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Karines Reyes

Democrat, Working FamiliesHas the job now

Overview

Karines Reyes is a Dominican-American politician and nurse from the state of New York.

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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

148 bills

Became law

7 became law. Another 52 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced Jan 7, 2026A 9492: Relates to training requirements for certain child protective services workers
    Became law
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5285: Relates to prescription labels for mifepristone and misoprostol
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2249: Relates to model management companies and model management groups
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2024A 8947: Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
    Became law
  • Introduced May 19, 2023A 7425: Extends certain provisions relating to expanding the child health insurance plan
    Became law
  • Introduced May 18, 2023A 7373: Extends provisions of the public health law relating to medical reimbursement and welfare reform
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2023A 619: Relates to the sale of cosmetic products containing trace amounts of mercury
    Became law
  • Introduced May 1, 2026A 11199: Enacts the "police radio transparency act"
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5306: Relates to the level of acceptable light transmittance of automobile window tint and film
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3516: Relates to enacting the "keep police radio public act"
    Vetoed
  • Introduced Mar 11, 2026A 10543: Requires healthcare facilities to maintain a fifty percent operating threshold of certain reusable healthcare protective textiles in their inventory
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2026A 10087: Enacts the "take the wheel act" which requires a driver be present in all motor vehicles operated for hire
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 10, 2025A 9347: Relates to military duty of outside militias in New York state
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Sep 12, 2025A 9082: Relates to wage requirements for certain human services workers
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jun 9, 2025A 8824: Relates to insurance reimbursement for vaccination for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 27, 2025A 8672: Eliminates court surcharges and fees; repealer
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 22, 2025A 8623: Relates to staffing at state-operated facilities that deliver health care services
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 22, 2025A 8048: Relates to add-on payment for pediatric practices that implement the HealthySteps model
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 1, 2025A 7562: Requires health insurance policies include coverage for anesthesia for the duration of a medical procedure
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 25, 2025A 7291: Relates to food safety and quality date labeling requirements
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 13, 2025A 6772: Provides for automatic voter registration and preregistration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for Medicaid enrollees
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 13, 2025A 6771: Relates to certified registered nurse anesthetists
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2025A 5532: Creates Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5316: Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5305: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of added sugars
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5255: Provides for coverage for the treatment of asthma
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5194: Relates to including rescue inhaler prescriptions for asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases for individuals under age nineteen in the statewide immunization information system
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5208: Requires general hospitals to have a registered professional nurse as a member of the governing entity responsible for developing a general hospital's strategic plan, structure, systems, policies and programs
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5207: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3542: Provides the carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in excess of 130 weeks
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3506: Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; repealer
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 21, 2025A 2584: Relates to food and food product advertising
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2145: Relates to the labeling of mifepristone, misoprostol, and their generic alternatives
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1755: Provides internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024A 9732: Provides for automatic voter registration and preregistration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for Medicaid enrollees
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024A 9728: Relates to enacting the "keep police radio public act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 27, 2024A 9648: Relates to directing the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 27, 2024A 9652: Creates Dolly Parton's statewide imagination library program
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2024A 8961: Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023A 8382: Relates to limited permits to practice medicine
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 25, 2023A 7632: Establishes the "New York Early Mail Voter Act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 11, 2023A 7133: Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 10, 2023A 7104: Provides for memorial land facilities
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 9, 2023A 6958: Relates to certified registered nurse anesthetists
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6599: Establishes an LGBTQ+ youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 17, 2023A 6546: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of added sugars
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 13, 2023A 6529: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6241: Creates the residential condominium owner bill of rights
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6205: Relates to education on the dangers of fatal and non-fatal drowning
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6096: Establishes a pilot hospital medical debt relief program
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5642: Enacts the "standing is tiring (sit) act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5653: Relates to price gouging of medicine
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5649: Provides internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5631: Enacts the New York state fashion workers act
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 2, 2023A 5088: Establishes a task force on missing women and girls who are black, indigenous and people of color
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 2, 2023A 5107: Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023A 4425: Enacts The New Deal for CUNY
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023A 4424: Relates to food and food product advertising
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 20, 2023A 1709: Relates to providing protections to health service providers who perform legally protected health activities
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 1, 2026A 11192: Removes designating letters on ballots
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 14, 2026A 10943: Requires insurers to deposit certain funds into the reproductive health care access fund; and establishes the reproductive health care access fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 27, 2026A 10747: Requires health insurance plans to cover a medically necessary peripheral artery disease screening test for any at-risk individual
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 27, 2026A 10719: Grants peace officer status to certain employees of the Parkchester police department of public safety
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2026A 10428: Relates to the dispensing of certain prescriptions
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10286: Creates the cooperative and condominium ombudsperson program and authorizes the residential unit fee
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 20, 2026A 10283: Increases transparency in cooperative housing corporations
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 22, 2025A 8044: Relates to penalties for contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on certain excavation projects
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 1, 2025A 7558: Provides for the enrollment of certain persons in direct deposit for compensation payments
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 25, 2025A 7421: Authorizes the commissioner of labor and the workers' compensation board to issue stop-work orders
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 25, 2025A 7370: Designates March eighth as a public holiday
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 25, 2025A 7394: Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to public works and certain construction projects performed under private contract
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 25, 2025A 7384: Requires coverage of a hospitalized birthing parent's interhospital transport to accompany their infant needing such transport
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 25, 2025A 5972: Relates to providing language translation services to accommodate census self-reporting
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2025A 5503: Provides for memorial land facilities
