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Pamela Hunter
Democratic PartySTH · NY · District 128
New York State Assembly District 128
STH · NY · District 128
New York State Assembly District 128
Strayer College—Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Pamela J. Hunter grew up in Upstate New York and is a decorated, honorably discharged United States Army veteran. Before her election to the New York State Assembly in 2015, she served for three years on the Syracuse Common Council and chaired its Public Safety Committee. She also held executive positions with nonprofit organizations and professional service firms and has served on several community boards.
Committee Assignments: Subcommittee on Women Veterans · Committee on Insurance · Committee on Rules · Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Committee on Ways and Means · Black Task Force · Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus · Legislative Women's Caucus · Task Force on Women's Issues
Pamela J. Hunter supports expanding health insurance coverage and patient access, including cancer diagnostics, breast cancer screening, hearing aids, pediatric neuropsychiatric treatment, and coverage protection for New Yorkers at risk of losing insurance. Her Assembly biography also highlights her enacted biomarker diagnostic coverage law and oncology-screening work.
Pamela Hunter's Economy & Jobs record for New York Assembly District 128 emphasizes lowering costs for working families, investing in Central New York infrastructure, expanding job pathways for veterans, and reducing regulatory or tax burdens on small businesses and family services. As a sitting Democratic Assemblymember, she has sponsored bills on veteran job listings, veteran-owned business visibility, child-care/pre-K licensing streamlining, and vending-machine tax thresholds, and she has stated support for gas-tax relief, middle-class tax cuts, I-81 infrastructure funding, and Hire-a-Vet incentives.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Hunter stated that she helped pass the 2022-23 budget's gas-tax suspension, accelerated middle-class tax cuts, $1.1 billion for the Syracuse I-81 project, and an extension of the Hire-a-Vet tax credit.
SourcePamela Hunter's record indicates support for immigrant protections and immigrant access to state services, including co-sponsoring the Driver's License Access and Privacy Act, co-sponsoring a right-to-counsel bill for immigration court proceedings, and sponsoring education-benefit eligibility for Afghan and Iraqi special immigrants. In 2026, New York Immigration Coalition Action endorsed Hunter for New York State Assembly District 128, signaling alignment with pro-immigrant policy priorities.
Specific Actions & Proposals
New York Immigration Coalition Action endorsed Hunter in the 2026 race for New York State Assembly District 128, indicating support from a leading immigrant-rights advocacy organization.
SourcePamela J. Hunter, the Democratic New York Assemblymember for District 128, has repeatedly co-sponsored climate and clean-energy legislation, including bills on climate investment, clean energy transition, fossil-fuel plant phaseout, data-center energy impacts, and clean transportation fuels.
Pamela J. Hunter supports increased public-school funding and "quality education regardless of zip code," and has backed state budget funding for Central New York school districts. In legislation, she has co-sponsored measures related to K-12 access, career and technical education, student-loan tax relief, and literacy instruction.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Hunter announced she helped pass a state budget increasing education funding and Foundation Aid for local school districts, saying every student deserves a quality education.
SourcePamela Hunter’s public-safety record emphasizes police/government accountability, limits on broad surveillance, and selected enforcement tools such as school public-safety peace-officer status and animal-cruelty conviction databases. She has also sponsored reforms framed as improving trust and accountability, including ending qualified immunity and penalizing police or peace officers who disable or delete body-camera evidence.
New York State Assembly Biography
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=128&sh=bioFetched: biography, location, education, background
New York State Assembly Committee Membership
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=128&sh=commFetched: committees
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Pamela-J-Hunter/about/Fetched: votingRecord
Open States / Plural Policy
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Transparency USA Committee Profile
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/committee/pamela-hunter-of-nys-assembly-6274Fetched: campaignFinance
New York State Nurses Association
https://www.nysna.org/news/nysna-2026-endorsementsFetched: endorsements
The Business Council of New York State
https://www.bcnys.org/news/business-council-new-york-state-pac-announces-2026-political-endorsementsFetched: endorsements
Vote Smart
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/133416/pam-hunterFetched: endorsements
New York State Assembly biography
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=128&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
LegiScan Pamela Hunter introduced bills
https://legiscan.com/NY/people/pamela-hunter/id/17792?record=all&status=introduced&type=billFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly End of Session Update
https://www.nyassembly.gov/write/upload/member_files/128/pdfs/20240815_0111514.pdfFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page
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New York State Assembly press release
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New York State Assembly member biography
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=128&sh=bioFetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation - A10100
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A11645
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A10141
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A472
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New York State Senate Open Legislation - A1787
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New York State Assembly Member Biography
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New York State Assembly Member News
https://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Pamela-J-Hunter/story/81575Fetched: issuePositions
NYSenate.gov Legislation A389
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NYSenate.gov Legislation A4903
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NYSenate.gov Legislation A3333
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NYSenate.gov Legislation A4659
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New York State Assembly bill search
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