Regular Session - May 29, 2024
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1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE
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4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD
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9 ALBANY, NEW YORK
10 May 29, 2024
11 4:00 p.m.
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 SENATOR SHELLEY B. MAYER, Acting President
19 ALEJANDRA N. PAULINO, ESQ., Secretary
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The Senate
3 will come to order.
4 I ask everyone to please rise and
5 recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
6 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited
7 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Reverend
9 Theresa Dudley-Gaskin, pastor at Eternal Love
10 Baptist Church in Corona, Queens, will deliver
11 today's invocation.
12 REVEREND DUDLEY-GASKIN: Let us
13 pray.
14 Almighty God, we come in this hour
15 giving Your name all the praise, all the glory,
16 Lord God, and all the honor. We come this
17 afternoon, Lord God, believing, Lord God, for
18 Your guidance and Your blessing upon this
19 United States Senate. We ask You, Lord, to bless
20 the men and women of God that You have allowed to
21 come here today. But Lord God, that You would
22 endow them with wisdom, knowledge, and
23 understanding.
24 We come, Lord God, believing in Your
25 word that says trust in You, who will guide and
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1 direct. We ask now, Lord God, that their leader
2 would be led by the power of who You are. We
3 pray now, Lord God, as the word of the Lord says
4 that we will make every effort to do those
5 things, O God, which bring strength to this
6 nation.
7 Let this body of believers, O God,
8 come together as one body, knowing and believing,
9 Lord God, that all things can work together for
10 You, God, who will give them the wisdom, the
11 knowledge, Lord, and the understanding.
12 We ask You now, Lord God, to cover
13 and protect their families that, Lord God, no
14 hurt, harm or danger shall come upon them.
15 And now, Lord, as we come in a time
16 where we know that there's so much division,
17 Lord God, so many things that are going on among
18 us, that, Lord, we come asking that now that the
19 bond of peace will be upon us. Lord God, I pray
20 again, let them make every effort to keep the
21 bond of peace.
22 And, Lord God, where there is lack
23 of understanding, God, I pray that You give them
24 the wisdom, understanding and the power to know.
25 And God, when they cannot agree, we pray, Lord,
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1 that there will be a pause and that, Lord, they
2 would not be anxious for anything, for they will
3 continue to do all things, O God, through You who
4 will give them the power to do what is right and
5 what is just.
6 And now, Lord, I pray, O God, Your
7 continual blessing to be upon each and every one
8 of them within the sound of my voice. And God,
9 when it's all said and done, we pray, Lord God,
10 not our will, but let Your will be done.
11 And so, Father, we say thank you.
12 In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
13 (Response of "Amen.")
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Reading of
15 the Journal.
16 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, Tuesday,
17 May 28, 2024, the Senate met pursuant to
18 adjournment. The Journal of Sunday, May 26,
19 2024, was read and approved. On motion, the
20 Senate adjourned.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Without
22 objection, the Journal stands approved as read.
23 Presentation of petitions.
24 Messages from the Assembly.
25 The Secretary will read.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Senator Stec moves
2 to discharge, from the Committee on Health,
3 Assembly Bill Number 8206 and substitute it for
4 the identical Senate Bill 7687A, Third Reading
5 Calendar 452.
6 Senator Hinchey moves to discharge,
7 from the Committee on Agriculture, Assembly Bill
8 Number 9259 and substitute it for the identical
9 Senate Bill 8690, Third Reading Calendar 821.
10 Senator Cleare moves to discharge,
11 from the Committee on Insurance, Assembly Bill
12 Number 5729A and substitute it for the identical
13 Senate Bill 6146A, Third Reading Calendar 880.
14 Senator Comrie moves to discharge,
15 from the Committee on Energy and
16 Telecommunications, Assembly Bill Number 1745A
17 and substitute it for the identical Senate Bill
18 628A, Third Reading Calendar 964.
19 Senator Mannion moves to discharge,
20 from the Committee on Disabilities, Assembly Bill
21 Number 3982 and substitute it for the identical
22 Senate Bill 8796, Third Reading Calendar 1013.
23 Senator O'Mara moves to discharge,
24 from the Committee on Investigations and
25 Government Operations, Assembly Bill Number 9360
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1 and substitute it for the identical Senate Bill
2 8678, Third Reading Calendar 1046.
3 Senator Skoufis moves to discharge,
4 from the Committee on Consumer Protection,
5 Assembly Bill Number 1057C and substitute it for
6 the identical Senate Bill 1759B, Third Reading
7 Calendar 1072.
8 Senator Hoylman-Sigal moves to
9 discharge, from the Committee on Health,
10 Assembly Bill Number 117A and substitute it for
11 the identical Senate Bill 3230A, Third Reading
12 Calendar 1169.
13 Senator Cleare moves to discharge,
14 from the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
15 Correction, Assembly Bill Number 5396 and
16 substitute it for the identical Senate Bill 3175,
17 Third Reading Calendar 1269.
18 Senator Mannion moves to discharge,
19 from the Committee on Children and Families,
20 Assembly Bill Number 7341B and substitute it for
21 the identical Senate Bill 6357B, Third Reading
22 Calendar 1306.
23 Senator Hinchey moves to discharge,
24 from the Committee on Health, Assembly Bill
25 Number 5789A and substitute it for the identical
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1 Senate Bill 6226A, Third Reading Calendar 1350.
2 Senator Comrie moves to discharge,
3 from the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
4 and Commissions, Assembly Bill Number 9229 and
5 substitute it for the identical Senate Bill 8833,
6 Third Reading Calendar 1366.
7 Senator Rivera moves to discharge,
8 from the Committee on Finance, Assembly Bill
9 Number 589A and substitute it for the identical
10 Senate Bill 2363A, Third Reading Calendar 1383.
11 Senator Jackson moves to discharge,
12 from the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions,
13 Assembly Bill Number 9349 and substitute it for
14 the identical Senate Bill 8551, Third Reading
15 Calendar 1401.
16 Senator Palumbo moves to discharge,
17 from the Committee on Investigations and
18 Government Operations, Assembly Bill Number 9144
19 and substitute it for the identical Senate Bill
20 8443, Third Reading Calendar 1419.
21 Senator Gounardes moves to
22 discharge, from the Committee on Finance,
23 Assembly Bill Number 2885A and substitute it for
24 the identical Senate Bill 1078A, Third Reading
25 Calendar 1467.
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1 Senator Thomas moves to discharge,
2 from the Committee on Investigations and
3 Government Operations, Assembly Bill Number 9580
4 and substitute it for the identical Senate Bill
5 9255, Third Reading Calendar 1529.
6 Senator Webb moves to discharge,
7 from the Committee on Transportation,
8 Assembly Bill Number 4914B and substitute it for
9 the identical Senate Bill 4262B, Third Reading
10 Calendar 1358.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: So
12 ordered.
13 Messages from the Governor.
14 Reports of standing committees.
15 Reports of select committees.
16 Communications and reports from
17 state officers.
18 Motions and resolutions.
19 Senator Gianaris.
20 SENATOR GIANARIS: Good afternoon,
21 Madam President.
22 I wish to call up the following
23 bills, which were recalled from the Assembly and
24 are now at the desk: Senate Print Numbers 362,
25 6335A, and 158D.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
2 Secretary will read.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 109, Senate Print 362, by Senator Thomas, an act
5 to amend the General Business Law.
6 Calendar Number 507, Senate Print
7 6335A, by Senator Mannion, an act to amend the
8 Civil Service Law.
9 Calendar Number 76, Senate Print
10 158D, by Senator Krueger, an act to amend the
11 General Business Law.
12 SENATOR GIANARIS: Move to
13 reconsider the vote by which these bills were
14 passed.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
16 Secretary will call the roll on reconsideration.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 52.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bills
20 are restored to their place on the Third Reading
21 Calendar.
22 SENATOR GIANARIS: I offer the
23 following amendments.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
25 amendments are received.
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1 SENATOR GIANARIS: Amendments are
2 also offered to the following Third Reading
3 Calendar bills:
4 By Senator Harckham, page 35,
5 Calendar Number 919, Senate Print 5329D;
6 Senator Comrie, page 60,
7 Calendar Number 1263, Senate Print 9516;
8 Senator Salazar, page 61,
9 Calendar Number 1272, Senate Print 7132;
10 Senator Hoylman-Sigal, page 72,
11 Calendar Number 1399, Senate Print 8485A;
12 Senator Rivera, page 31,
13 Calendar Number 837, Senate Print 8843;
14 Senator Webb, page 38,
15 Calendar Number 961, Senate Print 4265;
16 Senator Mayer, page 62,
17 Calendar Number 1285, Senate Print 8976;
18 Senator Hoylman-Sigal, page 63,
19 Calendar Number 1294, Senate Print 9377;
20 Senator Mayer, page 71,
21 Calendar Number 1387, Senate Print 4877;
22 And Senator Harckham, page 44,
23 Calendar Number 1049, Senate Print 8792.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
25 amendments are received, and the bills will
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1 retain their place on the Third Reading Calendar.
2 Senator Gianaris.
3 SENATOR GIANARIS: Please recognize
4 Senator Lanza for some motions.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
6 Lanza.
7 SENATOR LANZA: Thank you,
8 Senator Gianaris.
9 Madam President, on behalf of
10 Senator Martins, on page 42 I offer the following
11 amendments to Calendar Number 1022, Senate Print
12 Number 8647, and ask that said bill retain its
13 place on Third Reading Calendar.
14 Madam President, on behalf of
15 Senator Griffo, on page 31 I offer the following
16 amendments to Calendar Number 861, Senate Print
17 Number 8692, and ask that said bill retain its
18 place on Third Reading Calendar.
19 Madam President, on behalf of
20 Senator Weik, I move to recommit Senate Print
21 Number 4244, Calendar Number 672 on the order of
22 third reading, to the Committee on Education,
23 with instructions to said committee to strike out
24 the enacting clause.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
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1 amendments are received, and the bills will
2 retain their place on the Third Reading Calendar.
3 Senator Gianaris.
4 SENATOR GIANARIS: Please recognize
5 Senator Ramos for an introduction.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
7 Ramos for an introduction.
8 SENATOR RAMOS: Thank you,
9 Madam President.
10 Today I have the distinct honor of
11 welcoming a group of students from my district
12 who have come to learn about how their government
13 works for them and hopefully feel inspired to
14 pursue careers in public service as lawmakers and
15 beyond.
16 I want to especially shout out
17 Nicole, Ranuma and Olivia, who are students and
18 are former interns of mine.
19 The rest of the students are from
20 Newtown High School in Elmhurst, New York, where
21 Principal Psoras has been doing an outstanding
22 job in his first year as principal at that
23 school.
24 And I am really proud of all of you
25 and hope that you've enjoyed your day here with
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1 us, and bring back all of the information that
2 you have gathered here today back to our district
3 to share with the rest of the students.
4 Thank you so much, Madam President.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: To our
6 guests, we welcome you on behalf of the Senate.
7 We extend to you the privileges and courtesies of
8 the house.
9 Please rise and be recognized.
10 (Standing ovation.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
12 Gianaris.
13 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
14 I move to adopt the Resolution Calendar, with the
15 exception of Resolutions 2551 and 2564.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: All those
17 in favor of adopting the Resolution Calendar,
18 with the exception of Resolutions 2551 and 2564,
19 please signify by saying aye.
20 (Response of "Aye.")
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Opposed,
22 nay.
23 (No response.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
25 Resolution Calendar is adopted.
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1 Senator Gianaris.
2 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
3 just so my colleagues understand the order of
4 business, we are going to take up the resolutions
5 that have guests present at this time. There are
6 several resolutions without guests here that will
7 be taken up at the conclusion of session.
8 So we will begin with previously
9 adopted Resolution 1924, by Senator Oberacker.
10 Please read that resolution's title and recognize
11 Senator Oberacker.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
13 Secretary will read.
14 THE SECRETARY: Resolution 1924, by
15 Senator Oberacker, congratulating Evelyn
16 Kersmanc upon the occasion of being named the
17 2024-2025 New York State Dairy Ambassador on
18 February 24, 2024.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
20 Oberacker on the resolution.
21 SENATOR OBERACKER: Thank you,
22 Madam President.
23 You know, today being Dairy Day, I
24 think there was a fitting story that was told to
25 me about an old hill-farming crofter. He trudged
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1 several miles through frozen snow in winter
2 weather to his local and very remote chapel for
3 Sunday service. No one else was there aside from
4 the clergyman.
