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Marcela Mitaynes
Democratic PartySTH · NY · District 51
New York State Assembly District 51
STH · NY · District 51
New York State Assembly District 51
CUNY Kingsborough Community College—AS Accounting
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Marcela Mitaynes immigrated to New York City from Peru as a child and was raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where she later served as PTA president at P.S. 169 and as a Community Board 7 member for 10 years. Before joining the Assembly, she worked as a tenant organizer with Neighbors Helping Neighbors and helped advocate for the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 after being evicted from her rent-stabilized apartment of 30 years.
Committee Assignments: Chair, Subcommittee on Regulated Mortgage Lenders · Member, Committee on Banks · Member, Committee on Children and Families · Member, Committee on Education · Member, Committee on Judiciary · Member, Committee on Transportation · Member, Asian Pacific American Task Force · Member, Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus · Member, Legislative Women's Caucus · Member, Task Force on New Americans · Member, Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force · Member, Task Force on Women's Issues
Marcela Mitaynes, Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 51, frames healthcare as a human right and supports universal access to quality care rather than care determined by wealth or insurance status. Her legislative record includes co-sponsoring bills on medical debt protections, reproductive health access, Medicaid prenatal testing coverage, hospital-closure public engagement, and health-information privacy.
Marcela Mitaynes frames her economy and jobs agenda around working-class New Yorkers: taxing high earners and Wall Street, funding public services, protecting workers, and steering development toward green and community-serving jobs. Her record includes sponsoring warehouse-emissions legislation, delivery-worker tip protections, wealth-tax enabling legislation, and supporting state budget revenue measures and labor standards.
Marcela Mitaynes supports immigrant-rights policies including making New York "ICE-free," keeping families together, expanded services for immigrant families, English classes, workforce training, and guaranteed legal representation in immigration court. As Assembly District 51's sitting Assemblymember, she has co-sponsored multiple immigration-related bills expanding legal representation, benefits access, and limits on immigration detention.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Stated support for pushing back against deportation, making New York ICE-free, keeping families together, and increasing resources for immigrant families including legal representation in immigration court.
SourceMarcela Mitaynes supports aggressive climate and clean-energy policy, including implementing New York’s Climate Law on schedule, reducing fossil-fuel and diesel pollution in environmental-justice communities, and expanding renewable-energy infrastructure. As Assembly District 51’s incumbent, she has sponsored or co-sponsored bills on warehouse emissions, offshore wind transmission, climate investment, and data-center energy impacts.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Mitaynes publicly argued against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to delay implementation of New York’s Climate Law, saying on-schedule implementation would deliver investment, energy-bill relief, weatherization, rooftop solar, and heat pumps for disadvantaged communities.
SourceMarcela Mitaynes supports expanding public education access, including free SUNY tuition and increased public education funding. Her legislative record includes co-sponsoring bills on higher-education affordability, culturally inclusive school curricula, and student civic participation on college campuses.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Her campaign states that New York should leverage an inheritance tax to increase funding for healthcare, housing, and public education.
SourceMarcela Mitaynes’s public-safety record emphasizes limiting police surveillance and militarized tools, reducing incarceration-related harms, and shifting safety policy toward civil-rights, diversion, and community-support approaches. As the incumbent Democratic Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 51, she has prime-sponsored a bill banning police robots and co-sponsored multiple criminal-justice and detention-reform measures.
New York State Assembly
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New York State Assembly Committee Membership
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New York City Campaign Finance Board
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Vote Smart
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FollowTheMoney.org
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Blue Voter Guide
https://bluevoterguide.org/district/NY/New_York_State_Assembly_District_51/51902/830Fetched: endorsements
New York League of Conservation Voters 2024 State Environmental Scorecard
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New York League of Conservation Voters 2023 State Environmental Scorecard
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New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Marcela-MitaynesFetched: issuePositions
New York City Campaign Finance Board Candidate Profile
https://www.nyccfb.info/nyc-votes/vgwelcome/guide-to-voting-in-the-2020-elections/meet-the-candidates/meet-the-candidates/member-of-the-assembly/assembly-district-51/marcela-mitaynes/?languageType=EnglishFetched: issuePositions
LegiScan Marcela Mitaynes Bills
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New York State Assembly member page
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Marcela-MitaynesFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly sponsored legislation page
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The Full Record candidate profile
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New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.ny.gov/mem/Marcela-Mitaynes/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation - A2689
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2689Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation - A6632
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A6632Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Legislation - A270
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New York State Senate Legislation - A4181
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New York State Assembly Member Directory - Marcela Mitaynes
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Marcela-MitaynesFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Bill Search - A03575
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New York State Senate Legislation - A7764
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New York State Assembly Bill Search - A11560
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New York State Assembly Bill Search - A06967
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City & State New York
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New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A890Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A4638Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A3954/amendment/BFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2130Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory - Marcela Mitaynes Sponsored Legislation
https://assembly.ny.gov/mem/Marcela-Mitaynes/sponsor/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Bill A07180
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&bn=A07180&default_fld=&leg_video=&term=2025Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Bill A00127
https://assembly.ny.gov/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&Votes=Y&bn=A00127&term=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Bill A08672
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/leg/?bn=A08672&leg_video=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Bill A04181
https://assembly.ny.gov/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&Votes=Y&bn=A04181&term=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Bill A04869
https://assembly.ny.gov/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&Votes=Y&bn=A04869&term=Fetched: issuePositions