State Senator O’Mara on 2023 Priorities in Albany and Committee Assignments

State Senator Tom O’Mara has received several key committee assignments at the start of the 2023 legislative session on committees that will impact the direction of state fiscal policies as well as criminal justice and law enforcement, energy and broadband development, regulatory reform, and government investigations and oversight. O’Mara said making New York more affordable for New Yorkers is at the top of his list of priorities for the coming year.

 

O’Mara says manufacturing holds the key to New York’s economy.

 

O’Mara was recently reappointed as the top Republican member on the Senate Finance Committee, the committee most responsible for overseeing the adoption of the state’s annual budget and setting the course for New York’s short- and long-term fiscal practices and responsibilities.

O’Mara has also been reappointed as the Ranking Member on the Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee. He was first named as the top Republican member on the Investigations Committee in July of 2020, as the Senate and Assembly were preparing to begin public hearings that August on the COVID-19 nursing home crisis. Significant questions were raised, and continued to be raised, over the former Cuomo administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State’s nursing homes.

The future of state energy policies will remain under the spotlight in 2023 as the Hochul administration moves forward on what many, including O’Mara, consider a radical remaking of New York’s energy future, and O’Mara will serve as a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Telecommunications. He noted that the committee also plays a prominent role in the development of legislation and initiatives to advance broadband expansion, an issue that he has long advocated as critical to the future of Upstate, rural regions.

Additionally, O’Mara has earned appointments to two of the key committees governing the areas of criminal justice and law enforcement, the Codes Committee, and the Judiciary Committee.