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The New York state\u2019s budget was very late, again. But what often gets lost in the budget whirlwind are the legislature\u2019s policy priorities that the governor\u2019s budget squeezes out of the legislative calendar \u2013 like banning the \u201cexcited delirium\u201d diagnosis.<\/p>\n

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By law, New York\u2019s annual budget is due on March 31st. After that, legislators stop getting paid. There is some history of the budget being a bit late. Between 2020 and 2022, the budget was consistently about a week late.<\/p>\n

That timeline has gotten longer and longer: In 2023, the budget was not signed until May 2.\u00a0 In 2024, it was April 20. In 2025, it was May 8. This year, it was May 27.<\/p>\n

The state legislative calendar traditionally runs through the second week of June, and most state legislative policy is passed between the budget and that date. Most legislation cannot move forward until the budget passes, so the longer it takes to pass the budget, the less time there is for other legislation. This means less time for the legislature to solve New Yorkers\u2019 problems.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the problem of the false medical diagnosis known as \u201cexcited delirium.\u201d Last year, we wrote about how the term \u201cexcited delirium,\u201d while not a diagnosis accepted by any major medical association, has served both as a justification for excessive force and as an alternative cause of death exculpating law enforcement when they kill. Based on racist pseudoscience from the 1980s, individuals killed by law enforcement and first responders \u2013 like Daniel Prude and Elijah McClain \u2013 are often diagnosed with \u201cexcited delirium,\u201d a made-up state in which an individual gains superhuman strength, loses the ability to feel pain, and may spontaneously drop dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When they are faced with an individual they believe is experiencing \u201cexcited delirium,\u201d law enforcement officers are trained that they must rely on more force than usual (in order to overcome the individual\u2019s supposed superhuman strength and immunity to pain) and are not held liable if the individual dies (the cause of death, after all, is attributed to the \u201cexcited delirium\u201d \u2013 not the police brutality).\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is widespread consensus that this term should be abolished \u2013 both from major medical associations and within the state legislature. Last year, we worked together to advance a bill banning the diagnosis, but the bill died on the Assembly floor because there was not enough time post-budget to pass all the important legislation New Yorkers needed.<\/p>\n

We are at risk of that happening again this year. As of today, there are only a few days until the state\u2019s legislative session concludes for the year, leaving little time for priorities like banning the \u201cexcited delirium\u201d diagnosis \u2013 which would leave another six months for Black and brown New Yorkers to be brutalized without consequence before the bill could be reintroduced in 2027. With broad support from the state Legislature and the medical community, this commonsense reform must be a priority of the 2025-2026 legislature.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Assembly has important policy work to do, and budget games have become a distraction from our ability to do our job. Now that we\u2019ve finally passed the budget, we can move on to other meaningful legislation \u2013 and eliminating \u201cexcited delirium\u201d should be at the top of the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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