Regular Session - January 24, 1996
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8 ALBANY, NEW YORK
9 January 24, 1996
10 11:00 a.m.
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13 REGULAR SESSION
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17 SENATOR JOHN R. KUHL, JR., Acting President
18 STEPHEN F. SLOAN, Secretary
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
3 Senate will come to order. Ask the members to
4 find their places, the staff to find their
5 places. Ask all of you to rise and join me in
6 saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
7 (The assemblage repeated the
8 Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
9 In the absence of clergy, may we
10 all bow our heads in a moment of silence.
11 (A moment of silence was
12 observed.)
13 Reading of the Journal.
14 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
15 Tuesday, January 23rd. The Senate met pursuant
16 to adjournment. The Journal of Monday, January
17 22nd, was read and approved. On motion, the
18 Senate adjourned.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Hearing
20 no objection, the Journal stands approved as
21 read.
22 Presentation of petitions.
23 Messages from the Assembly.
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1 Messages from the Governor.
2 Reports of standing committees.
3 Reports of select committees.
4 Motions and resolutions.
5 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The Chair
7 recognizes Senator Libous.
8 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, Mr.
9 President.
10 On behalf of Senator Stafford,
11 would we please place a star -- a sponsor's star
12 on Calendar Number 71.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: A
14 sponsor's star is placed on Calendar Number 71.
15 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
16 on behalf of Senator Cook, could we also place a
17 sponsor's star on Calendar Number 73.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: A star is
19 placed on Calendar Number 73 at the request of
20 the sponsor.
21 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
22 on page number 14, I offer the following
23 amendments to Calendar Number 127, Assembly
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1 Print 5499, and ask that said bill retain its
2 place on the Third Reading Calendar.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
4 amendments are received and adopted. The bill
5 will retain its place on the Third Reading
6 Calendar.
7 Senator Libous.
8 SENATOR LIBOUS: Mr. President,
9 on behalf of Senator Kuhl, I move that the
10 following bills be discharged from their
11 respective committees and be recommitted with
12 instructions to strike the enacting clause, and
13 I would be happy to read those numbers for you.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: If you
15 would, please.
16 SENATOR LIBOUS: Senate Numbers
17 660, 1992, 3117, 3118, 3823.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
19 enacting clauses to those bills are stricken and
20 the bills are recommitted.
21 SENATOR LIBOUS: Thank you, Mr.
22 President.
23 I have one more.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Senator
2 Libous.
3 SENATOR LIBOUS: On behalf of
4 Senator Cook, Mr. President, on page 11, I offer
5 the following amendments to Calendar Number 103,
6 Assembly Print 4864-A, and ask that said bill
7 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
9 amendments are received and adopted. The bill
10 will retain its place on the Third Reading
11 Calendar.
12 Senator Bruno, that brings us to
13 the calendar. Are you ready for the calendar,
14 sir?
15 SENATOR BRUNO: Yes. Mr.
16 President, can you at this time recognize
17 Senator LaValle for the purposes of making an
18 announcement?
19 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The Chair
20 recognizes Senator LaValle.
21 SENATOR LAVALLE: Mr. President,
22 there will be an immediate meeting of the Higher
23 Education Committee in the Senate Majority
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1 Conference Room.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Immediate
3 meeting of the Senate Committee on Higher
4 Education in the Majority Conference Room, Room
5 332. Immediate meeting of the Higher Education
6 Committee.
7 Senator Bruno.
8 SENATOR BRUNO: Mr. President,
9 can we at this time take up the non
10 controversial calendar.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
12 Secretary will read the non-controversial
13 calendar.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 15, by Senator Kuhl, Senate Print 1475-A, an act
16 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law and the
17 Vehicle and Traffic Law, in relation to
18 exempting farm vehicles from the Motor Vehicle
19 Financial Security Act.
20 SENATOR PATERSON: Lay it aside,
21 please.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Lay the
23 bill aside.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 17, by Senator Kuhl, Senate Print 3917-A, an act
3 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law, in
4 relation to the disposition of pro rata shares
5 paid into the milk producers security fund.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
7 Secretary will read the last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 31.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 21, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 3291, an
18 act to amend the Education Law, in relation to
19 filing of notice of athletic scholarships.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
21 Secretary will read the last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect on the 90th day.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 31, nays 1,
5 Senator Wright recorded in the negative.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 74, by Senator Volker, Senate Print 1474, an act
10 to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in
11 relation to suspensions for failure to answer.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
13 Secretary will read the last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
15 act shall take effect on the 30th day.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 32.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 75, by Senator Goodman, Senate Print 2429, an
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1 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in
2 relation to regulation of delivery bicycles.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
4 Secretary will read the last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
6 act shall take effect on the 90th day.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the
8 roll.
