Regular Session - March 19, 2018
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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 19, 2018
11 3:37 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 Senate
3 will come to order.
4 I ask everyone present to please
5 rise and recite with me the Pledge of Allegiance.
6 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited
7 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: In the
9 absence of clergy, I ask today that we remember
10 the four members of the New York State Air
11 National Guard Rescue Wing who perished in Iraq
12 in a helicopter crash and, in addition, their two
13 comrades from the 308th Rescue Squadron in
14 Florida: Captain Andreas O'Keeffe, of Center
15 Moriches, New York; Captain Christopher Zanetis,
16 of Long Island City, New York; Master Sergeant
17 Christopher Raguso, of Commack, New York; and
18 Staff Sergeant Dashan Briggs, of Port Jefferson
19 Station, New York.
20 They would want also to be
21 remembered with their comrades from Florida:
22 Master Sergeant William Posch, of Indialantic,
23 Florida, and Staff Sergeant Carl P. Enis, of
24 Tallahassee, Florida.
25 The mission statement of the 106th
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1 Rescue Wing is "That others may live." And the
2 members who were killed in that helicopter crash
3 died precisely for that, that others may live.
4 We pay tribute with this moment of silence to
5 their courage, their selflessness, and sacrifice
6 that they have made for the United States of
7 America and our way of life.
8 (Whereupon, the assemblage respected
9 a moment of silence.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
11 reading of the Journal.
12 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, Sunday,
13 March 18th, the Senate met pursuant to
14 adjournment. The Journal of Saturday,
15 March 17th, was read and approved. On motion,
16 Senate adjourned.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Without
18 objection, the Journal stands approved as read.
19 Presentation of petitions.
20 Messages from the Assembly.
21 Messages from the Governor.
22 Reports of standing committees.
23 Reports of select committees.
24 Communications and reports from
25 state officers.
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1 Motions and resolutions.
2 Senator DeFrancisco.
3 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Would you
4 please recognize Senator Valesky, please.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
6 Valesky.
7 SENATOR VALESKY: Thank you,
8 Mr. President.
9 On behalf of Senator Avella, I move
10 that Senate Bill 6617A be discharged from its
11 respective committee and be recommitted with
12 instructions to strike the enacting clause.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: So
14 ordered.
15 Senator DeFrancisco.
16 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Would you now
17 recognize Senator Gianaris, please.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
19 Gianaris.
20 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
21 Mr. President.
22 On behalf of Senator Rivera, on
23 page 27 I offer the following amendments to
24 Calendar 368, Senate 169A, and ask that said bill
25 retain its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: So
2 ordered.
3 Senator DeFrancisco.
4 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Excuse me,
5 I'm very busy. I'm trying to plug in something.
6 Okay, great. Thank you.
7 Could we now take up the
8 noncontroversial reading of the calendar.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
10 Secretary will read.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 247, by Senator Amedore, Senate Print 898, an act
13 to amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
14 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Please lay
15 the bill aside for the day.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
17 will be laid aside for the day.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 251, by Senator Akshar, Senate Print 6544A, an
20 act to amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
22 last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
24 act shall take effect immediately.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
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1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
4 Akshar to explain his vote.
5 SENATOR AKSHAR: Thank you,
6 Mr. President, for your indulgence. I appreciate
7 it very much.
8 Many of you have heard me say this
9 many times in the past, and I believe it as I
10 stand here today, that I think the heroin
11 epidemic is the single greatest health crisis
12 that we are currently facing in our time. No
13 matter where you are across this state,
14 communities are being ravaged by this epidemic.
15 And one thing that we have heard
16 over and over in our travels on the Senate's Task
17 Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction is that
18 people who are desperately attempting to get into
19 treatment are being taken advantage of. Think
20 about this. Thousands of people across this
21 great state are trying to get themselves into
22 treatment, but yet there is a portion of society
23 who is trying to prey upon them.
