Samra G. Brouk

Sponsored a bill requiring health insurance to cover outpatient care from licensed creative arts therapists (S1001). The governor vetoed it.

December 19, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a bill requiring doctors to give pregnant patients written information about episiotomy (S7545). It passed both houses, but the governor vetoed it.

October 16, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Joined Rochester leaders at a Daniel's Day event honoring Daniel Prude. She called for passing Daniel's Law, which sends peer-led, non-police teams to mental health crises.

September 20, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Sponsored a law extending the rule that lets mental health counselors, family therapists, and psychoanalysts diagnose patients (S7622). The governor signed it.

June 18, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law directing the state health department to publish guidance on screening for depression during and after pregnancy (S2039B). The governor signed it.

December 21, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law requiring a public education campaign about the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline (S1865B). The governor signed it.

September 9, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law defining mental health peer workers and requiring the state to set up training for them (S9787). The governor signed it.

August 28, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law ordering a state study of unfair gaps in postpartum depression screening tests (S7753). The governor signed it.

July 19, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law requiring the state health department to post five years of hospital maternity practice data online (S8751). The governor signed it.

July 19, 2022Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored the law creating New York's 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system (S6194B). The governor signed it.

December 22, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law letting children's summer camps hire licensed mental health professionals (S4345A). The governor signed it.

July 16, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law giving mental health workers, psychologists, and social workers in state-approved programs one more year of license exemptions (S6431). The governor signed it.

June 24, 2021Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law banning pesticide use at children's overnight and summer day camps (S4478A). The governor signed it.

December 22, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law giving peace officer powers to Rochester Regional Health security officers on hospital property (S8714A). The governor signed it.

November 22, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law making it the crime of coercion to force someone by threatening to make or share nude images (S2986A). The governor signed it.

October 20, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the Clean Slate Act, which automatically seals many old criminal convictions after a waiting period (S7551A). It passed 37-25.

June 9, 2023Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a bill changing home day care rules so the strict infant care ratio covers children under 18 months instead of under 2 years (S4929). The governor vetoed it.

December 12, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law letting families get child care help right away while their application is checked (S4667A). The governor signed it.

December 11, 2024Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the concealed carry law that added training rules and banned guns in sensitive places (S51001). It passed the Senate 43-20.

July 1, 2022Supports Gun Control

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on a state constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on sex, gender identity, pregnancy, and reproductive health care (S108A). It passed 43-20.

January 24, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on a law protecting families and doctors in New York from other states' actions over gender-affirming care (S2475B). It passed 44-18.

June 6, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on a state constitutional amendment banning discrimination based on sex, gender identity, pregnancy, and reproductive health care (S108A). It passed 43-20.

January 24, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York, which lets voters sue over rules that deny protected groups the vote (S1046E). It passed 43-20.

May 31, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: nysenate.gov

Received the endorsement of Citizen Action of New York for her 2026 re-election to Senate District 55.

February 26, 2026

Source: citizenactionny.org

Sponsored a law requiring state and local government documents to stop using the term "emotionally disturbed person" (S8210A). The governor signed it.

September 26, 2025

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the Medical Aid in Dying Act, letting terminally ill adults get medicine to end their lives (S138). It passed the Senate 35-27.

June 9, 2025

Source: nysenate.gov

Sponsored a law letting Monroe County local governments give volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers a 10% property tax break (S6676A). The governor signed it.

December 1, 2021

Source: nysenate.gov

Voted yes on the law that made recreational marijuana legal and regulated in New York (S854A). It passed the Senate 40-23.

March 30, 2021

Source: nysenate.gov