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Democratic
· Assembly Member
George Alvarez
Represents District 78 in the State Assembly.
Votes with Democrats
100%
on 575 party-line votes · House Democrats median 99%
Cast a vote
92%
Yea or Nay on 2,498 of 2,707 roll calls · House median 97%
Their bills that became law
51 of 84
as a primary sponsor, this session · Democrats median 61
Roll calls on record
2,707
2025-2026 General Assembly
Votes and bills updated Nov 3, 2026 from LegiScan (CC BY 4.0), which republishes the legislature’s own records. Profile details from OpenStates / Plural Policy. Figures cover 2025-2026 General Assembly.
How George Alvarez votes
A party-line vote is a roll call where most voting Democrats and most voting Republicans took opposite sides. Absences and not-voting are never counted. Same method as our Congress pages.
Where George Alvarez sits in the House
Each dot is one member of the House, placed by how often they voted on the Democratic side of party-line votes. George Alvarez is circled.
Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party
0 of 575 party-line votes.
They voted with most Democrats on every party-line vote this session.
Closest votes they cast
Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.
A10839 · Exempts disabled veterans rated as such by the US Department of Veterans affairs from real property taxation for their primary residence.
Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-12 · Passed 7–3
A01951 · Requires the use of local labor to qualify for certain real property tax exemptions relating to business investment and the installation of certain energy systems; defines local labor; provides for exceptions from the local labor requirement in certain circumstances where local labor is not qualified to perform the work or available.
Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-12 · Passed 7–3
A10154 · Relates to adjusting the STAR credit depending on the age of a person from sixty-five years of age to eighty-five years of age and older.
Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-12 · Passed 7–3
A02383 · Relates to raising the income cap for senior citizens applying for the enhanced STAR property tax exemption to $120,000.
Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-12 · Passed 7–3
A08332 · Relates to additional considerations regarding the assessment of solar or wind energy systems through a discounted cash flow approach.
Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means · 2025-05-20 · Passed 7–3
Republicans they vote with most
Share of contested roll calls (the losing side got at least 10%) where both voted and landed on the same side. Unanimous votes are left out, because on those everyone agrees.
Dave McDonoughRepublican · District 14 · 230 shared contested votes
52%
Brian MaherRepublican · District 101 · 231 shared contested votes
51%
Scott GrayRepublican · District 116 · 391 shared contested votes
50%
Their session, month by month
Dark bars are roll calls they were recorded on each month; the red part is the ones without a Yea or Nay (209 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.
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Their bills, from filing to law
Bills George Alvarez was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.
Introduced84
Out of committee53
Passed one chamber51
Passed both chambers51
Became law51
Never left committee31
For comparison, the median Democratic member of the House has 61 bills that became law this session.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage Atlantic Cod.
Became lawsigned chap.214 · 2026-08-14
Extends the deadline for reduction in class size under contracts for excellence in a city school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants.
Became lawsigned chap.155 · 2026-06-26
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2026, as Gay Pride Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-01
Restricts the use by an employer or an employment agency of electronic monitoring or an automated employment decision tool to screen a candidate or employee for an employment decision unless such tool has been the subject of an impact assessment within the last year; requires notice to employment candidates of the use of such tools; provides remedies for violations.
Out of committeeordered to third reading rules cal.260 · 2026-05-29
mourning the untimely death and paying tribute to the life and heroic service of Nassau County Police Officer Patricia Espinosa who died on Saturday, January 31, 2026
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-27
Commemorating the 2026 SUMAQ Peruvian Food Festival in Brentwood, New York, held August 8-9, 2026
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-20
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim August 16, 2026, as Hispanic Media Day in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-18
Makes free one day admission to the zoological park permanent.
Not out of committeereferred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development · 2026-05-15
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 2026 as Haitian Heritage Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-11
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 5, 2026, as Police Memorial Day in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-05
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 25, 2026, as El Dia Del Bodeguero in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-05
Mourning the death of The Honorable Eliot Engel, Assemblyman, Congressman, distinguished citizen, and devoted member of his community
Became lawadopted · 2026-04-27
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim April 2026, as Oral Cancer Awareness Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-04-22
Enacts the "just energy transition act"; requires a study of competitive options to facilitate the phase-out, replacement and redevelopment of New York state's oldest and most-polluting fossil fueled generation facilities and their sites by the year 2030.
