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The state Assembly speaker’s proposal would let lawmakers keep getting paid when the budget is late — but only if Hochul inserts unrelated policy into her spending plan.

The lucrative tax break for movie and TV productions is likely operating “at a net cost to the state," the report finds.

The Legislature is wrapping up a legislative session after a potential deal on housing policy fell through.

Lawmakers will have to pass at least a temporary budget extension by Monday to make sure state workers get paid on time.

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to dramatically expand NY’s film tax credit. Legislative leaders are open to it.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told Gothamist that his members are “very troubled” by a report on Chang’s Brooklyn residency (or lack thereof).

Should lawmakers get the pay increase, it would make them the highest paid state lawmakers in the U.S.

The Democrat-dominated NY Assembly is questioning whether Lester Chang lived in Brooklyn.

The investigation marks a rare instance in which a member-elect’s residency has been officially investigated.

In conversations with Gothamist, a dozen legislators gave reasons for why measures such as the All-Electric Buildings Act didn't make it to a vote last session.