The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last -
minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.
A debate over a massive education, labor and
ethics bill lasted for more than six hours in the chamber on Tuesday and Assembly Republicans called a conference on a capital projects spending
bill at 10
minutes to midnight.