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1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE
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4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD
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9 ALBANY, NEW YORK
10 June 7, 2017
11 12:23 p.m.
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 SENATOR FRED AKSHAR, Acting President
19 FRANCIS W. PATIENCE, Secretary
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
3 Senate will come to order.
4 I ask everyone to please rise for
5 the presentation of our nation's colors by the
6 New York City Police Department Ceremonial Unit,
7 and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
8 (The Color Guard entered, advanced
9 to the center of the chamber, and presented
10 colors.)
11 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited
12 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: I'd ask
14 everyone to remain standing for the invocation
15 by the New York City Police Department Chaplain,
16 Assistant Chief the Reverend Monsignor Robert J.
17 Romano, pastor at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic
18 Church in Brooklyn, New York.
19 REVEREND ROMANO: Let us pray.
20 Heavenly Father, we gather together
21 here today in this great chamber to ask Your
22 blessing upon these Senators.
23 May they be intent to seek to
24 represent fairly and well those who have elected
25 them for this awesome task. May their efforts
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1 be blessed with insight, guided by understanding
2 and wisdom. May they serve with respect all of
3 the citizens of this great state. May their
4 personal faiths give them the strength to act
5 honestly and well in all matters before them.
6 As we gather here today to honor
7 the memory of a great son of New York, Detective
8 Steven McDonald of the NYPD, let us see in his
9 almost 60 years of life his great legacy and
10 example of service to do not only -- to serve
11 not only the people of New York City but the
12 people of the entire world.
13 In the 30 years he was confined to
14 a wheelchair, he preached, not only by his words
15 but by his deeds, God's forgiveness and love.
16 May all of us strive to follow the great
17 challenge he has set before us.
18 Today we also honor by their
19 presence Steven's beloved wife, friend, and
20 partner Patti Ann, the mayor of Malverne,
21 New York, and their son Conor, who follows in
22 his father's legacy as a member of New York's
23 Finest as a sergeant. They have taken up the
24 cause of service as they continue the work of
25 Steven. May they be blessed in all their
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1 endeavors as they continue the challenge of
2 their husband, father and great American.
3 Eternal and loving Father, we thank
4 the Senate of the State of New York for honoring
5 and remembering Steven and his family. And
6 because of this great family, may we all seek to
7 be better legislators and citizens of the
8 Empire State.
9 May God bless Steven McDonald with
10 the gift of eternal life and his family with the
11 consolation that they need. May God bless the
12 State of New York. And, as always, may God
13 bless the United States of America.
14 Amen.
15 (The Color Guard retrieved the
16 colors and exited the Senate chamber).
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
18 reading of the Journal.
19 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
20 Tuesday, June 6th, the Senate met pursuant to
21 adjournment. The Journal of Monday, June 5th,
22 was read and approved. On motion, Senate
23 adjourned.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Without
25 objection, the Journal stands approved as read.
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1 Presentation of petitions.
2 Messages from the Assembly.
3 The Secretary will read.
4 THE SECRETARY: On page 23, Senator
5 Phillips moves to discharge, from the Committee
6 on Labor, Assembly Bill Number 1956 and
7 substitute it for the identical Senate Bill 3789,
8 Third Reading Calendar 520.
9 On page 49, Senator Lanza moves to
10 discharge, from the Committee on Codes,
11 Assembly Bill Number 7446 and substitute it for
12 the identical Senate Bill 5069, Third Reading
13 Calendar 922.
14 On page 54, Senator Croci moves to
15 discharge, from the Committee on Higher
16 Education, Assembly Bill Number 5984 and
17 substitute it for the identical Senate Bill 3516,
18 Third Reading Calendar 1003.
19 On page 57, Senator Ortt moves to
20 discharge, from the Committee on Rules,
21 Assembly Bill Number 5974 and substitute it for
22 the identical Senate Bill 1219, Third Reading
23 Calendar 1041.
24 And on page 58, Senator Akshar moves
25 to discharge, from the Committee on Finance,
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1 Assembly Bill Number 3021 and substitute it for
2 the identical Senate Bill 2784, Third Reading
3 Calendar 1047.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
5 substitutions are so ordered.
6 Messages from the Governor.
7 Reports of standing committees.
8 Reports of select committees.
9 Communications and reports from
10 state officers.
11 Motions and resolutions.
12 Senator DeFrancisco.
13 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO:
14 Mr. President, can we now take up previously
15 adopted Resolution 1963, by Senators Kaminsky and
16 Flanagan, and read the entire resolution.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
18 Secretary will read.
19 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
20 Resolution Number 1963, by Senators Kaminsky and
21 Flanagan, mourning the death of Steven McDonald,
22 heroic police officer who championed forgiveness.
23 "WHEREAS, It is the custom of this
24 Legislative Body to acknowledge the
25 accomplishments of individuals of remarkable
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1 integrity and character whose life inspired and
2 enriched the lives of their family and friends;
3 and
4 "WHEREAS, Steven McDonald lived his
5 life with great dignity and genuine grace, always
6 demonstrating a deep and continuing concern for
7 the welfare of others in the great State of
8 New York; and
9 "WHEREAS, Steven McDonald, of
10 Malverne, New York, died on Tuesday, January 10,
11 2017, at the age of 59; and
12 "WHEREAS, Within every community of
13 the State of New York there are certain
14 individuals who, by virtue of their commitment
15 and dedication, command the respect and
16 admiration of their community for their exemplary
17 contributions and service on behalf of others;
18 and
19 "WHEREAS, A native of Queens
20 Village, New York, Steven McDonald was born on
21 March 1, 1957, to David and Anita McDonald; he
22 and his seven siblings grew up in
23 Rockville Centre on Long Island; and
24 "WHEREAS, Steven McDonald proudly
25 served his country as a medical corpsman in the
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1 United States Navy; after his discharge, he
2 followed in both his father and grandfather's
3 footsteps and joined the New York City Police
4 Department; and
5 "WHEREAS, On July 12, 1986, Officer
6 Steven McDonald and his partner were on patrol
7 when they stopped three young boys at the
8 northern end of Central Park; seconds after he
9 began speaking, one of them, only 15 years old,
10 shot him three times, leaving him paralyzed from
11 the neck down; and
12 "WHEREAS, Officer Steven McDonald,
13 with a simple three-word statement in the
14 aftermath of this tragedy, became a symbol of his
15 Christian faith by stating 'I forgive him'; and
16 "WHEREAS, Today, Steven McDonald's
17 son, Conor, who was born six months after the
18 shooting, is a sergeant with the New York Police
19 Department and represents the fourth generation
20 of the family to serve in the department; and
21 "WHEREAS, The tragic shooting gained
22 a great deal of publicity due to the extent of
23 Officer Steven McDonald's injuries, the young age
24 of the gunman, and the heartlessness of the act;
25 and
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1 "WHEREAS, Even though he was
2 paralyzed, Steven McDonald chose to continue to
3 make a difference in people's lives; many times,
4 he appeared at roll calls and offered support and
5 empathy for his fellow wounded officers; and
6 "WHEREAS, In the summer of 1988,
7 Steven McDonald sent stamps and a box of
8 stationery to the shooter in prison, along with a
9 note saying 'Let's carry on a dialogue'; he later
10 met with the boy's mother, and also attended
11 services at a Baptist church in Harlem with the
12 boy's grandmother; and
13 "WHEREAS, Steven McDonald, who was
14 able to speak, albeit haltingly, and breathe with
15 the help of a respirator, made many public
16 appearances over the years, telling of his faith
17 as a Roman Catholic and believing if people
18 wanted forgiveness, they had to show it to
19 others; and
20 "WHEREAS, Never letting his
21 paralysis stop him from living a happy and
22 fulfilled life, Steven McDonald appeared at
23 numerous events to speak of the joys in his life,
24 and support others who have courageously overcome
25 their disabilities; and
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1 "WHEREAS, Steven McDonald told of
2 his struggle to cope in a book titled The Steven
3 McDonald Story, written by his wife and writer E.
4 J. Kahn III; citing the support he received from
5 fellow police officers, as well as the religious
6 and business communities, Steven wrote 'there is
7 more love in this city than there are street
8 corners'; and
9 "WHEREAS, Steven McDonald's
10 compassion and courage also touched the New York
11 sports scene; Mets relief pitcher Jesse Orosco
12 gave him the glove he was wearing when he got the
13 final out in the team's 1986 World Series victory
14 over the Boston Red Sox, and he appeared on the
15 ice at Madison Square Garden annually to present
16 the Rangers' Steven McDonald Extra Effort Award
17 to a player who had demonstrated special grit;
18 and
19 "WHEREAS, Throughout his meritorious
20 life, Steven McDonald touched the lives of
21 numerous people, not only in New York, but around
22 the world; he chose to forgive his assailant,
23 hoped for the youth's redemption, and remained in
24 the public eye for his spirit in the face of
25 adversity; and
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1 "WHEREAS, Predeceased by his mother
2 Anita McDonald, Steven McDonald is survived by
3 his proud father, David McDonald; his loving
4 wife, Patricia Ann Norris-McDonald; and his
5 cherished son, Conor McDonald; and
6 "WHEREAS, The funeral for Steven
7 McDonald was held on Friday, January 13, 2017, at
8 St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City;
9 thousands of mourners were in attendance to pay
10 tribute to this hero, including Mayor de Blasio,
11 NYPD Commissioner Bratton, the NYPD Emerald
12 Society, and other top police officials;
13 5th Avenue was closed to allow mourners to gather
14 and to hold a procession; and
15 "WHEREAS, A devoted father and
16 husband, respected as a pillar of the community,
17 Steven McDonald's name is synonymous with
18 character, dignity, intellect, depth and humor,
19 qualities evident to his family and to all those
20 who were fortunate enough to have known him; he
21 will be deeply missed and truly merits the
22 grateful tribute of this Legislative Body; now,
23 therefore, be it
24 "RESOLVED, That this Legislative
25 Body pause in its deliberations to mourn the
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1 death of Steven McDonald, heroic police officer
2 who championed forgiveness; and be it further
3 "RESOLVED, That a copy of this
4 resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted to
5 the family of Steven McDonald."
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
7 Flanagan.
8 SENATOR FLANAGAN: Thank you,
9 Mr. President.
10 Every now and then we get to realize
11 how special the work is that we do, the place
12 where we work, the people that we associate with,
13 whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, New
14 York State Assembly or New York State Senate.
15 So here we have the perfect balance.
16 And let me start by giving a big fat New York
17 warm welcome to the McDonald family, all the
18 friends and family. It's absolutely wonderful,
19 wonderful to have you here today.
20 I'm in awe by your presence. I'm in
21 awe by listening to a resolution like this. And
22 many of our colleagues know most of our
23 resolutions are not this long and not that
24 chock-filled with a life well-lived.
25 So I thought of one thing as I was
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1 sitting here wondering, okay, what do I want to
2 say. From my father I learned -- my favorite
3 movie still is It's a Wonderful Life. And
4 Clarence, who plays the guardian angel, writes in
5 the book: "No man is a failure in life if he has
6 friends. So not only was your husband a hero and
7 a fantastic role model, but my goodness, he had
8 so many friends.
9 And now I want to turn just a little
10 bit, because this is an incredibly good lesson in
11 civics, in government, protocol, and how to do
12 things the right way. Senator Ritchie has a
13 group from the Granby Elementary School here
14 today.
15 So, boys and girls, you are getting
16 a chance to be part of history, and you're
17 actually getting to listen to a story and a
18 biography of a real genuine hero.
19 Conor, thank you for the service
20 that you do and to all of your colleagues in the
21 police department.
22 I don't feel like I can call you
23 Patti. Mayor, it's great to have you here.
24 I watched -- I had the opportunity
25 to attend Officer McDonald's wake. I've never
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1 seen anything like it. Never seen anything like
2 it. There were at least 5,000 people there.
3 That was in the afternoon. This was a two-day
4 wake. And I had been speaking to Lou Matarazzo,
5 who told me the night before that Patti stayed
6 till after 11 o'clock so she could talk to
7 everybody that was there.
8 But it was also a really good
9 reminder because of what's written in here, where
10 Officer McDonald said "There's more love in this
11 city than there are street corners." I've always
12 been impressed by and respect how the New York
13 City Police Department is family. Forever.
14 Forever. That never goes away, and thank God.
15 When I read about Officer
16 McDonald -- and I've thought about this many
17 times in my own adult life -- I don't know if I
18 could go do what he did. I still think about
19 that all the time, to be able to be that strong
20 in your faith and say I forgive, and I hope you
21 can find some sense and purpose in your life --
22 that is just so incredibly awe-inspiring and
23 humbling. And it makes me think of myself as a
24 person, how to be a better person from learning
25 from people like your late husband.
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1 Lastly, it's pretty cool to meet the
2 Pope, Barbara Walters, you know, Nelson Mandela,
3 get the World Series glove. But I was also
4 impressed because Officer McDonald came to Albany
5 and lobbied. And he was a real force and
6 presence. Somebody like that comes up,
7 particularly given his physical situation, you
8 pay attention. You listen, and you hang on every
9 word.
