With the year winding down, Gov. Kathy Hochul has begun working her way through hundreds of bills approved by state lawmakers during the legislative session. In all, both chambers approved 856 bills, more than half of which Hochul has already acted on. She now has 347 bills to either sign or veto before the end of the year.

The governor technically has 10 days, minus Sundays, to act on legislation delivered to her by the Legislature. Otherwise, it automatically becomes law. But that rarely happens, as legislative leaders generally wait to deliver a bill to the governor until she is ready to act on it and calls it up. Any bills Hochul doesn’t act on before the end of the year get another month at the start of the new year. If the governor still hasn’t acted on them when that month is up, t

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