24 And this predatory practice, quite
25 frankly, capitalizes on and exploits families,
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1 like Mark and Nicole Peet and their son Zack and
2 everything that they have been through. It
3 capitalizes on and exploits people while they are
4 trying to get into treatment. And quite frankly,
5 it puts patients at risk of receiving
6 inappropriate treatment.
7 So today's legislation makes it a
8 crime for people who are intentionally preying on
9 those who are seeking treatment. And I would say
10 this, that if there's any issue that this house
11 or the other house has moved forward on in a
12 bipartisan fashion, it's just this. It's dealing
13 with the heroin and the opioid crisis.
14 So I would respectfully offer to all
15 of my colleagues here, regardless of our
16 politics, regardless of what side of the aisle we
17 sit on, whether you're from Brooklyn, from
18 Binghamton or from Buffalo, this is a piece of
19 legislation that we can all agree upon. And I'm
20 urging and encouraging everybody in this house to
21 vote yes.
22 Mr. President, I vote aye.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
24 Akshar to be recorded in the affirmative.
25 Announce the result.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 46.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 352, by Senator Little, Senate Print 2253B, an
6 act to amend the Private Housing Finance Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
10 act shall take effect on the 180th day.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
12 roll.
13 (The Secretary called the roll.)
14 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 46.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
16 is passed.
17 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
18 379, by Senator Little, Senate Print 7439A, an
19 act to authorize.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 46.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
4 is passed.
5 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
6 423, by Senator Robach, Senate Print 7549, an act
7 authorizing.
8 SENATOR GIANARIS: Lay it aside.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
10 will be laid aside.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 530, by Senator Hannon, Senate Print 6358, an act
13 to amend the Public Health Law.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. 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, 46.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 590, by Senator Valesky, Senate Print 6967, an
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1 act to amend the Not-For-Profit Corporation 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 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 46.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
11 is passed.
12 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
13 604, by Senator Marcellino, Senate Print 1149, an
14 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
16 last section.
17 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
18 act shall take effect on the first of November.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
20 roll.
21 (The Secretary called the roll.)
22 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 46.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
24 is passed.
25 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
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1 608, by Senator Carlucci, Senate Print 6832A, an
2 act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
4 last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
6 act shall take effect on the first of November.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
8 roll.
9 (The Secretary called the roll.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
11 Carlucci to explain his vote.
12 SENATOR CARLUCCI: Thank you,
13 Mr. President.
14 I want to thank my colleagues for
15 supporting this important legislation.
16 This is Bryan Johnson's Law. And
17 this is named after Bryan Johnson, who was a real
18 leader in our community and unfortunately was
19 taken from us -- it will be six years this
20 June -- when he was killed in a tragic boating
21 accident.
22 And this really shook our community
23 in Ossining. And his mother Sheila and his
24 grandmother Thomasina I worked with over the past
25 few years to say we've got to turn this
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1 tragedy -- turn it around and make sure that more
2 innocent people don't have to die.
3 Unfortunately, we realized that we
4 were lagging in so many issues dealing with
5 common sense when it comes to boater safety. In
6 2013, we worked to pass legislation that would
7 require basic boater safety education before you
8 got into a boat.
9 And this legislation that we're
10 working on right here, we're passing today, would
11 allow for a judge, when they're sentencing
12 someone for a DWI, to consider a BWI as well.
13 And the reason is because when a judge is
14 considering this, it doesn't matter what vehicle
15 you're driving, if it's a boat or if it's a
16 car -- the judge is looking at that pattern.
17 And we need to add some common sense
18 to our legislation to make sure that we're
19 sending a message that when you get on a boat,
20 that you don't leave your common sense ashore.
21 So we're hopeful that this
22 legislation will pass in the Assembly as well and
23 really make sure that we remember Bryan Johnson.
24 Bryan Johnson had a real contagious
25 smile. And in fact, he worked at the Doubletree
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1 in Tarrytown, New York, and if you go there,
2 you'll see a portrait of him. And they have done
3 a scholarship in his name. And part of the
4 requirements is that you have a beautiful smile.