5 "I'm not sure it's worth proceeding
6 with the service. Might we do better to go back
7 to our warm homes and a hot drink?" asked the
8 clergyman, inviting a mutually helpful reaction
9 from his audience of one.
10 "Well, I'm just a simple farmer,"
11 says the old crofter, "but when I go to feed my
12 herd and only one beast turns up, I sure do not
13 leave him hungry."
14 So the clergyman, feeling somewhat
15 ashamed, delivers his service, all the bells and
16 whistles -- hymns, readings, and lasting a good
17 couple of hours, finishing proudly with the fresh
18 observation that no matter how small the need,
19 our duty remains. And he thanks the old farmer
20 for the lesson that he learned.
21 "Was that okay?" asked the clergyman
22 as the two set off for home.
23 "Well, I'm just a simple farmer,"
24 says the old crofter, "but when I go to feed my
25 herd and only one beast turns up, I sure don't
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1 force him to eat what I've brought for the whole
2 herd."
3 (Laughter.)
4 SENATOR OBERACKER: That story,
5 Madam President, sets the tone for my district,
6 the 51st Senate District -- extremely rural and
7 agriculture being a huge, huge part of that.
8 And today, my first resolution that
9 I'm actually giving, I'm here to honor and I am
10 honored to have in the gallery with us today the
11 New York State Dairy Ambassador, Evelyn Kersmanc,
12 along with her parents, Jennifer and Richard.
13 We also have along with us
14 Amanda Licata and Hailey Groat from the Otsego
15 County Dairy Team.
16 You know, Evelyn served as the
17 Otsego County Dairy Ambassador for the past year,
18 and in February she was named the next state
19 ambassador. Madam President, she is the second,
20 the second Dairy Ambassador from Otsego County,
21 where I live, and she is the first in over
22 20 years.
23 As the New York Dairy Ambassador,
24 Evelyn will serve as a spokesperson and advocate
25 for the state's 3200 dairy farmers. And it's a
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1 role she has prepared for her entire life,
2 growing up on her family farm in the Town of
3 Worcester. Trust me when I say there is no one
4 better, no one better to act as our ambassador,
5 and this is a position of great importance.
6 According to the New York State
7 Department of Agriculture and Markets, the dairy
8 industry is the largest single segment of our
9 agricultural industry. We are the fifth largest
10 producer of milk and the largest producer of
11 yogurt and cottage cheese.
12 And of course I guarantee Evelyn
13 already knows these facts and probably many, many
14 more. She brings passion, devotion and
15 experience to this position. New York State and
16 our dairy farmers will certainly benefit from
17 having Evelyn Kersmanc as our State Dairy
18 Ambassador.
19 Madam President, some people dream
20 of success while other people get up every
21 morning and make it happen. Evelyn is that
22 person. Madam President, I would ask that we
23 would extend the courtesies of our house to
24 Evelyn and her family and welcome them not only
25 to Albany but to the State Senate.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
2 Senator Oberacker.
3 To our guests, our State Dairy
4 Ambassador Evelyn Kersmanc and her family and
5 other guests, we welcome you on behalf of the
6 Senate. We extend to you the privileges and
7 courtesies of the house.
8 Please rise and be recognized.
9 (Standing ovation.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
11 resolution was previously adopted on March 12.
12 Senator Gianaris.
13 SENATOR GIANARIS: Please recognize
14 Senator Stavisky for an introduction.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
16 Stavisky for an introduction.
17 SENATOR STAVISKY: Thank you,
18 Madam President.
19 The person I'm introducing really
20 does not need an introduction because she was
21 here before most of us. Marilyn Dyer has worked
22 for the Senate for the past 40 years, four-zero
23 years.
24 She started working for the Senate
25 in 1984, when -- a year after my husband began
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1 his service in the Senate. He had been in the
2 Assembly prior to that. He needed somebody in
3 his Albany office full-time and spoke to the
4 then-Minority Leader, who had his assistant --
5 the Minority Leader at the time was
6 Senator Ohrenstein, and he spoke to his --
7 Senator Ohrenstein spoke to his assistant,
8 Phoebe Sheris {ph}, if some of you remember these
9 names, and she had a different method of
10 recommending appointments. She gave everybody a
11 test.
12 And then she called Leonard and
13 said, You know, I just gave the test to somebody
14 who scored extremely high on that exam, on that
15 little test, and that was Marilyn. And Marilyn
16 really has been a part of the Senate family
17 since.
18 When I took over after my husband
19 passed away, I kept Marilyn, and she flourished
20 during this period. Everybody knows Marilyn.
21 And if you don't, that's quite frankly your loss,
22 because she's terrific.
23 (Laughter.)
24 SENATOR STAVISKY: Marilyn is very
25 involved in the community where she lives. Her
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1 husband, her late husband, Pastor Dyer, had been
2 the pastor of St. Timothy's Lutheran Church in I
3 think East Greenbush. But Marilyn has been a
4 major part of the St. Paul's homeless shelter for
5 women and children, an extremely important place
6 where battered women and women with children can
7 go for -- to live temporarily. Nevertheless,
8 it's there, and it's because of people like
9 Marilyn.
10 So I ask everything that we've done
11 in the past be extended to Marilyn Dyer for her
12 compassion, her concern for others. And I hope
13 everybody who doesn't know Marilyn should
14 certainly introduce themselves.
15 Madam President, I thank you for the
16 opportunity to -- and Mr. Deputy Majority Leader,
17 I thank you for the opportunity to share Marilyn
18 with everybody.
19 Thank you.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
21 Senator Stavisky.
22 To Marilyn Dyer, who is not a guest,
23 we welcome you and celebrate you on behalf of the
24 Senate. We extend to you the privileges and
25 courtesies of the house.
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1 Please rise and be recognized.
2 (Standing ovation.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
4 Gianaris.
5 SENATOR GIANARIS: Please take up
6 the calendar, Madam President.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
8 Secretary will read.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 167, Senate Print 3467A, by Senator Rivera, an
11 act to amend the Education Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 326, Senate Print 2420, by Senator Krueger, an
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1 act to amend the Legislative Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
10 the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
12 Calendar 326, those Senators voting in the
13 negative are Senators Ashby, Gallivan, Helming,
14 Murray, Ortt, Rhoads, Stec, Tedisco and Weik.
15 Ayes, 45. Nays, 9.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
17 is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 341, Senate Print 3351, by Senator Skoufis, an
20 act to amend the Environmental Conservation Law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
22 last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
24 act shall take effect immediately.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
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1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
4 the results.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 377, Senate Print 6361A, by Senator Brouk, an act
10 to amend the Education Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
14 act shall take effect on the 60th day after it
15 shall have become a law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
22 Calendar 377, those Senators voting in the
23 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
24 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
25 Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker, O'Mara,
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1 Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec, Tedisco,
2 Weber and Weik.
3 Ayes, 35. Nays, 19.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
5 is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 381, Senate Print 1159B, by Senator Skoufis, an
8 act to amend the Public Health Law.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
10 last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
12 act shall take effect on the 180th day after it
13 shall have become a law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 382, Senate Print 2933, by Senator Rivera, an act
24 to amend the Social Services Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
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1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
8 the results.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 423, Senate Print Number 1610A, by
14 Senator Hoylman-Sigal, an act to amend the
15 Real Property Tax Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
19 act shall take effect on the 60th day after it
20 shall have become a law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
25 the results.
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1 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
2 Calendar 423, those Senators voting in the
3 negative are Senators Borrello,
4 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
5 Lanza, Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker,
6 O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Skoufis,
7 Stec, Tedisco, Weber and Weik.
8 Ayes, 34. Nays, 20.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 431, Senate Print 8339A, by Senator Mayer, an act
13 to amend the Family Court Act.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 7. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
22 the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
24 Calendar 431, those Senators voting in the
25 negative are Senators Borrello, Helming, Lanza,
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1 Murray, O'Mara, Ortt and Tedisco.
2 Ayes, 47. Nays, 7.
3 SENATOR GIANARIS: The bill is
4 passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 432, Senate Print 1087A, by Senator Comrie, an
7 act to amend the Public Authorities Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
11 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
12 shall have become a law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
14 roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
17 the results.
18 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
20 is passed.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar
22 Number 452, Assembly Bill Number 8206, by
23 Assemblymember Jones, an act to authorize certain
24 healthcare professionals licensed to practice in
25 other jurisdictions and providing for the repeal
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1 of such provisions.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
10 the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 470, Senate Print 8475, by Senator Harckham, an
16 act in relation to authorizing the assessor of
17 the Town of New Castle, County of Westchester, to
18 accept an application for a real property tax
19 exemption.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
5 Calendar 470, voting in the negative:
6 Senator O'Mara.
7 Ayes, 53. Nays, 1.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 472, Senate Print 138A, by Senator Ryan, an act
12 to amend the Penal Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
21 the results.
22 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
23 Calendar 472, those Senators voting in the
24 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
25 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
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1 Lanza, Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker,
2 O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec,
3 Tedisco, Weber and Weik.
4 Ayes, 34. Nays, 20.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 493, Senate Print 3233, by Senator Hoylman-Sigal,
9 an act in relation to requiring the Division of
10 Housing and Community Renewal to calculate the
11 period of rent reduction.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
22 Calendar 493, those Senators voting in the
23 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
24 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
25 Lanza, Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker,
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1 O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec,
2 Tedisco, Weber and Weik.
3 Ayes, 34. Nays, 20.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
5 is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 524, Senate Print Number 3266A, by Senator
8 Hoylman-Sigal, an act to amend the Judiciary Law.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
10 last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
12 act shall take effect on the 60th day after it
13 shall have become a law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
20 Calendar 524, those Senators voting in the
21 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
22 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
23 Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker, O'Mara,
24 Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec, Tedisco,
25 Weber and Weik.
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1 Ayes, 35. Nays, 19.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 563, Senate Print 7882, by Senator Martinez, an
6 act to amend the Public Health Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 576, Senate Print 2451, by Senator Comrie, an act
21 to amend the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law.
22 SENATOR GIANARIS: Lay it aside for
23 the day.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
25 is laid aside for the day.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 645, Senate Print 8644A, by Senator Harckham, an
3 act to amend the Environmental Conservation Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
12 the results.
13 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
14 Calendar Number 645, voting in the negative:
15 Senator Brisport.
16 Ayes, 53. Nays, 1.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 686, Senate Print 1198A, by Senator Rivera, an
21 act to amend the Public Health Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 54.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 711, Senate Print Number 8484B, by
11 Senator Hoylman-Sigal, an act to amend the
12 Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
21 the results.
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 55.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
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1 790, Senate Print 8834, by Senator Mayer, an act
2 to amend the Civil Rights Law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
4 last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
6 act shall take effect on the 30th day after it
7 shall have become a law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
12 the results.
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 55.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 821, Assembly Bill Number 9259, by
18 Assemblymember Lupardo, an act to amend the
19 Agriculture and Markets Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
5 Calendar 821, voting in the negative:
6 Senator Brisport.
7 Ayes, 54. Nays, 1.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 835, Senate Print 7023A, by Senator Rivera,
12 an act to amend the Public Health Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 9. This
16 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
17 shall have become a law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
22 Rivera to explain his vote.
23 SENATOR RIVERA: Thank you,
24 Madam President.
25 I'm very proud of this piece of
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1 legislation for a couple of different reasons.
2 First, it is as a response to a series of very
3 high profile cases against OB-GYN Robert Hadden.
4 I'm sure that we all read in anger
5 and disgust about how this person preyed upon his
6 patients for so long. And in the case of this --
7 as it relates to this bill, the fact that the
8 institution that he worked for did nothing to
9 educate his future patients about allegations
10 against him. And eventually, as we know, this
11 was a person who is going to be behind bars for a
12 very long time and certainly deserves it.
