Julia Salazar

Criminal justice, prisons and courts

Sponsored a 2024 law waiving court costs and fees for people who cannot afford them and a bill barring restraints on incarcerated people during labor, absent extraordinary circumstances and with certain exceptions permitting wrist restraints, which passed both houses in June 2026. Voted against a 2023 bill on the offenses of rape in the first, second and third degrees, which passed the Senate 58-4 and became law; a 2024 bill allowing evidence of a defendant's prior sexual offense in a sexual offense proceeding, which passed the Senate 55-4; and a 2026 bill allowing body scanners in certain state children's services facilities, which passed the Senate 53-1 and became law.

Housing and tenants

Wants NYCHA's capital repairs and operating costs fully funded to keep public housing under public control. Her campaign lists among her bills Good Cause Eviction, which bars evictions without good cause and protects tenants from unreasonably high rent increases and became law in 2024, and says she co-sponsors the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act and the Housing Access Voucher Program.

Health care

Supports the New York Health Act to create a single-payer health system, Coverage for All to extend health insurance regardless of immigration status, and ending mandatory 24-hour shifts for home care workers. Sponsored a 2023 law against price gouging on drugs in shortage and a bill, passed by the Senate in June 2026, adding infant seizure monitors to Medicaid coverage. Voted for the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which became law in February 2026.

Climate and energy

Supports the New York HEAT Act, which her campaign says would align the regulation of utility companies with the state's emission-reduction targets, and backs the No NBK Pipeline campaign against National Grid's fossil fuel infrastructure expansion in north Brooklyn. Was co-prime sponsor of the Build Public Renewables Act, which became law in 2023.

Reproductive and maternal health

Sponsors the Maternal Health, Dignity and Consent Act, which passed the Senate in June 2026, and the Equity in Fertility Treatment Act, on the definition of infertility and insurance coverage of its treatment, which passed the Senate in January 2026. Her first bill to pass after joining the Senate was the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act.