Hochul vetoes 14 bills and signs 23, including controversial voter list bill

And Attorney General Letitia James is suing UPS.

Good afternoon — It’s Monday and National Bill of Rights Day

😎 Timothy Fanning again, filling in for Dan Clark, who is out today. I can’t wait to tell Dan about how much fun we had.

In today’s CapCon:

• Gov. Kathy Hochul signed 23 bills on Friday, including one that adds New York to a controversial shared voter registration program.

• Hochul vetoed 14 bills, including those touching on prevailing wage, child care and minority- and women-owned business enterprises

• New York Attorney General Letitia James says UPS stole holiday worker wages and has filed a lawsuit to attempt to recover them.

• The state’s K-12 enrollment is down, but charter and home school rates double in a decade, Cornell University found.

Names in today’s CapCon: Kathy Hochul, Letitia James, Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Capitol Count features updates on bills as they move through the legislative process.

Hochul during a school lunch news conference last week (Governor’s office)

✒️ Hochul issued scores of vetoes and chapters Friday night

Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed more bills than she vetoed Friday night.

While the governor vetoed 14 bills, she signed 23 into law, including the two artificial intelligence measures we told you about last week.

Hochul didn’t take action on some of the higher profile bills she called up last week, including an omnibus legislation that would impact oversight of state prisons, the 100-foot utility rule and the social media warning label legislation.

However, she did sign New York onto a controversial voting list organization. I’ve got more on this below. ⬇️

🛑New York’s vetoed bills

Let’s start with the 14 bills Hochul vetoed, which touch on a range of issues.