2019 New York State Youth and Government Signed Legislation
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AF-09 | Angelica Hernandez | Katie Lindley | Kayla Scharf |
Amend section 510.10 of the New York State Criminal
Procedure Law to abolish the use of bail against defendants whose highest
charge is a misdemeanor or lower. |
AF-10 | Olivia Lombardo | Caitlin Fitzgerald |
Amend § 804 Title 1 of Article 17 of the Education Law to
improve and expand the sexual health education curricula in all public
schools in New York State by mandating the teaching of consent and creating a
task force to oversee its implementation. |
AF-12 | Desiree Monroe | Holly Perry | Sarah McGarr | Katelyn Turano |
Change and/or establish an age when minors, with separated
parents, have a voice in family court related to custody arrangements. |
AF-17 | Michael Berger | Michaela Finn | Ryleigh Hesler | Alex Maddaloni |
Amend New York Penal Code § 135.60 to outlaw the coercion of
minors into gang criminal organizations in public areas |
AF-18 | Jeremy Martelle Jr. | Evin Mattupurath | Will Lanzoni | Maximilien Grumberg |
AN ACT: An Act to amend the New York Election Law §5-102 to
reduce the voting age to sixteen years old for local town, village, city, and
county elections. |
AF-20 | Gabrielle Abato | Micaela Oram | Paola Magana | Ananya Chatterjee |
Amend §135.3 of the Commissioner of Education’s regulations
to require secondary schools to teach comprehensive sexual education in
health classes. |
AF-25 | Orion Crossman | Alison Diaz |
amend section 210 of the Taylor law; allowing public
employee or employee organizations, excluding policemen and firemen, to
cause, instigate, encourage or go on strike. |
AF-32 | Alexis Ahn | Laura Haight |
Amend Article 7, Section 189.2 of Correction Law to prohibit
the collection of an incarceration fee from the earnings of prisoners. |
AF-37 | Savannah Werner | Nathan Slawson | Natalie Brodman | Emera Aquila |
Amend section §803-b to make a personal finance class a
mandatory credit to graduate in place of economics. |
AF-39 | Harrison Bender | Skyler Mongardi | Baylee Vester |
Amend section § 260.10 of Penal Law to raise the penalty for
child endangerment from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D Felony. |
AF-40 | Andrew Bilotti | Ian Hua | Adam Schultzer |
Amend section 499-bbbb of the New York State Real Property
Tax Law to incentivize big businesses that use solar power as an alternative
source of energy. |
AF-42 | Kenan Kapetanovic | Marco Reggiardo | Julian Brooks | Aidan Knoebel |
Amend Article 72 § 72-0302 of the Environmental Conservation
Law by adding paragraph h. to
subsection 1 to add a fee for Carbon Dioxide Emissions. |
AL-02 | Stephen Gilbert | Andrew Patterson |
Amend § 2603 of Education Law to allow students sixteen
years or older to vote in school board elections. |
AL-05 | Macey Bryant | Thomas Chung | Elaina McGrath | Aaron Mattupurath |
AN ACT TO: Amend Environmental Conservation Law Article 27,
Title 27 to add section 27-2708 to implement a five cent tax on single use
plastic carryout bags. |
AL-10 | Jayden Fritz-Berrios | Calvin Jean | Jasmine Willard |
Amend § 187 of New York State Correction Law to raise the
pay grade of inmate workers to at least half that of the state minimum wage. |
AL-12 | Colin Hansen | Aiden Westfall |
Amend the
New York State Penal Law Section 230.00 to make prostitution sanctionable
only without a license issued from the New York State Department of Health,
and to amend New York State Public Health Law Sections 2310 – 2334 to create
a license for prostitution and houses of prostitution issued and regulated by
the Department of Health. |
AL-16 | Jackson LaSarso | Brady Stark | Kellen Gannon | Emily Lucy |
An Act To
Decriminalize drug use and constructively institute solution-based policy to
the public health crisis The People of the State of New York, represented in
the Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: Purpose To institute
evidence-based policy in order to solve the most prevalent public health
crisis facing New York State. Summary of Provisions Section 1: Definitions
Controlled Substance: Shall consist of any substance by whatever name or
chemical designation proscribed in §3306 of Public Health Law. Eligible
Defendant: Any individual in possession of a personal use quantity of
controlled substance Personal Use: A quantity of controlled substance not to
exceed the quantities described in and including §220.09 possessed for the