5 And he really gave everything he had
6 when he was working or in the community. He was
7 saying he was going to be the mayor. And
8 unfortunately, he died when he was 26 years old.
9 And we've seen that over the past
10 decade there's been over 200 fatalities in our
11 waterways. And we have some of the most
12 beautiful waterways in the nation, whether it's
13 the Hudson River, the Finger Lakes, the
14 Great Lakes. We want to enjoy them. It's a
15 $2 billion industry here in New York State. But
16 we need to make sure that they're safe.
17 So I want to thank my colleagues for
18 supporting this legislation. I want to thank
19 Bryan Johnson's family for staying on top of this
20 and working to make sure that we can take Bryan
21 and use him as an example of what good can
22 happen, and make sure that he didn't die in vain.
23 So thank you for supporting this
24 legislation. Mr. President, I'll be voting in
25 the affirmative.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
2 Carlucci to be recorded in the affirmative.
3 Announce the result.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 57.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 611, by Senator Amedore, Senate Print 7741, an
9 act to amend the Highway Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 57.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 617, by Senator Boyle, Senate Print 642, an act
22 to amend the Penal Law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
24 last section.
25 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
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1 act shall take effect on the 180th day.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
3 roll.
4 (The Secretary called the roll.)
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
6 Krueger to explain her vote.
7 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
8 Mr. President.
9 I'll be voting in the affirmative in
10 support of the bill, but I just wanted to go on
11 record that it is so important to understand that
12 this bill requires that the intent is to do harm
13 to someone.
14 Because we probably all know stories
15 of young people with cameras and various social
16 media accounts who sometimes send things about
17 themselves or others that, frankly, if they
18 weren't teenagers they would realize was a stupid
19 thing to do, but was not done with intent or
20 malice.
21 So I do support this bill, but I
22 think it's very important to highlight for people
23 that this bill would only apply a criminal
24 statute if the intent was proven, and in
25 many of these cases I think we would find that
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1 that isn't the story with young people; they're
2 just not using enough common sense in an age
3 where technology lets all kinds of photos and
4 other exhibits get out there into the internet
5 world without anybody stopping and thinking
6 first.
7 Thank you, Mr. President.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
9 Krueger to be recorded in the affirmative.
10 Announce the result.
11 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 58. Nays, 1.
12 Senator Montgomery recorded in the negative.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 623, by Senator Lanza, Senate Print 2627, an act
17 to amend the Penal Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect on the first of November.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
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1 Krueger to explain her vote.
2 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
3 Mr. President.
4 This is a bill I am voting against,
5 even though I understand the goal and intent of
6 the sponsor.
7 But again, in contrast to the last
8 bill, where I explained why I could vote yes, I
9 fear that in an era where we already see too many
10 people being discouraged or threatened from
11 coming forward about things that have happened to
12 them, particularly sexual attack and harassment
13 and violence, that this bill, although I don't
14 believe it's the intent of the sponsor, would
15 translate into people being afraid of coming
16 forward for fear that if for some reason they
17 weren't found to have the evidence in a court of
18 law, that they might be at risk of a penalty
19 against them.
20 So yes, of course there's the rare
21 scenario where somebody comes forward with a
22 false accusation. The data and research shows
23 that the vast majority of the time people are
24 being truthful about what happened, but it
25 doesn't mean they're being heard or listened to
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1 or can win their case.
2 So I think that this would have the
3 intent of potentially freezing people who have
4 been victims of crime from going forward with
5 their accusations, which is why I'm voting no.
6 Thank you, Mr. President.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
8 Krueger to be recorded in the negative.
9 Senator Hoylman to explain his vote.
10 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
11 Mr. President.
12 I concur with my colleague Senator
13 Krueger. This bill, although well-intentioned,
14 is a classic case of a solution in search of a
15 problem.
16 The statistics show that false
17 reporting in crimes of sexual abuse is only about
18 2 to 6 percent of the cases, and there's really
19 no evidence that this is a problem in New York.
