2025-2026 session: change session
Finance bills
Bills on taxes, the state budget, banking, insurance regulation, public pensions and civil service. Finance and Ways and Means are also where most bills with a state cost wait before they can reach the floor.
Highest impact
Impact is how much a bill would change if enacted, from 1 (minimal) to 10 (transformational). Passage is our estimate of the chance it becomes law this session. How we score
Fund State Government Operations
This bill appropriates funds for New York State government operations for fiscal year 2026-27, detailing agency budgets, reappropriations, and spending authorities.
Impact 10 · Transformational·Signed into law
Impact10/10TransformationalOutcomeSigned into lawEnd Stock Tax Rebates
This bill repeals the stock transfer tax rebate, redirects stock transfer tax revenues to state infrastructure, housing, transit, education, and environmental programs, and establishes a safe water…
Impact 10 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact10/10TransformationalPassage35%Universal Child Care for All
This bill establishes a universal child care system in New York, creating a taskforce, pay equity fund, and public option pilot to provide free, high-quality child care for all families.
Impact 10 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact10/10TransformationalPassage35%Cut Medicaid, Lower Property Taxes
This bill phases out local government spending on medical assistance from 2025 to 2034, redirecting all savings to property tax reductions or rebates.
Impact 10 · Transformational·19% to pass
Impact10/10TransformationalPassage19%Raise Taxes on Top Incomes
This bill restructures New York State’s income tax brackets and rates, increasing taxes on higher incomes and adding new upper brackets.
Impact 9 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage35%End Stock Tax Rebates
This bill repeals the stock transfer tax rebate and redirects stock transfer tax revenues to public transit, housing, infrastructure, education, and environmental programs.
Impact 9 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage35%Expand Unemployment, Tax Digital Ads
This bill creates the Unemployment Bridge Program to provide wage assistance to workers excluded from traditional unemployment insurance, funded by a new tax on digital advertising revenues.
Impact 9 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage35%Fund Green Homes, Fair Wages
The Livable New York Act creates a $3 billion fund to support energy efficiency upgrades, affordable housing, tenant protections, higher wages for incarcerated workers, and job programs for formerly…
Impact 9 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage35%Return Land to Tribes
This bill amends New York’s abandoned property law to require escheated lands revert to the Indian nation or tribe that historically occupied them, rather than the state.
Impact 9 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage35%Create State Housing Authority
This bill creates a New York State public benefit corporation to build, acquire, and renovate permanently affordable, democratically governed social housing statewide.
Impact 9 · Transformational·35% to pass
Impact9/10TransformationalPassage35%
Most likely to pass
Bills not yet signed or vetoed, by Passage score.
- A10001Assembly
Fund Legislature and Courts
This bill appropriates and reappropriates funds for New York State’s 2026-27 fiscal year to support the operations of the Legislature and Judiciary.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into law Strengthen Child Custody Protections
Kyra's Law strengthens child custody and visitation laws in New York to prioritize child safety, especially regarding domestic violence and child abuse, requiring courts to review allegations and…
Impact 8 · Significant·59% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage59%Change Redistricting Rules
This bill allows the state legislature to redraw congressional districts independently if the redistricting commission fails or a court finds violations.
Impact 8 · Significant·58% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage58%Expand Post-Conviction Relief
This bill expands and strengthens the process for vacating criminal convictions and sentences in New York, increases access to counsel, and enhances data reporting requirements.
Impact 8 · Significant·57% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage57%End License Bias for Immigrants
The Empire State Licensing Act prohibits discrimination based on immigration or citizenship status in professional and business licensing in New York.
Impact 8 · Significant·53% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage53%Extend Voting After Disruptions
This bill allows New York election officials to extend voting hours if polling places face disruptions exceeding one hour, ensuring voters don't lose access.
Impact 8 · Significant·53% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage53%Improve School Water Reporting
The bill requires New York's health department to implement transparent lead testing and reporting in school water and create a five-year mitigation plan.
Impact 8 · Significant·53% to pass
Impact8/10SignificantPassage53%Raise State Worker Pay
This bill raises salaries and benefits for New York State professional, scientific, and technical employees from 2026 to 2030.
Impact 7 · Significant·53% to pass
Impact7/10SignificantPassage53%
Recently signed or vetoed
End Labor Peace in Cannabis
This bill removes labor peace agreement requirements for cannabis businesses and creates a wage board to set industry pay standards.
Impact 7 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact7/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawBan Unsafe AI for Minors
This bill prohibits AI chatbot features considered unsafe for minors in New York and establishes enforcement, liability, and compliance requirements.
Impact 8 · Significant·Signed into law
Impact8/10SignificantOutcomeSigned into lawNonresident Town Justice Allowed
This bill allows the town justice of Rushford, Allegany County, to be a nonresident, as long as they live within the county.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawExtend Buffalo Parking Permits
This bill extends the Buffalo residential parking permit pilot program until December 31, 2031.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawAllow Nonresident Dix Justice
This bill allows the town justice of Dix in Schuyler County to live anywhere in the county.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawExtend Joint Bidding Law
This bill extends the law allowing joint bidding on public works projects until December 31, 2027.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawUpdate Fire Tax Rules
This bill updates the Centerport Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association's name and rules for using fire insurance tax money.
Impact 3 · Low·Signed into law
Impact3/10LowOutcomeSigned into lawUpdate Firefighter Association Rules
This bill updates the Nesconset Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's name, membership eligibility, purposes, and use of insurance premium tax funds.
Impact 4 · Low·Signed into law
Impact4/10LowOutcomeSigned into law