.
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to establish financial assistance for income-eligible homeowners replacing dilapidated mobile or manufactured homes, including demolition and temporary relocation support. The 2024 bill was vetoed; a 2026 version passed the Assembly. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-05-30), Yes 141–0 (2026-06-04).
June 4, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to accept nurse practitioners’ statements and examinations for covered disability-benefit claims. The bill also allowed nurse practitioners to certify qualifying physical disabilities for specified adaptive hunting permits. Assembly passed it 138–2; both chambers passed it.
June 3, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to establish a peer-support service program for women veterans, coordinated with mental-health, addiction and employment agencies. The bill passed 140-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 3, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to extend World Trade Center rescue-and-recovery registration deadlines to September 2030 and reopen specified workers’ compensation claims for people disabled between September 2021 and September 2025. The bill required reconsideration of covered claims previously barred by time limits. Assembly passed it 140–0; it became law.
June 3, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against requiring prison officials, and local jails where practicable, to help eligible incarcerated people enroll in Medicaid before release. Assembly passed 96–44.
June 2, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted for income-qualified ground-rent rebates for Battery Park City homeowners and regulated-unit renters. The bill passed 137-1 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to give otherwise eligible applicants a one-time extension after missing the deadline for their initial enhanced STAR property-tax exemption application. The bill required a written request, eligibility checks, and correction of tax records. Assembly passed it 139–0; both chambers passed it.
June 1, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against limiting state-prison commissary prices to 3% above purchase cost and barring vendor commissions or other incentives. Assembly passed 94–45; both houses passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to let local governments and school districts exempt up to half the assessed value of surviving paid firefighters’ primary homes from property tax after line-of-duty deaths. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to extend special accidental-death benefits for eligible children of covered New York City public employees when there was no surviving spouse, continuing benefits until the youngest eligible child reached 26. The bill protected existing beneficiaries against reductions without consent and barred retroactive payments. Assembly passed it 137–1; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a four-year outdoor, nature-based child-care pilot with adapted licensing, safety rules and up to ten initial locations. The bill passed the Assembly 129-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 29, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to authorize the state Office for the Aging to establish and operate transportation programs. Assembly passed 128–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 29, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend free menstrual-product requirements to qualifying drop-in centers, intake shelters and emergency congregate housing. The bill passed the Assembly 131-2 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 28, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to broaden the service records and benefits used to establish combat-service eligibility for an existing veterans’ property-tax exemption. The bill passed 143-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let seniors whose income falls upon retirement use a later income year to qualify for enhanced STAR tax relief. The bill passed 143-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring residential heat, electricity and water shutoffs around forecasts of extreme heat or cold, including submetered service. The bill passed 96-45 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 19, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make the prison-release identification program automatic for eligible people and require help obtaining application documents, while preserving the option to decline. The bill passed the Assembly 124-13 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 18, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let local governments and school districts exempt up to half the assessed value of qualifying correction officers’ surviving spouses’ primary homes from property tax. Assembly passed 134–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 14, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for reimbursing domestic-violence shelters when they housed an eligible single adult in a double room because no single room was available. The 2024 bill was vetoed. He also backed the revised 2026 bill, which phased full reimbursement for larger emergency shelters and provided full reimbursement for smaller shelters. Assembly votes were Yes 144–2 and Yes 133–0.
May 14, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to waive birth-record fees for correctional-agency requests on behalf of people under community supervision. Assembly passed 108–28; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 13, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against extending New York City's public-assistance re-engagement and conciliation rules statewide, including protections against sanctions during that process and pro-rata reductions ending upon compliance or exemption. The Assembly passed the bill 94-47 in 2026; no enactment was recorded.
May 12, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to put a ban on SNAP fingerprint requirements into state law. Assembly passed 141–1; both houses passed the bill, with no recorded enactment.
May 12, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let foster-care agency health facilities serve birth and foster families, other child-welfare families and eligible special-education students. Assembly passed 140–0; both houses passed the bill.
May 11, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to require gas and electric utilities to credit public-assistance payments or payment guarantees for residential accounts, including service restoration. Assembly passed 134–0; both chambers passed the bill.
April 29, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a statewide supervised-visitation initiative, subject to appropriated grant funds, with language access and fee waivers for families unable to pay. Assembly votes: 2025-06-11 Yes (133–5), 2026-04-28 Yes (133–4).
April 28, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require the Public Service Commission to consider customer income, unemployment, bill increases and living costs before approving major utility-rate increases. Assembly passed 141–0; both houses passed the bill.
April 27, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted against banning consumer fees for benefit-card banking and ATM services in 2024 and again on a revised 2026 bill exempting federally chartered institutions and interbank processing fees. The first bill was vetoed; the later version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were No 97–48 (2024-06-04), No 100–45 (2026-03-31).
March 31, 2026Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar insurers from denying or refusing to renew personal auto policies solely because a vehicle provides volunteer social-service transportation. The bill passed 142-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
March 23, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require New York's veterans agency to help veterans develop discharge-upgrade cases and provide representation or referrals for meritorious claims and appeals. He supported the measure in 2024 and 2026; both bills passed the Assembly. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-06 Yes 144-0; 2026-03-16 Yes 144-0.
March 16, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to require EBT websites, mobile apps and documents available there in the twelve most common non-English languages among New York residents with limited English. Assembly passed 109–38 in 2025 and 111–31 in 2026; the bill passed both chambers.
March 11, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require approved state addiction-service aid to reach recipient agencies within 60 days, with funds used for authorized services within two years. Supported the bill in 2025 and 2026; it had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-13: Yes; total 133–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
March 9, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize locally adopted property-tax exemptions for combat-zone service, then revise eligibility and primary-residence rules. Both bills became law, retaining percentage and dollar caps and excluding school taxes. Assembly votes: 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-02-25 Yes (142–0).
February 25, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to prohibit regulated financial institutions from charging for paper statements needed to apply for public assistance. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2024, 141-0 in 2024, 130-14 in 2025, 130-9 in 2026.
January 21, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for an optional local property-tax exemption of up to 50% for qualifying surviving spouses of police officers killed in the line of duty, then backed its application-deadline correction. Assembly passed the bills 147–0 and 137–0; both became law.
January 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a property-tax exemption for seriously disabled veterans meeting specified disability and adapted-housing-assistance requirements, then supported a revision removing the local opt-in requirement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-17 Yes (135–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (137–0).
January 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require durable luggage for children in foster care, then backed a revision making local districts responsible with foster-care block-grant reimbursement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-05-29 Yes (146–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (137–0).
January 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exempt qualifying college meals paid with donated funds or food points from sales tax, then backed an effective-date correction. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-17 Yes (141–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (137–0).
January 20, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand access to appointed counsel for financially eligible parties and minors in specified family-court support, parentage and enforcement proceedings. The bill passed 141-1 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a free child-support mediation and court-navigation pilot, with participant consent, safety screening and court approval of agreements. The bill passed 141-0 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against preserving ERAP’s ban on collecting rent covered by assistance payments a landlord refused to accept. Assembly passed 88–56; the bill became law.
June 16, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow independent child-abuse or neglect protection orders against qualifying nonparent caregivers or household members. Orders lasted up to two years, or five with special circumstances, with court review safeguards. The bills passed 147-0 in 2024 and 144-0 in 2025; the latter became law.
June 16, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against inflation-adjusting the tax-debt threshold for driver’s-license suspension and expanding low-income and hardship protections. The bill passed 95-49 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 16, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2024 and 2025 to include after-school remedial services, homework and childcare in New York City school transportation for qualifying kindergarten-through-sixth-grade students at public and private schools. Distance and schedule conditions remained. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 and Yes 135–0. The refile was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen restrictions on unauthorized veterans’ benefit fees, add civil and criminal remedies, and create a fund supporting accredited veterans’ service organizations. The bill passed 133-0 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize local property-tax exemptions of up to 50% for qualifying surviving spouses of volunteer firefighters or ambulance workers killed in the line of duty, including specified trusts and cooperative apartments. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
June 11, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let beneficiaries of eligible NYC Transit pension members who died before filing for retirement choose a pension-reserve payment as a lump sum or annuity. The bills passed 145-0 in 2024 and 146-0 in 2025. Both were vetoed.
June 11, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding education and homework credit toward public-assistance work requirements and limiting reassignment away from approved education. The bill passed 112-34 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 10, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise New York City property-tax abatement caps for creating or expanding childcare centers, including larger benefits in childcare deserts, and extend application and authorization deadlines. The measure passed 136-1 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let localities raise property-tax exemptions to as much as 65% of assessed value for qualifying low-income seniors. Assembly passed 143–0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove prescription and physician-order requirements for qualifying nonmedical in-home and respite services for older adults, while retaining needs assessment and case management. The bill passed 145-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
May 29, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require food stores and retailers to accept cash without charging a higher price, subject to specified bill-size, remote-transaction and cash-conversion-device exceptions. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
May 29, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people awarded SSI for a past period qualify for corresponding state supplemental payments even if they were no longer eligible when the award was determined. The governor vetoed the 2025 bill. Assembly votes were 145-2 in 2024, 146-0 in 2025.
May 29, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 and 2025 to continue public-assistance resource exemptions, including a primary home and qualifying vehicle, through August 2027. Both renewals became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-30 Yes 139-5; 2025-05-21 Yes 143-0.
May 21, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Sponsored mandatory donation of unused edible school and college meal food to local aid programs, subject to food-safety rules. The bill remained in committee.
May 20, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize local property-tax exemptions for qualifying low-income households receiving restricted affordable homes through government and nonprofit housing programs. The bill became law. Assembly votes: 2025-03-18 Yes (148–0), 2025-04-28 Yes (146–0).
April 28, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make child-care access a factor in development agencies’ tax-exemption policies, then supported including projects that facilitate new child-care services beyond on-site facilities. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 140-1 in 2024, 148-1 in 2025.
February 12, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the Safe Landings foster-care enforcement law and its correction, which preserved certain post-discharge court orders against public social-service officials while setting a filing deadline before age 23. Assembly votes were No 106–35 (2024-06-07), No 116–33 (2025-02-11).
February 11, 2025Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for automatic energy-assistance enrollment of eligible EPIC participants, then supported a correction replacing automatic enrollment and data matching with annual information on eligibility and how to apply. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-05-30), Yes 145–0 (2025-02-05).
February 5, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for telephone card controls for EBT recipients, then backed a revision retaining cancel, lock and unlock options while removing specified fraud-reporting and selective-lock requirements. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-04-09 Yes (144–0), 2025-02-04 Yes (145–1).
February 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to match public-benefit records for utility affordability enrollment, then supported narrower OTDA matching and added water services. Also supported an 18-month setup deadline for water matching, with eligibility checks and enrollment notices. Assembly votes were 143–2 in 2023, 144–0 and 141–0 in 2024, and 146–0 in 2025. All four bills became law.
February 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand veterans' tuition-award eligibility, then supported requiring four years of active duty or qualifying hostilities service and capping awards at resident SUNY undergraduate tuition. Assembly votes were Yes 140–0 (2024-06-08), Yes 146–0 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a maternity-care program for veterans. Also supported removing its rapid-referral, clinical-training and review-board duties. Assembly votes were 146–0 in 2024 and 147–0 in 2025. Both bills became law.
February 3, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let medically fragile adults ages 21–35 stay in pediatric nursing facilities with pediatric reimbursement and full-rate reserved-bed coverage. He then supported making the program conditional on federal funding and delaying its start. Assembly votes passed 140–0 in 2024 and 145–0 in 2025; both bills became law.
January 27, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to accept Social Security low-income subsidy data as a Medicare Savings Program application without requiring another application, using verified data to establish eligibility. Also supported delaying the law’s effective date to April 1, 2026. Both became law; Assembly tallies were 144-1 and 145-0.
January 22, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to require temporary child-care aid for families meeting preliminary eligibility rules and permit block-grant funding. Then supported restoring local choice, adding federal funding limits and delaying implementation. The bills passed 147-0 and 146-0 and became law.
January 22, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to redirect adoption subsidies when parents stopped supporting an eligible child, with reviews and appeals. The original bill passed 146-0 in 2024. A revised termination rule passed 145-0 in 2025. Both became law, with federal approval still required for specified payment provisions.
January 22, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted to expand eligible milk and other New York farm products in Nourish New York. He supported a 2025 definition revision. Assembly passed 144–0 and 147–0; both bills became law.
January 21, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to change New York City's income calculations for senior and disability property-tax exemptions and rent-increase exemptions, excluding specified retirement-account distributions and preserving favorable calculations for existing recipients. The bill became law. Assembly votes: 2023-06-07 Yes (111–37), 2024-06-07 Yes (141–0).
June 7, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a residential-care demonstration program for medically fragile adults transitioning from pediatric care, with specialized admission and Medicaid reimbursement rules. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–1.
June 7, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend eligibility for local disability-related property-tax exemptions to qualifying special-needs-trust residents and properties with disabled tenants holding a life interest. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 6, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add annual inflation adjustments of 1% to 4% to the state’s maximum reimbursement for qualifying veterans’ funeral and burial expenses. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2024.
June 6, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make qualifying nonprofit programs for students affected by gun violence eligible for school-violence prevention grants, including trauma counseling and youth empowerment. The Assembly passed it 146–0; it became law in 2024.
June 6, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove minimum-earnings requirements for parents and caretakers who otherwise qualified for child-care assistance. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-05: Yes; total 146–0.
June 5, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend operating standards and inspections to all social adult day-care programs and tie public funding to inspection and annual self-certification requirements. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 5, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against removing the documented heat-aggravated medical-condition requirement for HEAP cooling assistance. The bill passed the Assembly 96-49.
June 4, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to let Access to Home programs fund habitability repairs connected to disability-access improvements, up to 60% of a grant or loan, and raise permitted administrative costs. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants for qualifying grocery retailers serving underserved communities. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending continued shelter services to homeless youth who entered a transitional independent-living program before age 24 rather than 21, subject to municipal participation requirements. The bill passed the Assembly in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-29 No 98-49.
May 29, 2024Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to expand independent help for people with developmental disabilities, including benefit appeals, paperwork, and a hotline. Assembly passed 146-0; the bill was vetoed.
May 22, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend specified veterans’ services, safety-net assistance and disabled-veteran vehicle benefits to eligible veterans who did not serve during wartime. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 148-0 in 2024.
February 28, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let crime victims seek compensation without police reports, then to narrow alternative-proof rules and delay them. Assembly passed 121-16 and 131-15. Both bills became law.
February 7, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for required benefit-card skimming warnings at checkout, then backed a revision specifying fraud-reporting information and assigning model notices to the state benefits agency. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 in 2023 and Yes 145–0 in 2024.
January 29, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create free Hope Cards documenting final orders of protection, then supported expanding them to digital or wallet-sized formats for any protected party and clarifying their use by law enforcement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 145-0 in 2024.
January 29, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to define mass shootings for state emergency funding and later supported the correction adding victim-service and federal emergency-grant provisions. The correction used four or more murders for the definition while expressly covering victim services for shooting incidents with four or more injuries. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 144-2, 140-5.
January 29, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish adult cystic-fibrosis assistance, then revise it into temporary grants for insured residents ineligible for Medicaid. Assistance remained subject to available funding. Assembly votes passed 140–0 in 2023 and 143–5 in 2024; both bills became law. Later budget laws extended the program’s authority until March 31, 2027.
January 23, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to recognize qualifying permanent workers' compensation disability awards for property-tax exemptions and then allow municipalities to set partial-disability relief at 50%–100% of the usual exemption schedule. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 Yes 144-1; 2024-01-23 Yes 148-0.
January 23, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing courts to order continued parent-child contact after termination of parental rights when specified safeguards and the child’s best interests are met. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 94-47 in 2023.
June 21, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
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Voted to increase ordinary death benefits under NYC public retirement systems by reducing age-related cuts for active workers and raising benefit floors. The law also extended a retirement-stage minimum benefit. It passed 140-0 and became law, applying to eligible deaths from July 1, 2021.
June 10, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add Medicaid payment for qualified community violence-prevention services for eligible people exposed to violence, subject to federal approval and funding. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 139–1.
June 10, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand a residential-care demonstration program for medically fragile young adults from two eligible pediatric facilities to four and lower its facility bed-size threshold. The bill passed 146-0 but was vetoed.
June 9, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a specialized assisted-living program for people with neurodegenerative diseases and behavioral disturbances, with physician oversight, nursing services and bed limits. The governor vetoed the measure in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-06 Yes 146-0.
June 6, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against creating a state emergency heating-assistance benefit for eligible households facing fuel shortages, utility shutoffs or serious heating-bill arrears. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 96-49 in 2023.
June 5, 2023Opposes Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish at least four infant drug-withdrawal care centres and parental support services. The bill barred a withdrawal diagnosis alone as evidence of child abuse. The governor vetoed it. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023.
June 5, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make children voluntarily surrendered from foster care eligible for subsidized kinship guardianship, subject to the program's existing requirements. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-01 Yes 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the application deadline for retroactive rent-increase exemptions and related tax abatements for eligible tenants in qualifying former Mitchell-Lama buildings. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-31 Yes 145-1.
May 31, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a state Office of Native American Affairs to coordinate tribal policies, programs and access to state agencies, with paid leadership and staff subject to appropriations. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-05-30: Yes; total 144–0.
May 30, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden eligibility for neighborhood naturally occurring retirement-community services by removing the rural-area restriction on including taller apartment buildings. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for revised insurance review rules for children with complex medical needs. The bill kept child-specific standards and required certain Medicaid payments while safe discharge services were unavailable. It passed 142-0 and became law.
May 24, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise living-organ-donor support by covering eligible screening expenses when donation did not proceed and changing reimbursement and patient-education rules. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 140–2.
February 1, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend domestic-violence survivors’ fee-free contract exits beyond new utility, phone and TV agreements, with revised written statements. Assembly passed 142-2; the bill became law.
January 18, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 37 support · 2 oppose
Co-sponsored a bill making October 7 a New York City public-school holiday and requiring related genocide-education lessons and teacher training, alongside a statewide antisemitism-prevention campaign.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the Purple Star School Program, recognizing schools that provide military-family liaisons, transition support, resources and staff training.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored enforceable timelines and continuing tuition support for qualifying New York City special-education placements.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an additional year of special-education services for qualifying students who aged out at twenty-one during the2023–24 school year.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a programme providing one free SAT during the school day at public secondary schools.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a programme reimbursing advanced-coursework examination fees and requiring schools to tell students and parents about cost-free access.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored universal free breakfast and lunch at schools participating in federal school-meal programmes, with state reimbursement of the federal funding gap.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a statutory funding framework for P-TECH high-school, college and career-training partnerships, including competitive grants for new programmes.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a literacy endorsement for K-5 reading teachers, with science-of-reading coursework, an assessment and specified exemptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Jacobe's Law, proposing parent-notification procedures for verified school bullying with safeguards when students raise health, safety or privacy concerns.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the Learning for Work Act, proposing youth apprenticeships, workforce-funded grants, an enhanced professional diploma and employer tax credits.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored annual fentanyl education and overdose-response instruction for grades six through twelve. The proposal also required naloxone availability and staff training in public and private high schools.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored early-childhood and K-3 reading programs with screening, intensive interventions, individual improvement plans and grade-progression procedures.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored adding the September11 attacks to required school instruction in citizenship, shared history and human rights.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored two hours of evidence-based reading training for specified new teacher and reading-specialist certification applicants.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to phase out mandatory fees for specified SUNY and CUNY graduate workers, except student-association fees. The 2025 bill was vetoed; a clarified 2026 refile passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 145–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 139–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring policies that empower school-library staff to curate broad collections of developmentally appropriate materials. The bill passed 89-46 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 17, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand state financial-aid and public-college admission eligibility for graduates of qualifying accredited online high-school programs. The bill passed 140-1 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require nonpublic schools to adopt anti-bullying policies, report incidents, investigate promptly and act to protect students. The Jack Reid Law passed 141-0 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Rochester school-modernization bond-aid calculations and require refinancing savings to fund eligible school projects. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2024 and 2025 to include after-school remedial services, homework and childcare in New York City school transportation for qualifying kindergarten-through-sixth-grade students at public and private schools. Distance and schedule conditions remained. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 and Yes 135–0. The refile was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding education and homework credit toward public-assistance work requirements and limiting reassignment away from approved education. The bill passed 112-34 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 10, 2025Opposes Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a state dyslexia and dysgraphia center responsible for screening, teacher-preparation and intervention standards, alongside guidance and public reporting. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-09: Yes; total 144–0.
June 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible students at private New York colleges compete for remaining master’s-in-education scholarships after public-college students receive priority. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise Rochester's phase-three school-modernization authorization from $475 million to $600 million and revise project-cost safeguards. The bill passed 141-3 and became law in 2025.
June 4, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make declined Academic Excellence scholarships available to the next eligible student when practicable, instead of letting those awards lapse. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
May 29, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let school districts in cities under 125,000 residents use state-aid debt exclusions available to other districts. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
May 21, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored expanding SUNY Maritime’s nominated tuition scholarships from 284 to 437 places and doubling Assembly members’ nominations. The bill remained in committee.
February 10, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand veterans' tuition-award eligibility, then supported requiring four years of active duty or qualifying hostilities service and capping awards at resident SUNY undergraduate tuition. Assembly votes were Yes 140–0 (2024-06-08), Yes 146–0 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect special-education providers' permitted surplus funds from tuition-rate clawbacks and prevent investment earnings from replacing state tuition funding. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let qualifying libraries in economically disadvantaged communities receive construction aid covering up to 90% of approved costs and remove the programme's 2026 expiration. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require statewide school diapering and toileting protocols covering accessible facilities, proper equipment and supplies, and safe procedures. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace a fixed aid cap for New York City's after-4 p.m. nonpublic-school busing program with a formula tied to personal-income growth. The bill was pocket-vetoed. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 30, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to let schools offer suspended students an early return if they voluntarily participate in counseling or classes such as anger management or dispute resolution. Assembly votes were 141-3 in 2023, 144-3 in 2024.
March 11, 2024Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for the constitutional amendment removing small-city school districts' separate debt limit and for legislation applying the general school-district borrowing rules, including a 10% property-valuation limit and approval requirements for excess debt. The amendment was approved by voters in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-03-13 Yes 145-0; 2023-06-09 Yes 146-0.
June 9, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require schools to notify families about advanced classes, enrollment steps, support and financial aid. Assembly passed 143-0; the bill became law.
