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Running forState Assembly, District 76

Rebecca A. Seawright

Democrat, Working FamiliesHas the job now

Overview

Rebecca Seawright is the Assembly member for the 76th District of the New York State Assembly.

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Facts from Wikipedia.

How to reach them
Source: Open States

Bills they wrote

Bills and joint resolutions where they're the main author, since 2023. Laws first, then the ones that got furthest.

Wrote

95 bills

Became law

4 became law. Another 24 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced May 14, 2025A 8409: Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to permissible fees in connection with open end loans
    Became law
  • Introduced Apr 30, 2025A 8113: Extends provisions of the long term care ombudsman to assisted living facilities
    Became law
  • Introduced May 12, 2023A 7172: Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to permissible fees in connection with open end loans
    Became law
  • Introduced Apr 14, 2023A 6543: Relates to a state council on developmental disabilities
    Became law
  • Introduced May 16, 2025A 8447: Establishes an elder financial exploitation public awareness campaign
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Apr 25, 2025A 8090: Requires the commissioner of health to produce a report on the utilization and activity of the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7907: Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repealer
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025A 3602: Requires an annual report on individuals who are the primary caregiver for an older adult
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2023A 1283: Relates to equal protection
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10291: Establishes the caregiver coordinating commission
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 16, 2025A 8445: Relates to dementia care navigators and coordinators
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 9, 2025A 8288: Establishes certification and attestation for care managers employed by care coordination organizations
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 4, 2025A 4628: Requires certain motion picture theaters to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025A 3605: Relates to establishing the expanded pharmaceutical insurance coverage panel
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025A 3601: Enacts the "independent senior housing resident freedom of choice act" to authorize persons in independent housing to receive services they could get at home
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1158: Includes second degree relatives in certain criteria for breast cancer screenings to be covered under insurance plans
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1182: Relates to certain jury awards in employment discrimination actions
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2024A 9553: Establishes the blue-ribbon commission on the future of New York state's service delivery system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities act
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023A 8361: Relates to proceedings in family court
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jun 15, 2023A 7822: Relates to certain deceptive acts and practices and the court's jurisdiction over such acts and practices
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 25, 2023A 7523: Relates to the definition of consent
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 9, 2023A 6965: Relates to reimbursement for residential habilitation services
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 8, 2023A 6895: Provides a premium reduction for physicians who complete a training strategies course relating to emergency department visits for individuals with a developmental or intellectual disability
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 19, 2023A 6575: Relates to the creation of an innovative supportive housing program for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely reside in such a setting; creates an exemption from certain filings
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 6, 2023A 6400: Establishes a direct support professional worker registry
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5879: Replaces the terms "mentally retarded", "mental retardation" and variants thereof with "developmentally disabled" and "developmental disability"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2023A 5268: Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2023A 2865: Relates to certain jury awards in employment discrimination actions
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 1, 2026A 11235: Relates to requiring insurers participating in the NY state of health marketplace to offer at least one dental plan for individuals age 65 and older
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 9, 2026A 10927: Relates to permitting other qualifying members of a household to qualify for the disability rent increase exemption
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 8, 2026A 10873: Relates to peripheral artery disease
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 8, 2026A 10875: Relates to directing the metropolitan transportation authority to establish a city university of New York student fare program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10270: Relates to paid leave for menopause
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10296: Requires employers to provide a leave of absence for an employee to use for menopause
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10300: Directs the office of children and family services to conduct a statewide needs assessment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10297: Requires employers to provide a leave of absence for an employee to use for colon cancer screenings
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10295: Requires employers to provide a leave of absence for an employee to use for preventative health care measures
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10269: Establishes the interagency council on kinship care
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10292: Establishes a pilot program for schools with active aging programs or specializations in place
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10274: Establishes the adult care facility voucher demonstration program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2026A 10168: Establishes a state master plan on aging dashboard
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 21, 2026A 9623: Establishes the office of New York state benefits coordination
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 21, 2026A 9587: Establishes a caregiver tax credit and a family caregiver reimbursement program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 21, 2026A 9611: Authorizes the creation of state debt in the amount of 5 billion dollars in creating the New York state master plan on aging 2026 bond act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 13, 2025A 8960: Protects the personal information of candidates for public office
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 16, 2025A 8947: Enacts the youth & teen internet safety and social media literacy act; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 16, 2025A 7979: Requires rip current, rip tide and undertow curriculum or instruction
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7847: Makes annual state reimbursement for expenditures for certain approved community service projects by counties to be proportional to such county's share of elderly persons living in the state
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7799: Provides for due process procedures for certain persons who have received an offer for transitional care or certain care prior to becoming eligible to receive such care
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 4, 2025A 7674: Permits special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to establish reserve funds
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 1, 2025A 7604: Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 18, 2025A 7019: Establishes protections for eligible adults from financial exploitation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025A 6591: Requires that instruction in public schools aligned to the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2025A 5774: Relates to allowing for students in postsecondary education experience or transition program to receive awards from the tuition assistance program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5384: Provides for certain tickets purchased for use on the Long Island Rail Road or the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company to be valid at any time during the day or night
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025A 3604: Establishes the aging in place task force, and provides for its powers and duties
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025A 3603: Relates to informal caregiver training
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 29, 2025A 3600: Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance cover
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1124: Relates to courses of study in consumer awareness and financial education
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1113: Establishes a temporary commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1238: Provides a limitation on actions to collect overcharges
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1321: Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management and makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1237: Relates to certain deceptive acts and practices and the court's jurisdiction over such acts and practices
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1228: Relates to mandatory training curriculum
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1154: Relates to proceedings in family court
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1140: Relates to the definition of consent
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1230: Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1134: Provides for an optional excuse from jury service for persons age 70 and over
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1251: Relates to leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter or bicycle with an electric assist system without reporting in the first and second degrees
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 26, 2024A 9947: Requires certain motion picture theaters to provide scheduled showings of motion pictures with open motion picture captioning
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024A 9702: Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management and makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024A 9701: Relates to courses of study in consumer awareness and financial education
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2024A 9523: Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to produce and publish a report on staffing at state-operated institutions under the jurisdiction of such office
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 29, 2024A 9336: Expands the legislative reporting requirements for the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 5, 2024A 9048: Relates to leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter or bicycle with an electric assist system without reporting in the first and second degrees
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 1, 2024A 9007: Provides a limitation on actions to collect overcharges
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 1, 2024A 8992: Extends provisions of law relating to the closure or transfer of a state-operated individualized residential alternative
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 3, 2024A 8482: Requires the department of health to conduct a public information and outreach campaign on medically unnecessary treatments on persons born with intersex traits
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023A 8387: Includes second degree relatives in certain criteria for breast cancer screenings to be covered under insurance plans
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023A 8325: Provides for an optional excuse from jury service for persons age 70 and over
    Introduced
  • Introduced Sep 29, 2023A 8092: Requires all persons in a city having a population of one million or more operating a bicycle, electric bicycle or electric scooter to wear a helmet
    Introduced
  • Introduced Sep 29, 2023A 8086: Permits special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to establish reserve funds
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jun 1, 2023A 7672: Requires LGBT awareness curriculum or instruction
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 25, 2023A 6633: Establishes a temporary commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 30, 2023A 6024: Establishes a pilot program to create an assistance hotline for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex behavioral needs
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 24, 2023A 5972: Provides for due process procedures for certain persons who have received an offer for transitional care or certain care prior to becoming eligible to receive such care
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 24, 2023A 5913: Extends the authority of NYSARC, Inc., to maintain bonds
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 24, 2023A 5971: Requires OPWDD to purchase and provide essential PPE to all mental health providers in the event of a declaration of a state emergency that relates to public health
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5780: Establishes the state flag for raising awareness of neurodiversity
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5666: Permits certain previous criminal history information provided to satisfy criminal background checks for certain employees
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5627: Requires the department of health to conduct a public information and outreach campaign on medically unnecessary treatments on persons born with intersex traits or variations in sex characteristics
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 2, 2023A 5105: Relates to the crime of official misconduct for sexual harassment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 2, 2023A 5072: Relates to official misconduct for sexual harassment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 2, 2023A 5059: Relates to prohibiting sexual harassment by certain individuals
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 3, 2023A 3433: Relates to the continuation of the empire state stem cell board
    Introduced

