New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing, released the following statement in response to the Rent Guidelines Board’s 2024-2025 Rent Increases: “I am outraged, but not surprised,...

Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced that her legislation (A1619-A/S1001-A) to prohibit insurers from restricting or delaying access to antiretroviral medications for the treatment of people with HIV/AIDS passed...

Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced that her legislation (A38-A/S2063-A) to require insurance coverage of scalp cooling devices during cancer treatment passed both houses of the Legislature unanimously. The bill,...

Albany, NY – The New York State Senate voted 61-0 yesterday, May 29, to pass legislation carried by State Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal to require life-saving epinephrine auto-injectors at all large public venues across...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) released the following statement in response to the announcement of Sammy’s Law (A7266-A/S2422-B), her legislation granting New York City the authority to lower its own speed limits,...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A1302/S1898) to increase funding to the state’s Cure Childhood Cancer research fund has been signed into law. The law will create a check-off...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A5347/S5915) to provide domestic violence survivors with resources to identify and overcome economic abuse was signed into law.“Domestic violence...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing, announced today that her legislation (A6655-A/S2985-C) to support the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing has been signed...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her bill to provide teachers with informational materials on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors was signed into law by the Governor. The bill requires that all...

New, York, NY – New York State Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF -Manhattan) heralded the passage of her legislation regulating the advertisement, collection and dissemination of an individual’s reproductive health data within the Health and...

New York, NY – Today, in her first meeting as Chair of the Committee on Housing, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF -Manhattan) reported the landmark Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP). The bill, A.4201, sponsored by Assemblymember...

I am honored to be appointed the new Chair of the New York State Assembly Committee on Housing by Speaker Carl Heastie. Housing has always been deeply personal to me. Years ago, my landlord tried to evict my grandmother and me from our rent-regulated...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF - Manhattan) today announced that her bill, Brendan’s Law, named after 2-year-old Brendan McCarthy, who died in 2010 after becoming entangled in the cord of a window blind, has been signed...

New York, NY - Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her legislation, bill A.372, prohibiting private insurance companies from imposing co-payments on every patient visit to an opioid treatment program was signed into...

New York, NY - Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A.5653), the New York Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, has been signed into law. The law will prohibit the manufacture and sale of cosmetics in New York...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her groundbreaking legislation to end the puppy mill pipeline in New York State has been signed into law. The law prohibits the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits from...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her legislation requiring the state to develop and distribute informational materials on the dangers and prevention of cytomegalovirus (CMV) to childcare providers,...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her bill allowing survivors of domestic violence to easily opt out of phone, cable and utility contracts shared with their abuser and have their name modified or...

This Supreme Court is hell-bent on destroying the very foundations of our democratic ideals that we hold dear. The Court gave the gift of guns to millions of Americans yesterday, and today it sentenced women to forced pregnancy. Individuals and religious...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Social Services, today released the following statement regarding the US Supreme Court decision in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association...