Wednesday, January 24, 1996

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ALBANY, NEW YORK 9 January 24, 1996 10 11:00 a.m. 11 12 13 REGULAR SESSION 14 15 16 17 SENATOR JOHN R. KUHL, JR., Acting President 18 STEPHEN F. SLOAN, Secretary 19 20 21 22 23 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 3 Senate will come to order. Ask the members to 4 find their places, the staff to find their 5 places. Ask all of you to rise and join me in 6 saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. 7 (The assemblage repeated the 8 Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 9 In the absence of clergy, may we 10 all bow our heads in a moment of silence. 11 (A moment of silence was 12 observed.) 13 Reading of the Journal. 14 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 15 Tuesday, January 23rd. The Senate met pursuant 16 to adjournment. The Journal of Monday, January 17 22nd, was read and approved. On motion, the 18 Senate adjourned. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Hearing 20 no objection, the Journal stands approved as 21 read. 22 Presentation of petitions. 23 Messages from the Assembly. 1 Messages from the Governor. 2 Reports of standing committees. 3 Reports of select committees. 4 Motions and resolutions. 5 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The Chair 7 recognizes Senator Libous. 8 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, Mr. 9 President. 10 On behalf of Senator Stafford, 11 would we please place a star -- a sponsor's star 12 on Calendar Number 71. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: A 14 sponsor's star is placed on Calendar Number 71. 15 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 16 on behalf of Senator Cook, could we also place a 17 sponsor's star on Calendar Number 73. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: A star is 19 placed on Calendar Number 73 at the request of 20 the sponsor. 21 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 22 on page number 14, I offer the following 23 amendments to Calendar Number 127, Assembly 1 Print 5499, and ask that said bill retain its 2 place on the Third Reading Calendar. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 4 amendments are received and adopted. The bill 5 will retain its place on the Third Reading 6 Calendar. 7 Senator Libous. 8 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 9 on behalf of Senator Kuhl, I move that the 10 following bills be discharged from their 11 respective committees and be recommitted with 12 instructions to strike the enacting clause, and 13 I would be happy to read those numbers for you. 14 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: If you 15 would, please. 16 SENATOR LIBOUS: Senate Numbers 17 660, 1992, 3117, 3118, 3823. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 19 enacting clauses to those bills are stricken and 20 the bills are recommitted. 21 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, Mr. 22 President. 23 I have one more. 1 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Senator 2 Libous. 3 SENATOR LIBOUS: On behalf of 4 Senator Cook, Mr. President, on page 11, I offer 5 the following amendments to Calendar Number 103, 6 Assembly Print 4864-A, and ask that said bill 7 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 9 amendments are received and adopted. The bill 10 will retain its place on the Third Reading 11 Calendar. 12 Senator Bruno, that brings us to 13 the calendar. Are you ready for the calendar, 14 sir? 15 SENATOR BRUNO: Yes. Mr. 16 President, can you at this time recognize 17 Senator LaValle for the purposes of making an 18 announcement? 19 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The Chair 20 recognizes Senator LaValle. 21 SENATOR LAVALLE: Mr. President, 22 there will be an immediate meeting of the Higher 23 Education Committee in the Senate Majority 1 Conference Room. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Immediate 3 meeting of the Senate Committee on Higher 4 Education in the Majority Conference Room, Room 5 332. Immediate meeting of the Higher Education 6 Committee. 7 Senator Bruno. 8 SENATOR BRUNO: Mr. President, 9 can we at this time take up the non 10 controversial calendar. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 12 Secretary will read the non-controversial 13 calendar. 14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 15 15, by Senator Kuhl, Senate Print 1475-A, an act 16 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law and the 17 Vehicle and Traffic Law, in relation to 18 exempting farm vehicles from the Motor Vehicle 19 Financial Security Act. 20 SENATOR PATERSON: Lay it aside, 21 please. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Lay the 23 bill aside. 1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 2 17, by Senator Kuhl, Senate Print 3917-A, an act 3 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law, in 4 relation to the disposition of pro rata shares 5 paid into the milk producers security fund. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 7 Secretary will read the last section. 8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 9 act shall take effect immediately. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the 11 roll. 12 (The Secretary called the roll.) 13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 31. 14 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill 15 is passed. 16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 17 21, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 3291, an 18 act to amend the Education Law, in relation to 19 filing of notice of athletic scholarships. