Episode 1785: Assisted Suicide Defeated at the Statehouse

Thank you for joining this week’s episode of the Albany Update.

By the time you listen to this program, the 2023 legislative session will have concluded (sort of). It’s been numerous late nights and early mornings. Mercifully, the State Legislature is no longer in Albany and unable to pass anymore legislation than the hundreds of bills it moved in just the final days of session. (Although there is the expectation that the State Assembly will return to the Capitol perhaps as soon as June 20, 2023 to address some unfinished business.) Now that legislators have exited the statehouse our office will begin the work of analyzing the results of this year’s session. While there are many bad bills that cleared the Legislature this year, there is one that didn’t. In today’s program, we’ll tell you about the defeat of assisted suicide legislation.

Let’s get started.