Asm. Doug Smith
Republican · New York District 5 · House · NY
Voting record
- Participation: shows up to vote 97% of the time.
- Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 84.7% of the time.
- Alignment with the district's political lean: 80.6%.
Recent votes by Asm. Doug Smith
- Voted Yea on Delays employee-owned business advisory panel report one year — Extends the reporting deadline of the advisory panel on employee-owned enterprises to 2027
- Voted Yea on Strengthens Oneida Nation detention agreements with counties — Relates to the effectiveness of certain county-tribal detention agreements between the Oneida Indian Nation and Oneida county and Madison county
- Voted Nay on New York tracks Middle Eastern and North African demographics — Requires separate collection categories for Middle Eastern and North African groups in NYS.
- Voted Nay on Caps landlord dishonored check fees at actual costs — Prohibits residential landlords from charging tenants a fee for a dishonored rent check in excess of the actual costs or fees incurred by such landlord as a result thereof, provided such dishonored check fee was included in the initial lease.
- Voted Nay on Mandatory jail time for protection order violations — Requires mandatory jail time for violators of orders of protection.
- Voted Yea on Requires disclosure of AI hiring and employment tools — Relates to the disclosure of automated employment decision-making tools; requires the office of information technology services to maintain an artificial intelligence inventory; provides that the use of artificial intelligence systems shall not affect the existing rights of employees pursuant to an existing collective bargaining agreement, or the existing representational relationships among employee organizations or the bargaining relationships between the employer and an employee organization.
- Voted Yea on Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to conduct a study to examine and update the requirements of safety inspections conducted to ensure the operational safety of all motor vehicles; requires a report; makes related provisions.
- Voted Yea on Requires the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to provide for automated identification of OTDA program participants for participation in utility corporation affordability programs for water service affordability.
- Voted Nay on New York enacts 2025-2026 budget and criminal justice reforms — Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state public protection and general government budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; extends provisions of law relating to criminal justice including the psychological testing of candidates, expanding the geographic area of employment of certain police officers, prisoner furloughs in certain cases and the crime of absconding therefrom, correctional facilities, incarcerated individual work release, furlough and leave, certain provisions which impact upon expenditure of certain appropriations made by chapter 50 of the laws of 1994 enacting the state operations budget, taxes, surcharges, fees and funding, prison and jail housing and alternatives to detention and incarceration programs, taxes, expiration of the mandatory surcharge and victim assistance fee, the ignition interlock device program, the merit provisions, prisoner litigation reform and the incarcerated individual filing fee provisions of the civil practice law and rules and general filing fee provision and incarcerated individual property claims exhaustion requirement of the court of claims act of such chapter, the family protection and domestic violence intervention act of 1994, certain provisions requiring the arrest of certain persons engaged in family violence, the use of closed-circuit television and other protective measures for certain child witnesses, the counties, the interstate compact for adult offender supervision, limiting the closing of certain correctional facilities, the custody by the department of correctional services of incarcerated individual serving definite sentences, custody of federal prisoners, the closing of certain correctional facilities, military funds of the organized militia, providing for community treatment facilities and establishing the crime of absconding from the community treatment facility; relates to the pre-criminal proceeding settlements in the city of New York (Part A); expands eligibility for who may hold correction and police officer positions (Part C); expands support services for victims of financial abuse and homicide (Part G); expands protections and services to survivors of sexual assault for itemized charges related to exams for such survivors (Part H); improves access to public assistance for survivors of gender-based violence; repeals provisions relating thereto (Part I); requires certain employers to implement a model gender-based violence and the workplace policy (Part J); prohibits artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material (Part L); extends provisions of law relating to liquidator's permits and temporary retail permits (Part Q); increases the bond limit for the New York city transitional finance authority (Part R); modifies the industrial and commercial abatement program (Part S); extends the civil service examination fee waiver for certain persons (Part V); provides for an optional payment election for certain employees (Part W); authorizes construction manager as constructor contracts as an alternative delivery method for authorized projects; defines construction manager as constructor contracts (Part Y); allows certain residents or fellows to render medical care in cases of workers' compensation injuries (Part AA); provides for temporary payment of compensation for medical treatment and care, including prescription drugs (Part CC); establishes a body-worn cameras program within the department of corrections and community supervision to increase accountability (Part GG); relates to the functions, powers and duties of the state commission on correction (Part HH); extends the time the New York State community commission on reparations remedies has to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature and the governor (Part JJ); establishes the "Oak Orchard wastewater project design-build act" for the wastewater treatment plant in the town of Clay, county of Onondaga (Part KK); increases the amount of allowance that trial and grand jurors are entitled to in each court of the unified court system (Part LL); establishes the New York state office of gun violence prevention (Part MM); provides for ten additional judges for the New York city civil court and five additional judges for the court of claims (Part NN); relates to public campaign financing; changes certain thresholds and procedures; repeals certain provisions of chapter 58 of 2020 relating to severability (Part OO); delays implementing certain restrictions on outside earned income by members of the legislature until January 1, 2027 (Part PP); requires that candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor are designated jointly; provides that ballots shall reflect that that offices of governor and lieutenant governor are voted for jointly (Part QQ); relates to civil enforcement actions initiated by the attorney-general (Part RR); restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers (Part SS); establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs (Part TT); removes eligibility or receipt of primary social security disability benefits as a condition for ordinary disability retirement for New York city enhanced plan members in active service who are not eligible for a normal retirement benefit and have completed five years or more of service (Part UU); extends the retiree earnings limitation waiver for school employees until June 30, 2027 (Part VV); authorizes courts to dispense with the personal appearance of a party or the defendant and conduct such appearance electronically; repeals provisions relating to appearances in court; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof (Part WW); relates to promotions of police detectives, sergeants, and lieutenants for retirement purposes (Part XX); establishes alternative twenty and twenty-five year plans for certain law enforcement members or officers; provides for accidental disability retirement allowance for certain members (Part YY); lowers the minimum hiring age for correction officers to eighteen (Part ZZ); extends provisions related to the operation and administration of the legislature (Part AAA); relates to authorizing the department of corrections and community supervision to close up to three correctional facilities in the 2025--2026 state fiscal year; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part BBB).
- Voted Nay on Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan.
- Voted Yea on Study examines public assistance benefit cliffs — Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto.
- Voted Yea on Requires medical evaluations for assisted living eligibility to be conducted within thirty days prior to the date of admission.
- Voted Nay on Give code complainants copies of enforcement orders — Requires that when a complaint is made to local code enforcement of a violation of the uniform fire prevention and building code or a local code which results in the issuance of a compliance order, the complainant shall also be provided a copy of such order.
- Voted Yea on Requires a mortgagee to accept and apply payments.
- Voted Yea on State help for towns losing colleges — Directs the department of state, in cooperation with other departments, to provide technical assistance to any municipality, upon request, that has had a college or university close within such municipality.
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