Rafael Salamanca, Jr.

Mar 2016 - Dec 2025
District 17 (Bronx)

Comittees

Bronx Delegation of the New York City Council
Committee on Civil and Human Rights
Committee on Economic Development
Committee on Environmental Protection, Resiliency and Waterfronts
Committee on Land Use (chair)
Committee on Public Housing
Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management

Legislation (2024-2025 Session)

Council member Rafael Salamanca, Jr. has introduced 16 bills in the current legislative session.

16 bills are in Committee

intro.nyc/0087-2024 Requiring the administration for children’s services and the department of probation to report on juvenile justice statistics.
with 4 sponsors
intro.nyc/0426-2024 Operation of tobacco bars.
with 3 sponsors
intro.nyc/0427-2024 Requiring letter grades for food service establishments operated in schools.
with 3 sponsors
intro.nyc/0845-2024 DOE to report annually on the number of teachers, administrators and school staff who have completed therapeutic crisis intervention in schools training.
intro.nyc/0846-2024 Establishing wastewater treatment plant monitoring committees.
with 2 sponsors
intro.nyc/0847-2024 Requiring the department of homeless services and human resources administration to post shelter, supportive housing and cluster site data.
with 2 sponsors
intro.nyc/0848-2024 Requiring water bottle-filling stations in city agency buildings.
with 3 sponsors
intro.nyc/0849-2024 Requiring automated external defibrillators in private schools and police cars
with 3 sponsors
intro.nyc/0850-2024 Requiring the department of housing preservation and development to report on the disposition of city property for affordable housing development
intro.nyc/0851-2024 Remediating lead soil hazards in dwellings
with 3 sponsors
intro.nyc/0852-2024 Requiring towed vehicle storage facilities to provide 24 hour access
intro.nyc/0853-2024 Creating borough-based traffic request response teams
intro.nyc/0854-2024 Requiring the department of social services to create a domestic violence shelter designated for men
with 2 sponsors
intro.nyc/0855-2024 Offering fentanyl test strips at syringe exchange programs.
with 2 sponsors
intro.nyc/0856-2024 Increasing the fines for the unlawful use of all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes
with 4 sponsors
intro.nyc/0857-2024 Towing vehicles that are an encumbrance on the street or that lack, improperly display, or obscure valid license plates, registration stickers, inspection stickers, or vehicle identification numbers.
with 5 sponsors

Sponsored Legislation

Council member Rafael Salamanca, Jr. has sponsored 12 bills originally introduced by other Council members in the current legislative session.

intro.nyc/0025-2024 Enacted Provision of senior citizen rent increase exemption application forms pre-populated with applicable data to eligible persons living in city-supervised Mitchell-Lama housing.
Introduced by Eric Dinowitz
intro.nyc/0171-2024 Waste collection from nursing homes.
Introduced by Amanda Farías
intro.nyc/0175-2024 Requiring the department of education to create a plan to provide specialized high schools exam preparation to all middle school students.
Introduced by Oswald Feliz
intro.nyc/0177-2024 Prohibiting the operation of a motor vehicle with fraudulent or expired license plates.
Introduced by Oswald Feliz
intro.nyc/0180-2024 Establishing a program to provide financial assistance to small retail businesses for the purchase of security system technology.
Introduced by Oswald Feliz
intro.nyc/0300-2024 Establishing an office of small business digitalization and technical amendments in relation thereto.
Introduced by Julie Menin
intro.nyc/0380-2024 Requiring the department of education to create a plan to administer specialized high schools admission tests on a school day.
Introduced by Keith Powers
intro.nyc/0429-2024 Periodic inspections of gas piping systems, ordinary plumbing work, reestablishing the plumbing and fire suppression piping contractor license board, piping systems, emergency work, fire suppression piping work, and seizure.
Introduced by Pierina Ana Sanchez
intro.nyc/0434-2024 Building water system maintenance and inspection.
Introduced by Pierina Ana Sanchez
intro.nyc/0546-2024 Requiring the department of education to create a plan for a pilot after school SHSAT preparation program.
Introduced by Justin L. Brannan
intro.nyc/0606-2024 Requiring that every bicycle with electric assist, electric scooter and other legal motorized vehicle be licensed and registered.
Introduced by Robert F. Holden
intro.nyc/0762-2024 Establishing exemptions for third-party food delivery services from the limits on fees charged by such services on food service establishments.
Introduced by Robert F. Holden