In her State of the State address three weeks ago, Hochul said she would call for adding billions of dollars in aid for K-12 school districts and increase staffing incentives for health care workers.
All eyes will be on Albany Wednesday as New York Governor Kathy Hochul releases her proposed budget plan for the coming fiscal year. N.J. Burkett has the story.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed increasing state school aid by 10%, tuition hikes for public universities and raising cigarette taxes to a nation-high $5.35 per pack as part of her budget proposal Wednesday.
The budget would raise the state cigarette tax from $4.35 to $5.35 per pack. Washington, D.C., currently has the highest excise tax nationwide at $4.50, according to the Federation of Tax Administrators. Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group said the proposed tuition hike made little sense amid declining enrollment.Hochul also wants to make more revisions to the state's bail law, which was changed in 2019 to do away with pretrial incarceration for people accused of most nonviolent offenses.
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