Proposed Assembly Budget Makes $25 Billion Investment in Higher Education, Including $212 Million in Opportunity Program Funding
Mar 11, 2025
Speaker Carl Heastie and Higher Education Committee Chair Alicia Hyndman today announced the Assembly’s State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2024-25 Proposed Budget makes higher education an achievable goal for all students by providing critical funding to the State...
Assembly SFY 2025-26 Proposed Budget Includes $38.5 Billion in School Aid
Mar 11, 2025
Speaker Carl Heastie and Education Committee Chair Michael Benedetto today announced the Assembly’s State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025-26 Proposed Budget provides $38.5 billion in funding to the General Support for Public Schools (GSPS), a $2.7 billion increase...
Assembly's Proposed SFY 2025-26 Budget Invests $1 Billion in Programs to Help New York's Children
Mar 11, 2025
Speaker Carl Heastie today announced that the Assembly’s proposed State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025-26 Budget will invest $1 billion into programs that will provide new opportunities and programs for children across the state. “Our children are our future...
Assembly Budget Includes $7 Billion to Pay Off Unemployment Trust Fund Debt
Mar 11, 2025
Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Labor Committee Chair Harry B. Bronson today announced that the Assembly’s State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025-26 Budget proposal includes $7 billion to eliminate the Unemployment Trust Fund debt. “New York’s businesses...
Assembly's $256.5 Billion Proposed Budget Puts Money Back in the Pockets of Hardworking New Yorkers
Mar 11, 2025
Speaker Carl Heastie and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair J. Gary Pretlow today announced the Assembly will pass a $256.5 billion State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2025-26 Budget proposal that will put money back in the pockets of New Yorkers, and invest...
Legislature Elects Three New Members and Re-elects Five Members to Board of Regents
Mar 4, 2025
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Education Committee Chair Shelley B. Mayer, Assembly Education Committee Chair Michael Benedetto, Senate Higher Education Committee Chair Toby Ann Stavisky and Assembly...