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 21 Secretary will read the last section. 22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 23 act shall take effect on the 90th day. 1 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the 2 roll. 3 (The Secretary called the roll.) 4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 31, nays 1, 5 Senator Wright recorded in the negative. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill 7 is passed. 8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 9 74, by Senator Volker, Senate Print 1474, an act 10 to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in 11 relation to suspensions for failure to answer. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 13 Secretary will read the last section. 14 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 15 act shall take effect on the 30th day. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the 17 roll. 18 (The Secretary called the roll.) 19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 32. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill 21 is passed. 22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 23 75, by Senator Goodman, Senate Print 2429, an 1 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in 2 relation to regulation of delivery bicycles. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 4 Secretary will read the last section. 5 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This 6 act shall take effect on the 90th day. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the 8 roll. 9 (The Secretary called the roll.) 10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 32. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill 12 is passed. 13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 14 76, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 4482, an 15 act authorizing the village of Port Jefferson 16 and the town of Riverhead in the county of 17 Suffolk to maintain traffic control devices. 18 SENATOR PATERSON: Lay it aside. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Lay the 20 bill aside. 21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 22 86, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 1720, an 23 act to amend the Public Authorities Law, in 1 relation to the financing and construction of 2 certain facilities for Little Flower Children's 3 Services of New York. 4 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 5 Secretary will read the last section. 6 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 7 act shall take effect immediately. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the 9 roll. 10 (The Secretary called the roll.) 11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 35. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill 13 is passed. 14 Senator Bruno, that completes the 15 non-controversial calendar, sir. 16 SENATOR BRUNO: Thank you, Mr. 17 President. 18 Can we at this time take up the 19 controversial calendar. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 21 Secretary will read the controversial calendar. 22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 23 15, by Senator Kuhl, Senate Print 1475-A, an act 1 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law and the 2 Vehicle and Traffic Law, in relation to 3 exempting farm vehicles from the Motor Vehicle 4 Financial Security Act. 5 SENATOR PATERSON: Explanation, 6 please. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 8 Senator Kuhl, an explanation has been asked for 9 by Senator Paterson. 10 SENATOR KUHL: Yes, Mr. 11 President. This bill is really quite simple. A 12 couple years ago, we passed a bill that placed a 13 requirement on farmers to provide individual 14 insurance policies for farm-plated vehicles, 15 farm-plated vehicles being the limited use 16 vehicles that are only used on a simple 17 occasion, for instance, like bringing cabbages 18 out of the field or maybe making an application 19 of fertilizer on a field in the spring. That 20 particular new requirement that we placed on 21 them has caused some farmers quite an expense, 22 and what this bill simply does is to remove a 23 requirement that we placed on them a short time 1 ago. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 3 Senator Paterson. 4 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you very 5 much, Mr. President. 6 I'm a little concerned about 7 those rare instances where there may be an 8 accident involving one of those vehicles, and I 9 was wondering if Senator Kuhl would yield for a 10 question and inform the members in the chamber, 11 and those listening in, as to whether or not 12 there are any records of what the accident rate 13 is for these farm vehicles. 14 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 15 Senator Kuhl, will you yield? 16 SENATOR KUHL: I'd be happy to 17 yield to that question. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 19 Senator Kuhl. 20 SENATOR KUHL: Mr. President, I 21 don't have with me the exact figures relative to 22 accidents, but I can tell you that one of the 23 reasons that we allow for limited use vehicles 1 to have different kinds of safety requirements 2 than the normal usage of -- of vehicles that we 3 have, whether they're 18-wheelers carrying large 4 quantities of produce or whether they just 5 happen to be normal cars, is that there is an 6 extremely low accident rate. 7 There are different criteria that 8 are required. For instance, in some cases you 9 don't have to have working lights on some of 10 these vehicles because they're only used during 11 the daytime and there's no requirement for 12 that. In some cases you don't have to have the 13 five-mile-an-hour bumper because they're just 14 not able to be kept in place, or working brake 15 lights, some of those kinds of things. There's 16 a specifically different standard for safety on 17 these vehicles because they're extremely limited 18 use and they're only going from -- in most 19 cases, from the field back to the farm which 20 might be just across the road, and what we did 21 is we placed the requirement that each one of 22 these vehicles have a separate individual 23 insurance policy on those vehicles. Most of the 1 farmers have a general liability policy that 2 would cover for any insurance purposes for 3 accidents that would occur. So this was one of 4 those unnecessary things that we didn't think 5 was going to be a major problem, but it has 6 arisen and it is. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 8 Senator Paterson. 9 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Read 11 the last section. 12 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Mr. 13 President. 14 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 15 Senator Dollinger. 16 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Just one 17 question for Senator Kuhl, if he'll yield. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 19 Senator Kuhl, will you yield? 20 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Just -- and I 21 apologize for - 22 SENATOR KUHL: I would be happy 23 to. 1 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 2 Senator Dollinger. 3 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Perhaps not 4 paying as close attention to Senator Paterson's 5 question and your answer to him, but this would 6 apply to licensed vehicles that are actually 7 licensed by the Department of Transportation? 8 Is there any - 9 SENATOR KUHL: Department of 10 Motor Vehicles, Senator. 11 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Excuse me, 12 the Department of Motor Vehicles. 13 SENATOR KUHL: Yes. 14 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Are there any 15 other vehicles that are licensed by the 16 Department of Motor Vehicles that do not have 17 liability insurance attached to them? 18 SENATOR KUHL: I don't know the 19 answer to that question, Senator. 20 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Okay. 21 SENATOR KUHL: My expertise is 22 not with motor vehicles across the broad 23 spectrum. I deal solely with the agricultural 1 issues. 2 SENATOR DOLLINGER: I understand. 3 On the bill, Mr. President. I 4 voted against this bill last year. I'm going to 5 vote against it again. I think that exempting 6 any category of vehicles that are licensed - 7 that actually get a license plate, that are 8 actually vehicles that are going to be using the 9 public highways, to exempt them from the minimum 10 liability insurance requirements creates a 11 danger, not only to the motorists or people who 12 may be involved in accidents -- they could be 13 pedestrians near the road; they could be other 14 motorists -- I think it creates an even greater 15 risk, unfortunately, to the farmer and that risk 16 is that they would be uninsured when their motor 17 vehicle is in an accident and, therefore, they 18 could be sued. All of their life's assets could 19 be tied up if the vehicle that they're driving 20 is involved in an accident, causes an accident 21 and the farmer may be at risk. 22 Although it's an added cost of 23 doing business, the whole purpose of insuring 1 these vehicles is to cut down on the bigger 2 liability risk of being uninsured. So I'm not 3 so sure that I agree with the sponsor that this 4 is necessarily good for farmers in the long run. 5 It may reduce their costs in the short run, but 6 in the long run it has a societal consequence 7 that I don't think is in the best interests of 8 the people of this state. 9 I will be voting no, Mr. 10 President. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 12 Senator Johnson, why do you rise? 13 SENATOR JOHNSON: Mr. President, 14 I have some familiarity with this issue and I 15 feel I should speak on it to perhaps reassure 16 Senator Dollinger and others. 17 It's been stated by Senator Kuhl 18 that the farmer's general liability covers 19 vehicles of limited use, such as farm vehicles. 20 This is not a normal license that you would 21 get. It's a farm vehicle license. When you 22 apply for this license plate, you have to fill 23 out a form stating where you're going to go with 1 this truck, and really you're only allowed to go 2 essentially from one field to another, or a 3 rented field down the road or possibly to the 4 dump and drop something off. This is not a 5 vehicle to be used in the manner of any normally 6 licensed vehicle. It's a very restricted use. 7 As I said, you have to file that when you apply 8 for it. 9 Farmers have been operating with 10 this type of a registration and with their 11 general liability coverage for more decades than 12 perhaps anyone here has resided in this state. 13 So I don't think, Senator, that there is a 14 problem that we need this coverage or this 15 change in licensing for the trucks. There's no 16 reason to do it. To go back to the old system 17 is perfectly adequate. There's been no epidemic 18 of unlicensed vehicles having accidents or 19 farmers going broke because their truck wasn't 20 insured. So I don't think there's a problem. I 21 think there was a big error made when this bill 22 was passed two years ago and it should be 23 rectified, and this bill will do it. 1 Thank you. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Read 3 the last section. 4 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 5 act shall take effect immediately. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Call 7 the roll. 8 (The Secretary called the roll.) 9 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 10 the negative on Calendar Number 15 are Senators 11 Abate, Dollinger, Kruger. Ayes 38, nays 3. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: The 13 bill is passed. 14 The Secretary will read. 15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 16 76, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 4482, an 17 act authorizing the village of Port Jefferson 18 and the town of Riverhead in the county of 19 Suffolk to maintain traffic control devices. 20 SENATOR PATERSON: Explanation. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 22 Senator LaValle, an explanation has been asked 23 for. 1 SENATOR LAVALLE: Mr. President, 2 this bill is really very straightforward. It 3 would allow the village of Port Jefferson and 4 the town of Riverhead on state highways to use 5 various devices to allow the safe passage of 6 pedestrians across state highways. 7 Right now in Suffolk County, 8 villages that have county roads are using 9 various traffic control devices, such as cones 10 with little signs on the top saying, "Stop for 11 pedestrians" or the traditional signs that roll 12 out onto the highway that we all are aware of as 13 young people when we crossed at a school 14 crossing. This would allow the village of Port 15 Jefferson and the town of Riverhead to use 16 similar devices so that pedestrians can cross 17 safely at very difficult intersections and give 18 them the same right that villages and other 19 towns have on county or town roads. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 21 Senator Paterson. 22 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you very 23 much, Mr. President, and I thank Senator LaValle 1 for the explanation. 2 If Senator LaValle would yield 3 for a question. 4 SENATOR LAVALLE: Yes, sir. 5 SENATOR PATERSON: We were in 6 contact with the Department of Transportation 7 about just a minor problem we have with the 8 legislation. We understand the concern and the 9 pedestrian safety and perhaps why the village of 10 Port Jefferson and -- I'm sorry -- and the town 11 of Riverhead would want to regulate the movement 12 of traffic to accommodate pedestrians, perhaps 13 by putting cones in the street and that kind of 14 thing, but the language of the legislation seems 15 to be very broad because what the language in 16 the legislation actually refers to is the 17 control of the movement of traffic, and this 18 alarms me to a certain degree that we are 19 allowing this village and this township, in a 20 sense, some controls that we may not be granting 21 around the state. 22 So, for instance, what are those 23 instrumentalities that would limit traffic? 1 Would they be stop lights? Would they be stop 2 signs? Would they be the use of radar; in other 3 words, where the village and the town would, in 4 a sense, supersede what every other municipality 5 in the county is adhering to? 6 So I just wanted to ask if the 7 language is, in your opinion, Senator, specific 8 enough to accommodate the need that the bill is 9 addressing very well, but at the same time 10 creating equity in the other counties and the 11 other townships and the other villages? 12 SENATOR LAVALLE: Of course, this 13 bill applies, Senator, as we've discussed, to 14 Port Jefferson and Riverhead who, on their own 15 have been, for some time, putting cones to allow 16 pedestrians to cross safely. 17 The Department of Transportation 18 has indicated to both municipalities that they 19 did not have the authority to do this, that 20 they, the state, wanted to, in essence, do their 21 own thing to safely control pedestrian traffic. 22 I live in the village of Port 23 Jefferson. It's a village of 7,000 people. We 1 have designated the village as a maritime 2 community and for those who have been or seen 3 pictures of Port Jefferson, it is a village that 4 could fit very nicely on a postcard and have it 5 labeled a New England village. 6 The DOT came in and said they 7 wanted to put pedestrian control devices, huge 8 poles with an arm across the main street of Port 9 Jefferson, that is a maritime community, a huge 10 sign that does not fit into the ambiance of the 11 community, and they wanted to do the same thing 12 in downtown Riverhead. Other communities, such 13 as Tupper Lake, I am told -- and we know as I've 14 indicated, Senator, that villages having county 15 roads use the same innocuous devices, cones, the 16 same cones that we use expletives to -- that 17 direct us on major highways in traffic onto the 18 shoulders of a highway. These innocent cones, 19 however, with a little sign saying to vehicles 20 "Stop" when pedestrians are crossing, work and 21 protect lives, and that's all we're talking 22 about in both the village of Port Jefferson and 23 Riverhead. We do not believe that it includes 1 anything else of radar traps, or so forth, 2 Senator. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 4 Senator Paterson. 5 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you, Mr. 6 President. 