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Running forState Assembly, District 94

Matthew J. Slater

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Overview

Matthew Slater is an American politician currently serving as a member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 94th district.

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

140 bills

Became law

4 became law. Another 21 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced May 5, 2025A 8237: Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Westchester Purple Heart Recipients
    Became law
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7843: Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Jake Arcara
    Became law
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5742: Waives the residency requirement for the commissioner of planning, development, and public transportation for Putnam county
    Became law
  • Introduced Feb 2, 2023A 3288: Names a portion of route 202 in the town of Yorktown the Captain Kenneth Sgroi Memorial Highway
    Became law
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2026A 10490: Establishes Nicole's law, which provides for treatment of individuals with self-inflicted, life-threatening injuries
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2026A 10174: Authorizes Tina Russo to receive certain service credit with the New York state teachers' retirement system
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jun 16, 2025A 8903: Authorizes the county of Putnam to lease certain lands used as parklands
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jun 2, 2025A 8735: Authorizes Breanne M. Smith to receive a refund of certain accumulated contributions paid to the New York state and local employees' retirement system
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2025A 8080: Extends the one percent increased county sales tax for Putnam county
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7919: Enacts Firefighter Joseph P. Spor Jr.'s Law requiring the establishment of September eleventh awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7864: Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to John F. McArdle
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7854: Authorizes the town of Patterson to impose a hotel and motel tax
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6519: Relates to demonstration programs imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with certain posted maximum speed limits in the town of Yorktown
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 6, 2025A 4758: Defines antisemitism for purposes of the education law
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 6, 2024A 10119: Enacts the "Great Swamp Protection Act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2024A 9283: Relates to demonstration programs imposing monetary liability on the owner of a vehicle for failure of an operator thereof to comply with certain posted maximum speed limits in the town of Yorktown
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2024A 9273: Permits the town of Kent, Putnam county, to lease certain sports field fences for advertisements
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 17, 2023A 7319: Requires residents of the state, who are foreign refugees, to register with the office of temporary and disability assistance
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 11, 2023A 7130: Expands the purposes of the Putnam Lake Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 11, 2023A 7129: Authorizes an occupancy tax in the town of Putnam Valley, in the county of Putnam
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 8, 2023A 6776: Permits the town of Putnam Valley, Putnam county, to lease certain sports field fences for advertisements
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 4, 2023A 6701: Authorizes the town of Yorktown, county of Westchester, to discontinue as parklands and lease at fair market value certain lands
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5764: Extends the one percent increased county sales tax for Putnam county
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5747: Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree, aggravated murder, and murder in the second degree
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2023A 2858: Establishes the "Purple Star School Program" to assist military-connected students and to recognize the value of military service and civic responsibility
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 4, 2026A 11258: Establishes the Birch Hill-Highview Water District in the town of Southeast, Putnam County
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 1, 2026A 11195: Authorizes Mike Hartnett to apply for military service credit in the New York city fire pension fund
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 1, 2026A 11218: Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2026A 11098: Permits the town of Southeast, Putnam county, to lease certain sports field fences for advertisements
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 1, 2026A 10807: Provides for the issuance of birth certificates of a deceased parent to their child
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2026A 10689: Adds Lake Oscawana and Roaring Brook Lake in Putnam county to the definition of inland waterways
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 13, 2026A 10628: Grants retroactive tier V membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Marca McClenon
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2026A 9569: Removes public officials for executing warrants from the international criminal court
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 10, 2025A 9319: Exempts retail food stores from various state and local taxes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 10, 2025A 9312: Strengthens transparency regarding Medicaid network adequacy and protecting beneficiaries from disruptions in care
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 21, 2025A 9254: Enacts the Northeast Regional Health Insurance Compact Act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 7, 2025A 9249: Establishes a tax deduction for tires that are blown out from potholes on state and local roads
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 7, 2025A 9235: Removes the preclearance requirement from certain counties
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 13, 2025A 8988: Enacts the "workforce development consolidation act of 2025" which transfers the office of strategic workforce development from the department of economic development to the department of labor; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 13, 2025A 9005: Establishing a waiver program allowing for longer stays at domestic violence shelters
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 13, 2025A 8991: Establishes the New York State Servicemember Right-to-Repair Act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 13, 2025A 8967: Renames the veterans' services law the veterans and military families law and renames the department of veterans' services the department of veterans and military families
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jun 9, 2025A 8817: Authorizes Larry Mendel to receive his 30 years of service credit granting eligibility for the length of service award program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jun 9, 2025A 8815: Increases penalties for indecent exposure and public sexual activities occurring within public and association libraries
