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Analysis of Governor Hochul's 2024 State of the State address.

Read our comprehensive report of legislation with county impact that has passed both houses of the State Legislature 

This week, more than 50 county leaders from across New York State sent an unprecedented bi-partisan letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, to help protect New York renters, homeowners, and businesses from looming property tax increases.

The state's plan to shift $625 million in new Medicaid costs onto local taxpayers would place New York's counties and the City of New York on track to contribute a record $12 billion to state coffers next fiscal year.

Counties Call on Legislature to Hold Firm in Negotiations and Remove $625M Hit from Final Budget Negotiations

County leaders today are calling on their state representatives in the Senate and Assembly to adopt one house budgets that reject Governor Kathy Hochul's proposal to shift $625 million in new costs to counties for the State's Medicaid program. 

The county leaders who represent New York's local property taxpayers unanimously adopted a resolution during their annual Legislative Conference calling on Governor Hochul to continue sharing federal eFMAP funding

Counties deliver testimony on the SFY 2024 Executive Budget. 

This Blog highlights what is at stake in the unprecedented Medicaid cost shift proposed by Governor Hochul in her budget and ultimately supported by the Legislature.

_{Statement from NYSAC President Michael E. Zurlo}