NY State Senate · District 27

• Didn't voteProvides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits · S10113 · Passed Assembly 88–53 · 2026-06-05 official record ↗Provides that a microbusiness licensee authorized to conduct retail sales may serve as a processor and cultivator for purposes of cannabis showcase event permits.
• YesRelates to granting employees access to personnel records · S3460 · Passed Assembly 92–49 · 2026-05-19 official record ↗Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.

Votes on landmark laws since 2019, plus 2026 roll calls where at least five members voted on the losing side — read from the legislature’s official records.

• billSponsored and helped pass the Hate Crimes Modernization Act, described by her office as the first update to New York's hate crimes statute in more than two decades.[2]
• billLed the legislative effort making New York the first state to designate Lunar New Year as a statewide school holiday.[2]
• billIntroduced the STOP Act, aimed at increasing institutional accountability following the conduct findings against former Governor Andrew Cuomo.[2]
• action2023 · Says she secured nearly $400 million in Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) funding for NYCHA and Section 8 households in her first year in office (2023).[2]
• actionChairs the Assembly's Asian Pacific American Task Force and serves on the Banks, Children and Families, Consumer Affairs and Protection, Environmental Conservation, and Insurance committees in the 2025-2026 session.[1][2]

• ✓SupportsStronger rent regulation and tenant protections

  Campaign platform supports Good Cause Eviction protections against unreasonable rent increases and retaliatory evictions, and funding legal services for tenants facing harassment.[3]

• ✕OpposesExpand immigration enforcement and deportations

  Platform calls for ending most state and local cooperation with ICE, banning contracts between local jails and ICE, and keeping ICE out of schools, hospitals, and places of worship; co-sponsors the New York for All Act.[3]

• ✓SupportsRaise taxes on high earners or corporations

  Supports higher income-tax rates on the highest earners, a wealth tax on the richest households, closing corporate tax loopholes, and a surcharge on second homes valued at $5 million or more.[3]

• ✓SupportsExpand public health coverage

  Co-sponsors the New York Health Act to establish a universal single-payer healthcare system and supports a state-funded essential plan for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.[3]

• ✓SupportsUniversal, publicly funded child care

  Platform states she is fighting for statewide universal childcare access, citing past work securing billions in statewide childcare investment.[3]

• ✓SupportsFaster transition away from fossil fuels

  Platform supports a statewide clean fuel standard for transportation, expanding NYPA's renewable-power role, and requiring corporate emissions transparency.[3]

• ✓SupportsProtect legal access to abortion

  Platform supports protecting the privacy of abortion providers and patients, backed the 2024 reproductive-freedom ballot measure, and says she helped secure $25 million for the state's Abortion Access Program.[3]

• ✓SupportsKeep congestion pricing in Manhattan

  Platform supports Manhattan congestion pricing while seeking an exemption for Lower and Midtown Manhattan residents earning under $60,000.[3]

• Housing affordability: protect rent-stabilized tenants and expand emergency rental assistance, having secured nearly $400 million through ERAP for NYCHA and Section 8 residents.[3]
• Universal childcare and expanded pre-K, building on $2 billion in statewide childcare investments she says she helped secure ($350 million for NYC).[3]
• Limit state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement (ICE), including barring ICE from schools, hospitals, and places of worship.[3]
• Raise taxes on the highest earners and close corporate tax loopholes, including support for a pied-a-terre tax on second homes valued at $5 million or more.[3]
• Expand access to healthcare, including co-sponsoring the New York Health Act to create a universal single-payer system and lowering prescription drug costs.[3]

• Earned a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Columbia University (2002) and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2010).[1]
• Co-founded Children First, a coalition focused on mercury brownfield cleanup, and co-founded Nine Naturals, a beauty products company, before running for office.[1]
• First elected to the NY State Assembly in 2022, succeeding Yuh-Line Niou in District 65; re-elected in 2024 with 99.1% of the vote.[1]
• Serves on the Assembly's Banks, Children and Families, Consumer Affairs and Protection, Environmental Conservation, and Insurance committees (2025-2026), and chairs the Asian Pacific American Task Force.[1][2]

• Says he is for smaller, more fiscally responsible government and opposes tax increases he describes as excessive and burdensome on working families and small businesses.[5]
• Says he has long advocated for people with disabilities and for supportive services and funding for public housing, low-income families, veterans and the elderly.[5]

• Born in New York, NY; graduated from Seward Park High School.[4]
• Works as a politician/attorney and has been active in Manhattan and citywide Republican and Conservative Party organizations, including the Manhattan Republican Party and Manhattan Conservative County Committee.[4]
• Sought the Republican nomination for the February 3, 2026 special election in NY Assembly District 74, which was ultimately won by Keith Powers (D) over Joseph Foley (R/C); Murillo did not appear on that special-election ballot.[4]