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jun 2, 2025A 8777: Extends the authorization to have an occupancy tax in the town of Putnam Valley, in the county of Putnam
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 13, 2025A 8311: Waives the residency requirement for the office of Putnam county attorney
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 12, 2025A 8293: Waives the residency requirement for the office of commissioner of finance of the county of Putnam
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 5, 2025A 8177: Authorizes Angela Kilkenny Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7920: Limits the substitution of abuse-deterrent analgesic opioid drug products for analgesic opioids lacking such technology
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7887: Requires persons appointed as election commissioners to be citizens of the United States
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7835: Prohibits the state board of elections and local boards of elections from accepting donations of private funds for election administration
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7914: Establishes the commission to investigate foreign influence on governmental employees and elections
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7852: Relates to prohibited contributions by hostile foreign nations in connection with a state or local election
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2025A 7877: Authorizes early voting sites to be placed at at least one city in a county, or if there is no city in such county, the county seat
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 4, 2025A 7655: Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 4, 2025A 7644: Relates to the list of duties of the OCFS office of the ombudsperson
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 4, 2025A 7643: Relates to child care assistance program postcards
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 1, 2025A 7611: Establishes the digital government modernization initiative and the digital government enhancements pilot program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 18, 2025A 7026: Enacts the safe housing transfer for domestic violence victims act
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6454: Relates to verification of voter qualifications
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6481: Permits certain persons to leave behind opioid antagonists at the location of a known or suspected opioid overdose
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6458: Creates a certified recovery residences task force
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6525: Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree, aggravated murder, and murder in the second degree
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6478: Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6482: Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to establish a consumer directed childcare pilot program in certain counties
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 5, 2025A 6496: Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging for local senior centers to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 24, 2025A 5869: Relates to the issuance of a New York State Cold War Commemorative Medal
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 24, 2025A 5837: Requires employers contracted for work on certain state-funded projects verify employment eligibility of employees
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 6, 2025A 4817: Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 6, 2025A 4804: Requires the office of renewable energy siting to develop standards and conditions for the siting of certain large scale renewable energy systems
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 4, 2025A 4662: Adds impersonation of board of elections members or other election officers to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2150: Provides that any special act school districts be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2001: Requires the approval of the legislature for certain proposed rule changes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 1927: Requires a valid government issued photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2002: Provides a tax exemption for property operating as a child day care
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2039: Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of certain crimes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2025: Authorizes the legislative commission on the development of rural resources to study the effectiveness of pond and lake management programs
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2046: Requires residents of the state, who are foreign refugees, to register with the office of temporary and disability assistance
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2053: Directs the office of children and family services to develop a list of eligible substitute day care staff
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2004: Requires public hearings on increases in utility charges
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2021: Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2000: Relates to making contractors and subcontractors that have been debarred under the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 3144) ineligible to bid for or be awarded public works contracts
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2025A 2017: Includes retirement plans in the exemption for pensions and annuities for certain persons and increases such exemption
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2025A 1477: Allows withdrawals from family tuition accounts to pay for treatment of substance use disorder for the designated beneficiary
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2025A 1658: Requires a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for murder in the first degree, aggravated murder, and murder in the second degree
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1301: Requires child day care centers, family day care homes, and any child day care provider notify the municipality in which they intend to operate of their intent to request such a license or registration
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1298: Expands the veterans tuition awards program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1452: Prohibits the acquisition of real property by foreign countries and entities of particular concern
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1274: Establishes the "Purple Star School Program" to assist military-connected students and to recognize the value of military service and civic responsibility
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1411: Establishes July sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and Nuclear Veterans Day"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1291: Authorizes bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1277: Allows only citizens to vote at elections
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1404: Requires local child protective services to notify appropriate military personnel when a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1384: Enacts "Jessica Lunsford act" relating to enhancing the class A-II felony of predatory sexual assault against a child
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 9, 2025A 1270: Relates to requiring the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least forty percent and to notify such customers of bill assistance
