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Mary Beth Walsh
Republican PartySTH · NY · District 112
New York State Assembly District 112
STH · NY · District 112
New York State Assembly District 112
University of Rochester—B.A. in Political Science; Albany Law School—J.D.
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Mary Beth Walsh was first elected to the New York State Assembly on November 8, 2016, and represents Assembly District 112, covering parts of Saratoga, Schenectady, and Fulton counties. She is an attorney, child-and-family advocate, small business owner, and longtime Family Court practitioner who maintains a law practice in Ballston Spa. Before joining the Assembly, she served two terms as a Town of Ballston councilwoman and held local and county leadership roles including with the Saratoga County IDA, Saratoga County Ethics Advisory Council, and Saratoga County Autism Council.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Judiciary · Committee on Ways and Means · Commission on Administrative Regulations Review · Legislative Women's Caucus
Mary Beth Walsh’s healthcare-related record emphasizes public health protections, mental health, and oversight/accountability in long-term care. She has co-sponsored bills on kratom safety and mental-health patient records, supported child mental-health protections tied to social media, and called for an independent review of New York’s COVID nursing-home policy.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walsh joined a Capitol press conference calling for an independent, comprehensive review of the Department of Health COVID nursing-home order and broader state COVID response.
SourceMary Beth Walsh emphasizes lowering taxes, reducing business regulations and mandates, and controlling state spending as her approach to improving New York’s economy and job climate. She has also supported targeted workforce measures, including disability employment opportunities, middle-skills training, and small-business relief from inflation and compliance costs.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walsh supported the Assembly Minority’s Inflation Relief & Consumer Assistance Plan to suspend state sales tax on items such as gasoline, personal-care products, housekeeping supplies, and food purchases for two years.
SourceWalsh opposed eliminating New York’s minimum-wage tip credit, arguing that ending it could raise business costs, reduce positions, and hurt tipped employees’ earnings.
SourceWalsh called for expanding public- and private-sector employment pathways for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including training, job coaching, better transportation, and addressing the benefits cliff.
SourceWalsh hosted a Capital Region forum on connecting students with vocational, trade, P-TECH, and other workforce pathways to help employers fill skilled jobs.
SourceMary Beth Walsh, the Republican Assembly member for New York Assembly District 112, has taken a restrictive stance on state policies benefiting undocumented immigrants, especially opposing New York's Green Light Law allowing driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. She also sponsored a bill to protect county clerks who refuse to issue such licenses when they believe doing so conflicts with law or their oath of office.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walsh opposed Assembly Bill 3675-B, arguing that allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain New York driver's licenses could create voter-fraud and documentation-integrity risks.
SourceMary Beth Walsh supports cleaner energy in principle but frames Climate & Energy around affordability, reliability, local control, and energy choice. She opposes New York's CLCPA and related electrification mandates when she views them as imposing unrealistic costs or timelines, and she supports an all-of-the-above energy approach.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walsh joined Assembly and Senate minority colleagues in supporting utility-ratepayer rebates, returning surplus clean-energy funds to ratepayers, halting the natural-gas ban and zero-emission school-bus mandate, reinvesting in natural-gas plants, and expanding POWER UP grants.
SourceWalsh said she is opposed to the CLCPA and mandates with unrealistic timelines or costs for local governments and school districts, while supporting energy choice, cost-benefit review, and stronger renewable-energy siting standards.
SourceWalsh's candidate profile says she has opposed the CLCPA, pushed for reversals and reforms, and fought against the electric school bus transition and gas-stove ban, arguing energy should be a choice rather than a mandate.
SourceMary Beth Walsh emphasizes school safety, parent notification in bullying cases, preservation of school aid, alternatives to four-year college through career and technical education, and reducing reliance on standardized tests for teacher evaluations. As a sitting New York Assembly member for District 112, her education record includes sponsoring Jacobe's Law and supporting Assembly Minority education initiatives and budget positions.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walsh helped roll out recommendations to increase school resource officer training, address school mental health needs, improve emergency planning, support anonymous tip lines, and enact Jacobe's Law.
SourceWalsh encouraged constituents to support expanded SUNY and CUNY tuition benefits for children of military service members who died while serving.