13 But based on the fact that the
14 Office of Professional Medical Conduct is the
15 entity that actually deals with this type of
16 misconduct, there was a necessity to actually
17 fundamentally change the way that they do
18 business. Whether we're talking about the way
19 that they conduct an investigation, to establish
20 a zero tolerance policy within their staff
21 themselves; the way that hospitals are required
22 to notify their patients; the way that potential
23 conflicts of interest of people that are
24 investigating folks who these allegations are
25 being brought against -- all of those things
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1 needed to fundamentally change.
2 And this bill would do just that.
3 So I'm very proud, Madam President, that we are
4 passing it here today.
5 But I'm also incredibly proud
6 because this is a product of actually one of my
7 staffers who a few years ago -- as a young woman
8 still had not graduated college -- started
9 working in my office as a staff assistant. And
10 it was something that she started reading stories
11 about and she said, you know, there's something
12 that we should do about this.
13 And she started doing the research,
14 putting the bill together. She's been working on
15 it for a couple of years. And I'm incredibly
16 proud of her.
17 Her name is Michelle. She is
18 sitting right over there, Michelle
19 Castellanos-Ojeda. A young woman who has a lot
20 of -- a bright future in legislating, and this is
21 just the beginning of it.
22 So Madam President, I'm very proud
23 not only because it's a bill that she wrote, but
24 also because it's a bill that will address
25 something we absolutely need to change in the
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1 State of New York. So I'll be voting in the
2 affirmative.
3 Thank you, Madam President.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
5 Rivera to be recorded in the affirmative.
6 Senator Helming to explain her vote.
7 SENATOR HELMING: Thank you,
8 Madam President.
9 I rise in support of this
10 legislation. Senator Rivera, I want to thank
11 you. Michelle, thank you very much for your hard
12 work.
13 But I'm also rising to advocate for
14 this body to do more to protect vulnerable
15 patients from sexual abuse. This includes
16 passing Clara's Law, a bill I introduced several
17 years ago.
18 Clara's Law is named after the late
19 Clara Mae Bowman. Clara was sexually abused by
20 an intensive care unit nurse in 2006. Her abuser
21 resigned from the hospital amid the allegations
22 and went to work at another hospital, where he
23 later abused another patient. That hospital was
24 not aware of the allegations when they hired him.
25 Clara's Law requires hospitals and
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1 healthcare facilities to report incidents of a
2 sexual offense to both the state Departments of
3 Health and Education. This is needed in order to
4 stop healthcare workers who have abused patients
5 from moving to other hospitals or healthcare
6 facilities without those facilities knowing their
7 background. I urge the Majority to bring Senate
8 Bill 1699, Clara's Law, to the floor for a vote.
9 Thank you, Madam President. I vote
10 aye.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
12 Helming to be recorded in the affirmative.
13 Announce the results.
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 875, Senate Print 9082, by Senator Hinchey, an
19 act to amend the Tax Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
25 roll.
4571
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 880, Assembly Bill Number 5729A, by
9 Assemblymember Paulin, an act to amend the
10 Insurance Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
14 act shall take effect on the first of January.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
19 Cleare to explain her vote.
20 SENATOR CLEARE: Good afternoon,
21 Madam President.
22 Women in the United States have a
23 one-in-eight chance of getting breast cancer in
24 their lifetime. In New York there are
25 approximately 20,000 new cases diagnosed every
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1 year. The road to recovery and survivorship is
2 long and can include breast reconstruction after
3 a mastectomy.
4 However, not all aspects of the
5 reconstruction are currently covered by
6 commercial insurance, which has led to a decrease
7 in these procedures.
8 The bill before us requires
9 commercial insurance to cover the full
10 reconstruction of the nipple areola complex,
11 which includes tattooing, which recently has
12 become a more common way to restore the
13 underlying area and presents less surgical risks
14 and future medical complications.
15 In addition, many report that this
16 procedure made them feel whole and comfortable
17 with their body once again, and was helpful in
18 their recovery.
19 I proudly vote aye.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
21 Cleare to be recorded in the affirmative.
22 Announce the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
25 is passed.
4573
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 909, Senate Print 1193, by Senator Persaud, an
3 act to amend the Public Health Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
12 the results.
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 913, Senate Print 4020C, by Senator Mayer, an act
18 to amend the General Municipal Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 7. This
22 act shall take effect six months after it shall
23 have become a law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
3 Mayer to explain her vote.
4 SENATOR MAYER: Thank you,
5 Madam President.
6 I rise to vote aye on this bill.
7 It may come as a surprise to many
8 people that in New York State emergency medical
9 services, or EMS, are not considered an essential
10 service. When we are in the midst of the worst
11 moments of our lives and we call 911, we expect
12 to receive rapid-response, high-quality emergency
13 medical care. Thankfully we do, because so often
14 our EMS providers are there to provide critical
15 care in emergencies that are usually a matter of
16 life and death.
17 The COVID pandemic brought home how
18 vital EMS providers are, and their importance to
19 the health and well-being of every community
20 across New York.
21 Unfortunately, the work of these
22 providers is undervalued within our healthcare
23 community and has created a disparity between the
24 immense value that EMS providers bring and the
25 resources made available.
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1 Many EMS providers across the state
2 are struggling to find and retain staff. It is
3 time that New York law reflects the enormous
4 sacrifice and critical work of the EMS community.
5 Under this bill, emergency medical
6 services are deemed an essential service. The
7 municipalities are provided flexibility to ensure
8 they are provided. This bill establishes
9 statewide, regional and county coordination and
10 provides for enhanced training and credentialing
11 of practitioners, agencies, and educational
12 institutions.
13 This bill was built on the
14 experience of COVID in my community and so many
15 other communities across the state, where EMS
16 providers did the most dangerous work and did not
17 feel -- and were not -- acknowledged for the work
18 they had done.
19 I'm so appreciative of the
20 leadership of our conference, and particularly
21 our leader, and all those who worked to find a
22 consensus approach to tackling this most
23 difficult problem, all of whom are supporting
24 this bill, as well as so many of my colleagues on
25 both sides of the aisle who realize the time has
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1 come for New York State to fix the EMS problem.
2 I proudly vote aye.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
4 Mayer to be recorded in the affirmative.
5 Senator Webb to explain her vote.
6 SENATOR WEBB: Thank you,
7 Madam President.
8 I too want to extend my appreciation
9 to Senator Mayer for bringing forward this
10 important legislation, and the Majority Leader
11 for bringing forward a package of bills that
12 we'll be voting on today in support of our
13 emergency medical services.
14 As it has already been stated, we
15 know that EMS services are in a significant
16 crisis here in our state, especially in upstate
17 New York and most certainly in rural communities
18 that I represent in the Southern Tier.
19 It is a well-known fact that EMS
20 professionals do provide essential healthcare
21 services to many of our constituents, including
22 mine.
23 This legislation would declare
24 general ambulance services as an essential
25 service, establish special districts for the
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1 financing and operation of general ambulance
2 services, and provide a statewide comprehensive
3 emergency medical system plan.
4 What all that comes up to being is
5 that we will be able to provide, in realtime,
6 opportunities to save lives for real people in
7 our communities. There are many folks who have
8 to travel significant distances in order to get
9 to a health provider. This legislation is aiming
10 to reduce that challenge, and I appreciate
11 Senator Mayer for bringing this forward.
12 In rural communities across upstate
13 New York, we know that it is important that they
14 have access to healthcare. By designating EMS as
15 an essential service, this legislation would
16 ensure that these highly trained public servants
17 get the support that they deserve so that they
18 can provide more timely, more reliable emergency
19 responses and pre-hospital care to New Yorkers.
20 Again, I want to thank Senator Mayer
21 for this bill, and our Senate Majority Leader for
22 bringing forth this legislation. I proudly vote
23 aye, and I encourage my colleagues to do the
24 same.
25 Thank you.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
2 Webb to be recorded in the affirmative.
3 Senator Oberacker to explain his
4 vote.
5 SENATOR OBERACKER: Thank you,
6 Madam President.
7 You know, every once in a while we
8 get it right here in Albany. Today we got it
9 right. Senator Mayer, thank you. Thank you for
10 shepherding this bill and bringing it home.
11 You know, I've spoken a couple of
12 times about an incident back on October 3 of 2018
13 where my son was severely injured on a farm.
14 Forty-six minutes was the response time.
15 (Emotional pause.)
16 SENATOR OBERACKER: Thank you.
17 If it wasn't for the first
18 responders that day, I wouldn't have my grandson
19 and I wouldn't have another one coming this
20 November.
21 Senator, thank you.
22 (Applause.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
24 Oberacker to be recorded in the affirmative.
25 Senator Rolison to explain his vote.
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1 SENATOR ROLISON: Madam President,
2 I was going to just yield my time to someone else
3 after my colleague and friend Senator Oberacker
4 spoke about an incident involving his son. And
5 when I heard that story the first time, I'm glad
6 everything has worked out the way it did.
7 And I want to thank Senator Mayer.
8 And I'll just make a brief comment on all the
9 bills that will be voted on today and ultimately
10 passed.
11 For me, you know, starting in the
12 Fire Service in 1976, we were driving Cadillac
13 ambulances back then. And it was basic first
14 aid, then advanced first aid, then EMT and then
15 paramedic advanced life support, which is a great
16 evolution.
17 But unfortunately, 46 minutes, when
18 you're waiting for advanced life support and it
19 is not getting there in a timely manner, that is
20 not advanced. That is not the State of New York.
21 We are an advanced state when it comes to so many
22 of the things that we do, especially in the area
23 of public safety.
24 So again, my hat's off to
25 Senator Mayer for moving these bills. Both sides
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1 of the aisle obviously have to support the basic
2 priority of government, which is public safety
3 and the health and welfare of our citizens.
4 And again, thank you very much,
5 Madam President.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
7 Rolison to be recorded in the affirmative.
8 Announce the results.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 948, Senate Print 9024, by Senator Ryan, an act
14 to amend the Judiciary Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
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1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 964, Assembly Bill Number 1745A, by
4 Assemblymember Dinowitz, an act to amend the
5 Public Service Law.
6 SENATOR LANZA: Lay it aside.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Lay it
8 aside.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 970, Senate Print 7198A, by Senator Parker, an
11 act to amend the Public Service Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 6. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 986, Senate Print 8768A, by Senator Webb, an act
4582
1 to amend the Education Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
10 the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1008, Senate Print 4046, by Senator Fernandez, an
16 act to amend the Penal Law.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
20 act shall take effect immediately.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
25 the results.
4583
1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1013, Assembly Bill Number 3982, by
6 Assemblymember Jackson, an act to amend
7 Chapter 352 of the Laws of 2005.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1021, Senate Print 8614, by Senator Kavanagh, an
22 act to amend the Executive Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
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1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
9 is passed.
10 Calendar Number 1022 is high; the
11 bill will be laid aside for the day.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1035, Senate Print 940, by Senator Bailey, an act
14 to amend the Executive Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
18 act shall take effect on the 120th day after it
19 shall have become a law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
24 the results.
25 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
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1 Calendar 1035, those Senators voting in the
2 negative are Senators Addabbo, Ashby, Borrello,
3 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
4 Martinez, Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker,
5 O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec,
6 Tedisco, Weber and Weik. Also Senator Lanza.
7 Ayes, 37. Nays, 22.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 1046, Assembly Bill Number 9360, by
12 Assemblymember Gallahan, an act to amend the
13 Public Officers Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
22 the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
25 is passed.
4586
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 1054, Senate Print 7886A, by Senator Harckham, an
3 act to amend the Labor Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect on the 180th day after it
8 shall have become a law.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
13 the results.
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 1065, Senate Print 3387, by Senator Krueger, an
19 act to amend the Executive Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
24 shall have become a law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
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1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Announce
4 the results.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 1066, Senate Print 8821A, by Senator Sepúlveda,
10 an act to amend the Education Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 9. This
14 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
15 shall have become a law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
20 Sepúlveda to explain his vote.
21 SENATOR SEPÚLVEDA: Thank you,
22 Madam President, for allowing me to explain my
23 vote.
24 The impetus of this bill is that
25 over the years I've met with students who have
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1 received general equivalency diplomas, and to
2 some degree they felt stigmatized. And sometimes
3 when they'd go for jobs or interviews, the fact
4 that it was a GED, or called a GED, some of them
5 felt that it put them at a disadvantage and felt
6 that from people that are interviewing them.
