The NY budget agreement includes the ban on school mobile phones and public security changes

Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday the framework of a state budgetary agreement of approximately $ 254 billion, ending a one -month dead end on the public security problems that the governor had insisted to include in the budgetary plan.

The budgetary agreement, which will now go to the Legislative Assembly for a full vote, includes changes to facilitate the abolition of people in psychiatric crisis in public spaces and softens the so -called discovery requirements on how prosecutors put evidence to criminal defendants in the preliminary phase.

Ms. Hochul also managed to deal with a day’s ban on students with mobile phones in schools. But another of the governor’s political priorities concerning the restriction of masks wear has been reduced by legislators to fear that it will be applied in a selectively and breaking the civil liberties of people.

“We worked on really difficult problems,” said Hochul at a press conference on Monday afternoon. “We refused to be attracted to the toxic policy and divider of the moment.” Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the majority leader, and Carl E. Heastie, the president of the Assembly, were not present at the announcement.

Changes related to criminal justice and mental health were the main priorities of Mayor Eric Adams and the District Prosecutors of New York, which appeared several times with Ms. Hochul to put pressure on proposals. It has clearly made it priorities, frustrating the legislators who have been forced to spend several so-called extensible budgetary to maintain the government on the start of the deadline of April 1.

Ms. Hochul did not provide a lot of details on what would be exactly modified and to what extent, saying that her aid would close the final details with the legislative leaders in the coming days.