State Assembly Member - District 42

Rodneyse Bichotte

DemocraticIncumbent

Democratic Assembly member for the 42nd District since Jan. 1, 2015, and the Assembly's Majority Whip; she chairs its Subcommittee on Oversight of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises.

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Housing and tenant protections

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Prime-sponsors bills to bar landlords from using an algorithmic device to set residential rents and to create a tenants' bill of rights, and has co-sponsored rent reform laws.

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Prime sponsor of a bill prohibiting landlords from using an algorithmic device to determine the rent charged to a residential tenant, and of a bill creating a tenants' bill of rights. Co-sponsor of rent reform laws.

Prime sponsor of the algorithmic-rent and tenants' bill of rights bills; co-sponsor of rent reform laws · Dates not given on her Assembly pages · Rent reform laws enacted; the two bills' status not shown on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list

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New York State Assembly — Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn sponsored legislation ↗

Health care and maternal care

In coverage

Sponsored the Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law, which sets hospital treatment requirements for mothers who arrive with concerns about pre-term labor. Prime-sponsors bills to create a Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act, let nurses and doctors licensed in Puerto Rico practice in New York, and give a tax credit after a stillbirth.

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Sponsor of the Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law, which establishes hospital treatment requirements for mothers presenting with concerns about pre-term labor. Prime sponsor of bills establishing the Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act, authorizing nurses and doctors licensed in Puerto Rico to practice in New York State, and providing a tax credit for certain taxpayers who suffer the birth of a stillborn child.

Sponsor of the Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law; prime sponsor of the hospital staffing, Puerto Rico licensing and stillbirth tax credit bills · Dates not given on her Assembly pages · The Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law establishes the hospital requirements; the three bills' status not shown on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list

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New York State Assembly — Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn biography ↗

Public safety and policing

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Sponsored Carlos' Law, which raised penalties for corporate criminal liability in an employee's death or serious injury to fines of up to $500,000, and introduced Sedrick's Law requiring the MTA to keep cameras on train platforms. Prime-sponsors a bill barring police from bias-based profiling.

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Sponsor of Carlos' Law (2022), which enacted increased penalties for criminal corporate liability for the death or serious injury of an employee, with fines of up to $500,000. Introduced and co-sponsored Sedrick's Law in 2022, requiring the MTA to maintain cameras on train platforms. Co-sponsor of the Child Victims Act. Prime sponsor of a bill prohibiting law enforcement officers from using bias-based profiling.

Sponsor of Carlos' Law; introduced and co-sponsored Sedrick's Law; co-sponsor of the Child Victims Act; prime sponsor of the bias-based profiling bill · 2022 for Carlos' Law and Sedrick's Law; other dates not given on her Assembly pages · Carlos' Law enacted; Sedrick's Law introduced in 2022; the profiling bill's status not shown on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list

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Minority- and women-owned business contracting

In coverage

Sponsored three 2022 laws on the state's minority- and women-owned business program: one against fraud and abuse in the program, one letting businesses use its development and lending funds to refinance existing debts, and one doubling to $1 million the discretionary spending threshold for state contracts without competitive bidding.

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Sponsor of three bills signed into law in 2022: one to prevent fraud and abuse within the minority- and women-owned business program, one allowing businesses to use the program's Development and Lending Program funds to refinance existing debts, and one doubling the discretionary spending threshold on state contracts to $1 million without competitive bidding.

Sponsor · 2022 · Signed into law in 2022

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Immigration

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Prime-sponsors a bill barring police and peace officers from asking crime victims and witnesses about their immigration status, and co-sponsored the DREAM Act.

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Prime sponsor of a bill prohibiting law enforcement and peace officers from inquiring about the immigration status of a victim or witness to a criminal offense. Co-sponsor of the DREAM Act.

Prime sponsor of the victim and witness bill; co-sponsor of the DREAM Act · Dates not given on her Assembly pages · The victim and witness bill's status not shown on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list

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New York State Assembly — Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn sponsored legislation ↗

Reproductive health care

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Prime-sponsors bills to expand insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization and to enact a reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act.

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Prime sponsor of a bill expanding insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization and of a bill enacting the reproductive health care facilities and religious worship access act.

Prime sponsor · Dates not given on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list · Both bills' status not shown on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list

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Voting and elections

In coverage

Prime-sponsors bills requiring boards of elections to provide voting materials in Haitian Creole and designating January 6 as Democracy Day.

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Prime sponsor of a bill requiring boards of elections to provide Haitian Creole language voting materials and of a bill designating January 6th as Democracy Day.

Prime sponsor · Dates not given on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list · Both bills' status not shown on her Assembly sponsored-legislation list

New York State Assembly — Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn sponsored legislation ↗

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