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New York State Assembly District 55
State University of New York Purchase College—Bachelor's; Pace University School of Law—JD
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Latrice M. Walker is the Democratic Assemblywoman for New York State Assembly District 55 and has represented the district since 2015. Before joining the Assembly, she practiced law, representing people affected by NYPD stop-and-frisk practices and tenants including NYCHA residents facing eviction, and she worked as counsel to U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Election Law (Chair) · Committee on Codes · Committee on Housing · Committee on Judiciary · Committee on Ways and Means · Black Task Force · Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus · Task Force on Food, Farm & Nutrition Policy · Legislative Women's Caucus · Task Force on New Americans · Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force · Task Force on Women's Issues
Latrice Walker’s healthcare record emphasizes expanding access and resources for Brooklyn communities, including improving local hospital services, Medicaid-related maternal care, prescription-drug affordability, nursing-home safety, and pharmacy reimbursement fairness. She has also publicly supported investments in East Brooklyn healthcare infrastructure and district-level health services.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walker reported inviting the New York State Department of Health commissioner to Brownsville to hear community views on spending $700 million to improve district healthcare services and highlighted a new East Brooklyn hospital investment.
SourceLatrice Walker emphasizes worker-centered economic policy, including higher wages, paid family leave, pay equity, child care supports, youth jobs, MWBE lending, and labor-law enforcement. Her record as the Assembly member for New York Assembly District 55 includes co-sponsoring worker-protection and unemployment-benefit legislation and supporting budget measures she describes as strengthening jobs and the economy.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Supported Assembly budget priorities including child care subsidies, funding to support minimum-wage increases for state-contracted health and human-services workers, MWBE development lending, and a 50 percent increase in the New York Youth Jobs Program tax credit.
SourceStated support for the $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, economic development investments, job training, and the New York State Fair Pay Act to address wage discrimination and retaliation for sharing wage information.
SourceLatrice M. Walker, Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 55, has taken pro-immigrant positions, including support for DREAM Act access, refugee resettlement funding, limits on immigration detention agreements, and restrictions on questioning or disclosing immigration status. Her record indicates support for immigrant protections and oversight of immigration enforcement interactions.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walker publicly supported an Assembly budget proposal including the New York DREAM Act and refugee resettlement funding, stating that Dreamers are New Yorkers who are valued and worthy.
SourceLatrice Walker supports climate and clean-energy policy emphasizing environmental justice, consumer affordability, emissions reductions, and resilience. Her legislative record includes sponsoring a clean/resilient distributed-energy bill and co-sponsoring measures for clean-energy investment, fossil-fuel plant transition, and affordable home-energy transition.
Latrice Walker supports increased public school funding, education equity, and more affordable higher education, including opportunity programs for academically and financially disadvantaged students. As an Assembly member for District 55, she has also proposed education legislation focused on school resource transparency, specialized high school diversity and admissions governance, and tuition waivers for children of educators.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Announced support for the Assembly budget proposal increasing school aid, phasing in Foundation Aid, continuing My Brother's Keeper funding, and expanding higher education opportunity programs and tuition assistance.
SourceLatrice Walker frames public safety around criminal justice reform, violence prevention, survivor protections, and accountability, arguing that safety can coexist with constitutional protections and reduced reliance on cash bail. Her record includes sponsoring bail reform, supporting domestic-violence survivor protections, voting for firearm public-nuisance liability, and supporting wrongful-conviction reforms.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walker supported the 2019-20 budget reforms eliminating cash bail for most misdemeanor and non-violent felony offenses and said the measure showed that justice is not for sale.
SourceWalker announced passage of legislation to help domestic-violence victims seek justice, separate from abusers, and keep guns away from people convicted of domestic-violence crimes.
SourceNew York State Assembly
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=055&sh=bioFetched: biography, hometown, education, professional background
New York State Assembly
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Latrice-M-Walker/comm/Fetched: committee assignments
BallotReady
https://www.ballotready.org/people/latrice-m-walkerFetched: education, professional background, office confirmation
Transparency USA
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/candidate/latrice-walker?cycle=2024-election-cycleFetched: campaignFinance
New York State Assembly
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/member_files/055/20160629/index.pdfFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member biography and office page
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=055&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly bill page A04278
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&Votes=Y&bn=A04278&term=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly bill page A10414
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A10414&term=2019Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly bill page A03876
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A03876&term=2019Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member story on Assembly budget proposal
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Latrice-Walker/story/80497Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly District 55 newsletter PDF
https://assembly.state.ny.us/write/upload/member_files/055/pdfs/20160503_0069583.pdf?v=1664205970Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A10774Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4181Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A3271Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A5686Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Latrice-M-Walker/story/80497Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation: A7806
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A7806Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation: A10100
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A10100Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation: A11645
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A11645Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation: A4870
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4870/amendment/originalFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly: Latrice M. Walker District 55
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Latrice-M-Walker/story/80497Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member biography
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/?ad=055&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly sponsored legislation list
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=055&sh=sponsorFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly A07808 bill page
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Actions=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&bn=A07808&default_fld=&term=2025Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly A06415 bill text
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Text=Y&bn=A6415&default_fld=&leg_video=&term=2025Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly budget press release
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Latrice-M-Walker/story/80497Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member biography
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/?ad=055&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on criminal justice reform
https://assembly.state.ny.us/Press/files/20180612.phpFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Speaker press release on 2019-20 budget reforms
https://nyassembly.gov/Press/?sec=story&story=85992Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member press release on domestic violence
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/Latrice-M-Walker/story/81746Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly floor transcript for firearm public nuisance bill
https://www2.assembly.state.ny.us/write/upload/transcripts/2023/6-3-24.htmlFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly floor transcript for wrongful conviction bill
https://nystateassembly.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?clip_id=7383&doc_id=89169aa0-dd51-11ed-95dd-0050569183fa&view_id=6Fetched: issuePositions