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Democratic
· Assembly Member
Sam Berger
Represents District 27 in the State Assembly.
Votes with Democrats
74%
on 314 party-line votes · House Democrats median 99%
Cast a vote
72%
Yea or Nay on 1,564 of 2,164 roll calls · House median 97%
Their bills that became law
56 of 117
as a primary sponsor, this session · Democrats median 61
Roll calls on record
2,164
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 Sam Berger 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 Sam Berger 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. Sam Berger is circled.
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Times they broke with their party
81 of 314 party-line votes, most recent 10 shown.
A11560 · Places a one year moratorium on the issuance of data center permits; requires utilities to establish an independent classification of service for large data centers; sets energy efficiency goals for data centers; provides for benefits for host communities; sets labor standards for the construction of data centers.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-04 · Passed 103–38 · most Democrats voted the other way
A11199 · Requires that any law enforcement agency in the state that encrypts any portion of its radio communications shall ensure that all of its radio communications, with the exception of sensitive information, may be monitored in real time by professional journalists, newscasters, and individuals employed by emergency services organizations.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-03 · Passed 78–62 · most Democrats 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 Democrats voted the other way
S08877 · Requires certain mandatory disclosures for printed or digital job advertisements by an employer or third-party job posting entity; provides for the imposition of a fine of $2,500 for violations.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-02 · Passed 86–54 · most Democrats voted the other way
S03864 · Requires the chief administrator of the courts to submit a report to the legislature and the governor on: an evaluation of the feasibility and benefit of publishing suppression rulings rendered by trial-level criminal courts and/or collection of data regarding such rulings; whether the publication of additional decisions and/or collection of data would improve the practice of law; an evaluation of the means by which such publication and/or collection of data may be effectuated to improve transparency and the public understanding of these courts; an assessment of any further resources that would be necessary to support increased publication or data collection; and recommendations regarding legislation and administrative measures that could be taken.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-02 · Passed 88–52 · most Democrats voted the other way
A11529 · Increases the maximum aggregate principal amount of the outstanding notes and bonds of the New York city housing development corporation from twenty billion dollars to twenty-two billion dollars.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-02 · Passed 92–47 · most Democrats 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 Democrats voted the other way
A02287 · Relates to including the illegal conversions of dwelling units in the definition of harassment.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-06-01 · Passed 85–54 · most Democrats 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 Democrats voted the other way
S08188 · Authorizes the town of Rhinebeck, county of Dutchess, to establish hotel and motel taxes within such town; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Assembly Floor Vote – Final Passage · 2026-05-29 · Passed 82–47 · most Democrats voted the other way
Closest votes they cast
Roll calls decided by the fewest votes, one per bill.
A02504 · Establishes the veterans' services organization capital support program to provide funding to eligible entities for payment of the capital costs of construction, improvement, repairs, rehabilitation, or reconstruction of facilities owned by eligible entities, and for the acquisition of related equipment with a useful life of not less than ten years; appropriates a sum of $10,000,000 therefor.
Assembly Veterans' Affairs Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-13 · Passed 11–8
A02611 · Requires landlords to mitigate damages when commercial tenants vacate premises in violation of the terms of the lease.
Assembly Judiciary Committee: Favorable refer to committee Rules · 2025-05-20 · Passed 12–8
A00777 · Addresses the financial, health care, educational, and workforce needs of disabled veterans and their families by providing tax relief, expanding health care access, enhancing education benefits, and improving workforce protections.
Assembly Veterans' Affairs Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-13 · Passed 12–7
A05408 · Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to create and operate a law enforcement, first responder, active and non-active-duty service members and veteran informational mobile application.
Assembly Mental Health Committee: Held for Consideration · 2025-05-20 · Passed 9–4
A05417 · Creates a commission to reform public assistance benefits to conduct a study to examine the current payment method for public assistance benefits and to identify any and all income levels that exist where an individual or family would become ineligible for any public assistance benefit.
Assembly Social Services Committee: Held for Consideration · 2026-05-27 · Passed 11–5
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.
Scott BendettRepublican · District 107 · 366 shared contested votes
59%
Misha NovakhovRepublican · District 45 · 342 shared contested votes
58%
Lester ChangRepublican · District 49 · 345 shared contested votes
57%
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 (600 in all). Gaps are months the chamber wasn’t voting.
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Their bills, from filing to law
Bills Sam Berger 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.
Introduced117
Out of committee71
Passed one chamber64
Passed both chambers56
Became law56
Never left committee46
For comparison, the median Democratic member of the House has 61 bills that became law this session.
Requires electric scooter service platforms to maintain liability insurance and provide proof of insurance.
Not out of committeeprint number 9568a · 2026-10-21
Enacts the "licensure incentives and fee-support for testing (LIFT) act"; establishes the social work licensure examination voucher program to provide low-income individuals vouchers to cover the cost of the examination, regardless of the number of examination attempts, required for licensure as a licensed master social worker or licensed clinical social worker.
Not out of committeeprint number 10094a · 2026-09-23
Provides that a person with a master's level degree required for practicing as a mental health practitioner shall be allowed to practice under supervision for a period of up to ninety days after the submission of the required application and fees.
Not out of committeereferred to higher education · 2026-09-02
Amends the definition of a "qualified mental health professional" to include licensed mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists for the purposes of members of an approved mobile crisis outreach team.
Not out of committeereferred to mental health · 2026-09-02
Enacts the "New York state buy American cement act" to require the use of American materials when soliciting for a contract for the purchase of cement by any department or agency of the state, municipality, public authority and the commissioner of transportation.
Not out of committeereferred to governmental operations · 2026-09-02
Updates school concussion management and response protocols; requires that the injured student have returned to a full class schedule without academic accommodations prior to resuming athletic activity; authorizes physician assistants to evaluate pupils with concussions.
Not out of committeeprint number 10675b · 2026-09-02
Provides that at a primary election, a voter who is not enrolled in a political party may designate the ballot of one political party qualified to participate in such election and shall be provided with and permitted to vote only in the primary election of the political party so designated; excludes presidential primary elections.
Not out of committeereferred to election law · 2026-07-29
Enacts the "Social Worker Initiative for Faster Testing (SWIFT) act"; provides that with respect to the examination requirement for licensure as a master social worker, an applicant pursuing a master's of social work degree who is enrolled in the final semester of a program registered by the department of education or an educational program accredited or in candidacy for accreditation by the council on social work education shall be eligible to take the master's level examination.
Not out of committeereferred to higher education · 2026-07-29
Authorizes certified school psychologists to participate in the certification of certain persons as intellectually disabled or developmentally disabled; makes technical corrections to language.
Out of committeesubstituted by s7279 · 2026-06-05
Prohibits electric scooter service platforms operating a digital network from operating electric scooters in this state unless such platform displays a warning that persons under 18 years of age are not allowed to operate electric scooters through the platform; imposes a penalty for violations.
Out of committeesubstituted by s10239 · 2026-06-04
Commemorating the 78th Anniversary of the signing of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-03
Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim September 6-12, 2026, as Suicide Prevention Week in the State of New York
Became lawadopted · 2026-06-02
Provides that notification of the approval of a STAR exemption be mailed to the applicant within thirty days of such determination.
Passed one chamberRETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · 2026-06-02
Defines mental health practitioners with diagnostic authority for the purposes of providing services under the workers' compensation law; includes such practitioners as providers.
Passed one chamberRETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · 2026-06-02
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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