20 The sponsor's memo refers, in fact, to the
21 infamous Duke University rape case, which was
22 over a decade ago, about 625 miles from New York.
23 So this is not a New York problem.
24 And I'd also note, Mr. President,
25 that few if any states actually have this kind of
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1 statute. In fact, New York has already a statute
2 for crimes of filing a false instrument, which is
3 only a misdemeanor. This legislation would make
4 falsely accusing someone of a crime a Class E
5 felony, which is way too extreme, in my opinion.
6 And finally, I would also say that
7 in this era and this national conversation about
8 victims' rights around the area of sexual
9 assault, we need to be doing more to bring these
10 cases forward, not chilling victims from speaking
11 out about being abused.
12 So I vote in the negative. Thank
13 you, Mr. President.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
15 Hoylman to be recorded in the negative.
16 Announce the result.
17 THE SECRETARY: In relation to --
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Hold on.
19 The Secretary will suspend.
20 Senator Kaminsky to explain his
21 vote.
22 SENATOR KAMINSKY: Thank you.
23 I'd like to address my remarks to my
24 colleagues across the aisle. We're taking the
25 step today of making filing a false report an E
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1 felony. Right now if you sign on a corroborating
2 statement doing something knowingly false, it's
3 an A misdemeanor. We're going to elevate it to a
4 felony.
5 But what's not a crime in New York,
6 but is a federal crime, is lying to an
7 investigator who interviews you. So right now
8 the FBI knocks on your door, they say "You don't
9 have to talk to us, and it's a crime if you lie.
10 We'd like to ask you some questions," people
11 often talk to them. People often make false
12 statements to them. That's charged under
13 18 U.S.C. 1001. It has been the basis for many
14 important corruption investigations, white-collar
15 investigation and the like, in our state.
16 More often, however, it leads to
17 truthful information which helps investigations
18 get off the ground. It's used constantly. It is
19 an excellent tool. And there's no reason not to
20 want to do it. You just have to tell the truth
21 or exercise your constitutional right. But you
22 don't have a right to lie.
23 So today we're saying if you sign a
24 piece of paper down at the police station and
25 it's false, you'll be charged. However, we have
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1 this imbalance where if an investigator knocks on
2 your door and asks you a question, you can lie
3 right to that person's face with impunity.
4 I have a bill that would make lying
5 to a district attorney, a district attorney
6 investigator or assistant district attorney a
7 crime. And that's something that we should be
8 advancing if you want to get at corruption,
9 financial corruption, political corruption or
10 otherwise in our state.
11 It's weird that we have it
12 federally, we don't have it in our state.
13 New York should catch up. And I think it's
14 something that hopefully this bill today can
15 build upon.
16 I vote in the affirmative. Thank
17 you.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
19 Kaminsky to be recorded in the affirmative.
20 Announce the result.
21 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
22 Calendar 623, those recorded in the negative are
23 Senators Benjamin, Gianaris, Hoylman, Kavanagh,
24 Krueger, Montgomery, Parker and Sanders. Also
25 Senator Bailey.
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1 Ayes, 50. Nays, 9.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
3 is passed.
4 Senator DeFrancisco, that concludes
5 the reading of the noncontroversial calendar.
6 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Could you
7 please take up the controversial bill.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Very good.
9 The Secretary will ring the bell.
10 The Secretary will read.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 423, by Senator Robach, Senate Print 7549, an act
13 authorizing.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
15 Krueger, why do you rise?
16 SENATOR KRUEGER: I would like to
17 ask the sponsor a question, please.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Would the
19 sponsor be willing to yield for a question?
20 SENATOR ROBACH: Absolutely.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
22 sponsor yields.
23 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you.
24 So the sponsor carries this bill and
25 then another bill which would exempt those
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1 21 years old and over from being required to wear
2 helmets while operating motorcycles. So given
3 that you have a bill that would exempt people
4 from helmet wearing, what would be the purpose of
5 this bill's study?