7 So to alleviate that problem, to
8 create a source of pride, I've brought this bill
9 to change it from a GED diploma to the Excelsior
10 high school diploma.
11 Thank you for allowing me to explain
12 my vote. I vote aye.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
14 Sepúlveda to be recorded in the affirmative.
15 Announce the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
17 Calendar 1066, voting in the negative are
18 Senators Lanza and Skoufis.
19 Ayes, 57. Nays, 2.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1068, Senate Print 9018A, by Senator Mayer, an
24 act to amend the Education Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Read the
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1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 12. This
3 act shall take effect on the first of July.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
8 Mayer to explain her vote.
9 SENATOR MAYER: Thank you,
10 Madam President.
11 I rise to vote aye on this bill,
12 which would require every school board and BOCES
13 board in the state to have a nonvoting student
14 member.
15 At their best, school boards
16 represent the best of small-D democracy. They
17 give parents and community members a direct voice
18 in the operation of their schools, one of our
19 most important public resources.
20 This legislation aims to ensure that
21 student voices are heard too, and gives students
22 new opportunities to be involved in school boards
23 and build skills and habits of civic engagement
24 that will serve them for a lifetime.
25 Existing law allows districts to
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1 appoint an ex officio student member. This bill
2 simplifies the process and requires every
3 district to have at least one student member.
4 They'll be nonvoting but will be entitled to sit
5 with board members at public meetings and
6 participate.
7 I would note that in working on this
8 bill, we spoke with districts around the state
9 that have taken advantage of the current law.
10 They told us that student members yield
11 meaningful dialogue at their school board
12 meetings and provide valuable learning
13 opportunities for the students. In fact, I would
14 say, for the adults as well, if I had to guess.
15 One superintendent reported that
16 having just one student board member has
17 increased interest among the whole student body
18 in the school board. Former student board
19 members we spoke with felt their voices were
20 valued and contributed to decision making.
21 I thank my colleagues for working
22 with me, and my colleague Assemblymember
23 Carrie Woerner for her work to advance this bill
24 in the Assembly.
25 This is our obligation to continue
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1 the civic tradition of this chamber for the next
2 generation. I'm proud to vote aye.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
4 Mayer to be recorded in the affirmative.
5 Announce the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
7 Calendar 1068, those Senators voting in the
8 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
9 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Lanza,
10 Oberacker, Ortt, Rhoads, Stec, Tedisco, Weber and
11 Weik.
12 Ayes, 46. Nays, 13.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 1072, Assembly Bill Number 1057C, by
17 Assemblymember Vanel, an act to amend the
18 General Business Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
22 act shall take effect on the 60th day after it
23 shall have become a law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
25 roll.
4592
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 1084, Senate Print 9019A, by Senator Gianaris, an
9 act to amend the General Business Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1130, Senate Print 1608A, by Senator Serrano, an
24 act to amend the Parks, Recreation and Historic
25 Preservation Law.
4593
1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
9 the results.
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 1138, Senate Print 9241, by Senator Serrano, an
15 act to amend the Navigation Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
19 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
20 shall have become a law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
25 the results.
4594
1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1140, Senate Print 7841, by Senator Helming, an
6 act in relation to authorizing Michael Kurtz to
7 take the civil service examination.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is a
9 home-rule message at the desk.
10 Read the last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
12 act shall take effect immediately.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
14 roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
17 the results.
18 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
19 Calendar 1140, voting in the negative:
20 Senator Brisport.
21 Ayes, 59. Nays, 1.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 1149, Senate Print 2349A, by Senator Myrie, an
4595
1 act to amend the Election Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
10 Rhoads to explain his vote.
11 SENATOR RHOADS: Thank you,
12 Madam President.
13 I rise in opposition to this bill,
14 and I will be voting in the negative.
15 At a time when the integrity of the
16 election process is certainly foremost in the
17 minds of our residents, at a time when additional
18 pressures are being placed on boards of elections
19 to ensure the integrity of the voter roll, this
20 bill is injecting more chaos into the process.
21 Essentially, the idea behind
22 residency requirements and permanent residency
23 requirements is so that individuals who actually
24 live in the community are the ones who are the
25 stakeholders and participate in the process of
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1 their local elections. This now injects
2 essentially transient individuals to be able to
3 come into the district -- even if they're there
4 for only a short period of time, as little as one
5 month -- and be able to cast their ballot,
6 impacting the way of life of local residents who
7 are there on a permanent basis.
8 Additionally, it creates issues for
9 local boards of election to try and maintain
10 accurate voter rolls with residents able to --
11 temporary residents able to register in one
12 location -- for example, for a village election,
13 if they happen to live temporarily in a village,
14 or a local election -- and then move back to
15 their permanent residence and vote again in
16 November.
17 With registrations bouncing back and
18 forth, it makes it more likely that individuals
19 would have the opportunity to vote more than once
20 in different locations.
21 So for those reasons I'll be voting
22 in the negative. In many ways this will promote,
23 as opposed to inhibit, voter fraud.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
25 Rhoads to be recorded in the negative.
4597
1 Announce the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
3 Number 1149, those Senators voting in the
4 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
5 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
6 Lanza, Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker,
7 O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec,
8 Tedisco, Weber and Weik.
9 Ayes, 40. Nays, 20.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1156, Senate Print 1593, by Senator Bailey, an
14 act to amend the Executive Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
18 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
19 shall have become a law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
24 the results.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
4598
1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 1169, Assembly Bill Number 117A, by
5 Assemblymember Paulin, an act to amend the
6 Public Health Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
11 shall have become a law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
18 Calendar 1169, voting in the negative are
19 Senators Ortt and O'Mara.
20 Ayes, 58. Nays, 2.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 1177, Senate Print 5918B, by Senator Harckham, an
25 act to amend the Public Service Law.
4599
1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
5 shall have become a law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
10 the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1218, Senate Print 8860, by Senator Gallivan, an
16 act in relation to authorizing the Town of Eden
17 to alienate and discontinue the use of certain
18 parklands.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is a
20 home-rule message at the desk.
21 Read the last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
25 roll.
4600
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 1225, Senate Print 3604, by Senator Webb, an act
9 to amend the Real Property Tax Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1237, Senate Print 936, by Senator Bailey, an act
24 to amend the Public Housing Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
4601
1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
8 the results.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1249, Senate Print 8224, by Senator Skoufis, an
14 act to amend the Election Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
25 Calendar 1249, those Senators voting in the
4602
1 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
2 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
3 Lanza, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker, O'Mara, Ortt,
4 Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec, Tedisco, Weber
5 and Weik.
6 Ayes, 41. Nays 19.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1250, Senate Print 8832, by Senator Gianaris, an
11 act to amend the Election Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
20 Borrello to explain his vote.
21 SENATOR BORRELLO: Thank you,
22 Madam President.
23 You know, there's a term in
24 business: Garbage in, garbage out. And that's
25 what a lot of this is amounting to.
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1 If we allow shoddy work to replace
2 the good work that people are doing to ensure
3 that our elections not only have integrity but
4 people have confidence in our elections, then
5 we're going to get a garbage result.
6 So we should take up the idea of
7 garbage in, garbage out, and vote no on this
8 bill. Thank you.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
10 Borrello to be recorded in the negative.
11 Announce the results.
12 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
13 Calendar 1250, those Senators voting in the
14 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
15 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
16 Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker, O'Mara,
17 Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec, Tedisco,
18 Weber and Weik.
19 Ayes, 41. Nays, 19.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1252, Senate Print 3592, by Senator Breslin, an
24 act to amend the Insurance Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
4604
1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
8 the results.
9 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
10 Calendar 1252, voting in the negative:
11 Senator Brisport.
12 Ayes, 59. Nays, 1.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 1254, Senate Print 7114A, by Senator Rivera, an
17 act to amend the Insurance Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
21 act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
4605
1 the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 1258, Senate Print 8749A, by Senator Breslin, an
7 act to amend Chapter 758 of the Laws of 2022.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1265, Senate Print 911, by Senator Liu, an act to
22 amend the Education Law.
23 SENATOR GIANARIS: Lay it aside for
24 the day.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4606
1 is laid aside for the day.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1267, Senate Print 9336A, by Senator Liu, an act
4 to amend the Education Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
13 the results.
14 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
15 Calendar 1267, voting in the negative are
16 Senators Lanza, Rhoads and Skoufis.
17 Ayes, 57. Nays, 3.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1269, Assembly Bill Number 5396, by
22 Assemblymember Gunther, an act to amend the
23 Correction Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
25 last section.
4607
1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
7 the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 1275, Senate Print 8601A, by Senator Martinez, an
13 act to amend the Labor Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
22 the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
24 Calendar 1275, voting in the negative:
25 Senator Skoufis.
4608
1 Ayes, 59. Nays, 1.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1286, Senate Print 9107, by Senator Mayer, an act
6 to amend the Education Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1293, Senate Print Number 9281, by
21 Senator Hoylman-Sigal, an act to repeal
22 Section 470 of the Judiciary Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4609
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
8 Calendar 1293, voting in the negative:
9 Senator Skoufis.
10 Ayes, 59. Nays, 1.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 1295, Senate Print 397, by Senator Cleare, an act
15 directing the Metropolitan Transportation
16 Authority to study the transportation and housing
17 needs of Randalls and Wards Islands.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
4610
1 the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 1297, Senate Print 2901A, by Senator Comrie, an
7 act to amend Chapter 154 of the Laws of 1921.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1299, Senate Print 8861, by Senator May, an act
22 to amend the Public Authorities Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 27. This
4611
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
6 May to explain her vote.
7 SENATOR MAY: Thank you,
8 Madam President.
9 Every county in New York State
10 has experienced a flood emergency in the last
11 decade -- five-year floods, hundred-year floods,
12 thousand-year downpours are getting more and more
13 common.
14 The authorities that manage
15 wastewater are struggling to deal with this
16 problem. Sewage is backing up in people's
17 basements or overflowing into streams and lakes
18 when stormwater overwhelms the system. Culverts
19 are washing out. Roads are washing out. People
20 are losing their homes and sometimes even their
21 lives.
22 Wastewater authorities around the
23 state need more tools to deal with these
24 ever-increasing threats. This is important to
25 cities and rural areas alike. I heard recently
4612
1 from a local mayor in rural Cayuga County, in my
2 district, that he needs to be able to manage not
3 just sewage but stormwater as well.
4 This bill will give the Cayuga
5 County Water Authority and local officials like
6 him just such latitude. It will enable them to
7 incentivize a shift from overreliance on
8 impermeable surfaces to using green
9 infrastructure -- retention basins, rain gardens,
10 green roofs, permeable pavement -- to capture
11 rain before it gets downstream into the sewage
12 system. These solutions can help municipalities
13 avoid extremely costly investments in new
14 wastewater treatment systems while also
15 beautifying neighborhoods.
16 I want to thank all the municipal
17 leaders around the state, from Buffalo to
18 Brooklyn, who weighed in to support this policy,
19 and Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins for
20 enabling us to bring it to a vote today.
21 I vote aye.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
23 May to be recorded in the affirmative.
24 Announce the results.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
4613
1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 1306, Assembly Bill Number 7341B, by
5 Assemblymember Hevesi, an act to amend the
6 Social Services Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1347, Senate Print 5060, by Senator Hinchey, an
21 act to amend the Public Health Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
4614
1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1350, Assembly Bill Number 5789A, by
11 Assemblymember Woerner, an act to amend the
12 Public Health Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
17 shall have become a law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
22 the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
25 is passed.
4615
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 1358, Assembly Bill Number 4914B, by
3 Assemblymember Kelles, an act to amend the
4 Highway Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect immediately.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
13 Webb to explain her vote.
14 SENATOR WEBB: Thank you,
15 Madam President.
16 This legislation would designate the
17 bridge on State Route 34B, which is crossing
18 Salmon Creek, Town of Lansing, in Tompkins
19 County, as the Peter Wheeler Memorial Bridge.
20 A little bit about Mr. Wheeler. He
21 was born into slavery on January 1, 1789, in
22 Tuckertown, New Jersey, and was owned by
23 Job Mather, who -- despite being emancipated by
24 Mr. Mather's will, he was kidnapped and auctioned
25 off for slavery to a person who lived in
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1 Ludlowville, in Tompkins County.