10 So he has been a role model in so
11 many different ways. I'm humbled to be amongst
12 all of us today, but in particular the McDonald
13 family. Your husband was a truly great man, and
14 we owe him an eternal debt of gratitude. And you
15 know we're going to be doing a special piece of
16 legislation after this, which we'll come back to,
17 which any New Yorker can appreciate.
18 But thank you for sharing him with
19 us, and thank you for making this a very special
20 day to our students and the great people of the
21 State of New York.
22 Thank you, Mr. President.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
24 you, Senator Flanagan.
25 Senator Kaminsky.
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1 SENATOR KAMINSKY: Thank you,
2 Mr. President.
3 The legacy of Steven McDonald is
4 certainly a reminder of the sacrifices that
5 police make every day when they put on the
6 uniform. But his legacy is also something more,
7 something that reminds us about the possibility
8 of the enduring human spirit, about the goodness
9 of being alive and of living your life to the
10 fullest, and the courage to do so. It also is a
11 reminder about the possibilities of love and
12 opening your heart.
13 Three gunshots in 1986. Those three
14 gunshots changed New York forever. They
15 certainly changed the McDonald family. No one
16 has ever had their courage tested more than
17 Steven McDonald, both before that moment, during
18 that moment, and after. How would all of us have
19 reacted, waking up in the hospital and learning
20 about our physical situation? It would have been
21 no fault of his own had Steven McDonald decided
22 to live a more private and quiet life, faded away
23 just a bit. He certainly still would have been a
24 true hero, and his service would have mattered a
25 great deal.
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1 But Steven McDonald rose up. Steven
2 McDonald from his wheelchair did more in his
3 lifetime that most able-bodied people can do with
4 all the advantages in a number of lifetimes.
5 When Steven was once asked what his
6 purpose was and what he was doing, this is what
7 he said: "My simple understanding is that God
8 has asked me to be a witness, to do his will in
9 this world, and I think that's my life." And
10 boy, was it.
11 Steven McDonald helped bind up a
12 city that needed binding, both during the
13 difficult times in which he was an officer in the
14 late '80s and early '90s, but I think just as
15 importantly, after 9/11 and beyond. New York has
16 not succumbed to division the same way other
17 cities have, and I would posit today much of that
18 is because of the legacy and the work of
19 Steven McDonald.
20 His message of forgiveness and
21 togetherness was so powerful. He became a vessel
22 of possibility, not of cynicism; a vessel of
23 forgiveness, not hardheartedness; a vessel of
24 love, not of hate; and a vessel of unity, not
25 division.
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1 When Steven McDonald went down to a
2 precinct to address a roll call, officers never
3 forgot that moment. And families who found
4 themselves in difficult situations after
5 injuries or worse clinged to Steven and his
6 family for the support and hope they gave. He
7 was there for everyone. He was there for all
8 New Yorkers.
9 And on Long Island where I'm from,
10 there was no one bigger, there was no one more
11 important, and there was no one whose presence at
12 any event mattered. Because when you saw Steven
13 McDonald, you said to yourself, I can be better.
14 You said to yourself, Wow, if Steven McDonald can
15 do this, can't we all live in a better world, a
16 better place, a better society. And everyone did
17 better after seeing Steven McDonald.
18 They say in our lifetimes we may get
19 to meet maybe one or two truly great men. I
20 don't know how many I'll get to meet, but I've
21 certainly met one, and that was Detective Steven
22 McDonald. Rising as he did after all he went
23 through to be the symbol that he was, there will
24 never be anyone like him in New York City -- a
25 true prince of the city, a true prince of
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1 Long Island.
2 And in recognition of that, we have
3 a large family here today. Not just the McDonald
4 family, but the NYPD family and the greater Long
5 Island community as well. And if you can indulge
6 me and allow me to announce some of them.
7 First is Mayor Patti Ann McDonald.
8 The community of Malverne that she represents,
9 Patti is a true embodiment of that. It's such a
10 strong, united community where basically
11 everything goes right most of the time -- and if
12 not, Patti sets it right. And she really is a
13 great leader and, once again, really represents
14 that spirit of Steven. After all they've gone
15 through, to lead a village the way she has with
16 such success is amazing. And I'd like Mayor
17 McDonald to please stand.
18 (Extended standing ovation.)
19 SENATOR KAMINSKY: To Conor
20 McDonald, who I've gotten to know, who lives in
21 my community and is going to be moving full-time
22 to my community --
23 (Laughter.)
24 SENATOR KAMINSKY: It's okay.
25 Everyone needs to save money.
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1 (Laughter.)
2 SENATOR KAMINSKY: A
3 fourth-generation police officer, what else is
4 there to say? I know his father could not have
5 been prouder. And every day he puts on that
6 shield representing the best of what it means to
7 be a New Yorker.
8 I know you've gone through so much,
9 Conor, and your strength is something that we all
10 appreciate and recognize. Thank you so much,
11 Conor. Thank you for everything.
12 (Applause.)
13 SENATOR KAMINSKY: Detective
14 McDonald's sisters Theresa Wadkins, Patricia
15 Gallagher, and Clare McDonnell are here. And
16 also Patti Ann's mother, Sheila Norris, is here.
17 Good to see you, Sheila.
18 And we also have a large NYPD family
19 and Greater Long Island family here today. Many
20 of them are in the gallery or on the floor as
21 well. Deputy Chief Tom Burns is here,
22 representing Commissioner James O'Neill. From
23 that unit we also have Lieutenant Lott,
24 Detective Jones, and Lieutenant McCaffrey. And
25 thank you, Assistant Chief Chaplain Monsignor
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1 Romano.
2 We also have, from the Detectives'
3 Endowment Association, Michael Palladino, along
4 with Karen Pakstis, Brian Hunt, Pat Donohue and
5 Brian Maguire and Sam Miller.
6 From the Malverne Police family we
7 have Chief Aresta here and we have sergeants
8 Martini and Winters here. And thank you, thank
9 you for your service.
10 We also have, from the NYPD, we have
11 many drivers who throughout the years drove
12 Detective McDonald and got to be part of the
13 McDonald family. And it means so much that they
14 are here today as well, including Police Officer
15 Patrick Fanning, Detective Andy Cserenyi,
16 Lieutenant Pizzo, as well as Officer McGuinness.
17 We also are proud to have here the
18 mayor of Rockville Centre, Fran Murray. Thank
19 you for being here, Mayor.
20 In the end I just want to say that I
21 was fortunate enough to be among the people who
22 were allowed to be in the church of the day of
23 the funeral. It was actually the most moving
24 thing I've ever been a part of. And I happened
25 to be next to somebody who's here today from
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1 Malverne who grabbed my hand during the service
2 and looked at me and said, "We're all Catholic
3 today." And I agree with him.
4 It was the most moving thing I'd
5 seen. And I said to myself -- and the Majority
6 Leader and I talked about this, that we wanted
7 all of New York to get to be in that church that
8 day. We wanted representatives from Buffalo and
9 from Syracuse, from Rochester and from Harlem all
10 to be able to get a little bit of what that
11 united New York spirit was that was so
12 wonderfully captured on that day by New York
13 Ranger Adam Graves.
14 And you can't talk about the
15 McDonalds without talking about the Rangers. His
16 love for them was -- and their love for him --
17 was something that was amazing.
18 And the speakers that day were just
19 eloquent. And that spirit of togetherness in
20 New York was something I'll never forget. The
21 Majority Leader and I wanted to bring that today,
22 and we're so glad that the state could recognize
23 the awesome and honest sacrifices the McDonalds
24 made not just for New York, as the monsignor
25 said, but for all of us and for all of America.
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1 And for that we are grateful.
2 And I ask you, Mr. President, to
3 please welcome the McDonald and greater NYPD
4 family with the greatest of courtesies that you
5 can. Thank you.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
7 you, Senator Kaminsky.
8 Senator Golden.
9 SENATOR GOLDEN: Thank you,
10 Mr. President.
11 I rise for a great family. You guys
12 have really been great. I've never seen a family
13 like yours that worked so hard to accomplish what
14 Steven had set out to do.
15 You know, Steven is in good place.
16 His heart is in this room and each and every one
17 of you -- and some of my colleagues may not
18 believe it, but each and every one of them as
19 well. Steven made a difference and continues to
20 make a difference.
21 I want to thank Chief Burns for his
22 great work. His office is responsible for those
23 that go down, our men and women in blue. And
24 they're out there to support them and to make
25 sure that they get through tough times. Chief
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1 Burns has been with the McDonald family a long
2 time, and they're never leaving. As Leader
3 Flanagan pointed out, we never forget. And we
4 never will.
5 I want to thank my friend Chief
6 Monsignor Romano, the department chaplain and the
7 pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, for his service
8 to the men and women of the NYPD, and for his
9 invocation here this afternoon.
10 I know the monsignor was a good
11 friend of Steve and Patti and Conor, like
12 everyone in this chamber this afternoon.
13 It is a mix of sad emotions, but
14 it's also a celebration of a life well-lived.
15 There are no words to adequately describe
16 Detective Steven McDonald and his remarkable
17 life. Bullets that should have killed him did
18 not end his life. A wheelchair meant to confine
19 him did not stop him from many years of being an
20 inspiration to the nation's finest police
21 department and, for that matter, for all
22 New Yorkers.
23 He knew adversity, but we knew his
24 tenacity, his selflessness, his charity, his hope
25 and his forgiveness. Steven was a man of great
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1 faith. Monsignor Romano can attest to that. So
2 can his family and anybody that knew him and
3 anybody that came in contact with him. He was
4 definitely a man of God.
5 Steven loved the department, and he
6 regularly traveled to precincts and to hospitals
7 around the City of New York. Whenever an officer
8 went down, you would see Steven McDonald. SOD
9 and Chief Burns and his office would set up, make
10 sure there were capabilities for Steven to get in
11 and out of those hospitals and in and out of
12 those settings in his wheelchair, making sure
13 that he supported the men and women in blue.
14 And some of our men -- obviously
15 he's been to not only a number of hospitals, but
16 you couldn't count the number of funerals that
17 Steven McDonald showed up to.
18 I would see Steven at countless
19 events, and he always greeted you with a smile
20 and greeted me with a smile. Patti, you have
21 given so much over the years, Patti, with your
22 husband and son. Although you do not wear the
23 uniform, you're emblematic of the police motto:
24 Protect and serve.
25 Conor, as a former police officer I
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1 know how proud your father had to be when you got
2 sworn in on that day. You made him proud, you
3 make us proud. All of you do. Thank you, God
4 bless you. God bless Steven. And God bless the
5 great country of the United States of America.
6 Thank you.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
8 you, Senator Golden.
9 Senator Stewart-Cousins.
10 SENATOR STEWART-COUSINS: Thank
11 you, Mr. President.
12 I rise to honor the legacy and the
13 memory of Detective Steven McDonald and to
14 welcome you, certainly on behalf of our
15 conference, to the chamber. And to thank,
16 obviously, Senator Flanagan and Senator Kaminsky
17 for making sure this day happened.
18 I was privileged to have met Steven
19 McDonald before his untimely transition. And
20 every time you were in a place where he was,
21 everything parted, because he had a presence that
22 said stop, be quiet, there's good work to be
23 done. I didn't do anything but shake his hand
24 because I, like everybody else, just got out of
25 the way. Because the work that he came to do was
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1 bigger than anything that we were doing.
2 And when Senator Kaminsky asked me
3 to join him that day where he was laid to rest --
4 we were separated, and that's why he was sitting
5 next to a person from Malverne. We weren't
6 sitting together. But in that great cathedral,
7 nobody was separated, because we were all brought
8 together to celebrate, to commemorate, to exalt
9 the legacy of a hero.
10 So when Senator Flanagan says
11 usually the resolutions are not that long, they
12 are really only that long when we're celebrating
13 the life of someone that we all knew and that we
14 all have had certified and checked as being a
15 bona fide hero. So guess what? Here in this
16 chamber on this great day, in the presence of
17 children and law enforcement and elected
18 officials and in the presence of the mayor of
19 Malverne and all who understand what heroes are
20 about, Detective Steven McDonald has been checked
21 and certified and welcomed into the long
22 resolution of the heroes of New York State.
23 Thank you so much for being here.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
25 you, Senator Stewart-Cousins.
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1 Senator Serrano.
2 SENATOR SERRANO: Thank you,
3 Mr. President.
4 I would like to express my sincere
5 condolences to the McDonald family. And I would
6 like to thank Senator Kaminsky and Senator
7 Flanagan and all of my colleagues for this really
8 important and wonderful resolution.
9 I was listening to the text, and I
10 couldn't help but be somewhat overwhelmed at
11 listening in its entirety and listening to this
12 amazing story of this incredible human being, a
13 person who comes from a legacy of service to our
14 communities. I'm sure he never intended to be a
15 hero, but he intended to protect the lives of
16 New Yorkers, and he did that.
17 Amazingly, after what he went
18 through -- and I'm old enough to remember this
19 story. I grew up in the '70s in the South Bronx,
20 and I represent the South Bronx and East Harlem
21 and other neighborhoods, and I understand the
22 challenges that we've faced over the years.
