Albany Update: Photo Inspection Dropped from Legislative Budgets, Anti-Fraud Bill Advances
This week, the Senate and Assembly released their “one-house" budget proposals, which are a statement of each house's priorities for the state budget. Both the Senate and Assembly rejected virtually all the Governor's policy proposals, including legislation to allow carriers to waive photo inspections for the next four years. This means it is unlikely, but not impossible, that photo inspection reform will be adopted as part of the final state budget. While disappointing, this outcome was not entirely unexpected. In recent years, the state legislature has increasingly pushed back on the inclusion of legislative policy in the budget, preferring to address only matters with a direct…