Enacted Budget

Last week, the $254 billion 2025-2026 NYS budget was enacted over 5 weeks past the April 1st deadline making it the latest budget in 15 years. With less than a month left in the regular legislative session, both houses will be focused on negotiating and passing priority bills.  Among the high-profile bills under consideration: potential reform to the CDPAP program, legislation to allow medical aid in dying, a slate of prison reform bills in response to the deaths of incarcerated individuals and extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation that seeks to mandate manufacturer’s responsibilities for packaging reduction, recycling and reuse.

Session Extended 

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie recently announced that the Assembly session calendar will be extended by a number of days to make up for this year’s prolonged budget negotiations. Heastie stated that the Assembly is now scheduled to conclude on June 17 instead of June 12. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins has indicated that the Senate session will conclude on June 12th.