Key proposals Gov. Kathy Hochul outlined in her State of the State address

Gov. Kathy Hochul outlined her 2026 agenda in her State of the State address Tuesday. Here are some of the key proposals:

• Boost child care subsidies and access to prekindergarten.
• Accelerate home building, especially affordable housing.
• Cap state taxes on tips.
• Incorporate a "back to basics" plan for math instruction in schools.
• Freeze state college tuition.
• Increase social media and artificial intelligence protections for children and invest in peer-to-peer mental health training for teens.
• Prevent the sale of 3D printers that can make guns.
• Block in-state sales of "pistol converters" that allow some handguns to function essentially as automatic weapons.
• Redesign and overhaul the Jamaica transit station.
• Create state vaccination standards in light of federal rollbacks.
• Create 25-foot buffer zone around houses of worship or health care facilities to restrict protests.
• Establish a right to sue federal officers for constitutional violations, specifically referring to actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
• Dramatically advance New York's plans for building new nuclear power plants.
• Create new grounds to attack coastal erosion and mitigate floods.
• Greenlight a new downstate computer chip manufacturing facility. 
• Add electric vehicle charging stations.
• Require massive data centers to cover more of their share of state power costs.
• Coordinate a state trooper-led effort to crack down on crime rings that stage car accidents and commit automobile insurance fraud.
• Combat online deepfakes by requiring content generated by AI to include labeling about its origins and creation. Also, ban deepfakes involving candidates or issues in time periods leading up to an election.
• Mandate "persistent speeders" in New York City to have their vehicles equipped with devices that prevent them from driving more than a few miles over the speed limit.
• Prevent legitimate users of food benefit cards from being defrauded by upgrading the cards with microchips to block skimming by illegal users.