Thursday, April 3, 2008

1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 April 3, 2008 11 1:01 p.m. 12 13 14 REGULAR SESSION 15 16 17 18 SENATOR JOSEPH A. GRIFFO, Acting President 19 STEVEN M. BOGGESS, Secretary 20 21 22 23 24 25

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 3 Senate will come to order. 4 I ask all present to rise and join 5 in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the 6 Flag. 7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited 8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 9 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: In the 10 absence of clergy, I ask everyone to bow their 11 heads in a moment of silence. 12 (Whereupon, the assemblage 13 respected a moment of silence.) 14 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 15 reading of the Journal. 16 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 17 Wednesday, April 2, the Senate met pursuant to 18 adjournment. The Journal of Tuesday, April 1, 19 was read and approved. On motion, Senate 20 adjourned. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Without 22 objection, the Journal stands approved as 23 read. 24 Presentation of petitions. 25 Messages from the Assembly.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Messages from the Governor. 2 Reports of standing committees. 3 Reports of select committees. 4 Communications and reports from 5 state officers. 6 Motions and resolutions. 7 Senator Skelos. 8 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 9 if there are no substitutions at the desk, I'd 10 like to go to the noncontroversial reading of 11 the calendar. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: There 13 are no substitutions. 14 And the Secretary will read. 15 Senator Skelos. 16 SENATOR SKELOS: If we could 17 continue with the noncontroversial calendar. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 19 Secretary will read. 20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 21 30, by Senator Young, Senate Print 389 -- 22 SENATOR SKELOS: Lay it aside 23 temporarily, please. 24 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Lay it 25 aside temporarily.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 2 54, by Senator Maltese, Senate Print 3256, an 3 act to amend the Labor Law and the Penal Law, 4 in relation to certain employment. 5 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 6 the last section. 7 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This 8 act shall take effect on the first of 9 November. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 11 the roll. 12 (The Secretary called the roll.) 13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 39. 14 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 15 bill is passed. 16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 17 151, by Senator Marcellino -- 18 SENATOR SKELOS: Lay it aside 19 temporarily. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Lay it 21 aside temporarily. 22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 23 184, by Senator Winner -- 24 SENATOR SKELOS: Lay it aside 25 temporarily.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Lay it 2 aside temporarily. 3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 4 431, by Senator Young, Senate Print 6912, an 5 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 6 prohibiting. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 8 the last section. 9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 10 act shall take effect on the first of 11 November. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 13 the roll. 14 (The Secretary called the roll.) 15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 39. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 17 bill is passed. 18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 19 534, by Senator Skelos -- 20 SENATOR SKELOS: Lay it aside 21 temporarily. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Lay it 23 aside temporarily. 24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 25 536, by Senator Flanagan, Senate Print 845, an

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 2 definitions. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 4 the last section. 5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 6 act shall take effect on the first of 7 November. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 9 the roll. 10 (The Secretary called the roll.) 11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 39. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 13 bill is passed. 14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 15 547, by Senator Padavan -- 16 SENATOR SKELOS: Lay it aside 17 temporarily, please. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Lay it 19 aside temporarily. 20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 21 557, by Senator Morahan, Senate Print 4006, an 22 act to amend the Mental Hygiene Law, in 23 relation to disclosure. 24 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 25 the last section.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 2 act shall take effect immediately. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 4 the roll. 5 (The Secretary called the roll.) 6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 39. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 8 bill is passed. 9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 10 633, by Senator Volker, Senate Print 2373, an 11 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 12 assaults. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 14 the last section. 15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 16 act shall take effect on the first of 17 November. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 19 the roll. 20 (The Secretary called the roll.) 21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 39. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 23 bill is passed. 24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 25 647, by Senator Bonacic, Senate Print 5299, an