23 Amazingly, after the ordeal in 1986,
24 Detective McDonald, instead of becoming bitter
25 and angry, as many of us I think would be
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1 inclined to do, instead he continued to open his
2 heart and never lost faith in the communities
3 that he patrolled, never lost faith in the
4 people. He showed without a shadow of a doubt
5 that even though we've been taught in our lives
6 that strength is maybe as hard as we can hit or
7 as much as we can impose, he proved something
8 that is so important -- and that is there is
9 nothing more powerful in this world and in our
10 lives than love and forgiveness.
11 And in his example of love and
12 forgiveness, he in many ways changed the world.
13 And he did so in a way that was tireless, and he
14 worked so hard to achieve that.
15 And I'll leave you with this one
16 little tidbit. My wife and I are raising two
17 young children; my son just turned 11 last week,
18 my daughter is five years old. I remember when
19 my son was about five, we walked into a diner and
20 there were two police officers, NYPD, by the
21 counter. And my son seemed a little nervous
22 because he saw the uniforms and the sidearms.
23 And I told him, I said, "Don't be
24 afraid. Say hi." And he did. And the police
25 officers were so gracious and talked to my son.
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1 And I told him, I said, "Never be afraid. These
2 folks are willing to lay down their life for
3 you."
4 And it was such an important story
5 that I wanted him to get at a young age, to
6 understand what police officers do. Not just in
7 New York City but everywhere, they are willing to
8 protect you at all costs.
9 So I want to thank the McDonald
10 family for all that they've done and their
11 continued legacy of service in this very
12 important resolution.
13 Thank you.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
15 you, Senator Serrano.
16 Senator Díaz.
17 SENATOR DÍAZ: Thank you,
18 Mr. President.
19 I would like to join my colleagues
20 in expressing their feelings toward the loss of
21 Police Officer Steven McDonald. I never knew
22 Mr. McDonald. I never spoke with him. I know
23 about him because I saw everything in the news, I
24 read the papers.
25 And I -- what do I know? I know
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1 that I have a daughter who served for 20 years in
2 the police department. She retired after
3 20 years, Sergeant Damaris Díaz. What do I know?
4 As a father, I know how strained it is for a
5 family when you have somebody serving in the
6 police department nowadays, especially nowadays,
7 when there is a political correctness. When
8 we're taking away every authority, every power
9 from the police officers, we are sending them
10 there to sometimes be subject to abuse and
11 whatever. Just today, I'm seeing in the news
12 someone with a hammer hammering a police officer.
13 So when there's a tragedy, we all
14 get together and we all say good things about the
15 police, the family of the police officer. Today
16 we have, for this resolution, every single
17 Senator is here. The leaders of the conferences
18 are here. Everyone is united today in this
19 resolution. But when it comes to give authority
20 to the police, then we are not united. Then we
21 are trying to be some kind of political
22 correctness.
23 And we have the family of Police
24 Officer McDonald. I know how they're feeling.
25 But I was praying for 20 years,
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1 every time that my daughter used to go, I was
2 praying for her for 20 years until she retired,
3 because I know how it is. You've got to be a
4 father, you've got to be a wife, you've got to be
5 children, a son or a daughter, you got to be a
6 mother, you have to be related to a police
7 officer so you will know exactly how it feels,
8 especially when you see they've been mistreated
9 and abused in the media, and we are sometimes
10 voting and doing things to take away their
11 authority.
12 So today we have here Lou Matarazzo.
13 Lou Matarazzo, I know him for many years. I know
14 Michael Palladino. And I know Chaplain Romano.
15 Ladies and gentlemen, damas y caballeros, I'm
16 going to tell you something about that unit in
17 the police department that nobody speaks about,
18 but they -- it's a unit there. They call it the
19 chaplain's unit.
20 Chief Chaplain Romano and that unit,
21 ask them, go and interview them in the press how
22 many times they are called. Because if there is
23 a tragedy, the chaplain's unit goes there. If
24 there is a fight, a domestic dispute, the
25 chaplain's unit goes there. If there is a
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1 whatever -- whatever it is, the first one that
2 goes, the first one that is there, the first one
3 they call is the chaplain's unit.
4 Nobody -- nobody -- no one knows,
5 nobody talks about them. But the chaplain's
6 unit, I mean how many times they have been called
7 to go because a police officer has been shot.
8 They're the first ones, boom, in the hospital
9 with the mayor, whoever at that time it is, and
10 with the police commissioner. That chaplain's
11 unit, no one talks about it. But that chaplain's
12 unit has gone through every single tragedy, every
13 single incident that police officers have.
14 So today I'm calling -- I'm
15 saying -- I'm joining Senator Flanagan and the
16 promoters of this resolution, but I also would
17 like to see that we join together to end this
18 political correctness with the police department
19 and give them authority, because now nobody
20 respects them anymore. No one respects them
21 anymore. I mean, it's like -- it's like -- it's
22 like -- I'm a Puerto Rican with broken English,
23 but I know how to respect the police officers.
24 I'm a Senator. Last night, the night before
25 last, I was stopped here, put my hands in the --
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1 on the wheel. It was at night. I put the inside
2 lights on, put my hands on -- yes, Officer. Yes,
3 Officer. Okay.
4 Respect the police department. And
5 that's what we -- that's what we're supposed to
6 be doing, not taking away power from police
7 officers that they cannot even do their job.
8 So today I'm here to join them and
9 to tell the McDonald family here we're sorry.
10 But how many times -- how many times we're going
11 say we're sorry? Every time a police officer
12 comes. Every time. It's like -- like -- and
13 we -- and we -- and we feel that it is enough by
14 saying we're sorry. And ladies and gentlemen,
15 it's not enough. You want to say we're sorry?
16 Let's start making laws, end this thing.
17 And the only way that we could say
18 we're really sorry and we really appreciate the
19 work of the police department and that we really
20 do is let's make some laws to give them back
21 their authority. And then we can say we're
22 sorry, and then we can end it. Because when we
23 start being politically correct, look at how many
24 police officers have died. So we became
25 politically correct.
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1 So, Mr. President, thank you for
2 this opportunity to the McDonald family. Let me
3 say myself I'm sorry. There is nothing else we
4 can say now. But we could prevent other
5 McDonalds, other tragedies.
6 Thank you very much.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
8 Díaz, thank you.
9 Senator Bailey.
10 SENATOR BAILEY: I first want to
11 thank Senators Flanagan and Kaminsky for bringing
12 this resolution to the floor -- for not only
13 bringing this resolution to the floor, but for
14 your heartfelt words that are truly resonating.
15 Much like Senator Serrano said, I
16 was moved by not only the speeches of my
17 colleagues, but when the Secretary read the
18 resolution in full, you think about public
19 service and what it means to be a public servant.
20 And we all serve the public in certain
21 capacities, us in this house and in the Assembly
22 and various commissions and agencies throughout
23 the state.
24 But there are certain public
25 servants who have more of an inherent risk of
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1 danger than others, certain professions which
2 it's fifty-fifty whether you're coming home or
3 not. And I could not imagine getting that call.
4 In 1986, I was four years old. I don't recall
5 the story. But as I've gotten older and I've
6 heard the name and the legacy of Mr. Steven
7 McDonald, I've heard about it. But I cannot
8 imagine getting that call to say that your
9 husband has been shot three times.
10 What I also can't imagine is that --
11 the forgiveness aspect. Forgiveness is very easy
12 to say, it's not a multisyllabic word, but it's
13 very hard to do.
14 And to the McDonald family, when
15 you're a public servant, your family also serves
16 with you. Conor, you've followed in his
17 footprints quite ably, and thank you for your
18 service currently. But as you know, in our lives
19 our families serve with us to some degree. When
20 he was harmed, you were harmed. But when he
21 forgave, you also forgave. And that takes a lot.
22 It was once said, by somebody way
23 smarter than I am, To err is human, to forgive is
24 divine. His forgiveness was truly divine. He
25 has ascended to a place of great divinity. And
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1 we thank you for his service and his time on this
2 planet.
3 God bless you all.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
5 you, Senator Bailey.
6 Senator Hamilton.
7 SENATOR HAMILTON: I rise,
8 Mr. President, to pay respects to the McDonald
9 family. Steven did a lot for our city.
10 Many men in my family serve in the
11 NYPD. They put their lives on the line every day
12 to protect us. I've had the opportunity to have
13 my nephew here today from the Color Guard, Kyle,
14 who is putting his life on the line every day.
15 So I understand what it takes, and
16 the fear when our young men, my family members go
17 out to protect their city. Just recently a young
18 officer was dragged for two blocks. I can't even
19 imagine how his family is feeling right now.
20 So I just want to say to the
21 McDonald family, to Senator Todd Kaminsky and
22 everyone here that God bless our men in black and
23 blue.
24 Thanks so much. Thank you.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Seeing no
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1 other members wishing to be heard, I would offer
2 that outside of the United States military, being
3 a member of law enforcement is one of the most
4 noblest professions on the face of this earth.
5 So to Mayor Patti, to Conor, your
6 friends and family who are with us today, the
7 members of the NYPD that are with us today -- the
8 greatest police department on the face of this
9 earth -- on behalf of everyone in this room, I
10 say thank you. Thank you for sharing Steven with
11 the people of the City of New York and the people
12 of this great state -- a community hero in the
13 truest sense, a man that will clearly be missed
14 by so many.
15 On behalf of everyone in this room,
16 we extend every courtesy and every privilege that
17 this house could possibly give.
18 Ladies and gentlemen, please rise.
19 (Extended standing ovation.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
21 DeFrancisco.
22 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Can we please
23 go to the noncontroversial calendar and take up
24 Calendar Number 1504, please.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
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1 Secretary will read.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1504, by Senator Flanagan, Senate Print 6549, an
4 act to amend the Highway Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
8 act shall take effect on the 30th day.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
13 Flanagan to explain his vote.
14 SENATOR FLANAGAN: Thank you,
15 Mr. President.
16 So I have just a basic reflection on
17 this piece of legislation, and anyone who's from
18 Long Island can appreciate this. But we are
19 memorializing Officer McDonald's --
20 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO:
21 Mr. President, could you just ask that we have
22 order just for a moment while this bill is
23 explained and Senator Flanagan's explaining his
24 vote, please.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: If
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1 everyone in the house could please just take
2 their seats until we conclude with this
3 particular bill, that would be much appreciated.
4 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Thank you.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
6 Flanagan.
7 SENATOR FLANAGAN: Thank you,
8 Mr. President. Thank you, Senator DeFrancisco.
9 So this -- now we're in the meat and
10 potatoes of government. We're passing
11 legislation that is now going to rename portions
12 of the Southern State Parkway. And I don't care
13 where you live in New York, everybody understands
14 traffic. And everyone understands where you can
15 see somebody's name in dedication, and that's
16 fantastic.
17 And Patti, I'm going to just put
18 this in a light vein. And Monsignor, I need you
19 to listen too. Since we're renaming a
20 considerable stretch of the Southern State, when
21 you are having your own conversations with your
22 husband and the monsignor is praying, I'm only
23 asking one thing. If he can just do something
24 about the traffic --
25 (Laughter.)
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1 SENATOR FLANAGAN: -- it will have
2 all been worth it.
3 So congratulations to you and your
4 family again. Thank you.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
6 Kaminsky to explain his vote.
7 SENATOR KAMINSKY: Thank you so
8 much.
9 In light of what we talked about
10 before with our young people being here today, we
11 have the opportunity now to name a major stretch
12 of the Southern State Parkway through Nassau
13 County after Detective McDonald. Future
14 generations, generations and generations, will
15 hopefully have the opportunity to say, Mommy,
16 Daddy, who is Steven McDonald? And their answer
17 about his life and what true heroics and courage
18 meant will do so much to educate our future
19 citizenry.
20 I look forward to driving to
21 Exit 17S or 17N, depending on the direction you
22 come into Malverne, and I hope we could all make
23 that the Steven McDonald Memorial Highway.
24 Thank you, Mr. President.
25 (Applause.)
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
2 the result.
3 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
5 is passed.
6 (Extended standing ovation.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
8 DeFrancisco.
9 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Could we go
10 back to motions and resolutions, please.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Motions
12 and resolutions.
13 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: On page 98, I
14 offer the following amendments to Calendar 1458,
15 Senate Print 3991, a bill by Senator Murphy, and
16 ask that said bill retain its place on the
17 Third Reading Calendar.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
19 amendments are received, and the bill shall
20 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
21 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: On behalf of
22 Senator Phillips, please remove a sponsor star on
23 Calendar 627.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: So
25 ordered.
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1 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Could you
2 please recognize Senator Valesky.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
4 Valesky.
5 SENATOR VALESKY: Thank you,
6 Mr. President.
7 On behalf of Senator Hamilton, on
8 page 88 I offer the following amendments to
9 Calendar 1349, Senate Bill 3758, and ask that
10 said bill retain its place on the Third Reading
11 Calendar.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
13 amendments are received, and the bill shall
14 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
15 SENATOR VALESKY: Also on behalf of
16 Senator Hamilton, I move that Bill 5771 be
17 discharged from its respective committee and be
18 recommitted, with instructions to strike the
19 enacting clause.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: So
21 ordered.
