Monday, January 13, 1997

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 January 13, 1997 11 3:04 p.m. 12 13 14 REGULAR SESSION 15 16 17 18 LT. GOVERNOR BETSY McCAUGHEY ROSS, President 19 STEPHEN F. SLOAN, Secretary 20 21 22 23 24 25 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 chairs, staff their places. If every 5 one would rise, please, and join with me in the 6 saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. 7 In the absence of clergy, may we 8 bow our heads in a moment of silence. 9 (A moment of silence was 10 observed. ) 11 Reading of the Journal. 12 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 13 Friday, January 10th. The Senate met pursuant 14 to adjournment. The Journal of Thursday, 15 January 9th, was read and approved. On motion, 16 Senate adjourned. 17 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Hearing 18 no objection, the Journal stands approved as 19 read. 20 Presentation of petitions. 21 Messages from the Assembly. 22 Messages from the Governor. 23 Reports of standing committees. 24 Reports of select committees. 25 Communications and reports from 1 state officers. 2 Motions and resolutions. 3 The Chair recognizes Senator 4 Skelos. 5 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 6 on behalf of Senator Bruno, I offer up the 7 following committee assignments and ask that 8 they be filed in the Journal. 9 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 10 committee assignments are received and they are 11 filed. 12 Senator Skelos. 13 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President - 14 Senator Bruno, in consultation with the Minority 15 Leader offers up the following committee 16 assignments with the understanding that these 17 are temporary committee assignments for the 18 purpose of holding committee meetings this week 19 and ask that they be filed in the Journal. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Temporary 21 assignments are filed. 22 Senator Skelos. 23 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 24 there will be an immediate meeting of the Codes 25 Committee in Room 328 of the Capitol, the small 1 conference room off of Senator Bruno's office 2 and there will be an immediate meeting of the 3 Finance Committee in Room 332 of the Capitol, 4 Majority Conference Room. 5 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: For the 6 benefit of the members, those who didn't hear, 7 there will be an immediate meeting of the Codes 8 Committee, immediate meeting of the Codes 9 Committee in Room 328 of the Capitol, Room 328 10 of the Capitol. There will also be an immediate 11 meeting of the Finance Committee in the Majority 12 Conference Room, Room 332, an immediate meeting 13 of the Finance Committee in the Majority 14 Conference Room, Room 332. 15 Senator Skelos. 16 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 17 on behalf of Senator Bruno, I offer up the 18 following notice of intention to alter the 19 Senate rules and ask it be filed in the Journal. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Notice is 21 received and filed. 22 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 23 if we could stand at ease awaiting the reports 24 of the committees. 25 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The 1 Senate will stand at ease awaiting the reports 2 of the Codes Committee and the Finance 3 Committee. 4 (The Senate stood at ease from 5 3:07 p.m., until 3:29 p.m.) 6 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO: 7 Senator Skelos. 8 SENATOR SKELOS: There will be a 9 Majority Conference in the Majority Conference 10 Room at this time, and I believe Senator 11 Paterson has an announcement. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO: 13 Senator Paterson. 14 SENATOR PATERSON: There will be 15 a Minority Conference in Room 314 immediately. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO: 17 Minority Conference, immediate Minority 18 Conference. 19 SENATOR SKELOS: Senate will 20 stand at ease. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO: 22 Senate will stand at ease. 23 (The Senate stood at ease from 24 3:30 p.m., until 4:31 p.m.) 25 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO: 1 Senator Skelos. 2 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 3 at this time if we can return to reports of 4 standing committees. I believe there are some 5 reports at the desk. I ask that they be read. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO: 7 Without objection, reports of standing 8 committees. The Secretary will read. 9 THE SECRETARY: Senator Stafford, 10 from the Committee on Finance, reports the 11 following bills: 12 Senate Print 68, by Senator Levy, 13 an act to amend the Executive Law and the 14 Estates, Powers and Trusts Law; 15 364, with amendments, by Senator 16 Stafford, an act to amend Chapter 452 of the 17 Laws of 1993; 18 367, by Senator Cook, an act to 19 amend the Public Officers Law. 20 Senator Volker, from the 21 Committee on Codes, reports the following bills: 22 Senate Print 64, by Senator Levy, 23 an act to amend the Criminal Procedure Law; 24 92, by Senator Velella, an act to 25 amend the Penal Law; 1 169, by Senator Maltese, an act 2 to amend the Penal Law; 3 178, by Senator Skelos, an act to 4 amend the Civil Practice Law and Rules; 5 185, by Senator Tully, an act to 6 amend the Penal Law; 7 186, by Senator Tully, an act to 8 amend the Penal Law; 9 222, by Senator Volker, an act to 10 amend the Penal Law and the Criminal Procedure 11 Law; 12 251, by Senator Rath, an act to 13 amend paragraph (f) of subdivision (1) of 14 Section 70.30 of the Penal Law; 15 270, by Senator Volker, an act to 16 amend the Penal Law; and 17 289, by Senator Rath, an act to 18 amend the Criminal Procedure Law. 19 All bills ordered directly for 20 third reading. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO: 22 Without objection, all bills reported directly 23 to third reading. 24 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President. 25 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO: 1 Senator Skelos. 2 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 3 on behalf of Senator Bruno, there being no 4 further business, I move we adjourn until 5 Tuesday, January 14th, at 11:30. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO: On 7 motion of Senator Skelos, the Senate stands 8 adjourned until Tuesday, January 14, at 11:30 9 a.m. 10 (Whereupon at 4:34 p.m., the 11 Senate adjourned.) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18