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In today’s CapCon: As New York waits to learn the fate of its law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses, a large coalition of states is coming to its defense before an appellate court.
Then, the latest from Timothy Fanning on the ratification of public union contracts, including one from this week.
Later, a rare legislative event has been scheduled to take place Monday in the Legislative Office Building. It’s focused on issues facing the state’s lakes and watersheds.
And, a new bill would change New York’s “Cottage Laws,” which regulate what kind of food people can cook in their home kitchen and sell to the public.
Plus, Hochul has designated an additional justice for a state appellate court, she’ll soon have to consider a bill that would protect visitors to prisons who use menstrual products, and we’ve got This Week in New York History.
Names in today’s CapCon: Donald J. Trump, Luis Sepulveda, Kathy Hochul, Erin Skinner, Gerald Whalen, Blake Gendebien, Anthony Constantino, Lea Webb, Larinda Hooks, Julia Salazar, Pete Harckham
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