“As the new fiscal year begins and the Legislature passes its first late budget in years, it is disheartening to see that our House seems to have learned nothing from the crimes of last year. In 2015 we saw both Houses’ legislative leaders convicted...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) met with education officials in Albany in the wake of the Board of Regents elections yesterday. The Legislature confirmed the approval of nominated Board of Regents members for the first and fifth district,...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I- Gowanda) today stood with a bipartisan group of legislators and county and town highway superintendents to call on the governor and legislative leaders to increase CHIPs (consolidated highway improvement program) aid...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda), Chairman of the Minority Task Force on Heroin Addiction & Community Response, today joined Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I-Holbrook) to announce the release of “The Heroin Epidemic: A Report on Heroin Use, Treatment,...

“Today’s State of the State Address included a variety of topics on policy and budget affairs. As always, I am hopeful that after careful review of the governor’s proposals, we can work together to bring the people of New York the representation...

Editor’s note: Watch Assemblyman Giglio speak following today’s press conference here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfyHvyugkUQ& Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) joined Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C-Canandaigua) and...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) today announced that three local libraries in the 148th Assembly District have been awarded construction grants totaling about $142,000. The three libraries that will be receiving these grants are the Belfast...

“Correction officers statewide put their lives on the line every single day to ensure New York State prisons are safely run and monitored. In recent years, there has been a huge spike in inmate assaults on correction officers and on other inmates. It...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) today called on the Assembly leadership to bring Brittany’s Law to the floor of the Assembly for a vote. He has a petition on his New York State Assembly website allowing community members to sign and show...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) today supported legislation (Assembly Bill 7303-A) that corrects the botched language on teacher evaluations and standardized testing that was included in the recently adopted State budget passed by the Assembly...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,I,C-Gowanda) recently announced that his district office is now accepting applications from students wishing to apply for the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators’ scholarship program. This year,...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) yesterday sponsored an amendment to the Health and Mental Hygiene Article VII budget legislation that would have, if adopted, phased out the entire local county share of Medicaid over a five-year period. The...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) today announced that the state Assembly has passed legislation to protect women, children and victims of human sex trafficking. The Trafficking Victims Protection & Justice Act enhances what already are tough...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) announced that the state Assembly passed legislation that would make it easier, more efficient and less cumbersome for law enforcement, whether it be a police agency or a District Attorney investigator, to...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) today joined his Assembly colleagues and highway superintendents from Cattaraugus and Allegany counties at a press conference to call on Gov. Cuomo to increase funding for local roads, bridges and infrastructure...

“I extend my sincere congratulations to my colleague, Carl Heastie, on his election to be the Speaker of the New York State Assembly. On this historic occasion of electing a new speaker after 21 plus years of rule under the previous leadership, the...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) is hosting the 10th Annual Holiday Open House at his Olean district office for residents of the Southern Tier. Giglio will be accepting new, unwrapped toys for the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program....

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,C,I-Gowanda) today announced that four local libraries in the 148th Assembly District have been awarded grants totaling about $39,000. The four libraries that will be receiving these grants are Colonial Library, Richburg,...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,I,C-Gowanda) is reminding residents that the last day to send applications for students wishing to apply for the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators’ scholarship program is this Friday, May 2. The...

Assemblyman Joseph M. Giglio (R,I,C-Gowanda) recently announced that his district office is now accepting applications for students wishing to apply for the New York Conference of Italian-American State Legislators’ scholarship program. Each year, the...