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Kathleen Hochul (/ ˈ h oʊ k əl / HOH-kəl; [1] née Courtney; born August 27, 1958) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the 57th governor of New York since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, she is New York's first female governor and the first governor from Upstate New York since Nathan L. Miller in 1922.
On May 31, 2022, it passed the New York State Senate by a vote of 43 in favor and 20 against. [3] On June 2, 2022, it passed the New York State Assembly by a vote of 106 in favor and 43 against. [4] On June 20, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the NYVRA into law. [5]
The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the New York Legislature, to convene the legislature and grant pardons, except in cases of impeachment ...
The bill was introduced in April 2021. It was approved as Bill S4104A by the New York Senate on June 3, 2022, and previously as Bill A7006B by the New York Assembly.. It was signed by Governor Kathy Hochul on December 28, 2022 (Right to Repair advocate iFixit had foreseen this as likely to occur [1]), though the bill was amended following opposition of some of its parts by technology industry ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is looking to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to force more people with mental health problems into treatment. This ...
Andrew Cuomo's lieutenant governor was Kathy Hochul, former United States Representative from New York's 26th district. Hochul replaced the previous lieutenant governor, Robert Duffy, the former mayor of Rochester.
Gov. Kathy Hochul approved a controversial law that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to fork over a staggering $75 billion to the state for spewing carbon emissions and contributing ...
Under the new state law, companies responsible for the bulk of emissions from 2000 to 2018 will be on the hook for some $3 billion a… New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on Thursday signed a law that ...