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Sam Berger

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Overview

Shmuie Berger is an American Jewish politician who is the representative for New York's 27th State Assembly district.

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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

77 bills

Became law

6 became law. Another 27 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced May 16, 2025A 8475: Makes technical corrections relating to the title of the commissioner of veterans' services
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2123: Enacts the "Ignazio Giacalone act" to provide additional credits to children and siblings of deceased New York city sanitation members
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 112: Repeals section 3403 of the insurance law relating to anti-arson applications
    Became law
  • Introduced May 3, 2024A 10105: Enacts "Gittel's law"
    Became law
  • Introduced Feb 23, 2024A 9269: Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to cancel or lock a credit or debit card when fraud has been suspected or reported
    Became law
  • Introduced Nov 27, 2023A 8275: Requires the distribution of information in the pre-licensing course to operate a motor vehicle on how to register as an organ and tissue donor
    Became law
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2026A 9566: Relates to extending the duration of limited permits to practice licensed clinical social work and licensed master social work
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Nov 7, 2025A 9240: Relates to school tax relief exemption notification
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced May 12, 2025A 8305: Relates to expenses in matrimonial actions
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Feb 24, 2025A 5894: Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025A 2332: Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the twelve most common non-English languages
    Passed both chambers
  • Introduced Apr 23, 2026A 11042: Relates to licensing of independent insurance adjusters
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 1, 2026A 10769: Enhances protections for child performer trust accounts
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 20, 2026A 10675: Updates school concussion management and response protocols
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 13, 2026A 10619: Establishes a certified community behavioral health clinic public awareness campaign
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Mar 13, 2026A 10618: Relates to reimbursement for nonpublic school safety equipment grants
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 2, 2026A 10104: Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain specific information
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2026A 10094: Enacts the "licensure incentives and fee-support for testing (LIFT) act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2026A 9560: Enacts the "building retention and internship-to-degree graduate employment (BRIDGE) act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 19, 2025A 9372: Requires the disclosure of certain members of student clubs and organizations to the college at which the club or organization is located
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 19, 2025A 9363: Relates to electric scooter programs and establishing the street and sidewalk infrastructure fund
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 19, 2025A 9390: Prohibits public adjusters from contacting certain persons regarding a property that has sustained damage from a damaging event within forty-eight hours of such damaging event
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Apr 8, 2025A 7739: Enacts the "military experience recognized for institutional transfer (MERIT) act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 24, 2025A 5885: Authorizes Jonathan Grossman to apply for a recalculation of his retirement benefits
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2025A 5425: Enacts the "New York State buy North American act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2110: Expands the definition of mental health care provider for purposes of certain sex offenses committed during a treatment session, consultation, interview, or examination
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2074: Relates to the sealing of certain claims against law enforcement officers
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2139: Enacts the "Honoring Our Pledge to Eliminate Antisemitism (HOPE) act"
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2024A 8831: Repeals section 3403 of the insurance law relating to anti-arson applications
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Dec 13, 2023A 8334: Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8216: Establishes that instruction in financial education be provided to pupils in grades nine, ten, eleven or twelve
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8219: Relates to electronic delivery of insurance notices
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8225: Enacts the family court adjusted service time (FAST) act
    Passed the Assembly
  • Introduced May 1, 2026A 11204: Relates to health and social services practitioners included under the health care proxy law, the family health care decisions act, and nonhospital orders not to resuscitate
    Introduced
  • Introduced Apr 24, 2026A 11075: Enacts the "who you gonna call? act"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 14, 2026A 9568: Requires electric scooter service platforms to maintain insurance coverage
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 19, 2025A 9369: Relates to schedule rating plans reflecting individual risk characteristics of an employer
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 10, 2025A 9321: Relates to supervision by certain marriage and family therapists and mental health counselors
    Introduced
  • Introduced Oct 17, 2025A 9150: Makes aggravated cruelty to animals a class E felony; repealer
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 20, 2025A 8514: Authorizes certified school psychologists to participate in the certification of certain persons as intellectually disabled or developmentally disabled
    Introduced
  • Introduced May 5, 2025A 8196: Requires local community review and approval prior to the implementation of electric scooter programs and installation of electric scooter infrastructure in N.Y. City
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025A 6594: Provides school preference when a student is applying to the same public elementary or middle school as a sibling
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 24, 2025A 5878: Allows for reasonable accommodations for the examination portion of licensure requirements to become a social worker for individuals for whom English is not their primary language
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4057: Relates to New York state active duty
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025A 4138: Authorizes the justice center to create a central registry for employees
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025A 4020: Provides a tax credit for the installation of certain fire sprinkler systems
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025A 4005: Relates to rotary and roundabout use and safety awareness
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 30, 2025A 3985: Limits the amount such fine to be paid for violating the E-ZPass system for failing to pay a toll
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 22, 2025A 2679: Relates to the expiration of vehicle registrations
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 15, 2025A 2211: Relates to electronic delivery of notices
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 782: Restricts amplified sound from vehicles
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 919: Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to provide certain services when fraud has been suspected or reported
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 111: Prohibits certain surcharges on credit or debit card transactions
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 113: Provides an exemption to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles for emergency ambulance service vehicles
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 110: Divides the one hundred ninth precinct of the New York city police department into subdivisions
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 115: Requires the commissioner of health to include in annual reports information regarding the cost and increase in cost of certain prescription drugs
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 195: Relates to minority and women-owned business enterprise certification
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 201: Relates to notices of violation of the city of New York's solid waste recycling laws
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 788: Requires that the distinctive license plate numbers issued to the owner of a registered motor vehicle be changed within a week after such plates being stolen
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 753: Relates to the length of the pre-licensing course required of applicants for a driver's license
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 800: Relates to aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the first degree
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 109: Establishes that instruction in financial education be provided to pupils in grades nine, ten, eleven or twelve
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 114: Relates to electronic delivery of insurance notices
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 780: Enacts the "Supervising Upcoming Professionals for Practice in Official Roles in Therapy (SUPPORT) act"
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 8, 2025A 196: Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 27, 2024A 9660: Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in multiple languages
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 26, 2024A 9607: Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2024A 8832: Relates to barring a person convicted of a hate crime from attending any state public school of higher education
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 18, 2024A 8836: Requires the commissioner of health to include in annual reports information regarding the cost and increase in cost of certain prescription drugs
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 12, 2024A 8607: Authorizes Jonathan Grossman to apply for a recalculation of his retirement benefits
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 27, 2023A 8305: Directs the New York City Housing Authority and the department of information technology and telecommunications of the city of New York to establish a 311 hotline to receive public housing complaints
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8218: Divides the one hundred ninth precinct of the New York city police department into subdivisions
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8217: Prohibits certain surcharges on credit or debit card transactions
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8222: Relates to notices of violation of the city of New York's solid waste recycling laws
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8221: Includes assault on a corrections officer as a class C felony
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8223: Requires the transfer of medical records within sixty days of written request
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 6, 2023A 8220: Provides an exemption to the prohibition on tinted windows in automobiles for emergency ambulance service vehicles
    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

