Denis Slattery

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Westchester) said Wednesday she is hopeful that negotiations are nearing the “beginning of the end” stage as the process has been hampered by complicated and controversial policy items including changes to the state’s bail laws and housing-related proposals.

The $3 billion stopgap measure will keep government operations funded and state workers paid through the weekend as the policy-packed state spending plan, already nearly three weeks late, is not expected to be finalized until next week at the earliest.

The future of some 50 active investigations and enforcement activities up in the air, a spokesperson for Gov. Hochul told the Daily News. And the employment status of the commission's 60 employees — including 40 sworn law enforcement officers — is also in question.

Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, elevated to the state’s top judicial post last week after Gov. Hochul’s initial pick was rejected by Senate Democrats earlier this year, will now oversee and set the tone for the state’s sprawling court system.

“State legislators invoked Kalief’s name to pass these reforms. And Darcel Clark, now the DA in the Bronx, has come to repeal and take away these laws passed in my brother’s name,” Akeem Browder said Tuesday at City Hall.

Instead of 100-plus new charter schools in NYC that Hochul proposed in February, an agreement hammered out with state lawmakers would cut that number to 14 schools, sources said Thursday.

A pair of bills announced on Thursday could strengthen protections and remedies for victims by establishing deed theft as a crime and bolstering the attorney general’s ability to prosecute con artists who often target older New Yorkers or homeowners in minority neighborhoods.

She and state legislative leaders reached a compromise granting judges greater leeway to set bail in violent felony cases by removing a requirement they impose the 'least restrictive means.'

The $229 billion deal struck with legislative leaders, nearly a month past the state’s fiscal deadline, will remove a requirement that judges choose the “least restrictive” means to ensure defendants return to court.

Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders reached a “conceptual” agreement on a budget framework that includes $1 billion to assist with the city’s migrant crisis, a free bus pilot program in the five boroughs and plenty more for the Big Apple.