Regular Session - March 23, 2017
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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 March 23, 2017
11 12:04 p.m.
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 SENATOR THOMAS D. CROCI, 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 CROCI: The
3 Senate will come to order.
4 I ask everyone present to please
5 rise and repeat with me the Pledge of
6 Allegiance.
7 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited
8 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: In the
10 absence of clergy, may we please bow our heads
11 for a moment of silence.
12 (Whereupon, the assemblage
13 respected a moment of silence.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
15 reading of the Journal.
16 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
17 Wednesday, March 22nd, the Senate met pursuant
18 to adjournment. The Journal of Tuesday,
19 March 21st, was read and approved. On motion,
20 Senate adjourned.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Without
22 objection, the Journal stands approved as read.
23 Presentation of petitions.
24 Messages from the Assembly.
25 Messages from the Governor.
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1 Reports of standing committees.
2 Reports of select committees.
3 Communications and reports from
4 state officers.
5 Motions and resolutions.
6 Senator DeFrancisco.
7 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes, I move
8 to adopt the Resolution Calendar except for
9 Resolution 1163.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: All in
11 favor of adopting the Resolution Calendar, with
12 the exception of Resolution 1163, please signify
13 by saying aye.
14 (Response of "Aye.")
15 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Opposed,
16 nay.
17 (No response.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
19 Resolution Calendar is adopted.
20 Senator DeFrancisco.
21 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Can we now
22 recognize Senator Alcantara to introduce a
23 special individual in our chambers today, the
24 Consul General of Mexico, Ambassador Diego
25 Gomez.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
2 Alcantara.
3 SENATOR ALCANTARA: Thank you,
4 Senator DeFrancisco.
5 We would like to welcome Diego
6 Gomez Pickering, the consul general of Mexico,
7 and also Paulina Strassburger Lona, consul of
8 political affairs for Mexico. And welcome to
9 the New York State Senate.
10 The Mexican community is the second
11 largest Latino group in New York. And a quick
12 fact that my colleague Senator Carlucci and I
13 learned today is that Mexico is the
14 fifth-largest trading partner for the State of
15 New York and the second for the United States.
16 We would like to welcome you to the
17 State Senate, and my colleagues and myself, we
18 look forward to working with you in the Mexican
19 community, as the contributions that
20 Mexican-Americans have made to the United States
21 have been tremendous.
22 Mexico has been one of our biggest
23 partners, not only economically but politically.
24 The Mexican government has spent millions of
25 dollars helping the United States secure the
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1 southern borders and keeping terrorists out. And
2 sometimes in this divisive climate that we are
3 in, we don't recognize how big and what a huge
4 trading partner Mexico is to the United States
5 and how lucky we are to have a large population
6 of Mexicans in the city and in the State of
7 New York.
8 So thank you very much for being
9 here with us.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
11 Rivera.
12 SENATOR RIVERA: Thank you,
13 Mr. President.
14 From 2000 to 2010, the Census
15 determined that in the State of New York,
16 generally speaking, the ethnicity that grew the
17 most was Latino. Within that, the one that grew
18 the most was Mexican. And by percentage, most of
19 that population growth happened in my district,
20 based around actually what used to be Little
21 Italy -- which still is, our Arthur Avenue, the
22 neighborhood of Belmont, which still has some of
23 the best Italian restaurants in the city, as some
24 of my Italian brethren can attest. And if not,
25 I'll take you.
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1 But the population that lives there
2 has changed. And in this case, what you have is
3 a large growth of the Mexican population that has
4 happened right in the heart of my district.
5 So I am very, very proud to stand
6 today, as I did a few days ago to talk about the
7 diversity of my district -- then we were
8 welcoming folks from the Garifuna community --
9 but also Mexicans make up a large sector of the
10 growing population in the heart of my district.
11 So I'm very happy to welcome the
12 ambassador here. And by the way, he is not only
13 recognized for his great skill in state matters,
14 but as I hear, he also makes a mean margarita. I
15 hope that I will get the chance to try that,
16 because if you've been somewhere with cheap
17 margarita mix, you know once you've had the real
18 thing. So you definitely need to do that.
19 So, Mr. President, thank you so much
20 for giving me the opportunity to speak. But
21 thank you for visiting us in this august chamber.
22 I hope that it is not the last time that you are
23 here with us.
24 Thank you, Mr. President.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
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1 Peralta.
2 SENATOR PERALTA: Thank you,
3 Mr. President.
4 I too want to welcome the Consul
5 General of Mexico, Ambassador Diego Gomez, and
6 Paulina. Thank you for being here today.
7 I've had the privilege of sitting
8 down with the ambassador in my district office
9 and talking to him about the issues that matter
10 to Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the district
11 that I represent.
