NYCuriosity Data Fiscal Impacts Tracker

Fiscal Overview

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Fiscal Impacts Tracker

What Council legislation costs the city

Council bills and resolutions whose fiscal impact statement put a price on them: every local law enacted since 2014, plus pending bills from 2026 (Legistar's search does not reach earlier pending bills). Each bill counts once, at its annual cost in a year of full implementation; pilots count over the years their statement prices.

423 bills with a fiscal estimate
$4.6B combined annual operating cost
$555.5M combined annual revenue
24 bills that raise revenue

Not counted in the annual figures: 17 bills whose statement prices the whole life of a program or plan, totalling $1.2B in cost and $60.5M in revenue over their full runs. The largest: Int 1557-2019 ($744.2M), Int 0692-2026 ($324.9M), Int 0449-2014 ($42.0M). Capital spending is also kept separate because it is a one-time outlay: 16 bills carry $1.8B in capital, the largest Int 1557-2019 ($997.1M), Int 0353-2024 ($605.0M), Int 0401-2018 ($54.0M).

The figures above cover the 423 enacted laws and adopted resolutions. Across all 481 bills with a statement, 423 are enacted or adopted, 6 passed the Council and await the mayor's signature, 35 are still moving through the Council, 0 lapsed or failed, and 17 older records have no matched Legistar page.

Department of Social Services is attached to $3.6B in annual operating costs, more than any other agency

Annual operating cost of bills by the agency responsible, top 12. A bill with several agencies counts toward each.

DSS
$3.6B
HRA
$3.3B
HPD
$154.1M
DOF
$150.1M
DSNY
$137.2M
NYCERS
$79.6M
DHS
$58.1M
DOB
$39.9M
DCAS
$30.5M
DCWP
$23.3M
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Cabán sponsored bills with the largest combined annual operating cost: $3.3B

Combined annual operating cost of bills by prime sponsor, top 10.

Cabán
$3.3B
Levin
$302.7M
Sanchez
$129.8M
Brewer
$110.7M
Hudson
$95.7M
Adams
$61.7M
Garodnick
$47.4M
Brannan
$41.4M
Moya
$40.0M
Matteo
$36.6M
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Bills from 2022 carry the largest combined annual operating cost: $3.4B

Combined annual operating cost by the year the bill was introduced.

$3M
'10
$43M
'14
$69M
'15
$61M
'16
$14M
'17
$359M
'18
$55M
'19
$112M
'20
$27M
'21
$3.4B
'22
$8M
'23
$186M
'24
$32M
'25
$248M
'26
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392 of 423 bills cost the city money; 24 raise revenue

Bills by the sign of their net fiscal impact. 4 bills share a package statement counted once on another bill and carry no figure of their own.

Cost the city
392
Raise revenue
24
Net zero
3
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Source: Author's analysis of NYC Council fiscal impact statements from NYC Legistar, extracted and structured by NYCuriosity.