Not out of committeeenacting clause stricken · 2026-04-21
Relates to required notification of an incarcerated individual's emergency contacts when such incarcerated individual experiences a serious medical event; provides that incarcerated individuals and their representatives shall have the right to access such incarcerated individual's medical records; provides requirements for access to such medical records; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to collect data on medical incidents and response times, and to publish an annual report detailing such data.
Out of committeereported referred to ways and means · 2026-04-21
Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.
S05711 · 2026-06-05
Requires certain elections take place in even-numbered years for certain municipal and judicial officials except in the city of New York. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S05998 · 2026-06-05
Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S05939 · 2026-06-05
Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S07204 · 2026-06-05
Exempts the Caughdenoy Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., within the town of Central Square, Oswego county from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08263 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the Congregation Khal Mevakshei Hashem, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the 2024 assessment roll and all of the 2023-2024 school taxes. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10187 · 2026-06-05
Relates to the Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Bethpage, Nassau county, New York, Inc.; changes "firemen" to "firefighters"; directs that certain taxes received shall be used by such benevolent association in furtherance of its purposes. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09051 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are considered unsafe for minors; defines terms; specifies what are considered unsafe features. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A10305 · 2026-06-05
Establishes uniform definitions, standardized procedures, and uniform applications or forms, for determining a medical emergency, life-support equipment and designation of elderly, blind and disabled customers protected from termination of utility services. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S06230 · 2026-06-05
Allows camp employees who are 18 years of age or older to administer medications and treatment to children, under parent or guardian consent and authorization, pursuant to a patient specific order and in compliance with regulations. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09506 · 2026-06-05
Adds Lake Oscawana and Roaring Brook Lake in Putnam county to the definition of inland waterways. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09934 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits the deployment of a stealth crawler in a manner that would damage, impair or burden the operation of a covered news source or otherwise cause a news source economic harm. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08733 · 2026-06-05
Allows persons holding the office of correction officer in the county of Montgomery to be a resident of certain other counties. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09855 · 2026-06-05
Relates to requirements associated with contracts between state agencies and not-for-profit organizations including an advance payment of 25% of the total award to cover expenses incurred in the first quarter. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09458 · 2026-06-05
Allows Steven Kobie Jackson to be eligible to take the civil service exam for the position of police officer for the town of Woodstock police department. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A10952 · 2026-06-05
Relates to the Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Albertson; changes "firemen" to "firefighters"; relates to the management and control as well as the usage of moneys received from foreign fire insurance companies by such association. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A07267 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the county of Cattaraugus assessor to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from Olean Community Theatre, Inc. for all of the 2021-2022 school taxes and all of the 2022 general taxes. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A10693 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the deposit of additional sales and compensating use taxes by the county of Herkimer into the general fund of the county. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A11129 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the county of Wyoming, constituting state route 98 from School Street in the town of Sheldon at the southern end to the southern line of the village of Attica, to Specialist Thomas Edwin Beglinger. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S06954 · 2026-06-05
Requires synthetic content creations system providers to include provenance data on synthetic content produced or modified by a synthetic content creations system that such provider makes available. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09302 · 2026-06-05
Extends the authorization for hunting big game by rifle in the county of Niagara until 2028. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A11275 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the town of Hancock to Jason T McGlone. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A11543 · 2026-06-05
Corrects a misclassification property tax error on behalf of Tanya Hairston for the property located at 40 North Tenth Avenue in the city of Mount Vernon for the 2011 – 2020 city assessment tax rolls. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A11566 · 2026-06-05
Relates to a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises in the county of Schoharie. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A10666 · 2026-06-05
Dissolves the Clifton-Fine health care corporation and transfers any remaining records, property, rights, titles, and interest to the Clifton-Fine health care corporation d/b/a Clifton-Fine hospital, a New York not-for-profit corporation and its successors or assigns. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A07386 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes Sgt. Bethany Kidd to receive certain service credit under a twenty year retirement plan for service with the Seneca Falls Police Department. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09761 · 2026-06-05
Relates to provisions governing contracting between state agencies and not-for-profit organizations including new, renewal, and extension contracts. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A11483 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the towns of Ellington and Charlotte in Chautauqua county to elect a single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A10813 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the county of Nassau assessor to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from the Consulate General of El Salvador. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09528 · 2026-06-05
Establishes a school speed zone camera demonstration program in the city of Ithaca; repeals authorization of such program on December 31, 2030. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S02667 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits the use of restraints on and the use of force against incarcerated individuals during labor and incarcerated individuals who have experienced different pregnancy outcomes, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant and post-pregnancy persons during a custodial interrogation; provides for certain exceptions for restraints to be used and in such case limits the use to wrist restraints. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09997 · 2026-06-05