2 He eventually escaped and went on to
3 achieve some pretty incredible things, including
4 becoming a sea merchant and eventually publishing
5 an autobiography.
6 Mr. Wheeler received support from
7 neighbors Thomas and Henry Ludlow, who were two
8 of the brothers which the hamlet was named
9 after -- both brothers were also abolitionists
10 and embraced Wheeler -- to escape to freedom. In
11 1806, Wheeler finally got the courage to make his
12 escape. And with the help of one of the
13 Morehouse daughters, he was able to do so
14 successfully. He eventually, as I mentioned
15 before, became a sea merchant.
16 The Town of Lansing wishes to honor
17 his memory -- he once lived in this community in
18 the early 1800s -- by designating the newly
19 constructed bridge crossing as Peter Wheeler
20 Memorial Bridge.
21 There is a comprehensive narrative
22 documenting his life in this community. And most
23 recently, the Lansing Town Board passed a
24 resolution signifying this desire. The community
25 believes it is not only important to remember his
4617
1 story, but also to remember the very dark history
2 of slavery in the community and also to commit to
3 learning and ensuring that the human need for
4 dignity and respect is continued on.
5 I proudly vote aye, Madam President,
6 and I encourage my colleagues to do the same.
7 Thank you.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
9 Webb to be recorded in the affirmative.
10 Announce the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1366, Assembly Bill Number 9229, by
16 Assemblymember Zebrowski, an act to amend the
17 Public Authorities Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
4618
1 the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 1379, Senate Print 613A, by Senator Myrie, an act
7 to amend the Tax Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1382, Senate Print 2311, by Senator Myrie, an act
22 to amend the Penal Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4619
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
8 Calendar 1382, those Senators voting in the
9 negative are Senators Borrello,
10 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Lanza,
11 Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker, O'Mara,
12 Ortt, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec, Tedisco, Weber and
13 Weik. Also Senator Helming.
14 Ayes, 42. Nays, 18.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 1383, Assembly Bill Number 589A, by
19 Assemblymember Rosenthal, an act to amend the
20 Public Housing Law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
22 last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
24 act shall take effect immediately.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
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1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
4 the results.
5 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
6 Calendar 1383, those Senators voting in the
7 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
8 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Felder, Gallivan, Griffo,
9 Helming, Martinez, Martins, Mattera, Murray,
10 Oberacker, O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads,
11 Rolison, Stec, Tedisco, Weber and Weik.
12 Ayes, 39. Nays, 21.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 1389, Senate Print 5122, by Senator Rivera, an
17 act to amend the Public Health Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
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1 the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
3 Calendar 1389, voting in the negative:
4 Senator Felder.
5 Ayes, 59. Nays, 1.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 1395, Senate Print 7286A, by Senator Martinez, an
10 act to amend the Tax Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
14 act shall take effect on the first of April.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
19 the results.
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 1400, Senate Print 8486B, by Senator Hinchey, an
25 act to amend the Social Services Law.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect on the first of October.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
9 Hinchey to explain her vote.
10 SENATOR HINCHEY: Thank you,
11 Madam President.
12 I am incredibly excited that we are
13 passing a package of bills to support our EMS
14 providers today. These are folks who take time
15 out of their day, they leave their families'
16 birthday parties, they go to calls in the middle
17 of the night -- many volunteers -- to provide
18 healthcare services to people all across our
19 communities.
20 And in communities like mine, but
21 really across the entire state, our EMS providers
22 are the frontline of healthcare. In communities
23 across our state, I'll say specifically in
24 Greene County, a county without a hospital, we
25 are dependent on our EMS providers to save lives
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1 and triage for what may take over an hour to get
2 to a hospital.
3 There are a number of incredible
4 bills in this EMS package today, but this bill is
5 one that I'm really proud to sponsor, which will
6 actually start to reimburse EMS providers for
7 treatment in place. If they get called to a
8 scene and they have to provide care, right now
9 they do not get reimbursed for that work. What
10 this bill does is actually provide reimbursement
11 through Medicaid for that treatment.
12 This bill also allows our EMS
13 providers to transport folks, and get paid for
14 it, to alternative locations other than a
15 hospital. Not everyone needs to go to a
16 hospital. They may need an urgent care. They
17 may need a mental health facility. They may need
18 another type of location. And instead of being
19 able to go to one of those places, they have to
20 go to a hospital. That puts extenuating
21 circumstances, extenuating challenges in our
22 hospital system, and this bill will change that.
23 I want to thank everyone who worked
24 on this bill with us, including the Legislative
25 Commission on Rural Resources, our entire
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1 commission of EMS providers, and especially the
2 leader for bringing this bill forward, and this
3 entire package.
4 I vote aye. Thank you.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
6 Hinchey to be recorded in the affirmative.
7 Announce the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 1401, Assembly Bill Number 9349, by
13 Assemblymember Pheffer Amato, an act to amend the
14 Civil Service Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4625
1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1404, Senate Print 700, by Senator Comrie, an act
4 to amend the General Business Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect on the 180th day after it
9 shall have become a law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
14 the results.
15 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
16 Calendar 1404, those Senators voting in the
17 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
18 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
19 Lanza, Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker,
20 O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Rolison, Stec,
21 Tedisco, Weber and Weik.
22 Ayes. 40. Nays, 20.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
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1 1419, Assembly Bill Number 9144, by
2 Assemblymember Thiele, an act to amend the
3 Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
12 the results.
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 1420, Senate Print 8683A, by Senator Parker, an
18 act to amend the Cannabis Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
22 act shall take effect immediately.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
2 the results.
3 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
4 Calendar Number 1420, those Senators voting in
5 the negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
6 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo,
7 Martinez, Martins, Mattera, Murray, O'Mara, Ortt,
8 Palumbo, Rhoads, Stec, Tedisco and Weik.
9 Ayes, 44. Nays, 16.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1440, Senate Print 9282, by Senator Stec, an act
14 to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
25 Calendar Number 1440, voting in the negative:
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1 Senator Martinez.
2 Ayes, 60. Nays, 1.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 1447, Senate Print 5798, by Senator Fernandez, an
7 act to amend the Civil Rights Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
18 Calendar 1447, those Senators voting in the
19 negative are Senators Ashby, Borrello,
20 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming,
21 Martins, Mattera, Murray, Oberacker, O'Mara,
22 Ortt, Palumbo, Rhoads, Stec, Tedisco, Weber and
23 Weik. Also Senator Lanza.
24 Ayes, 42. Nays, 19.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
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1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1462, Senate Print 6350B, by Senator May, an act
4 to amend the Education Law.
5 SENATOR LANZA: Lay it aside.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
7 is laid aside.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 1464, Senate Print 7669A, by Senator Ortt, an act
10 to amend Chapter 672 of the Laws of 1993.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
19 the results.
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 1465, Senate Print 7670, by Senator Ortt, an act
25 to amend Chapter 672 of the Laws of 1993.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
9 the results.
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 1467, Assembly Bill Number 2885A, by
15 Assemblymember Rosenthal, an act to amend the
16 Public Health Law.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
20 act shall take effect immediately.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
25 Gounardes to explain his vote.
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1 SENATOR GOUNARDES: Thank you,
2 Madam President.
3 This bill, like so many of the bills
4 that we pass, came to me from a constituent,
5 Lucia Zaremba, a young girl who lives in
6 Bay Ridge. And it's the classic story of, you
7 know, there ought to be a law to protect people.
8 And Lucia reached out to my office
9 and told me the story about how her brother, who
10 suffers from a food allergy, came into contact
11 with the food that he was allergic to and then
12 went into anaphylactic shock. And as he was on
13 the floor and his mother -- before she reached
14 for her EpiPen, her brother John said: "Mommy,
15 Mommy, I don't want to die, please help me." And
16 thank God that his mother had an EpiPen to
17 administer to him to help save his life.
18 And she got to thinking, like what
19 if we didn't have an EpiPen on hand? What if we
20 were out somewhere in public and we forgot the
21 EpiPen or there was nothing nearby?
22 And so she came to me with this idea
23 to say, we should require places of public
24 assembly, public venues, to have EpiPens just
25 like we do AED machines and other things to help
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1 save people's lives in case something goes wrong.
2 And so I'm really thankful to my
3 colleagues today for supporting this measure. I
4 want to thank Lucia Zaremba for bringing this
5 bill to my attention. And I want to thank her
6 for all of her advocacy with her classmates and
7 her family to help push to get this bill over the
8 finish line.
9 And with that, I proudly vote aye.
10 Thank you.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
12 Gounardes to be recorded in the affirmative.
13 Announce the results.
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 1470, Senate Print 4146B, by Senator Cooney, an
19 act to amend the General Business Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
23 act shall take effect on the 180th day after it
24 shall have become a law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
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1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
4 the results.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 1482, Senate Print 6550A, by Senator Mayer, an
10 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is a
12 home-rule message at the desk.
13 Read the last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
22 Calendar Number 1482, voting in the negative:
23 Senator Skoufis.
24 Ayes, 60. Nays, 1.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
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1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1490, Senate Print 7765, by Senator Ryan, an act
4 in relation to enacting the City of Buffalo
5 Historic Preservation Receivership Act.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
7 last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 12. This
9 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
10 shall have become a law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1496, Senate Print 8119B, by Senator Fernandez,
21 an act to amend the Veterans' Services Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
25 act shall take effect on the 150th day after it
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1 shall have become a law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 1497, Senate Print 8124, by Senator May, an act
12 to direct the Department of Economic Development
13 to move the Central New York Welcome Center to
14 the Equal Rights Heritage Center in the City of
15 Auburn.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
19 act shall take effect immediately.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
24 the results.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 1513, Senate Print 8779, by Senator Skoufis, an
5 act to ratify and confirm the creation of Water
6 District No. 14 of the Town of Monroe.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is a
8 home-rule message at the desk.
9 Read the last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1522, Senate Print 9034, by Senator Cooney, an
22 act to amend the Criminal Procedure Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
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1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 1524, Senate Print 9059, by Senator Skoufis, an
12 act to amend Chapter 602 of the Laws of 1993.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
21 the results.
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
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1 1526, Senate Print Number 9122, by
2 Senator Stewart-Cousins, an act to amend
3 Chapter 329 of the Laws of 2015.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is a
5 home-rule message at the desk.
6 Read the last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect immediately.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
13 the results.
14 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
15 Calendar 1526, voting in the negative:
16 Senator Skoufis.
17 Ayes, 60. Nays, 1.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1528, Senate Print 9233, by Senator Cooney, an
22 act to amend Part C of Chapter 97 of the Laws of
23 2011.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
25 last section.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
7 the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 1529, Assembly Bill Number 9580, by
13 Assemblymember Lavine, an act to amend
14 Chapter 401 of the Laws of 2002.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
25 Calendar 1529, voting in the negative:
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1 Senator Skoufis.
2 Ayes, 60. Nays, 1.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 1531, Senate Print 9291, by Senator Mayer, an act
7 to amend Chapter 471 of the Laws of 2023.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is a
9 home-rule message at the desk.
10 Read the last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
12 act shall take effect immediately.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
14 roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
17 the results.
18 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
20 is passed.
21 Senator Gianaris, that completes the
22 reading of today's calendar.
23 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
24 Madam President.
25 To clarify for the record, I think
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1 when we passed Calendar 1166 it was read as a
2 Senator Bailey bill. In fact, that was a
3 Senator Brouk bill. But I know it passed, so I
4 just wanted to clarify the transcript on that.
5 And before we move on to the
6 controversial calendar, if we could return to
7 resolutions and take up previously adopted
8 Resolution 1763, by Senator Sepúlveda, read its
9 title and recognize Senator Sepúlveda.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
11 Secretary will read.
12 THE SECRETARY: Resolution 1763, by
13 Senator Sepúlveda, memorializing Governor
14 Kathy Hochul to proclaim May 14, 2024, as
15 Taiwan Heritage Day in the State of New York.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
17 Sepúlveda on the resolution.
18 SENATOR SEPÚLVEDA: Thank you,
19 Madam Speaker, for allowing me to speak on this
20 resolution.
