Running forState Assembly, District 47
William Colton
DemocratHas the job now
Overview
William Colton is an American politician who represents District 47 in the New York State Assembly, which comprises Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Dyker Heights, and Midwood.
Facts from Wikipedia.
- How to reach them
- Office phone: 718-236-1598
- Office: 155 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, NY 11223
- Email: coltonw@nyassembly.gov
- Official accounts: X (Twitter)
Bills they wrote
Bills and joint resolutions where they're the main author, since 2023. Laws first, then the ones that got furthest.
Wrote
123 bills
Became law
1 became law. Another 12 passed the House or Senate but didn't.
- A 7768: Declares Asian Lunar New Year a school holidayBecame law
- A 3933: Requires N.Y. city to collect discarded recyclable materials at city parks, playgrounds, historic sites and other facilitiesVetoed
- A 9354: Requires certain manufacturers to sell and distribute plastic beverage containers with tethered plastic beverage capsPassed the Assembly
- A 9296: Requires catalytic converters to be indelibly marked or engraved with the vehicle identification number of the vehicle on which such catalytic converter is installedPassed the Assembly
- A 9307: Requires that all motor vehicles sold at motor vehicle dealerships contain a spare tirePassed the Assembly
- A 2010: Requires that notice be given to the community boards when there is a change in service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the New York city transit authorityPassed the Assembly
- A 1906: Requires a system for notifying customers of bed bug infestations on MTA subways, trains and buses, within 24 hours of discovering such infestationPassed the Assembly
- A 1994: Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgmentPassed the Assembly
- A 1802: Requires contractors in certain large cities to recycle 50% of the waste generated on construction and demolition sitesPassed the Assembly
- A 2570: Requires a system for notifying customers of bed bug infestations on MTA subways, trains and buses, within 24 hours of discovering such infestationPassed the Assembly
- A 2546: Allows certain defenses to parking violations despite entering of a default judgmentPassed the Assembly
- A 1764: Establishes the police canine vest fund for the purpose of purchasing, maintaining, repairing and replacing soft body ballistic armor vests and other protective equipment for police K9 officersPassed the Assembly
- A 1275: Declares Asian Lunar New Year a school holidayPassed the Assembly
- A 10638: Relates to the location of homeless sheltersIntroduced
- A 9358: Establishes an electronic benefits replacement card programIntroduced
- A 9427: Directs MTA to establish free bus fares for seniorsIntroduced
- A 9361: Directs MTA to establish free bus fares for high school studentsIntroduced
- A 9356: Directs MTA to establish free bus fares for studentsIntroduced
- A 9290: Requires silent alarms to be installed in all school classroomsIntroduced
- A 9291: Increases the mandatory retirement age of members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York from sixty-five to sixty-sevenIntroduced
- A 9298: Enacts the "next-gen civics act"Introduced
- A 8743: Relates to providing for certain procedures to be followed when there is a determination of suspected child abuse or neglectIntroduced
- A 6988: Provides a discount to drivers who install dashboard camerasIntroduced
- A 6464: Provides for limited credit time allowancesIntroduced
- A 5863: Relates to providing free SUNY, CUNY, and community college tuition to active volunteer firefighters, volunteer emergency medical services providers, and volunteer auxiliary police officersIntroduced
- A 3168: Enacts CJ's Law--oil and gas drilling workplace safety actIntroduced
- A 3153: Requires contractors to recycle waste generated on construction and demolition sitesIntroduced
- A 3147: Enacts the wireless facility siting actIntroduced
- A 3167: Assigns liability to a producer for actions leading to a public water system's failure to meet filtration avoidance criteria resulting in the loss of filtrationIntroduced
- A 3171: Relates to designating September 11th Remembrance Day as a public holidayIntroduced
- A 3155: Allows reservists with twenty years service to be eligible for 2.5 points on entrance exams and 1 point on promotional examsIntroduced
- A 3178: Relates to large capital projects to be financed in whole or in part with public fundsIntroduced
- A 3170: Creates a temporary state pesticide commission to study the effects of the application of pesticides in N.Y. cityIntroduced
- A 3197: Prohibits solid waste polluters from procuring solid waste public contractsIntroduced
- A 3176: Requires that a state employee, who is transferred from one state agency to another because such employee's previous position was eliminated, be entitled to certain benefitsIntroduced
- A 3149: Relates to actions by health care providers against patientsIntroduced
- A 3185: Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or moreIntroduced
- A 2569: Authorizes the use of cool roofs on new or substantially renovated state-owned buildingsIntroduced
- A 2457: Requires the board of elections to provide Russian interpreters at certain polling locations in N.Y. cityIntroduced
- A 2463: Requires shareholders to approve corporate political expendituresIntroduced
