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Al Taylor
Democratic · Assembly Member

Al Taylor

Represents District 71 in the State Assembly.

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Votes with Democrats
100%
on 617 party-line votes · House Democrats median 99%
Cast a vote
92%
Yea or Nay on 3,444 of 3,732 roll calls · House median 97%
Their bills that became law
49 of 97
as a primary sponsor, this session · Democrats median 61
Roll calls on record
3,732
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 Al Taylor 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 Al Taylor 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. Al Taylor is circled.

Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party

0 of 617 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.

A10133 · Regulates personal loans made by a lender to a resident of or person physically located in the state of New York; exempts certain lenders.
Yea
Assembly Banks Committee: Favorable refer to committee Codes · 2026-02-25 · Passed 16–12
A03415 · Requires public-facing websites operated by political committees to contain "paid for by" language; adds such public-facing websites to the list of political communications that qualify as independent expenditures.
Yea
Assembly Election Law Committee: Favorable refer to committee Codes · 2025-03-25 · Passed 9–5
A01241 · Repeals provisions criminalizing the furnishing of items with a nominal value to induce attendance at polls.
Yea
Assembly Election Law Committee: Favorable · 2025-03-25 · Passed 9–5
A05204 · Requires a government photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot; provides for a method to receive a government photo identification card at no charge; provides that notaries are not permitted to collect a fee for collecting the documents required.
Yea
Assembly Election Law Committee: Held for Consideration · 2025-05-28 · Passed 10–5
A06741 · Requires state and county boards of elections to post sample ballots online at least twelve days prior to the first day of early voting; requires such ballots to be posted in a searchable database.
Yea
Assembly Election Law Committee: Favorable refer to committee Rules · 2025-05-28 · Passed 10–5
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 · 245 shared contested votes
53%
Scott GrayRepublican · District 116 · 402 shared contested votes
51%
Brian MaherRepublican · District 101 · 251 shared contested votes
49%
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 (288 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.

2025-01: 132 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-02: 75 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2025-03: 85 roll calls, 4 without a Yea or Nay2025-04: 141 roll calls, 4 without a Yea or Nay2025-05: 485 roll calls, 6 without a Yea or Nay2025-06: 1051 roll calls, 112 without a Yea or Nay2026-01: 160 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2026-02: 74 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or Nay2026-03: 110 roll calls, 28 without a Yea or Nay2026-04: 122 roll calls, 14 without a Yea or Nay2026-05: 602 roll calls, 120 without a Yea or Nay2026-06: 695 roll calls, 0 without a Yea or NayJan 2025Jan 2026Jun 2026
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Their bills, from filing to law

Bills Al Taylor 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.

Introduced97
Out of committee56
Passed one chamber51
Passed both chambers49
Became law49
Never left committee41

For comparison, the median Democratic member of the House has 61 bills that became law this session.

Extends provisions of law providing for certain fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings to December 31, 2028.
Became lawsigned chap.323 · 2026-10-23
Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions providing for increased supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist (SUM) insurance coverage to June 30, 2029.
Became lawsigned chap.149 · 2026-06-26
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim October 2026, as Rett Syndrome Awareness Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-03
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim November 2026 as Epilepsy Awareness Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-03
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim November 2026, as Alpha-1 Awareness Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-03
Relates to action arising out of consumer debt; defines consumer debt; replaces consumer credit transaction with such term.
Out of committeesubstituted by s9760 · 2026-06-03
Requires compliance with the city's uniform land use review procedure.
Passed one chamberREFERRED TO RULES · 2026-06-02
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2026, as Gay Pride Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-01
Requires state and county boards of elections to post sample ballots online at least twelve days prior to the first day of early voting; requires such ballots to be posted in a searchable database.
Passed one chamberRETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · 2026-05-29
Prohibits a state or local authority, or subsidiary thereof, from retaining, contracting, employing, or designating a lobbyist to engage in lobbying; allows for the cancellation of pre-existing contracts.
Not out of committeereferred to corporations, authorities and commissions · 2026-05-28
Renames the 157th subway station to the 157th Street – Hispanic Society located at the 1 line on 157th Street of the New York city subway.
Not out of committeereferred to corporations, authorities and commissions · 2026-05-18
Establishes how the MTA shall operate the time-delay egress mechanisms and when such time-delay egress mechanisms may be used.
Not out of committeeprint number 10180b · 2026-05-18
Broadens the court's discretion to use extended terms of interim probation on consent of the defendant to avoid incarceratory outcomes.
Not out of committeereferred to codes · 2026-05-15
Enacts the "housing transparency act"; requires the division of housing and community renewal to establish and maintain a statewide rental unit compliance registry for covered buildings within the state.
Not out of committeeprint number 10727b · 2026-05-14
Welcoming members of the Rohna Survivors Memorial Association upon the auspicious occasion of their visit to the New York State Capitol on May 12, 2026, and paying tribute to Robert Firstman
Became lawadopted · 2026-05-12

