Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Albany, Erie and Niagara counties.

The Legislature is in session in Albany. A long-awaited debate and vote is expected this afternoon in the Assembly on a bill that would lift New York’s last-in-the-nation ban on MMA.

At 8:30 a.m., state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli hosts a breakfast reception, The University Club, 141 Washington Ave., Albany.

At 10:30 a.m., Cuomo makes an announcement, Conventus Center for Collaborative Medicine, 1001 Main St., Buffalo. (LG Kathy Hochul will also attend).

At 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton will host a press conference to discuss public safety, 1 Police Plaza, Manhattan.

At noon, Cuomo makes an announcement, The Niagara Falls Conference & Event Center, 101 Old Falls St., Niagara Falls.

Also at noon, over 100 parents and students from New York City charter schools will call for equitable funding to all of New York’s public schools, Million Dollar Staircase, state Capitol, Albany.

Also at noon, Sen. James Sanders Jr., holds a press conference calling for minimum wage to apply to all workers, Legislative Office Building, Room 130, Albany.

Also at noon, graduates of the NYU School of Engineering Veteran Entrepreneur Training Program (VET) showcase their work to the NYC entrepreneurship community at a public showcase, Lowenstein Sandler PC, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 1 p.m., advocates call on Cuomo and the Legislature to invest $70 million in the plan to end AIDS/HIV, LCA Press Room (130), LOB, Albany.

At 1:30 p.m., the NYC Council has a stated meeting, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

At 6 p.m., NYC First Lady McCray will host a Town Hall with community leaders in Washington Heights to discuss mental health, Alianza Triangle Building, 530 West 166th St., Manhattan.

At 7 p.m., de Blasio delivers remarks at CHCF’s 16th Annual Gala, Capitale, 130 Bowery, Manhattan.

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The governor’s public schedules much information about what he’s actually doing, day to day, or are issued late, making it difficult for reporters, members of the public and/or elected officials to attend.

The April 1 budget deadline is looming, could an early deal , a result in part of the early Easter holiday?

that DraftKings and FanDuel reached with AG Eric Schneiderman’s office in legal strategy over the fate of daily fantasy sports, which experts say could better set the companies up to lobby lawmakers to clearly legalize the contests.

One lawmaker said the agreement that lawamkers could authorize — and tax — online daily fantasy sports games as part of the upcoming state budget.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Niagara Falls today as part of an announcement concerning the future of the northern section of the Robert Moses Parkway. The new is expected to focus on longstanding plans to remove all four lanes of the northern parkway section from Main Street to Findlay Drive.

Newly elected Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, of the Bronx, for parents: You have the right to opt your children out of state assessments. As a parent, Rosa said, and if she were not a Regent, she would choose that option.

The election of Rosa, a former New York City principal and superintendent, to replace outgoing Chancellor Merryl Tisch in the state’s education policies after dramatic protests by parents.

The its legislative and state budget agenda for the upcoming fiscal year, placing among its priorities raising the minimum wage to $15, enacting paid family leave, passing the Dream Act and opposing cuts to CUNY and Medicaid funding.

New York its ban on professional mixed martial arts, the last state to prohibit the combat sport.

The Buffalo school district a high school principal, Casey Young, accused of manipulating graduation rates.

Nassau District Attorney the County Legislature’s Republican majority to drop their resistance to an independent office to vet county contracts, saying prosecutions alone aren’t enough of a safeguard.

Martin Babinec, 61, a entrepreneur from of Little Falls, a third-party campaign for the NY-22 seat that Rep. Richard Hanna will leave when he retires at the end of the year. He says he has received support from the Independence Party. Three Republicans and two Democrats are seeking their respective parties’ designation for the open House seat.

The NYC health committee on smokeless tobacco in baseball stadiums, sending the bill on to a vote by the full Council today.

Suffolk Sheriff Vincent DeMarco at the theft and fraud trial of Conservative Party leader Edward Walsh that the former sheriff’s lieutenant had no reason to be working outside the county jail, except for two occasions over an eight-year period.

An inmate earlier this month, according the state department of corrections. The official cause of death has yet to be determined.

The Kansas House “anti-Bloomberg” legislation to prohibit cities and counties from regulating the nutritional content of food sold in restaurants, vending machines or other retail establishments.

A sexy moving-company ad that was banned by the MTA last year for the streets of Brooklyn as well. Members of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community have gone as far as painting over a box truck from the Dumbo Moving and Storage Co. to cover up an ad.

Hana Japanese Steak House in Guilderland possible legal action after the manager refused to seat a blind customer because she was accompanied by a service dog.

A regulation proposed by the NYC Finance Department property-taxpayers retroactive refunds due to incorrect abatements and assessments only from the date when the error is discovered, not from the when it occurred.

NYC Health Hospitals, formerly the Health and Hospitals Corp., a $1.2 billion deficit next year, which will be exacerbated by federal cuts of $300 million in 2017 and $460 million per year through 2025.

The Town of North Hempstead its Aa1 rating from Moody’s Investors Service and has also received an upgrade in its financial outlook.

The story of the man who robbed Rochester’s Brink’s depot of $7.4 million a Hollywood treatment. The Hollywood Reporter says that the film-making company Focus Features “has picked up” the rights to Sam Millar’s memoir, On The Brinks.

Cooperstown School Superintendent Clifton J. (C.J.) Hebert, who died in an ATV accident Sunday, was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, New York State .