Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care: Assembly Health Committee Advances Nursing Home Package
Mar 12, 2021
On Monday, March 1, the Assembly Health Committee advanced several bills to improve patient safety, accountability, and quality of care in nursing homes.These are part of an Assembly package of nursing home reform bills, including additional legislation...
Assembly Passes Legislation Providing Sick Leave for All New Yorkers During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Mar 11, 2021
Yesterday both houses of the Legislature passed and the Governor signed legislation to immediately provide all New Yorkers with sick leave during the coronavirus pandemic. I cosponsored the bill, A.10153/S.8091, which was introduced by Assembly Member...
Assembly Health Committee Update
Feb 15, 2021
The Assembly Health Committee reported 57 bills at its first three meetings of the year. Several of these were “chapter amendments,” which are new bills making minor changes agreed to as a condition of the Governor signing previous bills.The...
Assembly Health Committee Update
Jun 30, 2020
Sixty-eight bills approved by the Assembly Health Committee passed both the Assembly and Senate this year.Bills passed by both Houses include:The Health Committee also held hearings this spring on rural health care access and the New York Health Act single-payer...
Assembly Health Committee Update
Jun 30, 2020
Sixty-eight bills approved by the Assembly Health Committee passed both the Assembly and Senate this year.Bills passed by both Houses include:The Health Committee also held hearings this spring on rural health care access and the New York Health Act single-payer...
Decrim NY, Legislators Introduce First Statewide Bill to Decriminalize and Decarcerate Sex Trades in Nation's History
Jun 10, 2020
New York, NY – Today, Decrim NY and legislators unveiled Stop Violence in the Sex Trades Act, a package bill to decriminalize and decarcerate the sex trades in New York. It is the first statewide bill of its kind in the nation's...
Statement from NYC & NYS Legislative Chairs Carlina Rivera, Mark Levine, Richard Gottfried, and Gustavo Rivera on Contact Tracing Leadership Decision
May 8, 2020
"It is startling that months into the worst public health crisis our City has ever faced, the de Blasio administration is undertaking a bureaucratic reshuffling that creates new and unnecessary obstacles for the critical, complicated and sensitive work...