purposes of recreational usage. Panel: Shall consist of a psychiatrist,
attorney and social worker, all of whom are licensed and in good standing to
practice in their respective field in the state of New York. Panel membership
shall be construed to be a form of jury duty and thus panel members shall
receive summons, be recognized as jurors in all purposes and receive the same
protections and benefits. Section 2: Provisions The penal law is amended by
modifying §220.03 to read as follows: (A.) Criminal possession of a controlled
substance in the seventh degree is a class A misdemeanor. The penal law is
amended by modifying §220.06 to read as follows: (A.) Criminal possession of
a controlled substance in the fifth degree is a class D felony. The penal law
is amended by modifying §220.06 to read as follows: (A.) Criminal possession
of a controlled substance in the fourth degree is a class C felony. The penal
law is amended by modifying §221.05 to read as follows: (A.) A person is
guilty of unlawful possession of a personal quantity of a controlled
substance when he knowingly and unlawfully possesses a controlled substance
for the purposes of personal use. Unlawful possession of a controlled
substance for the purposes of personal use is a violation punishable only by
(i) a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, and i |
AL-30 | Meghan Gleason | Ashtyn Bishop | Madison Brown | Leah Alaimo |
An Act To Amend Law 508 section 2 c&d |
AL-40 | Lauren Lammers | MacKenzie Randolph | Phoebe Rigley |
Amend Section 99-P of the State Finance Law by creating a
specialized committee known as the “Embryonic Stem Cell Research Committee”
and subsequently allocating funds toward it. |
AL-41 | Zachary Phelps | Dave Rakhymzhan | Tiffany Brace | Jordan Colon |
Amend § 9-0501 of the Environmental Conservation Law
regarding classification of Forest Preserve and State Forest |
AL-46 | Leah Kilkenny | Jake Miller |
Amend Article 35 Section 1702 of Education to require each
public school district to have a voting position within the district’s board
of education that is served by a high school student within the senior class. |
S-03 | Zarib Alam | Gabe Hoglund |
Amend §591 to require a quota of 10 community service hours
per week for claimants receiving unemployment benefits. |
S-10 | Samir Guimire | Aanzan Sachdeva |
AN ACT To:
Amend paragraph 16 § of section 3221 of the insurance law and § six of
section 6527 of the education law to not require health insurance for FDA
approved contraceptive pills and to authorize a registered professional nurse
to administer or dispense emergency contraception to a patient. |
S-11 | Benjamin McNutt | Richard Kaufman IV |
TO: Amend
Article 5 of the General Obligations Law by adding Title 18 in relation to
mandating disclosure of non-fiduciaries who provide investment advice, and
mandate all individuals providing investment advice in relation to retirement
savings and funds act as a fiduciary in that regard. |
S-12 | Kirsten Gollhofer | Max Gollhofer | Liana Grosser | Molly Showers |
Amend Environmental Conservation law to add a new title 30
under article 27 which mandates that food service and retail establishments
discharge of used and unused food waste in more sustainable ways. |
S-17 | Andrew Parsnip | Alex Garcia | Finn Brauer | Scott Cottier |
Amend Article 33 § 1225-c of the New York State Vehicle and
Traffic Law to increase penalties for using a mobile telephone while
operating a motor vehicle. |
S-24 | Ryan Penson | James Pinnell |
Add to §
137 of Article 6 of the Correction Law to prohibit all persons under the age
of 18 from being admitted to any solitary Special Housing Unit, Segregated
Housing (Including PIMS), or Juvenile Separation Unit and to prohibit any
person admitted to any solitary Special Housing Unit or Segregated Housing
(Including PIMS) from remaining for longer than 1 year. |
S-25 | Justin Iorio | Joseph Mazzarella | Makayla Willets |
Add section 4 to the New York State Penal 125.15 to make the
sale of opioids an offense of manslaughter in the second degree. |
S-28 | Daisy-Ann Norman | Courtney Mapp | Defanae Carter-Montaque |
Amend the correction law § 611 to include the ability of a
pregnant woman who is in jail at least 1 family member in the delivery room
when they go into labor. |
S-29 | Grace Meredith |
AN ACT TO: Amend the tax law, in relation to establishing a
tax on carbon emissions and to amend the state finance law, in relation to
establishing the carbon tax revenue fund. |