21 For the last 12 years -- six in the
22 Senate and six in the Assembly -- I've presented
23 a resolution to mark May 14th as Taiwan Heritage
24 Day in the State of New York.
25 New York celebrates a deep and
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1 enduring relationship that extends beyond mere
2 diplomacy to the very fabric of our communities.
3 This occasion honors the rich cultural heritage
4 of Taiwan and the strong bonds that unite Taiwan
5 and the United States.
6 This year we also celebrate the
7 45th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act,
8 which has been essential in nurturing a robust
9 partnership between our nations, rooted in shared
10 economic interest and mutual respect.
11 Our bilateral trade exemplifies the
12 strength, reaching nearly $117 billion last year.
13 It showcases the vibrant economic ties that
14 benefit both of our peoples.
15 Taiwan and New York share a dynamic
16 economic relationship, with New York exporting
17 over $1.2 billion in goods to Taiwan last year
18 alone, supporting thousands and thousands of
19 local jobs.
20 The presence of numerous Taiwanese
21 companies in New York and investment from
22 New York's top businesses in Taiwan have created
23 a beneficial cycle of economic growth and
24 opportunity that strengthens both of our regions.
25 Our cooperation extends into
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1 education through initiatives that enhance
2 international learning and understanding, further
3 connecting our cultures. This educational
4 exchange enriches the experiences of students and
5 educators alike, both in Taiwan and New York.
6 Today I am also proud to acknowledge
7 Senator John Liu and Senator Chu, two
8 distinguished Taiwanese Americans whose
9 dedication significantly enriches our legislative
10 body and exemplifies the profound contributions
11 of the Taiwanese American community here in
12 New York.
13 I also want to thank both of them
14 for allowing me to continue presenting this
15 resolution into the 12th year.
16 Let us continue to foster this
17 fruitful partnership which deepens our ties to
18 cultural exchanges and economic collaboration.
19 These efforts not only benefit our present but
20 pave the way for a legacy of international
21 cooperation and mutual respect.
22 From a personal experience, I have
23 visited Taiwan on a couple of occasions, and it
24 is an absolutely beautiful country. It is a
25 country where maybe we can learn some things.
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1 One particular topic is that Taiwan
2 has universal healthcare. In Taiwan, unlike this
3 country, healthcare is considered a universal
4 right, a right as a citizen, a right to every
5 individual. We can learn much from that that so
6 we can have, one day, universal healthcare in
7 this state and in this country.
8 I want to thank all the individuals
9 that are here today, including TECO Deputy
10 Director General Lishan Chang; TECO Director of
11 Political Division Fuyuan Liu; Mr. Tony Chuy,
12 who's the president of the Chinese Consolidated
13 Benevolent Association; Mr. Justin Yu, advisor to
14 the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association
15 of New York; Mrs. Patsy Chen, vice president of
16 the Taiwanese Center of New York; Mr. Sam Lin,
17 president of the Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce of
18 New York; Mr. Yong-de Tsai, deputy speaker from
19 Yulin County Council; Mr. Winston Liao, chairman
20 of the Taiwanese American Association;
21 Mr. Forrest Chen, TECO director of cultural
22 center.
23 Thank you for being here. Thank
24 you, Taiwan. Thank you for your friendship with
25 New York State and our country.
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1 And we must always stand together to
2 defend the borders of Taiwan. Thank you.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
4 Senator Sepúlveda.
5 Senator Chu on the resolution.
6 SENATOR CHU: Thank you,
7 Madam President.
8 I rise today to wholeheartedly
9 support this resolution because it holds profound
10 significance not just for the Taiwanese American
11 community but for those who value diversity and
12 cultural richness. As a Taiwanese immigrant who
13 lived in Taiwan for 27 years of my life, my
14 heritage fills me with immense pride. My
15 Taiwanese roots have shaped who I am, how I see
16 the world, and how I will continue to bring my
17 heritage into the work I do in this chamber every
18 day, ensuring that the values of diversity and
19 community that define my heritage are reflected
20 in my efforts to serve my constituents with
21 diligence and compassion.
22 I want to thank Senator Sepúlveda
23 for continuing to highlight the importance of the
24 Taiwanese heritage through this resolution, and I
25 encourage all my colleagues in these final days
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1 of AAPI Heritage Month to continue to raise
2 awareness for the issues surrounding the AAPI
3 communities within your district.
4 Thank you, Madam President.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
6 Senator Chu.
7 Senator Liu on the resolution.
8 SENATOR LIU: Thank you,
9 Madam President, for the opportunity to speak.
10 I want to thank my brother from
11 Taiwan, Senator Luis Sepúlveda --
12 (Laughter.)
13 SENATOR LIU: -- for once again,
14 after many years of doing so, presenting this
15 resolution on behalf of Taiwan.
16 We have a burgeoning and vibrant
17 Taiwanese community here in New York State. It's
18 a community that I'm proud to hail from, along
19 with Senator Iwen Chu.
20 You know, there's a lot that can be
21 said about Taiwan. I will only be concise that
22 in the face of great adversity, Taiwan continues
23 to be a beacon of hope for everyone around the
24 world, including many of us right here in the
25 United States and certainly here in New York.
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1 Taiwan is a beacon of democracy, of
2 progressive social values. Senator Sepúlveda
3 mentioned the universal healthcare. It is a
4 place that has the best cuisine in the world --
5 no offense to any of my colleagues across the
6 aisle -- and it certainly is the new face of
7 technology, where companies in Taiwan are
8 investing several billion dollars right here in
9 our state.
10 So there's a lot to celebrate today,
11 and I'm so happy that many of our colleagues were
12 able to join us on the third floor of the LOB in
13 celebration of Taiwan Day.
14 Thank you, Madam President, for
15 giving us all this opportunity to not only talk
16 about Taiwan but also to greet our visitors, both
17 here, with our deputy director of TECO; the mayor
18 of Chinatown, Tony Chuy, the president of the
19 Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; and
20 all of our colleagues and community leaders in
21 the balcony.
22 Thank you, Madam President.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
24 Senator Liu.
25 Senator Borrello on the resolution.
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1 SENATOR BORRELLO: Thank you,
2 Madam President.
3 I want to associate myself with all
4 of the comments of my colleagues.
5 You know, Taiwan is the modern-day
6 David and Goliath story. And we stand with them
7 in their pursuit of preserving democracy against
8 a great tyranny in this world. So God bless
9 Taiwan, and Godspeed.
10 Thank you.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
12 Senator Borrello.
13 The resolution was previously
14 adopted on February 6th.
15 To our guests who are here to join
16 us here today, we welcome you on behalf of the
17 Senate. We extend to you all the privileges and
18 courtesies of the house.
19 Please rise and be recognized.
20 (Standing ovation.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
22 Gianaris.
23 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
24 so it turns out we didn't read the wrong name
25 earlier, we read the wrong bill number.
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1 (Laughter.)
2 SENATOR GIANARIS: So can we now
3 take up Calendar 1166, and then we will soon
4 recall the bill that we erroneously took up.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
6 Secretary will read.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 1166, Senate Print 9017, by Senator Brouk, an act
9 to amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
21 is passed.
22 Senator Gianaris.
23 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
24 Madam President.
25 So I believe that concludes the
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1 noncontroversial calendar. We will return
2 shortly to take up the motion recalling that one
3 bill that was erroneously taken up.
4 But in the meantime, let us move on
5 to the controversial calendar, beginning with
6 Calendar 964.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
8 Secretary will ring the bell.
9 The Secretary will read.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 964, Assembly Bill Number 1745A, by
12 Assemblymember Dinowitz, an act to amend the
13 Public Service Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
15 O'Mara, why do you rise?
16 SENATOR O'MARA: Yes,
17 Madam President. I have a few questions, if the
18 sponsor would be willing to answer some.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Will the
20 sponsor yield? Senator Comrie, do you yield?
21 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes, I yield.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
23 Senator yields.
24 SENATOR O'MARA: Thank you,
25 Senator.
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1 I've just got a couple of clarifying
2 questions on this bill. And I understand it's
3 expanding the complaint review process on
4 utilities, whether public or private, expanding
5 it to all customers, businesses in addition to
6 residential that's been in the law. And I
7 understand that.
8 But in paragraph 1 of the
9 complaint-handling procedures, it talks about
10 prompt reporting to the complainant within
11 15 days after the result of such investigation
12 for a utility or 30 days after the result of an
13 investigation for a municipality.
14 That investigation referred to in
15 there is being completed by the utility or the
16 commission?
17 SENATOR COMRIE: Commission.
18 SENATOR O'MARA: It's being -- by
19 the commission.
20 So the commission, then, are they
21 required to produce a written determination?
22 SENATOR COMRIE: This bill would
23 require them to produce a -- I'm sorry, through
24 you, Madam President. This bill would require
25 the commission to produce a written result and
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1 determination.
2 That has not happened before. And,
3 you know, just to clarify, we've had a lot of
4 constituents that have gone through hell, they've
5 gone through, you know, problems with emergency
6 shutdowns or utilities with -- or issues where
7 either through flood or broken poles, they've
8 gone up to three weeks and not gotten repairs.
9 And then they contact the PSC and they get no
10 timeline about when they're going to get a
11 response to what happened to them.
12 So this bill would clear that up and
13 make the PSC follow through on the complaint and
14 give them a response in writing.
15 SENATOR O'MARA: Thank you,
16 Senator.
17 If the Senator will continue to
18 yield.
19 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
21 continue to yield?
22 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes,
23 Madam President.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
25 Senator yields.
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1 SENATOR O'MARA: I agree
2 wholeheartedly, Senator, with the desire to get
3 prompt and accurate determinations by the
4 commission, because there have been problems
5 throughout I think all of our districts and the
6 various utilities that serve constituents around
7 the state.
8 But this bill requires that the
9 determination be provided to the complainant, the
10 customer, within 15 days or 30 days. There's no
11 definition for what -- a prompt determination of
12 the complaint, though, is there?
13 SENATOR COMRIE: This bill would
14 require the utility -- that the Public Service
15 Commission give the consumer, the customer, the
16 homeowner, a -- what we mean by prompt is coming
17 within the 15 or 30 days.
18 So I'm not sure if your question is
19 what is the definition of prompt. We didn't
20 define that. But the object to make sure that
21 they get a response within a timely fashion.
22 SENATOR O'MARA: Thank you,
23 Senator.
24 Madam President, if the Senator will
25 continue to yield.
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1 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
3 continue to yield, Senator Comrie?
4 Yes, the Senator yields.
5 SENATOR O'MARA: So it's your
6 intent with this legislation that the
7 investigation by the commission be completed and
8 a ruling made within 15 days or 30 days?
9 SENATOR COMRIE: Yeah. Yeah.
10 SENATOR O'MARA: Or just that that
11 decision be conveyed to the complainant 15 or
12 30 days after that determination is made?
13 SENATOR COMRIE: That the complaint
14 is given to -- in writing to the constituent
15 within 15 or 30 days after the investigation is
16 completed.
17 SENATOR O'MARA: So through you,
18 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
19 yield.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Are you
21 asking if the Senator will continue to yield?
22 SENATOR O'MARA: Yes.
23 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
25 Senator yields.
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1 SENATOR O'MARA: So there is no 15-
2 or 30-day time limit on the investigation taking
3 place, it's the delivering of that determination,
4 after it's made, to the complainant.
5 SENATOR COMRIE: Just
6 double-checking.
7 There is no time limit on the
8 investigation. We want the investigations to be
9 done thoroughly and -- so that they won't have
10 any further complaints or concerns. But once the
11 investigation is completed, we want them to have
12 a response within 15 or 30 days.
13 SENATOR O'MARA: Okay. Thank you,
14 Senator.
15 Madam President, if the sponsor will
16 continue to yield.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
18 continue to yield?
19 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
21 Senator yields.
22 SENATOR O'MARA: And it requires
23 that the report be in writing -- again, in
24 Section 1, that the determination shall be in
25 writing -- that the report shall be in writing.
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1 Is that in writing by the commission or by the
2 utility?
3 SENATOR COMRIE: Through you,
4 Madam President, by the commission.
5 The commission will do a report
6 where they reach out to the utility, reach out to
7 sometimes the community and sometimes the police,
8 depending on what the situation is. They have to
9 do a full investigation. Once they get all of
10 that information, they'll put it in writing to
11 the constituent.
