Thursday, March 25, 2010

1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 March 25, 2010 11 3:49 p.m. 12 13 14 REGULAR SESSION 15 16 17 18 SENATOR CRAIG M. JOHNSON, Acting President 19 ANGELO J. APONTE, Secretary 20 21 22 23 24 25

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The 3 Senate will please come to order. 4 I ask everyone present to rise and 5 recite with me the Pledge of Allegiance to our 6 Flag. 7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited 8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 9 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: In the 10 absence of clergy, may we all bow our heads in 11 a moment of silence. 12 (Whereupon, the assemblage 13 respected a moment of silence.) 14 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The 15 reading of the Journal. 16 The Secretary will read. 17 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 18 Wednesday, March 24, the Senate met pursuant 19 to adjournment. The Journal of Tuesday, 20 March 23, was read and approved. On motion, 21 Senate adjourned. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: 23 Without objection, the Journal stands approved 24 as read. 25 Presentation of petitions.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 Messages from the Assembly. 2 Messages from the Governor. 3 Reports of standing committees. 4 Reports of select committees. 5 Communications and reports from 6 state officers. 7 Motions and resolutions. 8 Senator Klein. 9 SENATOR KLEIN: Thank you, 10 Mr. President. 11 On behalf of Senator Smith, I move 12 that the following bills be discharged from 13 their respective committees and be recommitted 14 with instructions to strike the enacting 15 clause: Senate Number 7088. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: So 17 ordered. 18 Senator Klein. 19 SENATOR KLEIN: On behalf of 20 Senator Espada, I move to amend Senate Bill 21 Number 6168A by striking out the amendments 22 made on March 10th and restoring it to its 23 original print number, 6168. 24 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: So 25 ordered.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 Senator Klein. 2 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, on 3 behalf of Senator Stachowski, I move that the 4 following bill be discharged from its 5 respective committee and be recommitted with 6 instructions to strike the enacting clause: 7 Senate Number 1946. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: So 9 ordered. 10 Senator Klein. 11 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, 12 can we please move to a reading of the 13 calendar. 14 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: We 15 have substitutions to make first, 16 Senator Klein. 17 SENATOR KLEIN: Please make the 18 substitutions. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The 20 Secretary will read the substitutions. 21 THE SECRETARY: On page 20, 22 Senator Diaz moves to discharge, from the 23 Committee on Insurance, Assembly Bill Number 24 217 and substitute it for the identical Senate 25 Bill Number 5456, Third Reading Calendar 289.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: 2 Substitution so ordered. 3 The Secretary will now read the 4 noncontroversial calendar. 5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 6 278, by Senator Oppenheimer, Senate Print 7 6868 -- 8 SENATOR KLEIN: Lay the bill 9 aside for the day, please. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The 11 bill is laid aside for the day. 12 The Secretary will continue to 13 read. 14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 15 283, by Member of the Assembly Brodsky, 16 Assembly Print Number 4217, an act to amend 17 the General Municipal Law. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: Read 19 the last section. 20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 21 act shall take effect immediately. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: Call 23 the roll. 24 (The Secretary called the roll.) 25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The 2 bill is passed. 3 Senator Klein, that now completes 4 the reading of the noncontroversial calendar. 5 Senator Klein. 6 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, on 7 behalf of Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, there 8 will be a Majority conference in the Majority 9 Conference Room at 7:00 p.m. 10 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: There 11 will be a Majority conference at 7:00 p.m. in 12 the Majority Conference Room. 13 Senator Klein. 14 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, is 15 there any further business at the desk? 16 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: 17 Senator Klein, the desk is clear. 18 SENATOR KLEIN: There being no 19 further business, Mr. President, I move that 20 we adjourn until Friday, March 26th, at 21 11:00 a.m. 22 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: There 23 being no further business to come before the 24 Senate, on motion, the Senate stands adjourned 25 until Friday, March 26th, at 11:00 a.m.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 (Whereupon, at 3:53 p.m., the 2 Senate adjourned.) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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