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Making Safe and Affordable Housing Available for All New Yorker's
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Updating the NYS Living Donor Support Act
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Working to Protect NY Nurses
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The HALT Solitary Confinement Act
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Forrest Questions SUNY Chancellor During Budget Hearing on Higher Education
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Welcome to the Assembly