Joint Legislative Hearing on 2026 Exec. Budget Proposal: Higher Education - 02/24/2026

Joint Legislative Higher Education Budget Hearing (Assembly Ways and Means Committee & Senate Finance Committee) · February 25, 2026

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Opening, procedural rules, and introductions

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Chair opens the joint hearing of Assembly Ways & Means and Senate Finance; explains timing rules for witnesses and legislators, introduces chairs of committees and first witness (SUNY Chancellor John King Jr.).

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Joint fiscal committees (Assembly Ways and Means & Senate Finance) held a hearing in Albany on the governors 2026-27 executive budget proposals for higher education, focusing on SUNY and CUNY funding, capital needs, student aid (TAP/Reconnect), opportunity programs, and workforce/healthcare pipeline issues.

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