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 2 aggravated harassment. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 4 the last section. 5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 6 act shall take effect on the first of 7 November. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 9 the roll. 10 (The Secretary called the roll.) 11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 40. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 13 bill is passed. 14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 15 650, by Senator Golden, Senate Print 5767, an 16 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 17 unlawful disclosure. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 19 the last section. 20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 21 act shall take effect on the 90th day. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 23 the roll. 24 (The Secretary called the roll.) 25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 40.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 2 bill is passed. 3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 4 659, by Senator Golden, Senate Print 7064, an 5 act to amend Chapter 779 of the Laws of 1986 6 amending the Social Services Law. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 8 the last section. 9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 10 act shall take effect immediately. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 12 the roll. 13 (The Secretary called the roll.) 14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 40. 15 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 16 bill is passed. 17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 18 666, by Senator DeFrancisco, Senate Print 19 6657, an act to amend the Navigation Law, in 20 relation to increasing. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 22 the last section. 23 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This 24 act shall take effect on the first of 25 November.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 2 the roll. 3 (The Secretary called the roll.) 4 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 5 DeFrancisco. 6 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes, I just 7 want to explain my vote. I'm sponsoring this 8 legislation, and I of course vote yes. 9 I just want to explain how this 10 legislation arose and my thoughts behind 11 sponsoring legislation which would increase 12 the penalties for leaving the scene of a 13 boating accident, and the most serious penalty 14 would be in the event that the accident ended 15 in serious injury or death. That offense 16 would be a D felony now. 17 This arose as a result of two 18 horrific accidents or incidents -- not really 19 accidents, they were reckless conduct on 20 behalf of the individuals. One was on 21 Skaneateles Lake, where a young man by the 22 name of John Kelly and a young woman by the 23 name of Heather Wilkins were struck by another 24 boater, and the boater and his friends left 25 the scene of the accident.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 By the time people learned of the 2 incident, found the boat, both of the 3 individuals were dead. Which possibly could 4 have been avoided had people gone and reported 5 the accident when it should have been 6 reported. That was on Skaneateles Lake. 7 Also, on Oneida Lake, also in 8 Onondaga County, an older gentleman was 9 minding his own business fishing, and a very 10 violent collision occurred. The other boat 11 was operated by another young person with 12 other young people in the boat with him. He 13 struck that vehicle in such a violent way 14 that -- and left the scene, just left. 15 And later, when the man was finally 16 found, he was found dead as well. There was a 17 very good chance that that individual could 18 have been saved in the event that someone had 19 at least told about the accident. 20 So this is a serious business. And 21 we've increased the penalties over the years 22 for incidents like this dealing with motor 23 vehicles. And this bill really catches up to 24 the same situation, which is just as serious 25 in boating accidents.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 I vote aye. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 3 DeFrancisco to be recorded in the affirmative. 4 Announce the results. 5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 42. Nays, 6 0. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 8 bill is passed. 9 Senator Skelos. 10 SENATOR SKELOS: If you could 11 take up Calendar Number 30 that was 12 temporarily laid aside. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 14 Secretary will read. 15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 16 30, by Senator Young, Senate Print 389, an act 17 to amend the Criminal Procedure Law, in 18 relation to permitting. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 20 the last section. 21 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 22 act shall take effect immediately. 23 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 24 the roll. 25 (The Secretary called the roll.)

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 2 Duane. 3 SENATOR DUANE: Thank you, 4 Mr. President. 5 While certainly I believe that the 6 goals of this legislation are certainly 7 laudable, I can't in good conscience vote for 8 it, because if tragedy should strike my 9 family, my domestic partner, I would not be 10 able to read an impact statement, and he would 11 not be able to read one if something happened 12 to me. 13 And, you know, it's 2008. And I 14 think that it's time to really face reality of 15 what our families look like in New York State. 16 And again, while I think the goals 17 of this legislation are laudable, I really 18 have to encourage my colleagues to vote in the 19 negative on it. Because I think it's time 20 that we went into the new millennium and 21 actually treated all the members of this body 22 with respect and, frankly, equally. 23 So I'm going to be voting in the 24 negative, and I would encourage my colleagues 25 also to strike a blow for equality and

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 fairness and cast your votes in the negative. 2 Thank you, Mr. President. 3 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 4 Duane to be recorded in the negative. 5 Announce the results. 6 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 7 the negative on Calendar Number 30 are 8 Senators Adams, Duane, Gonzalez, Huntley, 9 L. Krueger, C. Kruger, Montgomery, Perkins, 10 Sabini, Schneiderman and Smith. 11 Ayes, 39. Nays, 11. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 13 bill is passed. 14 The Secretary will read, in regular 15 order, the calendar. 16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 17 151, by Senator Marcellino, Senate Print 616, 18 an act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 19 including. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 21 the last section. 22 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 23 act shall take effect on the first of 24 November. 25 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 the roll. 2 (The Secretary called the roll.) 3 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 4 the negative on Calendar Number 151 are 5 Senators Montgomery and Perkins. 6 Ayes, 48. Nays, 2. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 8 bill is passed. 9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 10 184, by Senator Winner, Senate Print 1715, an 11 act to amend the General Obligations Law, in 12 relation to processing. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 14 the last section. 15 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 16 act shall take effect immediately. 17 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 18 the roll. 19 (The Secretary called the roll.) 20 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: 21 Announce the results. 22 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 23 the negative on Calendar Number 184 are 24 Senators Adams, Diaz, Gonzalez, 25 Hassell-Thompson, Huntley, L. Krueger,