June 1, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to include e-books and other digital materials in school-library aid eligibility. The bill kept existing rules on library use, durability and other aid. It passed 144-2 and became law.
May 31, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit corporal punishment in New York schools and add it to the legal definition of child abuse in educational settings. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 148-0 in 2023.
April 26, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow nursing programs to replace up to one-third of clinical education with supervised simulation, with approval for more when needed and accreditation safeguards. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-03-27: Yes; total 146–0.
March 27, 2023Supports Public Education Quality
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Gun Control
Gun Control · 4 support · 5 oppose
Co-sponsored raising criminal possession of a firearm from a Class E to a Class D felony.
October 21, 2026Supports Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require domestic-violence lethality assessments, officer training, victim referrals and extreme-risk-order applications when the assessment establishes the required serious-harm risk. The bill passed 128-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 29, 2026Supports Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring ammunition background checks to be denied for people barred from possessing rifles or shotguns, including people subject to extreme-risk protection orders. The bill became law in October 2026. Assembly vote, 2026-05-28: No; total 89–45.
May 28, 2026Opposes Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against state certification and an approved-sales roster for personalized handguns in 2024 and 2025. Also opposed a narrower technology-study version in 2026. Assembly votes were 94–51, 97–50 and 92–49. The proposals had no recorded enactment.
March 26, 2026Opposes Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 1985-A to require temporary removal of visible or lawfully found guns when domestic-violence assessments flag danger. It also extended the minimum hold to five days. The Assembly passed it 93-46, and it became law.
June 11, 2025Opposes Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make recent aggravated animal cruelty a factor courts must consider when deciding temporary extreme-risk protection orders. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
April 1, 2025Supports Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on requiring gun makers to take reasonable steps against installing pistol converters (97–44, 2024). Also opposed classifying pistol converters as banned rapid-fire modification devices (100–48, 2025). Both bills became law.
March 19, 2025Opposes Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding the products covered by New York's firearm-industry public-nuisance law to include antique firearms, ammunition, and component parts. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-03: No; total 89–56.
June 3, 2024Opposes Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add law-enforcement agencies as petitioners for extreme-risk protection orders, extending the existing mandatory-filing rule to agencies when credible evidence met its legal conditions. The bill passed 143-2 and became law.
June 3, 2024Supports Gun Control
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Women's Reproductive Rights
Women's Reproductive Rights · 10 support · 10 oppose
Co-sponsored excluding fertilized eggs and embryos outside a uterus from legal definitions of a child or human being under state law.
October 21, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a ban on state payments for abortion services provided to nonresidents.
October 21, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend post-pregnancy protection from restraints to twelve weeks and limit specified uses of force in custody. The bill also expanded support-person access during pregnancy-related care. Assembly passed 111–21; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance payment for pharmacists dispensing self-administered hormonal contraceptives and related services in 2025, then backed a revised administrative-fee requirement in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 139–5. Assembly vote, 2026-03-11: Yes; total 135–7.
March 11, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for outpatient lactation support coverage. The bills passed 143-0 in 2024, 138-6 in 2025 and 142-0 in 2026. The latest version required licensed, board-certified consultants and allowed network rules, review and specified cost sharing. It passed both houses, with no recorded enactment.
February 5, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against exempting certain abortion medications from state criminal-diversion and misbranding rules based solely on changes to FDA approval or labeling. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: No; total 94–48.
January 28, 2026Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on stronger New York protections from out-of-state penalties for legally protected reproductive and gender-affirming care (94–50, 2025). Also voted no on a correction covering electronic-data procedures and malpractice insurance (93–52, 2026). Both bills became law.
June 16, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance coverage of medically necessary transvaginal ultrasounds during pregnancy when recommended by recognized clinical guidelines, then supported the renamed Eli Parker Levitt Law in 2025. It became law, applying to covered policies issued, renewed or changed from January 1, 2027. Assembly tallies were 145-0, 145-0.
May 27, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for prescribed prenatal-vitamin coverage; the bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2024. Also supported a 2025 expansion to comprehensive plans without existing drug coverage. It removed express permission for cost sharing, passed 145-0 and became law.
February 5, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to guarantee hospital access to doulas, including a 2024 C-section measure. In 2025 he voted for an emergency and safety exception and to replace the separate C-section law with multilingual notices of general doula-access rights. The measures became law. Assembly tallies were 147-1, 148-0, 147-0, 143-2.
January 27, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on allowing abortion-pill labels to name a health-care practice instead of the prescriber (95–42, 2025). Also opposed requiring that choice when prescribers request it, with patient notice (96–51, 2025). Both bills became law.
January 22, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing trained pharmacists to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives under standing orders, then opposed an earlier start date. Assembly passed 109–37 and 106–39; both bills became law.
February 12, 2024Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding interstate legal protections to reproductive telehealth care provided from New York to patients elsewhere, then against a correction specifying public-health information and patient-claim exceptions. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 98–47. Assembly vote, 2024-02-06: No; total 97–51.
February 6, 2024Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit fees or penalties for pregnancy-related special enrollment in covered health insurance. The bill became law; the special-enrollment right already existed. Assembly vote, 2024-01-22: Yes; total 145–0.
January 22, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring health-equity assessments for proposed health-care projects to examine their effects on reproductive and maternity services. The bill became law in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: No; total 98–50.
June 7, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize registered nurses, under non-patient-specific physician orders, to perform specified emergency diagnostic tests, pregnancy tests and sepsis-related tests or IV procedures. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring SUNY and CUNY campuses to provide students access to medication abortion through prescribing clinicians or referrals. The bill became law in 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-04-18: No; total 100–49.
April 18, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising New York arrest, extradition and investigative-cooperation protections for reproductive care lawfully provided in New York. The Assembly passed it 94–44; it became law in 2023.
February 13, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit physical examinations purporting to determine whether someone had previously had vaginal intercourse. The bill passed the Assembly in 2023 but did not pass the Senate. Assembly vote, 2023-02-06: Yes; total 146–2.
February 6, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a state constitutional amendment expanding equal-protection guarantees to cover characteristics including ethnicity, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and reproductive health care. Assembly vote, 2023-01-24: No; total 97–46.
January 24, 2023Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Election Integrity
Election Integrity · 7 support
Co-sponsored a bill requiring voter citizenship and lawful permanent resident status checks using DMV records. It also proposed broader government photo-ID requirements for voting.
October 22, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expressly treating noncitizen voter registration as a felony and making that charge eligible for monetary bail.
October 21, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored criminal and civil protections against intimidation of election workers and voters, obstruction of polling access and damage to election infrastructure.
October 21, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored state felony and civil penalties for prohibited election funding tied to specified hostile foreign nations.
October 21, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill expanding voter photo-ID requirements, adding a three-day ID deadline for in-person affidavit ballots and free non-driver IDs for income-eligible citizens.
October 21, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a proposed constitutional amendment expanding legislative control over congressional redistricting and removing specified compactness and partisan-favoritism standards. It also simplified the legislature’s fallback after a commission plan failed. Both chambers gave first approval; further legislative and voter approval remained required. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: No; total 90–48.
June 3, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require New York to join multistate voter-list organizations and share voter and DMV data, with confidentiality and citizenship safeguards. Assembly passed 143–0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Limit Foreign Influence
Limit Foreign Influence · 1 support
Co-sponsored state felony and civil penalties for prohibited election funding tied to specified hostile foreign nations.
October 21, 2026Supports Limit Foreign Influence
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Personal Income Tax Reduction
Personal Income Tax Reduction · 15 support
Co-sponsored a refundable supplemental dependent-care tax credit equal to 15% of the existing credit.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a tax credit of up to $350 for a first qualifying dog or cat adoption from a New York shelter or rescue.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored doubling the aggregate allocation for business child-care tax credits from $25 million to $50 million.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored refundable tax credits reimbursing specified COVID-era operating fines imposed on bars and restaurants.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a proposed increase in New York's earned income tax credit to 45% of the federal credit, with installment options for qualifying credit amounts.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $6,000 state income-tax deduction for veterans.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a state income-tax deduction of up to $500 for eligible educators' unreimbursed classroom supplies.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored extending and expanding New York’s digital-game development tax credit, lowering entry thresholds and removing specified caps.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a $500 tax credit for professionally installed home or business water-filtration systems.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals to increase the Empire State child credit to 45% of the qualifying federal credit and offer installment payments.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a tax-credit programme covering half of eligible child-care providers' capital improvements, capped at $50,000 per provider and $250 million overall.
October 21, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the volunteer firefighter and ambulance-worker income-tax credit to $800, or $1,600 for qualifying spouses, and allow it alongside the service-related property-tax exemption. The bill passed 133-0 and became law in 2026.
May 14, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand historic-home rehabilitation tax-credit eligibility for specified New York City homes in formerly qualifying census tracts. The bill passed 141-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exclude qualifying federal student-loan forgiveness from New York income tax, then supported expanding the exclusion to forgiveness under any federally authorized program. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-3 in 2023, 141-7 in 2024.
March 12, 2024Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending NYC’s existing personal-income taxes, surcharge and specified business and service taxes through 2026. The bill continued existing tax rates rather than creating a new tax. It passed 96-40 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Data Privacy
Data Privacy · 47 support · 14 oppose
Co-sponsored withholding hate-crime witnesses' and 911 callers' identifying information during criminal discovery, with court-review and later-disclosure safeguards.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored restoring confidentiality for specified police, fire, correction and probation personnel records, subject to court-order and official-function exceptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an OTDA program replacing magnetic-stripe EBT cards statewide with chip-enabled cards.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored protecting undercover officers’ identifying information when disclosure threatened their safety or compromised undercover work. The proposal included consent and court-order exceptions.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing lottery winners to keep their identifying information private and avoid required publicity.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored protecting witness names and contact information when a court finds potential intimidation, violence or threats on the record.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored confidentiality and removal protections for investigated, unfounded complaints in specified first-responder personnel records, including emergency medical staff.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored child-data rules with privacy by default, limits on targeted advertising, and private lawsuits for harmful violations.
October 21, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require broadband and WiFi in temporary housing, with resident-data protections and an exception for places without broadband access. The bill also expanded ConnectAll grant eligibility. Assembly passed 126–6; it passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit covered businesses from using consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices, while preserving specified loyalty discounts, credit decisions, and other exceptions. The bill also restricted data use supporting that pricing and strengthened attorney-general enforcement. Assembly passed it 100–42; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require free emergency panic buttons for local social-services employees making home visits, with limits on location tracking and backup assistance plans. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning sales of covered health data and requiring permission for optional uses. The 2025 bill was vetoed; the 2026 version passed Assembly 96-45. Assembly vote, 2025-01-22: No; total 96–41.
June 4, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add domestic partners to judges’ family-information protections, protect adult children’s identities, and allow electronic notices to entities holding protected information. The bill also set procedures for temporary releases, withdrawals, and releases after death. Assembly passed it 139–0; both chambers passed it.
June 2, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require signed patient consent before hospitals and healthcare providers store credit-card information, with written notice of its intended use. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove mental-health records’ confidentiality protections once a patient had been dead for 50 years, without requiring longer record retention. Assembly passed 122–16; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict public access to adult guardianship court records, then backed a revision preserving attorney-general access. Both versions passed the Assembly unanimously in 2026; the bill passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2026-05-04: Yes; total 135–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 138–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give dating services 30 days to return or delete former users’ personal information while allowing limited retention to enforce fraud and content bans. The bill also allowed contract and customer-service records to be kept for six years or longer when required for legal claims. Assembly passed it 128–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 29, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding student-loan payment history to the consumer-credit information covered by employment credit-screening protections. The bill passed 100-44 in the Assembly in 2026 but had no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require government website encryption and biometric-login privacy protections while encouraging consideration of multifactor authentication. The bill passed 143-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expunging convictions under New York’s former hypodermic-instrument possession law. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-05-13: No; total 91–45.
May 13, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against new warrant and notice rules for police access to private electronic records. Assembly passed 92–51 in 2023, 93–56 in 2025 and 87–55 in 2026. The proposal stalled in the Senate.
May 12, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a statutory addiction-treatment bill of rights covering treatment-plan input, requesting another clinician’s review, privacy and complaints. Providers had to post and give patients the statement. Assembly passed 137–4; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 12, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to put a ban on SNAP fingerprint requirements into state law. Assembly passed 141–1; both houses passed the bill, with no recorded enactment.
May 12, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let consenting adoption-registry participants preauthorize the release of identifying information to other consenting registrants. The bill passed 139-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 5, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require security features and warnings on internet-connected baby monitors, backed by local civil penalties. The bill passed 135-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 4, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against replacing affirmative-consent adult vaccination reporting with mandatory registry reporting subject to a patient opt-out. He opposed versions in 2023 and 2026; both bills passed the Assembly. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-01 No 92-48; 2026-04-22 No 95-40.
April 22, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require stronger identity checks, account security, and problem-gambling risk assessments for mobile sports betting. The bill also created consumer-data access and deletion rights and directed certain penalties toward gambling treatment and enforcement. Assembly passed it 142–0.
March 25, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Freedom of Information Law rules for agency responses, electronic record retrieval and protections against using personal name-and-address lists for solicitation or fundraising. Assembly votes were 148-0 in 2024, 142-0 in 2026.
March 23, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limiting insurers’ demands for private financial records during theft claims. The bill preserved specific fraud investigations; latest Assembly passage was 93-44. Assembly vote, 2023-05-31: No; total 96–50. Assembly vote, 2024-03-18: No; total 95–51. Assembly vote, 2025-05-27: No; total 100–46.
March 19, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit recording court-annexed mediation and other covered dispute-resolution sessions without express consent from every party and the mediator. The bill made unauthorized recordings inadmissible and authorized contempt sanctions. Assembly passed 143–1; both chambers passed it.
March 16, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for confidentiality in law-enforcement peer-support counseling, then backed a correction narrowing participant secrecy duties and revising harm-disclosure and training safeguards. The original bill and its correction became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 141–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: Yes; total 141–0.
January 28, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add victims of unlawful intimate-image sharing to the groups eligible for New York’s Address Confidentiality Program. The Assembly passed it 139–0; both houses passed it in 2026, with no enactment recorded on the reviewed official page.
January 27, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to explicitly include unauthorized Bluetooth tracking in the definition of following under New York's fourth-degree stalking law. Assembly votes: 2025-04-01 Yes (144–0), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public disclosure of minimum-use policies for automatic license-plate readers operated by covered non-law-enforcement and nongovernment entities. Assembly votes: 2025-05-05 Yes (147–0), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for an online system for the DMV to verify drivers’ liability insurance with insurers, with information-security rules and a testing period. The bill passed 144-1 and became law, effective in 2028.
June 16, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend protected-consumer credit freezes to 16- and 17-year-olds. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for government cybersecurity reporting and employee training, then backed a revision adding state data-protection and response plans and changing technical-assistance rules. The revised bill passed 142-0 and became law in 2025. Assembly vote, 2025-03-24: Yes; total 147–0.
May 19, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to repeal medical practitioners’ duty to report patients’ narcotic addiction or habitual use to the state health commissioner. Assembly passed 134–14; the bill became law.
March 3, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for fashion-model protections covering management registration, commissions, contracts, overtime and consent for digital replicas. Also supported revisions to registration, deal memos, deductions and enforcement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-1 in 2024, 145-1 in 2025.
February 4, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add medical and health-insurance information to identity-theft and data-breach protections. Supported a correction moving this information into the identity definition and repealing the state-technology changes. The private-sector breach protections remained. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024, 145-0 in 2025.
January 28, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise rules for shielding jurors’ names and addresses, with an instruction against drawing adverse inferences about defendants. Also supported the 2025 correction requiring a finding of a threat to jury safety or integrity. The bills passed 147-0 and 145-0; both became law.
January 28, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a 30-day data-breach notification deadline and added financial-regulator notice, then supported limiting that regulator notice to covered financial entities under existing cybersecurity rules. Assembly votes were Yes 140–5 (2024-06-06), Yes 142–3 (2025-01-28).
January 28, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let domestic-violence victims end another person's connected-vehicle access without a fee, then supported a two-business-day deadline, confidential handling of requests and revised technology and provider rules. Assembly votes were Yes 143–4 (2024-06-06), Yes 146–0 (2025-01-27).
January 27, 2025Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on allowing abortion-pill labels to name a health-care practice instead of the prescriber (95–42, 2025). Also opposed requiring that choice when prescribers request it, with patient notice (96–51, 2025). Both bills became law.
January 22, 2025Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict minors’ online data collection and sales, with consent rules for teens and safeguards for data processors. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
June 7, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers, licensing bodies and schools from demanding a person’s own state criminal-history report. The bill did not ban all background checks. It passed 82-65 and became law.
June 6, 2024Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for security and fraud-response requirements for peer-to-peer payment apps, including PIN authentication, account-lock safeguards and timely cancellation of fraudulent transactions. The measure was vetoed. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require disclosures when connected devices record voices and prohibit manufacturers and their contractors from selling those recordings or using them for advertising. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 147-0 in 2024.
March 11, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden patients’ access to health and billing records across more health-care providers and services, with copying-cost protections. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 144-2 in 2023, 146-2 in 2024.
February 28, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for disability-inclusive emergency evacuation planning in covered high-rise buildings and its 2024 revision. The revision retained owner planning and accessibility duties, added opt-in and confidentiality safeguards for assistance lists, and removed the original civil penalty and filing requirements. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 145-0.
January 29, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow voluntary wellness rewards with life-insurance policies, including premium discounts and fitness-device support. Also backed health-insurance disclaimers, data-access and correction rights, and insurer oversight of outside operators. Assembly votes were 144–0 in 2023 and 141–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 16, 2024Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish anti-discrimination and privacy protections for LGBTQ residents and people living with HIV in long-term care facilities, with staff-training requirements. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: Yes; total 142–2.
June 9, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the Clean Slate Act, which established automatic sealing of eligible conviction records after waiting periods, with exclusions and continued access for law enforcement and specified background checks. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: No; total 82–65.
June 9, 2023Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the ban on harmful sharing of intimate images to realistic digitally altered images. The final bill passed 148-0 and became law in 2023. An earlier version also expanded a civil claim; that clause was removed before enactment. Assembly vote, 2023-02-27: Yes; total 142–0.
June 6, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public employers to provide bargaining-unit employees' home addresses to their unions upon qualifying requests and treat noncompliance as an improper employer practice. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-30 Yes 144-0.
May 30, 2023Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against keeping personal toll and transit records confidential, with exceptions for criminal investigations and fare disputes. Assembly passed 99-48; the bill did not become law.
May 9, 2023Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expunge eligible Family Court supervision records, including favorable case terminations, and automatically clear remaining records at age 21 after the case disposition ended. The bill became law in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-05-08: Yes; total 144–0.
May 8, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a state minimum-standards policy for automatic license-plate readers and public posting by police agencies. The bill addressed permitted uses, data sharing, retention and training. It passed 90-54 in 2023 and stalled in the Senate.
March 23, 2023Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers from demanding access to workers' personal online accounts or punishing refusals. Assembly passed 123-25; the bill became law.
March 21, 2023Opposes Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against loosening several vaccine-data privacy limits while requiring acceptance of CDC paper vaccination cards. The bill broadened disclosure exceptions and removed several vaccine-passport data rules. It passed 96-50 and became law.
March 15, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise utility cybersecurity rules by defining customer energy-use data as confidential and requiring protections against unauthorized disclosure, alongside network monitoring and audits. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-15: Yes; total 139–0.
February 15, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 52 support · 15 oppose
Co-sponsored a bill making October 7 a New York City public-school holiday and requiring related genocide-education lessons and teacher training, alongside a statewide antisemitism-prevention campaign.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a requirement that education officials consider the IHRA antisemitism definition when assessing certain discrimination complaints.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a requirement that colleges provide accessible guidance on reporting hate crimes and protections for people who report them.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored criminal and civil protections against intimidation of election workers and voters, obstruction of polling access and damage to election infrastructure.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the Dismantling Student Antisemitism Act, requiring higher-education training, published policies, complaint investigations and annual incident reports.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored suspending state student aid after specified antisemitism findings until prior aid and loans are repaid, with revocation and wage-garnishment procedures.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored excluding hate-crime convictions from youthful-offender treatment.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding hate-crime predicate offenses and establishing separate first- and second-degree bias-harassment offenses.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for a statutory right for people with disabilities to use their preferred communication methods and supports.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored disability-specific evacuation and lockdown plans for child-care facilities, with annual updates and privacy safeguards.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored the Language Access Expansion Act to broaden translation, interpretation and communication-access duties for state agencies, covered authorities and counties.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a ban on state aid to colleges that support events promoting antisemitism.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored higher civil and criminal penalties for specified civil-rights violations, with additional civil remedies for bias harassment.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored treating specified offenses and trespass at houses of worship as hate crimes, with enhanced classifications.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored withholding tuition assistance for specified antisemitic incitement, true threats, fighting words or failure to address such events, with restoration guidelines.
October 21, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require school-library challenge procedures and bar removals based solely on disagreement with viewpoints or identities. Materials stayed available during review and appeal, and employees received specified protections for relying on district policies. Assembly passed it 114–27; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require adult changing accommodations at large public-amusement venues and qualifying state buildings, with phased deadlines and exemptions. The bill passed 138-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting correctional facilities from denying entry or contact visits because a visitor was menstruating or using menstrual products or contraceptive devices. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: No; total 102–37.
June 1, 2026Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people with documented physical disabilities complete concealed-carry live-fire training and proficiency demonstrations while seated. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-05-14: Yes; total 135–0.
May 14, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect residents’ religious displays at dwelling entrances and doorframes from restrictions by landlords, condominium boards, cooperative boards, and similar entities. The bill retained safety, legality, size, and temporary-maintenance exceptions. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
May 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require mental-health and developmental-disability agency language-access rules to include documents in English and New York’s 12 most common non-English languages. Assembly passed 135–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
May 4, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people sue New York under federal disability, wage-and-hour, age-discrimination and family-leave laws by waiving state sovereign immunity. The bills passed the Assembly 146-0, 142-4, 134-13 and 126-8; none became law in the reviewed actions.
April 29, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require EBT websites, mobile apps and documents available there in the twelve most common non-English languages among New York residents with limited English. Assembly passed 109–38 in 2025 and 111–31 in 2026; the bill passed both chambers.