Descriptions are the legislature’s own synopsis. Bill data from LegiScan, CC BY 4.0.

A11179 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A06194 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10480 · 2026-06-05
Extends the authorization for hunting big game by rifle in the county of Niagara until 2028. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A09396 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits the use of electronic shelving labels, digital shelf display technology, and surveillance pricing in food retail establishments and drug retail establishments; provides injunctive relief and civil penalties. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 20-9
Yea
A08514 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11322 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 20-9
Yea
A08962 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A05113 · 2026-06-05
Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans, black cars, ambulettes and paratransit vehicles, small school buses, and charter buses that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting nine to twenty-four passengers for hire; pre-arranged for-hire vehicles and accessible vehicles; defines terms. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 20-9
Yea
A10741 · 2026-06-05
Relates to provisions governing contracting between state agencies and not-for-profit organizations including new, renewal, and extension contracts. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A01755 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10454 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 20-9
Yea
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)
Passed · 82-52
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 132-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 132-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 137-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 141-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 134-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 129-1
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 132-0
Yea
A10280 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes an optional 20-year retirement plan for traffic officers employed by the town of Elmira, who submit an application therefor within one year of the effective date of such provisions, or within one year of start of employment. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11181 · 2026-06-05
Relates to the use of certain moneys received by the West Babylon Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association and modernization of certain gendered language. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11564 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes licensees to remain open for extended hours of operation statewide between June 11 and July 20, 2026. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10933 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the city of Oleans assessor to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from OWH Properties, Inc. (Operation Warm Hearts) for all of the 2025-2026 school taxes and all of the 2025 general taxes. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10450 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system, consisting of the bridge located on Diamond Point road at exit twenty-three of interstate eighty-seven in the town of Lake George, county of Warren, to Officer Stephen L. Raymond. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
A08809 · 2026-06-05
Requires that land formerly used as an armory which was conveyed to the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk by the state in 2011, to be leased to the YMCA of Long Island for the provision of recreational and educational programs. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
A11395 · 2026-06-05
Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Monroe county. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11449 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route nine-W within the town of Bethlehem, at the town line bordering the city of Albany until its intersection with Moriah road, to Patrick LaFortune Jr. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A08814 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11248 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11220 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11134 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the Congregation Atzei Chaim to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the 2023 and 2024 assessment rolls and all of the 2023-2024 school taxes. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11240 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the Tovas Dovid Community Kollel, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 assessment rolls and all of the 2023-2024, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school taxes. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10373 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the county of Warren to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to Bradley Murphy, a patrol officer employed by such county. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10906 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system constituting the bridge on Cleveland Drive crossing interstate route 90 in the town of Cheektowaga, county of Erie, to PFC Travis C. Krege. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A08579 · 2026-06-05
Grants retroactive Tier IV membership in the New York city teachers' retirement system to certain employees employed by the city of Yonkers parks department for the period beginning in 2009 and ending in 2014. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A07986 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the Centerport Fire District to file an application for exemption from school taxes and real property taxes. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10949 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional five years. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A09074 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11163 · 2026-06-05
Increases the occupancy tax in the county of St. Lawrence from three to five percent. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 28-1
Yea
A10792 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Dansville, county of Livingston, to Clara H. Barton. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 132-0
Yea
A10689 · 2026-06-05
Adds Lake Oscawana and Roaring Brook Lake in Putnam county to the definition of inland waterways. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 124-7
Yea
A02612 · 2026-06-05
Designates the animal control officer in the town of Sand Lake as a peace officer. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A07250 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10636 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Sergeant Gregory L. Wahl. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A11290 · 2026-06-05
Designates a portion of the state highway system to War Dogs. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
A10573 · 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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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 Rules Committee: Favorable)
Passed · 29-0
Yea
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)
Passed · 131-0
Yea
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