Reinvent Albany State Bill Memos, 2021-2022 Assembly BillSenate BillRA PositionStatusIssueDescription and Link to Memo A6611-A (Hyndman)S5254-A (Biaggi)SupportOn Senate Floor Calendar, In Assembly CommitteeEthicsSimplifies Voting Requirements at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics A7512 (Hyndman)S6364 (Gounardes)SupportIn CommitteeEthicsAllows JCOPE to Disclose Status of Investigations to Complainants and the Public A2631-A (Thiele)S977-A (Gaughran)SupportPassed Senate, In Assembly CommitteeAccountable Public AuthoritiesIncreases powers of Authorities Budget Office (ABO) A1141-A (Paulin)S4817-A (Krueger)SupportPassed Senate and AssemblyTransparencyRemoves duplicative reporting requirements for nonprofits No same-asS6964-A (Biaggi)SupportPassed SenateEthicsImproves Voting Processes at JCOPE and Equalizes Legislative Appointments No same-asS6261 (Biaggi)SupportOn Senate Floor CalendarEthicsSimplifies JCOPE voting rules for appointment and removal of the executive director A5825 (Cruz)S1096 (Liu)SupportIn CommitteeAnticorruptionIncludes legislative and judicial employees under state civil service law whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections A2483-B (Niou)S3395-A (Gounardes)SupportPassed Senate, In Assembly CommitteeHuman RightsEnsures that employees of elected and appointed officials are better able to hold state government accountable and are protected under NYS Human Rights Law’s anti-discrimination and harassment provisions A1442-B (Carroll)S4625-A (Comrie)SupportPassed Senate and AssemblyTransparencyMTA Open Data Act A4078 (Colton)S5137 (Mattera)SupportPassed Senate, In Assembly CommitteeAccountable Public AuthoritiesRequires Legislative Approval for Creation of Public Authority Subsidiaries A1928 (Gottfried)S820 (Biaggi)SupportIn CommitteeStrong DemocracyConstitutional amendment to give the legislature more equal powers to the governor in the budget process No same-asS5711 (Comrie)SupportIn CommitteeTransparencyEstablishes a database of deals tracking state economic development projects A5701 (Dinowitz)S1195 (Gianaris)SupportPassed in BudgetTax SubsidiesDecouples NYS and NYC's tax code from the federal Opportunity Zones program A5967 (Stewart-Cousins)S5357 (Heastie)Support and Recommend ImprovementsSigned by GovernorStrong DemocracyRolls back some of Governor's emergency powers A6882 (Cahill)S4816 (Krueger)SupportIn CommitteeTax SubsidiesEliminates non-essential fossil fuel subsidies No same-asS516 (Gianaris)SupportPassed SenateVotingEstablishes absentee ballot deadlines A454-A (Rozic)S4658 (Parker)SupportPassed Senate, In Assembly CommitteeVotingRequires polling places on college campuses in certain election districts Various absentee ballot reform billsSupportPassed SenateVotingVarious reforms to absentee balloting in NYS A8035 (Paulin)S7233 (Savino)OpposeIn CommitteeAccountable Public AuthoritiesSplits current leadership job into separate MTA Chair and CEO positions, removes senate confirmation of CEO A6589-A (Galef)S286-A (Myrie)SupportPassed Senate, In Assembly CommitteeVotingMakes ballot images and cast vote records available to public upon request A7925 (Zebrowski)S6809 (Reichlin-Melnick)SupportIn CommitteeClean ContractingRestores Comptroller oversight powers A4635 (Thiele)S1311-A (Gaughran)SupportPassed Senate and AssemblyAccountable Public AuthoritiesRequires Long Island Power Authority to submit lobbying and advertising reports to state leaders A7611-A (Kelles)S6268-A (May) SupportPassed Assembly, in Senate CommitteeAccountable Public AuthoritiesProtects Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Funds from Raiding by Prohibiting Transfers to General Fund
