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Jennifer Lunsford
Democratic PartySTH · NY · District 135
New York State Assembly District 135
STH · NY · District 135
New York State Assembly District 135
Boston University School of Law—J.D.; Hartwick College—B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Jennifer Lunsford represents New York State Assembly District 135, covering Penfield, East Rochester, Perinton, Pittsford, Mendon and nearby villages in Monroe County. Before taking office, she practiced law for injured and disabled New Yorkers in personal injury, workers' compensation and Social Security disability matters, and she has also been a community volunteer and activist focused on reproductive justice, criminal justice and universal health care.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Children and Families · Committee on Environmental Conservation · Committee on Health · Committee on Insurance · Committee on Judiciary · Committee on Libraries and Education Technology · Legislative Women's Caucus · Task Force on Women's Issues
Jennifer Lunsford supports expanding access to affordable, quality healthcare, with emphasis on Medicaid-funded providers, Early Intervention, oral health, nursing homes, direct-support professionals, hospice, mental/behavioral health telemedicine, and food-allergy safety. Her record includes sponsoring healthcare-related legislation and publicly advocating for budget increases and grants for healthcare services in and beyond Assembly District 135.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Publicly supported an Early Intervention reimbursement rate increase, saying she was a "loud supporter" of an 11% increase to address provider shortages and improve timely services for children.
SourceJennifer Lunsford frames her Economy & Jobs agenda around pandemic recovery for small businesses, workforce and construction-job investment, and tax credits that help local small businesses advertise in local media. Her campaign says she supported small-business recovery grants, restaurant resiliency efforts, major capital funding for roads and Rochester-area projects, and the LOCAL Act advertising tax credit.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lunsford says she supported $800 million in small-business recovery grants and the state restaurant resiliency program to help businesses recover from COVID-era job losses.
SourceLunsford says she has fought for more than $1 billion in capital funding, including CHIPS and other road-construction money, to put local construction workers to work on community improvements.
SourceJennifer Lunsford supports protections and services for immigrants and asylum seekers, describing asylum seekers as using a lawful federal process and backing state budget measures to prevent humanitarian crises. She also supports limiting state and local cooperation with civil immigration enforcement and protecting immigrant-sensitive locations from warrantless ICE access.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lunsford described and supported 2026 budget language barring local law-enforcement cooperation agreements with ICE for civil enforcement, restricting ICE access to sensitive non-public locations without a judicial warrant, and allowing rights-related lawsuits in New York courts.
SourceIn a 2024 candidate interview for Assembly District 135, Lunsford said asylum seekers are not unlawfully present, supported state budget funding to prevent a humanitarian crisis, and said border issues require a federal solution.
SourceLunsford criticized efforts to curb the SIV program and said Afghan allies and families who aided the U.S. military should not be dehumanized or abandoned.
SourceJennifer Lunsford supports building renewable energy production, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, lowering ratepayer costs, and funding clean-energy and greenhouse-gas-reduction programs. As a sitting Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 135, she has sponsored or co-sponsored environmental bills and voted for the 2026-2027 transportation, economic development, and environmental conservation budget bill containing solar, energy-affordability, and climate provisions.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lunsford’s campaign states she prioritizes building renewable energy production, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, lowering ratepayer costs, and helped secure the Environmental Bond Act and Sustainable Futures Fund for renewable-energy priorities.
SourceJennifer Lunsford supports increased public-school funding, universal pre-K expansion with upstate funding parity, higher education affordability, STEAM/robotics programs, and expanded career and technical education. As the sitting Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 135, she has also prime-sponsored education bills on career education aid, high school robotics grants, and community literacy grants.
Specific Actions & Proposals
States that she delivered on a platform promise to fully fund Foundation Aid for public schools and helped secure added annual funding to help schools keep up with inflation.
SourceSupported the 2026 education budget provisions expanding UPK statewide by 2028, including increased per-pupil rates for upstate districts and a $10,000 per-student minimum rate.
SourceJennifer Lunsford emphasizes funding law enforcement and violence-prevention programs, supporting gun-safety laws, addressing domestic violence, and overdose prevention as part of her public-safety agenda for New York Assembly District 135.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Lunsford participated in the Greater Rochester Majority Delegation announcement supporting FY 2025 budget funding for GIVE, local public safety, and crime-reduction investments including illegal cannabis enforcement and retail-theft prevention credits.
SourceLunsford said the 2022 state budget increased district attorney funding, extended Kendra's Law, and changed bail rules to allow more judicial discretion for repeat offenders and those arrested for bringing illegal guns into the community.
SourceLunsford states she secured more than $140,000 in direct state grants for district law-enforcement equipment, technology, and workforce support, and voted for Red Flag laws, a ghost-gun ban, body-armor sales limits, and semi-automatic rifle permit requirements for buyers under 21.
SourceNew York State Assembly
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BallotReady
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Jen Lunsford for NY Assembly District 135 - Endorsements
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Blue Voter Guide - New York State Assembly District 135
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New York League of Conservation Voters - 2026 endorsements
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New York State Nurses Association - 2026 Endorsements
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New York State Young Democrats - 2026 Endorsed Candidates
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Vote411 - New York Assembly District 135
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NYLCV 2024 State Environmental Scorecard
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Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts Assembly Scorecard 2024
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New York State Assembly bill search
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New York State Assembly BPHA Caucus story
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New York State Assembly legislation page
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Rochester Business Journal
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New York State Senate
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New York State Assembly - Jen Lunsford member page
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LegiScan - New York Assemblymember Jennifer Lunsford introduced bills
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LegiScan - New York Assemblymember Jennifer Lunsford all sessions
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WXXI News
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Rochester Beacon
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New York State Assembly member page
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New York State Assembly member page
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New York State Assembly bill page for A03206
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New York State Assembly bill page for A01962
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New York State Assembly press release on FY 2025 Rochester and Monroe County public safety funding
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New York State Assemblymember Lunsford 2022 budget summary
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