22 Senator DeFrancisco.
23 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes. I'm not
24 sure if we did it, but if we didn't, I'd like to
25 make sure that everybody in the chamber is on as
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1 a cosponsor to the McDonald resolution unless
2 they ask otherwise.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
4 Flanagan and Kaminsky resolution is -- everyone
5 will be put on that particular resolution. If
6 you choose not to be a cosponsor, please notify
7 the desk.
8 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Okay, and
9 Senator Flanagan makes the following committee
10 assignments for June 7, 2017, which you have at
11 the desk.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Those
13 committee assignments are received and filed with
14 the Journal Clerk.
15 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Can we now
16 take up previously adopted Resolution 2571, by
17 Senator Savino, read the title only, and call on
18 Senator Savino to speak, please.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
20 Secretary will read.
21 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
22 Resolution Number 2571, by Senator Savino,
23 mourning the death of Gregory LeNoir "Gregg"
24 Allman, gifted musician, prolific songwriter, and
25 talented singer.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
2 Savino.
3 SENATOR SAVINO: Thank you,
4 Mr. President.
5 I rise today in recognition of the
6 life of Gregg Allman, one of the founding members
7 of the Allman Brothers, certainly a prolific
8 songwriter and an individual who certainly left
9 his mark on American music.
10 If you looked at his life story, it
11 would read almost like a country music song. He
12 was born in Nashville, Tennessee, where he and
13 his brother Duane were the children of a former
14 World War II vet and a housewife. Their father
15 was killed by a hitchhiker, and their mother was
16 forced to move them to Florida and enroll them in
17 military school while she went to school.
18 They went on to become, you know,
19 musicians together, they formed their own band.
20 They had, you know, the most amazing life. And
21 unfortunately, Duane died early -- we all know
22 that history -- but Gregg continued on. And he
23 had probably one of the most interesting lives.
24 One of the things he, though, is
25 responsible for is introducing an entire
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1 generation of people to something called Southern
2 blues. He is most often called the father of
3 Southern rock, and he hated that term. He really
4 believed that the blues should be delivered to
5 Americans the way it was originally delivered.
6 And he brought to us the works of
7 people like Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf and
8 Sonny Boy Williamson and Bobby "Blue" Bland and
9 T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters. And he did it
10 the old-fashioned way. He had one of the most
11 amazing voices in modern rock.
12 And he was -- what was his
13 connection to New York, some of you would say.
14 Well, the Allman Brothers actually considered
15 New York their second home. They recorded their
16 most famous iconic album at the Fillmore East.
17 And in 1992, after one of the many incarnations
18 of their band, they set up what would become an
19 annual rite of spring, where every March for the
20 next 25 years they would sell out an entire month
21 at the Beacon Theatre. In fact, they closed
22 their long-running career in October of 2014 when
23 they officially retired.
24 I myself have seen so many shows I
25 cannot recall. But one of the most important
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1 shows to me was March 11th of 1998. And I
2 remember that distinctly because I had two
3 tickets to that show, and the tickets were
4 purchased by my mother. It was the last gift
5 that she would ever buy for me. She did not and
6 could not know that it would be the last gift,
7 and she did not know and could never know, and
8 neither could I, that she would die on March 7th
9 of 1998. And her funeral was March 11th.
10 And so on the day of March 11th,
11 after I buried her, I had those two tickets in my
12 hand. And I said to myself I could stay home and
13 cry the blues, or I could go to the Beacon
14 Theatre and sing the blues alongside Gregg Allman
15 and the Allman Brothers. And that is what I did.
16 Gregg Allman and his brothers and
17 that band have taught millions of Americans how
18 to sing the blues, and for that, I believe, he is
19 entitled to recognition by this body. And I hope
20 that you will all join me in signing on to this
21 resolution that will be sent to his family.
22 Thank you, Mr. President.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Thank
24 you, Senator Savino.
25 Senator DeFrancisco.
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1 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Can we now
2 take up the noncontroversial reading of the
3 calendar.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
5 Secretary will read.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 48,
7 by Senator Croci, Senate Print 938, an act to
8 amend the Executive Law.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
10 last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
12 act shall take effect on the 120th day.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
14 roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 103, by Senator Ranzenhofer, Senate Print 3026,
22 an act to amend the Education Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
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1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
6 Krueger to explain her vote.
7 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
8 Mr. President.
9 I think that academic freedom is a
10 critical concept for our university system. And
11 as much as each of us might think we have the
12 best idea in the world about what our
13 universities should determine are appropriate
14 course content, I actually don't think the
15 Legislature should make these decisions for the
16 universities. It should be left to them.
17 And so I vote no. Thank you,
18 Mr. President.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
20 Krueger to be recorded in the negative.
21 Announce the results.
22 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
23 Calendar Number 103, those recorded in the
24 negative are Senators Alcantara, Avella, Bailey,
25 Brooks, Croci, Hoylman, Krueger, Rivera, Sanders,
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1 Serino and Stavisky. Also Senator Squadron.
2 Ayes, 50. Nays, 12.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 265, by Senator O'Mara, Senate Print 2837, an act
7 to amend the Environmental Conservation Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 286, by Senator Little, Senate Print 1376, an act
21 to amend the General Obligations Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
25 act shall take effect on the 180th day.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 300, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 3308, an act
10 to amend the Public Authorities Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60. Nays, 2.
20 Senators Krueger and Sanders recorded in the
21 negative.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 334, by Senator Marchione, Senate Print 3865, an
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1 act to amend the General Municipal Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
10 Krueger to explain her vote.
11 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you very
12 much.
13 You know, if this bill had left
14 New York City out, I might have been able to vote
15 yes. But frankly there have been various
16 proposals to sell off privatized naming rights of
17 parks in New York City, of buildings in New York
18 City, of subway stops -- and to be honest, I
19 don't think it's a great idea.
20 My district borders the fabulous
21 Central Park that Senator José Marco Serrano
22 actually represents. I don't want to wake up one
23 day and see a giant sign over it saying Goldman
24 Sachs or Barclays Central Park. There's reasons
25 that municipalities ought not be allowed to
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1 privatize the naming of public things.
2 And so it says local option, and I
3 respect that there may be localities in the state
4 that want to do this. But because of the
5 complications and the size of New York City, I
6 don't feel right legislating away the current
7 protection to not have privatized naming of
8 critical and historic public items in my city.
9 So I respectfully vote no. If it
10 had exempted New York City, I probably could have
11 voted yes.
12 Thank you, Mr. President.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
14 Krueger to be recorded in the negative.
15 Senator Hoylman to explain his vote.
16 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
17 Mr. President.
18 I associate myself with my
19 colleague's comments. We should not be relying
20 on the private sector to pay for public goods.
21 We've tried to do that time and time again in my
22 district. And along with my colleagues who
23 border the Hudson River Park, which was created
24 to be funded by private development and
25 enterprise -- and to this day, 30 years later,
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1 the park is still not completed.
2 We here in this chamber instead can
3 fully fund our public works, our infrastructure,
4 our parks, our public spaces, rather than relying
5 on one-offs like private naming rights to do the
6 job for us. I'll be voting nay.
7 Thank you.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
9 Hoylman to be recorded in the negative.
10 Senator Stavisky to explain her
11 vote.
12 SENATOR STAVISKY: Thank you,
13 Mr. President.
14 If New York City had been exempted
15 in this bill, I would have enthusiastically
16 supported it, because I know how important it is
17 to some of the towns and villages and how it can
18 relieve some of the tax burden that they
19 encounter.
20 But because New York City is
21 included, I am voting no.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
23 Stavisky to be recorded in the negative.
24 Senator Squadron to explain his
25 vote.
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1 SENATOR SQUADRON: Thank you,
2 Mr. President.
3 And while there is, I believe, a
4 role for public/private partnerships, and an
5 important one, I am not eagerly awaiting the day
6 where I will be visiting Google City Hall or the
7 Kraft DMV office or any other named site. I was
8 not paid for either of those product placements.
9 And I just think this is too broad.
10 I think there are certain municipal and public
11 functions that should never be named because --
12 except, in fact, for people like Steven McDonald,
13 who we named for a reason of heroism and an
14 extraordinary life. And this bill is just too
15 open.
16 So I'm a no, Mr. President.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
18 Squadron to be recorded in the negative.
19 Announce the result.
20 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
21 Calendar 334, those recorded in the negative are
22 Senators Bailey, Benjamin, Hoylman, Krueger,
23 Montgomery, Parker, Rivera, Sanders, Squadron and
24 Stavisky.
25 Ayes, 52. Nays, 10.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 348, by Senator Little, Senate Print 1974, an act
5 to amend the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
7 last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
9 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
14 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
15 Calendar 348: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1. Senator
16 DeFrancisco recorded in the negative.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 353, by Senator Funke, Senate Print 4084A, an act
21 to amend the Parks, Recreation and Historic
22 Preservation Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3385
1 act shall take effect on the 30th day.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 372, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 3005, an
12 act to amend the Education Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
16 act shall take effect on the first of January.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
21 Latimer to explain his vote.
22 SENATOR LATIMER: Thank you,
23 Mr. President.
24 I'm going to be recorded in the
25 negative on this bill. It has been around for a
3386
1 long time, a good 13 years. It has not gotten
2 much play in the other house. But I think there
3 are some structural problems with what this
4 proposal does.
5 When it forces all school bond votes
6 on the same day, you wind up having the State
7 Education Department having to go through a
8 review process of every capital project across
9 the state in the exact same time frame. They do
10 not have the manpower to be able to do that in a
11 timely fashion. And were we to adopt this
12 legislation, we would wind up with a terrible
13 backlog in trying to get capital projects
14 through.
15 I understand there's desire to have
16 a predictability as to when these bond votes are
17 placed, but I don't think a singular date in the
18 year makes sense. So I will retract my
19 opportunity to speak and vote in the negative.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
21 Latimer, you will be recorded in the negative.
22 Senator Brooks to explain your vote.
23 SENATOR BROOKS: Thank you,
24 Mr. President.
25 I understand the concept of having
3387
1 all the school budgets voted at one time. When
2 we're down to a bond issue, having spent many
3 years on the school board, you never know when a
4 problem is going to come up during the school
5 year that can require a significant expenditure
6 of money and a bond issue. This legislation
7 would make it impossible for a school district to
8 deal with that situation.
9 When I was on the board, we had a
10 situation where a Nor'easter storm came through,
11 brought tidal water into one of our schools. The
12 oil tank that supplied the oil to that school
13 district shifted as a result of the water coming
14 in. There was a real possibility there that we
15 were going to have a cleanup that could have run
16 into the millions of dollars. Fortunately, we
17 did not have that situation. It was a minor leak
18 in the end.
19 But any school district could be in
20 a situation anytime during the year where they
21 have an incident that's going to require a large
22 expenditure of money, and be in a situation where
23 that repair has to be made timely. This bill
24 would prohibit the school district from going out
25 and seeking a bond.
3388
1 I will be voting no on this bill.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3 Brooks to be recorded in the negative.
4 Announce the result.
5 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
6 Calendar 372, those recorded in the negative are
7 Senators Akshar, Alcantara, Avella, Benjamin,
8 Brooks, Croci, Hoylman, Kaminsky, Krueger,
9 Latimer, Little, Montgomery, Rivera and Sanders.
10 Also Senator Seward. Also Senator Persaud. Also
11 Senator Gianaris. Also Senator Bailey. Also
12 Senator Stavisky.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
14 the results on Calendar Number 372 again, please.
15 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
16 Calendar 372, those recorded in the negative are
17 Senators Akshar, Alcantara, Avella, Bailey,
18 Benjamin, Brooks, Croci, Gianaris, Hoylman,
19 Kaminsky, Krueger, Latimer, Little, Montgomery,
20 Persaud, Rivera, Sanders, Seward, Squadron and
21 Stavisky. Also Senator Comrie.
22 Ayes, 41. Nays, 21.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3389
1 390, by Senator Peralta, Senate Print 478B, an
2 act to amend the Administrative Code of the City
3 of New York.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
12 Calendar 390: Ayes, 60. Nays, 2. Senators
13 Croci and Murphy recorded in the negative.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 400, by Senator Funke, Senate Print 4592A, an act
18 to amend the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
22 act shall take effect immediately.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3390
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
2 Krueger to explain your vote.
3 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
4 Mr. President.
5 You know, I read the bill and I was
6 sort of fascinated because I had not ever heard
7 of a leisure district. But -- and again, this is
8 a bill that's at local option, and I respect
9 that. But I just want to highlight for people
10 who might not have had the experience of people
11 drinking large quantities of alcohol in outdoor
12 spaces, that it can truly inconvenience other
13 people who live right there.
14 So there are parts of my district
15 that have very large bar discotheques where
16 unfortunately sometimes it all spills out into
17 the streets, particularly on weekend nights.
18 People are loud, they are drunk, they are
19 illegally -- nonetheless, illegally drinking in
20 public. And the other people who live above them
21 in the buildings or on surrounding blocks call
22 our offices and complain about this.
23 There is concern that there would
24 not be clear definitions of what authority would
25 a police officer have to say that you're not
3391
1 appropriately drinking, you shouldn't be handing
2 off the liquor to someone who's under 21, because
3 I can't imagine we're going to have people
4 carding each other at public parks and on
5 streets.
