Regular Session - April 24, 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 April 24, 2017
11 3:28 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 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 AKSHAR: The
10 Reverend Patrick Perrin is with us today to give
11 the invocation. He is the pastor of St. John's
12 United Methodist Church in Valley Stream,
13 New York.
14 Reverend?
15 REVEREND PERRIN: Thank you.
16 Good afternoon. Resurrection
17 greetings to you from our bishop of the New York
18 area, Reverend Tom Bickerton; with Long Island
19 West, Sungchan Kim; my congregation at
20 St. John's United Methodist, Elmont,
21 Valley Stream.
22 We are under the care of Senator
23 Kaminsky, and by his invitation I am here. And
24 I am also under the care of Assemblywoman
25 Michele Solages. And they nobly and proudly
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1 present us here, and we thank God for them.
2 It's an honor for me to be here, a
3 privilege for me to be here. Not my first time;
4 Senator Markowitz had invited me some years ago.
5 And of course my old friend Senator Parker,
6 Brooklyn brother. Senator Stewart-Cousins, that
7 I welcomed to my church recently. When I served
8 in Hanson Place Central, we had Senator
9 Montgomery, very supportive of our ministry.
10 This leads me to a positive
11 scripture that I would like to read and to my
12 prayer for this session. It's David's last
13 words.
14 "These are David's last words:
15 This is the declaration of Jesse's son David,
16 the declaration of a man raised high, a man
17 anointed by the God of Jacob, a man favored by
18 the strong one of Israel. The Lord's spirit
19 speaks through me; his word is on my tongue.
20 Israel's god has spoken, Israel's rock said to
21 me: Whoever rules rightly over people, whoever
22 rules in the fear of God, is like the light of
23 sunrise on a morning with no clouds, like the
24 bright gleam after the rain that brings grass
25 from the ground."
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1 Friends, it is springtime, and we
2 look forward to the freshness and new life that
3 spring brings. We the people have noted the
4 recent achievements of our leaders here in
5 Albany. They are like the freshness of spring.
6 And I believe Albany is showing the way forward
7 for our nation as a whole. So in that spirit of
8 gratitude, let us pray.
9 Loving God, we thank You for
10 choosing us to serve Your people at such a time
11 as this. We pray for Your blessing upon every
12 person and every family represented here.
13 We pray for the work of this
14 legislative body, the Senators and also for the
15 Assemblypersons, and their supportive staffs.
16 Help them to be always mindful of every person
17 who will be impacted by every and anything done
18 here.
19 And may all be done to Your honor
20 and glory. May they find joy and fulfillment as
21 they harmoniously work together in unity. Bless
22 them with good health and good success.
23 In Your strong and powerful name we
24 pray, amen.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
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1 reading of the Journal.
2 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, Sunday,
3 April 23rd, the Senate met pursuant to
4 adjournment. The Journal of Saturday,
5 April 22nd, was read and approved. On motion,
6 Senate adjourned.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Can I
8 have some order in the house, please.
9 Without objection, the Journal
10 stands approved as read.
11 Presentation of petitions.
12 Messages from the Assembly.
13 Messages from the Governor.
14 Reports of standing committees.
15 Reports of select committees.
16 Communications and reports from
17 state officers.
18 Motions and resolutions.
19 Mr. Floor Leader.
20 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO:
21 Mr. President, I move that the following bill be
22 discharged from its respective committee and be
23 recommitted with instructions to strike the
24 enacting clause. That's Senate Bill Number 3956,
25 by Senator Seward.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: So
2 ordered.