March 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible foreign-born people adopted as adults obtain New York birth certificates, including for earlier adoptions. He later supported covering adoptions at any age. Assembly passed 143–0 and 142–0; both bills became law.
February 11, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require employers to tell workers that employment confidentiality clauses did not prevent them from contacting law enforcement, civil-rights agencies or their own attorneys. Assembly passed 139–0.
January 27, 2026Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding the attorney general’s civil-rights enforcement powers, including actions over repeated discrimination and rights violations by covered agencies. The bill also addressed public-school discrimination, civil-investigation records, gun-data access, and hospital-claim settlements. Assembly passed it 88–47; the governor vetoed it on October 16, 2025.
June 17, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against specifying standards for employment-discrimination claims based on discriminatory effects, including business-necessity defenses. The bill became law in December 2025. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: No; total 98–46.
June 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on stronger New York protections from out-of-state penalties for legally protected reproductive and gender-affirming care (94–50, 2025). Also voted no on a correction covering electronic-data procedures and malpractice insurance (93–52, 2026). Both bills became law.
June 16, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expressly protect requests for reasonable accommodation from retaliation under New York’s Human Rights Law. The bill clarified existing protections, passed 135-0, and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Assembly Bill 4040-A, which lets housing discrimination be proved by a practice's effect without proof of intent. The New York State Assembly passed it 95-46, and it became law.
June 6, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered colleges to designate Title VI coordinators, support students reporting discrimination, maintain complaint processes and provide annual training. The bill passed 143-1 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for Assembly Bill 387, which makes every general hospital run a free language assistance program. The New York Assembly passed it 113-34. It became law.
May 14, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let deaf, hard-of-hearing and nonverbal patients keep an interpreter or helper with them until a qualified hospital replacement was assigned. Assembly passed 143–0; the governor vetoed it.
May 12, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit discrimination in residential real-estate appraisals and strengthen enforcement through fines and fair-housing programs. The bill became law in October 2025. Assembly vote, 2025-04-02: Yes; total 146–2.
April 2, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on requiring sellers and certain housing boards to remove unlawful discriminatory property restrictions. Assembly passage votes were 100–46 in 2023, 103–47 in 2024 and 100–48 in 2025. Also voted no on a correction defining protected groups and preserving lawful restrictions (95–46, 2026). The 2025 and 2026 bills became law.
April 2, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring gender-neutral shared bathrooms in state buildings without a single-user alternative. Assembly passed the bill 89-60.
March 26, 2025Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require New York Power Authority EV charging stations to accommodate wheelchair-accessible vehicles, including a 2025 revision requiring at least one suitable space at each station. Assembly vote, 2024-04-02: Yes; total 147–0. Assembly vote, 2025-02-05: Yes; total 145–0.
February 5, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require hospitals to collect and record disability-accommodation needs during intake, then supported a correction replacing a prescribed questionnaire with health-department guidance while keeping patient answers voluntary. Assembly votes were Yes 141–0 (2024-05-20), Yes 145–0 (2025-01-27).
January 27, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against restoring jury eligibility after people with felony convictions completed all sentencing requirements. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 92–52.
June 7, 2024Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for expressly including removal of religious clothing or headdresses in bias-motivated aggravated harassment. The bill became law in 2024. Assembly passed 147–0.
June 6, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to treat sex between probationers and their current or former supervising officers as nonconsensual under criminal law. Assembly passed 147-0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let Access to Home programs fund habitability repairs connected to disability-access improvements, up to 60% of a grant or loan, and raise permitted administrative costs. The bill became law. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring municipalities that collected gender or sex data to offer an “x” option. Assembly passed 97–48; the bill stopped in the Senate.
June 3, 2024Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require statewide school diapering and toileting protocols covering accessible facilities, proper equipment and supplies, and safe procedures. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let pre-registered voters apply for absentee or early mail ballots when eighteen by election day. The bill passed 147-0 and became law in 2024.
May 29, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit insurers from denying or limiting coverage, or charging different rates, solely because someone was prescribed medication to prevent HIV. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-05-23: Yes; total 137–0.
May 23, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to narrow color-vision barriers for police jobs and allow applicants to qualify through an approved field test. The bill passed 141-0 and was vetoed.
May 20, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against interstate legal and professional protections for lawful gender-affirming care, then against a correction refining definitions and custody protections. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: No; total 97–47. Assembly vote, 2024-02-14: No; total 97–48.
February 14, 2024Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for prison commissaries and visitor vending machines to offer religious dietary food at prices comparable to other food, then voted in 2024 to extend implementation from 60 to 270 days. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 141-2, 143-2.
January 29, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for disability-inclusive emergency evacuation planning in covered high-rise buildings and its 2024 revision. The revision retained owner planning and accessibility duties, added opt-in and confidentiality safeguards for assistance lists, and removed the original civil penalty and filing requirements. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 145-0.
January 29, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state website-accessibility rules and a narrower 2024 revision. The rules covered new or substantially changed sites by 2027, where practical. Assembly passed 148-0; the bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-05-10: Yes; total 144–0.
January 23, 2024Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Joined Assembly Education Committee minority members in a public statement condemning antisemitism at Hillcrest High School, calling for a transparent investigation and restored training classes for NYPD school safety agents.
November 28, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect patients' access to addiction treatment based on their gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation. The bill became law in June 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-21: Yes; total 136–4.
June 21, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict last-minute changes to early-voting locations and require notice to affected voters, with exceptions for disasters and emergencies. The bill became law in September 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 140–0.
June 10, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing eligible voters to register and cast an affidavit ballot at an early-voting site before the registration deadline. The bill became law in September 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: No; total 95–45.
June 10, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish anti-discrimination and privacy protections for LGBTQ residents and people living with HIV in long-term care facilities, with staff-training requirements. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: Yes; total 142–2.
June 9, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limits on secrecy clauses in settlements of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. The bill barred preset penalties and repayment demands for breaking those clauses. Assembly passed 100-48; it became law.
June 7, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending the deadline for most state human-rights discrimination complaints from one year to three years. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: No; total 102–47.
June 7, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make unlawful discrimination a ground for real-estate appraiser license discipline. The bill passed 146-1 and became law.
June 6, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require school systems, charter schools, and private schools to provide voter-registration applications and assistance, and inform students about eligibility. The bill became law in September 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-01: Yes; total 128–15.
June 1, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add gender identity and expression to protections against discrimination and harassment in internships. The bill became law in August 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-05-30: Yes; total 141–3.
May 30, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require faster workers' compensation hearings, allow either party to request a hearing without added board prerequisites, and provide injured workers with free hearing records and decisions in their native language. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly tally was 142-0.
May 24, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand workers’ compensation document translation to all vital documents under the state’s 12-language standard and align language-access planning and oversight. The Assembly passed it 116–31; it became law in 2023.
May 9, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require colleges to report hate-crime incidents separately online, notify local law enforcement of reported hate crimes, and provide prevention information to students. The bill became law in July 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-04-26: Yes; total 148–0.
April 26, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring courts to ask whether defendants object to religious elements of court-ordered addiction treatment and provide an equivalent alternative when they do. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 100-45 in 2023.
March 23, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit insurers from canceling, restricting, or increasing the price of coverage solely because an eligible policyholder made a hate-crime loss claim. The bill became law in March 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 142–0.
February 1, 2023Supports Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a state constitutional amendment expanding equal-protection guarantees to cover characteristics including ethnicity, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and reproductive health care. Assembly vote, 2023-01-24: No; total 97–46.
January 24, 2023Opposes Civil Rights
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability · 210 support · 63 oppose
Co-sponsored revoking tobacco, alcohol and lottery licenses for specified illicit-cannabis possession or sales violations.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a separate residential utility-bill line for costs attributed to the Climate Action Council's scoping plan, using a state calculation formula.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored bills adding cannabis-marketing definitions to school-zone advertising rules, increasing fines and requiring quarterly compliance inspections.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored itemized utility bills showing infrastructure costs, New York Power Authority charges and other specified investments or fees.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored mandatory audits, investigations and attorney-general enforcement of insurers’ mental-health and substance-use parity compliance.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored full Long Island Rail Road fare refunds for canceled trains or delays exceeding ten minutes, subject to emergency suspensions.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring fire-resistant protection when charging electric bikes and scooters and requiring sellers to supply it.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored excluding taxes and gratuities from card-network interchange-fee calculations, with rebates and enforcement protections.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored public hearings with questions and comments at least 90 days before Public Service Commission decisions on utility rate and fee increases.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored laboratory certification for electric-bike and scooter batteries. Also voted for certification and labeling rules covering manufacture, sale, rental and other specified activities. The final bill passed 134-10 and became law in 2024. An earlier print passed 137-8.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill requiring SNAP retailers to post skimming warnings and use chip-capable EBT terminals, with feasibility exceptions and small-business support provisions.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored fire-suppression and safe-storage requirements for businesses selling, repairing or storing lithium-ion batteries and micromobility devices.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored child-data rules with privacy by default, limits on targeted advertising, and private lawsuits for harmful violations.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored utility website notices for energy-supply rate increases of at least 40% over the prior month and available bill-assistance programs.
October 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to standardize medical utility-shutoff protections, cover households with any qualifying resident and automatically approve account designations after five business days without action. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit businesses from knowingly selling or delivering products containing 7-hydroxymitragynine above specified concentration or serving limits. Violations carried civil penalties, with proceeds directed to drug treatment and public education. Assembly passed it 132–0; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit covered businesses from using consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices, while preserving specified loyalty discounts, credit decisions, and other exceptions. The bill also restricted data use supporting that pricing and strengthened attorney-general enforcement. Assembly passed it 100–42; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require provenance data for covered AI-generated audio and visual content, preserve and display that data on large online platforms, and impose qualified provenance duties on state agencies. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar unsafe AI-companion features for minors and require age checks. Covered features included deceptive human relationships, sexual content and encouragement of self-harm. Assembly passed 137–0; the bill passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require web crawlers accessing covered news sources to disclose their identity and purpose and to prohibit harmful stealth crawling. The bill authorized attorney-general enforcement and subpoenas identifying alleged violators. Assembly passed it 129–1; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require pharmacy benefit managers to reimburse participating pharmacies at specified acquisition-cost and dispensing-fee minimums, with collectively bargained plan exceptions. The bill passed 132-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require clear disclosures on substantially AI-created news content, with an exemption for content eligible for copyright registration. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-05: Yes; total 130–1.
June 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to return recovered utility penalties and forfeitures to ratepayers through direct bill credits within 90 days, replacing general-fund deposits or agency discretion. Assembly passed 141–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a limited one-year pause on new state environmental permits for large data centers, separate utility rates assigning their costs to them, renewable-energy requirements, and host-community benefits. The bill also set construction labor standards. Assembly passed it 103–38; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning sales of covered health data and requiring permission for optional uses. The 2025 bill was vetoed; the 2026 version passed Assembly 96-45. Assembly vote, 2025-01-22: No; total 96–41.
June 4, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for statutory utility-payment standards for eligible households, including $10 installments for financial need and spreading qualifying rate increases across a payment plan. Assembly passed 100–39; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add a Brooklyn cease-and-desist real-estate solicitation zone and provide a defense when an owner publicly advertises the property for sale. The bill passed the Assembly 141-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring covered businesses to report annually on AI use and its effects on hiring, layoffs and working hours, with civil penalties for failing to report. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: No; total 105–35.
June 3, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding consumer-debt court protections, including a three-year filing limit and stronger notice and documentation requirements. He opposed the 2025 bill and its revised 2026 successor. Assembly votes: 2025-05-28 No (95–49), 2026-06-03 No (94–46).
June 3, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require heavy-metal testing of baby food and infant formula, public test-result disclosures, and QR-code labels under specified conditions. The bill prohibited sales above state-set limits and phased in its testing, sales, and disclosure requirements. Assembly passed it 140–0; both chambers passed it.
June 3, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require internet-connected product makers to disclose guaranteed support dates and stop sales a year before support ends, with replacement duties for service providers. Assembly passed 135–2; the bill did not pass the Senate.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring large employers and job platforms to disclose whether ads describe real vacancies and remove filled or expired postings. The bill passed 86-54 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exempt digital insurance advertisements from requirements to state the insurer’s full name and principal-office location, while retaining those rules for physical ads. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require private colleges and universities in New York to provide menstrual products in campus restrooms at no charge to students. Assembly passed 123–17; both houses passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict sales of playground surfacing containing intentionally added PFAS, PAHs or lead, or levels set by environmental regulators, with certification and penalty rules. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to standardize food safety and quality date labels and restrict consumer-facing 'sell by' labels, with exemptions and safeguards for food donations. The bill passed 136-2 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require nursing homes to maintain hospice-provider agreements for eligible residents who choose hospice, with coordinated care and referral duties. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for private student-loan protections, including cosigner-release procedures, limits on acceleration, debt documentation and enforcement. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a five-year ban on manufacturing and selling children’s toys with embedded AI companions, enforced by the attorney general with civil penalties. Assembly passed 140–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 2, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require signed patient consent before hospitals and healthcare providers store credit-card information, with written notice of its intended use. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for advance utility-work notices, first backing a bill vetoed in 2025 and then a revised five-business-day notice requirement that passed both houses in 2026. Assembly votes: 2025-05-20 Yes (147–0), 2026-06-01 Yes (139–0).
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for protections in leased dental networks, then backed a revision replacing written consent with an opt-out and changing notice rules. The Assembly passed both versions 138-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring covered industrial wastewater sources and treatment plants to test for PFAS and publish monitoring results. The bill passed 107-32 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require a tipping option when delivery orders are placed, then backed extending the rule to grocery platforms and additional order workers. The bill passed both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2026-05-11: Yes; total 140–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 138–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar licensed cannabis businesses and labs from bringing illicit products into the regulated supply chain, with civil penalties and license sanctions. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 139–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for travel-insurance rules covering seller licensing, disclosures, cancellation rights and sales practices in 2025 and again for a revised framework in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the successor passed both houses. Assembly votes: 2025-06-13 Yes (137–0), 2026-06-01 Yes (139–0).
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limiting state-prison commissary prices to 3% above purchase cost and barring vendor commissions or other incentives. Assembly passed 94–45; both houses passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make gas and electric utility shareholders bear labor-dispute legal costs and workers’ compensation claim-adjustment expenses, barring recovery from customer bills. Assembly passed 103–35; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring repair shops to pay DMV-ordered restitution and adding penalties for nonpayment. Assembly passed 92–47; the bill passed both chambers.
June 1, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring health-warning labels on new gas stoves sold or distributed in New York. Assembly passed 91–48.
June 1, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the supervised-salesperson experience requirement for a real-estate broker license to five years in 2025, then backed a four-year revision in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 143–1. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: Yes; total 138–0.
June 1, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring child-health insurers from restricting a provider’s participation because the provider declined to join their separate commercial-insurance network. The bill passed the Assembly. Assembly vote, 2026-06-01: No; total 94–45.
June 1, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against utility safety plans with two-hour deadlines to cut power to downed wires and six-hour deadlines to secure them in nonemergencies. Assembly passed 104–35; the bill did not pass the Senate.
June 1, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give dating services 30 days to return or delete former users’ personal information while allowing limited retention to enforce fraud and content bans. The bill also allowed contract and customer-service records to be kept for six years or longer when required for legal claims. Assembly passed it 128–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 29, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar mortgage bankers and servicers from foreclosing when they knew or had reason to know a residential mortgage depended on a fraudulent or forged deed that conveyed no valid interest. The bill also required a reasonable pre-foreclosure review. Assembly passed it 96–32; it remained in the Senate.
May 29, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public marketing of covered home sale and rental listings unless owners signed a disclosure to opt out. The bill also raised maximum broker disciplinary fines to $5,000. Assembly passed 125–2; both chambers passed it.
May 29, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting covered mortgage servicers from charging fees for monthly, twice-monthly, or biweekly payment schedules or changes between them. The bill also required borrowers to be allowed to choose among those schedules, with reasonable implementation adjustments. Assembly passed it 95–40; both chambers passed it.
May 28, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect independent senior-housing residents’ choice of home-care providers and bar operators from steering them for personal benefit. Assembly passed 138–0; the bill remained in the Senate.
May 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for pet-insurance disclosure, waiting-period and seller-training rules, with 30-day returns when no claim had been filed. Assembly votes were 146–0 in 2024, 145–0 in 2025 and 138–0 in 2026. The governor vetoed the first two bills; the latest passed both chambers.
May 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise limits on flood insurance required by mortgage lenders, including rules for credit lines, federal insurance requirements and loans secured by multiple homes. The bill passed 143-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar insurers from setting dentists’ fees for noncovered services in a bill vetoed in 2024. He later backed a revised disclosure-only bill, which passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2024-04-04: Yes; total 142–4. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: Yes; total 143–0. Assembly vote, 2026-05-19: Yes; total 141–0.
May 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against extending dog-breed insurance protections to renters in 2025 and broadening them in 2026. Latest Assembly passage was 98-43. Assembly vote, 2025-06-10: No; total 95–52.
May 19, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to prohibit subscription charges for preinstalled vehicle features that needed no continuing support, while exempting specified software and connected services. The 2025 bill was vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-06-03), Yes 144–0 (2025-06-16), Yes 138–3 (2026-05-19).
May 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring residential heat, electricity and water shutoffs around forecasts of extreme heat or cold, including submetered service. The bill passed 96-45 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 19, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state certification, inspections and lead-dust testing for paid renovation work, with bans on unsafe paint removal. Assembly passed 141–0; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require high-sodium warning icons on qualifying chain-restaurant menus, with reporting and civil penalties. The bill passed 98-43 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 19, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand critical-infrastructure tampering protections and strengthen scrap-metal purchase and identification rules. The revised bill passed 137-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
May 18, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring qualifying new or expanded data centers to fund residential utility-bill discounts or eligible home-energy technologies in their host communities, with the state Public Service Commission setting programme amounts and priorities. Assembly passed it 96–41; it remained in the Senate.
May 18, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require utility bills to separately identify supply, delivery and specified statewide policy charges. The bill passed 134-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 14, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit who could recover premiums for insurers’ knowing misrepresentations, naming New York residents and holders or beneficiaries of New York-regulated policies. Assembly passed 134–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 14, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for price-posting and payment-access standards at publicly supported EV chargers, then backed a revision clarifying subscription pricing and delaying implementation. The bill passed both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-05-22: Yes; total 124–14. Assembly vote, 2026-05-14: Yes; total 132–2.
May 14, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar landlord fees for rent paid by automated bank transfer and require a fee-free payment option. Assembly passed 91–45; both houses passed the bill.
May 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring nursing homes to disclose their ownership, board members and major service contractors to residents and families and online. Assembly passed 91–45; both chambers passed the bill.
May 13, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance coverage of speech therapy for stuttering in 2025, then backed a narrower large-group coverage requirement in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 140–1. Assembly vote, 2026-05-12: Yes; total 135–7.
May 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered health plans to provide guideline-based diabetes and prediabetes screening without patient cost sharing. Assembly passed 142–0.
May 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a statutory addiction-treatment bill of rights covering treatment-plan input, requesting another clinician’s review, privacy and complaints. Providers had to post and give patients the statement. Assembly passed 137–4; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exempt specified synthetic-fabric play and recreational tents from New York's portable-shelter flammability requirements. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 11, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict disability insurers' offsets for actual or estimated Social Security disability benefits, requiring notice, application assistance and other conditions. The 2024 bill was vetoed; he supported the refile again in 2026, when it passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 146-0, 140-0.
May 6, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against keeping late cashless toll payments out of credit reports and covered lending decisions. Assembly passed the bill 124-16.
May 6, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for material labels on new-car interiors and penalties for misleading leather claims. Assembly passed 139–7 in 2025 and 133–5 in 2026; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 6, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered insurers to provide eligible brand-name drugs at generic coverage levels during qualifying FDA-recognized generic-drug shortages. Assembly passed 95–45.
May 6, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for broader breast-cancer screening coverage, then to add image-guided biopsies. Assembly passed 145-0 and 138-0. Screening coverage became law; the biopsy bill passed both chambers.
May 6, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for public summaries of covered generative-AI training datasets. The 2025 bill also required certain employee-data notices; the 2026 revision removed those notices and moved the public-disclosure deadline to 2027. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly votes: 2025-06-10 Yes (147–0), 2026-05-05 Yes (138–1).
May 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring standardized 421-a rent-stabilization notices and penalizing knowingly misleading information about the end of rent regulation. Assembly passed 89–50.
May 5, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require security features and warnings on internet-connected baby monitors, backed by local civil penalties. The bill passed 135-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
May 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require businesses selling or leasing electric bicycles and scooters to provide specified front, rear, and side-visible lighting. The bill required a white front light visible from 500 feet and a rear light visible from 300 feet. Assembly passed it 135–0; both chambers passed it.
May 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require gas and electric utilities to credit public-assistance payments or payment guarantees for residential accounts, including service restoration. Assembly passed 134–0; both chambers passed the bill.
April 29, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit insurers from canceling coverage, raising renewal premiums or imposing worse terms solely because a policyholder’s spouse had died. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-04-28: Yes; total 138–0.
April 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen protections against unsolicited mail-loan checks by voiding unlawful debts, requiring refunds, and barring collection and credit reporting. The bill required an affirmative request or application and prohibited evasive arrangements through affiliates or third parties. Assembly passed it 137–0; both chambers passed it.
April 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require the Public Service Commission to consider customer income, unemployment, bill increases and living costs before approving major utility-rate increases. Assembly passed 141–0; both houses passed the bill.
April 27, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against food-additive restrictions and safety-report requirements. The bill included bans on Red Dye No. 3, potassium bromate and propylparaben, with transition periods and exceptions. Assembly passed 106–32; the bill passed both chambers.
April 21, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring manufactured-home park owners to justify rent increases above 3%. Assembly passed the bill 98-43.
April 20, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting rental-property liability insurers from excluding lead-exposure losses. Assembly votes passed 100–48 in 2023, 100–47 in 2024 and 100–45 in 2026. The proposal passed the Assembly.
March 31, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning consumer fees for benefit-card banking and ATM services in 2024 and again on a revised 2026 bill exempting federally chartered institutions and interbank processing fees. The first bill was vetoed; the later version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were No 97–48 (2024-06-04), No 100–45 (2026-03-31).
