State Assembly Member - District 84
Amanda N. Septimo
Assembly member for the 84th District since 2021 and Secretary of the Assembly's Majority Conference, running for reelection.
Issues Amanda is raising
Climate, clean air and energy
Names capping the Cross Bronx Expressway, upholding the state's climate laws and their timeline, and clean air and open space in the South Bronx as her top three priorities. Sponsors a bill directing the state to set air-quality standards for toxic air contaminants and voted for the climate change adaptation cost recovery law.
Housing and tenant protections
Supports tenant protections, economic opportunity and investments that help families stay in their communities. Voted for the 2024-25 education, labor, housing and family assistance budget bill, and sponsored a 2023-24 bill for a fund to help localities with many asylum seekers pay for services including housing.
Health care
Supports affordable health care and community health resources and has spoken out against cuts that would hurt working people. Co-sponsored and voted for the Medical Aid in Dying Act, and sponsors bills to spread methadone program sites across the city's boroughs by population and to require a 100-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics.
Public safety and reentry
Supports investment in violence prevention, mental health services, youth programs and community-based solutions. Sponsors the Recidivism Reduction Act to create a state Office of Reentry Services, and voted for a 2026 law changing the limits on how close cannabis dispensaries may be to schools and houses of worship.
Schools, youth programs and child care
Supports better-funded schools, youth programs, access to child care and pathways for young people to succeed.
Background
Born and raised in the Bronx, she attended Vanderbilt University on a full-tuition scholarship and was community liaison and district director for U.S. Rep. José E. Serrano.
- Member of the New York State Assembly for District 84 since 2021; first elected in 2020
- Secretary of the Majority Conference in the State Assembly
- Former community liaison and district director for U.S. Rep. José E. Serrano
- Attended Vanderbilt University on a full-tuition scholarship
- Born and raised in the Bronx
- Says she secured $30 million in the state budget for LUCHA (Latinos United for Change)
- Won the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary for this seat with 59.6% of the vote
- Reelected to this seat on Nov. 5, 2024 with 76.8% of the vote; won it in 2020 with 84.0% and in 2022 with 83.4%
- Lost the Nov. 6, 2018 general election for this seat to then-incumbent Carmen Arroyo
Support
New York Working Families Party
Also on your ballot on the Working Families Party line
Money
$27K
raised
Top donors: Ruben Rodriguez, Kirsten Foy, Robert Rodriguez
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