Climate Change
Representatives Paul Tonko of the Albany area and Mondaire Jones of the downstate area co-sponsored a bill that extends tax credits for electric (blank). Fun fact: Jones was one of the two first openly gay Black members of Congress.
What are cars?
In 2023 New York expanded voting by allowing any registered voter to do this (Hint: types of voting.)
What is vote by mail?
The Green Light Law, enacted in 2019, allows all New Yorkers age 16 and up to apply for this regardless of their citizenship.
What is a driver’s license/permit?
This international coffee chain first unionized in Buffalo, NY.
What is Starbucks?
According to Local Law 97 of 2019, this major city requires most buildings over 25,000 square feet to meet new, strict greenhouse gas emissions limits coming into effect in 2030.
What is New York City?
In 2021, this governor of NYS signed legislation automatically restoring voting rights for all New Yorkers who are not in prison.
Who is Andrew Cuomo?
In 2023, an Assemblywoman in NYS, Jenifer Rajkumar, introduced legislation allowing anyone who has applied for asylum to have permits/authorization to do what in NYS?
What is work?
Earlier this month, the “Housing Unhoused Disabled Veterans Act”, which expands accessibility for rental assistance and work for veterans, passed in the House, meaning it now goes onto this chamber.
What is Senate?
On March 1, 2020, NYS began prohibiting the distribution of these for environmental purposes (hint: think grocery stores).
What are plastic bags/plastic carryout bags?
New York State allows its college students to register to vote in one of these two places.
What is hometown or college town?
In the context of immigration, Rochester is this type of city, which limits information shared or cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Hint: this topic has come up often in recent weeks.
What is a sanctuary city?
On January 1, 2025, NYS became the first state in the nation to offer paid time off for this (hint—babies).
What is prenatal care/medical care for pregnancy?
In 2022, New Yorkers voted to issue $4.2 billion in bonds for projects related to the environment, natural resources, water infrastructure, and climate change migration by this type of question on a ballot.
What is referendum, ballot measure or plebiscite?
This local congressman visited Brockport’s campus just last week, discussing "The 10 Commandments of Leadership".
Who is Howard Maffucci?
NYS was the first in the nation to provide this to support the refugee integration, as a response to the federal government’s retreat from refugee resettlement.
What is funding?
A bill was passed at the federal level in 2014 that is designed to combat the sexual trafficking of children. The U.S. Representative who co-sponsored the bill was Louise Slaughter from Monroe County, NY, who held this title.
What is a U.S. Representative?
In the 2023-2024 legislative session, A Monroe County Senator, Samra Brouk, co-sponsored expanding the (blank) donation and (blank) scraps recycling program, which seeks to decrease methane emissions and also provide New Yorkers with a survival necessity.
What is food?
This NYS congresswoman for the 21st district (upstate NY) has been nominated by President Trump to serve as U.N. ambassador.
Who is Elise Stefanik?
The NYS DREAM act gives this set of students access to NYS administered student financial aid to support higher education costs. The DREAM act was introduced by Senator Jose R. Peralta, the first Dominican-American elected to the NYS Senate in the Queens neighborhood of district 13.
What is undocumented?
In January 2017, this demonstration for equal rights that started in the USA as a result of a Facebook post by a grandmother in Hawaii expanded to 84 other countries.
What is the Women's March?