6 SENATOR ROBACH: This bill, very
7 simply, would really have motorcycle usage,
8 helmets studied -- I think they are somewhat
9 related, but at the same time separate -- to
10 determine -- right now I think the federal
11 standard says 12 miles an hour is what a helmet
12 has to be certified for to be legal.
13 There's a question of if you have a
14 full-face helmet, how it might hook on a curb, a
15 part of the vehicle in a collision, how people
16 could be safer, how -- and I do think there is a
17 correlation between wearing a helmet and not --
18 many people who ride, and I'm a rider, feel that
19 equally as important in a low-impact or a slow
20 crash, which most of them aren't, you're better
21 off being able to hear and see all around you so
22 you avoid the collision altogether.
23 I would like some more information.
24 As the chair of Transportation, many bike riders
25 have asked me to put this bill in to study what
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1 the efficiency is of the current federal statutes
2 on helmet usage.
3 And if I could be so bold, could I
4 ask Senator Krueger a question?
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Will the
6 member yield for a question?
7 SENATOR KRUEGER: Certainly.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Yes.
9 SENATOR ROBACH: What model Harley
10 do you ride, Senator Krueger?
11 (Laughter.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Through
13 the chair, please, Senator.
14 SENATOR ROBACH: I'm only kidding.
15 SENATOR KRUEGER: Through you,
16 Mr. President, since according to the
17 research I stand about a 50 times increased
18 chance of getting harmed if I rode a motorcycle
19 versus not riding a motorcycle, I choose not to
20 ride motorcycles. Thank you.
21 On the bill, Mr. President.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
23 Krueger on the bill.
24 SENATOR KRUEGER: Appreciate the
25 sponsor's answers, and I'm going to try to be
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1 concise.
2 There is enormous research done by
3 the federal government, by the Highway Safety
4 Institute, by the Insurance Institute for Highway
5 Safety, by medical researchers, by the CDC -- the
6 reports go on and on about the correlation
7 between riding motorcycles without helmets versus
8 riding them with helmets.
9 And New York State is one of the
10 states in the country that requires a full helmet
11 for every rider of motorcycles. And I believe
12 that the research confirms that's exactly where
13 we should be in New York State.
14 So while I'm always open to the
15 possibilities we could come up with better ways
16 to protect people when they're riding
17 motorcycles, I would be very disturbed if any
18 kind of study that was done by the state was done
19 to allow people to ride without full helmets or
20 without helmets at all, as some states have done.
21 Because the research shows us that
22 the likelihood of dying in a crash or doing
23 serious brain injury to oneself rises enormously
24 without full helmets; that the economic costs to
25 our healthcare system rise dramatically with the
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1 kinds of crashes that take place when you don't
2 wear full helmets; that motorcycles are already
3 responsible for a far greater percentage of the
4 accidents by vehicle than cars or other kinds of
5 vehicles.
6 But happily, with helmets you stand
7 a better chance of not killing yourself and not
8 doing enormous brain injury damage to yourself.
9 So frankly, I had endless research
10 to offer, but I know we have an important guest
11 with a train to get on, so I'm just going to be
12 clear: I don't think New York State should do
13 anything to decrease the amount of helmet
14 protection we offer to our people.
15 And I would encourage the sponsor to
16 read the many medical research findings to
17 realize that we should be proud of the fact that
18 New York is one of the states that has this law
19 down correctly, and we shouldn't mess with it.
20 So I vote no, Mr. President. Thank
21 you.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
23 Robach.
24 SENATOR ROBACH: Yeah, just very
25 quickly.
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1 Low impact -- I don't want to
2 belabor the point either, though I will say to
3 you that Senator Krueger pointed out we're one of
4 the few states left that has a helmet law. And
5 in terms of deaths, there does not seem to be any
6 increase -- Florida, Texas, other states where
7 people ride year-round, have year mileage.