March 31, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against tightening pollution limits in coal-tar pavement sealants from 10,000 to 1,000 milligrams per kilogram. Assembly passed 100-45.
March 31, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend gambling-advertising safeguards and direct-marketing opt-outs to mobile sports-betting operators. Assembly passed 142–0.
March 25, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require stronger identity checks, account security, and problem-gambling risk assessments for mobile sports betting. The bill also created consumer-data access and deletion rights and directed certain penalties toward gambling treatment and enforcement. Assembly passed it 142–0.
March 25, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require specified health plans to cover outpatient problem-gambling services under existing substance-use coverage and parity rules. The bill passed 131-11 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
March 25, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for limits on physical- and occupational-therapy cost sharing: a 2024 copayment-parity bill that was vetoed and a revised 2026 bill capping copayments and coinsurance at 25% above primary-care charges for the same or a similar condition. The revised bill passed both chambers. Assembly tallies were 141-0, 134-8.
March 25, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require mobile sports-betting operators to send monthly statements showing deposits, wagers, net wins or losses, time logged in and gambling-help resources. Assembly passed 143–0; both chambers passed the bill.
March 24, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let people request gambling self-exclusion electronically, with the same handling and record-retention rules as other requests. The bill applied transmission requirements to licensed gaming facilities and mobile sports-wagering platforms. Assembly passed it 143–0; both chambers passed it.
March 24, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring periodic renewal and agency review of specified business-information exceptions from public disclosure. Assembly votes: 2025-03-19 No (95–53), 2026-03-24 No (93–50).
March 24, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar public insurance adjusters from initiating contact within 48 hours after property damage and require refunds for fees paid following prohibited solicitations. The bill also required rights notices and allowed affected people to initiate contact themselves. Assembly passed it 142–0; it remained in the Senate.
March 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require gene-synthesis providers and equipment makers to follow state rules on dangerous genetic sequences, customer screening and recordkeeping. Assembly passed 142–0; both houses passed the bill.
March 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar insurers from denying or refusing to renew personal auto policies solely because a vehicle provides volunteer social-service transportation. The bill passed 142-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
March 23, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limiting insurers’ demands for private financial records during theft claims. The bill preserved specific fraud investigations; latest Assembly passage was 93-44. Assembly vote, 2023-05-31: No; total 96–50. Assembly vote, 2024-03-18: No; total 95–51. Assembly vote, 2025-05-27: No; total 100–46.
March 19, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require bicycle-resale advertisements to include a photo and at least the last four digits of the bicycle's identifying serial number. Assembly votes: 2025-05-20 Yes (120–27), 2026-03-17 Yes (105–37).
March 17, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require twice-yearly cooling-tower compliance certifications in New York City, extend inspection and testing records to ten years, and raise civil penalties. The bill also required prompt responses to microbial hazards within existing maximum deadlines. Assembly passed it 144–0; it became law on August 5, 2026.
March 16, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require cancer and reproductive-harm warning labels on synthetic hair products containing specified hazardous chemicals. The bill passed 143-0 in the Assembly in 2026 but had no recorded enactment.
March 16, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish and revise safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI developers, including incident reporting. Both bills became law; the 2026 revision reduced maximum civil penalties to $1 million for a first violation and $3 million for later violations. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: Yes; total 119–22. Assembly vote, 2026-03-11: Yes; total 140–2.
March 11, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance payment for pharmacists dispensing self-administered hormonal contraceptives and related services in 2025, then backed a revised administrative-fee requirement in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed both houses without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 139–5. Assembly vote, 2026-03-11: Yes; total 135–7.
March 11, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for age, permitted-use and recordkeeping restrictions on xylazine sales. He backed 50-gram thresholds in 2025 and a 2026 version covering all quantities with identification and five-year records. No enactment was recorded. Assembly votes: 2023-05-31 Yes (146–0), 2024-03-18 Yes (145–0), 2024-05-28 Yes (145–0), 2025-05-21 Yes (144–0), 2025-05-27 Yes (146–0), 2026-03-10 Yes (143–0).
March 10, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require insurance agents to explain policy-loan terms and obtain signed written terms in at least 10-point type. The bill passed 146-0 in 2026 but had no recorded enactment.
March 4, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding manufacturer-funded rechargeable-battery recycling to e-bike and scooter batteries in 2025 and against its 2026 correction, which made retailer collection voluntary and strengthened other collection requirements. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-17 No (91–50), 2026-02-10 No (97–46).
February 10, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require qualifying large online platforms used by minors to maintain law-enforcement contact channels and respond to certain account-information search warrants within 72 hours, with court-approved extensions. The bill passed 140-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
February 9, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for outpatient lactation support coverage. The bills passed 143-0 in 2024, 138-6 in 2025 and 142-0 in 2026. The latest version required licensed, board-certified consultants and allowed network rules, review and specified cost sharing. It passed both houses, with no recorded enactment.
February 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to ban kratom sales to people under 21, then supported revised ID, sales-notice and enforcement rules. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 136–0 and Yes 141–0.
February 5, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require generative-AI systems to display warnings about potential inaccuracies, with civil penalties for violations. The bill passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: Yes; total 141–0.
January 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar listed chemicals, including lead and PFAS, when intentionally added to menstrual products. He later supported removing planned limits on unintentionally present chemicals and restricting the chemical list. Assembly votes passed 148–1 in 2025 and 140–0 in 2026; both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require fee-free alternatives and provider consent for fee-bearing insurance claim payments, then added a fee-free default after 30 days without a choice. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-05-27: Yes; total 145–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 140–0.
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to reorganize continuing-care retirement-community oversight, assigning operating approvals to the health commissioner and making the council advisory. He then supported a revision preserving financial regulators' review of finances, fees and contracts; both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-11 Yes (146–0), 2026-01-21 Yes (139–0).
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require overdose-reversal drugs in covered private workplaces, then to revise training rules and delay the deadline. Assembly passed 146-1 and 138-1. Both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require lenders to accept mortgage payments made under payoff-letter terms, including short payments, with exceptions for unidentifiable loans. Assembly passed 146–0 and 139–0; both bills became law.
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for mental-health warnings on social-media platforms with addictive features, including a 2026 revision setting mandatory display times and exempting users reasonably determined to be adults. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 141–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 139–0.
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to prohibit regulated financial institutions from charging for paper statements needed to apply for public assistance. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2024, 141-0 in 2024, 130-14 in 2025, 130-9 in 2026.
January 21, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require energy sellers to show customers bill comparisons with local utility prices. A later revision narrowed customer coverage and barred passing compliance costs to customers. Assembly passed that revision 134-3; both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: Yes; total 142–6. Assembly vote, 2024-01-17: Yes; total 136–6. Assembly vote, 2025-04-30: Yes; total 134–11.
January 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for kratom warning-label rules and a revision replacing the original warning and marketing ban with ingredient, alkaloid and safety disclosures. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-04 Yes (143–0), 2026-01-20 Yes (135–2).
January 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to regulate litigation funding through disclosures, cancellation rights, limits on charges and conflicts, and state registration. He also supported the 2026 replacement placing oversight with financial regulators; both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-09 Yes (143–1), 2026-01-20 Yes (136–1).
January 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for vehicle-glass repair and safety-system calibration protections in 2025, then backed a correction adding insurer and billing safeguards and revising penalties. The original bill and its correction became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 140–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-20: Yes; total 137–0.
January 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public, project-by-project details on utility construction costs and benefits in major rate cases, including a 2026 clarification. Assembly passed 145–0 and 137–0; both bills became law.
January 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar specified unfair long-term residential real-estate service agreements and their recording, then exempt government-mandated or government-party agreements. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-16 Yes (144–0), 2026-01-13 Yes (143–0).
January 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public disclosure of minimum-use policies for automatic license-plate readers operated by covered non-law-enforcement and nongovernment entities. Assembly votes: 2025-05-05 Yes (147–0), 2026-01-12 Yes (144–0).
January 12, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against LLC owner-disclosure rules and a revision replacing the public owner-name registry with a confidential database. The bills passed 89-55 and 86-60 and became law. Also opposed a later state-definition amendment, which passed 82-60 and was vetoed.
June 17, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to ban online dual-currency sweepstakes that simulate casino gambling, including services supporting their operation, with fines and gaming-license penalties. The bill passed 141-0 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for Senate Bill 2551 to raise the standard corporate felony fine cap from $10,000 to $80,000. The Assembly passed it 107-33, and it became law.
June 17, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 8420, which makes advertisers say when a person in an ad is computer-made and not real. The New York Assembly passed it 92-49. It became law.
June 17, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against preserving ERAP’s ban on collecting rent covered by assistance payments a landlord refused to accept. Assembly passed 88–56; the bill became law.
June 16, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
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Voted to let state financial regulators impose civil penalties and order restitution for covered unlicensed financial activity. Penalties matched existing banking or financial-services law, with up to double penalties for consumer harm. Assembly passed it 136–0; it became law on December 5, 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted to create an employer-funded workers’ compensation fraud investigation fund, including resources for local prosecutors. The bill passed 133-0 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require brownfield-cleanup applicants to fund qualifying community technical-assistance grants for high-threat sites or sites on or next to schools and day-care facilities. He supported versions in 2024 and 2025; both were vetoed. Assembly tallies: 2024-05-30 Yes 146-0; 2025-06-13 Yes 134-0.
June 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
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Voted to treat false claims of government affiliation or approval as false advertising. The bill passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen restrictions on unauthorized veterans’ benefit fees, add civil and criminal remedies, and create a fund supporting accredited veterans’ service organizations. The bill passed 133-0 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand state epinephrine rules beyond auto-injectors to FDA-approved products, including nasal sprays, across emergency use, schools and covered insurance. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-12: Yes; total 143–0.
June 12, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring hospitals to disclose policies that restrict available care and explain those limits to patients. Assembly passed the later bill 94-51; both versions were vetoed. Assembly vote, 2024-01-24: No; total 97–49.
June 11, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting mortgage lenders from penalizing property owners for charging rents below lender-imposed minimums. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 94–52.
June 11, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered health-insurance plans to provide one rescue and one maintenance asthma inhaler without patient cost sharing, subject to the high-deductible-plan exception. The bill became law. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden temporary health-staffing rules to cover platforms arranging workers’ services, including credential checks and contract reporting. Assembly passed 147–0; the bill became law.
June 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen licensing, sanitation inspections and enforcement for food stores, food-service establishments and warehouses, with notice, hearings and judicial review. The bill passed 147-0 and became law in 2025.
June 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring utilities to reimburse qualifying consumer representatives' legal, expert and participation costs in regulatory proceedings, including hardship advances. He opposed versions in 2023, 2024 and 2025; the first two were vetoed. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-21 No 99-44; 2024-06-04 No 96-49; 2025-06-10 No 99-46.
June 10, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring commercial landlords to seek replacement tenants after broken leases. Opposed the 2024 and 2025 bills; latest Assembly passage was 86-59. Assembly vote, 2024-06-05: No; total 90–55.
June 10, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 7882, which bans landlords setting rents with software that pools rival landlords' private data. The New York State Assembly passed it 95-51, and it became law.
June 10, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2024 and 2025 to require covered banks to give 60 days' notice and reasons for account closures and return remaining funds within 60 days. Both versions passed the Assembly. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-05-15), Yes 105–37 (2025-06-09).
June 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add net-cost estimates after grants and loan options to standardized college financial-aid letters. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
June 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create an independent utility consumer advocate to represent residential customers in regulatory proceedings and courts. Assembly passed 117–26; the governor vetoed the bill in 2025.
June 9, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the produce security fund’s fee-collection threshold from $4 million to $6 million and account for inflation when maintaining producer protections. The bill passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to end advance approval for HIV medicines under private insurance, then to extend that rule to Medicaid. Assembly passed the bills 145-0 and 144-0. The private-plan bill became law; the Medicaid bill was vetoed.
June 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require food stores and retailers to accept cash without charging a higher price, subject to specified bill-size, remote-transaction and cash-conversion-device exceptions. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
May 29, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance coverage of medically necessary transvaginal ultrasounds during pregnancy when recommended by recognized clinical guidelines, then supported the renamed Eli Parker Levitt Law in 2025. It became law, applying to covered policies issued, renewed or changed from January 1, 2027. Assembly tallies were 145-0, 145-0.
May 27, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 952-B, which caps rent-stabilized security deposits at one month's rent and requires return of the balance after lawful itemized deductions. The New York State Assembly passed it 95-50, and it became law.
May 27, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to void clauses requiring more than 5% of a covered private construction contract’s price to be held back from payment. The Assembly passed it 138–0, and it became law in 2025.
May 22, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend protected-consumer credit freezes to 16- and 17-year-olds. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered health plans to pay for guideline-supported lung-cancer follow-up screening and diagnostic services without patient cost sharing, subject to the high-deductible-plan exception. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 21, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require online grocery sellers and delivery platforms to disclose whether their prices differed from in-store prices. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 147–0.
May 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring appliance surcharges when tenants pay utilities directly and requiring written installation decisions within 30 days. Written landlord consent remained necessary. Assembly passed 93–52; the bill passed the Assembly.
May 13, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to explicitly apply the ban on repossessing financed dogs and cats to online sales. Assembly passed 143–0; the bill became law.
May 12, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2024 and 2025 to apply utility unclaimed-property protections to energy service companies, including reporting and turning over long-unclaimed customer deposits, prepayments and refunds to the state comptroller. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 and Yes 147–0. The refile became law in 2025.
April 8, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit discrimination in residential real-estate appraisals and strengthen enforcement through fines and fair-housing programs. The bill became law in October 2025. Assembly vote, 2025-04-02: Yes; total 146–2.
April 2, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen subscription cancellation, trial-renewal and fee-change notices and require cancellation through the signup method. Assembly passed 149–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
March 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen recalls of prohibited PFAS firefighting foam and prohibit intentionally added PFAS in firefighting protective equipment from 2028. Assembly passed 149–0.
March 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require AI companions to disclose that they are computer programs and use harm-response protocols, with a right to sue for resulting physical or financial harm. The standalone bill passed the Assembly but did not pass the Senate. Assembly vote, 2025-03-25: Yes; total 149–0.
March 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to increase civil penalties for child-labor violations, including a $3,000 first-violation maximum and $5,000-$10,000 penalties for third or subsequent violations. The bill passed 149-0 in 2025 but was withdrawn in 2026 without enactment.
March 25, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on requiring gun makers to take reasonable steps against installing pistol converters (97–44, 2024). Also opposed classifying pistol converters as banned rapid-fire modification devices (100–48, 2025). Both bills became law.
March 19, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on requiring gun dealers to display warnings about firearm risks (98–47, 2024). Also opposed extending the warnings to rifles and shotguns (98–50, 2025). Both bills became law.
March 19, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require cancer and reproductive-harm warnings on hair relaxers containing specified chemicals. Assembly passed 148–0; the bill became law.
March 10, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for expanded state oversight of gas and electric utility call-center closures and transfers, then for a correction narrowing covered inquiries and allowing specified temporary transfers, training and existing in-state call centers. Assembly votes were Yes 139–6 (2024-06-06), Yes 141–7 (2025-03-05).
March 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize credit insurance covering specified financial losses from failed IVF or insemination, with a warning that it was not health insurance. Assembly passed 145–4; the bill became law.
March 4, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against short-term rental registration, safety and tax-collection rules. Also opposed replacing the state registry with county systems and opt-outs, while preserving separate New York City registration rules. The bills passed 101-40 and 115-32 and became law.
February 25, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against creating and revising a $75 billion climate-adaptation fund financed by assessments on major fossil-fuel businesses. Both bills became law in 2024 and 2025. Assembly vote, 2024-06-08: No; total 92–49. Assembly vote, 2025-02-24: No; total 97–48.
February 24, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored requiring e-bike business properties to carry $1 million in fire coverage, plus $100,000 per resident tenant. The bill remained in committee.
February 6, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for prescribed prenatal-vitamin coverage; the bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2024. Also supported a 2025 expansion to comprehensive plans without existing drug coverage. It removed express permission for cost sharing, passed 145-0 and became law.
February 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for epinephrine auto-injector coverage with a $100 annual out-of-pocket cap, then supported limiting it to comprehensive plans covering prescription drugs and allowing qualifying health-savings-account deductibles. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2024-05-30: Yes; total 144–2. Assembly vote, 2025-02-05: Yes; total 144–1.
February 5, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for fashion-model protections covering management registration, commissions, contracts, overtime and consent for digital replicas. Also supported revisions to registration, deal memos, deductions and enforcement. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 143-1 in 2024, 145-1 in 2025.
February 4, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit insurers’ step-therapy requirements, then supported a revision applying the two-drug limit to the same condition and protecting an approved override until it expires. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-05 Yes (145–0), 2025-02-04 Yes (146–0).
February 4, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to ban medical debt from credit reports and void debt reported in violation of the law. He later supported definition revisions excluding ordinary credit-card debt while retaining medical-only credit plans. Assembly passed 109–38, 141–0 and 147–0; all three bills became law.
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit exposed polystyrene-foam coolers and ice chests, then supported exceptions for specified medical, laboratory and food-production materials, including temporary exemptions. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-2 in 2024, 145-2 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered health insurers to cover neuropsychological exams for dyslexia, then supported physician-referral requirements and provisions allowing utilization review and provider networks. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: Yes; total 148–0. Assembly vote, 2024-01-31: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2025-02-03: Yes; total 147–0.
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a private education-debt registry in 2023 and 2024, then supported replacing creditor registration with annual reporting by student-loan servicers and public disclosure of debt information. The 2024 law and its 2025 revision became law. Assembly votes were 139-2 in 2023, 136-9 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for chemotherapy scalp-cooling insurance coverage, then supported limiting the mandate to large-group plans. Normal cost sharing remained allowed. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-04 Yes (145–1), 2025-02-03 Yes (147–0).
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit lender-required flood insurance. Supported capping required coverage at the lower of replacement value or the outstanding mortgage balance. The revision also changed borrower notices. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 146-2 in 2023, 149-0 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand coastal insurance-market assistance eligibility to properties near specified lakes and rivers, then supported adding the Hudson River. Both measures became law. Assembly votes: 2024-05-29 Yes (148–0), 2025-02-03 Yes (147–0).
February 3, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add medical and health-insurance information to identity-theft and data-breach protections. Supported a correction moving this information into the identity definition and repealing the state-technology changes. The private-sector breach protections remained. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 147-0 in 2024, 145-0 in 2025.
January 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for assisted-living facilities to publish rates, rent ranges, residency agreements and service fees, and to report quality measures for public scoring. He also supported the 2025 correction, which changed deadlines and removed the law's specified inspection intervals. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 147-0, 145-0.
January 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a 30-day data-breach notification deadline and added financial-regulator notice, then supported limiting that regulator notice to covered financial entities under existing cybersecurity rules. Assembly votes were Yes 140–5 (2024-06-06), Yes 142–3 (2025-01-28).
January 28, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let domestic-violence victims end another person's connected-vehicle access without a fee, then supported a two-business-day deadline, confidential handling of requests and revised technology and provider rules. Assembly votes were Yes 143–4 (2024-06-06), Yes 146–0 (2025-01-27).
January 27, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require third-party reservation services to obtain restaurants' written permission before listing or selling reservations, then supported a revision to enforcement language. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-03 Yes (144–1), 2025-01-21 Yes (147–0).
January 21, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for red charging-cord safety tags on covered electric bikes and micromobility devices. He supported a technical revision in 2025. Assembly passed 145–0 and 147–0; both bills became law.
January 21, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require smoke alarms audible in the common areas of residential buildings sharing those spaces among at least three dwelling units. He supported the 2025 revision allowing alarm systems and setting December 31, 2025 implementation. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 137-0, 149-0.
January 14, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for the SAFE for Kids Act, requiring parental consent for covered addictive social-media feeds and overnight feed notifications to minors. It became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-07: Yes; total 143–1.
June 7, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict minors’ online data collection and sales, with consent rules for teens and safeguards for data processors. Assembly passed 144–0; the bill became law.
June 7, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect pharmacies from pharmacy-benefit-manager penalties for disclosing their own prescription or service costs and reimbursement rates to customers. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 140–5 (2024-06-06).
June 6, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring large social-media companies to publish terms of service and submit reports on their content-moderation policies and practices to the attorney general. The bill passed 103-44 and became law.
June 6, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow bundled wireless-device insurance and service plans while requiring a separate insurance option and specified cancellation protections. Assembly passed 147–0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for mandatory retail safety labels on electric bikes and micromobility devices, covering pedestrians and traffic rules. Assembly passed 122–23; the bill became law.
June 5, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting workers and consumers leave arbitration when the party that wrote the agreement failed to pay required fees. The bill set a 30-day late-payment trigger and provided fee recovery and sanctions. It passed 97-48 in the Assembly.
June 5, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against inflation adjustments to specified oil-facility financial-assurance amounts and new proof-of-coverage and railroad spill-preparedness disclosures. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were No 99–46 (2024-06-05).
June 5, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for penalties up to $250,000 per knowingly false material statement by utilities in rate proceedings. The bill also required reporting discovered false statements within three business days. It passed 146-0 and became law in 2024.
June 5, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting debt collectors from using social media platforms to collect consumer debts. The bill became law in December 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-04: No; total 99–47.
June 4, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise New York's False Claims Act, including whistleblower recovery shares, fraud-damages calculations, access to tax information and the thresholds for tax-fraud cases. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require stronger controls on New York City public-housing contracts below competitive-bidding thresholds, including cost checks, corruption reporting, employee and vendor training, and public audits. Assembly passed 146–0.
June 4, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for security and fraud-response requirements for peer-to-peer payment apps, including PIN authentication, account-lock safeguards and timely cancellation of fraudulent transactions. The measure was vetoed. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding the products covered by New York's firearm-industry public-nuisance law to include antique firearms, ammunition, and component parts. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-06-03: No; total 89–56.
June 3, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise financial regulators' powers to remove and bar covered financial-company officials for violations, unsafe practices or willful conduct contributing to a company's failure, with hearing and review procedures. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-06-03 Yes 101-44.
June 3, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize insurance that pays according to a weather event's measured severity and location, with required warnings that it does not replace ordinary property or flood insurance. The bill became law. Assembly passed 148–0.
May 29, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to stop insurers from denying covered residential water-backup losses solely because an excluded event also contributed to the damage. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 121–26.
May 29, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against adding food intolerances to required restaurant and food-service allergy notices, menus and online ordering options. Assembly passed 92–45; the bill became law.
