Category Archives: News

Below you will find answers to frequently asked questions about New York State’s emergency eviction moratorium, compiled by Housing Justice for All and the Right To Counsel Coalition. The FAQs are also downloadable by clicking here.

New York – Today Senator Krueger joined Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Assembly Member Harvey Epstein in urging the Governor to implement a moratorium on non-essential construction activity during the COVID-19 emergency. The elected officials delivered a letter to ...

Albany – Today, State Senator Liz Krueger and Assemblymembers Didi Barrett and Daniel J. O’Donnell announced the introduction of legislation (S.7717) to legalize and regulate compensated gestational and genetic surrogacy, as well as establish necessary protections for all parties involved ...

New York — On Friday, January 31st, State Senator Liz Krueger and The New York Women’s Foundation held a roundtable discussion titled “Including Older Women’s Issues in the Feminist Agenda.” The roundtable will brought together thought leaders in key policy areas to ...

Albany – State Senator Liz Krueger released the following statement today regarding the announcement by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli that his office will review whether to divest from 27 coal companies: “I commend Comptroller DiNapoli for taking this ...

New York State Senate Majority Conference Blue Book – Staff analysis of the 2021 Executive Budget.

Albany – Today, State Senators Liz Krueger and Todd Kaminsky, and Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee introduced the Tobacco Product Waste Reduction Act, S.7259, which would prohibit the sale of cigarettes with single-use filters (also known as “butts”), attachable single-use filters, and ...

On January 1st, new reforms to New York’s bail and pre-trial detention systems went into effect. There has been a lot of confusion about what these reforms actually do. A good starting place to understand the changes is this article in ...

Albany – Today, as world leaders are meeting for the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, State Senator Liz Krueger, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Assembly Assistant Speaker Félix W. Ortiz announced the introduction of a revised version ...

Albany – Today Governor Cuomo signed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, S.2605, an Attorney General’s program bill carried by Senator Liz Krueger. The new law will hold New York’s most unscrupulous landlords criminally accountable for tenant harassment. “Over the years I ...