• Affordability

  Grace Lee's top priority is affordability. She supports public investment in childcare and affordable housing, and ensuring corporations and the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.

• Ethics

  Grace Lee supported the LLC Transparency Act to stop bad actors from hiding behind anonymous shell companies and strengthen accountability for employers who exploit workers.

• Hate Crimes

  Grace Lee passed the Hate Crimes Modernization Act, the first strengthening of New York's hate crimes law in 20 years, expanding the list of offenses that can be prosecuted as hate crimes.

Issues Grace is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

• AI & Technology

  Grace Lee co-sponsored and helped pass the RAISE Act establishing safety standards for advanced AI systems. She is fighting to regulate high-risk AI systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination, stop surveillance pricing, and enact a moratorium on new data center permits while studying their impact on utility costs and the environment.

• Climate Action

  Grace Lee introduced legislation to protect drinking water from PFAS chemicals, advanced legislation for independent community monitors at brownfield cleanup sites near schools, and helped pass the Climate Change Superfund to require polluters to pay for climate adaptation. She supports the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, an Office of Equity for Energy and Climate, strengthening NYPA's role in renewable power, a clean fuel standard, the ASAP Act for solar expansion, producer responsibility for packaging waste, and the New York Youth Climate Corps.

• Education

  Grace Lee helped secure a record $35.9 billion in school aid, delivered universal free school meals for all New York students, secured a statewide bell-to-bell cell phone ban in public schools, and passed the AANHPI Education Equity Act. She is fighting to fully fund public schools and reform Foundation Aid, intervene early on literacy, create a $1,000 educator tax credit, and pass the New Deal for CUNY.

• Food Security

  Grace Lee helped lead advocacy to upgrade EBT cards with chip technology to reduce SNAP theft, and helped provide universal free school meals. She is fighting to lower grocery prices via the Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Act, and supports the Protect, Invest, and Expand Food Security package and SNAP for All regardless of immigration status.

• Healthcare

  Grace Lee believes healthcare is a right. She passed a bill to lower health insurance premiums for workers at local health centers serving Medicaid patients, helped pass legislation to strengthen oversight of hospital closures, and secured funding for safety-net hospitals. She is fighting for universal single-payer healthcare via the New York Health Act, lower prescription drug costs, patient right-to-know legislation, and a state-funded essential plan for low-income New Yorkers.