May 23, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit insurers from denying or limiting coverage, or charging different rates, solely because someone was prescribed medication to prevent HIV. The bill became law in June 2024. Assembly vote, 2024-05-23: Yes; total 137–0.
May 23, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require corporations and LLCs that filed federal EEO-1 reports to provide copies to New York for public gender, race and ethnicity workforce data. Bills passed 119-24 and 103-41; the first was vetoed and the second passed the Assembly.
May 16, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden the health department's temporary-operator framework for facilities facing serious financial or management problems, including assisted-living residences and a wider hospital category. The governor vetoed the 2024 bill. Assembly tallies were 148-0, 144-0, 146-0.
May 14, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit automatic supplemental spousal-liability auto-insurance coverage to qualifying policyholders who reported a spouse, with coverage notices and written opt-out rights. The revised bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 148–0 (2024-03-25), Yes 144–0 (2024-05-06).
May 6, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen gym-membership cancellation rights, including online cancellation, faster refunds and new windows to cancel renewed memberships. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 131-19 in 2024.
April 17, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning end-of-lease vehicle turn-in fees consisting solely of administrative, handling or clerical charges. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-04-03 No 100-47.
April 3, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a nursing-home closure process requiring advance notice, approved plans, safe resident transfers and limits on new fees. The bill passed 97-50 and was vetoed in 2024.
April 3, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against restrictions on specified pesticides used on corn, soybean and wheat seeds, lawns and ornamental plants. The 2023 versions passed 100-49 and 99-46. Also opposed a 2024 revision delaying deadlines and adding farm waivers; it passed 96-52. Both laws were enacted.
March 19, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers from requiring workers to waive legal rights or accept arbitration as a job condition. Union agreements were exempt. Assembly passed 97–49 in 2023 and 96–49 in 2024; the bill stalled in the Senate.
March 18, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance coverage of nipple-areola tattooing performed as part of breast reconstruction by a physician or another qualified health practitioner. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 148-0.
March 14, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning infant-lounger sales and their use in child care, except when medically necessary. Assembly passed 104–40 in 2023 and 115–35 in 2024; the bill stalled in the Senate.
March 13, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish protections for homeowners in qualifying leasehold retirement communities, including a 99-year lease option, limits on fees and rent increases, and rights to sell their homes. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 147-0 in 2024.
March 11, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to require disclosures when connected devices record voices and prohibit manufacturers and their contractors from selling those recordings or using them for advertising. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 147-0 in 2024.
March 11, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for the Freelance Isn't Free Act and its 2024 replacement, requiring written contracts and timely payment for qualifying freelance work, prohibiting retaliation, and authorizing attorney-general enforcement and private lawsuits. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 144-1, 144-2.
February 26, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit unbilled gas and electric charges. Supported a revision setting three-month billing deadlines for residential and small-business customers, with exceptions. The bills passed 132-12 and 141-5 and became law.
January 30, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require covered summer camps outside normal health regulation to register and tell parents they were not inspected. The later law narrowed coverage and delayed registration. Assembly passed 124-22; it became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-08: Yes; total 140–5.
January 30, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for required benefit-card skimming warnings at checkout, then backed a revision specifying fraud-reporting information and assigning model notices to the state benefits agency. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 in 2023 and Yes 145–0 in 2024.
January 29, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for disability-inclusive emergency evacuation planning in covered high-rise buildings and its 2024 revision. The revision retained owner planning and accessibility duties, added opt-in and confidentiality safeguards for assistance lists, and removed the original civil penalty and filing requirements. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 143-0, 145-0.
January 29, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurance and Medicaid coverage of tests guiding disease treatment, then for revised evidence standards and delayed coverage. Bills passed 143-2 and 146-2 and became law. The 2026 budget removed peer-reviewed studies as a standalone Medicaid coverage basis.
January 23, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar sodium nitrate and nitrite sales to people under 21. Also backed a revision exempting foods meeting federal rules. The bills passed 143-6 and 147-1 and became law.
January 23, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require owner or board consent before installing keyless access devices in residential common areas, then supported tenant notice and protections against rent increases or obstructed access. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-05-22: Yes; total 147–0. Assembly vote, 2024-01-23: Yes; total 148–0.
January 23, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit fees or penalties for pregnancy-related special enrollment in covered health insurance. The bill became law; the special-enrollment right already existed. Assembly vote, 2024-01-22: Yes; total 145–0.
January 22, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require clear problem-gambling hotline numbers in gambling advertisements, including mobile sports-betting promotions. Assembly passed 141-0; the bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-27: Yes; total 142–0.
January 16, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow voluntary wellness rewards with life-insurance policies, including premium discounts and fitness-device support. Also backed health-insurance disclaimers, data-access and correction rights, and insurer oversight of outside operators. Assembly votes were 144–0 in 2023 and 141–0 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 16, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set deadlines for disaster insurance claims, then to add exceptions and longer extensions. Assembly passed 117-20 and 134-7. Both bills became law.
January 16, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for insurers to explain step-therapy override denials, including clinical criteria and alternative covered drugs. Also supported revised electronic-notice rules. Assembly votes were 145–0 in 2023 and 139–2 in 2024. Both bills became law.
January 16, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting covered employers from requiring non-compete agreements that restrict workers’ later employment. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 95–52.
June 20, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting radiological discharges into the Hudson River during nuclear-power-plant decommissioning, subject to federal preemption, with civil penalties enforceable by the attorney general. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-20 No 101-44.
June 20, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make wage theft prosecutable as larceny, including combining unpaid wages owed to multiple workers in one charge. The bill became law in September 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: Yes; total 140–4.
June 20, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against applying the 2019 tenant-protection law's rent-calculation rules to post-2019 rents and changing how older rent records were reviewed. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 86–58.
June 20, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against pausing evictions and other property cases during qualifying deed-fraud investigations or ownership disputes. The bill expanded tools for prosecutors and owners to challenge fraudulent deeds. It passed 97-47 and became law.
June 20, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against new rent-stabilization rules for combined apartments, rehabilitation exemptions, rent fraud, and penalties for unregistered units. The bill became law in December 2023; he also opposed amendments enacted in March 2024. Assembly vote, 2023-06-20: No; total 84–60.
June 20, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require qualifying insurance groups to submit group-capital calculations and liquidity stress tests, with confidentiality rules, supervisory information sharing and insurer-funded oversight expenses. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-10 Yes 140-0.
June 10, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend manufactured-home residents' opportunity to buy their park when it is sold, including sales without a proposed change in land use. The bill passed 135-5 in 2023 and became law.
June 10, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public employees to oversee and inspect covered design-build public works projects, including testing and deciding whether contractors’ work is acceptable. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 145-2 in 2023.
June 8, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring commercial garages that received state or utility support for electric-vehicle chargers to offer public charging access at reasonable rates and waive parking fees during charging. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-06-08: No; total 102–46.
June 8, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require reliability and reporting standards for publicly available electric-vehicle chargers supported by state or utility-customer incentives. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: Yes; total 143–2.
June 8, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to invalidate contract clauses suppressing research on e-cigarette health effects and to restrict branded promotional goods, purchase gifts and brand-sponsored events. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 149-0.
June 7, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require NYCHA to notify affected residents within 24 hours of advice against drinking or cooking with their water and establish safeguards for contractors' water-sampling compliance. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-07 Yes 148-1.
June 7, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make unlawful discrimination a ground for real-estate appraiser license discipline. The bill passed 146-1 and became law.
June 6, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to protect employees from being forced to assign inventions developed entirely on their own time without employer resources, except inventions connected to the employer’s business or their work. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 147-1 in 2023.
June 6, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require advance cancellation notices for covered long-term subscriptions that renew for at least six months. The bill became law. Assembly passed 148–0.
June 6, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require advance notice of price increases for drugs costing over $40 per treatment course. The rule covered hikes above 16% over 24 months and fines for missing reports. Assembly passed 148-0; the bill became law.
June 6, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require sellers to display the total credit-card price and cap surcharges at the card company’s charge. The bill replaced criminal penalties with civil fines of up to $500 per violation and became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-05: Yes; total 145–0.
June 5, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit selling over-the-counter diet pills and supplements marketed for weight loss or muscle building to people under 18, with exceptions for specified protein products. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 134-6 in 2023.
June 1, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require strict compliance with mortgage foreclosure notices and proof of the sender's authority to enforce the note and mortgage when the notices were sent. The bill passed the Assembly in 2023 but did not become law in that session. Assembly tally was 143-0.
June 1, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring energy sellers to get customer consent for price changes and disclose renewal price comparisons. Assembly passed 96-41; the bill became law.
May 18, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add FDA-reported drug and medical-product shortages to the market disruptions covered by New York’s price-gouging law. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 147-1 in 2023.
May 16, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require Syracuse landlords seeking eviction to allege proof of compliance with local rental-registration laws. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-05-08: Yes; total 144–0.
May 8, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against giving state financial regulators authority to set rules for consumer-account transaction processing, overdraft and returned-deposit fees, and related disclosures. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 93-48 in 2023.
March 29, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against barring employers from demanding access to workers' personal online accounts or punishing refusals. Assembly passed 123-25; the bill became law.
March 21, 2023Opposes Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the maximum fine for telemarketing-law violations from $11,000 to $20,000. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 146-1 in 2023.
March 20, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Joined a state Capitol press conference urging stronger CBD-product labeling and restrictions on marketing those products to children and teenagers.
March 15, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to bar mortgage firms from dealing with known or reasonably identifiable unlicensed operators. Assembly passed 146-0; the bill became law.
March 13, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise health-plan contracting rules to bar most-favored-nation clauses and restrictions on disclosing specified claims, price and quality information, with nursing-home exclusions. The bill also delayed the earlier law’s start to July 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 137–5.
February 1, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prohibit insurers from canceling, restricting, or increasing the price of coverage solely because an eligible policyholder made a hate-crime loss claim. The bill became law in March 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 142–0.
February 1, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise prescription-price transparency rules, requiring covered insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to provide patient-specific costs, coverage and alternatives on request. The law excluded plans serving only government insurance programs. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 140–2.
February 1, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend domestic-violence survivors’ fee-free contract exits beyond new utility, phone and TV agreements, with revised written statements. Assembly passed 142-2; the bill became law.
January 18, 2023Supports Corporate Accountability
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — Public Infrastructure
Public Infrastructure · 28 support · 5 oppose
Co-sponsored additional electric-vehicle registration fees and a six-percent passenger-EV toll surcharge to fund infrastructure and fire response.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a five-percent tax on satellite and subscription-streaming providers to support community media, municipalities and connectivity, with a ban on passing the tax through on customer bills.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a renewable-energy microgrid pilot for Glenwood Houses, subject to appropriations.
October 21, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require broadband and WiFi in temporary housing, with resident-data protections and an exception for places without broadband access. The bill also expanded ConnectAll grant eligibility. Assembly passed 126–6; it passed both chambers.
June 5, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand municipal sustainable-energy financing to qualifying water and resiliency improvements and, in New York City, low-carbon building components. The bill passed 139-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the state medical-facility financing agency’s hospital and nursing-home bond limit from $17.4 billion to $18.2 billion, then $20 billion and $21.8 billion. The bills passed 146-1, 141-2 and 139-0 in 2023, 2025 and 2026. All became law.
June 4, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against utility safety plans with two-hour deadlines to cut power to downed wires and six-hour deadlines to secure them in nonemergencies. Assembly passed 104–35; the bill did not pass the Senate.
June 1, 2026Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand critical-infrastructure tampering protections and strengthen scrap-metal purchase and identification rules. The revised bill passed 137-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
May 18, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize Dormitory Authority financing for construction of the New York Climate Exchange’s Governors Island campus. The bill became law in September 2026. Assembly vote, 2026-05-04: Yes; total 119–16.
May 4, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for public-building insulation grants, then backed narrowing the program to schools, with hospitals and public housing optional, and funding 50–75% of costs. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 132–9. Assembly vote, 2026-01-20: Yes; total 137–0.
January 20, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Rochester school-modernization bond-aid calculations and require refinancing savings to fund eligible school projects. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2024 and 2025 to include after-school remedial services, homework and childcare in New York City school transportation for qualifying kindergarten-through-sixth-grade students at public and private schools. Distance and schedule conditions remained. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 and Yes 135–0. The refile was vetoed in 2025.
June 13, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise Rochester's phase-three school-modernization authorization from $475 million to $600 million and revise project-cost safeguards. The bill passed 141-3 and became law in 2025.
June 4, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 801, which puts electric car charging requirements for new buildings into the state building code. The New York State Assembly passed it 88-57, and it became law.
March 12, 2025Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require New York Power Authority EV charging stations to accommodate wheelchair-accessible vehicles, including a 2025 revision requiring at least one suitable space at each station. Assembly vote, 2024-04-02: Yes; total 147–0. Assembly vote, 2025-02-05: Yes; total 145–0.
February 5, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand alternative contracting methods for specified New York City infrastructure, cultural and library projects, while retaining labor-agreement and prevailing-wage protections. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let qualifying electric utilities finance past storm-recovery costs through bonds repaid by a separate customer-bill charge, subject to Public Service Commission findings of consumer benefit. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a pilot allowing licensed commuter vans to accept street hails in five Brooklyn and Queens community districts, excluding airports and other prohibited areas. The bill passed the Assembly without becoming law in the reviewed session. Assembly vote, 2024-06-06: Yes; total 147–0.
June 6, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a commuter-van captive-insurance program using an existing stabilization allocation, then for a broader version covering specified for-hire and accessible vehicles. Both the 2023 and 2024 bills were vetoed. Assembly votes were Yes 131–15 (2023-06-09), Yes 143–2 (2024-06-05).
June 5, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let qualifying libraries in economically disadvantaged communities receive construction aid covering up to 90% of approved costs and remove the programme's 2026 expiration. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize grid-enhancing technology alternatives and utility performance incentives in transmission-investment proceedings. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace a fixed aid cap for New York City's after-4 p.m. nonpublic-school busing program with a formula tied to personal-income growth. The bill was pocket-vetoed. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 30, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require NYCHA to restore interrupted gas service promptly through permits and agency coordination. The bill also required resident meetings and posted restoration estimates. It passed 148-0 in 2023 and 145-0 in 2024, then became law.
May 28, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring state-owned parking facilities with at least 50 spaces to install electric-vehicle chargers in 10% or 20% of their spaces, depending on the facility's size. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2024-05-07: No; total 109–38.
May 7, 2024Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise Suffolk County's water-restoration funding by splitting dedicated tax revenue between septic and wastewater-facility projects and directing part of existing sewer-protection revenue toward septic systems. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-04-15).
April 15, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a bill combining coordinated offshore-wind transmission planning with authority to use specified Long Beach parkland for underground wind-project cables, subject to replacement-value and restoration conditions. The bill passed 85-50 but was vetoed.
June 21, 2023Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand local affordable-housing loans and grants for construction, repairs and climate upgrades. The bill removed some financing caps and allowed longer loan terms while keeping affordability controls. It passed 144-0 and became law.
June 20, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to prioritize community-revitalization grants for residential properties with municipal commitments to fiber-optic broadband and include fiber networks in economic-development project evaluations. The governor vetoed the measure in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-10 Yes 131-5.
June 10, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require public employees to oversee and inspect covered design-build public works projects, including testing and deciding whether contractors’ work is acceptable. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly votes were 145-2 in 2023.
June 8, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring commercial garages that received state or utility support for electric-vehicle chargers to offer public charging access at reasonable rates and waive parking fees during charging. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-06-08: No; total 102–46.
June 8, 2023Opposes Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require reliability and reporting standards for publicly available electric-vehicle chargers supported by state or utility-customer incentives. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: Yes; total 143–2.
June 8, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to submit a constitutional amendment excluding qualifying sewage-facility borrowing from local debt limits for another decade. The extension covered borrowing before 2034. The Assembly passed it 146-0 for a 2023 public vote.
May 17, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise utility cybersecurity rules by defining customer energy-use data as confidential and requiring protections against unauthorized disclosure, alongside network monitoring and audits. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-15: Yes; total 139–0.
February 15, 2023Supports Public Infrastructure
Source: nyassembly.gov
Track record — General
General · 393 records
Worked as a New York City Board of Elections poll-site coordinator for more than 30 years.
October 22, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a Class C felony for specified schemes transporting and dropping off undocumented immigrants into or within New York.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored broader and longer access to property-tax exemptions and prorated credits when qualifying nonprofits acquire property.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for New York residents with permanent disabilities from World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup work.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for treating qualifying student-loan payments and Roth IRA rollovers as permitted New York tuition-savings withdrawals. The bill became law in 2024.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a constitutional amendment limiting service to six consecutive two-year terms in either house of the state legislature.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing electronic appearances in parking-violation hearings, with procedural safeguards and a local opt-out in the later version.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored extending veterans' state civil-service examination fee waivers beyond exams for original appointment.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring ballot questions to explain the effect of each voting choice in attorney-general-approved language.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored seven free days of licensed outdoor sporting activities for disabled veterans regardless of residency.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for authorizing Flushing Meadows Corona Park land to support a gaming and mixed-use project, conditioned on park reinvestment and other approvals. The bill became law in 2025.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing the state police superintendent to waive earnings limits for retired state troopers employed by local police departments.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored battery-storage setbacks and community hearings. The proposal required 300-foot setbacks for specified New York City systems of at least three megawatts. Other local setbacks appeared in model rules rather than a universal statewide mandate.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing homicide victims' representatives to attend parole interviews and requiring commissioners to review victim-impact statements before hearings.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding New York City’s red-light camera programme from 150 to 600 intersections through 2027. Also voted against its companion bill. The bill passed 100-40 and became law in 2024.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored raising the public-retiree earnings limit from $35,000 to $100,000.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a constitutional process allowing voters to recall statewide elected officers through petitions and a recall election.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored closing SUNY and CUNY classes for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored authority for school districts outside New York City to sell approved advertising at outdoor athletic facilities and retain the revenue without losing state aid.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored an optional jury-duty exemption for people aged seventy-five or older.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored access to district interscholastic athletics and driver’s education for qualifying home-schooled children.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored formal school-material complaint reviews, public comment and board decisions on challenged materials, with searchable instructional-material databases.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for the New York Asian American and Pacific Islander Commission to coordinate statewide programmes, public education and community-resource awareness. The bill became law in2023.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored public access to school instructional materials, parental notice of specified explicit content and alternative materials upon request.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored authority for school districts to create reserve funds for unanticipated special-education instruction costs.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha school holidays, with the2025 version requiring recognition in larger jurisdictions and permitting smaller ones to opt in.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a bill allowing local police agencies to enter federal immigration-enforcement agreements, with up to ten trained officers per agency and oversight requirements.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing schools to use state or local funds for whole or reduced-fat New York milk and defending participating schools against funding withholding.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored optional SUNY service-learning credit for active volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored defining severe permanent physical or mental disability for MERIT military-scholarship eligibility.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring parental consent for sexual-health education for students aged ten or younger, with a specified statutory exception.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a fee of at least twenty percent on international wire transfers of $1,000 or more when customers cannot provide a Social Security or taxpayer identification number.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored dealer-registration and vehicle-identification rules for limited-use motorcycles, with higher unregistered-dealer penalties.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored prohibiting migrant housing in school buildings and grounds outside New York City.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored additional civil-service exam credit for qualifying activated New York National Guard members.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored proposals allowing eligible adults to possess electronic stun and dart guns for self-defense at specified premises, with regulated sales and safeguards.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored pension-preserving earnings exemptions for retired law-enforcement school investigators and school or BOCES employment. The bill's enacting clause was stricken in 2026.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring SUNY to accept transferable CUNY community-college curriculum credits or equivalent course credit.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for expanding permitted sellers of self-defense sprays. The bill retained age checks, purchase limits and safety standards. It passed the Assembly 128-0 and both houses, with no recorded enactment.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored allowing interested members of the public to submit written statements supporting or opposing parole, with discretionary board consideration.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored additional mandatory life-without-parole rules for specified first-responder killings, including intentional deaths during listed felonies, and restrictions on commutation and pardon.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored excluding unauthorized squatters from tenant protections and adding a criminal-trespass provision, while lengthening the qualifying occupancy period for certain rooming-house and hotel residents.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored requiring legislative approval for climate-action fund rules and deposits before implementation.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored constitutional rules governing special elections and temporary appointments for federal-office vacancies, including congressional election deadlines.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored replacing the single statewide fiscal-intermediary model with a licensed-provider system for consumer-directed personal assistance, with oversight and training rules.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored civil penalties, private remedies and possible nonprofit dissolution for defined unlawful support of Hamas violence and related activities.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored barring specified terrorist affiliates and participants in the October 7 attacks from state civil-service appointments.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding food-scrap donation and recycling rules to smaller generators and facilities farther from recyclers. Voted against the 2024 law, which passed 99-46, then for a one-year delay of its lower thresholds in 2025, which passed 106-43 and became law. Recycling-capacity conditions remained.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored removing the maximum hiring age for municipal police officers while retaining the minimum age requirement.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored banning New York City parking meters on streets where fifty to seventy-five percent of buildings meet the bill’s residential definition.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored restrictions on state contracts and pension investments involving businesses or individuals boycotting specified American allies, including Israel.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a requirement that New York City public schools offer Halal lunch options.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored repealing utility assessments used to reimburse state public-service regulatory costs.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored sales-tax exemptions for toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a ban on using environmental, social and governance criteria to screen state pension investments.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored expanding religious-service and funeral disturbance zones to 500 feet, with a new felony for specified disturbance and access conditions.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored a constitutional amendment restricting voting at elections to citizens.
October 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Received Asian Wave Alliance endorsements for his 2022 and 2026 general-election campaigns for Assembly District 49.
October 21, 2026
Source: asianwavealliance.org
Helped form the Preserving Italian-American Heritage Coalition in Brooklyn. The nonprofit organized a Columbus statue project on private property.
August 2, 2026
Source: nypost.com
Requested a bill shielding existing storefront security gates from local visibility replacement rules. The bill delayed New York City’s deadline to 2031 and remained in committee.
July 29, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Requested a bill for New York to join the federal scholarship-donation tax-credit program and list eligible scholarship organizations. It remained in committee.
July 29, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Received the Kings County Conservative Party’s endorsement for Assembly District 49.
