Legislation

Since joining the City Council in January 2022, Crystal has sponsored more than 1,500 pieces of legislation.

The City Council is the legislative body of New York City government. Members of the Council introduce (or sponsor) local laws and resolutions, which have to be heard and voted on in their respective committees before coming to the full body for a vote. Once the full body votes on the Introduction or Resolution, it is passed and becomes law. Introductions are local laws, and resolutions are statements that express the collective support of the Council and can help push for the passage of bills in the New York State Legislature and Congress. Legislation can take anywhere from a few months to a few years to pass, depending on committee hearing schedules, the Speaker’s discretion, and complexity of the proposed law.

As of February 2025, Crystal has introduced more than 94 bills this session, including:

  • Int 228: Require the New York City (NYC) Department for the Aging (DFTA) to make information available to older adults about NYC Care, the NYC Health + Hospitals initiative to provide no-cost primary care to uninsured New Yorkers (PASSED)

  • Int 229: Reduce the required housing history from two years to one year in order for families with children to demonstrate their eligibility for entry into the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter system

  • Int 233: Require the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to publish on its website a written policy that establishes procedures and regulations for the Department’s use of facial recognition technologies

  • Int 236: Create a residential parking permit system in Northwestern Brooklyn

  • Int 237: Require the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to establish a grab-and-go meal program, subject to appropriation, which would provide daily meals available for pick up at older adult centers for members of the centers

  • Int 238: Require Department for the Aging and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to develop a technical support program to serve older adults

  • Int 239: Require the Department of Youth and Community Services to establish a universal employment program for youth aged 14 to 17 and for youth aged 18 to 21 who attend a middle school or high school

  • Int 240: Require the Department of Youth and Community Development, in consultation with the Department of Education, to establish, subject to appropriation, a program of universal after school for all public school students

  • Int 241: Prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person’s actual or perceived poverty in relation to opportunities of employment and access to public accommodations

  • Int 242: Require the Commission on Racial Equity to establish a Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation process in connection with the City’s historic involvement in slavery (PASSED)

  • Int 244: Require the Department of Education (DOE) to distribute information about New York state non-driver identification cards to every student grades 9 through 12 at the start of each school year

  • Int 245: Mandate a report on the feasibility of creating a universal benefits application for local public benefit programs and mandate the creation of a universal benefits application as determined feasible by the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services

  • Int 246: Require social-service-providing agencies that directly or by contract collect demographic information via form documents from city residents seeking services to update forms, where practicable, to include “X” as an option when gender identify information is collected

  • Int 250: Require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to conduct periodic studies of rent stabilized housing accommodations and to develop a program to incentivize owners to keep such accommodations rent stabilized for an extended period of time

  • Int 252: Require landlords to provide certain documentation to tenants whenever a landlord deducts money from a tenant’s security deposit at the end of a tenancy

  • Int 253: Establish an Office of Refugee and Migrant Settlement to provide short and long term access to relevant resources including, housing, medical care, education and food to people from outside the U.S. who are resettled in New York City

  • Int 254: Require the commissioner to provide guidance to its uniformed officers on determining whether to use criminal enforcement or divert young people to community-based organizations to receive essential services in lieu of arrest

  • Int 256: Require the commissioner of sanitation to study and report on the feasibility and environmental effects of a mandate for households to separate, and the department of sanitation to collect, textile waste

  • Int 689: Codify a Cabinet for Older New Yorkers, made up of the commissioners of city agencies or their designees and chaired by the commissioner of the Department for the Aging (PASSED)

  • Int 767: Require the department of citywide administrative services (DCAS) to create a workplace culture survey, to be completed by municipal employees annually on an anonymous and voluntary basis (PASSED)

  • Int 825: Require the Department of Correction to inform persons in custody how much money remains in their commissary account and return all unused commissary funds, in cash, prior to an individual leaving the department’s custody

  • Int 888: require that when a purchaser submits an offer to buy a property that the owner has not listed for sale, is not actively selling, did not intend to sell, or where such owner was unaware of their ownership of the property, the purchaser must disclose, in writing, in a clear and conspicuous manner, the estimated market value of the residential property (PASSED)

  • Int 889: Require that the system maintained by Department of Finance to provide notification to interested parties of the recording of certain real estate instruments also provide notification to the local council member when a deed-related or mortgage-related document is recorded that affects an interest in real property that has been held by the same party for at least 30 years, unless the council member opts out of receiving notifications

  • Int 1025: Require the New York City (NYC) Department for the Aging (DFTA) to provide information regarding older adult workforce programs administered by DFTA to all contracted older adult centers and clients of all contracted providers (PASSED)

  • Int 1026: Require the Department of Correction to report separately on in-person and tele-visits and provide more detailed reporting on the reasons jail visits are not completed

  • Int 1027: Establish a process for people in custody to obtain wigs, hair extensions, chest binders, tucking undergarments or gaffs, prosthetics, or other similar items or medical devices that are used by individuals to affirm their self-determined gender identity

  • Int 1028: Require the Commissioner of Social Services to create a system to automatically enroll individuals in City-created benefit programs, like Fair Fares NYC

  • Int 1052: Require expansion of the foster youth experience survey that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required to distribute annually to foster youth, to include questions about the treatment of foster youth by foster placements and ACS employees related to their gender expression, gender identity, sex characteristics, and sexual orientation

  • Int 1053: Require the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to conduct a feasibility study regarding the creation of older adult information and service centers (PASSED)

  • Int 1054: Require the Commissioner for the Aging (“the Commissioner”), in consultation with cooperating agencies, to submit a 10-year aging in place plan to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and to post the plan on the Department for the Aging’s (“the Department”) website (PASSED)

  • Int 1055: Protect non-traditional families and relationships by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of “family or relationship structure” in employment, housing, and public accommodations

  • Int 1056: Require the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, in collaboration with the Department of Education and community based organizations, to conduct an annual LGBTQIA+ competency training for public school medical personnel

  • Int 1092: Require that the department for the aging develop printed and digital informational materials to educate older adults about internet scams and phishing scams and provide quarterly guidance to older adult centers about emerging scams

  • Int 1123: Require the Department of Sanitation (“DSNY”) to establish a program requiring all residential buildings with 10 or more dwelling units to place residential waste in stationary on-street containers provided by DSNY by June 1, 2032

To view a full list of sponsored, co-prime sponsored, and co-sponsored legislation, click here.