12 I represent the United Nations of
13 all Senate districts. And one of the growing
14 populations in that district, in my district, is
15 the Mexican community. And you can see it all
16 along the line of Roosevelt Avenue and Elmhurst
17 and Corona by the businesses that they open up
18 and the shops that they open up, and just the
19 kids that attend the local schools.
20 I remember when I first got elected,
21 when I was in the Assembly, I used to ask the
22 question "How many people from the Dominican
23 Republic?" And 80 percent of the kids would
24 raise their hands. And now when I ask the
25 question "How many kids from Mexico?", 80 percent
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1 of the kids raise their hands.
2 And there's a different population
3 that's coming into the district, and I am proud
4 to represent them. And I thank the consul
5 general for all the hard work that he does for
6 the Mexican-American community, not only in my
7 district but through the entire State of New
8 York.
9 Thank you so much, and I'm looking
10 forward to continuing our great relationship.
11 Welcome.
12 Thank you, Mr. President.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
14 Díaz.
15 SENATOR DÍAZ: Thank you,
16 Mr. President.
17 I also join Senator Marisol
18 Alcantara in welcoming Consul General Diego Gomez
19 and Paulina. I don't have that many Mexicans in
20 my district, not in my district. But in the
21 Bronx, and on behalf of my son, the Bronx borough
22 president, Ruben Díaz, Jr., I also would like to
23 express my appreciation to the Mexican community
24 that resides in Bronx County and throughout the
25 City of New York.
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1 I do abrazos. I do abrazos,
2 banquets for different communities in my district
3 when they start growing. I'm going to start
4 planning for the Mexican.
5 But again, I would like to welcome
6 you. It's an honor to meet you. From this
7 Puerto Rican, with broken English and kinky hair,
8 welcome to this chamber.
9 Thank you very much.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
11 Krueger.
12 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you very
13 much, Mr. President.
14 I join my colleagues in welcoming
15 Consul General Gomez from Mexico. I'm very proud
16 to have the consulate in my district. I am very
17 proud to have the United Nations in my district,
18 so I have the opportunity to have truly the
19 center of an international city.
20 And I am delighted that we have so
21 many guests who come to visit us in Albany, to
22 help us understand the uniqueness of New York
23 State and New York City in global economics and
24 global diplomacy. I assured the consul general
25 when we met that despite the fact that I have
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1 another constituent -- the Trump family are
2 constituents -- that I strongly oppose the wall.
3 There will be no wall in New York City anywhere,
4 and I hope not anywhere, for our sakes.
5 But I am just delighted that you are
6 here, delighted to hear from all my colleagues
7 about experiences of the Mexican-Americans in
8 their own communities. Because the whole history
9 of our great State of New York was a history of
10 immigrants coming from everywhere, open borders
11 to everyone, and welcoming.
12 So welcome to you. Thank you.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
14 Hamilton.
15 SENATOR HAMILTON: Mr. President, I
16 rise to pay tribute to the consul general from
17 Mexico. I have a growing Mexican population in
18 my district in Sunset Park. They're some of the
19 hardest-working people in America. They thrive
20 on economic development, as far as being small
21 business owners in my district.
22 And I just want to say because of
23 their hard work and the desire to be true
24 Americans, we have with the IDC the sanctuary
25 district. And my office is a sanctuary office
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1 for anybody who is feeling threatened by ICE or
2 any other agency that may try to deport them.
3 As we all know, if you go to a
4 deportation hearing, there's a 97 percent chance
5 you'll be deported without an attorney. So I'm
6 glad to announce that we are providing legal
7 services for anyone facing deportation in our
8 great State of New York.
9 So to the consul general of Mexico,
10 we welcome you here to the State of New York and
11 to our chamber, and God bless you Mexico.
12 Thank you very much.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Your
14 Excellency, we welcome you to our chamber, and
15 the Senate extends every privilege and courtesy
16 of the house to you and your delegation.
17 And would the members please
18 recognize our guests from the great nation of
19 Mexico.
20 (Standing ovation.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
22 DeFrancisco.
23 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes, would
24 you now recognize Senator Griffo for a very brief
25 introduction.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
2 Senator from Rome is recognized.
3 SENATOR GRIFFO: Thank you,
4 Mr. President.
5 I'm honored to have with me a young
6 talented student from Rome Free Academy who is
7 our mentee today, Senator for a Day. His family
8 was successful in arranging this at a charitable
9 event.
