Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to raise criminal penalties for anyone who assaults a store employee. Democrats in the Legislature say they'd rather focus more closely on repeat offenders.

Some state lawmakers want to take health insurance companies out of the business of providing home health care. They say it’s a failed experiment that’s costing the state too much money that could better go to directly paying for that care.

The proposal is part of the Senate's one house budget plan, which lawmakers will use as a basis of negotiating a final budget with Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to cut $1.2 billion from a home health care program known as consumer-directed care. People who rely on it are objecting.

New York’s Assembly and Senate are expected to release their own budget plans early next week.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget director defended her proposed reductions to the state’s schools, but left the door open to restoring those cuts, now that new numbers show New York’s revenues are up by $1.3 billion.

With little debate, the lines drawn by Democrats, who lead both the Senate and Assembly, were approved, with a handful of Republican minority party lawmakers also voting yes.

When Democrats in the New York State Legislature approved the new congressional district lines, they also OK'd legislation to limit the practice of "judge shopping" when someone wants to file suit in a redistricting challenge.

Democrats in the New York State Legislature rejected new congressional district maps drawn by a bipartisan redistricting commission and are opting to draw their own maps instead. Republicans, who are in the minority in the Legislature, condemned the vote — saying it’s all about the Democrats trying to gain political advantage.

Under current law, petitioning for primaries is due to begin on Tuesday, and the boundaries of the state’s 26 congressional districts need to be in place by then.