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Montgomery, Morahan, Onorato, Perkins, Sabini, 2 Savino and Stewart-Cousins. 3 Ayes, 40. Nays, 13. 4 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 5 bill is passed. 6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 7 534, by Senator Skelos, Senate Print 435A, an 8 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 9 sentencing. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 11 the last section. 12 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This 13 act shall take effect on the first of 14 November. 15 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 16 the roll. 17 (The Secretary called the roll.) 18 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: 19 Announce the results. 20 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 21 the negative on Calendar Number 534 are 22 Senators Adams, Duane, Gonzalez, 23 Hassell-Thompson, L. Krueger, Montgomery, 24 Perkins and Schneiderman. 25 Ayes, 45. Nays, 8.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 2 bill is passed. 3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 4 547, by Senator Padavan, Senate Print 2178, an 5 act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to 6 piercing and branding. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Read 8 the last section. 9 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 10 act shall take effect on the first of 11 November. 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 13 the roll. 14 (The Secretary called the roll.) 15 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: 16 Announce the results. 17 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 18 the negative on Calendar Number 547 are 19 Senators Adams, Duane, Huntley, Montgomery, 20 Perkins and Schneiderman. 21 Ayes, 48. Nays, 6. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 23 bill is passed. 24 May I ask for some order in the 25 house, please.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Senator Skelos, that completes the 2 noncontroversial reading of the calendar. 3 Senator Onorato, why do you rise? 4 SENATOR ONORATO: Mr. President, 5 there will be a conference of the Democrats at 6 1:30 in Room 315. 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: There 8 will be a Minority conference at 1:30 in the 9 Minority Conference Room. 10 Senator Skelos. 11 SENATOR SKELOS: If we could just 12 wait a minute for the members of the Majority. 13 I'm not telling you right away. 14 (Laughter.) 15 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 16 Montgomery, why do you rise? 17 SENATOR MONTGOMERY: Yes, 18 Mr. President. I just would like the record 19 to show that had I been in the chamber when 20 Calendar 536 passed, I would have voted no. 21 Thank you. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 23 record shall so reflect. Thank you, Senator 24 Montgomery. 25 Senator Connor, why do you rise?

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 SENATOR CONNOR: Mr. President, I 2 was absent from the chamber -- 3 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Excuse 4 me, Senator. 5 May we have order in the house, 6 please. 7 SENATOR CONNOR: I would like the 8 record to reflect that had I been here, I 9 would have voted no on Calendar Number 30. 10 Thank you, Mr. President. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 12 record shall so reflect, Senator Connor. 13 Senator Hassell-Thompson, why do 14 you rise? 15 SENATOR HASSELL-THOMPSON: Thank 16 you, Mr. President. 17 Please let the record reflect that 18 had I been in the chambers, I would have voted 19 no on Calendar Number 151, S616. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Thank 21 you, Senator Hassell-Thompson. The record 22 shall so reflect. 23 SENATOR HASSELL-THOMPSON: Thank 24 you. 25 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Skelos. 2 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 3 the Senate will stand at ease until 2:00 p.m. 4 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 5 Senate will stand at ease until 2:00 p.m. 6 The Minority conference is in 7 Room 315 at 1:30. 8 (Whereupon, the Senate stood at 9 ease at 1:25 p.m.) 10 (Whereupon, the Senate reconvened 11 at 2:19 p.m.) 12 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 13 Senate will come to order. 14 Senator Skelos. 15 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 16 there will be a meeting of the Finance 17 Committee at 2:25 in the Majority Conference 18 Room. 19 If we could stand at ease, please. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 21 Senate will stand at ease. 22 (Whereupon, the Senate stood at 23 ease at 2:20 p.m.) 24 (Whereupon, the Senate reconvened 25 at 2:33 p.m.)