10 So I want to acknowledge Mr. Ben
11 McMonagle. Ben is with us, he's a sophomore at
12 Rome Free Academy. Stand up, Ben. And also his
13 family, Ed, Beth and Dan. Thank you all for
14 being here.
15 Thank you, Mr. Leader, and thank
16 you, Mr. President.
17 (Applause.)
18 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Could we now
19 take up Resolution 1163, by Senator Alcantara,
20 read the title only, and call on the Senator to
21 speak.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
23 Secretary will read.
24 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
25 Resolution Number 1163, by Senator Alcantara,
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1 commemorating the 106th anniversary of the
2 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25,
3 2017.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
5 Alcantara.
6 SENATOR ALCANTARA: Thank you,
7 Mr. President.
8 On March 25, 1911, the Triangle
9 Shirtwaist Factory Company in New York City
10 burned to the ground, killing 145 workers. That
11 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the
12 history of our city.
13 Most of the workers were Jewish and
14 Italian immigrants, women and children. When
15 they tried to escape, many of them jumped out of
16 the windows because the owner of the factory had
17 locked the doors. And the owner of the factory
18 had locked the doors so workers were not allowed
19 to take a break, they were not allowed to go
20 outside. For those owners, a human life was
21 considered less than making profit.
22 And today, as a trade unionist, to
23 me this is very important, because today when you
24 talk to any brothers and sisters in the labor
25 movement, we still hear the same stories, the
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1 race to the bottom, where companies will cut
2 whatever corners they can to make sure that the
3 workers work more but with less benefits.
4 Today we must ensure that the
5 memories of those women and girls that died are
6 never forgotten, and that we can remember that
7 there's still a time in America where we as
8 elected officials, as trade unionists, we need to
9 work hard to protect and make sure that every
10 American worker has the right to unionize, paid
11 holidays, vacations days, and benefits. And only
12 then can we realize that Americans and our
13 workers can move to the middle class, if we can
14 ensure that the working conditions in our
15 factories and places of work are nice and safe.
16 So today I would like to take the
17 opportunity, Mr. President, for allowing me to
18 honor the lives and memories of those workers
19 that died on that terrible day on March 25th.
20 Thank you.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
22 Hoylman.
23 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
24 Mr. President.
25 I wanted to thank my colleague for
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1 sponsoring this resolution.
2 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
3 disaster occurred in my district, and the
4 building is still there. It's called the Brown
5 Building, and it's been subsumed into NYU. It's
6 right off of Washington Place, so you can walk
7 by. And it's rather nondescript, a small plaque.
8 But it's really mind-boggling if you
9 think about the fact that back in 1911, 146 women
10 and men, young people, leapt to their deaths from
11 the eighth and ninth floor of that building
12 because they were locked into the work premises.
13 The owners had the idea to lock the
14 workers in, wanted to keep them at their
15 machines, but secondly because they didn't want
16 them to steal.
17 And what they were making, a lot of
18 us don't know, but they're called shirtwaists.
19 They were basically women's dresses that had a
20 professional look to them and were very popular
21 at the time.
22 But the owners were concerned that
23 the workers, most of them immigrants, would steal
24 scraps of cloth and take them home.
25 I know I have a couple of
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1 constituents here, Heidi and Sam, who live not
2 far from there in Greenwich Village where this
3 occurred.
4 Of course, as the sponsor said, out
5 of this tragedy grew unionization, unionization
6 for immigrants, which I think we can reflect on
7 today as of great importance, as well as the
8 cause for equal pay. You know, it's something
9 that this chamber has addressed in the past, and
10 I think we obviously need to continue to do more
11 work. Because when it comes to the pay gap
12 between men and women, to this day, women still
13 make just an average of 78 cents for every dollar
14 made by men. And that's 50 years after President
15 Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act. And in
16 New York, the difference is that women make,
17 while better, still just 86 cents on the dollar
18 of every man.
19 So while there is great tragedy and
20 solace in remembering this day, I think there is
21 also hope, hope for our immigration policies to
22 reflect our economy, as many of us agree, and
23 secondly, to make certain that women are treated
24 equally in the workplace.
25 One anecdote that I'll close with is
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1 that the owners were taken to court and were
2 found not guilty, because the jury couldn't
3 determine that they had in fact locked the doors.
4 So 25 families filed civil suits against the
5 owners on behalf of their lost loved ones. Well,
6 they won. They won a payment of $75 for each
7 deceased member.
8 Thank you, Mr. President.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
10 Stavisky.
11 SENATOR STAVISKY: Thank you,
12 Mr. President. Thank you to my colleagues.
13 And as I sat and listened to the
14 comments, I think we also ought to pay tribute to
15 one of our former colleagues, Senator Serf
16 Maltese, who used to get up on the floor each
17 year and talk about the Triangle Shirtwaist
18 Factory tragedy. Because if my memory is
19 correct, he lost a grandparent.
