It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

They're in the home stretch in Albany now toward the end of the 2024 state legislature session.

The end is in June each year, and they don't come

back until January, except for special circumstances, and there are a number of major and

interesting issues still in play. For example, there's a bill that could pass that would

prohibit social media companies from using their algorithms on users under the age of 18

and prohibit them from selling those same users data. Also, the New York Heat Act, we've

covered that in our climate story of the week, to cap heating bills for low-income New Yorkers

and advance the transition to climate-friendly energy sources and away from fossil fuels.

There's another environmental bill that would limit single-use plastic packaging.

There's the aid and dying bill, which we did a segment on a few weeks ago, to allow that choice with medical assistance for certain terminally ill people.

There's a bill to allow incarcerated

people to vote. And there's a measure that would designate land near city field in Queens as

eligible for a casino, which the Mets owner, Steve Cohen, is said to want to build there. The

prospects for that bill took a hit the other day when Senator

Jessica Ramos, who represents the area, came out against it. After three town halls, a poll, a

survey, and I can't tell you how many conversations I've had around the district, I've concluded

that the vast majority of our neighbors would not

welcome a casino in our backyard.

State Senator Jessica Ramos, and that's not even the whole list of things the state might enact

in just the next few days before adjourning for the year.

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