12 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
13 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
14 yield.
15 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
17 Senator yields.
18 SENATOR O'MARA: And then at that
19 point that the utility receives that report back,
20 that determination of the initial investigation,
21 they -- the commission provides it to the utility
22 in writing, and then this bill is requiring that
23 report to be conveyed to the complainant within
24 15 days or 30 days.
25 SENATOR COMRIE: Correct. Yes.
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1 SENATOR O'MARA: Now, through you,
2 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
3 yield.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
5 continue to yield?
6 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
8 Comrie yields.
9 SENATOR O'MARA: It says that that
10 report shall be in writing, which we've talked
11 about, and provide all supporting documentation.
12 Is all that supporting
13 documentation, is the commission required to
14 provide all that to the utility so that the
15 utility has it to be able to convey to the
16 complainant?
17 SENATOR COMRIE: Through you,
18 Madam President. All that information has to be
19 included in the determination and gathered
20 through the determination. It will be provided
21 to all parties that ask for it.
22 SENATOR O'MARA: Excuse me, all
23 parties that --
24 SENATOR COMRIE: That ask for it.
25 SENATOR O'MARA: That ask for it.
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1 Through you, Madam President, if the
2 sponsor will continue to yield.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
4 continue to yield?
5 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
7 Comrie yields.
8 SENATOR O'MARA: But the bill
9 explicitly says such report shall be in writing
10 and provide all supporting documentation. It
11 doesn't say anything about to anybody who
12 requests it.
13 SENATOR COMRIE: Through you,
14 Madam President. I don't see anyone other than
15 the utility or the constituent that would request
16 that document. That's why they -- I'm saying
17 that the primary people that would request it are
18 the people that were most affected or the utility
19 that may feel that they want to appeal the
20 ruling.
21 But I don't see -- I wouldn't -- I'm
22 sorry, I misspoke earlier. So it would go to the
23 utility or the customer. But it's not going to
24 be released to the general public.
25 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
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1 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
2 yield.
3 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
5 continue to yield?
6 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
8 Comrie yields.
9 SENATOR O'MARA: I'm not asking
10 whether it's going to be released to the general
11 public. But it says that the report shall be in
12 writing and provide all supporting documentation.
13 You said if a party requests it.
14 Because I don't see that in the language.
15 SENATOR COMRIE: Through you,
16 Madam President. As I said earlier, the -- when
17 they do the investigation to prepare the report,
18 they're going to have to reach out to all
19 affected parties, all parties that were involved,
20 whether it be the utility, whether it be the city
21 or the community or the municipality where the
22 incident occurred.
23 And then also the constituent wants
24 to know what the final outcome was and what the
25 detail was, and that would be provided to them in
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1 writing. The primary reason here is to try to
2 give the constituent some closure.
3 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
4 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
5 yield.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
7 continue to yield?
8 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
10 Senator yields.
11 SENATOR O'MARA: No, I agree,
12 Senator. And I'm just trying to clarify what's
13 required here. And that these determinations,
14 you know, be made promptly and conveyed promptly
15 and accurately to the complainant, because these
16 are very stressful situations for the complainant
17 in these situations.
18 Can this -- providing the report in
19 writing, with the supporting documentation, can
20 that be done electronically via email? Or does
21 it have to be a hard copy sent to the
22 complainant?
23 SENATOR COMRIE: We didn't specify
24 whether it should be done through email or hard
25 copy. So we didn't make a final -- we didn't
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1 make a -- it could be done the most efficient
2 way. I'm sure that if the constituent wanted it,
3 the PSC would, I would hope, have the compassion
4 to send it to them in writing if they just didn't
5 want it emailed.
6 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
7 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
8 yield.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
10 continue to yield?
11 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes, I continue.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
13 Senator yields.
14 SENATOR O'MARA: Senator, moving
15 down to paragraph 3 of the bill, you have removed
16 from existing law that the commission shall use
17 its best efforts to complete its investigation
18 and review and to issue within 90 days its final
19 written determination of any appeal, pursuant to
20 this section.
21 So now there's no 90-day timeline
22 for the commission to review the appeal?
23 SENATOR COMRIE: With climate
24 change there has been a higher volume of
25 complaints and, unfortunately, more incidents
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1 that have required investigation and review.
2 So we put in this flexibility so
3 that the Public Service Commission could have
4 more time to make all the determinations
5 possible.
6 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
7 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
8 yield.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
10 continue to yield?
11 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
13 Senator yields.
14 SENATOR O'MARA: So you've taken
15 out that 90-day goal to handle any appeal, and
16 you've instituted fines on the utility for not
17 timely providing the report from the commission
18 within either 15 days or 30 days. Yet there's no
19 time requirements here on the commission in
20 making that determination.
21 SENATOR COMRIE: So what the intent
22 was, was to make sure that we get from the
23 utility all of the information within the 15 to
24 30 days, or the 90-day maximum time, so that the
25 commission could then write the report and send
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1 it to the consumer.
2 So we're focused on pushing the
3 utility to do timely responses, not the
4 commission.
5 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
6 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
7 yield.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
9 continue to yield?
10 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
12 Senator yields.
13 SENATOR O'MARA: Just to clarify
14 here. The -- providing the investigation report
15 either in 15 days or 30 days, that's the specific
16 time requirement. Providing that report -- the
17 utility provides that report to the complainant
18 after the utility gets that determination from
19 the commission?
20 SENATOR COMRIE: No. I'm sorry,
21 through you, Madam President. The object is to
22 make sure that there's full clarity. And the
23 commission is asking the utility to provide the
24 report, which would go then to the commission,
25 who would -- the utility files their report of
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1 what happened, the incident, what their solutions
2 are, what was the problems behind it.
3 And then the commission puts a
4 report together to send to the constituent. So
5 it's not that the utility is sending a report
6 directly to the constituent.
7 SENATOR O'MARA: Right.
8 SENATOR COMRIE: Which they are
9 entitled to do if they want.
10 But the object is to make sure that
11 the utility sends a report to the commission,
12 which would then get it to the consumer or
13 homeowner.
14 SENATOR O'MARA: Through you,
15 Madam President, if the sponsor will continue to
16 yield.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Do you
18 continue to yield?
19 SENATOR COMRIE: Yes.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
21 Senator yields.
22 SENATOR O'MARA: I guess can you --
23 I'm not following you, I guess, clearly here.
24 Because the language clearly says that the prompt
25 reporting to the complainant has to be done by
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1 the utility within 15 or 30 days.
2 SENATOR COMRIE: Looking at the
3 language -- I'm sorry. Through you,
4 Madam President. I keep forgetting that part.
5 Through you, Madam President, the language needs
6 to be cleaned up on that, just to be honest.
7 The object is to get the utility to
8 get the information to the commission, which
9 would then get the information and the final
10 report to the consumer.
11 SENATOR O'MARA: Thank you,
12 Senator.
13 On the bill, I guess,
14 Madam President.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
16 O'Mara on the bill.
17 SENATOR O'MARA: I think there's
18 clearly some drafting issues in this legislation
19 for clarity.
20 I mean, I would respectfully request
21 the Senator lay this aside to make those changes
22 that need to clarify this.
23 But, you know, I think the -- both
24 the Public Service Commission and the utilities
25 should be engaged in determining what this
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1 language really means, because it's not clear.
2 It doesn't appear to be serving the purpose of
3 expediting determinations on complaints. It
4 merely sets a time frame for the utility -- once
5 they get that determination from the Public
6 Service Commission, it sets a time period of
7 15 days or 30 days, depending on the type of
8 utility, to get that report to the complainant.
9 There's absolutely no time frames in
10 here when the commission has to make these
11 determinations. Which leaves our constituents,
12 the complainants out there, hanging in limbo
13 waiting for an undisclosed time period.
14 So this I don't -- I think it fails
15 to do what the intended purpose of this bill
16 does. It -- and it just needs more work,
17 Madam President.
18 Thank you, I'll be voting no.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
20 Senator O'Mara.
21 Are there any other Senators wishing
22 to be heard?
23 Seeing and hearing none, the debate
24 is closed.
25 Senator Gianaris.
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1 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
2 we're going to restore this to the
3 noncontroversial calendar.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
5 is restored to the noncontroversial calendar.
6 Read the last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
9 shall have become a law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
14 Comrie to explain his vote.
15 SENATOR COMRIE: I want to thank
16 Senator O'Mara for his insightful issues on this
17 bill.
18 The bill is purposely done so that
19 we can try to get closure for homeowners, for
20 ratepayers, for utility customers.
21 I expect that your issues will be
22 cleaned up, because we want to make sure that
23 we're providing service. I am not happy with the
24 Public Service Commission in general. I would
25 really rather do tighter timelines for them and
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1 make sure that they're actually more responsive
2 to consumers.
3 But we're going to work with this
4 and make sure that at the end of the day we fight
5 to ensure that our consumers, that our folks --
6 especially people that went through a horrible
7 experience because of a utility breakdown or
8 because of a storm or a flood -- can get some
9 relief and get some final responses in a manner
10 that they can appreciate and respect.
11 And I think that we as a state need
12 to do more to ensure that the Public Service
13 Commission is being responsive. We already are
14 unhappy with the way that they resolve rate
15 issues and other issues. And I think that we
16 need to as a body focus on improving how we treat
17 our customers, especially those who have suffered
18 a major loss.
19 So thank you for bringing this up.
20 We will make sure that those fixes are done in a
21 proper way. Thank you.
22 Thank you, Madam President.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
24 Comrie to be recorded in the affirmative.
25 Announce the results.
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1 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
2 Calendar 964, those Senators voting in the
3 negative are Senators Ashby,
4 Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, Gallivan, Helming,
5 Martins, O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Stec, Tedisco and
6 Weber. Also Senators Borrello and Rhoads.
7 Ayes, 48. Nays, 13.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
9 is passed.
10 Senator Gianaris.
11 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
12 the remaining bill, Calendar 1462, we're going to
13 lay aside for the day so we can give everyone the
14 opportunity to get to Senate Club tonight.
15 We still have -- you want to lay
16 that aside? So that's laid aside, correct,
17 Madam President?
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
19 is laid aside for the day.
20 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
21 Madam President.
22 So going back now to resolutions,
23 quickly, can we take up previously adopted
24 Resolutions 2469, 2470, and 2551 all at once, by
25 Senator Harckham, read their titles and recognize
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1 Senator Harckham.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
3 Secretary will read.
4 THE SECRETARY: Resolution 2469, by
5 Senator Harckham, mourning the death of
6 Jose Colon, beloved family man, devoted law
7 enforcement officer, and active member of his
8 community.
9 Resolution 2470, by
10 Senator Harckham, mourning the death of
11 Sergeant Richard T. Gurniak, beloved family man
12 and active member of his community.
13 Resolution 2551, by
14 Senator Harckham, mourning the death of
15 Alfred Robert Mosiello, Jr., beloved family man,
16 devoted law enforcement officer, and
17 distinguished member of his community.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
19 Harckham on the resolutions.
20 SENATOR HARCKHAM: Thank you,
21 Madam President.
22 I'm proud to rise to speak on these
23 three resolutions and proud to share them with
24 Senator Rolison, as we share Putnam County.
25 Last week was Law Enforcement
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1 Appreciation Day, and we spoke of our admiration
2 for those who put on the uniform for us each and
3 every day to keep us safe and out of harm's way.
4 And we spoke of policing as a family. And I
5 alluded to the fact that the police family in
6 Putnam County was hurting. We've had three
7 losses in a very short amount of time.
8 Brewster is a very small village
9 about an hour north of Manhattan. And a very
10 small police department working hard, making
11 strides to improve its relationships with a large
12 immigrant community. And within the matter of a
13 week, two officers in Brewster died.
14 Sergeant Richard Gurniak -- or Rick,
15 as he was known to his friends -- was a 30-year
16 career NYPD officer, retired. And as is often
17 the case with small suburban police departments,
18 retired NYPD officers fill the ranks. And he was
19 a local boy; he was from Rockland County, served
20 30 years in the NYPD, and then joined the
21 Brewster Police Department. His favorite
22 activity was playing golf with his brothers and
23 his nephews.
