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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 in Dying Bill, which we did a segment on a few weeks ago to allow that choice with medical assistance for certain terminal legal 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 and we'll also touch on a law they already passed that's now being challenged in court, the one to

change local election voting in much of the state to even-numbered years, so the local elections coincide with a higher turnout

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