State Assembly Member - District 27
Sam Berger
Has represented the 27th Assembly District in Queens, which includes Pomonok, Electchester, Kew Gardens Hills, College Point and Whitestone, since September 2023; his Assembly biography describes him as the youngest member of the Assembly.
Issues Sam is raising
Health care and medical aid in dying
Voted against the Medical Aid in Dying Act in April 2025 and against a 2026 law on protections for legally protected health activities, including barring professional liability insurers from denying coverage or raising rates solely over the legal prescription of certain gender-affirming care drugs, and voted for a 2026 law on immunization vaccines for children. Sponsored a 2024 law requiring driver pre-licensing courses to explain how to register as an organ and tissue donor.
State budget and business rules
Voted against a 2026-27 state budget bill that put major parts of the state's fiscal plan into law in May 2026 and the 2024 aid-to-localities budget bill, and against a 2026 law changing limits on how close retail cannabis dispensaries may be to schools and houses of worship. Sponsored a 2025 law repealing the insurance law's mandatory anti-arson applications.
Public benefits and school tax relief
Sponsored a 2024 law requiring electronic benefit transfer systems to let recipients cancel or lock a card when fraud is suspected or reported. Sponsors bills, passed by both houses in 2026, to offer benefit-card websites and apps in the 12 most common non-English languages spoken by New Yorkers with limited English proficiency and to mail school tax relief (STAR) exemption approvals within 30 days.
Public safety and criminal law
Sponsored Gittel's Law, signed in December 2024, which adds licensed mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists to the mental health care providers covered by certain sex-offense laws for acts during treatment sessions. Voted against the Keep Police Radio Public Act, which would keep police radio communications, except sensitive information, accessible to emergency services organizations and professional journalists; it passed both houses in June 2025 and the governor vetoed it in December 2025.
Worker benefits and public employees
Sponsored the Ignazio Giacalone Act, signed in September 2025, which gives additional credits to children and siblings of New York City sanitation workers who died in the line of duty as a result of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center attack. Sponsors a bill, passed by both houses in 2026, defining which mental health practitioners have diagnostic authority under workers' compensation law.
Background
Based in Kew Gardens Hills
An attorney and lifelong resident of the district from Kew Gardens Hills, he holds a bachelor's degree and a law degree from St. John's University.
- Member of the New York State Assembly for District 27 since Sept. 14, 2023
- Re-elected Nov. 5, 2024 with 57.3% of the vote over Angelo King, after winning the Sept. 12, 2023 special election over David Hirsch with 55.3%
- Advanced to the Nov. 3, 2026 general election on the Democratic and Conservative lines after both parties' June 23, 2026 primaries for the seat were canceled
- Attorney; graduate of St. John's University School of Law, with externships at the Kings County Surrogate's Court and the Queens County Supreme Court, Criminal Term
- His Assembly biography says he has secured millions of dollars in local initiatives for the district
- Was 25 and a recent law school graduate at the time of the September 2023 special election
- Son of Paula Berger, a local Democratic district leader when he first ran in 2023
- Member of the Orthodox Jewish community
- Father of three
Support
Conservative Party of New York State
Also on your ballot on the Conservative Party line
Money
$82K
raised
Top donors: I.B.E.W. New York Pac, Alan Mindel, Police Benevolent Association of NYC PAC