9 (The Secretary called the roll.)
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 32.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 76, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 4482, an
15 act authorizing the village of Port Jefferson
16 and the town of Riverhead in the county of
17 Suffolk to maintain traffic control devices.
18 SENATOR PATERSON: Lay it aside.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Lay the
20 bill aside.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 86, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 1720, an
23 act to amend the Public Authorities Law, in
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1 relation to the financing and construction of
2 certain facilities for Little Flower Children's
3 Services of New York.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
5 Secretary will read the last section.
6 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
7 act shall take effect immediately.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Call the
9 roll.
10 (The Secretary called the roll.)
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 35.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The bill
13 is passed.
14 Senator Bruno, that completes the
15 non-controversial calendar, sir.
16 SENATOR BRUNO: Thank you, Mr.
17 President.
18 Can we at this time take up the
19 controversial calendar.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
21 Secretary will read the controversial calendar.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 15, by Senator Kuhl, Senate Print 1475-A, an act
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1 to amend the Agriculture and Markets Law and the
2 Vehicle and Traffic Law, in relation to
3 exempting farm vehicles from the Motor Vehicle
4 Financial Security Act.
5 SENATOR PATERSON: Explanation,
6 please.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
8 Senator Kuhl, an explanation has been asked for
9 by Senator Paterson.
10 SENATOR KUHL: Yes, Mr.
11 President. This bill is really quite simple. A
12 couple years ago, we passed a bill that placed a
13 requirement on farmers to provide individual
14 insurance policies for farm-plated vehicles,
15 farm-plated vehicles being the limited use
16 vehicles that are only used on a simple
17 occasion, for instance, like bringing cabbages
18 out of the field or maybe making an application
19 of fertilizer on a field in the spring. That
20 particular new requirement that we placed on
21 them has caused some farmers quite an expense,
22 and what this bill simply does is to remove a
23 requirement that we placed on them a short time
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2 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
3 Senator Paterson.
4 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you very
5 much, Mr. President.
6 I'm a little concerned about
7 those rare instances where there may be an
8 accident involving one of those vehicles, and I
9 was wondering if Senator Kuhl would yield for a
10 question and inform the members in the chamber,
11 and those listening in, as to whether or not
12 there are any records of what the accident rate
13 is for these farm vehicles.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
15 Senator Kuhl, will you yield?
16 SENATOR KUHL: I'd be happy to
17 yield to that question.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
19 Senator Kuhl.
20 SENATOR KUHL: Mr. President, I
21 don't have with me the exact figures relative to
22 accidents, but I can tell you that one of the
23 reasons that we allow for limited use vehicles
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1 to have different kinds of safety requirements
2 than the normal usage of -- of vehicles that we
3 have, whether they're 18-wheelers carrying large
4 quantities of produce or whether they just
5 happen to be normal cars, is that there is an
6 extremely low accident rate.
7 There are different criteria that
8 are required. For instance, in some cases you
9 don't have to have working lights on some of
10 these vehicles because they're only used during
11 the daytime and there's no requirement for
12 that. In some cases you don't have to have the
13 five-mile-an-hour bumper because they're just
14 not able to be kept in place, or working brake
15 lights, some of those kinds of things. There's
16 a specifically different standard for safety on
17 these vehicles because they're extremely limited
18 use and they're only going from -- in most
19 cases, from the field back to the farm which
20 might be just across the road, and what we did
21 is we placed the requirement that each one of
22 these vehicles have a separate individual
23 insurance policy on those vehicles. Most of the
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1 farmers have a general liability policy that
2 would cover for any insurance purposes for
3 accidents that would occur. So this was one of
4 those unnecessary things that we didn't think
5 was going to be a major problem, but it has
6 arisen and it is.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
8 Senator Paterson.
9 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Read
11 the last section.
12 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Mr.