20 So I think that by doing this we are
21 continuing almost an oral history of what has
22 happened in New York State, and for that we thank
23 everybody for their participation.
24 Thank you, Mr. President.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
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1 Little.
2 SENATOR LITTLE: Thank you,
3 Mr. President.
4 And you know, when we stop and think
5 about the conditions these women were working
6 in -- they were mostly women, there were some men
7 and they were all very young -- how tragic it
8 was, and certainly how much things have improved.
9 But it was actually the shirtwaist
10 factory fire that got people involved and working
11 for women's rights in the labor force -- and then
12 their right to vote, once they realized they not
13 only needed help in their workplace, but they
14 needed to be able to vote for elected officials
15 and actually to -- they could have run for
16 office, but without the women's vote they didn't
17 feel they could.
18 So this really led to the whole
19 suffragette movement as well, and many of the
20 same people that started with this movement ended
21 up in the suffragette movement.
22 So thank you very much for this
23 resolution.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
25 Savino.
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1 SENATOR SAVINO: Thank you,
2 Mr. President.
3 I rise -- first I want to thank
4 Senator Alcantara, our new Labor chair in the
5 Senate for bringing this resolution to the next
6 door.
7 I have spoken on the anniversary of
8 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire every year
9 since I have been in the Senate. And the
10 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was without a
11 doubt a defining moment in New York State -- not
12 just for workers' rights and for women's rights,
13 it was a defining moment for the State of
14 New York. We became the first state to adopt
15 factory safety standards as a result of that
16 horrific tragedy.
17 We were one of the first states to
18 adopt labor laws that then became the model for
19 the nation to follow. It took a few years for
20 the federal government to finally recognize what
21 was happening in factories all across the country
22 and adopt standards for workers across the
23 country. We now have a national Occupational
24 Safety and Health Administration in Washington.
25 And here in New York, we care about
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1 workers' rights, but what's happening in
2 Washington is something that should give us
3 pause, because it's almost as if the pendulum has
4 swung back. As we speak, in Washington they're
5 contemplating slashing workers' rights and
6 factory safety standards and protections for coal
7 miners because they think that they're
8 impediments to business. So perhaps we in
9 New York need to lead the way again and remind
10 them of what happens when you roll back worker
11 protections -- We wind up with tragedies like the
12 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire if we don't keep
13 an eye on things.
14 And ironically, a little while ago
15 we had two representatives from Mexico here in
16 the chamber where we recognized them. As we
17 speak, even though New York State is probably the
18 safest place in the country for workers'
19 rights -- because of the laws that were enacted
20 in this chamber over the past hundred years -- we
21 have the greatest safety standards, we have the
22 greatest worker protections, the greatest wage
23 theft laws in the country -- there's still an
24 underground economy in New York. And many of the
25 people working in that underground economy are
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1 undocumented Mexican women working in sweatshops,
2 in factories that are underground, in places like
3 Sunset Park and in the West Side of Manhattan,
4 and they are operating in the shadows. A
5 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory could happen in many
6 of those places.
7 So we need to make sure that our
8 Department of Labor has the resources to keep
9 track of that, because we know Washington is not
10 going to pay attention to it. OSHA is not going
11 to be there to protect workers in New York. It's
12 going to rely on New York State to do it again.
13 So thank you, Senator Alcantara, for
14 reminding us of the importance of Triangle then
15 and now.
16 Thank you, Mr. President.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
18 Díaz.
19 SENATOR DÍAZ: Thank you,
20 Mr. President.
21 I again rise to congratulate Senator
22 Alcantara for this important moment. And it is
23 important because we blacks and Hispanics, we
24 complain -- we complain about discrimination, we
25 complain about injustice, and we're right.
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1 But the importance of this
2 resolution and this action of Senator Alcantara
3 today is that it brings to our attention that it
4 not only happens to us blacks and Hispanics. I
5 heard Senator Alcantara say the majority of these
6 146 people that died in that factory were Jews
7 and Italians. I heard her, she's saying that.
8 And I also heard she's saying that they was
9 treated like slaves -- underpaid, in unsafe
10 situations, and locked in a factory like slaves.
11 So it is important for us to
12 remember that it is not only happening to us
13 blacks and Hispanics. These were women -- 123
14 women died in this fire, and 23 men. No
15 Hispanics, no blacks. Jewish and Italian.
16 And this happened in 2011 {sic},
17 recently. It didn't happen back then in those
18 years, it happened recently. Practically, what,
19 six years ago? 2011, how many years ago? So it
20 happened recently, in this era, where Jewish and
21 Italian women, the majority women, died in a fire
22 like slaves.
