Kathy C. Hochul

Signed FY 2026 legislation expanding the Empire AI public-research consortium, establishing safeguards for AI companion systems, and criminalizing AI-generated child sexual-abuse material.

May 9, 2025Supports AI Regulation

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed more than $900 million in FY 2027 public-safety investment, including $77 million for New York City subway policing and $25 million for Subway Co-Response Outreach Teams pairing police with mental-health clinicians.

May 28, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed $34.2 billion for Medicaid serving about seven million New Yorkers, codified federal emergency-care protections in state law, protected reproductive-health providers, and funded health-care capital and safety-net transformation.

May 9, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed more than $196 million in FY 2026 mental-health investments, including 100 new state psychiatric beds, stronger assisted-outpatient-treatment and involuntary-commitment standards, youth spaces, clubhouses, and street medicine and psychiatry.

May 9, 2025Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation expanding access to hormonal contraception through pharmacists and requiring SUNY and CUNY campuses to provide medication-abortion access.

May 2, 2023Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2027 food-security measures including $65 million in emergency food aid, $51 million for the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program, $55 million for Nourish New York, and funding for chip-enabled EBT cards and the PLATES fraud-prevention system.

May 28, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the FY 2027 budget creating a $1 billion POWER utility-bill rebate program and utility-rate reforms addressing hidden costs, executive compensation, affordability monitoring, and review of ratepayer-funded programs.

May 28, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Climate Change Superfund Act requiring major fossil-fuel companies to contribute to climate-adaptation costs and legislation broadening New York's carbon-dioxide fracking prohibition.

December 26, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation enabling Suffolk County voters to consider a dedicated clean-water funding mechanism for wastewater infrastructure and water-quality improvement.

May 23, 2024Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

As lieutenant governor, chaired New York's Regional Economic Development Councils and co-chaired state task forces on heroin and opioids, women's suffrage, and child-care availability.

August 23, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed an FY 2027 budget surcharge on New York City second homes worth at least $5 million, projected to generate about $500 million annually.

May 28, 2026Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2026 legislation expanding New York's child tax credit to as much as $1,000 for children under four and $500 for children ages four through sixteen, covering about 1.6 million families.

May 9, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed New York's first inflation-refund program, distributing $2 billion to more than eight million taxpayers with payments of up to $400 for eligible joint filers.

May 9, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Received the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union endorsement for reelection as governor in 2026.

September 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: rwdsu.org · researched September 13, 2026

Received the New York State AFL-CIO endorsement for reelection as governor in 2026.

September 12, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: nysaflcio.org · researched September 13, 2026

Received the Actors' Equity Association endorsement for reelection as governor in 2026.

July 8, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: actorsequity.org · researched September 13, 2026

Received the New York State United Teachers endorsement for reelection as governor in 2026.

May 29, 2026Supports Labor Rights

Source: nysut.org · researched September 13, 2026

Secured an agreement raising New York's minimum wage in 2024, 2025, and 2026 and indexing it to inflation beginning in 2027.

May 3, 2023Supports Labor Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Ethics Commission Reform Act, replacing the Joint Commission on Public Ethics with the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government.

April 9, 2022Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: ethics.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation moving many local elections to even-numbered years to increase participation and reduce administrative burdens.

December 22, 2023Supports Government Efficiency

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

As lieutenant governor, chaired New York's Regional Economic Development Councils and co-chaired state task forces on heroin and opioids, women's suffrage, and child-care availability.

August 23, 2021Supports Government Efficiency

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed more than $900 million in FY 2027 public-safety investment, including $77 million for New York City subway policing and $25 million for Subway Co-Response Outreach Teams pairing police with mental-health clinicians.

May 28, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2027 restrictions on 3D-printer acquisition by people prohibited from possessing firearms and criminal penalties for distributing ghost-gun blueprints, manufacturing 3D-printed firearms, and possessing easily converted pistols.

May 28, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Granted clemency to 13 people in August 2025, bringing her total grants to 107 while continuing a rolling review process supported by a clemency advisory panel.

August 15, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed municipal cybersecurity legislation establishing statewide incident-reporting requirements and measures to strengthen local-government cyber resilience.

