Overview
- Draft notes show plans to let New Yorkers sue federal immigration agents over rights violations and to restrict ICE enforcement at schools, hospitals and houses of worship without a judicial warrant.
- Hochul is expected to call for another SUNY and CUNY tuition freeze, expand free community college pathways, and fund 2,000 New York City child care slots for 2-year-olds at a cost of $75 million.
- The economic package reportedly includes a downstate semiconductor chip design center and up to four quantum computing hubs to anchor ‘industries of the future.’
- Public safety proposals would keep police on subways overnight, expand SCOUT mental health co-response teams, add platform safety barriers, and create 25-foot protest-free zones around houses of worship and abortion clinics.
- The agenda features technology and online safeguards such as limiting minors’ access to AI chatbots, curbing stranger contact on platforms, restricting political deepfakes, and establishing a new Office of Digital Innovation, Government, Integrity, and Trust.