Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) was joined in Albany by a class of environmental science students from the West End Secondary School (WESS), a public middle school in her Assembly district, and advocates from the Billion...

Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced the introduction of three bills (A.347, A.585, A.588) to provide feminine hygiene products at no cost for menstruating individuals in schools, homeless shelters and state & local...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) appeared with Animal Planet star Jackson Galaxy this weekend at Cat Camp, a two-day conference and cat adoption event, to raise awareness of her bill in the State Legislature to ban the...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) will be leading busloads of Upper West Siders to protest President-Elect Trump and the Congressional Majority’s war on women at the January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Washington. ...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill, the Beagle Freedom Bill, A. 8261-A, which would require beagles and other dogs and cats used in scientific research, to be considered for adoption before...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced that her bill, A.356/S.6730, to require hospitals and birth centers to distribute a leaflet detailing crib safety information to maternity patients at the time of discharge,...

New York — Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill allowing veterinarians to satisfy continuing education requirements by providing free spay and neuter procedures was signed into law. “Robust spay and...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal and State Senator Brad Hoylman today announced that they plan to introduce legislation, the #IVoted Bill, to legalize ballot selfies in New York. “I can hashtag just about anything on social media,...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), State Senator Brad Hoylman and parents and residents of the Lincoln Towers community rallied to urge the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to keep the Lincoln Towers school...

New York, NY – With the signing into law of Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal's bill prohibiting advertising of illegal hotels by the Governor, New York today became the first state in the nation to take bold action to stop the spread of illegal Airbnb...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that the law she sponsored to eliminate state and local sales tax on tampons and similar feminine hygiene product takes effect today, September 1, 2016. The bill was...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill, the Beagle Freedom Bill, A. 8261-A, which would require beagles and other dogs and cats used in scientific research, to be considered for adoption before...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), along with 19 of her colleagues from 10 states across the country who are sponsors of state-level legislation to require mandatory on-package labeling of genetically modified organism...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal today called upon the Senate to take up bill A.5501-C/S.2232-E, the SWEAT (Securing Wages Earned Against Theft) bill, which would build upon the historic Wage Theft Prevention Act by allowing workers...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Committee on Alcoholism and Drugs Abuse, applauded the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement that it will regulate e-cigarettes like it does...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill to crack down on Airbnb and illegal hotel operators and protect tenants, bill A.8704-B, jumped a major hurdle today when it was voted out of the Assembly...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) slammed the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for carrying out its diabolical plan, disclosed with great pride via press release, to artificially increase...

Tenants and the City won an important battle in the fight against illegal hotels this week when a state appellate court ruled that a major illegal hotel operator was not entitled to break the law just because it had been renting out short-stay rooms before...

New York – Ricky Gervais, well-known actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and musician, has joined the long list of supporters of the proposed legislation to ban the declawing of cats in the State of New York. Gervais, co-creator of The Office...

New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her bill, A.7555, which exempts feminine hygiene products, such as tampons and sanitary napkins, from state sales, was UNANIMOUSLY passed by the Assembly. “The...