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 2 Senate will come to order. 3 Senator Skelos. 4 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 5 if we could return to reports of standing 6 committees for the report of the Finance 7 Committee. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Reports 9 of standing committees. 10 The Secretary will read. 11 THE SECRETARY: Senator O. 12 Johnson, from the Committee on Finance, 13 reports the following bill direct to third 14 reading: 15 Senate Print 6806C, Senate Budget 16 Bill, an act to amend the Arts and Cultural 17 Affairs Law and others. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Without 19 objection, the bill is ordered direct to third 20 reading. 21 Senator Skelos. 22 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 23 if we could take up Calendar Number 713, 24 Senate Print 6806C. 25 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Secretary will read. 2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 3 713, Senate Budget Bill, Senate Print 6806C, 4 an act to amend the Arts and Cultural Affairs 5 Law and others. 6 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 7 Skelos. 8 SENATOR SKELOS: Is there a 9 message of necessity at the desk? 10 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: There 11 is message at the desk. 12 SENATOR SKELOS: Move to accept. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: All in 14 favor of accepting the message please signify 15 by saying aye. 16 (Response of "Aye.") 17 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: 18 Opposed, nay. 19 (No response.) 20 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 21 message is accepted. 22 Senator Skelos. 23 SENATOR SKELOS: If we could have 24 its third reading at this time. 25 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Secretary will read the last section. 2 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This 3 act shall take effect immediately. 4 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Call 5 the roll. 6 (The Secretary called the roll.) 7 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 8 Krueger. 9 SENATOR LIZ KRUEGER: To explain 10 my vote, Mr. President. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 12 Liz Krueger, to explain her vote. 13 SENATOR LIZ KRUEGER: Thank you. 14 Well, yesterday we did the 15 appropriations bill for public protection and 16 general government, but it seemed to leave out 17 lots of the appropriations for general 18 government. But we were told we'd do those 19 later. 20 Today we have a language bill which 21 actually seems to reference appropriations we 22 didn't make in yesterday's appropriations 23 bill, but I'm told that we'll do that later, 24 maybe in another bill. 25 This is not the way you do a

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 budget, gentlemen and ladies, as I said 2 yesterday. We're doing these through messages 3 of necessity, we're doing them without the 4 memos on our desks required by the budget 5 reform law we all passed last year. We're 6 doing these prior to determining the revenues 7 available to the State of New York. 8 So in fact, you're functioning 9 blind on whether or not we have a balanced 10 budget and our appropriations will match our 11 revenues. And you're flying blind on the fact 12 that we've got language bills that don't match 13 appropriation bills, but we'll get to them 14 later. It's as if we're doing a game of 15 checkers or hopscotch as opposed to an actual 16 budget. 17 So while, of course, there are some 18 good things in the language bill, as there 19 were good things in the appropriations bill -- 20 and no one can always be happy. But I'd 21 really like to know what it is we're voting on 22 before we vote for or against them. And since 23 we really can't say, I will vote against this 24 bill as I voted against last night's 25 appropriations bill.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 Thank you, Mr. President. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 3 Krueger to be recorded in the negative. 4 Announce the results. 5 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in 6 the negative on Calendar Number 713 are 7 Senators Adams, Hassell-Thompson, L. Krueger, 8 Perkins and Schneiderman. 9 Ayes, 55. Nays, 5. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 11 bill is passed. 12 Senator Skelos. 13 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, 14 the Senate will stand at ease until 5:00 p.m. 15 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 16 Senate will stand at ease until 5:00 p.m. 17 (Whereupon, the Senate stood at 18 ease at 2:38 p.m.) 19 (Whereupon, the Senate reconvened 20 at 5:04 p.m.) 21 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 22 Senate will come to order. 23 Senator Skelos. 24 SENATOR SKELOS: President 25 Griffo, I just wanted to mention that there

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 will be an immediate conference of the 2 Majority in the Majority Conference Room, and 3 the Senate will stand at ease until 8:00 p.m. 4 tonight. 5 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: There 6 will be an immediate meeting of the Senate 7 Majority in the Majority Conference Room, and 8 the Senate will stand at ease until 8:00 p.m. 9 this evening. 10 (Whereupon, the Senate stood at 11 ease at 5:05 p.m.) 12 (Whereupon, the Senate reconvened 13 at 8:15 p.m.) 14 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President. 15 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 16 Senate will come to order. 17 Senator Skelos. 18 SENATOR SKELOS: The Senate will 19 stand adjourned at the call of the Majority 20 Leader. 21 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: Senator 22 Skelos, the Senate stands adjourned at the 23 call of the Majority Leader. 24 SENATOR SKELOS: Thank you, 25 Mr. President.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910 1 ACTING PRESIDENT GRIFFO: The 2 Senate stands adjourned. 3 (Whereupon, at 8:16 p.m., the 4 Senate adjourned.) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc.

(518) 371-8910