6 On the other hand, there are
7 occasionally the stories of people taking a
8 bottle of wine to a city park to have a picnic
9 and being told it's not legal. And I actually
10 agree that's just silly to be busting people for
11 drinking a bottle of wine on a nice evening out
12 sitting in a city park, having a picnic dinner.
13 But I just do want to highlight and
14 warn people to think through what the impact
15 might be on your neighborhoods of having leisure
16 outdoor spaces with no real controls on what kind
17 of and how much drinking is going on.
18 So I'll be voting no, Mr. President.
19 Thank you.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
21 Krueger to be recorded in the negative.
22 Announce the result.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60. Nays, 1.
24 Senator Krueger recorded in the negative.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3392
1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 408, by Senator Ortt, Senate Print 1481, an act
4 to amend the Executive Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results?
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 409, by Senator Hannon, Senate Print 2247, an act
18 to amend the Public Health Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
22 act shall take effect immediately.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3393
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 455, by Senator Gallivan, Senate Print 2516, an
7 act to amend the General Municipal Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 461, by Senator Carlucci, Senate Print 4723A, an
21 act to amend the Town Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3394
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the result.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 483, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 2601, an act
11 to amend the Administrative Code of the City of
12 New York.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Excuse me,
21 Mr. President.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
23 DeFrancisco.
24 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Could you
25 please withdraw the roll call and lay the bill
3395
1 aside for the day.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The roll
3 call is withdrawn, and the bill will be laid
4 aside for the day.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 501, by Senator Helming, Senate Print 4311, an
7 act to amend the Penal Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
11 act shall take effect on the first of November.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results?
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 503, by Senator Ritchie, Senate Print 2125, an
21 act to amend the Correction Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3396
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 519, by Senator Griffo, Senate Print 3375, an act
11 to amend the Labor Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
20 the result.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
22 Senator Hoylman recorded in the negative.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3397
1 520, substituted earlier by Member of the
2 Assembly Bronson, Assembly Print 1956, an act to
3 amend the Labor Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results?
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 559, by Senator Ortt, Senate Print 397B, an act
17 to amend the Education Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
3398
1 the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
3 Senator DeFrancisco recorded in the negative.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
5 is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 565, by Senator Golden, Senate Print 5118B, an
8 act to amend the Civil Service Law.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
10 last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
12 act shall take effect immediately.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
14 roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 607, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 1323, an
22 act to amend the Education Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
3399
1 act shall take effect two years after it shall
2 have become a law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
8 the result.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 616, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 2617, an act
14 to prohibit.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
23 Squadron to explain his vote.
24 SENATOR SQUADRON: Thank you,
25 Mr. President.
3400
1 On this bill, it's a bill that we
2 see every year. As sure as we see the Rules
3 Committee take over for committees of substance,
4 as sure as we see multi-hundred bills agendas, we
5 see this bill.
6 It's a very simple bill. It says
7 the New York Police Department, the greatest
8 police department in the world, one of the
9 greatest law enforcement entities in the world at
10 protecting us against terrorism, they can't do
11 it. They can't do it in Lower Manhattan, they
12 can't do it in downtown Brooklyn, they can't do
13 it in the federal courthouse on Long Island. And
14 it makes no sense at all.
15 In the year or so since the last
16 time we saw this bill that prohibits the New York
17 Police Department from protecting the people of
18 New York City, protecting my constituents, we've
19 had a number of terrorists charged in New York
20 City. James Jackson was a racist so-called
21 assassin who traveled to New York City in order
22 to kill African-American people. He
23 unfortunately stabbed to death 66-year-old
24 Timothy Caughman.
25 His stated goals were clearly
3401
1 terrorist. In fact, Cy Vance, the New York
2 County district attorney, said "James Jackson
3 prowled the streets of New York for three days in
4 search of a black person to assassinate in order
5 to launch a campaign of terrorism against our
6 Manhattan community and the values we celebrate."
7 He is being tried right now in
8 New York County.
9 The so-called Chelsea Bomber, Ahmad
10 Khan Rahami, was arrested on September 19th after
11 setting a bomb in Senator Hoylman's district and
12 is being charged on federal charges in the
13 Southern District of New York.
14 Preet Bharara, the former U.S.
15 Attorney for the Southern District, said two
16 months ago, "Ahmad Khan Rahami allegedly planted
17 bombs in the heart of Manhattan and in New
18 Jersey. Now indicted by a grand jury, Rahami
19 will face justice in a federal court for his
20 alleged violent acts of terrorism."
21 The list goes on and on. In fact, I
22 was recently speaking with the senior
23 counterterrorism people in the NYPD touring
24 components of my district, and there are any
25 number of security measures in place, additional
3402
1 security measures in place because of the
2 high-value and high-risk people being held there,
3 including El Chapo.
4 This bill doesn't say anything about
5 El Chapo being tried in the Eastern District,
6 held in Manhattan. And is he an enemy combatant,
7 is he not an enemy combatant? We don't know.
8 The federal government hasn't called anyone an
9 enemy combatant since 2009, has had any number of
10 trials, many, many of them in my district, on the
11 edge of my district, in the Eastern District and
12 the Southern District. And yet the sponsor
13 unfortunately continues to want to prohibit the
14 New York police department from protecting my
15 constituents, our city, and our state.
16 I don't know what he would have us
17 do. Perhaps the President will declare everyone
18 enemy combatants and do away with habeas corpus
19 and other protections, undo a process that's been
20 working really pretty well. Perhaps something
21 else will happen. But in the meantime, that's a
22 different issue.
23 This issue is simple. Terror trials
24 are happening, and we need New York to protect
25 us.
3403
1 I vote no, Mr. President.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3 Squadron to be recorded in the negative.
4 Senator Kaminsky to explain your
5 vote.
6 SENATOR KAMINSKY: Thank you,
7 Mr. President.
8 I'm a no on this vote because I've
9 seen federal prosecutors try the worst of the
10 worst of terrorists. They are extremely capable
11 of doing it. And our New York City Police
12 Department is extremely capable of making sure
13 that the situation is a safe one.
14 I have also seen this issue be
15 demagogued. Clearly nobody wants to do anything
16 that encourages terrorism or encourages an act
17 that would hurt the public. But I clearly think
18 that we are able to both fight a war overseas and
19 yet be able to try those who want to perpetrate
20 criminal acts upon our cities and our country in
21 our federal courts of law. We've done it. We
22 could do it. And I don't see why if we choose to
23 do it, we would want the NYPD to have no money to
24 protect the courthouses and the other facilities.
25 So I clearly understand where the
3404
1 sponsor is coming from. There is a -- frankly,
2 there is a very-long-tried historical theory
3 about enemy combatants and whether they should be
4 tried in military tribunals, and there's
5 certainly a place for that. But if the decision
6 is made from the highest levels, regardless of
7 party, that they should be tried in courts in
8 New York, which have traditionally been the great
9 centers where terrorists are tried, I don't see
10 why we would want to pull funding from whatever
11 resources we can in order to protect those
12 facilities.
13 So I'm a no on this vote. I hope
14 that we don't play politics with this. Nobody
15 here -- you know, nobody here wants anything bad
16 to happen, and everyone wants us to defeat ISIS
17 and other -- and al-Qaida and other terrorist
18 groups as swiftly and as strongly as possible.
19 I'm just not sure that this bill gets us there,
20 and I'm a no vote.
21 Thank you, Mr. President.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
23 Kaminsky to be recorded in the negative.
24 Announce the result.
25 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
3405
1 Calendar 616, those recorded in the negative are
2 Senators Alcantara, Bailey, Benjamin, Breslin,
3 Brooks, Comrie, Dilan, Gianaris, Hamilton,
4 Hoylman, Kaminsky, Krueger, Latimer, Montgomery,
5 Parker, Peralta, Rivera, Sanders, Serrano,
6 Squadron, Stavisky and Senator Stewart-Cousins.
7 Also Senator Persaud. Also Senator Díaz.
8 Ayes, 38. Nays, 24.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 618, by Senator Ranzenhofer, Senate Print 3143,
13 an act to amend the Public Authorities Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
22 Krueger to explain her vote.
23 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
24 Mr. President.
25 I'm supporting this bill. I would
3406
1 just like to point out that it's a bill that the
2 Rochester Transit authority would not have to pay
3 bond issuance charges to the state when they go
4 to the market for bonds.
5 And just a few days ago, many of my
6 colleagues in this chamber voted against an
7 exactly parallel bill for the MTA. So yet again,
8 occasionally I like to point out I just don't
9 know why nobody likes us down in the 12 counties
10 of the MTA region.
11 I vote yes, Mr. President.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
13 Krueger to be recorded in the affirmative.
14 Announce the result.
15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
16 Senator Serino recorded in the negative.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 619, by Senator Ranzenhofer, Senate Print 3145,
21 an act to amend the Public Authorities Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3407
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Results.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 634, by Senator Funke, Senate Print 4375, an act
10 to amend the Education Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
19 the results.
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 655, by Senator DeFrancisco, Senate Print 3716,
25 an act to amend the Penal Law.
3408
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
9 the results.
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60. Nays, 2.
11 Senators Hoylman and Serrano recorded in the
12 negative.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 656, by Senator Savino, Senate Print 3861, an act
17 to amend the Penal Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
21 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3409
1 Savino to explain her vote.
2 SENATOR SAVINO: Thank you,
3 Mr. President.
4 This is I think the fourth or fifth
5 time that we are bringing this bill through the
6 New York State Senate. Every year I request from
7 the NYPD and from the MTA statistics to show the
8 increase in sexual assaults and what they refer
9 to as "sex grinders" in the subway. And what we
10 are seeing is every year the statistics are going
11 up.
12 The number of sexual assaults,
13 unfortunately, in our subway system is not going
14 down, it's going up, in spite of the efforts of
15 the MTA. They have developed a public awareness
16 campaign. They are raising the issue. They have
17 increased the number of officers who are riding
18 the trains. And unfortunately, young women
19 continue -- particularly young women continue to
20 be victimized in the subway by repeat sexual
21 predators.
22 These are not flashers. These are
23 not people who are just exposing themselves.
24 These are violent sexual predators. Don't
25 believe me? Last month a young woman, an
3410
1 aspiring actress in New York City, was entering
2 the subway. One of these violent predators
3 groped her. She managed to fight him off, she
4 went down the stairs, got to the platform, he
5 followed her and pushed her onto the track. By
6 the grace of God, she was not run over by a
7 train.
8 These are the kind of people that I
9 am trying to raise the penalties on. Not the
10 people who are exposing themselves, although by
11 the way, we should probably raise the penalty
12 against them too.
13 (Laughter.)
14 SENATOR SAVINO: These are not
15 victimless crimes. These are violent sexual
16 predators, and they go into our subway system
17 every day and they victimize young women, seeking
18 sexual gratification against women, particularly
19 women and young women who can do nothing about
20 it. This bill didn't come out of anything -- my
21 own personal experience, the experience of many
22 women who have ridden the subway -- but it also
23 came out of a New York State Court of Appeals
24 decision that said that the New York State
25 Legislature needed to act, that our laws were
3411
1 insufficient to punish these repeat sexual
2 predators.
3 So I will ask all of you again to
4 support me in this effort, send a message that
5 New York State is going to do the right thing and
6 protect women everywhere, especially in our
7 subway system. And I ask for my colleagues to
8 support me in this legislation.
9 Thank you, Mr. President.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
11 Savino to be recorded in the affirmative.
12 Announce the result.
13 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
14 Calendar 656, those recorded in the negative are
15 Senators Dilan, Krueger, Montgomery and Sanders.
16 Ayes, 58. Nays, 4.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 659, by Senator Parker, Senate Print 3422, an act
21 to amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3412
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 724, by Senator Avella, Senate Print 1931, an act
11 to authorize.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 752, by Senator Murphy, Senate Print 4245, an act
3413
1 to amend the Tax Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
10 the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
12 Calendar 752, those recorded in the negative are
13 Senators Addabbo, Alcantara, Avella, Bailey,
14 Benjamin, Comrie, Dilan, Gianaris, Golden,
15 Hoylman, Krueger, Montgomery, Parker, Peralta,
16 Persaud, Rivera, Serrano, Squadron and Stavisky.
17 Ayes, 43. Nays, 19.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 776, by Senator Comrie, Senate Print 3872, an act
22 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3414
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
6 the results.
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 807, by Senator Boyle, Senate Print 5125A, an act
12 to amend the General Business Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
21 Boyle to explain his vote.
22 SENATOR BOYLE: Thank you,
23 Mr. President, to explain my vote.
24 This is an important bill which
25 would ban the sale of machetes to minors. The
3415
1 question is, Why would a minor need a machete?
2 It's used for gang violence.
3 What we find in many parts of the
4 State of New York, particularly out on
5 Long Island, is violent gangs such as MS-13 are
6 using machetes as their weapon of choice. Two
7 young ladies, Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, were
8 killed in Brentwood, among numerous murders.
9 Our police commissioner down in
10 Suffolk County, Tim Sini, pointed out to Congress
11 a couple of weeks ago that there have been 27
12 killings by MS-13 in Suffolk County since 2013,
13 and 17 of them in the last year and a half. Most
14 of those were done with machetes.