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5311: Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5309: Relates to directing the commissioner of health to issue a statewide standing order for the provision of doula services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 13, 2025A 5315: Provides that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5076: Relates to the prohibition on certain databases and registries
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5249: Prohibits members of the state police, police officers, and peace officers from intentionally covering their badges
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5238: Relates to limited permits to practice medicine
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5223: Relates to forfeiture of a beneficiary's right to benefits upon conviction of a family offense
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5227: Creates the residential condominium owner bill of rights
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5232: Relates to implementing automatic enrollment for the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5235: Makes reclassification of rent controlled dwelling retroactive to time of decrease in income of members of household of dwelling
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5197: Establishes an LGBTQ+ youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5206: Requires training regarding sexual assault for police officers and child protective services workers
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2025A 5200: Relates to missing and exploited women and children
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4118: Relates to the certification of innovative statewide substance use disorder treatment services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4117: Relates to designating the month of May "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4116: Requires anti-bias training for every medical student, medical resident and physician assistant student in the state
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4211: Requires comprehensive coverage for treatment of obesity
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4148: Enacts the "standing is tiring (sit) act"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4189: Authorizes the comptroller of the city of New York to enforce and investigate certain violations of the state minimum wage
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4178: Relates to the designation of Mother Language Day as a day of commemoration
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4164: Relates to safety and quality labels on certain foods and beverages
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4181: Enacts the "Dignity Not Detention" act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4144: Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3531: Authorizes expedited settlement conference processes for establishing child support orders
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3529: Relates to authorizing paid family leave for bereavement
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3490: Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3584: Establishes the employee privacy act prohibiting employers from using the federal electronic employment verification system to check the employment authorization status of an existing employee or an applicant
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3580: Establishes a pilot hospital medical debt relief program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 28, 2025A 3582: Establishes an unemployment bridge program; establishes digital ad tax act; appropriation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 22, 2025A 2715: Requires comprehensive Medicaid coverage for the treatment of obesity
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1806: Establishes the abortion access fund and allows taxpayers to make gifts to the fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1727: Enacts The New Deal for CUNY
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1750: Relates to compensation paid to persons employed in positions requiring foreign language skills
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1805: Raises the income eligibility for senior citizens and disabled residents
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1786: Relates to reimbursement for early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2025A 1677: Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2025A 1678: Requires retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 26, 2024A 9960: Relates to the designation of Mother Language Day as a day of commemoration
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 9, 2024A 9826: Provides for coverage for the treatment of asthma
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024A 9688: Relates to the certification of innovative statewide substance use disorder treatment services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2024A 8950: Provides the carrier or employer a credit against permanent partial disability benefits for temporary partial disability payments made in excess of 130 weeks
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2024A 8957: Provides that certain communications between a claimant's attorney or representative and an injured employee's treating provider or a claimant's medical consultant are not improper influence
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2024A 8874: Excludes certain student loan discharge or forgiveness amounts from state income tax to the extent such amount is included in federal adjusted gross income
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 12, 2024A 8577: Authorizes the comptroller of the city of New York to enforce and investigate certain violations of the state minimum wage
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2024A 8556: Relates to sharing of certain information
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2024A 8545: Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a task force on missing women and girls who are black, indigenous and people of color; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Sep 13, 2023A 8045: Requires comprehensive coverage for treatment of obesity
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 25, 2023A 7534: Relates to missing and exploited women and children
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 9, 2023A 6968: Relates to the level of acceptable light transmittance of automobile window tint and film
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 8, 2023A 6761: Allows certain minors to consent to certain medical, dental, health, and hospital services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6604: Protects employee freedom of speech & conscience
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6601: Prohibits state chartered banking institutions from investing in and providing financing for private prisons
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6605: Relates to authorizing paid family leave for bereavement
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6603: Relates to designating the month of May "Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6594: Relates to including diagnosis of asthma or other respiratory diseases for which rescue inhaler treatment is prescribed in the statewide immunization information system
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6596: Relates to safety and quality labels on certain foods and beverages
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2023A 6600: Relates to the prohibition on certain databases and registries
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5836: Makes reclassification of rent controlled dwelling retroactive to time of decrease in income of members of household of dwelling
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5735: Authorizes expedited settlement conference processes for establishing child support orders
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5745: Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 21, 2023A 5686: Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5625: Requires anti-bias training for every medical student, medical resident and physician assistant student in the state
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5634: Relates to compensation paid to persons employed in positions requiring foreign language skills
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5626: Prohibits members of the state police, police officers, and peace officers from intentionally covering their badges
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2023A 5629: Relates to forfeiture of a beneficiary's right to benefits upon conviction of domestic violence offense
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 16, 2023A 5608: Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 2, 2023A 5122: Relates to implementing automatic enrollment for the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2023A 4821: Establishes an unemployment bridge program; establishes digital ad tax act; appropriation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023A 4349: Designates March 8th each year as a day of commemoration, to be known as International Women's Day
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023A 4408: Relates to reimbursement for early and periodic screening, diagnosis and treatment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023A 4421: Excludes certain student loan discharge or forgiveness amounts from state income tax
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2023A 4354: Enacts the "Dignity Not Detention" act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 17, 2023A 1473: Establishes the abortion access fund and allows taxpayers to make gifts to the fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 13, 2023A 1284: Relates to the recognition of the establishment of a workplace safety committee by an employer
    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 106 of 3,989 votes (3%). 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.