Changes the definition of continuous supervision in relation to physical therapist assistants in both the home care setting and school setting by eliminating the joint visit requirement with the patient by the supervising licensed physical therapist and the licensed physical therapist assistant. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S00040 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to War Dogs. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S07279 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes certified school psychologists to participate in the certification of certain persons as intellectually disabled or developmentally disabled; makes technical corrections to language. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S07933 · 2026-06-05
Increases fee amount authorized to be imposed on mortgagees or their agents. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08451 · 2026-06-05
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides transparency requirements for news media content composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
A09349 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits the use of surveillance pricing, directly or indirectly; prohibits the collection, use, retention, or sharing of data to facilitate surveillance pricing; provides exceptions; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; makes related provisions. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S01004 · 2026-06-05
Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S07759 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes Frank Smith, a New York city police detective, to receive accidental performance of duty disability retirement benefits for illness suffered as a result of exposure to disease during undercover assignments as a member of the police department of the city of New York. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08925 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits the sale of products that contain 7-hydroxymitragynine at a level that exceeds 2% of total alkaloids or one milligram per serving; establishes fines for the sale of such products. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10655 · 2026-06-05
Relates to the compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees; implements the agreements between the state and the public employees federation. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S06983 · 2026-06-05
Establishes the New York dignity in pregnancy and childbirth act; requires hospitals and other facilities that provide perinatal care to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program for all health care providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; requires the department of health to publish reports on maternal morbidity and pregnancy related deaths. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10058 · 2026-06-05
Establishes a school speed zone camera demonstration program in the village of Croton-on-Hudson; repeals authorization of program December 31, 2031. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S07421 · 2026-06-05
Provides that no person shall engage in the operation of a marine hatchery or in the off-bottom or on-bottom culture of any species belonging to the order Octopoda unless for scientific or educational purposes for the purpose of human consumption. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10643 · 2026-06-05
Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08454 · 2026-06-05
Exempts persons holding the offices of public health director and director of community services of St. Lawrence county from the requirement that such person be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall be chosen or within which such person's official functions are required to be exercised. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08852 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the county of Putnam to lease certain lands used as parklands in the town of Carmel for use as a cell tower for thirty years. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09345 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the Holland central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment for which such school district is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance for the kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09729 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Donald Roy McAnn located on state route 941-A in the town of Greece, county of Monroe. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S06834 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes an occupancy tax in the city of Oneonta not to exceed 6%. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S07966 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the village of Atlantic Beach, county of Nassau to impose a three percent hotel, motel and beach club tax; defines "beach club" as a facility formed, organized or operated by any person, firm or corporation, located on or contiguous to an ocean beach, permitting sunbathing, swimming and other allied recreation activities, including such uses operated by a hotel, cooperative complex or other entity; makes related provisions. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08026 · 2026-06-05
Provides WiFi service and internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09982 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes Kurt Nolan to receive certain credit under sections 384-d and 384-e of the retirement and social security law for prior employment with the New York state university police. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S08453 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the Wantagh state parkway from route 27 to Jerusalem Road in the hamlet of Wantagh, town of Hempstead, county of Nassau to William Cornell. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10648 · 2026-06-05
Implements an agreement between the state and an employee organization; provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain incumbents in the professional service in the state university; makes an appropriation for the purpose of effectuating certain provisions thereof. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09947 · 2026-06-05
Updates provisions regarding the collection and use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Centerport Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09272 · 2026-06-05
Requires school districts, public libraries, BOCES, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists; requires the department of health to provide such opioid antagonists to such entities upon request. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10029 · 2026-06-05
Increases the occupancy tax in the county of St. Lawrence from three to five percent. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09481 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Dansville, county of Livingston, to Clara H. Barton. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S10134 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the Congregation Divrei Chaim to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the 2023, 2024, 2025 assessment rolls and all of the 2023-2024, 2024-2025, and 2025-2026 school taxes for two parcels of land located at 67 and 71 College Road in Monsey. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
S09968 · 2026-06-05
Establishes the Harris Hill Volunteer Fire Company Benevolent Association; provides for eligibility of membership, purpose, powers and duties, organization meeting and by-laws, the control and disposal of funds and property and the precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes. (Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage)
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