{"id":43164,"date":"2022-03-15T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=43164"},"modified":"2022-03-15T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:18:29","slug":"state-assembly-senate-pass-separate-budget-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/state-assembly-senate-pass-separate-budget-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"State Assembly, Senate Pass Separate Budget Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30428\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/state-senate-approves-governor-signs-green-light-bill\/state-capitol\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?fit=1200%2C793&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,793\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"state capitol\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;New York State Capitol&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?fit=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?fit=1024%2C677&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-30428\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?resize=375%2C248&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?resize=1024%2C677&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Spending is up in the separate <strong>budget plans<\/strong> passed by the State Assembly and Senate on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>WXXI news reports both houses, led by Democrats, propose spending more than $6 billion above Governor <strong>Kathy Hochul<\/strong>\u2019s spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker <strong>Carl Heastie<\/strong> said his house is adding an additional $3 billion to help fix a broken child care system and revive the economy. He said it includes money to pay workers higher wages and subsidize costs for lower-income parents.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is proposing over $4 billion in additional funds for child care, saying the goal is to provide \u201cuniversal\u201d access.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Finance Committee Chair <strong>Liz Krueger<\/strong> said both houses also want to reduce chronic shortages of home health care workers by boosting what are often poverty-level wages.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s $216 billion budget plan already increased state spending by more than 5% from the previous year. She was able to do so because of generous federal relief packages earlier in the pandemic, and higher-than-expected tax collections, including a new income tax surcharge on the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal watchdog groups warned that the final budget should not spend more than the governor has proposed.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizens Budget Commission said with the additional funds, Hochul and the Legislature have been given a rare opportunity to finally end New York\u2019s chronic year-to-year budget deficits.<\/p>\n<p>Both houses say their plans are balanced for the next two years, but could not say whether their spending plans would create deficits after that.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature\u2019s budget plans leave out many items that the governor said were important to her, including authorizing alcohol-to-go for the state\u2019s restaurants, a revamping of the troubled state ethics commission and term limits for statewide elected offices.<\/p>\n<p>The budget is due by April 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nynow.wmht.org\/blogs\/economy\/live-blog-the-new-york-state-budget-2022\/\">WMHT Live Blog: The New York State Budget (2022)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending is up in the separate budget plans passed by the State Assembly and Senate on Monday. WXXI news reports both houses, led by Democrats, propose spending more than $6 billion above Governor Kathy Hochul\u2019s spending plan. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said his house is adding an additional $3 billion to help fix a broken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":30428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4729,1333,11121,1679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/state-capitol.jpg?fit=1200%2C793&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-bec","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17510,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/state-lawmakers-focus-on-completing-state-budget-before-april-1-deadline\/","url_meta":{"origin":43164,"position":0},"title":"State Lawmakers Focus on Completing State Budget Before April 1 Deadline","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"March 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"ALBANY - Both houses of the New York State Legislature have each passed their individual budget resolutions. 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Early Sunday morning, on the final day of 2019 fiscal year, Gov. 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