8 Even though this debate isn't about
9 this, this would be studying the facts of what
10 would be the safest helmet and, if at all, you
11 really are in a quicker -- in a faster impact in
12 terms of fatalities on the road. So I just point
13 that out.
14 While there are studies that show at
15 lower speeds it can be helpful, when it comes to
16 fatalities, there really doesn't seem to be any
17 correlation whatsoever. And I just wanted to add
18 that in, because that's also very important
19 factual information. And this would only be for
20 riders over 21, not junior riders.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Seeing no
22 other members wishing to speak, the Secretary
23 will ring the bell.
24 Senator DeFrancisco.
25 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO:
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1 Mr. President, there are a bunch of members that
2 are on the second floor right now. And I know we
3 have a gallery full of people waiting on a
4 resolution.
5 So could we lay aside the vote and
6 take up a resolution. And the resolution is --
7 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The vote
8 will be laid aside momentarily.
9 Motions and resolutions.
10 Senator DeFrancisco.
11 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: And the
12 resolution was previously adopted, 4151, by
13 Senator Montgomery. Would you please read it in
14 its entirety and call on the Senator to speak.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
16 Secretary will read.
17 Excuse me, Secretary suspend.
18 May we have order in the chamber
19 while the Secretary makes the reading and the
20 presentation. Very good.
21 The Secretary will read.
22 THE SECRETARY: Legislative
23 Resolution Number 4151, by Senator Montgomery,
24 honoring Dr. Hazel N. Dukes upon the occasion of
25 her designation as recipient of the Empire State
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1 and Nation Builder Award by the New York State
2 Association of Black and Puerto Rican
3 Legislators, in conjunction with the observance
4 of Women's History Month.
5 "WHEREAS, The State of New York is
6 home to countless women who have contributed to
7 the advancement of our culture through both their
8 traditional and nontraditional roles in society;
9 and
10 "WHEREAS, This Legislative Body is
11 justly proud to honor Dr. Hazel N. Dukes upon the
12 occasion of her designation as recipient of the
13 Empire State and Nation Builder Award by the New
14 York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican
15 Legislators, Inc., at its 47th Annual Scholarship
16 Gala on Sunday, February 18, 2018, in conjunction
17 with the observance of Women's History Month; and
18 "WHEREAS, Hazel N. Dukes was born to
19 Edward and Alice Dukes on March 17, 1932, in
20 Montgomery, Alabama; aspiring to become a
21 teacher, she attended Alabama State Teachers
22 College in 1949, before moving to New York City
23 with her parents in 1955; and
24 "WHEREAS, While majoring in business
25 administration at Nassau Community College, Hazel
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1 N. Dukes became the first black American to gain
2 a position at the Nassau County Attorney's Office
3 in 1966; additionally, she taught children living
4 in poverty as a community organizer for the
5 Nassau County Economic Opportunity Commission
6 (EOC); and
7 "WHEREAS, Hazel N. Dukes graduated
8 with a bachelor's degree in business
9 administration from Adelphi University in 1978,
10 during which time she worked for the New York
11 City Off-Track Betting Corporation (NYCOTB); in
12 1990, Mayor David Dinkins appointed Hazel Dukes
13 as president of NYCOTB; and
14 "WHEREAS, While she found great
15 success in business, Hazel N. Dukes was also
16 working for the NAACP, participating in many
17 marches; she was president of the Great Neck,
18 Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn chapter, and
19 served as national president of the organization
20 from 1989 to 1992; and
21 "WHEREAS, In 1990, Hazel N. Dukes
22 was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree
23 from the City University of New York School of
24 Law, and in 2009 was conferred the honorary
25 doctor of humane letters from Medgar Evers
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1 College, Brooklyn, New York; and
2 "WHEREAS, Dr. Hazel N. Dukes
3 currently serves as president of the NAACP
4 New York State Conference as well as a member of
5 the NAACP National Board of Directors and NAACP
6 Executive Committee; and
7 "WHEREAS, Founded on February 12,
8 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest,
9 and most widely recognized civil rights
10 organization; following in the footsteps of
11 W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary
12 Church Terrell, Dr. Hazel Dukes continues the
13 NAACP's historic leadership to ensure political,
14 educational, social and economic equality and
15 justice; and
16 "WHEREAS, A true asset to society,
17 Dr. Hazel N. Dukes is a member of the National
18 Council of Negro Women, Inc., the National Black
19 Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc., and the
20 Executive Committee of the American Baptist
21 Churches, USA; and
22 "WHEREAS, Dr. Hazel N. Dukes is the
23 proud recipient of numerous awards and accolades,
24 including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, YWCA
25 City of New York John La Farge Memorial Award for
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1 Interracial Justice, Guy R. Brewer Humanitarian
2 Award, and the 2007 The Network Journal's 25 Most
3 Influential Black Women in Business Award; and
4 "WHEREAS, Furthermore, Dr. Hazel N.