- A 2508: Relates to liability for the manufacture, sale, leasing or other disposition of ammunition feeding devices and compensation for damagesIntroduced
- A 2458: Changes the designation of incest from a class E to a class B felonyIntroduced
- A 2519: Prohibits city agencies in New York city from contracting with a limited liability company unless such limited liability company discloses the names of the business membersIntroduced
- A 2477: Relates to prohibiting admission of sex offenders to state operated psychiatric centers which share facilities with a children's psychiatric centerIntroduced
- A 2524: Prohibits the unauthorized sale of veterans' commemorative property by cemeteriesIntroduced
- A 2521: Provides for bilingual voting materialsIntroduced
- A 2515: Relates to requiring evening court hours for the adjudication of parking violationsIntroduced
- A 2517: Establishes the police canine vest fundIntroduced
- A 2479: Prohibits the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislatureIntroduced
- A 1895: Relates to the issuance of special license plates and stickers for electric motor vehicles and provides certain benefits for the use of such vehiclesIntroduced
- A 1881: Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classesIntroduced
- A 1798: Relates to establishing a tax credit for electric vehicle charging stations task forceIntroduced
- A 1879: Relates to the issuance of distinctive license plates for members of veterans organizationsIntroduced
- A 1932: Allows the New York state AFL-CIO to select a member to the metropolitan transportation authorityIntroduced
- A 1904: Requires car registration forms to display the label "qualified hybrid vehicle" and the estimated MPG of such vehicle as calculated by the EPAIntroduced
- A 1924: Requires manufacturers to meet certain standards with their packaging in New York state to reduce wasteIntroduced
- A 1930: Requires state agencies and contractors to recycle 50% of the waste generated on public works construction and demolition sitesIntroduced
- A 1770: Allows MTA to establish discount fares for full-time undergraduate studentsIntroduced
- A 1763: Provides for actuarially appropriate discounts on fire and homeowners insurance after completion of certified residential home safety and loss prevention course; repealerIntroduced
- A 1993: Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York cityIntroduced
- A 1800: Prohibits insurer from increasing auto insurance premiums upon renewal for persons 60 years of age or over solely on the ground of insureds' ageIntroduced
- A 1926: Provides for a personal income tax deduction for school supplies paid for out-of-pocket by K-12 teachers in public and nonpublic schools, up to $500 per yearIntroduced
- A 1255: Requires disclosure of environmental conservation permit applicant's record of compliance with state, federal, and foreign environmental regulationsIntroduced
- A 1454: Provides the New York city water board shall not establish a limit of less than six years to challenge any service charges for the use of or services furnished by the water boardIntroduced
- A 1367: Relates to the issuance of retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officersIntroduced
- A 9962: Relates to the issuance of retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officersIntroduced
- A 6900: Relates to the composition of the state board of paroleIntroduced
- A 3878: Requires the board of elections to provide Russian interpreters at certain polling locations in N.Y. cityIntroduced
- A 3922: Relates to requiring evening court hours for the adjudication of parking violationsIntroduced
- A 3928: Relates to liability for the manufacture, sale, leasing or other disposition of ammunition feeding devices and compensation for damagesIntroduced
- A 3914: Requires disclosure of environmental conservation permit applicant's record of compliance with state, federal, and foreign environmental regulationsIntroduced
- A 3927: Prohibits certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke or other particulate emissionsIntroduced
- A 3975: Relates to the issuance of special license plates and stickers for electric motor vehicles and provides certain benefits for the use of such vehiclesIntroduced
- A 3942: Provides for bilingual voting materialsIntroduced
- A 2550: Requires contractors to recycle waste generated on construction and demolition sitesIntroduced
- A 2543: Allows reservists with twenty years service to be eligible for 2.5 points on entrance exams and 1 point on promotional examsIntroduced
- A 2564: Requires that notice be given to the community boards when there is a change in service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the New York city transit authorityIntroduced
- A 2559: Relates to requiring instruction in Asian American and Pacific Islander history for grades K through 12Introduced
- A 2590: Relates to the filling of borrow pits in Gravesend Bay; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereofIntroduced
- A 2591: Assigns liability to a producer for actions leading to a public water system's failure to meet filtration avoidance criteria resulting in the loss of filtrationIntroduced
- A 2435: Amends definition of "caregiver" for purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include caregivers of senior, ill and disabled personsIntroduced