3 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: On page 8, I
4 now offer the following amendments to Calendar
5 Number 101, Senate Print 2210, and ask that said
6 bill retain its place on the Third Reading
7 Calendar. And that's a Senator LaValle bill.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
9 amendments are received, and the bill shall
10 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
11 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Also, on
12 page 16 I offer the following amendments to
13 Calendar Number 299, by Senator LaValle,
14 Senate Print 2482, and ask that said bill retain
15 its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
17 amendments are received, and the bill shall
18 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
19 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Also, on
20 page 17 I offer the following amendments to
21 Calendar Number 311, Senate Print 443 by
22 Senator Young, and ask that said bill retain its
23 place on the Third Reading Calendar.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
25 amendments are received, and the bill shall
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1 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
2 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: And finally,
3 on page 17, I offer the following amendments to
4 Calendar 312, Senate Print 918, by Senator Croci,
5 and ask that said bill retain its place on the
6 Third Reading Calendar.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Those
8 amendments too are received, and the bill shall
9 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
10 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Would you
11 please recognize Senator Gianaris.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
13 Gianaris.
14 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
15 Mr. President.
16 On behalf of Senator Addabbo, on
17 page 34 I offer the following amendments to
18 Calendar 514, Senate Print 3674, and ask that
19 said bill retain its place on the Third Reading
20 Calendar.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
22 amendments are received, and the bill shall
23 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
24 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you.
25 On behalf of Senator Comrie, on
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1 page 28 I offer the following amendments to
2 Calendar 454, Senate Print 2398, and ask that
3 said bill retain its place on Third Reading
4 Calendar.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
6 amendments are received, and the bill shall
7 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
8 SENATOR GIANARIS: And on behalf of
9 Senator Krueger, I move that the following bill
10 be discharged from its respective committee and
11 be recommitted with instructions to strike the
12 enacting clause: Senate Bill 4233.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: So
14 ordered.
15 Mr. Floor Leader.
16 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Yes, can we
17 now take up the noncontroversial reading of the
18 calendar.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The
20 Secretary will read.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 380, by Senator Murphy, Senate Print 300, an act
23 to amend the Public Health Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
25 last section.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect on the 90th day.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
7 the results.
8 Senator Parker.
9 SENATOR PARKER: To explain my
10 vote.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: To
12 explain your vote.
13 SENATOR PARKER: I think that
14 there's a number of bills on the calendar today,
15 on this legislative day, dealing with the issue
16 of opioids. This conference and this Legislature
17 has taken up this issue at great length over the
18 last couple of years.
19 This is absolutely an epidemic in
20 this state, an epidemic in this country right
21 now. Certainly my community and communities
22 across the state are suffering with this opioid
23 epidemic. And certainly I want to commend the
24 sponsor of this bill, and I know that he is doing
25 what he thinks is best.
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1 I'm going to be voting no on this
2 and several other bills that I think don't go in
3 the right direction. As the ranking member on
4 the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Committee, and
5 as somebody who comes from a family that has
6 dealt with particularly heroin use, I think that,
7 you know, we've -- we talk about treating heroin
8 use as a health issue.
9 This bill doesn't do that. I think
10 that most of the bills that we're seeing today
11 are really going in the way of criminalizing
12 people who are having serious problems. I think
13 that we don't stop people from using drugs or
14 being on drugs because we criminalize it. If
15 that in fact was the case, we would have stopped
16 drugs a long time ago.
17 I think that we really need to be
18 doing a lot more support for people in our
19 communities and less adjudication and less
20 criminalization of them.
21 So I vote no.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
23 Parker to be recorded in the negative.
24 Senator Murphy to explain your vote.
25 SENATOR MURPHY: Yes, sir. Thank
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1 you, Mr. President.
2 As we all know, as Senator Parker
3 just said, we do have a massive epidemic that is
4 going on in the State of New York, along with the
5 United States of America. This is just a little
6 bit part of trying to make sure that we address
7 another issue.
8 This specific drug allows people to
9 walk around as, quote, unquote, zombies.
10 Standing there, they will fall asleep. This is
11 just part of the overall package that we're
12 trying to do to protect our communities and
13 protect New York State.
14 I would like to thank this entire
15 Senate here for putting another $214 million into
16 the heroin and opioid problem that we have here
17 in New York State. And this is just another
18 little piece, and there's quite a few more bills
19 on here that are just another step in the right
20 direction.