June 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2026 public-safety legislation changing criminal-discovery rules and funding subway policing, hate-crime prevention, protections for transit workers and commuters, services addressing sexual and domestic violence, and corrections safety.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed more than $196 million in FY 2026 mental-health investments, including 100 new state psychiatric beds, stronger assisted-outpatient-treatment and involuntary-commitment standards, youth spaces, clubhouses, and street medicine and psychiatry.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed six gun-safety bills covering firearm-dealer warnings, pistol converters, credit-card merchant codes for gun sales, and other controls, while reporting a 47 percent decline in shooting incidents since taking office and more than 7,700 illegal guns seized.

October 9, 2024Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Clean Slate Act to seal eligible misdemeanors after three years and eligible felonies after eight years, subject to exclusions and continued access for law enforcement and specified employers.

November 16, 2023Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed more than $1.5 billion in FY 2026 housing investment, including infrastructure and mixed-income funds, housing-access vouchers, starter-home assistance, $1 billion for New York City's City of Yes plan, and added public-housing capital.

May 9, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Announced that the extended 421-a completion deadline enacted in the 2024 housing agreement would allow more than 71,000 New York City apartments, including 21,000 affordable units, to be built.

October 16, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation supporting people with disabilities through home-accessibility repair assistance, local property-tax exemptions, and expanded access to parking permits.

July 25, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Secured and announced a 2024 housing agreement creating the 485-x tax incentive, extending the 421-a completion deadline, enabling New York City conversions and density changes, funding housing on state land and other capital programs, and strengthening tenant, homeowner, and deed-theft protections.

April 22, 2024Supports Housing Affordability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the FY 2027 budget with $4.5 billion for child care and prekindergarten, including $1.7 billion in new investment, expansion projected to reach nearly 100,000 additional children, and a path to universal pre-K for four-year-olds by the 2028-29 school year.

May 28, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2027 food-security measures including $65 million in emergency food aid, $51 million for the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program, $55 million for Nourish New York, and funding for chip-enabled EBT cards and the PLATES fraud-prevention system.

May 28, 2026Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2026 legislation expanding New York's child tax credit to as much as $1,000 for children under four and $500 for children ages four through sixteen, covering about 1.6 million families.

May 9, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed universal free breakfast and lunch funding for New York schools, reaching about 2.7 million students, including approximately 280,000 newly eligible children.

May 9, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed New York's first inflation-refund program, distributing $2 billion to more than eight million taxpayers with payments of up to $400 for eligible joint filers.

May 9, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

As lieutenant governor, chaired New York's Regional Economic Development Councils and co-chaired state task forces on heroin and opioids, women's suffrage, and child-care availability.

August 23, 2021Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Received the New York State United Teachers endorsement for reelection as governor in 2026.

May 29, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: nysut.org · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the FY 2027 budget with $4.5 billion for child care and prekindergarten, including $1.7 billion in new investment, expansion projected to reach nearly 100,000 additional children, and a path to universal pre-K for four-year-olds by the 2028-29 school year.

May 28, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Jack Reid Law requiring nonpublic schools to maintain and enforce anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies.

November 7, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed a record $37.6 billion in school aid for the 2025-26 school year, including full funding of Foundation Aid and a $1.7 billion annual increase.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2026 legislation expanding the Empire AI public-research consortium, establishing safeguards for AI companion systems, and criminalizing AI-generated child sexual-abuse material.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed statewide bell-to-bell smartphone restrictions in K-12 schools with $13.5 million for implementation and New York's first statewide dual-enrollment policy with $61 million in support.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed universal free breakfast and lunch funding for New York schools, reaching about 2.7 million students, including approximately 280,000 newly eligible children.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Education Quality

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2027 restrictions on 3D-printer acquisition by people prohibited from possessing firearms and criminal penalties for distributing ghost-gun blueprints, manufacturing 3D-printed firearms, and possessing easily converted pistols.

May 28, 2026Supports Gun Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed six gun-safety bills covering firearm-dealer warnings, pistol converters, credit-card merchant codes for gun sales, and other controls, while reporting a 47 percent decline in shooting incidents since taking office and more than 7,700 illegal guns seized.

October 9, 2024Supports Gun Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed post-Bruen firearm restrictions covering sensitive locations, a default prohibition on concealed carry on private property without consent, eligibility and training standards, ammunition background checks, body armor, and safe storage.

July 1, 2022Supports Gun Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed a June 2022 gun-safety package raising the semiautomatic-rifle licensing age to 21, restricting body armor, expanding extreme-risk protection orders, advancing microstamping, closing a high-capacity-magazine loophole, and requiring social-media threat reporting.

June 6, 2022Supports Gun Control

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Received Eleanor's Legacy's endorsement for governor in the 2026 election.