24 And also from -- about a week later,
25 tragically -- from the Brewster Police Department
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1 was Officer Jose Colon. And he began his career
2 in the United States Army, and in 2000 he joined
3 the NYPD. He was a first responder at 9/11. And
4 he continued his career and then just recently,
5 in March of 2024, he was sworn in as a Brewster
6 police officer. And left behind a wife and
7 several children and several grandchildren.
8 And then if that were not enough,
9 another officer, who lived in Putnam County but
10 served the Westchester County Police -- and so
11 the Westchester County community is mourning as
12 well -- it was Officer Alfred Mosiello, or Ally,
13 as he was known to his friends.
14 And he started his career in 2013 in
15 the Village of Pelham Manor. In 2021 he joined
16 the Westchester County Police and was a member of
17 the elite Patrol Service Division. He also
18 enjoyed and was a local football hero from
19 Mahopac High School in Putnam. And he left
20 behind a wife of 15 years and two small children.
21 So I say this, Madam President, to
22 put a human face on people who made a difference
23 in their communities, people who made a
24 difference to their fellow officers, and
25 certainly people who meant something to their
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1 family. And it's important that we in this body
2 recognize their work, we recognize their passing,
3 and we send our love and our prayers to their
4 families and are here for them.
5 So I thank you for your indulgence,
6 Madam President, and on all three resolutions I
7 will be voting aye.
8 Thank you.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Thank
10 you.
11 Senator Rolison on the resolutions.
12 SENATOR ROLISON: Thank you,
13 Madam President.
14 And I want to thank my colleague and
15 my friend Senator Harckham for recognizing and
16 memorializing these three officers.
17 The tragedies in Brewster hitting a
18 small village, I saw the news coverage of one
19 officer passing and then another officer passing.
20 And I could only imagine how that department
21 felt, how that community felt, how those family
22 members felt losing a loved one. And then the
23 tragedy in Putnam Valley with Officer Mosiello.
24 Being a former police officer, when
25 you see the loss of life of a police officer,
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1 whether it's on the job or off the job, it hurts.
2 It hurts. Because you know of the work that
3 they've done and what they were doing.
4 Today my son Chris was here visiting
5 me in Albany, and he is a police officer in
6 Westchester. And then two Westchester County
7 police officers stopped by, and one of them
8 happened to be the very good friend of Officer
9 Masiello.
10 And I had mentioned to them,
11 Senator Harckham, that you were sponsoring a
12 resolution memorializing his life, a life of
13 service. And what he said was just what, you
14 know, this resolution says. This particular man,
15 who was a husband and a father, was all about his
16 family. And that's what he said right off the
17 bat.
18 And that particular day, when he
19 lost his life, he was with his family. And I can
20 only imagine, being a father myself, and my son
21 now is going to be 32 years old -- excuse me, 33
22 in August -- there's two young boys. And
23 everything was about them. What he was doing
24 that day was about them, in preparing a jungle
25 gym in the backyard.
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1 So we mourn their loss, but we also
2 remember their service and what they did for so
3 many people, as we've said on this floor before,
4 about people that -- they help people they didn't
5 even know. So in a way here today, we're doing
6 the same thing for them and their families.
7 Thank you, Senator Harckham. I
8 proudly but also sadly vote aye, memorializing
9 the deaths of these three heroes.
10 Thank you very much.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Thank
12 you, Senator.
13 Senator Mayer on the resolutions.
14 SENATOR MAYER: Thank you,
15 Madam President.
16 And I want to thank Senator Harckham
17 for these three resolutions. And I want to speak
18 on the very untimely death of Alfred Robert
19 Mosiello, Jr., as a Westchester County police
20 officer.
21 He was a person who was completely
22 dedicated to the service of his community,
23 service of the Westchester County Police. He was
24 extremely well respected and admired by his
25 colleagues. He was part of a distinguished
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1 family history of the Mosiello family from
2 Yonkers. Former Assemblyman Lou Mosiello was a
3 relative.
4 This is something that the Yonkers
5 police community felt deeply, as well as the
6 Westchester County Police Department felt deeply,
7 such a young man with so much promise, so much
8 future, and a dedication to his community.
9 We mourn his loss. We thank
10 Senator Harckham for ensuring that we speak about
11 him by name, as well as the other officers who
12 were lost.
13 I proudly vote aye on the
14 resolutions. Thank you, Madam Speaker.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Thank
16 you.
17 Resolutions 2469 and 2470 were
18 adopted on May 21st.
19 The question is on Resolution 2551.
20 All in favor signify by saying aye.
21 (Response of "Aye.")
22 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Opposed,
23 nay.
24 (No response.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD:
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1 Resolution 2564 {sic} is adopted.
2 Senator Gianaris.
3 SENATOR GIANARIS: Now let's move
4 on to Resolution 2564, by Senator Hinchey, read
5 its title and recognize Senator Hinchey.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
7 Secretary will read.
8 THE SECRETARY: Resolution 2564, by
9 Senator Hinchey, memorializing Governor Kathy
10 Hochul to proclaim June 2024 as Dairy Month in
11 the State of New York.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
13 Hinchey on the resolution.
14 SENATOR HINCHEY: Thank you,
15 Madam President.
16 I rise today to happily proclaim
17 June 2024 as Dairy Month in the State of
18 New York.
19 Earlier today we were able to have
20 Dairy Day in The Well, and we were talking about
21 how long we've had this, how many years have we
22 been able to celebrate Dairy Day. And while we
23 didn't have the exact number -- something that we
24 will look up -- we know it's been for decades.
25 And that's a really exciting thing, because dairy
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1 in New York is an incredibly important industry.
2 We are the largest sector of
3 New York's agricultural industry, and it has been
4 a key industry in New York for over 400 years.
5 We have some of the best dairy
6 products in New York that you can find anywhere
7 across our country, from our cheeses to our
8 yogurts to our milk to our ice cream. You name
9 it, we've got it, and it's the best.
10 Our dairy farmers work seven days a
11 week -- our dairy farmers and our dairy workers,
12 farmworkers, work seven days a week, rain or
13 shine, in the snow, in the heat. And they do it
14 to make sure that they can provide food to the
15 rest of us.
16 And it is incredibly important that
17 we support our dairy farmers and the dairy
18 industry here in New York State. And today, on
19 that topic, I'm proud that we were able to pass
20 the bill adding dairy surplus products into the
21 Nourish New York program.
22 That is an incredible win for our
23 dairy farmers and something that will not just
24 help our agricultural community but also the
25 folks who get the food from the Nourish New York
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1 program ensuring that everyone, no matter where
2 you live, what your economic status, you have
3 access to locally sourced, fresh, healthy food.
4 And that that includes dairy products is a great
5 thing. And so we were able to pass that today on
6 the floor.
7 I'm proud to vote in favor of this
8 resolution proclaiming June as Dairy Month, and I
9 thank you, Madam President.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Thank
11 you, Senator.
12 Senator Borrello on the resolution.
13 SENATOR BORRELLO: Thank you,
14 Madam President.
15 I also rise today to celebrate Dairy
16 Day. It was great to be down in The Well. Thank
17 you, Senator Hinchey. We had an amazing day.
18 And really, New York State has a
19 very diverse dairy business here. I am proud to
20 represent Wyoming County, the number-one
21 dairy-producing county in New York State, in the
22 eastern part of my district. There are more than
23 3200 dairy producers here in New York State, the
24 fifth largest in the nation.
25 And we also have some amazing,
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1 exciting things going on in our dairy industry.
2 The big agribusinesses like Great Lakes Cheese,
3 the largest, most state-of-the-art
4 cheese-producing plant in the nation, is now
5 located in Cattaraugus County.
6 Hood Dairy in Batavia is doing an
7 expansion, as well as Wells Ice Cream in Dunkirk,
8 New York, doing a major expansion for ice cream.
9 So we're very proud of the dairy industry in
10 New York State.
11 And I'll add that since we had to
12 wait till the end for this dairy resolution, I am
13 now going to list off all the cheeses made in my
14 district in alphabetical order, starting with
15 Alpine Cheddar.
16 (Laughter.)
17 SENATOR BORRELLO: Just kidding.
18 (Laughter.)
19 SENATOR BORRELLO: Happy Dairy Day.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Thank
21 you, Senator.
22 The previous resolution that was
23 adopted was Reso 2551, by Senator Harckham.
24 Now the question is on Reso 2564.
25 All in favor signify by saying aye.
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1 (Response of "Aye.")
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Opposed,
3 nay.
4 (No response.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
6 resolution is adopted.
7 Senator Gianaris.
8 SENATOR GIANARIS: Okay. Now
9 previously adopted Resolution 2119, by
10 Senator Mannion. Read that resolution's title
11 and recognize Senator Mannion, please.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
13 Secretary will read.
14 THE SECRETARY: Resolution 2119, by
15 Senator Mannion, mourning the death of Francine
16 Varisco-Magnarelli, distinguished citizen and
17 devoted member of her community.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Senator
19 Mannion on the resolution.
20 SENATOR MANNION: Thank you,
21 Madam President.
22 I rise today to recognize the
23 distinguished life of Francine
24 Varisco-Magnarelli, a devoted and dedicated
25 daughter of Central New York and member of
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1 well-known and respected families.
2 You can shape many lives in
3 30 years. And as a professor and chair of the
4 business department at Cazenovia College, that's
5 what Francine did.
6 Teachers are built differently, and
7 Francine reveled in learning and guiding others.
8 She always made time for her students and was
9 known to keep in touch with many of them well
10 after they graduated. As a former teacher, I can
11 relate.
12 Her fellow faculty members and many
13 friends and admirers described her as having a
14 cheerful disposition, caring attitude, and
15 dedication to student development. Her legacy is
16 the success of her students and the wisdom she
17 shared with so many. I'm sure she is looking
18 down proudly upon them today.
19 I send my deepest condolences to her
20 husband, Jim, and her children, Allison and Alex.
21 While we will always mourn the loss to our
22 community, we will find strength in celebrating
23 the life and achievements of Francine
24 Varisco-Magnarelli.
25 Thank you, Madam President. I vote
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1 aye.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: Thank
3 you, Senator.
4 The resolution was adopted on
5 April 9th.
6 Senator Gianaris.
7 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
8 all of today's resolutions are open for
9 cosponsorship.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
11 resolutions are open for cosponsorship. Should
12 you choose not to be a cosponsor, please notify
13 the desk.
14 Senator Gianaris.
15 SENATOR GIANARIS: Okay, back to
16 motions now.
17 Let's recall that bill. I wish to
18 call up Senate Print 1593, by Senator Bailey,
19 recalled from the Assembly, which is now at the
20 desk.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
22 Secretary will read.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 1156, Senate Print 1593, by Senator Bailey, an
25 act to amend the Executive Law.
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1 SENATOR GIANARIS: Move to
2 reconsider the vote by which the bill was passed.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
4 Secretary will call the roll on reconsideration.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The bill
8 is restored to its place on the Third Reading
9 Calendar.
10 SENATOR GIANARIS: Okay. Now on
11 behalf of Senator Cooney, on page 70, I offer the
12 following amendments to Calendar Number 1369,
13 Senate Print 9133, and ask that said bill retain
14 its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
16 amendments are received, and the bill will retain
17 its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
18 SENATOR GIANARIS: I also offer
19 amendments to the following Third Reading
20 Calendar bills:
21 By Senator Cleare, page 7,
22 Calendar Number 283, Senate Print 2921A;
23 By Senator Myrie, page 58,
24 Calendar Number 1236, Senate Print 220A;
25 Senator Krueger, page 36,
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1 Calendar Number 940, Senate Print 2605;
2 And Senator Scarcella-Spanton,
3 page 37, Calendar Number 947, Senate Print 8589.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: The
5 amendments are received, and the bills will
6 retain their place on the Third Reading Calendar.
7 SENATOR GIANARIS: Is there any
8 further business at the desk?
9 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: There is
10 no further business at the desk.
11 SENATOR GIANARIS: I move to
12 adjourn until tomorrow, Thursday, May 30th, at
13 11:00 a.m.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT PERSAUD: On
15 motion, the Senate stands adjourned until
16 Thursday, May 30th, at 11:00 a.m.
17 (Whereupon, at 6:08 p.m., the Senate
18 adjourned.)
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