June 22, 2026
Source: brooklynconservativeparty.com
Voted against letting the legislature determine ballot wording and explanatory abstracts for qualifying proposed constitutional amendments, with the elections board required to transmit that wording without alteration except ballot numbering. The bill used best-efforts plain-language standards. Assembly passed it 94–47; it became law.
June 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let certified school psychologists join physicians in disability certifications used in specified guardianship proceedings. The bill passed 131-1 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning octopus farming for food, with scientific and educational exceptions. Assembly passed the bill 126-15.
June 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a proposed constitutional amendment moving specified local and judicial elections outside New York City to even-numbered years. Both houses passed the resolution’s first legislative approval in 2026; it was not yet an enacted constitutional change. Assembly passed 82–52.
June 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against removing labor-peace agreements as cannabis licensing conditions and creating a cannabis-industry wage board. The bill also required public ownership, pay-range, and work-hour disclosures from applicants and renewals. Assembly passed it 98–34; both chambers passed it.
June 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against raising the maximum local registration fee for defaulted residential mortgages from $75 to $300 a year; lenders remained barred from passing it to borrowers. The bill passed 92-49 in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace the 20% retail vapor tax with a 32-cent-per-milliliter tax on sealed prefilled products and an 8% wholesale tax on others, alongside distributor licensing and product-directory enforcement. The bill passed 135-6 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to include qualifying payroll and benefit receipts in professional employer organisations' corporate-tax apportionment calculations. The 2025 bill was vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly votes were Yes 143–0 (2024-06-07), Yes 142–1 (2025-06-04), Yes 138–3 (2026-06-04).
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let physicians supervise six athletic trainers instead of four, retaining written protocols and the existing exception for school medical directors. Assembly passed 141–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a plan to create separate judicial districts for Onondaga, Monroe, and Erie counties and reallocate existing Supreme Court justices across the affected districts. The bill set January 2028 for the principal changes. Assembly passed it 95–46; both chambers passed it.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give minority- and women-owned businesses time to fix certification errors and longer to appeal other decisions, with certification restored during an appeal. Assembly passed 141–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for reciprocal state and NYC minority- and women-owned business certification in 2023, then for required reciprocity with participating municipalities under state eligibility definitions in 2026. The bills passed 143-0 and 141-0. The first was vetoed; the second passed both houses.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a six-part 2026 law that continued NYC taxes through 2029 and nursing-home repayment discounts through June 2027. It also set brownfield tax-credit terms for one East Harlem site and allowed temporary racing-support advances from casino taxes. The Assembly passed it 100-39.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to ease caregiver ratios for 18–23-month-olds in home-based day care, limiting the one-adult-per-two rule to children under 18 months. The 2025 bill was vetoed; a 2026 refile passed both chambers. Assembly vote, 2025-05-12: Yes; total 143–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-04: Yes; total 141–0.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require insurers to collect and transmit Social Security numbers for organ-donor registrations, restricting their use to registry purposes and existing privacy safeguards. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for NYC marshal authority extensions and new eviction-notice rules, then supported revised service and filing within one business day. The 2026 extension kept marshal authority and notice rules through June 2028; it became law. The separate 2026 service revision passed both houses. Assembly Yes votes were 141–6, 139–6 and 138–6 in 2024, then 131–7 and 135–4 in 2026.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let dentists qualify for licensure after the first year of a multi-year specialty program plus a clinical exam, and through advanced general-dentistry programs. Assembly passed 141–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to delay full implementation of New York City’s class-size limits from September 2028 to September 2030 and slow the later phase-in to ten percentage points of classrooms per year. Existing grade-level caps remained. Assembly passed it 138–1; it became law.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring election boards to restore voting time lost to polling-place disruptions over an hour and publicize the remedy. The bill passed 93-48 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove financial-only voting restrictions on public-authority control board members and the governor’s related removal power. The 2023 bill passed 144-0 and was vetoed. An identical 2026 bill passed 141-0 and both houses, with no recorded enactment.
June 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for expanded state construction mentorship relationships for minority- and women-owned businesses in 2025, then backed a small-business revision in 2026. The first bill was vetoed; the revision passed the Assembly without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-06: Yes; total 140–0. Assembly vote, 2026-06-03: Yes; total 140–0.
June 3, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing Clarkstown to impose a real-estate transfer tax of up to 0.75%, subject to a local referendum, to fund community preservation. The bill included an exemption based on the county’s median home-sale price and restricted use of the proceeds. Assembly passed it 94–46; it became law.
June 3, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let shared-service school boards lease public property for 20 years instead of 10, with state approval and an exception to voter referendums for those leases. Assembly passed 140–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 3, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow tenants to choose electronic leases, renewals, riders, and related notices when offered that option, with the same legal effect as paper documents. Court papers and notices required before judicial proceedings were excluded. Assembly passed it 140–0; the bill remained in the Senate.
June 3, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to index the $3,600 annual health-club contract fee cap to inflation. The bill passed 139-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 2, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let NYC sell former Whale Creek land in Brooklyn to adjoining owners without competitive bidding for five years, with appraisal and waterfront-reinvestment safeguards. Assembly passed 138–1; the bill became law.
June 2, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let approved courses at licensed driving schools satisfy driver-education requirements for eligible 17-year-olds seeking full licenses. Assembly passed 138–0.
June 2, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the NYC Housing Development Corporation's bond ceiling from $18 billion to $19 billion in 2023, opposed the increase to $20 billion in 2025, then supported the increase to $22 billion in 2026. All three measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-31 Yes 134-12; 2025-06-10 No 101-45; 2026-06-02 Yes 92-47.
June 2, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let qualifying banks in banking-development districts use fully insured reciprocal deposit programs for authorized state funds, subject to state officials’ approval and safeguards. Eligible banks included minority depository institutions or banks with under $10 billion in assets. Assembly passed it 139–0; both chambers passed it.
June 2, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against faster guardianship visitation hearings and a presumption favoring family visits, subject to the person’s best interests. Assembly passed 92–46; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against establishing resident-management corporation standards and requiring NYCHA to train residents on forming them. The bill passed 95-44 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
June 1, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing local governments to favor qualifying food suppliers at prices up to 10% above the lowest bid under environmental, labor, nutrition and other procurement standards. The 2024 bill was vetoed; a revised version passed both chambers in 2026. Assembly tallies: 2024-06-06 No 96-49; 2026-06-01 No 90-48.
June 1, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the live-performance sales-tax exemption to stand-up comedy admission charges, including qualifying comedy clubs serving food or drinks. Assembly passed 139–0; both chambers passed the bill.
June 1, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand automakers’ reimbursement duties to franchised dealers for warranty, recall, and diagnostic work. The bill used retail labor guides or specified fallback calculations and required compensation for covered parts supplied at no or reduced cost. Assembly passed it 136–3; it remained in the Senate.
June 1, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let service members renew vehicle registrations early when ordered military duties cover the expiration date, using orders or a commanding officer’s letter. Assembly passed 127–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 29, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let state and local governments electronically serve legal process through the secretary of state on covered businesses and other entities, including those not enrolled in electronic service. Service became complete on state acceptance, followed by mailed or electronic notice. Assembly passed it 127–1; it became law.
May 29, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend liens for unpaid construction work secured by a deposit or bond for three years after enforcement began, with further court extensions. Assembly passed 138–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
May 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise New York’s state-contract participation goal for service-disabled veteran-owned businesses from 6% to 8%. Assembly passed 138–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted on New York’s annual budgets in 2023–2026, with both Yes and No votes. In 2026, supported seven of ten budget bills; opposed debt payments, legislative and judicial funding, and public protection/general government. Switched state-operations and health votes from No in 2023–2025 to Yes in 2026. Also backed temporary funding in 2023–2026, a 2025 aid correction and a 2026 fund-transfer bill; opposed a 2026 temporary fiscal-plan bill. All 40 annual bills became law; some appropriations received line-item vetoes. 2023-03-28 A03002: No; total 107–41. 2023-04-03 A06063: Yes; total 136–0. 2023-04-10 S06260: Yes; total 131–0. 2023-04-17 A06550: Yes; total 144–0. 2023-04-20 S06440: Yes; total 143–0. 2023-04-24 S06480: Yes; total 145–0. 2023-05-01 A03004: Yes; total 115–34. 2023-05-01 A03005: Yes; total 126–23. 2023-05-01 A06685: Yes; total 149–0. 2023-05-01 S04007: No; total 100–49. 2023-05-01 S04009: No; total 95–54. 2023-05-02 A03003: Yes; total 114–34. 2023-05-02 A03006: No; total 91–57. 2023-05-02 S04000: No; total 104–46. 2023-05-02 S04001: Yes; total 123–27. 2023-05-02 S04008: Yes; total 110–39. 2024-03-28 S08302: No; total 111–37. 2024-03-28 S08919: Yes; total 148–0. 2024-04-04 A09762: Yes; total 147–0. 2024-04-07 A09771: Yes; total 135–0. 2024-04-12 S09036: Yes; total 137–0. 2024-04-15 A09851: Yes; total 147–0. 2024-04-18 A08805: Yes; total 120–29. 2024-04-18 A08808: No; total 106–43. 2024-04-18 A09852: Yes; total 149–0. 2024-04-18 S08309: No; total 103–46. 2024-04-19 A08803: No; total 91–55. 2024-04-19 A08804: Yes; total 117–29. 2024-04-19 S08307: No; total 99–47. 2024-04-20 S08300: No; total 102–44. 2024-04-20 S08301: No; total 104–42. 2024-04-20 S08306: No; total 93–53. 2025-03-27 A03002: No; total 112–35. 2025-04-01 S07070: Yes; total 144–0. 2025-04-03 A07635: Yes; total 148–0. 2025-04-07 A07695: Yes; total 144–0. 2025-04-10 A07765: Yes; total 142–0. 2025-04-15 A07923: Yes; total 141–0. 2025-04-22 A08015: Yes; total 134–0. 2025-04-24 A08068: Yes; total 136–0. 2025-04-29 S07673: Yes; total 149–0. 2025-05-01 A08115: Yes; total 140–0. 2025-05-06 S07766: Yes; total 148–0. 2025-05-07 A03005: Yes; total 104–46. 2025-05-07 S03007: No; total 101–49. 2025-05-07 S03008: No; total 103–47. 2025-05-08 A03000: No; total 100–49. 2025-05-08 A03009: No; total 103–46. 2025-05-08 S03001: No; total 117–32. 2025-05-08 S03003: No; total 104–45. 2025-05-08 S03004: No; total 109–40. 2025-05-08 S03006: Yes; total 112–37. 2025-06-12 A08896: Yes; total 141–0. 2026-03-26 S09002: No; total 109–34. 2026-03-31 A10760: Yes; total 145–1. 2026-04-07 S09818: Yes; total 135–0. 2026-04-13 S09883: Yes; total 132–0. 2026-04-16 A11000: Yes; total 131–0. 2026-04-20 A11010: Yes; total 141–0. 2026-04-22 S09999: Yes; total 136–0. 2026-04-27 S10060: Yes; total 141–0. 2026-04-29 S10102: No; total 116–18. 2026-04-29 S10103: Yes; total 134–0. 2026-05-04 S10166: Yes; total 133–0. 2026-05-04 S10167: Yes; total 133–0. 2026-05-07 S10221: Yes; total 137–0. 2026-05-11 A11295: Yes; total 141–0. 2026-05-14 A11365: Yes; total 136–1. 2026-05-18 S10520: Yes; total 136–1. 2026-05-20 A10006: Yes; total 119–25. 2026-05-20 S10544: Yes; total 143–1. 2026-05-21 S09005: No; total 93–47. 2026-05-26 A10008: Yes; total 110–33. 2026-05-26 S10565: Yes; total 138–1. 2026-05-27 A10000: Yes; total 102–40. 2026-05-27 A10001: No; total 98–44. 2026-05-27 A10004: Yes; total 111–31. 2026-05-27 A10007: Yes; total 102–41. 2026-05-27 S09003: Yes; total 112–30. 2026-05-27 S09009: Yes; total 91–52.
May 27, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to require most in-person cash purchases to be rounded to the nearest five cents after taxes and discounts. The amended bill also added legal protections for penny-related change handling and certain cash-versus-credit price differences. Assembly votes were 141–0 and 133–4; both chambers passed it.
May 18, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require mobile sports-betting operators to direct compulsive-gambling treatment referrals to the state addiction-services webpage and bar promotion of other treatment providers. The bill preserved deposit limits, wager limits, time limits, and self-exclusion tools. Assembly passed it 134–0; it remained in the Senate.
May 14, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let tax districts waive up to one year of interest and penalties caused by fraud or theft of attempted property-tax payments, with documentation and municipal consent. Assembly passed 134–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
May 14, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let local governments extend the clergy property-tax exemption to eligible cooperative-apartment owners after a public hearing, with tax savings passed to qualifying shareholders. It also allowed local approval of concurrent cooperative-tax abatements. Assembly passed 134–0; both chambers passed it.
May 13, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to shift qualifying Hudson River wetlands north of the Mario Cuomo Bridge from tidal-wetland definitions into the freshwater-wetlands program. The Assembly passed it 127–6; both houses passed it in 2026, with no enactment recorded.
May 13, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for broader locked gun-storage rules in 2025, then against the unchanged bill in 2026. Latest Assembly passage was 88-47. The bill became law in October 2026. Assembly vote, 2025-06-11: Yes; total 93–46.
May 13, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for tropical-deforestation rules on state purchasing in 2023, then against the revised 2024 TREEs Act; both were vetoed. Also opposed a narrower tropical-hardwood procurement bill in 2026; it passed both houses. Assembly tallies were 115-26, 101-44 and 98-38.
May 13, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize rental companies to recover vehicles under specified unauthorized-use, fraud, nonpayment, or criminal-use conditions after notice and an opportunity to return the vehicle or obtain an extension. The bill required documented notice attempts before a stolen-vehicle report after recovery remedies were exhausted. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
May 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend initial supervised social-work practice permits from 12 to 24 months for otherwise qualified applicants awaiting the licensing examination. The bill also allowed up to two discretionary one-year renewals. Assembly passed it 141–0; both chambers passed it.
May 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise conditional dismissal and suspended-judgment procedures in family court, including consent rules, child-protection supervision and violation hearings. The bill passed 141-0 in the Assembly in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting eligible full-time college students serve as poll workers in their college’s county, or throughout New York City for colleges there. The bill passed 96-44 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
May 6, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require civil juries to restart deliberations after replacing a juror, except on issues already decided by a verdict. Assembly passed 135–0; both chambers passed the bill.
May 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to move monthly gym-renewal cancellations from three business days after renewal to the business day before, while requiring easy cancellation through signup methods. Assembly passed 135–0; the bill did not pass the Senate.
May 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing primarily battery-electric, natural-gas, propane or hydrogen vehicles to exceed specified weight limits by up to 2,000 pounds while preserving posted road and bridge capacities. The bill passed 87-47 in 2026 without recorded enactment.
April 29, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize Oneida and Madison county jails to hold people remanded by the Oneida Indian Nation court under ratified county-tribal agreements, then voted to extend those ratifications through specified dates in 2033. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were Yes 145–0 (2024-06-03), Yes 138–0 (2026-04-28).
April 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against limiting injury liability for vaccine providers under specified conditions, while preserving liability for gross negligence or willful misconduct. The bill covered vaccine administration and certain prescribing and dispensing activities involving minors. Assembly passed it 90–47; both chambers passed it.
April 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let adult-care facilities submit an accountant’s financial review instead of an audit opinion, while allowing the Health Department to require an opinion when needed. Assembly passed 138–0; both chambers passed the bill.
April 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for certified translations of statements supporting criminal charges in 2023. Opposed the 2024 and 2026 refiles; latest Assembly passage was 83-53. Assembly vote, 2023-06-21: Yes; total 97–44. Assembly vote, 2024-06-05: No; total 93–52.
April 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden the business records admissible in grand-jury proceedings, including accurate tangible copies of electronic records, with limits on extraneous material. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
April 27, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add civil-service exam credits for military spouses: three points for initial hiring and 1.5 for promotion. The proposal also included six-point credits for surviving spouses of service members who died from service-related causes. Assembly passed it 141–0; the bill remained in the Senate.
April 27, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Assembly Bill 10711, which lets state standards, not only federal ones, set the vaccines required for children. The New York Assembly passed it 90-48. It became law.
April 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to permit licensed mobile barber shops, subject to vehicle, layout and sanitation requirements. Assembly passed 122–19; both chambers passed the bill.
April 1, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow radiation-based body scanners in specified secure youth-detention and state youth facilities, subject to training, exposure limits, pregnancy protections, alternative-screening rules, and reporting. Assembly passed it 135–7; it became law on June 5, 2026.
March 30, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let Court of Claims litigants correct specified pleading defects and limit dismissal defenses, subject to filing deadlines and court review. The bill passed 141-0 and both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment.
March 30, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require SUNY rules for late community-college residency certificates, including late fees, exceptions and county billing adjustments. Assembly passed 142–0; the bill became law.
March 30, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored barring New York City battery-storage systems over 20 kilowatt-hours within 500 feet of homes or schools. The bill remained in committee.
March 27, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Rallied against a proposed 82-family shelter in Borough Park in March 2025 and March 2026. Cited safety concerns and favored permanent housing.
March 27, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored banning New York City shelters within 500 feet of transit facilities or inside buildings with rent-regulated homes. The committee held the bill.
March 26, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for ATM fee caps at casinos and colleges in 2025. Opposed the unchanged bill in 2026; latest Assembly passage was 104-37. Assembly vote, 2025-05-28: Yes; total 102–42.
March 25, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to lengthen child-care licenses and registrations from up to four years to up to six years, provided operators remained substantially compliant. Assembly passed 142–0; the bill became law.
March 23, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored extending New York Guard and Naval Militia service to age 72, with entry-age changes and paid Guard uniforms. The bill remained in committee.
March 20, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for mandatory lead-paint testing and disclosure in certain home sales in 2023, then opposed amended versions in 2024–26. The proposals passed the Assembly but did not pass the Senate. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: Yes; total 105–43. Assembly vote, 2024-05-28: No; total 97–47. Assembly vote, 2025-06-10: No; total 106–40. Assembly vote, 2026-03-11: No; total 99–43.
March 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to restore New York's recognition of the Montaukett Indian Nation and establish statutory tribal-governance provisions. The 2023–2025 bills were vetoed; the 2026 version passed both chambers. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-30 Yes 144-0; 2024-05-30 Yes 147-0; 2025-03-24 Yes 147-0; 2026-03-09 Yes 138-0.
March 9, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to simplify proof of qualifying expenses of up to $10,000 in matrimonial cases through a rebuttable presumption for supported, paid itemized bills. Supported the bill in 2025 and 2026; it had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-11: Yes; total 146–0. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
March 9, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require cities to give at least 90 days’ public notice before discontinuing water fluoridation and comply with existing state procedures. Supported the bill in 2025 and 2026; it had no recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-10: Yes; total 145–2. Assembly vote, 2026-03-09: Yes; total 136–2.
March 9, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted twice to direct state agencies to seek feasible contract-size divisions that increase small-business and minority- and women-owned business participation. The bill passed both houses in 2026 without recorded enactment. Assembly vote, 2025-06-09: Yes; total 143–1. Assembly vote, 2026-03-05: Yes; total 140–0.
March 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give each public library a state park and historic-site pass for patrons to borrow, with additional passes available for purchase. The bill passed the Assembly 146-0 in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
March 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to open NYC English-learner council seats and the high-school council’s English-learner seat to parents whose children had ever received those services. Assembly passed 146–0; both chambers passed the bill.
March 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to classify products used to defraud alcohol or drug tests as drug-related paraphernalia. Assembly passed 147–0.
March 4, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to lower specified side and rear window light-transmission requirements from 70% to 50%, while keeping the windshield standard. The bill passed 132-0 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
February 24, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Received New York Young Republican Club endorsements for his 2022 Assembly campaign and the 2026 primary and general elections in District 49.
February 13, 2026
Source: nyyrc.com
Voted to raise jail time for returning after removal from tribal land from 30 to 90 days and allow Seneca policing agreements, then backed through-travel protections and limits on those agreements. Both became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-09: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-02-11: Yes; total 141–0.
February 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for NYC’s early-Friday trash set-out exemption, then a correction limiting it to Saturday-collection areas whose community boards opted in. Assembly votes were 137–0 and 141–0; both became law.
February 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against measuring cannabis-shop school and worship buffers between regular entrances on the same street and protecting existing licenses and qualifying pending sites. Assembly passed 91–50; the bill became law.
February 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to tighten deadlines for defendants to bring third parties into civil lawsuits, then backed a negotiated amendment generally allowing 90 days after an answer and revising exceptions. Assembly passed the bills 136–0 and 141–0; both became law.
February 11, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing electronic wills in 2025 and against a 2026 correction adding authentication safeguards and revising execution rules. The original bill and its correction became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: No; total 94–41. Assembly vote, 2026-02-10: No; total 106–38.
February 10, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising peer-to-peer car-sharing insurance minimums and additional-insurance options in 2025, and against a 2026 correction expanding authorized optional coverages. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-16 No (102–42), 2026-02-10 No (101–42).
February 10, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to give eligible children and siblings of veterans who died from service-related causes a ten-point credit on civil-service hiring exams. The bill required passing the exam and proof of eligibility, and generally limited the benefit to one permanent appointment. Assembly passed it 140–0; the bill remained in the Senate.
February 9, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the equity-withdrawal threshold for qualifying nursing homes from 3% to 5% of annual patient-care revenue and establish a worker recruitment and safety fund. He later supported stronger eligibility checks and delaying the fund. Assembly passed 133–0 and 141–0; both bills became law.
February 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit sexual-offense kit tracking to police custody in 2023, then to add hospital tracking in 2025. He supported a 2026 revision allowing ten days for police pickup after notice and protecting storage after consent withdrawal. Assembly passed 144–0, 145–0 and 142–0; all became law.
February 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a safe harbor for commercial-financing providers when a good-faith, legally compliant estimated annual percentage rate differs from the rate ultimately charged. The proposal passed the Assembly. Assembly votes were Yes 141–0 (2024-05-20), Yes 137–11 (2025-03-10), Yes 132–10 (2026-02-05).
February 5, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring identifying information before most child-abuse reports were sent for investigation, and against a revision allowing an exception for callers believed to be children. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-16 No (109–36), 2026-01-29 No (98–36).