15 There is no reason for a child to
16 have a machete. When we had a press conference
17 announcing this piece of legislation, we had a
18 huge table filled with machetes taken off of
19 minors, including one that was about 3 feet long.
20 If they work in a landscaping
21 business, they can get it from their employer and
22 give it back at the end of the day. But there's
23 no reason to make it legal for these violent
24 criminals to use machetes and allow them to buy
25 them in a store.
3416
1 I urge all my colleagues to vote in
2 favor, and I do too. Thank you, Mr. President.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
4 Boyle to be recorded in the affirmative.
5 Senator Krueger to explain her vote.
6 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
7 Mr. President.
8 I rise to say I support Senator
9 Boyle's bill, but I feel he's going to have to go
10 further. Because when you go online to
11 Craigslist, to Amazon, to EBay, you find that
12 they are selling large numbers of machetes. And
13 until we confront the fact that in this state we
14 don't have the same standards for buying and
15 selling if it's on the Internet versus in a
16 bricks-and-mortar store -- we don't even tax the
17 same way.
18 So I agree, we want to keep these
19 machetes out of the hands of dangerous people.
20 But I think he may need to explore going further.
21 We actually made it illegal for mail delivery of
22 cigarettes from out of state in order to protect
23 not having cigarettes purchased by young people,
24 or without paying their taxes.
25 So he might want to explore how he
3417
1 takes the next step if he really wants to make
2 sure these items are not ending up in the hands
3 of exactly who he hopes won't get them, because I
4 think they'll figure out how to go on the
5 Internet and buy them that way pretty quickly.
6 But I do support the bill, and I
7 will vote yes, Mr. President.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
9 Krueger to be recorded in the affirmative.
10 Senator Gianaris to explain his
11 vote.
12 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
13 Mr. President, to explain my vote.
14 I'll be voting yes on this bill, and
15 I thank Senator Boyle for bringing it to the
16 chamber.
17 I do also want to point out that
18 it's very sensible to regulate weapons that are
19 used to do damage and kill people. And the same
20 argument that applies to regulating machetes
21 should just as easily apply to regulating guns.
22 And so for so many of my colleagues
23 on the other side of the aisle that fancy
24 themselves to say that guns don't kill people,
25 people kill people, well, the same argument
3418
1 should apply to machetes. But lo and behold, on
2 this bill they seem to be voting yes. And so I
3 would like to point out that contradiction and
4 wonder why machetes are worthy of regulation but
5 guns are not in the eyes of so many of my
6 colleagues.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
8 Gianaris, how do you vote?
9 SENATOR GIANARIS: I vote yes.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: To be
11 recorded in the affirmative.
12 Announce the result.
13 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
14 Calendar 807, those recorded in the negative are
15 Senators Funke, Gallivan, Griffo, Helming, Lanza,
16 Little, Marchione, O'Mara, Ortt, Ranzenhofer and
17 Ritchie. Also Senator Tedisco.
18 Ayes, 50. Nays, 12.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
20 is passed.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 820, by Senator Funke, Senate Print 1021, an act
23 to amend the Education Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
25 last section.
3419
1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
7 Hoylman to explain his vote.
8 SENATOR HOYLMAN: I'll be voting in
9 the negative, Mr. President, for the same reason
10 that I think many of us were voting in the
11 negative on leasing naming rights of
12 government-owned property.
13 We shouldn't be looking to the
14 private sector to fund our public school system.
15 If we have problems with the amount of state aid
16 for our schools, for our athletic facilities,
17 then we should take steps here in this chamber.
18 And secondly, the legislation is
19 written very broadly to prohibit political
20 advertising and other objectionable language and
21 messaging, and I think that's broad, too broad
22 and might create First Amendment concerns.
23 So I'll be voting in the negative.
24 Thank you.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3420
1 Hoylman to be recorded in the negative.
2 Announce the result.
3 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
4 Calendar 820: Ayes, 60. Nays, 2. Senators
5 Hoylman and Krueger recorded in the negative.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 827, by Senator Jacobs, Senate Print 2124A, an
10 act to amend the Education Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
19 the results.
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 829, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 2637, an act
25 to amend the Education Law.
3421
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
9 the result.
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 844, by Senator Gallivan, Senate Print 3168, an
15 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
19 act shall take effect immediately.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
24 the results.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
3422
1 Senator Krueger recorded in the negative.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 865, by Senator Ranzenhofer, Senate Print 3025,
6 an act to amend the Environmental Conservation
7 Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
16 Hoylman to explain his vote.
17 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
18 Mr. President.
19 I'll be voting no because the state
20 law of FOIL already protects private, personal
21 information in such instances for hunting and
22 fishing licenses. So this legislation, in my
23 opinion, isn't necessary.
24 Thank you. I'll be voting in the
25 negative.
3423
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
2 Hoylman to be recorded in the negative.
3 Announce the result.
4 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
5 Calendar 865, those recorded in the negative are
6 Senators Hoylman, Krueger, Rivera and Serrano.
7 Ayes, 58. Nays, 4.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 879, by Senator Ortt, Senate Print 909A, an act
12 to amend the Navigation Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
21 the result.
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3424
1 881, by Senator Valesky, Senate Print 1330, an
2 act to amend the State Finance Law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
4 last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
6 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
8 roll.
9 (The Secretary called the roll.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
11 the results.
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 890, by Senator Griffo, Senate Print 3381, an act
17 to amend the Education Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 12. This
21 act shall take effect 18 months after it shall
22 have become a law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3425
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
2 the results.
3 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
5 is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 922, substituted earlier by Member of the
8 Assembly Brindisi, Assembly Print 7446, an act to
9 amend the Criminal Procedure Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
13 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 934, by Senator Ritchie, Senate Print 1432, an
24 act to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3426
1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
8 the results.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
10 Senator Montgomery recorded in the negative.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 941, by Senator Boyle, Senate Print 5599, an act
15 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
19 act shall take effect on the 90th day.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
24 Boyle to explain his vote.
25 SENATOR BOYLE: Thank you,
3427
1 Mr. President, to quickly explain my vote, at the
2 risk of waking up Senator Parker for another
3 riveting debate.
4 (Laughter.)
5 SENATOR BOYLE: I just wanted to
6 point out this is an important bill to protect
7 our animals.
8 And two innocent mistakes by Senator
9 Parker: There is an Assembly sponsor to this
10 bill, Assemblyman Zebrowski. It's being
11 considered in the Codes Committee. And also
12 Fritz was a miniature horse, not a pony.
13 I vote in the affirmative.
14 (Laughter.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
16 Boyle to be recorded in the affirmative.
17 Senator DeFrancisco to explain his
18 vote.
19 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: I was really
20 on the fence on this bill. I didn't know what I
21 was going to do. But after hearing yesterday the
22 eloquent, albeit sometimes redundant and lengthy
23 remarks of Senator Parker, he convinced me. And
24 I cast an aye vote in the name of Apollo.
25 Thank you.
3428
1 (Laughter.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3 DeFrancisco to be recorded in the affirmative.
4 Announce the result.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
6 Senator Hoylman recorded in the negative.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 950, by Senator Alcantara, Senate Print 5500C, an
11 act to amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect on the 60th day.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
20 Alcantara to explain her vote.
21 SENATOR ALCANTARA: Thank you.
22 I urge all my colleagues to please
23 vote for this bill. It's an important measure to
24 address the issue of the teen suicide rate,
25 specifically among Latinas, which is the highest
3429
1 in the city.
2 In my district, 29 percent of our
3 students, young Latinas, have either attempted or
4 committed suicide. I visited a school in my
5 district on Saturday where 20 girls had attempted
6 to commit suicide.
7 And the purpose of this bill is to
8 create an advisory panel so we can address some
9 of those issues and we can find out what are the
10 best methods to address this high rate of --
11 teenage suicide rate, not only amongst Latinas
12 but amongst all young girls in the State of
13 New York. And this will be a fabulous first step
14 on how to address this issue.
15 I urge all my colleagues to please
16 support us on this bill and vote in the
17 affirmative. Thank you.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
19 Alcantara to be recorded in the affirmative.
20 Senator Hoylman to explain his vote.
21 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you. I
22 wanted to thank my colleague for this
23 legislation.
24 You know, the rate of suicide
25 attempts is four times greater for lesbian, gay,
3430
1 and bisexual youth. And for transgender kids,
2 it's estimated that one in four attempt suicide.
3 In fact, the whole movement to ban
4 so-called gay conversion therapy in recent years
5 was precipitated by the suicide of a young trans
6 woman named Leelah Alcorn. She was 17 years old.
7 She took her life. She was so despondent she
8 walked in front of a semi truck to die. She left
9 a note to her parents and said that she was
10 brought to this by virtue of the fact that they
11 had been forcing her to attend gay conversion
12 therapy.
13 So let me say, while this is a very
14 positive step forward, we in this chamber can do
15 things for our LGBT youth to keep them off the
16 track of such despair by once and for all banning
17 gay conversion therapy. We have the opportunity.
18 The bill has passed in the Assembly numerous
19 times, including this session. I'd very much
20 appreciate, on behalf of my community, to see it
21 on the floor this session.
22 Thank you, Mr. President. I'll be
23 voting in the positive.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
25 Hoylman to be recorded in the affirmative.
3431
1 Announce the result.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 970, by Senator Young, Senate Print 5913, an act
7 to amend the Highway Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 988, by Senator Ranzenhofer, Senate Print 2595,
22 an act to amend the Correction Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3432
1 act shall take effect on the first of September.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
6 Krueger to explain her vote.
7 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
8 Mr. President.
9 I appreciate the sponsor's goal with
10 this legislation. The dilemma is, in most
11 scenarios, why would an employer or a landlord or
12 other people coming in contact with a sex
13 offender know whether or not they had registered?
14 And so I think it's putting an
15 enormous new requirement on people who aren't
16 required under the law to actually register
17 themselves; they're not the sex offenders.
18 So again, I appreciate the goal. We
19 want to make sure sex offenders are meeting their
20 requirements of registration as sex offenders.
21 But I think when you take the step beyond that
22 anyone who may be in contact with them also has
23 some responsibility to know something and I guess
24 force them to report it or report in, is not a
25 realistic goal in that we could easily be
3433
1 capturing up people who through no fault of their
2 own simply never knew this information in the
3 first place.
4 And it could clutter up the court
5 system if you then have to go document that even
6 though somebody thought you should have known,
7 you didn't know. Again, it's not you who are the
8 sex offender who would be penalized under this
9 law.
10 So I'll vote no. Thank you,
11 Mr. President.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
13 Krueger to be recorded in the negative.
14 Announce the result.
15 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
16 Calendar 988, those recorded in the negative are
17 Senators Alcantara, Bailey, Comrie, Dilan,
18 Hamilton, Hoylman, Krueger, Montgomery, Parker,
19 Persaud, Rivera and Sanders.
20 Ayes, 50. Nays, 12.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 990, by Senator Helming, Senate Print 3030, an
25 act to amend the Correction Law.
3434
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect on the 30th day.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
9 Hoylman to explain his vote.
10 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
11 Mr. President. I'll be brief.
12 As we debate this bill in the
13 chamber -- or discuss it, rather -- in the other
14 house they are discussing a bill that would also
15 crack down on sex offenders. It would lift the
16 statute of limitations in cases of civil and
17 criminal disputes and provide a crucial one-year
18 lookback period.
19 I'm hopeful that this chamber can do
20 the same this session, pass the Child Victims
21 Act.
22 I'll be voting in the affirmative
23 for this bill, which I should note is our 22nd
24 sex offender bill in the State Senate this year.
25 We should pass the Child Victims Act and make
3435
1 that Number 23. Thank you.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3 Hoylman to be recorded in the affirmative.
4 Announce the result.
5 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
6 Calendar 990, those recorded in the negative are
7 Senators Bailey, Comrie, Montgomery, Parker,
8 Rivera and Sanders.
9 Ayes, 56. Nays, 6.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 995, by Senator Gallivan, Senate Print 5894, an
14 act to amend Chapter 573 of the Laws of 2011.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
25 Calendar 995, those recorded in the negative are
3436
1 Senators Hoylman, Krueger, Rivera, Serrano and
2 Squadron.
3 Ayes, 57. Nays, 5.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
5 is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 1003, substituted earlier by Member of the
8 Assembly McDonald, Assembly Print 5984, an act to
9 amend Chapter 987 of the Laws of 1971.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
18 the result.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1004, by Senator Ranzenhofer, Senate Print 3886,
24 an act to amend the Education Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3437
1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
8 the results.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1006, by Senator Murphy, Senate Print 305, an act
14 to amend the Tax Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
23 the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3438
1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1041, substituted earlier by Member of the
4 Assembly Gunther, Assembly Print 5974, an act to
5 amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
7 last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
14 the results.
15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
17 is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 1047, substituted earlier by Member of the
20 Assembly Lupardo, Assembly Print 3021, an act to
21 amend the Executive Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3439
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1067, by Senator Gallivan, Senate Print 4770A, an
11 act to amend the Correction Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 1068, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 5016, an act
3440
1 to amend the Executive Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
10 the results.
