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The New York Senate and Assembly celebrated a belated Earth Day this week by acting on environmental bills. But the two houses acted on different measures, and lawmakers could not predict if any of the legislation will become law in 2024.
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The bill would cut the amount of plastic packaging in consumer products in half over a period of 12 years and step up recycling efforts. It would also ban a form of plastics recycling known as chemical recycling. Industry groups wants changes to the measure.
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While both houses of the Legislature are led by her fellow Democrats, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget is not guaranteed to be an easy sell.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a $233 billion state budget plan that holds the line on spending increases and dips into the state’s reserve funds to help pay for the migrant crisis.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul will reveal how she will close a multibillion-dollar budget gap and balance calls from some Democrats in the Legislature for more spending and tax increases.
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Assemblymember Patricia Fahy and Sen. Toby Stavisky say the popular TAP program, aimed at offsetting tuition costs for lower- and middle-income students, has not kept up with inflation and rising tuition costs.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul addressed the sense of unease that New Yorkers feel about the economy and crime in her 2024 State of the State message. Among her proposals were a crackdown on retail theft and a scaled-down plan to build more affordable housing to ease the state’s ongoing crisis.
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The governor is expected to, among other things, focus on easing the state’s affordable housing crisis.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a number of bills in the waning days of 2023, and that has led to some lingering disappointment in 2024.
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Among Hochul's concerns were the possibility of increased insurance premiums for consumers and a risk to the financial well-being of public hospitals and other health care facilities.
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Governor Kathy Hochul announced steps for greater consumer protections as part of her 2024 agenda. She says the proposals would protect everyone from students paying off loans, to increasing temporary disability payments, to curbing medical debt.