3,052 votes on bills that passed at least one chamber.

Attendance

Didn't vote on 729 of 3,052 votes (24%). They had permission to be away (excused) for all of them.

By topic
Aging24 votes
    Agriculture27 votes
      Alcoholism and Drug Abuse10 votes
        Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders4 votes
          Banks47 votes
            Budget and Revenue5 votes
              Children and Families51 votes
                Cities30 votes
                  Cities 120 votes
                    Cities 28 votes
                      Civil Service and Pensions80 votes
                        Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business11 votes
                          Consumer Affairs and Protection107 votes
                            Consumer Protection20 votes
                              Corporations, Authorities and Commissions103 votes
                                Correction31 votes
                                  Crime Victims, Crime and Correction13 votes
                                    Criminal Law (Codes)138 votes
                                      Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation13 votes
                                        Disabilities6 votes
                                          Economic Development48 votes
                                            Education53 votes
                                              Election Law18 votes
                                                Elections15 votes
                                                  Energy48 votes
                                                    Energy and Telecommunications19 votes
                                                      Environmental Conservation125 votes
                                                        Finance34 votes
                                                          Governmental Employees81 votes
                                                            Governmental Operations137 votes
                                                              Health212 votes
                                                                Higher Education72 votes
                                                                  Housing39 votes
                                                                    Housing, Construction and Community Development14 votes
                                                                      Insurance138 votes
                                                                        Internet and Technology15 votes
                                                                          Investigations and Government Operations147 votes
                                                                            Judiciary123 votes
                                                                              Labor74 votes
                                                                                Libraries7 votes
                                                                                  Libraries and Education Technology3 votes
                                                                                    Local Government138 votes
                                                                                      Local Governments92 votes
                                                                                        Mental Health23 votes
                                                                                          New York City Education1 vote
                                                                                            People With Disabilities15 votes
                                                                                              Procurement and Contracts13 votes
                                                                                                Racing and Wagering19 votes
                                                                                                  Racing, Gaming and Wagering7 votes
                                                                                                    Real Property Taxation64 votes
                                                                                                      Science and Technology15 votes
                                                                                                        Small Business4 votes
                                                                                                          Social Services30 votes
                                                                                                            Taxes and Budget (Ways and Means)189 votes
                                                                                                              Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development27 votes
                                                                                                                Transportation173 votes
                                                                                                                  Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs12 votes
                                                                                                                    Veterans' Affairs49 votes
                                                                                                                      Women'S Issues11 votes

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