Jo Simon

Representative · New York

Party

Democratic

State

New York

Chamber

Representative

District

HD-052

Years active

2016–2026

Bills sponsored

71 bills

Bills sponsored

• NY-A10093-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes a twenty-four hour, toll-free hotline and website for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning plus (LGBTQ+) individuals who are experiencing emotional distress, suicidal ideation, or crisis…
• NY-A118-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
• NY-A1230-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.
• NY-A1253-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires employers to annually report to the division of human rights the number of settlements with employees and other individuals performing services in the workplace regarding claims of discrimination on the basis o…
• NY-A1378-2026 failed · primary sponsor
  Relates to presumptive evidence that a person committed a hate crime by evaluating a certain set of facts and circumstances.
• NY-A1466-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board…
• NY-A2613-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Provides additional protections for sensitive health information; requires all health information networks, electronic health record systems, and health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the di…
• NY-A3475-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Prohibits police officers from using bias-based profiling; requires that a procedure be established for the taking and review of complaints against police officers for bias-based profiling; allows an action for injuncti…
• NY-A3925-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires the office of court administration, clerks, and all other records custodians to develop policies and procedures to ensure no identifying information or documentation relating to name change actions or sex desig…
• NY-A3948-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Provides for a tax credit for certain persons relocating to the state to provide or receive reproductive care or gender-affirming care.
• NY-A4921-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Enacts the college student suicide prevention act to provide for policies, procedures and guidelines on suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for every higher education institution.
• NY-A5478-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local corr…
• NY-A5563-2026 failed · primary sponsor
  Relates to the development of a public anti-stigma mental health education program targeting the general public and underserved populations.
• NY-A6596-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities including hospitals, certain professionals, and insurers; requires insurance cov…
• NY-A6746-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires school districts and charter schools to establish a task force to make recommendations on model curriculum or instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen…
• NY-A6927-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Provides that prescription labels for gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists, pubertal suppressants, anabolic steroids, alpha reductase inhibitors, progestins, or drug classes for hormone replacement therapy maybe incl…
• NY-A773-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to the use of automated lending decision-making tools by banks for the purposes of making lending decisions; allows loan applicants to consent to or opt out of such use.
• NY-A8841-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes a gender-affirming care access program to provide support and increase access to gender-affirming care including certain medical and surgical care.
• NY-A8884-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.
• NY-A9396-2026 failed · co-sponsor
  Prohibits the use of electronic shelving labels, digital shelf display technology, and surveillance pricing in food retail establishments and drug retail establishments; provides injunctive relief and civil penalties.
• NY-K1528-2026 enacted · primary sponsor
  Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2026, as Gay Pride Month in the State of New York
• NY-A5480-2025 failed · co-sponsor
  Protects individuals who provide or receive legally protected health activity, including reproductive health care and gender-affirming care, from criminal or civil liability or professional sanctions imposed by jurisdic…
• NY-K113-2025 enacted · primary sponsor
  Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 24, 2025, as Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Day in the State of New York
• NY-K626-2025 enacted · primary sponsor
  Commemorating the 33rd Anniversary of Queens LGBTQ Pride Parade on June 1, 2025
• NY-K632-2025 enacted · primary sponsor
  Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2025, as Gay Pride Month in the State of New York
• NY-A1202-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to requiring training to reduce abusive behavior, bullying, and cyberbullying in the workplace; requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of human rights, to develop an abusive be…
• NY-A1263-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to judicial diversion programs; establishes a diversion part in each county; repeals certain provisions of law relating thereto.
• NY-A1273-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes the LGBTQ+ advisory board to make recommendations, conduct research, and more regarding the LGBTQ+ community in New York state.
• NY-A1943-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Suspends all unnecessary travel to states that have enacted a law that voids or repeals, or has the effect of voiding or repealing, existing state or local protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orien…
• NY-A282-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires every physician, physician assistant, specialist assistant, registered nurse and licensed practical nurse to complete course work or training regarding human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted infe…
• NY-A2821-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Enacts the "Trevyan Rowe child and young teen mental health community safety act"; directs boards of education to create policies, procedures, and guidelines for at-risk children and young teens who have demonstrated su…
• NY-A3085-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Relates to presumptive evidence that a person committed a hate crime by evaluating a certain set of facts and circumstances.
• NY-A3978-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Prohibits police officers from using bias-based profiling; requires that a procedure be established for the taking and review of complaints against police officers for bias-based profiling; allows an action for injuncti…
• NY-A4060-2024 enacted · co-sponsor
  Requires menstrual products in all public college and university buildings.
• NY-A4375-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires school districts and charter schools to include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions, and lifeways of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual people, in an…
