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New York State Assembly District 132
St. Bonaventure University—bachelor's degree in Social (Political) Science
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Assemblyman Phil Palmesano (R,C-Corning) was first elected to the New York State Assembly in November 2010 and was re-elected to his eighth term in 2024 as the representative of the 132nd Assembly District. Before his Assembly service, he worked for 15 years as a local aide for federal and state lawmakers, including Assemblyman Donald Davidsen, Assemblyman Jim Bacalles, Congressman Randy Kuhl, and state Senator George Winner; he was also elected in 2009 to represent the City of Corning on the Steuben County Legislature.
Committee Assignments: Committee on Rules · Committee on Ways and Means · Commission on Rural Resources · Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment
Philip Palmesano, Republican Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 132, emphasizes rural health-care access, Medicaid cost relief for counties and property taxpayers, organ-donation expansion, and support for services for developmentally disabled New Yorkers. He has opposed rigid COVID-era health mandates when he argues they threaten rural health-care staffing, while supporting organ-donation and transplant-access legislation.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Palmesano supported an immediate pay increase for direct-care health professionals serving developmentally disabled New Yorkers to preserve quality health care and programming.
SourcePalmesano opposed a state health-care worker COVID vaccine mandate without flexibility and supported allowing regular mandatory testing as an alternative to avoid rural health-care workforce shortages.
SourcePhilip Palmesano’s Economy & Jobs position emphasizes a lower-cost business climate for upstate New York, including tax, regulatory and unfunded-mandate relief, infrastructure investment, and opposition to policies he describes as raising costs for employers. He frequently frames his positions around protecting small businesses, farms, manufacturers, workers, and local economic development in Assembly District 132.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Palmesano urged the governor to reconsider limiting IDA sales-tax benefits to Excelsior-qualified projects, saying local economic development officials need more tools to foster upstate job creation and that nearly 5,000 district jobs would not have been saved or created under the proposed restriction.
SourcePalmesano said he would continue pushing to repeal the CLCPA and supported the Assembly Minority’s LOWER plan, arguing that energy mandates raise costs for families, delivery trucks, and small and medium-sized businesses.
SourcePhilip Palmesano generally takes a restrictive, enforcement-oriented position on immigration: he criticizes New York sanctuary policies and supports more cooperation between state/local agencies and federal immigration enforcement. His legislative record includes co-sponsoring bills to authorize 287(g) immigration-enforcement agreements, require ICE notification for certain noncitizen defendants, verify voter citizenship through USCIS SAVE, and register/report refugee resettlement information.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Palmesano joined a press conference and letter to Congress arguing that the governor's sanctuary-state policies contributed to New York's migrant crisis and calling for accountability over taxpayer spending and migrant-policy decisions.
SourcePhilip Palmesano, Republican Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 132, emphasizes energy affordability, reliability, fuel diversity, and "energy choice" while criticizing New York's CLCPA climate mandates and universal electrification policies. His climate and energy record includes sponsoring bills to preserve fossil-fuel building systems, require cost-benefit analysis of renewable-energy and emissions mandates, support advanced nuclear development, and oppose/repeal CLCPA-related mandates.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Palmesano stated that he would continue pushing to repeal the CLCPA and support a common-sense energy policy prioritizing affordability, reliability, feasibility, fuel diversity, and ratepayer energy choice.
SourcePhilip Palmesano is a Republican Assemblymember for New York Assembly District 132 who has emphasized education-related support for rural/upstate communities, including school aid, libraries, agricultural instruction, and local flexibility for schools. His recent education record includes sponsoring or co-sponsoring bills on school milk purchasing, agriculture curriculum, fentanyl education, school-bus mandates, and outreach education for home-visiting programs.