13 President.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
15 Senator Dollinger.
16 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Just one
17 question for Senator Kuhl, if he'll yield.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
19 Senator Kuhl, will you yield?
20 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Just -- and I
21 apologize for -
22 SENATOR KUHL: I would be happy
23 to.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
2 Senator Dollinger.
3 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Perhaps not
4 paying as close attention to Senator Paterson's
5 question and your answer to him, but this would
6 apply to licensed vehicles that are actually
7 licensed by the Department of Transportation?
8 Is there any -
9 SENATOR KUHL: Department of
10 Motor Vehicles, Senator.
11 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Excuse me,
12 the Department of Motor Vehicles.
13 SENATOR KUHL: Yes.
14 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Are there any
15 other vehicles that are licensed by the
16 Department of Motor Vehicles that do not have
17 liability insurance attached to them?
18 SENATOR KUHL: I don't know the
19 answer to that question, Senator.
20 SENATOR DOLLINGER: Okay.
21 SENATOR KUHL: My expertise is
22 not with motor vehicles across the broad
23 spectrum. I deal solely with the agricultural
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2 SENATOR DOLLINGER: I understand.
3 On the bill, Mr. President. I
4 voted against this bill last year. I'm going to
5 vote against it again. I think that exempting
6 any category of vehicles that are licensed -
7 that actually get a license plate, that are
8 actually vehicles that are going to be using the
9 public highways, to exempt them from the minimum
10 liability insurance requirements creates a
11 danger, not only to the motorists or people who
12 may be involved in accidents -- they could be
13 pedestrians near the road; they could be other
14 motorists -- I think it creates an even greater
15 risk, unfortunately, to the farmer and that risk
16 is that they would be uninsured when their motor
17 vehicle is in an accident and, therefore, they
18 could be sued. All of their life's assets could
19 be tied up if the vehicle that they're driving
20 is involved in an accident, causes an accident
21 and the farmer may be at risk.
22 Although it's an added cost of
23 doing business, the whole purpose of insuring
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1 these vehicles is to cut down on the bigger
2 liability risk of being uninsured. So I'm not
3 so sure that I agree with the sponsor that this
4 is necessarily good for farmers in the long run.
5 It may reduce their costs in the short run, but
6 in the long run it has a societal consequence
7 that I don't think is in the best interests of
8 the people of this state.
9 I will be voting no, Mr.
10 President.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
12 Senator Johnson, why do you rise?
13 SENATOR JOHNSON: Mr. President,
14 I have some familiarity with this issue and I
15 feel I should speak on it to perhaps reassure
16 Senator Dollinger and others.
17 It's been stated by Senator Kuhl
18 that the farmer's general liability covers
19 vehicles of limited use, such as farm vehicles.
20 This is not a normal license that you would
21 get. It's a farm vehicle license. When you
22 apply for this license plate, you have to fill
23 out a form stating where you're going to go with
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1 this truck, and really you're only allowed to go
2 essentially from one field to another, or a
3 rented field down the road or possibly to the
4 dump and drop something off. This is not a
5 vehicle to be used in the manner of any normally
6 licensed vehicle. It's a very restricted use.
7 As I said, you have to file that when you apply
8 for it.
9 Farmers have been operating with
10 this type of a registration and with their
11 general liability coverage for more decades than
12 perhaps anyone here has resided in this state.
13 So I don't think, Senator, that there is a
14 problem that we need this coverage or this
15 change in licensing for the trucks. There's no
16 reason to do it. To go back to the old system
17 is perfectly adequate. There's been no epidemic
18 of unlicensed vehicles having accidents or
19 farmers going broke because their truck wasn't
20 insured. So I don't think there's a problem. I
21 think there was a big error made when this bill
22 was passed two years ago and it should be
23 rectified, and this bill will do it.
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1 Thank you.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Read
3 the last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Call
7 the roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 THE SECRETARY: Those recorded in
10 the negative on Calendar Number 15 are Senators
11 Abate, Dollinger, Kruger. Ayes 38, nays 3.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: The
13 bill is passed.
14 The Secretary will read.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 76, by Senator LaValle, Senate Print 4482, an
17 act authorizing the village of Port Jefferson
18 and the town of Riverhead in the county of
19 Suffolk to maintain traffic control devices.
20 SENATOR PATERSON: Explanation.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
22 Senator LaValle, an explanation has been asked
23 for.
