NY Assembly returning to Albany to deal with unfinished business including Seneca Nation gaming issue

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While the chamber is expected to only tackle low-profile issues affecting localities across the state, Speaker Carl Heastie faces pressure to broaden the legislative agenda.

Some moderate Democrats also appear queasy about expanding health care for illegal immigrants with Republicans already looking to leverage the issue in the 2024 election cycle.

Requiring limited liability companies to disclose their owners could backfire on politicians considering the amount of campaign funds they raise from them without the public knowing where exactly the money came from. “Anonymous LLCs are a major corruption risk, and New Yorkers shouldn’t let the shell games continue,” Reinvent Albany, a good government group, said in a Friday statement.– particularly in the outer boroughs – is also driving resistance against the proposed “Sammy’s Law” to allow for a 20 m.p.h. speed limit on some New York City streets despite claims by supporters that they have enough votes to get the bill approved by a majority of the 150-member chamber.

Seneca Nation President Rickey Armstrong, Jr. is keeping up the fight after blaming Gov. Kathy Hochul for keeping legislators in the dark despite the tribe demanding her administration refrain from divulging details from negotiations.“My family had to mark yet another Father’s Day without Sammy,” Amy Cohen, whose 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein was killed in a 2013 traffic crash, told The Post on Monday.

“How many more families are going to have to suffer before the Assembly takes this preventable crisis seriously?”

 

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