23 So thank you, Senator Alcantara and
24 Senator Savino, for bringing this every year.
25 And I never paid this attention, but today I paid
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1 attention, I listened to this, listened when
2 she's saying Jewish and Italian. I heard this
3 resolution every year, every year, but I never
4 really got to the point of keep remembering, of
5 keep bringing this to our ears, to know that not
6 only us Hispanics and not only us blacks have
7 been treated like garbage sometimes.
8 So thank you, and please continue
9 bringing this resolution every year. Don't allow
10 this incident to be forgotten. And keep
11 reminding us minorities that we are not the only
12 ones that suffer and that we are not the only
13 ones being discriminated, and we are not the only
14 ones being underpaid and we are not the only ones
15 being treated like slaves.
16 Thank you, Mr. President.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
18 question is on the resolution. All those in
19 favor please signify by saying aye.
20 (Response of "Aye.")
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Opposed,
22 nay.
23 (No response.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
25 resolution is adopted.
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1 Senator DeFrancisco.
2 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: And the
3 resolution is open for cosponsorship. If someone
4 wants to cosponsor, they should notify the desk.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
6 resolution is open for cosponsorship. If you
7 would like to be a sponsor, please notify the
8 desk.
9 Senator DeFrancisco.
10 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Would you
11 please take up the noncontroversial reading of
12 the calendar, please.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
14 Secretary will read.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 183, by Senator Funke, Senate Print 3890, an act
17 to amend the Parks, Recreation and Historic
18 Preservation Law.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
22 act shall take effect on the 120th day.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 260, by Senator Gallivan, Senate Print 1984, an
6 act to amend the Penal Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect on the first of November.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Announce
15 the results.
16 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
17 Calendar 260, those recorded in the negative are
18 Senators Alcantara, Bailey, Comrie, Hoylman,
19 Krueger, Montgomery, Persaud, Rivera and Sanders.
20 Ayes, 50. Nays, 9.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
22 is passed.
23 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
24 291, by Senator Peralta, Senate Print 352, an act
25 to amend the Banking Law.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
2 last section.
3 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
4 act shall take effect on the 180th day.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 296, by Senator Bonacic, Senate Print 1031, an
13 act to amend the Education Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 59.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 298, by Senator Jacobs, Senate Print 2103, an act
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1 to amend the Education Law.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
3 last section.
4 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
5 act shall take effect immediately.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
7 roll.
8 (The Secretary called the roll.)
9 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
10 Jacobs.
11 SENATOR JACOBS: Thank you. I rise
12 in support of this bill.
13 As we talk very frequently in this
14 body about the need to create additional jobs,
15 new jobs in our communities, one of the glaring
16 places we often miss is the existing jobs that
17 remain unfilled. In my county alone, over
18 16,000 jobs in the manufacturing, advanced
19 manufacturing sector and other sectors remain
20 unfilled because of a skills gap. I believe this
21 bill will help in harnessing and aligning one of
22 the greatest resources that we have, our
23 community colleges, to make sure that the
24 training, the courses and the credentialing that
25 they offer align with the needs for the new
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1 economy, the advanced manufacturing economy, and
2 the existing manufacturing that we've always had
3 but that is experiencing significant vacancies
4 because of retirements.
5 I am very much in support of this
6 and hope it continues to move forward.
7 Thank you very much.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
9 Jacobs to be recorded in the affirmative.
10 Announce the result.
11 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
12 Calendar 298, those recorded in the negative are
13 Senators Akshar, Brooks, Comrie, Funke, Helming,
14 Hoylman, Krueger, Little, O'Mara, Persaud,
15 Stavisky and Tedisco.
16 Ayes, 47. Nays, 12.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
18 is passed.
19 Senator DeFrancisco.
20 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: I would just
21 like to note for the record that this is Senator
22 Jacobs' first bill as a member of the New York
23 State Senate.
24 (Applause.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
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1 DeFrancisco, that completes the reading of the
2 noncontroversial calendar.
3 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Is there any
4 further business at the desk?
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: There is no
6 further business at the desk.
7 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: That being
8 the case, I now move to adjourn until Monday,
9 March 27th, at 3:00 p.m., intervening days being
10 legislative days.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: On motion,
12 the Senate stands adjourned until Monday,
13 March 27th, at 3:00 p.m., intervening days being
14 legislative days.
15 (Whereupon, at 12:35 p.m., the
16 Senate adjourned.)
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