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A 2608Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members

Congress · introduced 2025-01-21

Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO CORRECTION
  2. · assembly REFERRED TO CORRECTION

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Inbound (11)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-01-21Marcela Mitaynescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Yudelka Tapiacosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Eddie Gibbssponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Phara Souffrant Forrestcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Nikki Lucascosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Karines Reyescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Alicia Hyndmancosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Catalina Cruzcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Harvey Epsteincosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-01-21Al Taylorcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Eddie Gibbs (, state_lower NY-68)sponsor05
2Al Taylor (, state_lower NY-71)cosponsor01
3Alicia Hyndman (, state_lower NY-29)cosponsor01
4Catalina Cruz (, state_lower NY-39)cosponsor01
5Harvey Epstein (, state_lower NY-74)cosponsor01
6Karines Reyes (, state_lower NY-87)cosponsor01
7Marcela Mitaynes (, state_lower NY-51)cosponsor01
8Nikki Lucas (, state_lower NY-60)cosponsor01
9Phara Souffrant Forrest (, state_lower NY-57)cosponsor01
10Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (, state_lower NY-42)cosponsor01
11Yudelka Tapia (, state_lower NY-86)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Yudelka Tapia (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Al Taylor (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Catalina Cruz (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Alicia Hyndman (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Harvey Epstein (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Phara Souffrant Forrest (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Marcela Mitaynes (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  8. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Karines Reyes (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  9. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  10. 2025-01-21 · cosponsored by Nikki Lucas (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  11. 2025-01-21 · sponsored by Eddie Gibbs (sponsor) · sponsorship

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