The mask policy was one of the final hurdles Hochul and the Legislature had to clear to reach a budget agreement.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, while updating reporters on governor-influenced policy in the state's $252 billion ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told lawmakers that the bill – which proponents call medical aid in dying – has the ...

It’s Heastie versus Hochul. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is going to war with Gov. Kathy Hochul, pushing a bombshell bill Wednesday to curtail her leverage in high-stakes New York budget talks ...

The New York State Assembly has passed a bill that would grant the use of medication for a terminally ill patient to choose when to end their life. The 'Medical Aid in Dying Act' was introduced in ...

Albany lawmakers are close to finalizing a deal on discovery rules in criminal trials, which has been holding up agreement on ...

A tentative compromise on New York’s discovery laws has been struck between Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the state’s ...

Let’s make a whatever-you-call-it. Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged Wednesday that lawmakers had reached a breakthrough in negotiations to revamp the state’s discovery laws — even ...

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, told reporters Tuesday that legislative leaders reached a “framework” ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said today. “There’s over 300 different (policy proposals) that were on the table. Some you agree on, some you say you’ll pass later and some you just can’t g ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s proposal to extend lawmakers' pay past the state budget’s due date doesn’t seem to have the support necessary to force a standoff with Gov. Kathy Hochul, but the move ...