New York Lawmakers Aim to Curb Cuomo Powers Over Nursing Home Issue
- Senate seeks to curtail authority prompted by pandemic
- ‘Symbolic’ proposal could be voted on as early as next week
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New York lawmakers will seek to curb the sweeping emergency powers afforded to Governor Andrew Cuomo in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic after backlash widened over how his administration handled nursing-home deaths.
Democratic leaders in the state Senate said late Wednesday that they plan to put out a proposal that would curtail some of Cuomo’s powers ahead of a planned April 30 expiration of the law, which was passed last March and gives Cuomo a blank check to issue by executive order any directive necessary to respond to the health emergency. The state enacted the law just as the state’s second confirmed Covid case was reported in Westchester last March.