Asm. Phara Souffrant Forrest

Democrat · New York District 57 · House · NY

Voting record

Participation: shows up to vote 98% of the time.
Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 83.7% of the time.
Alignment with the district's political lean: 99.9%.

Recent votes by Asm. Phara Souffrant Forrest

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 Yea on Prohibits rent minimums in all mortgages regardless of when issued.
Voted Present on Prohibits contracts for the purchase or financing of a dog or cat from online websites from including provisions allowing repossession of the animal.
Voted Yea on Notifies tenants of rent exemption eligibility — Requires certain agencies and individuals to provide notice regarding the rent increase exemption for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities programs to tenants upon the occurrence of certain events.
Voted Yea on Drug checking services reduce overdose deaths — Establishes through the department of health a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds; requires the department to establish public health surveillance of the unregulated drug supply; provides exemptions for participants in the drug checking program from certain controlled substance offenses.
Voted Yea on Relates to the recall of a class B firefighting foam; prohibits the sale or distribution of firefighting personal protective equipment that contains intentionally added PFAS.
Voted Yea on Requires the provision of information regarding the home energy assistance program for participants in the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program.
Voted Yea on Strengthens provisions relating to complaint handling procedures by the public service commission; requires certain response times.
Voted Yea on Adds congenital heart defect info to health education — Includes information on congenital heart defect births as part of the department of health's health care and wellness education and outreach program; amends the effectiveness thereof.
Voted Yea on Treats legally grown cannabis as agricultural crop — Expands the definition of crops, livestock and livestock products to include cannabis when cultivated in accordance with the cannabis law; amends the effectiveness thereof.
Voted Yea on Relates to the date of school district annual organizational meetings; allows boards of education to meet on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th for their annual organizational meeting.
Voted Yea on Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.
Voted Yea on Tuition awards for state reserve military members — Establishes tuition awards for members of the reserved armed forces of the United States; provides eligibility for such tuition benefit shall be determined by the education services offices of the division of military and naval affairs; restricts such tuition benefit to legal residents of the state; establishes a tuition award account.
Voted Yea on Requires that general hospitals that provide mastectomy surgery, lymph node dissection or lumpectomy provide information to such patients concerning options for breast reconstruction.

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