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 6, 2024A 10121: Separates interscholastic athletic championships between public and non-public schools
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 6, 2024A 10130: Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2024A 9860: Waives the residency requirement for appointed public officers employed by Putnam county
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 11, 2024A 9843: Grants Michael Quatrocci a presumption of disability regarding accidental disability retirement
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 9, 2024A 9789: Permits certain persons to leave behind opioid antagonists at the location of a known or suspected opioid overdose
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2024A 9689: Permits police officers to enforce licensure requirements of retail dispensaries; allows seizure of the instrumentality of the unlawful sales, including real estate
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2024A 9374: Establishes a municipal senior center capital support program in the office for the aging for local senior centers to assist municipalities in accessing capital funds necessary for the purchase of senior buses
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2024A 9404: Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to establish a consumer directed childcare pilot program in certain counties
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2024A 9276: Establishes a tax deduction for distributions from a family tuition account established under the New York state college choice tuition savings program used to pay student loans
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 22, 2024A 9246: Creates a certified recovery residences task force
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 12, 2024A 9193: Relates to verification of voter qualifications
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2024A 8976: Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of certain crimes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2024A 8977: Requires maternal health care providers facilitate a screening for maternal depression within the first six weeks of birth
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 12, 2024A 8579: Provides a tax exemption for property operating as a child day care
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023A 8356: Requires public hearings on increases in utility charges
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 18, 2023A 7985: Establishes the crime of criminal sale of a controlled substance resulting in death
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 18, 2023A 7973: Includes retirement plans in the exemption for pensions and annuities for certain persons and increases such exemption
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 19, 2023A 7881: Requires the approval of the legislature for certain proposed rule changes
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 19, 2023A 7890: Requires wireless communication method service providers disable services to stolen wireless communication methods
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jun 6, 2023A 7726: Relates to making contractors and subcontractors that have been debarred under the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 3144) ineligible to bid for or be awarded public works contracts
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jun 6, 2023A 7695: Authorizes the Carmel Central School District to offer a separate referendum on the question of term limits for members of the Carmel Central School District board of education
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 8, 2023A 6744: Relates to family leave
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6212: Establishes the open data law requiring the office of information technology services
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6078: Relates to care and protection of children
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6266: Authorizes the legislative commission on the development of rural resources to study the effectiveness of pond and lake management programs
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6071: Directs the office of children and family services to develop a list of eligible substitute day care staff
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6218: Requires enhanced federal medical assistance percentage funds be directly shared with the counties and the city of New York
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 3, 2023A 6297: Requires a valid government issued photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5820: Authorizes bail for principals charged with aggravated cruelty to animals
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5858: Requires child day care centers, family day care homes, and any child day care provider notify the municipality in which they intend to operate of their intent to request such a license or registration
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5830: Designates that portion of interstate eighty-four that lies within the county of Putnam as the "Putnam County Purple Heart Highway"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5788: Relates to the continuation of death benefits to a surviving spouse regardless of remarriage
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5770: Provides that any special act school districts be held harmless from any reduction in tuition revenue or any tuition rate calculation and/or rate reconciliation
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5748: Allows withdrawals from family tuition accounts to pay for treatment of substance use disorder for the designated beneficiary
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5749: Enacts the "regulatory fiscal accountability act of 2023"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5743: Directs the department of veterans' services to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 4 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting lists
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 23, 2023A 5826: Expands the veterans tuition awards program
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2023A 5301: Prohibits the acquisition of real property by foreign countries and entities of particular concern
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 27, 2023A 4996: Establishes a community gardening grant program to strengthen local food chain resiliency
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 27, 2023A 4966: Provides for reimbursement for schools to transition from native names, logos, and mascots
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2023A 2860: Allows only citizens to vote at elections
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 27, 2023A 2859: Relates to requiring the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least forty percent and to notify such customers of bill assistance
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023A 2322: Establishes July sixteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Atomic and Nuclear Veterans Day"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023A 2323: Enacts "Jessica Lunsford act" relating to enhancing the class A-II felony of predatory sexual assault against a child
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 25, 2023A 2324: Requires local child protective services to notify appropriate military personnel when a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment
    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 100 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.