• NY-A4576-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.
• NY-A4604-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality ed…
• NY-A5318-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Updates provisions relating to dignity for all students including establishing the student suicide prevention act which includes curriculum and teacher training requirements designed to prevent student suicide with a fo…
• NY-A5341-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Enacts the "New York accountability in reporting act"; establishes the crimes of offering a false report for filing in the second degree and offering a false report for filing in the first degree; includes falsely repor…
• NY-A6269-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Provides an exception from professional misconduct for the performance, recommendation, or provision of any reproductive health services or gender-affirming care by a health care practitioner performing in the scope of…
• NY-A6575-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to the creation of an innovative housing initiative for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely reside in such a setting; directs the division of housing and community renewal to…
• NY-A69-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Directs the department of social services to establish a refugee resettlement program with the goals of achieving economic and social self-sufficiency, assisting victims of human trafficking, and assuring proper foster…
• NY-A709-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local corr…
• NY-A7672-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction.
• NY-A7687-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Declares that a law authorizing a child to be removed from their parent or guardian based on the parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming care is against the public policy of this state; relat…
• NY-A7897-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board…
• NY-A7924-2024 failed · primary sponsor
  Declares a policy of equal treatment of people of all races, cultures, religions, incomes, education levels, disabilities, gender identity/expression and sexual preference in the development and enforcement of environme…
• NY-A8261-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to facilitating the prosecution of hate crimes; establishes the crimes of bias harassment in the first and second degrees.
• NY-A8934-2024 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires training to reduce abusive conduct and bullying in the workplace as part of a written workplace violence prevention program.
• NY-K2375-2024 enacted · primary sponsor
  Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2024, as Gay Pride Month in the State of New York
• NY-A372-2023 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and people living with HIV long-term care facility residents' bill of rights; prohibits a long-term care facility or facility staff from discriminating against any…
• NY-A6046-2023 failed · co-sponsor
  Prohibits consideration of a law of another state that authorizes a child to be removed from their parent or guardian based on the parent or guardian allowing their child to receive gender-affirming care in custody case…
• NY-K388-2023 enacted · primary sponsor
  Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2, 2023, as Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Day in the State of New York
• NY-A1327-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to gender indication on insurance claim forms; provides policies shall not exclude coverage if gender indication is different from sex assigned at birth or gender otherwise recorded.
• NY-A691-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated people based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated people in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from the person…
• NY-A7001-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated people based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated people in state and local correctional f…
• NY-A7762-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suici…
• NY-A840-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.
• NY-A9418-2022 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes the transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) wellness and equity program; establishes a fund for such program.
• NY-K221-2021 enacted · primary sponsor
  Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim March 31, 2021, as Transgender Day of Visibility in the State of New York
• NY-A2400-2020 failed · primary sponsor
  Limits the extreme emotional disturbance affirmative defense by removing the discovery, knowledge or disclosure of the victim's sexual orientation, sex, gender or sex assigned at birth from the defense.
• NY-A5257-2020 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated people based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated people in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from the person…
• NY-A6837-2020 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to gender indication on insurance claim forms; policies shall not exclude coverage if gender indication is different from sex assigned at birth or gender otherwise recorded.
• NY-A7197-2020 failed · co-sponsor
  Relates to court recognition of a change of gender, adds gender to procedures regarding change of name.
• NY-A866-2020 failed · co-sponsor
  Establishes the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender long-term care facility residents' bill of rights.
• NY-A747-2019 failed · co-sponsor
  Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression; defines "gender identity or expression" as having or being perceived as having a gender identity, self image, appearance, behavior or expression whether o…
• NY-A8375-2019 enacted · co-sponsor
  Provides that it shall not be an affirmative defense for murder that the defendant's conduct resulted substantially from the discovery, knowledge or disclosure of the victim's sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender ide…
• NY-A3358-2018 failed · co-sponsor
  Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression; defines "gender identity or expression" as having or being perceived as having a gender identity, self image, appearance, behavior or expression whether o…
• NY-A5001-2018 failed · co-sponsor
  Restricts the nature of extreme emotional disturbance as an affirmative defense to a charge of murder in the second degree.
• NY-A9705-2018 failed · co-sponsor
  Limits the extreme emotional disturbance affirmative defense by removing the discovery, knowledge or disclosure of the victim's sexual orientation, sex, gender or sex assigned at birth from the defense.
• NY-A4558-2016 failed · primary sponsor
  Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression; defines "gender identity or expression" as having or being perceived as having a gender identity, self image, appearance, behavior or expression whether o…