Good afternoon — It’s Tuesday And Limerick Day.
In today’s CapCon:
Gov. Kathy Hochul has yet to nominate new members to the overhauled state Commission of Correction, placing the watchdog entity in limbo.
Hochul announced Tuesday that she had found a $4 billion package of new solutions for New York City’s budget gap.
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said lawmakers don’t have details on that package, including language on the pied-a-terre tax.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, Republican candidate for governor, prevailed in his legal battle for public matching funds Tuesday.
A new bill seeks to prevent evictions while deed theft cases are ongoing, closing what lawmakers view as a significant gap in state law.
Full committee agendas for Wednesday, May 13.
Names in today’s CapCon: Robert L. Brooks, Messiah Nantwi, Kathy Hochul, Kirstan Conley, Emily Gallagher, Julia Salazar, Jess D’Amelia, Zohran Mamdani, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Sherif Soliman, Thomas P. DiNapoli, Bruce Blakeman, Denise Hartman, Todd Hood, Leroy Comrie
⚖️ New York’s prisons watchdog without a quorum as Senate awaits Hochul’s nominees
A state commission tasked with overseeing New York’s prisons and jails is now in limbo.
That’s the result of a new law that took effect Saturday and what advocates and lawmakers say is Gov. Kathy Hochul’s failure to implement it.
The state Commission of Correction is supposed to act as an oversight entity for the state’s correctional system. It’s responsible for monitoring those facilities, including their compliance with state laws and regulations.
But Democrats in the state Legislature view the commission’s oversight as inadequate. That view spread after the high-profile homicides of Robert L. Brooks and Messiah Nantwi at the hands of state prison guards over the last year and a half.
So they sought during last year’s legislative session, as part of a broader package of prison oversight legislation, to improve it.
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