Thursday, March 10, 2011

1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE 2 3 4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD 5 6 7 8 9 ALBANY, NEW YORK 10 March 10, 2011 11 11:09 a.m. 12 13 14 REGULAR SESSION 15 16 17 18 SENATOR JOSEPH E. ROBACH, Acting President 19 FRANCIS W. PATIENCE, 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 ROBACH: The 3 Senate will come to order. 4 I ask everyone present to please 5 join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. 6 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited 7 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.) 8 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: In the 9 absence of clergy, may we all now bow our 10 heads in a moment of silence. 11 (Whereupon, the assemblage 12 respected a moment of silence.) 13 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Reading 14 of the Journal. 15 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, 16 Wednesday, March 9th, the Senate met pursuant 17 to adjournment. The Journal of Tuesday, 18 March 8th, was read and approved. On motion, 19 Senate adjourned. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Without 21 objection, the Journal stands approved as 22 read. 23 Presentation of petitions. 24 Messages from the Assembly. 25 Messages from the Governor.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 Reports of standing committees. 2 Reports of select committees. 3 Communications and reports from 4 state officers. 5 Motions and resolutions. 6 Senator Libous. 7 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 8 there being no motions and resolutions, we 9 will go to the reading of the noncontroversial 10 calendar. 11 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: The 12 Secretary will read. 13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 14 52, by Senator Klein, Senate Print 1523, an 15 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law. 16 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Read 17 the last section. 18 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 19 act shall take effect on the 90th day. 20 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Call 21 the roll. 22 (The Secretary called the roll.) 23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 43. 24 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: The 25 bill is passed.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 2 106, by Senator Libous, Senate Print 2462, an 3 act to amend the Environmental Conservation 4 Law. 5 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Read 6 the last section. 7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This 8 act shall take effect immediately. 9 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Call 10 the roll. 11 (The Secretary called the roll.) 12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 43. 13 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: The 14 bill is passed. 15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 16 150, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 2987, an 17 act to amend the Business Corporation Law and 18 the Education Law. 19 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Read 20 the last section. 21 THE SECRETARY: Section 17. This 22 act shall take effect January 1. 23 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Call 24 the roll. 25 (The Secretary called the roll.)

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 43. 2 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: The 3 bill is passed. 4 Senator Libous. 5 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 6 could we please return for a moment to motions 7 and resolutions. 8 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: Motions 9 and resolutions. 10 Senator Libous. 11 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, 12 Mr. President. 13 On behalf of Senator LaValle, 14 Mr. President, on page 8 I offer the following 15 amendments to Calendar Number 15, Senate Print 16 1456, and ask that said bill retain its place 17 on the Third Reading Calendar. 18 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: The 19 amendments are received, and the bill will 20 retain its place on the calendar. 21 Senator Libous. 22 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 23 Senator Sampson, in consultation with Senator 24 Skelos, would like to hand up the following 25 committee assignments.

Candyco Transcription Service, Inc. 1 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: It will 2 be filed in the Journal. 3 Senator Libous. 4 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President, 5 in the area of announcements, there will be an 6 immediate Republican conference following 7 session. 8 Is there any further business at 9 the desk? 10 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: No, 11 Senator Libous, there is none. 12 SENATOR LIBOUS: There being no 13 further business at the desk, Mr. President, I 14 move that the Senate adjourn until Monday, 15 March 14th, at 3:00 p.m., intervening days 16 being legislative days. 17 ACTING PRESIDENT ROBACH: There 18 being no further business, on motion, the 19 Senate stands adjourned until Monday, 20 March 14th, at 3:00 p.m., intervening days 21 being legislative days. 22 (Whereupon, at 11:13 a.m., the 23 Senate adjourned.) 24 25

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