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.

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The tracker at a glance

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

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

DSS

$3.6B

HRA

$3.3B

DCAS

$635.5M

DOT

$454.3M

NYCPS

$366.4M

DOF

$305.0M

HPD

$252.0M

DSNY

$157.8M

NYCERS

$118.2M

DOHMH

$76.1M

NYCuriosity Fiscal Impacts Tracker

Bills from 2022 carry the largest combined annual cost: $3.4B

Combined annual cost by the year the bill was introduced.

$3M

'10

$127M

'14

$70M

'15

$66M

'16

$14M

'17

$464M

'18

$405M

'19

$119M

'20

$27M

'21

$3.4B

'22

$43M

'23

$861M

'24

$36M

'25

$871M

'26

NYCuriosity Fiscal Impacts Tracker

443 of 470 bills cost the city money; 24 raise revenue

Bills by the sign of their net fiscal impact.

Cost the city

443

Raise revenue

Net zero

NYCuriosity Fiscal Impacts Tracker

Source: Author's analysis of NYC Council fiscal impact statements from NYC Legistar, extracted and structured by NYCuriosity.

What Council legislation costs the city

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

Cabán sponsored bills with the largest combined annual cost: $3.3B

Bills from 2022 carry the largest combined annual cost: $3.4B

443 of 470 bills cost the city money; 24 raise revenue