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A 5813Requires background checks prior to employment in a position involving substantial contact with children while dressed as a children's character

Congress · introduced 2025-02-20

Requires background checks for a person prior to employment in a position involving substantial contact with children while dressed as a children's character; provides certain penalties for violations.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

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

Text versions

Connected on the graph

Inbound (3)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-02-20MaryJane Shimskycosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-20Marianne Buttenschoncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-20Erik Dilansponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

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
1Erik Dilan (, state_lower NY-54)sponsor05
2Marianne Buttenschon (, state_lower NY-119)cosponsor01
3MaryJane Shimsky (, state_lower NY-92)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. 2025-02-20 · cosponsored by MaryJane Shimsky (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-02-20 · sponsored by Erik Dilan (sponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-02-20 · cosponsored by Marianne Buttenschon (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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