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New York State Assembly District 106
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Didi Barrett was elected to the New York State Assembly in a March 2012 special election and serves Assembly District 106. She came to elected office after a career as a writer, museum professional, community activist, and nonprofit leader, and her work has focused on Hudson Valley agricultural, environmental, historical, and cultural resources as economic drivers.
Committee Assignments: Energy · Agriculture · Environmental Conservation · Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
Didi Barrett supports expanding access to health coverage and patient protections, including co-sponsoring the New York Health plan, allowing municipalities to join county health plans, protecting retiree health benefits, and strengthening transparency and review standards in health care delivery.
Didi Barrett emphasizes affordability, worker pay, tax relief, child care, clean-energy jobs, and support for Hudson Valley farmers and small communities as part of her Economy & Jobs agenda. Her record includes support for wage-discrimination protections, minimum-wage increases tied to inflation, clean-energy planning, regenerative agriculture, and programs aimed at reducing barriers to employment.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Barrett states that she boosted the minimum wage to $15 and tied future increases to inflation so workers are not left behind as costs rise.
SourceBarrett says she helped create the Climate Action Fund to direct money from corporate polluters toward environmental cleanup and green-energy incentives, including consumer and small-business rebates.
SourceBarrett says she wrote and helped pass legislation creating a regenerative agriculture project to help farmers sequester carbon, improve soil resiliency, and support farm productivity.
SourceBarrett says she helped pass the Clean Slate Act to reduce housing and job discrimination barriers for formerly incarcerated New Yorkers seeking a path to the middle class.
SourceDidi Barrett, Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 106, has generally supported immigrant-protective policies, including driver’s licenses for undocumented residents, limits on immigration-status inquiries/disclosures, and legal representation in immigration proceedings. In 2026 reporting, she stated that she sponsors New York For All, MELT Act, Dignity Not Detention, and access-to-representation measures.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Barrett publicly supported Green Light legislation, saying it would ensure drivers are trained and able to get to work while having no impact on immigration status or voting rights.
SourceDidi Barrett, Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 106 and chair of the Assembly Energy Committee, supports reducing greenhouse gas emissions, expanding renewable energy, and pursuing the clean-energy transition while emphasizing affordability, reliability, utility transparency, and local input in renewable siting.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Supported enacted budget provisions phasing in all-electric requirements for new buildings, investing in renewable-energy projects, creating a Climate Action Fund, and expanding NYPA renewable-energy authority.
SourceDidi Barrett supports increased and more equitable public education funding, expanded access to pre-K including for special-needs children, stronger student-data privacy protections, and curricular requirements such as arts, music, and comprehensive sexuality education. As a sitting Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 106, she has also sponsored or co-sponsored education-related bills and voted yes on school-library access legislation.
Didi Barrett frames public safety as a combination of gun-violence prevention, stronger court/law-enforcement tools, and targeted funding for police, prosecutors, public defenders, and emergency services. Her campaign materials emphasize support for New York gun-safety laws, anti-gun-violence funding, and giving judges more discretion over dangerous or repeat offenders.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Barrett supports Chapter 371 of 2022, which her campaign describes as requiring background checks for ammunition and designating sensitive places where concealed firearms are not permitted.
SourceBarrett supports creating and strengthening New York's Red Flag law, which established court-issued extreme risk protection orders barring firearm purchase or possession by people deemed a danger to themselves or others.
SourceBarrett supports prohibiting possession and sale of unfinished frames and receivers to stop illegal, untraceable firearms from being built or transported without normal background checks.
SourceBarrett says she passed legislation giving judges more discretion to keep dangerous and repeat offenders behind bars and secured funding to help district attorneys and public defenders do their jobs in the SFY 2023-24 budget.
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Blue Voter Guide
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Vote Smart
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New York League of Conservation Voters
https://www.nylcv.org/candidate/didi-barrett/Fetched: endorsements
New York State Senate Open Legislation - A1466
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A1766
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A3862
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A3789A
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3789/amendment/AFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation - A4639
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New York State Assembly Member Directory - Didi Barrett District 106
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New York State Assembly - Didi Barrett Member Page
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New York State Assembly - A.2888 SITED Act
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New York State Senate - A.2204A Raise the Wage Act
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New York State Assembly
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New York State Assembly
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New York State Assembly
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New York State Senate
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The Miscellany News
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New York State Senate Open Legislation
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New York State Assembly Member Directory - Didi Barrett
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New York State Assembly Member Directory - Didi Barrett
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New York State Assembly Member Directory - Didi Barrett
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New York State Assembly Press Release
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New York State Assembly member page
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Didi-Barrett/story/55834Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Didi-Barrett/story/61351Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Didi-Barrett/story/57437Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation - A2689 Red Flag Law
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - S13 Beigel Unfinished Receiver Act
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New York State Assembly Transcript May 2, 2023
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New York State Senate Legislation PDF - A280
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