Overview
- The Assembly passed the Education, Labor and Family Assistance bill by 110-34 on May 20, marking the first substantive budget vote after a late May 7 “general agreement.”
- The printed ELFA text guarantees a baseline 2% Foundation Aid boost for all districts and grants New York City a two‑year extension of mayoral control over schools.
- The bill lets Mayor Zohran Mamdani disband charter review commissions created by prior mayors and delays the zero‑emission school‑bus mandate for five years.
- Gov. Hochul’s office has updated the budget topline to roughly $268.5 billion while reports say negotiators are still haggling over major pension changes that could shift costs onto local governments.
- Most of the remaining budget bills and the final appropriations are still unprinted or unresolved, leaving the fate of a remedy for roughly 450,000 New Yorkers losing Essential Plan coverage and other key tradeoffs to be decided after the Memorial Day recess.