Regular Session - March 25, 2010
1941
1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE
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4 THE STENOGRAPHIC RECORD
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9 ALBANY, NEW YORK
10 March 25, 2010
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 SENATOR CRAIG M. JOHNSON, Acting President
19 ANGELO J. APONTE, Secretary
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The
3 Senate will please come to order.
4 I ask everyone present to rise and
5 recite with me the Pledge of Allegiance to our
6 Flag.
7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited
8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: In the
10 absence of clergy, may we all bow our heads in
11 a moment of silence.
12 (Whereupon, the assemblage
13 respected a moment of silence.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The
15 reading of the Journal.
16 The Secretary will read.
17 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
18 Wednesday, March 24, the Senate met pursuant
19 to adjournment. The Journal of Tuesday,
20 March 23, was read and approved. On motion,
21 Senate adjourned.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON:
23 Without objection, the Journal stands approved
24 as read.
25 Presentation of petitions.
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1 Messages from the Assembly.
2 Messages from the Governor.
3 Reports of standing committees.
4 Reports of select committees.
5 Communications and reports from
6 state officers.
7 Motions and resolutions.
8 Senator Klein.
9 SENATOR KLEIN: Thank you,
10 Mr. President.
11 On behalf of Senator Smith, I move
12 that the following bills be discharged from
13 their respective committees and be recommitted
14 with instructions to strike the enacting
15 clause: Senate Number 7088.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: So
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18 Senator Klein.
19 SENATOR KLEIN: On behalf of
20 Senator Espada, I move to amend Senate Bill
21 Number 6168A by striking out the amendments
22 made on March 10th and restoring it to its
23 original print number, 6168.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: So
25 ordered.
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1 Senator Klein.
2 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, on
3 behalf of Senator Stachowski, I move that the
4 following bill be discharged from its
5 respective committee and be recommitted with
6 instructions to strike the enacting clause:
7 Senate Number 1946.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: So
9 ordered.
10 Senator Klein.
11 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President,
12 can we please move to a reading of the
13 calendar.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: We
15 have substitutions to make first,
16 Senator Klein.
17 SENATOR KLEIN: Please make the
18 substitutions.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The
20 Secretary will read the substitutions.
21 THE SECRETARY: On page 20,
22 Senator Diaz moves to discharge, from the
23 Committee on Insurance, Assembly Bill Number
24 217 and substitute it for the identical Senate
25 Bill Number 5456, Third Reading Calendar 289.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON:
2 Substitution so ordered.
3 The Secretary will now read the
4 noncontroversial calendar.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 278, by Senator Oppenheimer, Senate Print
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8 SENATOR KLEIN: Lay the bill
9 aside for the day, please.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The
11 bill is laid aside for the day.
12 The Secretary will continue to
13 read.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
15 283, by Member of the Assembly Brodsky,
16 Assembly Print Number 4217, an act to amend
17 the General Municipal Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: Read
19 the last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: Call
23 the roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: The
2 bill is passed.
3 Senator Klein, that now completes
4 the reading of the noncontroversial calendar.
5 Senator Klein.
6 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, on
7 behalf of Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson, there
8 will be a Majority conference in the Majority
9 Conference Room at 7:00 p.m.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: There
11 will be a Majority conference at 7:00 p.m. in
12 the Majority Conference Room.
13 Senator Klein.
14 SENATOR KLEIN: Mr. President, is
15 there any further business at the desk?
16 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON:
17 Senator Klein, the desk is clear.
18 SENATOR KLEIN: There being no
19 further business, Mr. President, I move that
20 we adjourn until Friday, March 26th, at
21 11:00 a.m.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT JOHNSON: There
23 being no further business to come before the
24 Senate, on motion, the Senate stands adjourned
25 until Friday, March 26th, at 11:00 a.m.
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1 (Whereupon, at 3:53 p.m., the
2 Senate adjourned.)
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