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Governor Kathy Hochul has a pile of homework (legislation) to get through that will affect everything from whether New Yorkers can die by medically-assisted suicide, to imposing regulations on artificial intelligence companies to prevent them from creating weapons.
Right now, the governor has 124 bills on her desk, her office told us this morning, meaning she has 10 days to sign them, veto them, or do nothing, and they become law. (Bills that aren't sent to the governor's desk by the end of the year that were passed by the legislature get one extra month of the new year before they expire.) It's a frantic time for lawmakers whose bills have already passed both the New York State Senate and Assembly, but whose legislative dreams still hang in the balance: Will they be blessed this week with the governor's penstroke, or will they die under her veto?