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1091, by Senator Serrano, Senate Print 3108, an
16 act to amend the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
20 act shall take effect on the 120th day.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
25 the results.
3441
1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1110, by Senator Tedisco, Senate Print 4324, an
6 act to amend General Municipal Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1122, by Senator Valesky, Senate Print 6118, an
21 act in relation to.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3442
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1167, by Senator Felder, Senate Print 2104, an
11 act to amend the Education Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect on the first of September.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
20 Kaminsky to explain his vote.
21 SENATOR KAMINSKY: Thank you.
22 I'm voting in the affirmative, and I
23 just think that this bill is really the beginning
24 of an important number of steps we need to take
25 to make sure that every student who is capable
3443
1 gets a high school diploma.
2 In the last few years, our education
3 system has undergone some radical changes where
4 the local diploma really doesn't exist anymore.
5 So when we were going to high school, you didn't
6 have to pass a certain number of Regents exams,
7 you can get a local diploma. You can go to trade
8 school, you can go to the military.
9 That doesn't exist anymore. We're
10 requiring our students to pass a certain number
11 of Regents or that is it. There's something
12 called the CDOS now, we'll give them a
13 certificate instead of a diploma, except our own
14 civil service in New York State, the military and
15 trade schools don't accept it.
16 So I have children in my district,
17 young men and women who are 20 years old, in
18 high school -- or even more. They're on their
19 third go-round, trying to perform on tests that
20 they're never going to pass because, as capable
21 as they are, they have a particular disability in
22 a particular area. But they're smart, they're
23 capable, many are on the honor roll, they show up
24 to school every day, and yet they are given no
25 path to a diploma.
3444
1 And that's why so many of us,
2 especially on Long Island, have been fighting for
3 a new path to a diploma. And I know that if we
4 join together in a bipartisan way, we could
5 really, really make it happen.
6 I understand that there is a
7 philosophy that if we give out diplomas like
8 Tic Tacs, people are not going to want to teach
9 to students with disabilities because they're
10 going to get a diploma anyway. But there is no
11 doubt that we could find a middle ground where we
12 are able to make sure that kids who deserve it
13 and who their superintendents and principals know
14 deserve to graduate, get to do it.
15 So let's work on this together.
16 Let's push our Board of Regents to add this to
17 the agenda in July, and let's come together as a
18 Senate to create an alternate pathway to a
19 diploma. This bill is a nice start. I vote in
20 the affirmative.
21 Thank you.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
23 Kaminsky to be recorded in the affirmative.
24 Announce the result.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
3445
1 Senator Ranzenhofer recorded in the negative.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1168, by Senator Felder, Senate Print 2111, an
6 act to direct.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1170, by Senator Ritchie, Senate Print 3021, an
21 act to amend the Education Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect on the first of September.
3446
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1177, by Senator Marcellino, Senate Print 6087,
11 an act to amend the Education Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
20 the result.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 1184, by Senator Little, Senate Print 2644, an
3447
1 act to amend the Tax Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
10 Latimer to explain his vote.
11 SENATOR LATIMER: Thank you,
12 Mr. President.
13 I rise in support of this bill, but
14 we're beginning now to go through a series of
15 bills that are extenders for local taxes of all
16 sorts; sales tax extenders, perhaps others --
17 mortgage recording tax.
18 I think this is a time where we need
19 to change the strategy in this chamber and in the
20 other chamber of how we deal with these bills.
21 We all understand that these are essential asks
22 that come from our communities. And we also
23 understand that there's a political negative
24 every time you vote for a tax. But the series of
25 bills that are coming up in counties that I'm
3448
1 hardly ever in -- Essex, Schoharie, and so
2 forth -- are necessary for these governments to
3 run.
4 And we represent -- those of us who
5 are outside of New York City on this side of the
6 aisle, we also represent jurisdictions that have
7 these asks. So I think the smarter thing for us
8 to do in the future is to develop the equivalent
9 of a Big Ugly document in which all of these
10 bills can be put -- maybe by category, all sales
11 tax bills, all mortgage recording tax bills.
12 If a person has a philosophical
13 reason not to vote for them, they can express
14 that philosophical reason. But we need to take
15 these issues off the political table because our
16 home communities count on these revenues. And
17 when we have our rhetoric up here -- you voted
18 78 times to raise a tax, and you voted 32 times
19 to raise a tax -- we destabilize our local
20 governments, at a time when we've assessed a tax
21 cap on them and we also haven't made any
22 significant changes in the unfunded mandates.
23 So I support this proposal today and
24 all the other ones. Many of my colleagues are
25 not going to be able to do that. And I obviously
3449
1 run the risk of somebody saying, George Latimer
2 voted 88 times for taxes. But if we don't get
3 this right, then we're playing politics with our
4 local governments.
5 And I think my suggestion should be
6 considered by leadership in both houses, that we
7 change the way we handle these bills, we
8 consolidate them, we do them in a spirit of
9 tripartisanship, if that's what it takes, and we
10 fight about other things, but not about these
11 things.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
13 Latimer to be recorded in the affirmative.
14 Announce the result.
15 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
16 Calendar 1184, those recorded in the negative are
17 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky, Lanza and Murphy.
18 Ayes, 58. Nays, 4.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
20 is passed.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 1185, by Senator Seward, Senate Print 2964, an
23 act to amend Chapter 333 of the Laws of 2006.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
25 last section.
3450
1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
7 the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
9 Calendar 1185, those recorded in the negative are
10 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza.
11 Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1186, by Senator Seward, Senate Print 2968A, an
16 act to amend the Tax Law.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
20 act shall take effect immediately.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
25 the results.
3451
1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
2 Senator Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
3 the negative.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
5 is passed.
6 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
7 1187, by Senator Seward, Senate Print 2969, an
8 act to amend the Tax Law.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
10 last section.
11 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
12 act shall take effect immediately.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
14 roll.
15 (The Secretary called the roll.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
17 the result.
18 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
19 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
20 the negative.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 1188, by Senator O'Mara, Senate Print 3784, an
25 act to amend the Tax Law.
3452
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
9 the result.
10 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
11 Calendar 1188, those recorded in the negative are
12 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky, Lanza and Murphy.
13 Ayes, 58. Nays, 4.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 1189, by Senator O'Mara, Senate Print 3844, an
18 act to amend the Tax Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
22 act shall take effect immediately.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3453
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
2 the result.
3 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
4 Calendar 1189, those recorded in the negative are
5 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky, Lanza and Murphy.
6 Ayes, 58. Nays, 4.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1191, by Senator Amedore, Senate Print 3928, an
11 act to amend the Tax Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
20 the result.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
22 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
23 the negative.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
25 is passed.
3454
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 1193, by Senator Akshar, Senate Print 4088, an
3 act to amend the Tax Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
12 the result.
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
14 Senator Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
15 the negative.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
17 is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 1194, by Senator Akshar, Senate Print 4089, an
20 act to amend the Tax Law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
22 last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
24 act shall take effect immediately.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3455
1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
4 the result.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
6 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
7 the negative.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 1195, by Senator Seward, Senate Print 4255, an
12 act to amend Chapter 443 of the Laws of 2007.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
21 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
22 the negative.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3456
1 1198, by Senator Tedisco, Senate Print 4744, an
2 act to amend Chapter 326 of the Laws of 2006.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
4 last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
6 act shall take effect immediately.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
8 roll.
9 (The Secretary called the roll.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
11 the result.
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
13 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
14 the negative.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 1199, by Senator Tedisco, Senate Print 4745, an
19 act to amend the Tax Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
25 roll.
3457
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
3 the result.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
5 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
6 the negative.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 1200, by Senator Tedisco, Senate Print 4746, an
11 act to amend the Tax Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
20 the result.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
22 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
23 the negative.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: That bill
25 is passed.
3458
1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 1201, by Senator Tedisco, Senate Print 4747, an
3 act to amend the Tax Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
12 the result.
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
14 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
15 the negative.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
17 is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 1202, by Senator Tedisco, Senate Print 4748, an
20 act to amend Chapter 489 of the Laws of 2004.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
22 last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
24 act shall take effect immediately.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3459
1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
4 the result.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
6 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
7 the negative.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: That bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 1205, by Senator Seward, Senate Print 4785, an
12 act to amend the Tax Law.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect immediately.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
18 roll.
19 (The Secretary called the roll.)
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
21 the result.
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
23 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
24 the negative.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3460
1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1208, by Senator Akshar, Senate Print 4801, an
4 act to amend the Tax Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
8 act shall take effect immediately.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
13 the result.
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
15 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
16 the negative.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1209, by Senator O'Mara, Senate Print 5034, an
21 act to amend the Tax Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3461
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the result.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
7 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
8 the negative.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: That bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 1210, by Senator O'Mara, Senate Print 5035A, an
13 act to amend the Tax Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
22 the result.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
24 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
25 the negative.
3462
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 1212, by Senator Marchione, Senate Print 5149, an
5 act to amend the Tax Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
7 last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
14 the result.
15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
16 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
17 the negative.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: That bill
19 too is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1230, by Senator Valesky, Senate Print 5598, an
22 act to amend the Tax Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3463
1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
6 the result.
7 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
8 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
9 the negative.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1231, by Senator Ortt, Senate Print 5656, an act
14 to amend the Tax Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
23 the result.
24 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
25 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
3464
1 the negative.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: That bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1232, by Senator Ortt, Senate Print 5657, an act
6 to amend the Tax Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
15 the result.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59. Nays, 3.
17 Senators Brooks, Kaminsky and Lanza recorded in
18 the negative.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: That bill
20 too is passed.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 1259, by Senator Golden, Senate Print 1637, an
23 act to amend the Education Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
25 last section.
3465
1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
7 the result.
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 1286, by Senator Golden, Senate Print 813, an act
13 to amend the Public Authorities Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
22 the result.
23 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
24 Calendar 1286, those recorded in the negative are
25 Senators Bailey, Benjamin, Comrie, Hoylman,
3466
1 Krueger, Montgomery, Parker, Persaud, Rivera,
2 Sanders, Serrano, Squadron and Stavisky. Also
3 Senator Dilan.
4 Ayes, 48. Nays, 14.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 1289, by Senator Ritchie, Senate Print 3022, an
9 act to amend the Public Authorities Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
18 the result.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1304, by Senator Kennedy, Senate Print 673, an
24 act to amend the Penal Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
3467
1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
3 act shall take effect on the first of November.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
8 the result.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 1332, by Senator Larkin, Senate Print 4479, an
14 act to amend the Retirement and Social Security
15 Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
19 act shall take effect immediately.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
24 the result.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
3468
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 1388, by Senator Marcellino, Senate Print 1178,
5 an act to amend the Penal Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
7 last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect on the 180th day.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
14 Benjamin to explain your vote.
15 SENATOR BENJAMIN: One of the
16 things that I'm very concerned about, and have
17 been for a long time, is nonviolent offenses
18 being treated as if they were violent. This
19 bill, in my opinion, does such a thing.
20 And so I -- as the first time I'm
21 speaking on the floor, I wanted to be very clear
22 that mass incarceration is a very big concern.
23 Folks who are not threats to society should not
24 be treated as if they are threats to society.
25 And I think this bill does that, and
3469
1 I think it unnecessarily harms a lot of families
2 in our community. So I will vote no.
3 Thank you.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
5 Benjamin to be recorded in the negative.
6 Announce the result.
7 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
8 Calendar 1388, those recorded in the negative are
9 Senators Alcantara, Bailey, Benjamin, Comrie,
10 Dilan, Gianaris, Hamilton, Hoylman, Krueger,
11 Montgomery, Parker, Peralta, Persaud, Rivera,
12 Sanders, Serrano, Squadron and Stavisky.
13 Ayes, 44. Nays, 18.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 1389, by Senator Valesky, Senate Print 1237, an
18 act to amend the State Administrative Procedure
19 Act.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 11. This
23 act shall take effect on the 120th day.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
25 roll.
3470
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
3 the result.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 1393, by Senator Avella, Senate Print 1266, an
9 act to amend the Administrative Code of the City
10 of New York.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
19 Hoylman to explain his vote.
20 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
21 Mr. President.
22 I don't know about you; I'm
23 positively giddy after having raised all those
24 local taxes earlier in the session. But today,
25 though, this bill would result in a $30 million
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1 annual hit to the City of New York, so I'll be
2 voting in the negative.
3 Thank you, Mr. President.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
5 Hoylman to be recorded in the negative.
6 Senator Avella to explain his vote.
7 SENATOR AVELLA: Thank you,
8 Mr. President. Obviously, I rise in support of
9 my own bill.
10 I just want to make a couple of
11 comments. And I'm glad to hear that the figure
12 being tossed around by the City of New York about
13 what this would cost in revenue is somewhere
14 between $27 million and $37 million, which is a
15 much lower figure than the city has ever admitted
16 before.
17 But this is not a loss of revenue,
18 this is a savings to the ratepayers, who are
19 paying some of the highest water and sewer rates
20 in the State of New York. In fact, many
21 homeowners complain that second to the property
22 tax in the City of New York, this is the highest
23 tax that they pay.
