A 5883 — Enacts the "state taxpayer oversight and protection (STOP) act"
Congress · introduced 2025-02-24
Enacts the "state taxpayer oversight and protection (STOP) act"; relates to the payment of attorneys' fees by the state; provides that no attorneys' fees or expenses shall be paid if incurred on behalf of an employee in any action brought by the employee against the state; provides that attorneys' fees shall be presumptively unreasonable where an individual hires or employs multiple law firms on the same matter unless such employee can demonstrate the need for additional attorneys with distinct subject matter expertise.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM
Sponsors
- Grace Lee (—, NY-65) — sponsor · 2025-02-24
- Andrew Hevesi (—, NY-28) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
- Ron Kim (—, NY-40) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
- Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (—, NY-34) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
- Emily Gallagher (—, NY-50) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
- Charles Lavine (—, NY-13) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
- Robert Smullen (—, NY-118) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
- Jen Lunsford (—, NY-135) — cosponsor · 2025-02-24
Action timeline
- · assembly — REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
- · assembly — AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
- · assembly — PRINT NUMBER 5883A
- · assembly — AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
- · assembly — PRINT NUMBER 5883B
- · assembly — REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
Text versions
- Introduced · 2025-02-24 — HTML · Text
- Amendment A · 2025-03-14 — HTML · Text
- Amendment B · 2025-03-25 — HTML · Text
Connected on the graph
Inbound (8)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-24 | Ron Kim | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Robert Smullen | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Charles Lavine | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Emily Gallagher | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Andrew Hevesi | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Jen Lunsford | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-02-24 | Grace Lee | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
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.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace Lee (—, state_lower NY-65) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Andrew Hevesi (—, state_lower NY-28) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Charles Lavine (—, state_lower NY-13) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Emily Gallagher (—, state_lower NY-50) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Jen Lunsford (—, state_lower NY-135) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (—, state_lower NY-34) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Robert Smullen (—, state_lower NY-118) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Ron Kim (—, state_lower NY-40) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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.
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Jen Lunsford (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Robert Smullen (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Andrew Hevesi (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Emily Gallagher (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Charles Lavine (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · sponsored by Grace Lee (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-02-24 · cosponsored by Ron Kim (cosponsor) · sponsorship