Richard Brodsky, a 14-term Democratic assemblyman from Westchester, representing the Lower Hudson Valley from 1983 to 2010, died April 8, at his home in Greenburgh, NY. He was 73.

Mr. Brodsky was a champion of the environment, a critic of safety precautions at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, and a supporter of universal Internet access. As chairman of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, he established an independent authorities budget office, which required greater transparency of agencies that had been operating largely independent of state government, such as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the New York State Thruway Authority, the Long Island Power Authority, and other agencies, and subjected them to greater oversight. “This is the most fundamental reform of state government in decades, and it’s a blueprint for further reform of state government,” he told The New York Times.

Mr. Brodsky ran for state attorney General in 2006, but abandoned his campaign to donate a kidney to one of his daughters. In 2010, he gave up his Assembly seat to seek the Democratic nomination to succeed Andrew M. Cuomo as attorney general, but lost the primary to Eric Schneiderman.