24 I hate to admit my age, but I was
25 around when the City of New York instituted the
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1 water and sewer program. And the whole purpose
2 of the program was to get people to conserve
3 water, not to raise revenue. And what they do by
4 charging a minimum amount is raising revenue.
5 It's actually based on 100 gallons
6 of water a day, and many seniors, many people
7 living alone never reach that amount of water.
8 So this would make sure that people
9 pay for the amount of water that they use. And
10 it would be a huge saving to seniors, to working
11 families and the middle class, and I urge my
12 colleagues to vote for it as they have in the
13 past.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
15 Avella to be recorded in the affirmative.
16 Senator Savino to explain her vote.
17 SENATOR SAVINO: Thank you,
18 Mr. President.
19 I want to thank Senator Avella for
20 introducing this piece of legislation. And I'd
21 just like to say every now and then as members we
22 get to be our own constituent. And I myself am a
23 constituent today. I am a homeowner in the City
24 of New York. And as a single person, I myself
25 never use the minimum water rate.
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1 So I am overpaying the City of
2 New York for that water, so I want to thank
3 Senator Avella for introducing this bill so that
4 I can get a little bit of relief from the City of
5 New York that's been picking my pocket and the
6 pockets of many of my constituents, both in
7 Brooklyn and in Staten Island and across all of
8 New York City. If you're a homeowner in New York
9 City and you are a single individual or you're a
10 senior, you are being taken to the cleaners on
11 this water and sewer rate.
12 So I want to thank you, Senator
13 Avella, and if I lived in your district, I would
14 vote for you. Thank you, Mr. President.
15 (Laughter.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
17 Savino is buying lunch with the money saved, and
18 she will be recorded in the affirmative.
19 Senator Alcantara to explain her
20 vote.
21 SENATOR ALCANTARA: Yes, I rise in
22 support of my colleague Senator Avella.
23 For those of us that are union
24 organizers, we know thousands of transit workers,
25 police officers, nurses, teachers and regular
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1 everyday New Yorkers that live in the City of
2 New York, and we know how hard it is to pay all
3 the high taxes you have in the City of New York.
4 And this is an added burden that the people in
5 the City of New York don't need.
6 I'm a homeowner in Manhattan, and I
7 know how expensive it is to just try to keep up
8 with the tickets I get from Sanitation, from
9 NYPD, from anybody. And as we try to keep city
10 workers in the State of New York, we are trying
11 to keep working-class New Yorkers in the State of
12 New York, in the City of New York, this is the
13 kind of legislation that we need to help
14 working-class New Yorkers. And we need to
15 concentrate on our brothers and sisters that live
16 in the Bronx, that live in Queens, that are
17 homeowners, that are robbing Peter to pay Paul.
18 Thank you, Senator Avella, for
19 introducing this, and thank you for sticking up
20 for everyday New Yorkers.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
22 Alcantara to be recorded in the affirmative.
23 Senator Comrie to explain his vote.
24 SENATOR COMRIE: I'm going to be
25 voting against this bill.
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1 As a representative of Southeast
2 Queens -- Laurelton, St. Albans, Cambria Heights,
3 Hollis, parts of Springfield Gardens, Jamaica,
4 Queens Village -- we have some of the highest
5 issues regarding water repair and sewer repair in
6 the city. And we cannot afford to lose this
7 revenue when we're trying to build water mains
8 and maintain water mains. When we have water
9 breaks all over the city on a regular basis due
10 to aging infrastructure, the city needs its
11 revenue.
12 While I understand as a homeowner
13 myself where we have problems with harassment
14 from tickets and everything else, and we are
15 trying to make sure that the water rate is
16 capped, it's important that we still have an
17 opportunity to improve our infrastructure. Every
18 day you see in the paper or hear on the news
19 about a water-pipe break in the city. But in
20 Southeast Queens, we have a problem with water
21 distribution and especially with the sewer water,
22 getting the water out and handled in a proper way
23 and in a safe way.
24 We need to continue to ensure that
25 we maintain our infrastructure. Those of you
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1 that are dealing with transportation in
2 Long Island and throughout the state because
3 we're not maintaining the infrastructure of the
4 trains will have a horrible summer this summer
5 because we're not keeping up with infrastructure
6 maintenance.
7 This money will go to the
8 maintenance of the sewer system infrastructure,
9 which we sorely need to keep up with, and we're
10 already way behind in this city. I'll be voting
11 no on this bill. We can't afford to lose the
12 $30 million.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
14 Comrie to be recorded in the negative.
15 Senator Sanders to explain his vote.
16 SENATOR SANDERS: Thank you,
17 Mr. President.
18 I too have to join my colleague in
19 Southeast Queens and say that even as we were up
20 here, my friends, my neighbors in the Rockaways
21 were going through a terrible situation where the
22 water mains had broken and there was brown water
23 for tens of thousands of people, and this went on
24 for two or three days.
25 So it is a curious point that this
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1 bill has come up at a time when my very
2 residents are saying that they have to boil their
3 water and have to strain their water and there is
4 questions of how safe the water is.
5 Our infrastructure -- in America as
6 a whole, we have not invested in infrastructure.
7 This is one of the points of agreement that I
8 have with our president, where we should be
9 investing in infrastructure. We can argue what
10 he means by that, but I certainly know that we
11 need to invest. So any idea of taking money out
12 of the system that is investing in these is not a
13 smart move. It's not a good move at this time.
14 So on behalf of all of my residents
15 who have undergone such problems and the other
16 residents of our good district in Southeast
17 Queens, I'm going to have to vote no on this.
18 Thank you very much, sir.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
20 Sanders to be recorded in the negative.
21 Seeing no other members wishing to
22 be heard, announce the result.
23 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
24 Calendar 1393, those recorded in the negative are
25 Senators Bailey, Comrie, Dilan, Gianaris,
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1 Hoylman, Krueger, Montgomery, Murphy, O'Mara,
2 Peralta, Persaud, Ranzenhofer, Rivera, Sanders,
3 Serrano and Squadron. Also Senator Díaz. Also
4 Senator Tedisco. Also Senator Stewart-Cousins.
5 Ayes, 43. Nays, 19.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 1397, by Senator Ritchie, Senate Print 1469, an
10 act to amend the Education Law.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
19 the result.
20 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 1398, by Senator Avella, Senate Print 1518A, an
25 act authorizing.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
4 act shall take effect immediately.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
9 the result.
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 61. Nays, 1.
11 Senator Dilan recorded in the negative.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1416, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 2232, an
16 act to amend the Education Law.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
20 act shall take effect immediately.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
25 the result.
3480
1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 1435, by Senator Parker, Senate Print 2847, an
6 act to establish.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect immediately.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
15 the result.
16 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
18 is passed.
19 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
20 1436, by Senator Young, Senate Print 2900, an act
21 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
3481
1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
5 the result.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60. Nays, 2.
7 Senators Hoylman and Krueger recorded in the
8 negative.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 1449, by Senator Breslin, Senate Print 3527, an
13 act to amend the Highway Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: There is
15 a home-rule message at the desk.
16 Read the last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
23 the result.
24 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
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1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 1455, by Senator Murphy, Senate Print 3927, an
4 act to validate.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
8 act shall take effect immediately.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
13 the result.
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 1460, by Senator Krueger, Senate Print 4000, an
19 act to amend the Public Health Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect on the first of January.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
25 roll.
3483
1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
3 the result.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 1496, by Senator Klein, Senate Print 5970, an act
9 to amend the Insurance Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
13 act shall take effect on the 180th day.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 1501, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 6303, an act
24 to amend the Public Authorities Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
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1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect immediately.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
5 roll.
6 (The Secretary called the roll.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
8 the result.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 60. Nays, 2.
10 Senators Dilan and Squadron recorded in the
11 negative.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
13 is passed.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 1505, by Senator Marchione, Senate Print 6565, an
16 act to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
20 act shall take effect immediately.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
25 the results.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
3 is passed.
4 Senator DeFrancisco, that completes
5 the noncontroversial reading of the calendar.
6 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Okay, I have
7 an announcement at this moment. First of all,
8 I'm going to call an immediate meeting of the
9 Rules Committee where there's only 16 bills on.
10 Then after that, we're going to come back to do a
11 supplemental calendar, which I believe is going
12 to be noncontroversial, with three bills on it:
13 Senator Stewart-Cousins, 1759; Stavisky, 4174;
14 and Montgomery, 3739.
15 After that when we come back, I will
16 be adjourning till tomorrow at 11:00 a.m., so you
17 can plan your day accordingly.
18 So right now I call an immediate
19 meeting of the Rules Committee in Room 332 of the
20 Capitol. And again, as I always do, I would urge
21 everyone to be there as expeditiously as possible
22 so that we can start and finish.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: There
24 will be an immediate meeting of the Rules
25 Committee in Room 332 of the Capitol.
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1 The Senate will stand at ease in the
2 interim.
3 (Whereupon, the Senate stood at ease
4 at 2:45 p.m.)
5 (Whereupon, the Senate reconvened at
6 3:04 p.m.)
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
8 DeFrancisco.
9 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Can I
11 have some order in the house, please.
12 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Is there a
13 report of the Rules Committee at the desk?
14 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: There is.
15 The Secretary will read.
16 THE SECRETARY: Senator Flanagan,
17 from the Committee on Rules, reports the
18 following bills:
19 Senate Print 1246, by Senator
20 Valesky, an act to amend the Public Health Law;
21 Senate 3103, by Senator Serrano, an
22 act to direct;
23 Senate 3338, by Senator Bailey, an
24 act to amend the Executive Law;
25 Senate 3721, by Senator Golden, an
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1 act to amend the Public Authorities Law;
2 Senate 3982, by Senator Montgomery,
3 an act to amend the Executive Law;
4 Senate 4711, by Senator Klein, an
5 act to amend the General Business Law;
6 Senate 6243, by Senator Bonacic, an
7 act to amend the Tax Law;
8 Senate 6309, by Senator Phillips, an
9 act to amend the Public Authorities Law;
10 Senate 6429, by Senator Carlucci, an
11 act to amend the Tax Law;
12 Senate 6437, by Senator Phillips, an
13 act to repeal;
14 Senate 6456A, by Senator Robach, an
15 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law;
16 Senate 6523, by Senator Robach, an
17 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law;
18 Senate 6550, by Senator Golden, an
19 act to amend the General Municipal Law;
20 Senate 6561, by Senator Bonacic, an
21 act in relation to; and
22 Senate 6588, by Senator Klein, an
23 act to amend Chapter 91 of the Laws of 2002.
24 All bills reported direct to third
25 reading.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
2 DeFrancisco.
3 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: I move to
4 accept the report of the Rules Committee.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: All in
6 favor of accepting the report of the Rules
7 Committee signify by saying aye.
8 (Response of "Aye.")
9 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Opposed,
10 nay.
11 (No response.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
13 report is accepted.
14 Senator DeFrancisco.
15 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: There's a
16 supplemental active calendar at the desk
17 comprised of three bills. Could we take that up,
18 please.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
20 Secretary will read.
21 THE SECRETARY: On page 7, Senator
22 Stewart-Cousins moves to discharge, from the
23 Committee on Local Government, Assembly Bill
24 Number 6389 and substitute it for the identical
25 Senate Bill 1759, Third Reading Calendar 124.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
2 substitution is so ordered.
3 The Secretary will read.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 124, by Member of the Assembly Pretlow, Assembly
6 Print 6389, an act to amend the Local Finance
7 Law.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
9 last section.
10 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
11 act shall take effect immediately.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 1099, by Senator Stavisky, Senate Print 4174, an
22 act to amend the General Municipal Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
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1 act shall take effect immediately.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
6 Stavisky to explain her vote.
7 SENATOR STAVISKY: Thank you,
8 Mr. President, to explain my vote.
9 I just want to thank the Young
10 Israel of Forest Hills Senior League for bringing
11 the issue of limited bingo operations. These are
12 free bingo programs that they have at senior
13 centers, and I vote in the affirmative.
14 But I do thank the Senior League for
15 bringing this issue, because it affects any
16 not-for-profit senior center that has these
17 programs. It just allows them to have additional
18 ones during the week.
19 Thank you.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
21 Stavisky to be recorded in the affirmative.
22 Announce the result.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 62.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
25 is passed.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 1171, by Senator Montgomery, Senate Print 3739,
3 an act to amend the Education Law.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
5 last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
7 act shall take effect on the 120th day.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
12 the result.
13 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
14 Calendar 1171, those recorded in the negative are
15 Senators Amedore, Croci and Murphy. Also Senator
16 Ranzenhofer. Also Senator Helming.
17 Ayes, 57. Nays, 5.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
19 is passed.
20 Senator DeFrancisco, that completes
21 the supplemental calendar.
22 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: There will be
23 a Mental Health Committee meeting immediately
24 following session in Room 816 of the LOB.
25 Is there any further business at the
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1 desk?
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: There is
3 no further business at the desk.
4 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Then I move
5 to adjourn until Thursday, June 8th, at
6 11:00 a.m.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: On
8 motion, the Senate stands adjourned until
9 Thursday, June 8th, at 11:00 a.m.
10 (Whereupon, at 3:09 p.m., the Senate
11 adjourned.)
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