Nick Reisman reports for New York State of Politics that in Albany, state lawmakers have a good-government rule mandating that the public gets three days to see the language in any bill before a vote. But New York also has another rule, where the governor can create a "message of necessity" to get around the three-day rule. This year, Gov. Kathy Hochul has issued 19 messages of necessity, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group. That is the most since then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued 29 in 2011. Hochul used the maneuver to speed along the passage of the state budget, a now-stalled authorization of the Seneca Gaming Compact and several labor agreements. With Democrats in control in Albany, Republicans opposed messages of necessity, and have proposed a constitutional amendment to limit the use of messages of necessity for the 10 budget bills lawmakers must consider each year. But when Republican George Pataki was governor in the 1990s he issued all sorts of messages of necessity, with 144 in 1996. Read more about this story in New York State of Politics.