21 So I thank you. I thank my
22 colleague. And thank you, Mr. President.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
24 Murphy to be recorded in the affirmative.
25 Announce the results.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 57. Nays, 1.
2 Senator Parker recorded in the negative.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 381, by Senator Kennedy, Senate Print 658, an act
7 to amend the Public Health 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: Senator
16 Kennedy.
17 SENATOR KENNEDY: Thank you very
18 much, Mr. President.
19 First of all, let me start by
20 thanking the leadership for bringing these very
21 important bills to the floor today that are
22 helping to deal with this growing health crisis,
23 this scourge of opioids and the heroin epidemic
24 across the State of New York.
25 It's no secret to anybody in this
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1 room that this heroin and opioid abuse is posing
2 a significant threat to the public health across
3 this state and across this nation. We are
4 certainly in crisis mode, and we need to step up
5 and do something about it.
6 I was happy to support, along with
7 my colleagues here and across the chamber, the
8 $213 million recently in the budget set aside to
9 address the heroin and opioid epidemic through
10 additional treatment and beds. That funding is
11 going to go a long way toward helping those
12 struggling with addiction.
13 But that's only one side of the
14 problem. We must make sure these destructive
15 drugs aren't readily accessible to anyone with
16 internet access and a credit card.
17 That's why this bill, banning a
18 deadly synthetic opioid today across this state
19 is so important. U-47700, commonly referred to
20 as Pink, is a synthetic opioid that is available
21 legally over the internet for as little as $40 a
22 gram and is sold as pills and powders and mists.
23 Pink is similar to fentanyl,
24 carfentanil, and furanyl fentanyl, all extremely
25 deadly drugs, yet Pink remains legal in New York
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1 State and in many states across this nation.
2 It's eight times stronger than heroin. And
3 police officers seizing this drug often use
4 gloves to handle it, to avoid receiving the drug
5 through the skin, because it's been known to make
6 individuals go into cardiac arrest.
7 Pink is killing New Yorkers.
8 According to the DEA, from October 2015 to
9 September 2016, there were dozens of individuals
10 in New York State alone that died from Pink, with
11 many more having died from combinations of drugs
12 that included Pink. In Utah, two 13-year-old
13 children were able to access this drug. It is
14 terrifying to think that our children can access
15 this drug via the internet because they are
16 simply clicking a mouse.
17 As the father of three young
18 children, it's absolutely petrifying. That's
19 why, as someone that has worked across the aisle
20 and across the chamber to drive this agenda
21 forward to make our streets safer, getting this
22 illegal drug off the streets will help to save
23 lives.
24 The DEA has acted by emergency
25 regulations, scheduling Pink as a Schedule I
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1 drug. But by the end of last year, only four
2 states had made Pink illegal. So it's time for
3 New York State to step up, protect its citizens
4 by following suit, and ban this drug. It's time
5 we take action against the opioid problem
6 plaguing our state, and we need to get this
7 poison off our streets and off of the Internet.
8 With that, Mr. President, I vote
9 aye. Thank you.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
11 Kennedy to be recorded in the affirmative.
12 Senator Carlucci.
13 SENATOR CARLUCCI: Thank you,
14 Mr. President.
15 I want to thank Senator Kennedy for
16 putting forward this legislation and all my
17 colleagues for supporting this package of
18 legislation today.
19 We have talked about before -- but
20 we have to continue this conversation -- that in
21 fact there's an opioid epidemic in our country.
22 In fact, every day 78 people around our country
23 die of an opioid overdose. It's the leading
24 cause of accidental death in New York State.
25 That's a crisis. That means that the red alarm,
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1 the sirens, should be ringing. And that's why we
2 have to leave no stone unturned in this fight to
3 end the opioid epidemic.
4 Right in Rockland County, where I
5 live, we broke the records last year in the
6 amount of overdoses for people that overdosed on
7 opioids or on heroin. In fact,
8 prescription-based opioids is outpacing the
9 deaths when we compare it to heroin.
