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Republican
· Assembly Member
Ed Ra
Represents District 19 in the State Assembly.
Votes with Republicans
91%
on 622 party-line votes · House Republicans median 92%
Cast a vote
99%
Yea or Nay on 4,076 of 4,077 roll calls · House median 97%
Their bills that became law
178 of 288
as a primary sponsor, this session · Republicans median 177
Roll calls on record
4,077
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 Ed Ra 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 Ed Ra 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. Ed Ra is circled.
Always on the Republican sideAlways on the Democratic side
Times they broke with their party
57 of 622 party-line votes, most recent 10 shown.
S10643 · Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-05 · Passed 98–34 · most Republicans voted the other way
A11561 · Extends the demonstration project and workgroup to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities for a fifth year, until December 31, 2027 (Part A); extends the duration of certain brownfield redevelopment and remediation tax credits with respect to a site located at 1800 Park Avenue (Part B); makes technical corrections relating to extending the term and authority of the independent monitor for the Orange county IDA (Part C); extends the demonstration project and workgroup to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities for a fifth year, until December 31, 2027 (Part D); makes technical corrections to section 11-3206 of the administrative code of the city of New York (Part E); provides for the temporary transfer of racing support payments (Part F).
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-04 · Passed 100–39 · most Republicans voted the other way
A08664 · Relates to the administration of reversible progestin-only contraceptive injections; provides that no pharmacist shall administer reversible progestin-only contraceptive injections without receiving training satisfactory to the commissioner of education and the commissioner of health.
Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable · 2026-06-03 · Passed 23–6 · most Republicans voted the other way
A10391 · Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Poughkeepsie.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-03 · Passed 111–29 · most Republicans voted the other way
A10391 · Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Poughkeepsie.
Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable · 2026-06-03 · Passed 22–7 · most Republicans voted the other way
A11561 · Extends the demonstration project and workgroup to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities for a fifth year, until December 31, 2027 (Part A); extends the duration of certain brownfield redevelopment and remediation tax credits with respect to a site located at 1800 Park Avenue (Part B); makes technical corrections relating to extending the term and authority of the independent monitor for the Orange county IDA (Part C); extends the demonstration project and workgroup to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities for a fifth year, until December 31, 2027 (Part D); makes technical corrections to section 11-3206 of the administrative code of the city of New York (Part E); provides for the temporary transfer of racing support payments (Part F).
Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable · 2026-06-03 · Passed 22–7 · most Republicans voted the other way
A10455 · Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Ithaca.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-02 · Passed 105–34 · most Republicans voted the other way
A10510 · Prohibits gas and electric corporations from recovering labor-related legal costs or workers' compensation loss adjustment expenses from ratepayers through rates, charges, surcharges, adjustment mechanisms, riders, or reconciliation mechanisms; defines labor-related legal activity.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-01 · Passed 103–35 · most Republicans voted the other way
S04574 · Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-01 · Passed 107–32 · most Republicans voted the other way
S00372 · Establishes the "no severance ultimatums act", which prevents employers from giving coercive ultimatums to employees or former employees relating to severance agreements.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-01 · Passed 110–29 · most Republicans voted the other way
Closest votes they cast
Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.
A06049 · Establishes a day of commemoration known as "October 7th Remembrance Day".
Assembly Ways And Means Committee: Held for Consideration · 2025-06-06 · Passed 18–17
A06557 · Establishes October 7th as October 7th remembrance day to honor the victims of the October 7, 2023 attacks; declares October seventh as a holiday for students in the public schools of the city of New York; requires the chancellor of the New York city school district to provide instruction of awareness of the October seventh remembrance day to students and professional development training to teachers; requires the division of human rights to establish a statewide campaign for antisemitism prevention; makes related provisions.
Assembly Ways And Means Committee: Held for Consideration · 2025-06-06 · Passed 18–17
A05214 · Establishes the "Not on our dollar!: Ending New York funding of Hamas violence act" to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Hamas and nations known to fund middle-eastern terrorist group activity; allows for recovery of a civil penalty by the state attorney general; creates a private right of action for violations.
Assembly Ways And Means Committee: Held for Consideration · 2025-06-06 · Passed 20–15
A05141 · Prohibits persons affiliated with terror organizations from being appointed to permanent, temporary or provisional positions in the state civil service system.
Assembly Ways And Means Committee: Held for Consideration · 2025-06-06 · Passed 20–15
A11217 · Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits.
Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable · 2026-05-29 · Passed 17–9
Democrats 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.
D. Billy JonesDemocrat · District 115 · 279 shared contested votes
63%
Carrie WoernerDemocrat · District 113 · 465 shared contested votes
53%
Nader SayeghDemocrat · District 90 · 428 shared contested votes
53%
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 (1 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.
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Their bills, from filing to law
Bills Ed Ra 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.
Introduced288
Out of committee188
Passed one chamber180
Passed both chambers178
Became law178
Never left committee100
For comparison, the median Republican member of the House has 177 bills that became law this session.
Expands the tax exemption levied on certain residential property for first-time home buyers by removing the requirement that such residential property be newly constructed.
Not out of committeereferred to real property taxation · 2026-09-02
Authorizes the town of Hempstead to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the hamlet of West Hempstead.
Out of committeesubstituted by s10321 · 2026-06-05
Authorizes the village of New Hyde Park to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a portion of the 2024-2025 assessment rolls and all of the 2025 general taxes.
Out of committeesubstituted by s10295a · 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.
Passed one chamberREFERRED TO RULES · 2026-06-05
Authorizes a death benefit option for the beneficiary of deceased justice Jerry Garguilo, a justice of the unified court system.
Out of committeesubstituted by s9138 · 2026-06-05
Recognizing the Paige Elizabeth Keely Foundation for its dedicated efforts in raising awareness about arteriovenous malformation
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-03
Recognizing May 21-27, 2026, as Military Animal Appreciation Week, and to honor these animals for their service
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-03
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 15-21, 2026, as Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week 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
Authorizes the county of Nassau assessor to accept an application for a real property tax exemption from Gurdwara Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib, Inc. for all of the 2023 general taxes.
Not out of committeeprint number 2639a · 2026-06-02
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim August 2026, as Motorsports Awareness Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-01
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim June 2026, as Great Outdoors Month in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-01
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)
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)
A10480 · 2026-06-05
Extends the authorization for hunting big game by rifle in the county of Niagara until 2028. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A11395 · 2026-06-05
Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Monroe county. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
A11163 · 2026-06-05
Increases the occupancy tax in the county of St. Lawrence from three to five percent. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
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)
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)
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)
A10689 · 2026-06-05
Adds Lake Oscawana and Roaring Brook Lake in Putnam county to the definition of inland waterways. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
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)
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)
A02612 · 2026-06-05
Designates the animal control officer in the town of Sand Lake as a peace officer. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
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)
A10636 · 2026-06-05
Dedicates a portion of the state highway system to Sergeant Gregory L. Wahl. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
A11290 · 2026-06-05
Designates a portion of the state highway system to War Dogs. (Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable)
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)
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)
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)
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