January 29, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create no-fault legal separation and cut separation-based divorce waits to six months. He also backed requiring relevant support and custody issues to be settled before judgment. Both became law. Assembly vote, 2025-03-24: Yes; total 143–4. Assembly vote, 2026-01-28: Yes; total 138–3.
January 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the 2025 revision of court-ordered construction access to neighboring property. He supported a 2026 amendment broadening the state-property exception and revising insurance-documentation requirements; both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-06-13 No (124–13), 2026-01-28 Yes (139–2).
January 28, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to permit cremation or natural organic reduction for certain limited-resource, unclaimed remains, with religious-belief, priority and public-notice safeguards. The bill passed 128-11 and both houses in 2026, with no recorded enactment.
January 27, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to coordinate health-plan cost-sharing rules with HSA eligibility, then backed a revision allowing applicable plan deductibles and setting a 2027 start. Both bills became law. Assembly votes: 2025-05-27 Yes (145–0), 2026-01-21 Yes (140–0).
January 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for elevator licensing and penalty changes, then supported a correction extending temporary apprentice licenses and repealing the new inspection section. Both measures passed unanimously and became law in 2025–2026. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 139–0.
January 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to eliminate fees for stillbirth and pregnancy-loss certificates, then supported correcting the issuing agencies and statutory references. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-09: Yes; total 144–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-21: Yes; total 139–0.
January 21, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to restrict state and local purchases of security-risk technology, with waivers and protections for existing equipment. He supported a 2026 revision centralizing waivers and adding a conditional drone exemption. Assembly passed 139–0 and 137–0; both bills became law.
January 20, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a presumption easing qualifying minority- and women-owned business certification renewals. He supported a 2026 revision narrowing eligibility and preserving agency review. Assembly passed 146–0 and 143–0; both bills became law.
January 13, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for transfers of unused veterans’ tuition awards, then backed a correction allowing a one-time transfer to one eligible spouse, child or financial dependent. Transfers stayed capped at 100 per year, with launch delayed to July 2027. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2025-06-16: Yes; total 145–0. Assembly vote, 2026-01-13: Yes; total 143–0.
January 13, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to narrow the ban on unsolicited sales calls during declared emergencies. The bills required specific findings of harm and limited bans to renewable two-week periods. They passed 145-0, 149-0, 144-0 and 144-0 in the Assembly.
January 12, 2026
Source: nyassembly.gov
Spoke in support of Curtis Sliwa’s 2025 mayoral campaign at a Brooklyn fundraiser. Praised Sliwa’s support for residents opposing shelter conversions.
July 13, 2025
Source: canarsiecourier.com
Voted to authorize state approval of regional collaboration programmes for nonprofit and public nursing homes in upstate New York, covering staffing, efficiency and care with safeguards against collusion. Assembly passed 141–0; the governor vetoed the bill.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a 30-day ban on negotiating injury or death liability releases, with victims allowed to void releases obtained in violation. Assembly passed 90–45; the governor vetoed it.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revisions to the producer-funded carpet-recycling law that included two-year delays to collection and PFAS deadlines. He later voted for limited antitrust protections for companies carrying out approved recycling plans. Both bills became law. Assembly vote, 2023-02-28: No; total 95–48. Assembly vote, 2025-06-17: Yes; total 141–0.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let on-premises alcohol retailers buy up to six bottles of wine or liquor per week from off-premises retailers, with purchase records for inspection. The bill passed 141-0 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand crossbow hunting eligibility during archery seasons and loosen equipment restrictions, while adding a 500-foot discharge limit in specified downstate counties. The bill passed 139-2 and became law in 2025.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting state party officials seek court-approved cancellation of party memberships where no county committee existed. Assembly passed 82-49; the bill became law.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting plaintiffs collect unpaid judgments from other parties liable for contribution or indemnification, with employer protections. Assembly passed 89–46; the governor vetoed it.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on utility-pole attachment inspection and enforcement requirements (111–31, 2025). Supported replacing them with annual reports and an optional complaint process (138–5, 2026). Both bills became law.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on expanding the attorney general’s authority over unfair and abusive business practices (91–50, 2025). Also opposed a correction narrowing some provisions and changing notice before enforcement (94–48, 2026). Both bills became law; private lawsuits remained limited to deceptive practices.
June 17, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exempt specified bus-stop no-standing violations on roadways in qualifying large Mitchell-Lama cooperative developments from New York City’s camera-enforced vehicle-owner penalties. The bill left bicycle-lane, double-parking, and bus-lane rules intact. Assembly passed it 144–0; the governor vetoed it.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against changing solar and wind property assessments to count specified project expenses and exclude federal tax credits and environmental credits from revenue. The bill passed 88-56 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing speed cameras in up to three White Plains school zones, with civil owner penalties and specified operating limits. The bill passed 114-30 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand the use of statements affirmed under penalty of perjury in place of notarized documents in civil cases, while retaining specified oath and matrimonial exceptions. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand mail and court-authorized electronic service in Surrogate’s Court proceedings and revise the related notice deadlines. The bill passed 143-1 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow qualified superior-court judges, alongside Family Court judges, to preside over youth parts handling juvenile and adolescent offenders. Qualification depended on prior training and experience, and specialized training requirements remained. Assembly passed it 144–0; it became law on November 21, 2025.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden the parties covered by statewide opioid settlements and the release of related government claims. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on ending certain subsidies for new gas-line extensions (83–62, 2025). Also voted no on delaying that change by one year (83–61, 2026). Both bills became law.
June 16, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise and update life-insurance agent training-allowance and prize limits and revise insurers' compensation-compliance rules. The bill passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to keep school-based health-center services outside Medicaid managed care. The standalone bills passed 146-0, 147-0 and 136-0 but were vetoed. The 2026 budget removed the exclusion's scheduled April 2026 end date.
June 13, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing red-light cameras at up to three Croton-on-Hudson intersections, with civil owner penalties and appeal protections. The bill passed 109-27 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing speed cameras in up to 20 Mount Vernon school zones, with civil owner penalties and specified operating limits. The bill passed 108-25 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize Ferry Point Park land transfers for a Bally's gaming and mixed-use project, conditioned on a gaming license and equivalent-value Bronx park reinvestment. The bill passed 127-5 and became law in 2025.
June 13, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a plan to create two new judicial districts and redraw western New York’s district boundaries, reallocating existing Supreme Court justices. The plan placed Onondaga in one new district and nine rural counties in another. Assembly passed it 96–48; it was pocket-vetoed on February 9, 2026.
June 12, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring party permission for judicial candidates seeking another party’s nomination. Assembly passed the bill 97-42.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing an additional Westchester red-light camera intersection on the Saw Mill River Parkway in Pleasantville, subject to state transportation approval. The bill passed 115-31 and became law in 2025.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to update commercial law for certain digital assets, setting rules for transfers, their use as loan collateral, and competing ownership and lender claims. The bill also expanded electronic records in commercial transactions and clarified contracts combining goods and services. Assembly passed it 146–0; it became law on December 5, 2025.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish a process for converting qualifying manufactured homes on permanent foundations into real property, including title, affidavit and lien safeguards. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on banning new oil and gas leases on specified state forests and conservation lands (91–48, 2025). Also opposed a 2026 correction allowing limited changes to existing leases, while barring expansion and renewal (93–50). Both bills became law.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against Senate Bill 4906, which lets assault victims at hospitals and care facilities give their statement at work. The New York Assembly passed it 105-41. It became law.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on allowing victims to dispute debts caused by coercion (96–50, 2025). Also opposed narrower coverage and changes to debt collection, court access and enforcement (95–48, 2026). Both bills became law.
June 11, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted repeatedly to protect Federal Home Loan Bank security agreements and collateral rights when a member insurer enters receivership, with related requirements for the bank to cooperate with state regulators. The revised bill became law. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 145-0 in 2024, 147-0 in 2025.
June 10, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting other city ballot measures appear alongside charter-commission proposals. Assembly passed 89-56; the governor vetoed the bill.
June 10, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend New York City relocation tax-credit eligibility and create a new credit for qualifying businesses moving operations from outside New York State. The bill passed 143-4 and became law in 2025.
June 10, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize red-light cameras at up to nine Peekskill intersections, with civil owner penalties and appeal protections. The bill passed 130-17 and became law in 2025.
June 10, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for earlier hospital-closure notice and public input, then against revised bills with longer review procedures and exceptions. Assembly passed the later bill 105-41; it was vetoed. Assembly vote, 2023-06-01: Yes; total 106–38. Assembly vote, 2024-04-02: Yes; total 118–29. Assembly vote, 2024-06-06: No; total 106–39.
June 10, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted yes on an infant-walker sales ban in 2023 (122–26), then no in 2024 (112–35) and 2025 (97–49). Supported removing the sales ban while keeping a child-care use ban in 2026 (126–11). The 2025 and 2026 bills became law.
June 10, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to lower the minimum tax payment required when New York City grants qualifying mutual redevelopment companies extended tax exemptions. The bill passed 143-0 and became law in 2025.
June 9, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 to let local governments restrict pesticide use in regulated wetlands, then opposed narrower versions in 2024 and 2025. All three bills were vetoed. Assembly vote, 2023-06-07: Yes; total 112–37. Assembly vote, 2024-06-05: No; total 103–42. Assembly vote, 2025-06-09: No; total 97–46.
June 9, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a $125 annual alcohol brand-owner license for contracting with New York manufacturers and selling through licensed wholesalers. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 9, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted three times to allow grief damages in wrongful-death lawsuits and extend the filing deadline to three years. The versions changed family eligibility and retroactive dates. They passed 131-12, 124-22 and 131-13 and were all vetoed.
June 9, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a CPA licensing route pairing 120 semester hours with two years of experience, alongside the 150-hour, one-year route, and revise interstate practice rules. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 9, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against housing-finance program extensions and higher mortgage-agency bond limits in 2023, then supported the 2025 renewal with further borrowing increases through 2027. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 No 100-46; 2025-06-09 Yes 142-2.
June 9, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to exclude emergency-medical-service spending from local property-tax levy limits. Assembly passed 142–1; the governor vetoed the bill.
June 6, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize a long-term lease of Stony Brook University land for student and employee housing, with prevailing-wage, labor and public-employee protections. The bill passed 137-0 and became law in 2025.
June 6, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to explicitly require harness racetracks awarded gaming-facility licenses to maintain live racing and race dates. The bill passed 138-1 but was vetoed in 2025.
June 6, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against expanding preferred-source state purchasing privileges to qualifying nonprofit agencies that employ formerly incarcerated people. The later version was vetoed. Assembly votes were No 99–46 (2024-06-06), No 99–45 (2025-06-05).
June 5, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring full ingredient and allergen labels on food prepacked where it was sold in 2024, then for a narrower allergen-only version in 2025. The measures passed 130-18 and 138-7. The 2025 bill became law.
June 5, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against treating business registration in New York as consent to the state's court jurisdiction. He opposed the broader 2023 bill and a 2025 version limited to specified New York residents and businesses; both were vetoed. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-07 No 99-49; 2025-06-04 No 97-47.
June 4, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require spouses in divorce cases to notify each other within 10 days of specified financial and legal events threatening the marital estate. The bill passed 144-0 and became law in 2025.
June 4, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against automatically ending party enrollment for voters in parties named with “Independence” or “Independent.” Assembly passed 135-10; the bill was vetoed.
May 29, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create an optional legal framework for special bank deposits, with rules on contingent payments, creditor claims, bank setoffs and liability. The bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2025.
May 29, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on employment credit-check limits with exceptions for certain jobs (98–46, 2025). The law also restricted licensing agencies’ use of credit history. Also opposed broader exceptions for state-agency background checks (97–44, 2026). Both bills became law.
May 28, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against fees for bounced rent checks limited by lease agreements. Earlier bills used the lower of actual costs or $20. The final law used the greater amount, with proof available on request for fees over $20. Assembly votes were 93-55 in 2024, 84-64 in 2025, 85-60 in 2025.
May 27, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen family-court appeal notices and revise service and review rules for objections to support orders. The measure passed 145-0 and became law in 2025.
May 27, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to broaden school-election absentee eligibility, including people caring for someone ill or disabled, and simplify absence requirements. The bill passed 139-5 and became law in 2025.
May 21, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2024 and 2025 to include Space Force service in state military and veterans' eligibility rules, including civil-service exam fees, property-tax benefits and military absentee voting. The 2025 bill became law. Assembly votes: 2024-06-04 Yes (145–0), 2025-05-21 Yes (144–0).
May 21, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against repealing restrictions on giving refreshments to waiting voters. Assembly passed 94-47; the repeal became law.
May 15, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored six-month housing-court deadlines for buildings with one or two homes, and twelve months for three or four. The bill allowed agreed waivers; it remained in committee.
May 14, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for state employee telework programs in 2023 and 2024, then against the 2025 refile. The 2025 Assembly vote passed 124-21. Assembly vote, 2023-04-26: Yes; total 146–2. Assembly vote, 2024-01-17: Yes; total 140–2.
April 30, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow an additional school-election voting day when a disaster causes turnout below 8%, while preserving votes already cast. The bill passed 142-3 and became law in 2025.
April 30, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring child-safety steps when police arrested a caregiver; the bill passed 85-63 and became law in 2024. Supported a 2025 revision replacing mandatory inquiries with practicable safety action under police policies. It passed 112-33 and became law.
April 30, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against banning new or expanded for-profit hospice facilities. Assembly passed the bill 99-50; the governor vetoed it.
March 26, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the statutory requirement that child-care staffing ratios remain at least as strict as the rules in effect in January 2000. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–2.
March 25, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to delay New York City class-size reductions to 2023–2028, then sponsored further delays to 2031–2036 with exemptions. The later bill remained in committee. Assembly vote, 2023-01-24: Yes; total 141–3.
March 25, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for general nursing-home body-storage requirements in 2023, then against a 2025 version triggered by declared emergencies involving excess deaths. The revised measure included refrigeration, handling, recordkeeping and inspection rules and was vetoed. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-10 Yes 119-17; 2025-03-25 No 108-41.
March 25, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove creative arts therapists from a new insurance rule, then supported restoring their coverage in later bills. Assembly passed restoration 146-2; it was vetoed. Assembly vote, 2023-02-01: Yes; total 142–0. Assembly vote, 2024-06-06: Yes; total 140–5.
March 19, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted no on special payment-card categories for covered gun and ammunition dealers (90–51, 2024). Also voted no on removing ammunition-only dealers from the rule (96–52, 2025). Both bills became law.
March 19, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored three or six SUNY and CUNY college credits for diploma holders with qualifying Regents exam scores. The bill remained in committee.
March 18, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing absentee-ballot drop boxes in 2024 and extending them to early mail ballots in 2025. Assembly passed 89–52 and 94–50; both bills became law.
March 12, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to add ten civil-service exam points for children and siblings of NYC sanitation workers who died from the 9/11 attack or rescue work. Applicants still had to qualify on the exam. Assembly passed 150–0; it became law.
March 4, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against election-worker conflict rules in 2024 and a 2025 exception for workers running for office. Latest Assembly passage was 101-47. Assembly vote, 2024-06-03: No; total 98–47.
March 3, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise surrogacy contracts and parentage procedures, including independent counsel and insurance protections. Supported a correction reversing several new insurance and wage-payment alternatives and delaying specified procedures. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 124-13 in 2024, 125-18 in 2025.
February 26, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Opposed a 2024 law requiring human review and impact assessments for state automated decisions, then supported a 2025 revision replacing those requirements with AI inventories and employment-tool disclosures. The revision retained protections against displacing state workers with AI. Assembly vote, 2024-06-06: No; total 113–34. Assembly vote, 2025-02-12: Yes; total 149–0.
February 12, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored broader civil-service exam fee waivers for unemployed applicants, without extra household-support or public-assistance tests. The bill remained in committee.
February 12, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the original bedbug-notification bill, then supported narrowing notice to neighboring units within 72 hours, adding common-area notices and tenant-privacy safeguards. Assembly votes were No 114–33 (2024-05-29), Yes 145–4 (2025-02-12).
February 12, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Sponsored making Lunar New Year a state public holiday. The bill remained in committee.
February 6, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted No in 2024 on broadly expanding workers' compensation claims for extraordinary workplace mental stress. He then voted Yes on the 2025 correction establishing a specified-disorder and medical-evidence test for covered workers while retaining separate first-responder rules. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 101-44, 139-7.
February 4, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the original Retail Worker Safety Act, then supported revisions that changed emergency buttons to silent requests for workplace assistance, limited that requirement to employers with at least 500 retail employees statewide, and eased training frequency for smaller employers. Assembly votes were No 102–43 (2024-06-03), Yes 137–9 (2025-02-04).
February 4, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Signed a joint letter to President Trump opposing New York City congestion pricing. Urged him to have the Transportation Department explore reversing federal approval.
January 23, 2025
Source: nysenate.gov
Voted to keep traumatic-brain-injury waiver services outside Medicaid managed care and supported a 2025 correction preserving the nursing-home diversion and transition carveout until at least January 1, 2027. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2024-06-03 Yes 145-0; 2025-01-22 Yes 147-0.
January 22, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to include cannabis in the state’s definition of agricultural crops in 2023, then opposed the same bill in 2024. He later supported limiting the definition to lawful cultivation. Assembly votes were 141–3, 122–19 and 134–13, respectively. Both the original bill and its 2025 revision became law.
January 21, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against making banks' participation in banking-development districts a separate community-reinvestment factor. Then supported the 2025 revision placing it within regulators' discretionary assessment of other community-credit factors. Both became law; Assembly tallies were 98-49 and 143-4.
January 21, 2025
Source: nyassembly.gov
Was appointed ranking minority member of the Assembly Cities Committee for the 2025 legislative session.
January 10, 2025
Source: assembly.ny.gov
Voted against allowing emailed ballot-cure forms, requiring prepaid return envelopes and extending the post-election cure deadline. The bill became law. Assembly passed 92–49.
June 8, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set earlier application and decision deadlines for the remaining downstate casino licenses, with community-advisory approval and land-use requirements. The bill was vetoed. Assembly passed 140–0.
June 8, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible FDNY pension members purchase an earlier membership date based on pre-April 2012 police-cadet service. The law required contributions plus interest and excluded cadet time from firefighting-service and benefit-amount calculations. It passed 140-0 and became law.
June 8, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend the farm-employer overtime tax credit to qualifying professional employer organizations serving eligible farms. The governor vetoed the bill. Assembly passed 144–0.
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to reopen renewal of livery-vehicle licenses that expired during the COVID-19 pandemic, without added penalties and under the former vehicle requirements, while restricting transfers to large app-dispatch fleets. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-06-07 Yes 140-4.
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize owner- or contractor-controlled insurance for specified Buffalo-area transportation and university construction projects, with project labor agreements and reporting requirements. The bill became law. Assembly passed 141–6.
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against replacing notarized statements with perjury affirmations in administrative proceedings and verified pleadings. Assembly passed 96–45; the bill became law.
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise deceptive-campaign-media rules, requiring actual knowledge for disclosure liability and changing exemptions for news reporting, broadcasters and online platforms. The bill became law. Assembly passed 141–0.
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let eligible liquor, cider, mead and braggot makers ship directly to adult consumers. The bill set volume limits, age checks, licensing and tax duties, with reciprocity rules for out-of-state makers. It passed 128-14 and became law.
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing Kingston to operate speed cameras in up to three school zones, with civil fines, operating-hour limits and privacy and hearing safeguards. The authorization became law. Assembly votes were No 109–35 (2024-06-07).
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against overhauling personal bank-account rules to distinguish owners from authorized signers, set contribution-based ownership and require express consent for survivorship rights. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were No 92–49 (2024-06-07).
June 7, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a 2023 bill to let eligible families receive child-care assistance beyond their work or training hours, then supported a similar 2024 bill with a later start date. The governor vetoed both bills. Assembly votes were 100-36 in 2023, 121-24 in 2024.
June 6, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a proposed constitutional amendment removing population-based limits on state Supreme Court judges authorized in each district. It completed its first legislative passage in 2024; further approval was still required. Assembly votes were 102-45 in 2024.
June 6, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing towns and villages to require their justices to be admitted to practice law in New York. Assembly votes were 97-48 in 2024.
June 5, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize business interruption insurance as a separate insurance product, covering specified closures and allowing licensed brokers to obtain it from excess-line insurers. The bill became law. Assembly passed 145–0.
June 4, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against requiring covered state-regulated banks to accept NYC identity cards as primary identification for opening accounts, subject to financial-regulator exemptions. The bill passed the Assembly in 2024. Assembly votes were No 93–52 (2024-06-04).
June 4, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against authorizing Greenburgh to impose civil red-light-camera penalties at up to two intersections, with notice, contest and privacy safeguards. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were No 113–32 (2024-06-03).
June 3, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a 2023 bill delaying parts of New York's Voting Rights Act, then against 2024 changes covering protected groups, discrimination complaints, and state review of local election rules. Assembly vote, 2024-06-03: No; total 100–45.
June 3, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let taxpayers choose an adult representative, including a family member or registered tax preparer, for state tax-appeal proceedings. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require at least 60 days of public notice and comment before approving hospital–home-care collaboration waivers, while preserving statutory approval requirements. The governor vetoed the measure in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 146–0 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require nonvoting student representatives on covered school boards and regional BOCES boards. The bill replaced optional referendums and expanded student eligibility. It became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the maximum fine for a third or later offense of passing a stopped school bus within three years from $1,000 to $1,500. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2024-05-30: Yes; total 145–0.
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to shorten authorised lease, aid-amortisation and borrowing periods for zero-emission school buses from 12 to eight years. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 135–10 (2024-05-30).
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to generally require divorce and related family cases to be heard where a party or child lives, with exceptions for confidential addresses and good cause. The bill became law. Assembly passed 144–0.
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to create a program buying New York farm produce for state prisons. The bill passed 146-0 and became law.
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Co-sponsored and voted for registering limited-use motorcycles at sale, with a declaration exception for vehicles used exclusively outside New York. The bill became law in 2024. Assembly passed 145–0.
