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Heastie elected speaker as Assembly organizes for 2025–26; rules, officers approved
Summary
The New York State Assembly elected Carl E. Heastie speaker for the 2025–26 term and adopted organizational resolutions including the chamber rules, the clerk, official stenographer and sergeant at arms during the 248th session's opening proceedings.
The New York State Assembly elected Carl E. Heastie speaker for the 2025–26 legislative term as members completed organizational business and adopted rules and housekeeping resolutions during the opening of the 248th session.
The vote formalized leadership and set the chamber's initial procedural framework for the coming two-year term. Heastie used his remarks after the election to outline affordability, health care and transit funding as early priorities for the majority.
Members of the assembly followed a party caucus nomination process that the majority reported had taken place on Dec. 9, 2024. Deborah J. Glick read the majority members' announcement that the Democratic caucus had nominated Carl E. Heastie for speaker. After a roll call in which members publicly named their choice, the presiding officer declared, “Having received a majority of the votes cast, I declare the honorable Carl E. Heastie to be duly elected speaker of the New York State Assembly for…
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