Assembly Speaker Releases 2019 Legislative Priorities List

November 13th, 2018

Last Wednesday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) released a list of some of the issues that the Assembly will be focusing on in 2019.  The Speaker noted that many of the assembly’s priorities have been blocked by a Republican-led Senate, and that he looks forward to working with incoming Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers)

The Assembly Majority’s 2019 legislative priorities include addressing inequalities in education; update the state’s election laws; improving infrastructure; reforming the criminal justice system; curbing gun violence; reforming rent laws; passing the Child Victims Act to extend the statute of limitations for criminal and civil sexual abuse cases; protecting women’s reproductive rights, making health care more affordable; and economic development.

Now that the elections are behind us, Unshackle Upstate is preparing our 2019 legislative priorities.  With new leadership in the State Senate and so few Democratic State Senators representing Upstate districts, we’re going to have our work cut out for us.