New York Legislative Update
April 2022
NYS Budget Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a $216 billion spending plan for legislators to approve. The budget was due by April 1st but in the end didn’t get done until the early morning hours on Saturday April 9th. The final total for the budget came in at $220 billion. There will be a new stadium […]
New York Legislative Update
March 2022
NYS Budget Governor Kathy Hochul proposed a $216 billion spending plan for legislators to approve. The budget is due by April 1, though that deadline can, and will be extended into the first week of April. Some of the sticking points still being ironed out include bail reform, a 10-point public safety plan, gas price […]
New York Legislative Update
February 2022
Executive Budget Proposal After releasing the budget in January, the Legislature held a series of budget hearings that finished on the 17th of February. On the 18th of February the Governor offered up some slight changes to her proposal via the 30-day amendment process which is afforded through the NYS Constitution. Now the budget conversation […]
New York Legislative Update
January 2022
State of the State The NYS 2022 Legislative Session opened with Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State Address on January 5, 2022 in the NYS Assembly Chamber, marking the first time in a decade that a sitting Governor held the State of the State in the Chamber. Hochul outlined her “New Era for New […]