September 12, 2026Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: eleanorslegacy.com · researched September 13, 2026

Signed $34.2 billion for Medicaid serving about seven million New Yorkers, codified federal emergency-care protections in state law, protected reproductive-health providers, and funded health-care capital and safety-net transformation.

May 9, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed a telehealth abortion shield law protecting New York providers who prescribe medication abortion to patients in states where abortion services are restricted.

June 23, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation expanding access to hormonal contraception through pharmacists and requiring SUNY and CUNY campuses to provide medication-abortion access.

May 2, 2023Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed a six-bill abortion and reproductive-health shield package protecting patients and providers from specified out-of-state legal actions and professional retaliation.

June 13, 2022Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed an FY 2027 state income-tax exemption for the first $25,000 in tips earned during 2026 by workers in qualifying occupations.

May 28, 2026Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2026 middle-class income-tax cuts projected to benefit more than 8.3 million New Yorkers and save taxpayers nearly $1 billion annually.

May 9, 2025Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed municipal cybersecurity legislation establishing statewide incident-reporting requirements and measures to strengthen local-government cyber resilience.

June 27, 2025Supports Data Privacy

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Received Eleanor's Legacy's endorsement for governor in the 2026 election.

September 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: eleanorslegacy.com · researched September 13, 2026

Received the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City's endorsement for governor in the 2026 general election.

September 12, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: sdnyc.org · researched September 13, 2026

Signed FY 2027 protections limiting state and local participation in federal civil immigration enforcement, restricting masked public-facing officers, barring 287(g) agreements, protecting nonpublic school and agency areas absent a judicial warrant, and affirming access to public education regardless of immigration status.

May 28, 2026Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Jack Reid Law requiring nonpublic schools to maintain and enforce anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies.

November 7, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Granted clemency to 13 people in August 2025, bringing her total grants to 107 while continuing a rolling review process supported by a clemency advisory panel.

August 15, 2025Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation supporting people with disabilities through home-accessibility repair assistance, local property-tax exemptions, and expanded access to parking permits.

July 25, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation moving many local elections to even-numbered years to increase participation and reduce administrative burdens.

December 22, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Clean Slate Act to seal eligible misdemeanors after three years and eligible felonies after eight years, subject to exclusions and continued access for law enforcement and specified employers.

November 16, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed a telehealth abortion shield law protecting New York providers who prescribe medication abortion to patients in states where abortion services are restricted.

June 23, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation moving New York's voter-registration deadline from 25 days before an election to the constitutional minimum of 10 days.

December 23, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed post-Bruen firearm restrictions covering sensitive locations, a default prohibition on concealed carry on private property without consent, eligibility and training standards, ammunition background checks, body armor, and safe storage.

July 1, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the New York John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, creating state protections against voter suppression, dilution, intimidation, deception, and obstruction.

June 20, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed a six-bill abortion and reproductive-health shield package protecting patients and providers from specified out-of-state legal actions and professional retaliation.

June 13, 2022Supports Civil Rights

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the FY 2027 budget creating a $1 billion POWER utility-bill rebate program and utility-rate reforms addressing hidden costs, executive compensation, affordability monitoring, and review of ratepayer-funded programs.

May 28, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed the Climate Change Superfund Act requiring major fossil-fuel companies to contribute to climate-adaptation costs and legislation broadening New York's carbon-dioxide fracking prohibition.

December 26, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed more than $1.5 billion in FY 2026 housing investment, including infrastructure and mixed-income funds, housing-access vouchers, starter-home assistance, $1 billion for New York City's City of Yes plan, and added public-housing capital.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed full funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's $68.4 billion 2025-29 capital plan and nearly $7 billion for the fourth year of the state Department of Transportation capital plan, including added road, bridge, and local-highway support.

May 9, 2025Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Signed legislation enabling Suffolk County voters to consider a dedicated clean-water funding mechanism for wastewater infrastructure and water-quality improvement.

May 23, 2024Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Qualified for the November 2026 general-election ballot for governor on the Democratic and Working Families lines with lieutenant-governor candidate Adrienne Adams.

September 4, 2026

Source: elections.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Became New York's 57th governor in August 2021 and the first woman to hold the office; voters elected her to a full term in 2022.

November 8, 2022

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026

Previously served on the Hamburg Town Board, as Erie County Clerk, and in the U.S. House representing New York's 26th Congressional District.

January 3, 2013

Source: governor.ny.gov · researched September 13, 2026