7 Actually, Senator LaValle, I 8 agree with this legislation. Having not spent 9 the time in Port Jefferson, I have visited it 10 and it is a beautiful town -- also Coram very 11 close to there, but the point that I'm making is 12 that actually, I think the legislation is good 13 and I think what you're trying to accomplish is 14 fine and when you have these townships and you 15 have a municipality where a department -- a 16 state department comes in and tries to put those 17 types of signs in, it really ruins the kind of 18 artistic and historical and cultural value to 19 have these kind of traffic controls that are out 20 of sync' with what the ambiance of the township 21 would be in Port Jefferson and -- but what we're 22 saying is the way it's written in the language, 23 it just says "control devices", and so at some 1 point in the future, should the village of Port 2 Jefferson or the town of Riverhead want to go 3 beyond that, for some reason, which is a reason 4 that neither you nor I might agree with, they 5 would be able to do that under this legislation, 6 and we thought that perhaps the specific types 7 of traffic controls might have been indicated in 8 the legislation. Had it been that way, we just 9 think it would have been more specific and more 10 clear. Otherwise, the intent of the legislation 11 is quite good and the need to avoid the uses of 12 the types of traffic controls that the 13 Department of Transportation would have wanted 14 to is certainly understandable. 15 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Read 16 the last section. 17 THE SECRETARY: Section 22. This 18 act shall take effect immediately. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Call 20 the roll. 21 (The Secretary called the roll.) 22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 44. 23 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: The 1 bill is passed. 2 SENATOR LEICHTER: Mr. President. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 4 Senator Leichter, why do you rise? 5 SENATOR LEICHTER: Mr. President, 6 may I have unanimous consent to be recorded in 7 the negative on Calendar Number 15? 8 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 9 Without objection, so ordered. 10 Senator Skelos, that completes 11 the controversial reading of the calendar. 12 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 13 if we could return to reports of standing 14 committees, I believe there is a report from the 15 Higher Education Committee at the desk. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 17 Reports of standing committees. The Secretary 18 will read. 19 THE SECRETARY: Senator LaValle, 20 from the Higher Education Committee, offers up 21 the following bill directly for third reading: 22 Senate Print 5029-A, by Senator 23 LaValle, an act to amend the Education Law and 1 the New York State Medical Care Facilities 2 Finance Agency Act, in relation to the 3 administration, management and operation of 4 hospitals. 5 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 6 Without objection, all bills directly to third 7 reading. 8 Senator Skelos. 9 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, I 10 offer up the following committee changes on 11 behalf of Senator Bruno and ask that they be 12 read and filed in the Journal. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: The 14 Secretary will read. 15 THE SECRETARY: Senator Bruno 16 hands up the following committee changes: 17 Racing, Gaming and Wagering: 18 Senator Larkin, Chair, Stafford, DeFrancisco, 19 Farley, Hoblock, Nozzolio, Rath, Sears and 20 Spano. 21 Local Governments: Larkin off. 22 Ethics: Marcellino off. 23 Water Resources: Tully, Chair, 1 Trunzo, Lack, Goodman, Marcellino and Maziarz. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Filed 3 in the Journal. 4 Senator Skelos. 5 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 6 is there any housekeeping at the desk? 7 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Yes, 8 Senator, there is. 9 SENATOR RATH: Mr. President. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 11 Senator Rath, why do you rise? 12 SENATOR RATH: Mr. President - 13 Mr. President, I move to recommit Senate Print 14 Number 3788, Calendar Number 3, on the order of 15 third reading to the Committee on Banks. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: So 17 ordered. 18 Senator Skelos. 19 SENATOR SKELOS: Is there any 20 other housekeeping? 21 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: One 22 second, Senator. 23 Senator Skelos. 1 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 2 if we could return to motions and resolutions, I 3 believe there's a resolution by Senator 4 Hoblock. If we could have the title read and 5 the resolution adopted. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: So 7 ordered. 8 The Secretary will read. 9 THE SECRETARY: By Senator 10 Hoblock, Senate Legislative Resolution. 11 Legislative Resolution commending the National 12 Association for the Advancement of Colored 13 People, Albany Branch, upon the occasion of its 14 61st Annual Freedom Fund Dinner to be held 15 Friday, January 26th, 1996. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: All 17 those in favor signify by saying aye. 18 (Response of "Aye".) 19 Opposed? 20 (There was no response.) 21 The resolution is adopted. 22 Senator Skelos. 23 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 1 there being no further business, I move we 2 adjourn until Monday, January 29th, 1996 at 3:00 3 p.m. sharp, intervening days to be legislative 4 days. 5 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: 6 Without objection, the Senate stands adjourned 7 until Monday, January 29th, at 3:00 p.m., 8 intervening days to be legislative days. 9 (Whereupon, at 11:27 a.m., the 10 Senate adjourned.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23