SourceWalsh opposed proposed reductions tied to discontinuing the hold-harmless provision and called for reinstating school aid to protect programs, teachers, support staff, students, and families.
SourceMary Beth Walsh supports tougher public-safety and victim-protection policies, including restoring judicial discretion in bail decisions, reversing portions of New York bail and discovery laws, and advancing school, child, and domestic-violence safety measures. Her record includes sponsoring bills on bullying notification, age verification for explicit websites, sex-trafficking statutes of limitation, and expanded eligibility for orders of protection.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Walsh called for increased judicial discretion and changes to New York's bail and discovery laws, arguing that these reforms are needed to improve public safety and reduce case dismissals.
SourceWalsh said she would continue to support public-safety legislation including bail eligibility for gun crimes, additional penalties for loaded-firearm felonies, limits on parole for child sexual assault and murder, and stronger penalties for attacks on law enforcement and first responders.
SourceBallotpedia search results
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mary+Beth+Walsh+ballotpedia+New+York+State+Assembly+District+112Fetched: identity-search
New York State Assembly biography
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/?ad=112&sh=aboutFetched: biography, location, background, current-seat
New York State Assembly committee membership
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=112&sh=commFetched: committees
New York State Assembly PDF biography
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Legislative Action Center
https://app7.vocusgr.com/webpublish/Controller.aspx?Definition=ViewLegislator&LegislatorID=150343&SiteName=AIADAFetched: age, hometown, education
MyRepTracker
https://myreptracker.com/new-york/legislators/ny-house-112-mary-beth-walsh/voting-recordFetched: votingRecord
Transparency USA
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/candidate/mary-beth-walshFetched: campaignFinance
Transparency USA
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/race/new-york-state-assembly-district-112-74524Fetched: campaignFinance
New York State Assembly
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/113206Fetched: votingRecord
New York State United Teachers
https://www.nysut.org/resources/special-resources-sites/voter-guide/endorsementsFetched: endorsements
New York League of Conservation Voters
https://nylcv.org/wp-content/uploads/nys-scorecard-2024.pdfFetched: endorsements
Planned Parenthood Action
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/b1/1e/b11e9b50-900f-45df-a922-1a3c9feff9a6/2024_ratings_assmb_oct.pdfFetched: endorsements
New York State Assembly
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/83770Fetched: endorsements
Environmental Advocates NY Action
https://eaaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/eaaction_scorecard_2021_final-10-19.pdfFetched: endorsements
New York State Assembly member biography
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/?ad=112&sh=aboutFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate bill page for A2340
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2340/amendment/originalFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate bill page for A5546
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A5546Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Walsh SAFE for Kids statement
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/110824Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Walsh nursing-home order statement
https://assembly.ny.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/109712Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory - Mary Beth Walsh biography
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=112&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Walsh: Assembly One-House Budget Means More Spending, More Taxes
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/109577Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Walsh Advocates For Needed Relief For New Yorkers
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/100751Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Walsh Rallies against Proposal To End Minimum Wage Credit For Tipped Employees
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/81623Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Addressing the Drastic Need to Improve Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/99518Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Walsh hosts Task Force on Learning for Work forum
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/89804Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/87541Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate legislation page
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A6317Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly sponsored legislation
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/sponsor/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly bill A09149
https://www.nyassembly.gov/leg/?bn=A09149&leg_video=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly bill A10778
https://www.nyassembly.gov/leg/?bn=A10778&leg_video=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/117199Fetched: issuePositions
VOTE411 Voter Guide
https://onyourballot.vote411.org/race-detail.do?id=26975450Fetched: issuePositions
BallotReady
https://www.ballotready.org/people/mary-beth-walsh-965430e2-f964-439e-b813-b4d2211696b3Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A2231Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/105610Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.ny.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/86448Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/81266Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/108904Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Walsh Joins Renewed Call for Improved Public Safety Measures
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/104803Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Walsh Details Bills Being Held Up During National Crime Victims' Rights Week
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/101981Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - A00945 Summary
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?bn=A00945&leg_video=Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Age Verification for Explicit Content Statement
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Mary-Beth-Walsh/story/114628Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - A07003 Summary
https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?bn=A07003&leg_video=Fetched: issuePositions