Regular Session - January 13, 1997
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9 ALBANY, NEW YORK
10 January 13, 1997
11 3:04 p.m.
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 LT. GOVERNOR BETSY McCAUGHEY ROSS, President
19 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 chairs, staff their places. If every
5 one would rise, please, and join with me in the
6 saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
7 In the absence of clergy, may we
8 bow our heads in a moment of silence.
9 (A moment of silence was
10 observed. )
11 Reading of the Journal.
12 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
13 Friday, January 10th. The Senate met pursuant
14 to adjournment. The Journal of Thursday,
15 January 9th, was read and approved. On motion,
16 Senate adjourned.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Hearing
18 no objection, the Journal stands approved as
19 read.
20 Presentation of petitions.
21 Messages from the Assembly.
22 Messages from the Governor.
23 Reports of standing committees.
24 Reports of select committees.
25 Communications and reports from
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1 state officers.
2 Motions and resolutions.
3 The Chair recognizes Senator
4 Skelos.
5 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
6 on behalf of Senator Bruno, I offer up the
7 following committee assignments and ask that
8 they be filed in the Journal.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
10 committee assignments are received and they are
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12 Senator Skelos.
13 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President -
14 Senator Bruno, in consultation with the Minority
15 Leader offers up the following committee
16 assignments with the understanding that these
17 are temporary committee assignments for the
18 purpose of holding committee meetings this week
19 and ask that they be filed in the Journal.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Temporary
21 assignments are filed.
22 Senator Skelos.
23 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
24 there will be an immediate meeting of the Codes
25 Committee in Room 328 of the Capitol, the small
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1 conference room off of Senator Bruno's office
2 and there will be an immediate meeting of the
3 Finance Committee in Room 332 of the Capitol,
4 Majority Conference Room.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: For the
6 benefit of the members, those who didn't hear,
7 there will be an immediate meeting of the Codes
8 Committee, immediate meeting of the Codes
9 Committee in Room 328 of the Capitol, Room 328
10 of the Capitol. There will also be an immediate
11 meeting of the Finance Committee in the Majority
12 Conference Room, Room 332, an immediate meeting
13 of the Finance Committee in the Majority
14 Conference Room, Room 332.
15 Senator Skelos.
16 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
17 on behalf of Senator Bruno, I offer up the
18 following notice of intention to alter the
19 Senate rules and ask it be filed in the Journal.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: Notice is
21 received and filed.
22 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
23 if we could stand at ease awaiting the reports
24 of the committees.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT KUHL: The
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2 of the Codes Committee and the Finance
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4 (The Senate stood at ease from
5 3:07 p.m., until 3:29 p.m.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO:
7 Senator Skelos.
8 SENATOR SKELOS: There will be a
9 Majority Conference in the Majority Conference
10 Room at this time, and I believe Senator
11 Paterson has an announcement.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO:
13 Senator Paterson.
14 SENATOR PATERSON: There will be
15 a Minority Conference in Room 314 immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO:
17 Minority Conference, immediate Minority
18 Conference.
19 SENATOR SKELOS: Senate will
20 stand at ease.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT NOZZOLIO:
22 Senate will stand at ease.
23 (The Senate stood at ease from
24 3:30 p.m., until 4:31 p.m.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO:
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2 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
3 at this time if we can return to reports of
4 standing committees. I believe there are some
5 reports at the desk. I ask that they be read.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO:
7 Without objection, reports of standing
8 committees. The Secretary will read.
9 THE SECRETARY: Senator Stafford,
10 from the Committee on Finance, reports the
11 following bills:
12 Senate Print 68, by Senator Levy,
13 an act to amend the Executive Law and the
14 Estates, Powers and Trusts Law;
15 364, with amendments, by Senator
16 Stafford, an act to amend Chapter 452 of the
17 Laws of 1993;
18 367, by Senator Cook, an act to
19 amend the Public Officers Law.
20 Senator Volker, from the
21 Committee on Codes, reports the following bills:
22 Senate Print 64, by Senator Levy,
23 an act to amend the Criminal Procedure Law;
24 92, by Senator Velella, an act to
25 amend the Penal Law;
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1 169, by Senator Maltese, an act
2 to amend the Penal Law;
3 178, by Senator Skelos, an act to
4 amend the Civil Practice Law and Rules;
5 185, by Senator Tully, an act to
6 amend the Penal Law;
7 186, by Senator Tully, an act to
8 amend the Penal Law;
9 222, by Senator Volker, an act to
10 amend the Penal Law and the Criminal Procedure
11 Law;
12 251, by Senator Rath, an act to
13 amend paragraph (f) of subdivision (1) of
14 Section 70.30 of the Penal Law;
15 270, by Senator Volker, an act to
16 amend the Penal Law; and
17 289, by Senator Rath, an act to
18 amend the Criminal Procedure Law.
19 All bills ordered directly for
20 third reading.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO:
22 Without objection, all bills reported directly
23 to third reading.
24 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President.
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2 SENATOR SKELOS: Mr. President,
3 on behalf of Senator Bruno, there being no
4 further business, I move we adjourn until
5 Tuesday, January 14th, at 11:30.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MARCELLINO: On
7 motion of Senator Skelos, the Senate stands
8 adjourned until Tuesday, January 14, at 11:30
9 a.m.
10 (Whereupon at 4:34 p.m., the
11 Senate adjourned.)
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