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1 SENATOR LAVALLE: Mr. President,
2 this bill is really very straightforward. It
3 would allow the village of Port Jefferson and
4 the town of Riverhead on state highways to use
5 various devices to allow the safe passage of
6 pedestrians across state highways.
7 Right now in Suffolk County,
8 villages that have county roads are using
9 various traffic control devices, such as cones
10 with little signs on the top saying, "Stop for
11 pedestrians" or the traditional signs that roll
12 out onto the highway that we all are aware of as
13 young people when we crossed at a school
14 crossing. This would allow the village of Port
15 Jefferson and the town of Riverhead to use
16 similar devices so that pedestrians can cross
17 safely at very difficult intersections and give
18 them the same right that villages and other
19 towns have on county or town roads.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
21 Senator Paterson.
22 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you very
23 much, Mr. President, and I thank Senator LaValle
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2 If Senator LaValle would yield
3 for a question.
4 SENATOR LAVALLE: Yes, sir.
5 SENATOR PATERSON: We were in
6 contact with the Department of Transportation
7 about just a minor problem we have with the
8 legislation. We understand the concern and the
9 pedestrian safety and perhaps why the village of
10 Port Jefferson and -- I'm sorry -- and the town
11 of Riverhead would want to regulate the movement
12 of traffic to accommodate pedestrians, perhaps
13 by putting cones in the street and that kind of
14 thing, but the language of the legislation seems
15 to be very broad because what the language in
16 the legislation actually refers to is the
17 control of the movement of traffic, and this
18 alarms me to a certain degree that we are
19 allowing this village and this township, in a
20 sense, some controls that we may not be granting
21 around the state.
22 So, for instance, what are those
23 instrumentalities that would limit traffic?
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1 Would they be stop lights? Would they be stop
2 signs? Would they be the use of radar; in other
3 words, where the village and the town would, in
4 a sense, supersede what every other municipality
5 in the county is adhering to?
6 So I just wanted to ask if the
7 language is, in your opinion, Senator, specific
8 enough to accommodate the need that the bill is
9 addressing very well, but at the same time
10 creating equity in the other counties and the
11 other townships and the other villages?
12 SENATOR LAVALLE: Of course, this
13 bill applies, Senator, as we've discussed, to
14 Port Jefferson and Riverhead who, on their own
15 have been, for some time, putting cones to allow
16 pedestrians to cross safely.
17 The Department of Transportation
18 has indicated to both municipalities that they
19 did not have the authority to do this, that
20 they, the state, wanted to, in essence, do their
21 own thing to safely control pedestrian traffic.
22 I live in the village of Port
23 Jefferson. It's a village of 7,000 people. We
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1 have designated the village as a maritime
2 community and for those who have been or seen
3 pictures of Port Jefferson, it is a village that
4 could fit very nicely on a postcard and have it
5 labeled a New England village.
6 The DOT came in and said they
7 wanted to put pedestrian control devices, huge
8 poles with an arm across the main street of Port
9 Jefferson, that is a maritime community, a huge
10 sign that does not fit into the ambiance of the
11 community, and they wanted to do the same thing
12 in downtown Riverhead. Other communities, such
13 as Tupper Lake, I am told -- and we know as I've
14 indicated, Senator, that villages having county
15 roads use the same innocuous devices, cones, the
16 same cones that we use expletives to -- that
17 direct us on major highways in traffic onto the
18 shoulders of a highway. These innocent cones,
19 however, with a little sign saying to vehicles
20 "Stop" when pedestrians are crossing, work and
21 protect lives, and that's all we're talking
22 about in both the village of Port Jefferson and
23 Riverhead. We do not believe that it includes
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1 anything else of radar traps, or so forth,