Philip Palmesano, Republican Assemblymember for New York State Assembly District 132, frames public safety around tougher criminal accountability, support for law enforcement and first responders, school safety, and correctional-facility security. He has called for repeal or rollback of bail reforms, restoration of judicial discretion, and measures aimed at violent crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and protection of officers and emergency personnel.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Palmesano supported the Assembly Minority's public-safety package to restore judicial discretion in bail decisions, remove gun crimes from no-bail rules, tighten parole, and repeal bail reforms enacted in 2019 and 2020.
SourceNew York State Assembly biography
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/bioFetched: biography, location, education, background
New York State Assembly committee membership
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/comm/Fetched: committees
AIADA Legislative Action Center
https://app7.vocusgr.com/webpublish/Controller.aspx?Definition=ViewLegislator&LegislatorID=113415&SiteName=AIADAFetched: age, location, education
New York State Board of Elections 2026 Primary Certification
https://elections.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/05/accessible-june-23-2026-primary-certification-amended-5.13.26_0.pdfFetched: office, district, party
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://www2.nyassembly.gov/mem/?sh=mainFetched: votingRecord
The Candidate
https://thecandidate.com/states/ny/legislature/house/132/phil-palmesanoFetched: votingRecord
MyRepTracker
https://myreptracker.com/new-york/legislators/ny-house-132-phil-palmesano/voting-recordFetched: votingRecord
Transparency USA
https://www.transparencyusa.org/ny/race/new-york-state-assembly-district-132-74546Fetched: campaignFinance
FollowTheMoney search via LegiScan profile links
https://legiscan.com/NY/sponsors/K00779/2025Fetched: campaignFinance
Planned Parenthood Empire State Votes PAC Candidate Ratings: Assembly 2022
https://cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/26/6d/266d0543-0592-4409-8a8a-6767950ef0f1/candidate_ratings_assm_2022.pdfFetched: ratings
The Business Council of New York State PAC Announces 2024 Political Endorsements
https://www.bcnys.org/news/business-council-new-york-state-pac-announces-2024-political-endorsements-0Fetched: endorsements
PEF 2024 NYS Assembly Endorsements
https://www.pef.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/2024-Assembly-Endorsed-Candidates.pdfFetched: endorsements
Rochester Teachers Association PAC Endorsements 2024
https://rochesterteachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PAC_Endorsements_2024.pdfFetched: endorsements
New York State Board of Elections
https://elections.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/05/accessible-june-23-2026-primary-certification-amended-5.13.26_0.pdfFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/bio/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate Open Legislation
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A7617Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.ny.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/118556Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/104553Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/85936Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/99121Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly biography
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/bio/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on minimum wage vote
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/49512Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on Small Business Emergency Recovery Act
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/91568Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate legislation page for A6357
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A6357Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on IDA sales-tax benefit proposal
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/51128Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly press release on CLCPA costs and LOWER plan
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/117420Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly Member Directory - Philip A. Palmesano bio
https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/bio/Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Palmesano migrant crisis press release
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/114822Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Assembly Bill A6796
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A6796Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Assembly Bill A5395
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A5395Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Assembly Bill A10027
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A10027Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Senate - Assembly Bill A8996
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A8996Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly - Philip A. Palmesano Assembly District 132
https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/117420Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/bioFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly statement on budget and education aid
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/69160Fetched: issuePositions
LegiScan Philip Palmesano bill list
https://legiscan.com/NY/people/philip-palmesano/id/11325?record=all&type=billFetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page: public safety package
https://www.assembly.ny.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/100526Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly member page: Community Heroes Protection Act
https://www.nyassembly.gov/mem/Philip-A-Palmesano/story/73056Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly legislation: A04228
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&bn=A04228&term=2025Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly legislation: A06605
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Actions=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&bn=A06605&default_fld=&term=2025Fetched: issuePositions
New York State Assembly legislation: A06843
https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?Actions=Y&Memo=Y&Summary=Y&Text=Y&bn=A06843&default_fld=%0D%0A&leg_video=&term=Fetched: issuePositions