Source: Open States

How they voted

Final votes on bills that passed either chamber of the New York legislature, since 2023. Votes on amendments, committees, and procedure are left out.

Votes shown

3,989 votes on bills that passed at least one chamber.

Attendance

Didn't vote on 352 of 3,989 votes (9%). They had permission to be away (excused) for all of them.

By topic
Aging31 votes
    Agriculture44 votes
      Alcoholism and Drug Abuse10 votes
        Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders6 votes
          Banks60 votes
            Budget and Revenue9 votes
              Children and Families63 votes
                Cities40 votes
                  Cities 127 votes
                    Cities 210 votes
                      Civil Service and Pensions104 votes
                        Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business13 votes
                          Consumer Affairs and Protection119 votes
                            Consumer Protection31 votes
                              Corporations, Authorities and Commissions144 votes
                                Correction35 votes
                                  Crime Victims, Crime and Correction14 votes
                                    Criminal Law (Codes)165 votes
                                      Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation15 votes
                                        Disabilities7 votes
                                          Economic Development64 votes
                                            Education71 votes
                                              Election Law26 votes
                                                Elections24 votes
                                                  Energy55 votes
                                                    Energy and Telecommunications24 votes
                                                      Environmental Conservation168 votes
                                                        Ethics and Internal Governance3 votes
                                                          Finance47 votes
                                                            Governmental Employees109 votes
                                                              Governmental Operations176 votes
                                                                Health280 votes
                                                                  Higher Education93 votes
                                                                    Housing46 votes
                                                                      Housing, Construction and Community Development23 votes
                                                                        Insurance175 votes
                                                                          Internet and Technology16 votes
                                                                            Investigations and Government Operations221 votes
                                                                              Judiciary158 votes
                                                                                Labor96 votes
                                                                                  Libraries9 votes
                                                                                    Libraries and Education Technology7 votes
                                                                                      Local Government188 votes
                                                                                        Local Governments121 votes
                                                                                          Mental Health29 votes
                                                                                            New York City Education1 vote
                                                                                              People With Disabilities19 votes
                                                                                                Procurement and Contracts20 votes
                                                                                                  Racing and Wagering19 votes
                                                                                                    Racing, Gaming and Wagering10 votes
                                                                                                      Real Property Taxation89 votes
                                                                                                        Science and Technology17 votes
                                                                                                          Small Business6 votes
                                                                                                            Social Services39 votes
                                                                                                              Taxes and Budget (Ways and Means)256 votes
                                                                                                                Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development30 votes
                                                                                                                  Transportation220 votes
                                                                                                                    Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs15 votes
                                                                                                                      Veterans' Affairs55 votes
                                                                                                                        Women'S Issues17 votes

                                                                                                                          Source: Open States, New York State Senate and Assembly. Topics from the state legislature.