The Flagship Tracker
Promises
A public record of Governor Kathy Hochul’s commitments — what was promised, what has happened, and the evidence for each verdict. Every status is documented and sourced.
Topic
All Commitments
56 Promises
- Eliminate state income tax on tips up to $25,000Economy/Affordabilityexecutive budgetUpdated Jul 4, 2026Kept
- Provide a rent freeze for seniors and people with disabilities and expand the SLIHC tax creditHousingstate of stateUpdated Jul 4, 2026Kept
- Ban gas hookups in most new buildings (All-Electric Buildings Act)ClimateotherUpdated Jul 4, 2026In Progress
- Enact Good Cause eviction protections for tenantsHousingexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Support NYC City of Yes rezoning with $1B in state infrastructureHousingotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Launch a Pro-Housing Communities incentive programHousingotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Lift NYC density caps and allow commercial-to-residential conversionsHousingexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- "Let Them Build": reform SEQRA to speed housing and infrastructureHousingstate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Send inflation refund checks to New York householdsEconomy/Affordabilityexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Cut middle-class income taxes to their lowest rates in decadesEconomy/Affordabilityexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Expand the Child Tax Credit up to $1,000 per childEconomy/Affordabilityexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Provide universal free school meals to all studentsEducationexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Suspend the state gas tax to ease pricesEconomy/Affordabilitycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Deliver a Homeowner Tax Rebate CreditEconomy/Affordabilityexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Deploy the National Guard and surge personnel to the subwaysPublic SafetyotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Install security cameras in 100% of subway carsPublic SafetyotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Expand SCOUT subway mental-health co-response teamsMental Healthstate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Roll back the bail-reform "least restrictive" standardPublic Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Narrow the 2019 discovery (evidence-sharing) reformPublic Safetyexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Enact a post-Bruen concealed-carry and sensitive-locations lawGun Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Raise the age to 21 and require a license to buy semiautomatic riflesGun Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Strengthen restrictions on body-armor salesGun Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Expand New York's red-flag (ERPO) lawGun Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Convene an interstate task force on illegal gunsGun Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Require microstamping-enabled pistolsGun Safetycampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Implement MTA congestion pricing to fund the capital planTransitotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Indefinitely pause congestion pricing (June 2024 pledge)TransitotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Reversed
- Build the Interborough Express (IBX) Brooklyn-Queens light railTransitotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Advance Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 in East HarlemTransitotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Install subway platform-edge barriers at 100+ stationsPublic Safetystate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Lead a $7B Penn Station redevelopment with a $1B state pledgeTransitotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Reversed
- Hit CLCPA goals: 70% renewable electricity and a 40% emissions cut by 2030Climateexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Broken
- Launch a cap-and-invest carbon-pricing programClimateotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Stalled
- Require zero-emission school buses (2027 sales, 2035 fleet)ClimateotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Pass the $4.2B Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond ActClimateexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Build out offshore wind (Empire/Sunrise Wind)ClimateotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Overhaul mental health with a $1B plan (1,000 psych beds, 3,500 housing units)Mental Healthexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Reopen 850 offline psychiatric beds and add 150 new state bedsMental HealthotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Strengthen involuntary commitment and Kendra's LawMental Healthexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Expand school-based mental health clinicsMental Healthexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Pay $1.2B in health-care worker bonuses and grow the workforce 20%Healthcareexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Enact first-in-nation paid prenatal leaveHealthcareotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Extend postpartum Medicaid to one year and cover doula careHealthcarestate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Create New York's first Master Plan for AgingHealthcarecampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Fully fund Foundation Aid for all school districtsEducationexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Enact a statewide bell-to-bell school smartphone restrictionEducationstate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Rebuild the teacher workforce and accelerate certificationEducationstate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Create a SUNY/CUNY endowment matching fund and add capitalEducationexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Pass a Housing Compact to build 800,000 homes in 10 years via local zoning targets and a state overrideHousingstate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026Broken
- Replace JCOPE with an independent ethics commissionGovernment Reformcampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Implement public financing of elections with small-donor matchingGovernment Reformcampaign 2022Updated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Pass the SAFE for Kids Act to restrict addictive social-media feeds for minorsGovernment ReformotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Require mental-health warning labels on social mediaMental HealthotherUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept
- Deliver universal pre-K and universal child careEducationstate of stateUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Deliver a $25B, five-year plan to create or preserve 100,000 affordable homesHousingexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026In Progress
- Replace the expired 421-a tax break with an affordability-linked successorHousingexecutive budgetUpdated Jun 29, 2026Kept