Small businesses were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. So, the New York State Legislature created the COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program with $800 million in grants to help small businesses, micro-businesses and for-profit independent...

Partial Unemployment Formula Changes  New York provides unemployment assistance not just when workers are laid off, but also when a worker’s hours are reduced. The calculation of benefits for part-time unemployment assistance used to be...

Over the holiday weekend, we received this letter from OPWDD Commissioner Dr. Theodore Kastner, which includes links to revised Telehealth guidance and post State of Emergency guidance for OPWDD certified facilities and programs.Dear Friends and Colleagues,As...

Today is Law Day in the United States.Law Day is particularly significant today.The stress of a worldwide health crisis likewise stresses our government institutions and our freedoms. We cede extraordinary powers to executives and voluntarily limit our...

Today Assemblyman Tom Abinanti joined Speaker Carl Heastie and other Assembly Majority members in calling on the New York Congressional Delegation to press for unrestricted aid to state and local governments who are facing significant budget deficits...

Tarrytown – Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) today admonished Governor Cuomo for his veto of the “Tollpayer Protection Act,” (A7587/S6113) which would codify a process for notifying drivers about tolls and fines and...

TARRYTOWN — Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) today called on Governor Cuomo to sign the “Tollpayer Protection Act,” (A7587/S6113) which would streamline the process for notifying drivers about tolls and fines. The legislation...

Tarrytown, NY – Today, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) to ban undetectable guns."Undetectable guns have no legitimate purpose,” said Abinanti. “This is another...

“The new tolls must be fair,” Assemblyman Tom Abinanti (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) today told the Cuomo Bridge Tolls Task Force. Abinanti criticized a proposal floated several years ago by the Thruway authority which would continue present...