May 30, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
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- March 21, 2024 · Voted for paid military leave and job protections for Port Authority employees. The bill included five paid care days for qualifying combat veterans. It passed 145-0 and 148-0 and became New York law, subject to matching New Jersey legislation. (Opposes Government Spending Reduction, Supports Labor Rights)
- June 10, 2023 · Voted against restricting constitutional challenges to New York election law and related claims to designated courts in New York, Westchester, Albany or Erie counties, based on the plaintiff's judicial department. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 82-62. (General)
Voted to require local industrial-development agency boards to include a labor representative and a school superintendent or school-board representative. The bill passed 128-19 but was vetoed.
May 29, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let judges correct good-faith errors in timely Court of Claims filings when the other party suffered no prejudice. Assembly passed 134–3; the governor vetoed the bill.
May 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let Parole Board members qualify through ten years of relevant work instead of a degree. Assembly passed 128-9; the bill became law.
May 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let Family Court handle children's name changes within related proceedings, with all parties' consent, and let children's attorneys submit applications. The bill became law. Assembly passed 141–0.
May 20, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to use the Mental Hygiene Law’s serious-mental-illness definition in prison confinement protections, replacing one specified-diagnosis test. The Assembly passed it 134–13; the bill was vetoed.
May 15, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove the separate adult workforce-training program from the Syracuse STEAM school’s legal framework. The regional high-school program remained. The bill became law. Assembly passed 147–0.
May 15, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require child-support courts to consider parents' specific circumstances and explain imputed-income findings, and to remove exceptions that treated certain incarceration as voluntary unemployment. The bill became law. Assembly votes were Yes 147–0 (2024-04-04).
April 4, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for requiring used-car dealers to check for recalls and complete recall repairs before offering a retail sale contract in 2023, then against the same bill in 2024. It included civil penalties. Assembly tallies were 97-50 and 96-51; it passed the Assembly both times.
April 2, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require a preference for qualified women when making appointments to state and local public-authority boards, with the preference carrying more weight where fewer women already served. Assembly votes were 119-30 in 2023, 112-38 in 2024.
March 27, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to strengthen enforcement of horse-slaughter restrictions by requiring sales notices and state efforts to place agents at horse auctions to review racehorses' health certificates. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-03-25 Yes 148-0.
March 25, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let New York-chartered banking institutions seek approval to exercise powers available to comparable institutions chartered in other states, with financial-regulator review and conditions. The bills passed the Assembly in 2023 and 2024. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-31 Yes 146-0; 2024-03-21 Yes 148-0.
March 21, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted Yes in 2023, then No in 2024, on allowing parties in qualifying unresolved cases to seek Court of Appeals renewal after a subsequent legislative change, including consideration of affected issues previously treated as unpreserved. Both bills passed the Assembly. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 Yes 126-18; 2024-03-21 No 110-38.
March 21, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise state agencies' discretionary purchasing limit for certified minority- and women-owned businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses from $500,000 to $750,000. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-03-12 Yes 103-45.
March 12, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let applicants take competitive civil-service exams up to a year before meeting minimum age or education requirements. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly votes were Yes 144–0 (2024-03-04).
March 4, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a state process allowing tribes to apply for recognition, with published criteria, timelines and recommendations to the legislature. Assembly votes were 146-0 in 2023, 147-0 in 2024.
February 28, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against the 2024 law replacing New York's congressional-district boundaries. The Assembly passed it 118–30, and it became law the same day. Assembly votes were No 118–30 (2024-02-28).
February 28, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against mandatory landlord participation and sanctions in municipal rental-vacancy surveys. Also opposed replacing permit-denial authority and a $1,000 fine with a $500 fine. Assembly votes were 94–50 in 2023 and 97–51 in 2024. Both bills became law.
February 27, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to establish statutory definitions and qualification standards for mental-health peer specialists and family and youth peer advocates, including recognized credentials and state qualification programs. The measure became law in 2024. Assembly tallies: 2024-02-13 Yes 147-0.
February 13, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted in 2023 to remove deep closed-loop geothermal boreholes from oil-and-gas-style well regulation, then opposed the 2024 measure authorizing a separate environmental and safety regulatory framework and fees. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-17 Yes 143-3; 2024-02-06 No 101-47.
February 6, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a two-person crew requirement for covered freight trains in 2023, then supported a 2024 law narrowing the requirement to trains carrying hazardous materials. Both bills became law. Assembly votes were 114-27 in 2023, 112-32 in 2024.
January 31, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Spoke at a New York meeting with a Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries delegation. Discussed lithium batteries, student exchanges, telecom fraud and New York agricultural exports.
January 25, 2024
Source: qiaobaous.com
Voted to exempt limited home-based core public-health services provided by local health departments from home-care licensure, then supported a correction restricting the exemption to minimal patient contact and preserving federal and state reimbursement requirements. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-06 Yes 147-0; 2024-01-23 Yes 148-0.
January 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for repayment reductions for eligible nursing homes that reduced temporary staffing-agency use. Also supported moving the program outside the permanent statute and requiring CPA verification. Assembly votes were 145–0 in 2023 and 148–0 in 2024. Both bills became law. A later omnibus law extended the program through June 30, 2027.
January 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to change employee-counting rules for minority- and women-owned business eligibility during declared state disaster emergencies, without raising the 300-employee ceiling, then supported that limitation in the 2024 correction. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-06 Yes 143-4; 2024-01-23 Yes 146-2.
January 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to expand death-certificate access to domestic partners and designated agents handling remains, first supporting broader access for extended relatives and then narrowing that provision in 2024. Both measures became law. Assembly votes were Yes 125–22 (2023-06-06), Yes 148–0 (2024-01-23).
January 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against lead-pipe inventories and public maps in 2023, then supported narrower coverage and longer publication deadlines in 2024. The revision limited state maps to systems serving more than 10,000 but fewer than two million people. Assembly votes were No 105–35 and Yes 148–0. Both bills became law.
January 23, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against raising the minimum village population from 500 to 2,000, adding fiscal studies and transferring incorporation-petition review to a state commission. Also opposed corrections lowering the threshold to 1,500 and revising the process. All four measures became law; Assembly tallies were 86-49, 83-52, 97-51 and 97-51.
January 22, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for third-party driving-record checks during auto-insurance underwriting. Then supported limiting checks to New York driving histories and removing renewal checks. The revised laws were enacted. Assembly votes were 145-0 in 2023, 139-0 in 2023, 141-0 in 2024.
January 16, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow qualifying out-of-state charitable risk pools to provide vehicle liability coverage, then supported a revision limiting it to specified nonprofit vehicles seating no more than 15 passengers and adding oversight reporting. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 144-1, 141-0.
January 16, 2024
Source: nyassembly.gov
Criticized the City of Yes for Economic Opportunity zoning proposal at a Brooklyn community-board meeting. He argued it gave businesses too much freedom to expand into residential neighborhoods.
November 29, 2023
Source: brooklynpaper.com
Appeared at a rally supporting James Pai’s campaign for New York City Council District 20.
November 5, 2023
Source: secretchina.com
Joined a lawsuit seeking to block a migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field and challenge related state funding. The trial court dismissed the case in March 2024 for lack of standing.
September 19, 2023
Source: cases.justia.com
Voted against banning wildlife-hunting contests held for prizes or entertainment, with exceptions for white-tailed deer, turkey, bear and canine events. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-06-21: No; total 88–53.
June 21, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a temporary pause on transfers of tax-foreclosed property through June 2024, with exceptions and safeguards for surplus proceeds. The bill passed 94-53 but was vetoed.
June 20, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting specified NYC public bodies require designated construction insurers on qualifying projects. The law covered projects costing at least $5 million or using owner-controlled insurance; projects of at least $5 million required labor agreements. It passed 100-46 and became law.
June 20, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against raising New York City's limit for awarding certified minority- and women-owned business contracts without formal competition from $1 million to $1.5 million. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-20 No 102-45.
June 20, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against restricting constitutional challenges to New York election law and related claims to designated courts in New York, Westchester, Albany or Erie counties, based on the plaintiff's judicial department. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 82-62.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Also on this bill
- May 30, 2024 · Co-sponsored and voted for registering limited-use motorcycles at sale, with a declaration exception for vehicles used exclusively outside New York. The bill became law in 2024. Assembly passed 145–0. (General)
- March 21, 2024 · Voted for paid military leave and job protections for Port Authority employees. The bill included five paid care days for qualifying combat veterans. It passed 145-0 and 148-0 and became New York law, subject to matching New Jersey legislation. (Opposes Government Spending Reduction, Supports Labor Rights)
Voted to make Asian Lunar New Year a school holiday across New York state. The bill became law in September 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 144–0.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let public entities pool workers’ compensation insurance, with reserve and insolvency safeguards. Assembly passed 140-0; the bill became law.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow conditional cannabis growers and processors to sell tested, packaged products to tribally licensed retailers and authorized tribal representatives. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 134–6.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize reciprocal driver-license exchanges with jurisdictions having comparable licensing tests. Eligible adult residents avoided repeat tests under signed agreements, with privacy safeguards. The bill passed 140-0 and became law in 2023.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow eligible New York City employees with concurrent jobs to join another city retirement system while suspending membership benefits in their first system, with restrictions against duplicate service credit and death benefits. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-10 Yes 140-0.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize a negotiated Mohawk land-claims settlement and legislative ratification after the governor certified required federal approvals and dismissal of the litigation. The bill passed 136-0 and became law.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising film-tax-credit effective dates and preserving later claim timing for applications filed before April 1, 2023. The bill passed 98-40 and became law.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make Diwali a holiday in New York City public schools. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-10: Yes; total 144–0.
June 10, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing licensed cannabis businesses to deduct business expenses disallowed under federal law when calculating certain New York City business taxes. The bill became law in November 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: No; total 116–29.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require insurers to pay covered ambulance providers directly when patients assigned benefits, including out-of-network providers. Assembly passed 146-0; the bill became law.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to authorize back pay and pension credit for fifteen judges initially denied recertification in 2020 who resumed service in 2021. Outside earnings reduced the back-pay award, and pension-repayment interest waivers were allowed. The bill passed 135-11 and became law.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against raising fundraising thresholds, lowering Assembly matching-fund caps, and changing payment, disclosure, and audit rules in New York's public campaign-finance program. The governor vetoed the bill in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-09: No; total 80–66.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to set a 5% limit on retained payments for covered private construction contracts and permit final invoices at substantial completion. The Assembly passed it 143–3, and it became law in 2023.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting eligible registered voters request early mail ballots without giving an absentee-voting reason. Assembly passed 94–51; the bill became law in 2023.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend Sunday liquor- and wine-store hours from noon–9 p.m. to 10 a.m.–10 p.m. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-06-09 Yes 143-3.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to update the non-retirement resource limit for eligible disabled workers in New York's Medicaid buy-in program, replacing fixed dollar limits with a statutory formula. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 145-0.
June 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace presidential electors who rejected their party’s ticket, while preserving the National Popular Vote agreement. Assembly passed 145-0; the bill became law.
June 8, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require clearer statewide ballot questions, readable summaries, and a public comment period. Assembly passed 145-0; the bill became law.
June 8, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against establishing a state commission to study slavery's continuing effects and recommend reparations, including possible compensation. The bill became law in December 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-06-08: No; total 105–42.
June 8, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against moving specified town and county elections outside New York City to even-numbered years. The bill preserved exceptions for several offices and protected terms already underway. It passed 89-57 and became law.
June 8, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs. The proposal kept pedestrian and traffic right-of-way safeguards. It passed 84-64 in 2023 and stalled in the Senate.
June 7, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to reserve 10% of legislative internships for eligible veterans, with graduate-level stipends. Assembly passed 149-0; the bill became law.
June 7, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against prohibiting the slaughter of horses for human or animal consumption and related transfers for that purpose. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 105-43 in 2023.
June 7, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to reopen access to specified age-55 retirement programs for eligible New York City Council members and staff who had missed the original enrollment window, including eligible retirees. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 144-3.
June 6, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to include qualifying career servicemembers in the veterans’ alternative property-tax exemption after at least ten years of active service. Other eligibility conditions remained. The bill passed 145-0 and became law in 2023.
June 5, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require court approval of public-worker arbitration awards unless challenged within 90 days. A party still needed to seek approval within one year. It passed 145-0 and became law.
June 5, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to require school districts serving high-school students to establish a student-government organization where no districtwide or school-building peer-selected government existed. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 128-15.
June 1, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make specified unlicensed driving with five qualifying suspensions or revocations on separate dates a felony. The bill added advance warnings and a two-year cap on imprisonment under the new provision. It passed 141-2 and became law in 2023.
June 1, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise financial-guaranty insurance rules, allowing additional sovereign-rating categories while setting lower single-risk limits for lower-rated obligations. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 146-0.
May 31, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow cannabis regulators to share applicants' and licensees' information with financial institutions for consideration and compliance, with the businesses' consent. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-30 Yes 137-7.
May 30, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow full-time or part-time jobs in New York's noncompetitive hiring programs for eligible people with disabilities and disabled veterans, then to remove the disabled-veteran program's wartime-service restriction. Both measures became law. Assembly tallies were 146-0 and 144-0.
May 30, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to calculate the salary threshold for required public-official financial disclosures using the higher of two specified state pay-grade rates. The bill became law. Assembly votes were 142-0 in 2023.
May 24, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to place state student-debt collection cases in the New York county where a defendant lived. The bill covered tuition, fees, room and board, and other education debts owed to the state. It passed 147-0 and became law.
May 23, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against letting any person use a signed statement under penalty of perjury instead of a notarized affidavit in New York civil cases. Assembly passed 100–48; the bill became law.
May 23, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow hemp seed and hemp-seed products in commercial feed for pets, specialty pets, horses and camelids. The governor vetoed the bill in 2023. Assembly tally was 147-0.
May 22, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise the physical-therapist licensing degree requirement from a master’s to a doctorate or equivalent. Existing licenses and permits remained valid. It passed 145-1 and became law.
May 17, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to repeal New York's special Sunday restrictions on retail beer sales and related tasting restrictions. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tallies: 2023-05-17 Yes 143-3.
May 17, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to let corporate investors own specialized surgery centers that create or maintain dialysis access. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill was vetoed.
May 15, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to extend protection from damages to medical societies and their personnel supporting impaired-physician referral committees, for actions taken without malice and within their committee-related functions. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 148-0.
April 26, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for a new map of all 150 Assembly districts for the 2024 and later elections. The bill passed 132-13 and became law.
April 24, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against allowing the governor to fill a Court of Appeals associate-judge vacancy created by a chief-judge appointment from the earlier chief-judge shortlist, subject to statutory timing rules. The measure became law in 2023. Assembly tally was 91-50.
March 31, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising PFAS clothing limits, including new pollution thresholds and later deadlines for severe-weather gear. Assembly passed 107-40; the revision became law.
March 20, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising state-funded care for severe birth injuries. The bill repealed earlier coverage and claims provisions and set a 2025 end date for higher payment rates. It passed 124-23 and became law.
March 20, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising voter-registration, enrollment, and verification deadlines to implement New York's ten-day registration cutoff. The bill became law in March 2023. Assembly vote, 2023-03-16: No; total 97–47.
March 16, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against a revision that retained 2035/2040 zero-emission fleet deadlines with feasibility exceptions, limited the light-duty rule to non-emergency vehicles and replaced fixed interim and purchasing targets with agency plans. The Assembly passed it 102–43; it became law in 2023.
March 15, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against removing runaway status alone as grounds for minors to consent to medical care. Homeless youth and approved-programme clients kept consent rights. The bill passed 105-41 and became law in 2023.
March 15, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise developmental-disability application deadlines by pausing the 120-day clock while missing information or suspected fraud was addressed and using the remaining time afterward. The bill also removed quarterly reports and became law. Assembly vote, 2023-03-13: Yes; total 146–0.
March 13, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to make an assisted-living hospice benefit conditional on available federal funding. The original benefit was authorized in 2022. The funding-condition bill passed 146-0 and became law in 2023.
March 13, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise a Medicaid programme aligning prescription refill dates. The bill broadened controlled-drug exclusions and replaced full dispensing-fee protection with federal-plan payment rules. It also removed prorated patient cost-sharing requirements and delayed implementation to January 2024. It passed 144-2 and became law in 2023.
March 13, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise campaign-contribution rules, separating statewide and legislative limits from those for other elections and clarifying family-contribution limits. The bill became law. Assembly vote, 2023-03-09: Yes; total 138–0.
March 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to narrow and delay rules crediting prescription discounts and outside assistance toward patients’ insurance cost-sharing limits. The revision limited eligible drugs and moved implementation from January to July. It passed 138-0 and became law in 2023.
March 9, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise licensing and enrollment in PACE, a community-care program for older adults needing nursing-home care. The bill kept state and federal approval requirements and combined licenses for covered care services. It passed 139-0 and became law.
February 15, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise pay-transparency rules for jobs performed in New York or reporting to New York offices. The bill also removed salary-range recordkeeping requirements. Assembly passed 88-50; the bill became law.
February 13, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow regulated trace-mercury exceptions to the cosmetics ban for unavoidable residues or necessary eye-area preservatives. Assembly passed 142-1; the bill became law.
February 8, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise pollution rules for permits affecting disadvantaged communities, with narrower coverage and new exceptions. Changes also delayed the rules. Assembly passed 128-15; the revision became law.
February 8, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against replacing punitive damages with additional damages capped at three times compensation for malicious interference with medical care legally protected in New York, including reproductive and endocrine care. The Assembly passed it 95–50; the revision became law in 2023.
February 7, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against giving employers 15 business days, instead of five, to recognize worker safety committees. Assembly passed 97-48; the revision became law.
February 7, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for public-works contractor registration changes, including hearings, time to fix problems, emergency exemptions and a one-year delay. Assembly passed 131-14; the bill became law.
February 7, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise colorectal-cancer screening coverage for large-group plans and require annual notices to policyholders. Assembly passed 142-0; the revision became law.
February 1, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to revise HIV-prevention drug coverage for large-group health plans, with permitted cost-sharing and preventive-care exceptions. Assembly passed 140-2; the revision became law.
February 1, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted against revising domestic-violence training for child-custody evaluators and allowing remote evaluations for children far outside New York. Changes also delayed the training law. Assembly passed 93-50; the revision became law.
January 31, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to raise covered university purchases exempt from Comptroller review from $50,000 to $75,000. Certain hospital contract thresholds rose from $75,000 to $150,000. Assembly passed 120-23; the bill became law.
January 31, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to limit existing prescription-aid income protections to one additional year. The rule covered pension or Social Security increases no greater than inflation. Assembly passed 142-0; the bill became law.
January 31, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to narrow New York's electronics repair law to newer products and add exemptions. Changes removed security-unlock requirements and eased parts-pricing rules. Assembly passed 143-0; the revision became law.
January 31, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to apply domestic-sourcing rules to state agencies’ zero-emission vehicles and related infrastructure, with waivers and revised worker safeguards. Assembly passed 108-35; the bill became law.
January 30, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted for nurse-overtime revisions requiring efforts to find voluntary staff, while making fines discretionary and removing 15% employee damages. Assembly passed 140-4; the bill became law.
January 24, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to narrow warehouse-quota protections, raising a multi-site employer threshold from 500 to 1,000 workers, with new primary-language notices. Assembly passed 142-2; the bill became law.
January 24, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to narrow crime-victim image restrictions to specified social-media posts by crime participants or agents, with public-interest exceptions. The bill also raised the offense from a class B to class A misdemeanor. Assembly passed 141-3; the bill became law.
January 24, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to narrow flood-resistant building rules to new construction and major renovations in designated flood zones. Assembly passed 139-4; the bill became law.
January 23, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace post-project minority- and women-owned business certification with sworn statements before payment, alongside oversight changes. Assembly passed 143-0; the bill became law.
January 23, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to allow federal safety guidance as another reason for age limits on Medicaid noninvasive prenatal testing. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill became law.
January 18, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to replace automatic county/state generator deployment with local coordination during declared emergencies, under revised outage thresholds. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill became law.
January 17, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Voted to remove explicit diagnosis-based coverage from utility power-outage outreach rules. Existing life-support examples remained, and implementation was delayed 180 days. Assembly passed 144-0; the bill became law.
January 17, 2023
Source: nyassembly.gov
Underwent an Assembly investigation of his Brooklyn residency. Speaker Carl Heastie announced that Chang remained seated and was not expelled, while referring the evidence to criminal, civil, and administrative authorities for further review.
January 6, 2023
Source: assembly.ny.gov
Received Rudy Giuliani endorsements for his 2016 Assembly District 65 campaign and 2022 Assembly District 49 campaign.
November 9, 2022
Source: nysfocus.com
Received Curtis Sliwa’s endorsement during his 2022 campaign for Assembly District 49.
November 9, 2022
Source: nysfocus.com
Served as a chief warrant officer 4 in the New York Naval Militia’s Joint Task Force 1 intelligence cell. Its 2021 promotion board selected him for that rank, with the commander’s approval.
November 6, 2021
Source: dmna.ny.gov
Served on American Legion Post 1291’s executive committee and spoke at John Jay College’s Asian Pacific Military Heritage Luncheon in April 2018. Helped host a New York State Safe Boater course with the post and the Naval Militia in July 2021.
July 29, 2021
Source: dmna.ny.gov
Briefed Chinese-language reporters at the Javits medical station in April 2020 and provided intelligence support for the state COVID-19 vaccination operation there in February 2021 as a New York Naval Militia chief warrant officer.
February 10, 2021
Source: dvidshub.net
Received the New York Post’s endorsement in the 2016 special election for Assembly District 65.
April 17, 2016
Source: nypost.com
Worked for the U.S. Census Bureau.
April 14, 2016
Source: thelodownny.com
Worked in accounting and finance before becoming an international shipping consultant.
April 14, 2016
Source: thelodownny.com
Served in the U.S. Navy Reserve in military intelligence, including a tour in Afghanistan and work in Washington, D.C., after 9/11.
April 14, 2016
Source: thelodownny.com
Track record — Candidate Ethics
Candidate Ethics · 2 records
Appeared on the state ethics commission's delinquent financial-disclosure list with 'Not Filed' entries for Senate District 26 in 2019 and Assembly District 49 in 2021.
October 20, 2026
Source: ethics.ny.gov
Agreed to a $100 settlement of a $200 penalty for his 2024 campaign committee's late pre-general election report. The state Public Campaign Finance Board approved the settlement on February 25, 2025.
February 25, 2025
Source: pcfb.ny.gov
Past race Lester Chang ran in:
- Member of the Assembly, District 49 · November 3, 2026 · Assembly District 49; New York · incumbent