The legislation has support from the vast majority of WNY Democrat and Republican lawmakers. Author: Leanne Stuck Updated: 5:06 PM EST March 4, 2021
NEW YORK New York State lawmakers announced Tuesday, they will pass a bill to partially repeal Gov. Andrew Cuomo s executive order powers.
The governor was granted temporary emergency powers by the state legislature in March of 2020 to respond to the pandemic, since then he has implemented dozens of executive orders. Those executive powers were set to expire at the end of April, this legislation would end them immediately. There is a bill that will be coming out later today or sometime tomorrow that would repeal those executive powers, keep in place any directives that have already been advised and once those directives expire then that expires as well, said NYS Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes.
PUBLISHED 8:07 PM ET Mar. 02, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:07 PM EST Mar. 02, 2021
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State lawmakers in both houses have finally reached an agreement to repeal Governor Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers granted to him at the height of the pandemic last year.
Coronavirus cases were mounting quickly across the state, hospitals were filling up, and decisions needed to be made immediately. But now, the state’s infection rate has crept back down, and the governor is facing a backlash for the controversy surrounding nursing home resident deaths, as well as sexual harassment allegations by three women in less than a week.
Although the legislature will be moving forward with limiting the governor’s emergency powers, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say Cuomo still needs to resign.
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