10 I was just reading that since 2000,
11 over 165,000 Americans have passed away from an
12 opioid overdose. This is absolutely a crisis. I
13 know we've tried to do what we can in this body.
14 But it means step-by-step we've got to push
15 forward.
16 So that means the legislation like
17 Senator Kennedy has put forward, like Senator
18 Murphy has put forward, all of this together --
19 there's not going to be one silver bullet that
20 solves this problem, but it's going to be all of
21 us stepping up to the plate, stepping up as
22 legislators. We need to do that, and we need the
23 community to do the same. So all hands on deck
24 in order to make sure that this epidemic is a
25 thing of the past in the years to come.
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1 So I'll be supporting this
2 legislation and thank my colleagues for doing the
3 same.
4 Thank you, Mr. President.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
6 Carlucci to be recorded in the affirmative.
7 Seeing no other members wishing to
8 speak, announce the result.
9 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 57. Nays, 1.
10 Senator Parker recorded in the negative.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
12 is passed.
13 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
14 382, by Senator Funke, Senate Print 816, an act
15 to amend the Public Health Law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. 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 Parker.
25 SENATOR PARKER: Thank you,
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1 Mr. President. To explain my vote.
2 Let me first begin by thanking
3 Senator Funke for bringing this legislation to
4 the floor. Again, I think that this body has
5 demonstrated several times its commitment to
6 dealing with the issue of opioid abuse and
7 particularly the overdoses that have been
8 suffered across the great State of New York.
9 I think that this is not the right
10 approach, where we are in fact making these
11 opioids Schedule I drugs and certainly raising
12 the penalties and adding more jail time. Again,
13 it simply has not worked. Which is why we had,
14 you know, a decade ago repealed the Rockefeller
15 Drug Laws. Like those approaches we know just
16 simply don't work in terms of stopping people.
17 And had we come forward with a bill
18 that addresses the issues, the underlying issues
19 that people have that make them go to opioids in
20 the first place, I would certainly be voting
21 differently on both those bills and these bills.
22 I've voted yes, in fact, on these bills.
23 These bills don't have any Assembly
24 sponsors. They're not going to be passed in the
25 Assembly. You know, we're doing press conference
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1 bills now here on this issue. What I'd like to
2 see us do is really do some things that address
3 the issues of particularly young people but deal
4 with the mental health issues that we're
5 struggling with in our communities that are
6 making people turn towards things like heroin and
7 opioids to relieve some of their pain.
8 So I regretfully vote nay on this
9 bill.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
11 Parker to be recorded in the negative.
12 Announce the result.
13 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 57. Nays, 1.
14 Senator Parker recorded in the negative.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 383, by Senator Croci, Senate Print 933, an act
19 to amend the Public Health Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
23 act shall take effect on the 90th day.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
3 Parker, why do you rise?
4 SENATOR PARKER: To explain my
5 vote, Mr. President.
6 Once again, I want to rise to thank
7 Senator Croci for his leadership and for, you
8 know, being brave enough to get out there. I
9 think that the Senators in this body have really
10 distinguished themselves in terms of wanting to
11 address this issue.
12 As the ranking member in the Senate
13 on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, I just don't
14 think that the package of bills that we're doing
15 today go nearly far enough. I'd like to see us
16 get together and do some stuff on the public
17 health front. I'd like to see us engage our
18 young people in a more significant way.
19 We really need to do, in the State
20 of New York, for after school what we did for
21 UPK, that we really need to make after-school
22 programs a real mission and a real movement, to
23 make sure that we're engaging our young people.
24 Even in hunting, as I know is so popular on the
25 other side of the aisle. But we need to engage
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1 our young people in activities that will keep
2 them away from dangerous drugs like opioids and
3 heroin.
