Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal and State Senator Toby Stavisky Herald Signing of First-in-the-Nation Legislation Requiring Health Insurance Companies to Cover Cost of Hair Preservation Treatment During Chemotherapy
Dec 16, 2024
Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) and State Senator Toby Stavisky (D-Queens) announced today that their legislation (A38-A/S2063-A) requiring health insurers to cover the cost of scalp cooling systems, a hair-preservation...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Announces First-in-the-Nation Diaper Ingredient Labeling Law Signed
Dec 11, 2024
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF -Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A.43-C/S.2279-C) to require ingredient listings on all packages of diapers sold in New York State was signed into law. The law makes New...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal’s Legislation Requiring Delivery Apps to Post Restaurant Sanitation Grades Online Signed into Law, Empowering Consumers
Nov 25, 2024
New York, NY – Today, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing, announced that her legislation requiring online and app-based food delivery services to post restaurant sanitation grades online...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Celebrates Signing of Legislation to Expand Access to Epinephrine Auto-Injectors
Nov 22, 2024
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing, heralded the signing of two pieces of legislation to expand access to epinephrine auto-injectors across New York State into law. Epinephrine...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Announces Signing of New Law to Protect Pharmacies and Patients from Unfair PBM Practices
Sep 30, 2024
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A9764/S9040) to protect pharmacies, and the patients they serve, from abusive practices by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) was signed into...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Legislation to Resolve Conflict in Adult Survivors Act Cases Signed into Law
Jul 1, 2024
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A6138/S5916) to clarify provisions of the Adult Survivors Act has been signed into law. The bill clarifies the intent of the Adult Survivors...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Statement in Response to the Rent Guidelines Board Rent Increases
Jun 18, 2024
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing, released the following statement in response to the Rent Guidelines Board’s 2024-2025 Rent Increases: “I am outraged, but not surprised,...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Announces Passage of Legislation Protecting Access to HIV/AIDS Medications
Jun 6, 2024
Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced that her legislation (A1619-A/S1001-A) to prohibit insurers from restricting or delaying access to antiretroviral medications for the treatment of people with HIV/AIDS passed...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Bill Requiring Insurance Coverage of Devices to Prevent Hair Loss During Cancer Treatment Passes Assembly, Senate
Jun 4, 2024
Albany, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced that her legislation (A38-A/S2063-A) to require insurance coverage of scalp cooling devices during cancer treatment passed both houses of the Legislature unanimously. The bill,...
Assemblymember Rosenthal & Senator Gounardes Bill to Require Life-Saving Epinephrine in Public Venues Passes in State Legislature
May 30, 2024
Albany, NY – The New York State Senate voted 61-0 yesterday, May 29, to pass legislation carried by State Senator Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal to require life-saving epinephrine auto-injectors at all large public venues across...
Bill Sponsor Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal Hails Inclusion of Sammy’s Law in State Budget
Apr 18, 2024
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) released the following statement in response to the announcement of Sammy’s Law (A7266-A/S2422-B), her legislation granting New York City the authority to lower its own speed limits,...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Announces Signing of Legislation to Bolster Childhood Cancer Awareness & Research Funding
Oct 25, 2023
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A1302/S1898) to increase funding to the state’s Cure Childhood Cancer research fund has been signed into law. The law will create a check-off...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Announces Legislation to Protect Domestic Violence Survivors from Economic Abuse Signed into Law
Oct 24, 2023
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her legislation (A5347/S5915) to provide domestic violence survivors with resources to identify and overcome economic abuse was signed into law.“Domestic violence...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Announces Signing of Legislation to Support City’s Construction & Rehabilitation of Affordable Housing
Oct 23, 2023
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing, announced today that her legislation (A6655-A/S2985-C) to support the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing has been signed...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Bill Protecting Students with Allergies Becomes Law
Sep 18, 2023
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) announced today that her bill to provide teachers with informational materials on the use of epinephrine auto-injectors was signed into law by the Governor. The bill requires that all...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Celebrates Passage of Reproductive Privacy Bills in the Budget
May 1, 2023
New, York, NY – New York State Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF -Manhattan) heralded the passage of her legislation regulating the advertisement, collection and dissemination of an individual’s reproductive health data within the Health and...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Reports Housing Access Voucher Program in First Housing Committee Meeting
Feb 14, 2023
New York, NY – Today, in her first meeting as Chair of the Committee on Housing, Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF -Manhattan) reported the landmark Housing Access Voucher Program (HAVP). The bill, A.4201, sponsored by Assemblymember...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Statement on her Appointment as Chair of the New York State Assembly Committee on Housing
Jan 4, 2023
I am honored to be appointed the new Chair of the New York State Assembly Committee on Housing by Speaker Carl Heastie. Housing has always been deeply personal to me. Years ago, my landlord tried to evict my grandmother and me from our rent-regulated...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Bill to Protect Children from Window Blind Strangulation Signed into Law
Dec 29, 2022
New York, NY – Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF - Manhattan) today announced that her bill, Brendan’s Law, named after 2-year-old Brendan McCarthy, who died in 2010 after becoming entangled in the cord of a window blind, has been signed...
Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal Bill Prohibiting Co-Payments for Visits to Addiction Treatment Programs Signed into Law
Dec 22, 2022
New York, NY - Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal (D/WF-Manhattan) today announced that her legislation, bill A.372, prohibiting private insurance companies from imposing co-payments on every patient visit to an opioid treatment program was signed into...