- A 2557: Relates to large capital projects to be financed in whole or in part with public fundsIntroduced
- A 2439: Relates to the powers and duties of the chancellor of education in the city of New York; extends the provisions of chapter 91 of the laws of 2002 amending the education law and other lawsIntroduced
- A 2537: Provides for the reimbursement of costs of the New York environmental protection and spill compensation fund in the department of audit and controlIntroduced
- A 2406: Prohibits insurer from increasing auto insurance premiums upon renewal for persons 60 years of age or over solely on the ground of insureds' ageIntroduced
- A 2651: Requires car registration forms to display the label "qualified hybrid vehicle" and the estimated MPG of such vehicle as calculated by the EPAIntroduced
- A 2436: Provides for actuarially appropriate discounts on fire and homeowners insurance after completion of certified residential home safety and loss prevention course; repealerIntroduced
- A 2636: Enacts the wireless facility siting actIntroduced
- A 2698: Declares October first, China Day, a public holidayIntroduced
- A 2686: Grants sales and use tax exemption for transportation of used goods to be recycled, reused or remanufacturedIntroduced
- A 2540: Requires state agencies and contractors to recycle 50% of the waste generated on public works construction and demolition sitesIntroduced
- A 2592: Creates a temporary state pesticide commission to study the effects of the application of pesticides in N.Y. cityIntroduced
- A 2558: Relates to actions by health care providers against patientsIntroduced
- A 2565: Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York cityIntroduced
- A 2451: Relates to establishing a tax credit for electric vehicle charging stations task forceIntroduced
- A 2255: Designates the month of September as firefighter, police officer and emergency medical technician appreciation monthIntroduced
- A 1823: Prohibits the unauthorized sale of veterans' commemorative property by cemeteriesIntroduced
- A 1836: Requires contractors in certain large cities to recycle 50% of the waste generated on construction and demolition sitesIntroduced
- A 2077: Changes the designation of incest from a class E to a class B felonyIntroduced
- A 2028: Authorizes the use of cool roofs on new or substantially renovated state-owned buildingsIntroduced
- A 2081: Relates to prohibiting admission of sex offenders to state operated psychiatric centers which share facilities with a children's psychiatric centerIntroduced
- A 2099: Enacts CJ's Law--oil and gas drilling workplace safety actIntroduced
- A 2089: Requires manufacturers to meet certain standards with their packaging in New York state to reduce wasteIntroduced
- A 2082: Establishes the offenses of obstructing governmental administration by means of dousing a police officer in the first, second and third degreeIntroduced
- A 2140: Requires that an employee, who is transferred from one state agency to another because his or her previous position was eliminated, be entitled to certain benefitsIntroduced
- A 2138: Establishes the crime of criminal possession of an image of a minor victimIntroduced
- A 2097: Prohibits the use of pesticides containing NeonicotinoidsIntroduced
- A 2098: Prohibits solid waste polluters from procuring solid waste public contractsIntroduced
- A 2096: Relates to designating September 11th Remembrance Day as a public holidayIntroduced
- A 2162: Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classesIntroduced
- A 1821: Prohibits disposal of spoils containing toxic pollutants into the waters of the marine districtIntroduced
- A 2139: Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or moreIntroduced
- A 1783: Requires shareholders to approve corporate political expendituresIntroduced
- A 1761: Relates to the issuance of distinctive license plates for members of veterans organizationsIntroduced
- A 1759: Prohibits city agencies in New York city from contracting with a limited liability company unless such limited liability company discloses the names of the business membersIntroduced
- A 1779: Allows the New York state AFL-CIO to select a member to the metropolitan transportation authorityIntroduced
- A 1789: Includes hate crimes in the list of offenses as to which the court has discretion to release the principal pending trial, fix bail or commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff; repealerIntroduced
- A 1768: Prohibits the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislatureIntroduced
- A 1787: Requires the establishment of a one hundred percent clean energy system by two thousand thirty-twoIntroduced
- A 1763: Allows MTA to establish discount fares for full-time undergraduate studentsIntroduced
- A 1790: Provides for a personal income tax deduction for school supplies paid for out-of-pocket by K-12 teachers in public and nonpublic schools, up to $500 per yearIntroduced
- A 1376: Relates to vehicle inspection renewal notificationIntroduced
- A 1374: Provides the New York city water board shall not establish a limit of less than six years to challenge any service charges for the use of or services furnished by the water boardIntroduced
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 51 of 3,989 votes (1%). 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.