Asm. Catalina Cruz

Democrat · New York District 39 · House · NY

Voting record

• Participation: shows up to vote 100% of the time.
• Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 78.8% of the time.
• Alignment with the district's political lean: 99.4%.

Recent votes by Asm. Catalina Cruz

• 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 Makes elder fraud a standalone crime — Criminalizes defrauding a person 65 years of age or older by stealing or accessing without proper permission money, property or benefits by means of a deceptive tactic or the purposeful feeding of misinformation, regardless of the monetary value of the money, property or benefits.
• Voted Yea on Repeals provisions relating to mandatory anti-arson applications for insurance coverage to insure any building against the peril of fire or explosion.
• Voted Yea on Ends subminimum wage exemption for disabled workers — Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.
• Voted Yea on Directs contracting state agencies to develop a growth plan in order to increase participation of minority- and women-owned businesses with respect to state contracts and subcontracts which includes an analyses of the use of discretionary buying.
• Voted Yea on Mandates EV emergency response training for first responders — Requires the state fire administrator to make available a specialized electric vehicle emergency response training program to provide training to individuals responsible for providing emergency response and recovery following incidents involving electric vehicles; defines emergency medical services agency.
• Voted Yea on Provides that upon a vacancy, the council of the arts shall not be deemed out of compliance with the requirement that each of the ten regions of the state be represented by at least one member of the council so long as such vacancy is filled within a reasonable time and the appointment made for such new vacancy moves the composition of the council closer to such requirement.
• Voted Yea on Authorizes the New York state thruway authority to issue annual short distance commuter permits which shall provide for travel at no charge between interchanges in permit areas.
• Voted Yea on Group health plans must cover scalp cooling for chemo — Requires certain large group health insurance policies and contracts to cover scalp cooling systems for the preservation of hair during cancer chemotherapy treatment.
• 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 Requires insurance coverage for one rescue and one maintenance inhaler at no cost.
• Voted Yea on Authorizes Justin Finkle to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for employment as a full-time police officer for the Albany county sheriff's office; requires that Justin Finkle be otherwise subject to the merit and fitness provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police officers.
• Voted Yea on Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters.
• Voted Yea on Allows the New York state medical care facilities finance agency to issue one billion eight hundred thousand dollars more of certain bonds and notes.

Other New York representatives

• Asm. Al Stirpe (Democrat)
• Asm. Al Taylor (Democrat)
• Asm. Alec Brook-Krasny (Republican)
• Asm. Alex Bores (Democrat)
• Sen. Alexis Weik (Republican)
• Asm. Alicia Hyndman (Democrat)
• Asm. Amanda Septimo (Democrat)
• Asm. Amy Paulin (Democrat)
• Asm. Andrea K. Bailey (Republican)
• Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins (Democrat)

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