4 And so although I sympathize with
5 the sponsor of the bill in terms of wanting to
6 create a deterrent, I'm not clear that this bill
7 does that or that us continuing to raise
8 penalties and criminalize people who have
9 problems with drugs -- you know, I don't think
10 that that's the method. And so unfortunately I'm
11 voting nay.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
13 Parker to be recorded in the negative.
14 Senator Croci.
15 SENATOR CROCI: Thank you,
16 Mr. President.
17 You know, the human brain is an
18 amazing thing. It's prewired to like the
19 substances that we're talking about today.
20 So it's great that this body in the
21 budget approved more money for treatment and
22 training and counseling, beds for people who are
23 in the throes of addiction. And those are all
24 good things.
25 But what's happening today in the
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1 United States is a brand of narcoterrorism in our
2 communities that is ravaging our young people.
3 Where I'm from on Long Island, MS-13, which is a
4 criminal syndicate that uses narcoterrorism, the
5 tactics of blackmail and intimidation in the very
6 communities where people are immigrating to this
7 country to get away from it -- they followed
8 those families here, and they're in our
9 communities.
10 Mr. President, this is a bill that
11 hopefully would serve as a deterrent, but it's
12 more to give another set of tools to the
13 prosecutors, both at the local level and our
14 district attorney's offices, but also to the
15 prosecutors and law enforcement that have to deal
16 with this kind of criminal activity. This is a
17 brand of terrorism that is affecting our
18 communities, and drugs is at the center of it.
19 There's too much money in this
20 business for this to act solely as a deterrent,
21 but we need to give law enforcement the same kind
22 of dedication we as a legislative body are
23 willing to do with treatment and training and
24 recovery. And all of that is an essential part
25 of this, but we need to continue to make sure
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1 that drugs like fentanyl, which is used in combat
2 medicine because it is the quickest to absorb in
3 the skin, cannot be put into heroin, sold on the
4 streets of our communities, and give every one of
5 us in here who has been to a funeral another
6 victim in this war.
7 Everyone in this room, I'm sure
8 every member and every staffer, has been to a
9 funeral of somebody who's been killed in this
10 epidemic. And I also know that every member in
11 this room has probably done a Narcan training to
12 help the community and first responders deal with
13 this. Well, guess what? Heroin that's laced
14 with fentanyl and other derivatives is not
15 responsive to Narcan.
16 So I urge you to continue to do the
17 kind of hard work that we've been doing in this
18 fight and make sure that the measures we're
19 already taking, like Narcan training, aren't
20 superseded by the kind of additives like fentanyl
21 that's going into these drugs that are killing
22 our kids.
23 Thank you, Mr. President.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Senator
25 Croci to be recorded in the affirmative.
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1 Announce the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 57. Nays, 1.
3 Senator Parker recorded in the
4 negative.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 385, by Senator Hannon, Senate Print 2248, an act
9 to amend the Public Health Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
13 act shall take effect two years after it shall
14 have become law.
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: In relation to
21 Calendar 385, those recorded in the negative are
22 Senators Hoylman, Montgomery, Persaud, Rivera and
23 Squadron.
24 Ayes, 53. Nays, 5.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
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1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 386, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 2639, an act
4 to amend the Public Health Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. 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 results.
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 58.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 387, by Senator Klein, Senate Print 2722, an act
19 to amend the Public Health Law.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 58.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 388, by Senator Flanagan, Senate Print 3518, an
9 act to amend the Public Health Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 11. 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: In relation to
20 Calendar 388, those recorded in the negative are
21 Senators Gianaris, Hoylman, Montgomery, Parker,
22 Serrano and Squadron.
23 Ayes, 52. Nays, 6.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: The bill
25 is passed.
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1 Mr. Floor Leader, that completes the
2 noncontroversial reading of the calendar.
3 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Okay. Is
4 there any further business at the desk?
5 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: There is
6 no further business at the desk.
7 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: In that case,
8 I move to adjourn until Tuesday, April 25th, at
9 3:00 p.m.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT AKSHAR: On
11 motion, the Senate stands adjourned until
12 Tuesday, April 25th, at 3:00 p.m.
13 (Whereupon, at 3:52 p.m., the Senate
14 adjourned.)
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