Joint Budget Hearing Schedule. The PSC will hold its next meeting on February 7th at 10:30am. The Board of Regents will hold its next meeting on February 11th and 12th The Senate will hold a hearing on the Climate and Community Protection Act, February 12th. The legislature will hold a joint public hearing on Sexual Harassment on February 13th. JCOPE will meet Tuesday, February 29th. The Senate […]
Late on Tuesday night, Governor Cuomo signed into law the Reproductive Health Act in a ceremony that included Sarah Weddington, the attorney who argued the Roe v. Wade case in the Supreme Court. This is the first year the measure has passed in the Senate. The bill was passed, in a coordinated effort between the Senate and Assembly, on […]
On Wednesday, the Senate and Assembly passed the DREAM act, named after the recently deceased former sponsor of the bill. The bill will allow undocumented children the ability to qualify for state aid for higher education, create a Dream Fund for college scholarship opportunities and remove barriers that prevent undocumented families from college saving programs. […]
Richard Kauffman, Governor Cuomo’s energy czar, is stepping down as chairman of energy and finance, a role he has held since 2013. In that role, Kauffman was charged with coordinating all energy policy initiatives among the various agencies in order to provide a cohesive strategy. Kauffman will remain as chairman of the New York State […]
Good news for east Bronx commuters, the Governor this week announced that projects will begin on adding four new Metro-North stations with service into Manhattan. The new service will bring Metro-North trains over the Hell Gate Bridge into Queens and will merge with the LIRR’s route through the East River Tunnels into Manhattan and west to Penn […]
This week the Governor directed SUNY/CUNY officials to assist students impacted by the federal government shutdown providing temporary relief to students who are federal employees, dependents of federal employees, or who depend on loans from the federal government. Payments for tuition or other college related expenses will be postponed and any late fees will be waved. Cuomo […]
This week the Attorney General announced a settlement has been reached with Walgreens as part of a joint effort with multiple states and the federal government. The settlement stems from the allegations that Walgreens violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicaid at rates higher than its usual and customary (U&C) rates for certain prescription drugs. New […]
Another settlement was reached this week between Johnson & Johnson, parent company of a medical device business known as DePuy Incorporated, and a coalition of 45 state attorneys general over misleading advertisement of the survivorship of one of their hip replacement products. New York will receive over $4.5 million of the $120 million settlement.
New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced the list of school districts that have been designated fiscally stressed by the Comptroller’s Fiscal Stress Monitoring System. The list includes 26 school districts that are fiscally stressed or susceptible to fiscal stress. Districts contained in this report do not include any school districts from the “Big Four” cities of Buffalo, Rochester, […]
NYRA announced this week that it had accepted the resignation of CEO and President Chris Kay. Kay took over at NYRA in 2013 and led the board through the recent re-privatization efforts. An anonymous source told the Albany Times Union that the board asked for Kay’s resignation after allegations that he used employees for maintenance and yard work on […]