2 Senator.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
4 Senator Paterson.
5 SENATOR PATERSON: Thank you, Mr.
6 President.
7 Actually, Senator LaValle, I
8 agree with this legislation. Having not spent
9 the time in Port Jefferson, I have visited it
10 and it is a beautiful town -- also Coram very
11 close to there, but the point that I'm making is
12 that actually, I think the legislation is good
13 and I think what you're trying to accomplish is
14 fine and when you have these townships and you
15 have a municipality where a department -- a
16 state department comes in and tries to put those
17 types of signs in, it really ruins the kind of
18 artistic and historical and cultural value to
19 have these kind of traffic controls that are out
20 of sync' with what the ambiance of the township
21 would be in Port Jefferson and -- but what we're
22 saying is the way it's written in the language,
23 it just says "control devices", and so at some
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1 point in the future, should the village of Port
2 Jefferson or the town of Riverhead want to go
3 beyond that, for some reason, which is a reason
4 that neither you nor I might agree with, they
5 would be able to do that under this legislation,
6 and we thought that perhaps the specific types
7 of traffic controls might have been indicated in
8 the legislation. Had it been that way, we just
9 think it would have been more specific and more
10 clear. Otherwise, the intent of the legislation
11 is quite good and the need to avoid the uses of
12 the types of traffic controls that the
13 Department of Transportation would have wanted
14 to is certainly understandable.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Read
16 the last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 22. This
18 act shall take effect immediately.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Call
20 the roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes 44.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: The
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1 bill is passed.
2 SENATOR LEICHTER: Mr. President.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
4 Senator Leichter, why do you rise?
5 SENATOR LEICHTER: Mr. President,
6 may I have unanimous consent to be recorded in
7 the negative on Calendar Number 15?
8 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
9 Without objection, so ordered.
10 Senator Skelos, that completes
11 the controversial reading of the calendar.
12 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
13 if we could return to reports of standing
14 committees, I believe there is a report from the
15 Higher Education Committee at the desk.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
17 Reports of standing committees. The Secretary
18 will read.
19 THE SECRETARY: Senator LaValle,
20 from the Higher Education Committee, offers up
21 the following bill directly for third reading:
22 Senate Print 5029-A, by Senator
23 LaValle, an act to amend the Education Law and
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1 the New York State Medical Care Facilities
2 Finance Agency Act, in relation to the
3 administration, management and operation of
4 hospitals.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
6 Without objection, all bills directly to third
7 reading.
8 Senator Skelos.
9 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President, I
10 offer up the following committee changes on
11 behalf of Senator Bruno and ask that they be
12 read and filed in the Journal.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: The
14 Secretary will read.
15 THE SECRETARY: Senator Bruno
16 hands up the following committee changes:
17 Racing, Gaming and Wagering:
18 Senator Larkin, Chair, Stafford, DeFrancisco,
19 Farley, Hoblock, Nozzolio, Rath, Sears and
20 Spano.
21 Local Governments: Larkin off.
22 Ethics: Marcellino off.
23 Water Resources: Tully, Chair,
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1 Trunzo, Lack, Goodman, Marcellino and Maziarz.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Filed
3 in the Journal.
4 Senator Skelos.
5 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
6 is there any housekeeping at the desk?
7 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: Yes,
8 Senator, there is.
9 SENATOR RATH: Mr. President.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
11 Senator Rath, why do you rise?
12 SENATOR RATH: Mr. President -
13 Mr. President, I move to recommit Senate Print
14 Number 3788, Calendar Number 3, on the order of
15 third reading to the Committee on Banks.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: So
17 ordered.
18 Senator Skelos.
19 SENATOR SKELOS: Is there any
20 other housekeeping?
21 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: One
22 second, Senator.
23 Senator Skelos.
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1 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
2 if we could return to motions and resolutions, I
3 believe there's a resolution by Senator
4 Hoblock. If we could have the title read and
5 the resolution adopted.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: So
7 ordered.
8 The Secretary will read.
9 THE SECRETARY: By Senator
10 Hoblock, Senate Legislative Resolution.
11 Legislative Resolution commending the National
12 Association for the Advancement of Colored
13 People, Albany Branch, upon the occasion of its
14 61st Annual Freedom Fund Dinner to be held
15 Friday, January 26th, 1996.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO: All
17 those in favor signify by saying aye.
18 (Response of "Aye".)
19 Opposed?
20 (There was no response.)
21 The resolution is adopted.
22 Senator Skelos.
23 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
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1 there being no further business, I move we
2 adjourn until Monday, January 29th, 1996 at 3:00
3 p.m. sharp, intervening days to be legislative
4 days.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT DiCARLO:
6 Without objection, the Senate stands adjourned
7 until Monday, January 29th, at 3:00 p.m.,
8 intervening days to be legislative days.
9 (Whereupon, at 11:27 a.m., the
10 Senate adjourned.)
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