5 Dukes' biography has been selected for
6 publication in many journals and directories,
7 including the Fisk University Library, Minority
8 Women Contribution, American Biographical
9 Institute Personalities of Northeast, Who's Who
10 Among American Women and Who's Who Among Black
11 Women; and
12 "WHEREAS, It is the sense of this
13 Legislative Body that those who enhance the
14 well-being and vitality of their community and
15 have shown a long and sustained commitment to
16 excellence certainly have earned the recognition
17 and applause of all the citizens of this great
18 Empire State; now, therefore, be it
19 "RESOLVED, That this Legislative
20 Body pause in its deliberations to honor
21 Dr. Hazel N. Dukes upon the occasion of her
22 designation as recipient of the Empire State and
23 Nation Builder Award by the New York State
24 Association of Black and Puerto Rican
25 Legislators, Inc., in conjunction with the
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1 observance of Women's History Month; and be it
2 further
3 "RESOLVED, That a copy of this
4 resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted to
5 Dr. Hazel N. Dukes."
6 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
7 Montgomery.
8 SENATOR MONTGOMERY: Thank you,
9 Mr. President.
10 And thank you to my colleagues who
11 are joining me today in honoring this absolutely
12 unbelievably -- Woman of Distinction of New York
13 State.
14 Hazel Dukes has been so continuously
15 outspoken on issues across our state for people
16 who basically very often didn't have their own
17 voice. And it's been for children, it's been for
18 young people, it's been for criminal justice,
19 it's been for civil rights -- all of those issues
20 that are so important to our communities across
21 the state. So we honor you and thank you today,
22 Hazel.
23 And let me just say I've stood in
24 the rain on very cold days with her, I've stood
25 on very hot days with her, any number of times
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1 when she was leading the charge on behalf of the
2 people of the State of New York. So we shall
3 never forget and certainly don't underestimate
4 the importance of your leadership, your courage,
5 and your tenacity and your fire on behalf of
6 people in the State of New York.
7 I want to just acknowledge members
8 of the statewide NAACP organization are here
9 today in the gallery for sure. Thank you very
10 much for your representing the oldest and largest
11 civil rights organization in the nation.
12 And she is joined here on the floor
13 with Mr. Geoffrey Eaton, who is the first vice
14 president of the New York State Conference, and
15 she is joined by Karen Blanding, who is the
16 second vice president, and also our very own --
17 from the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, L.
18 Joy Williams, who is the president of the
19 Brooklyn branch of the NAACP.
20 Thank you all for attending and,
21 most importantly, for the phenomenal woman of
22 this hour, Hazel Dukes. Thank you, and
23 congratulations.
24 Thank you, Mr. President.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
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1 Benjamin.
2 SENATOR GIANARIS: Thank you,
3 Mr. President.
4 I rise today to let everyone in this
5 chamber know that Hazel N. Dukes is my
6 constituent. She represents the Village of
7 Harlem, and she does it incredibly well.
8 I also want to let you know that she
9 recently turned 86 years old, 86 years old.
10 (Applause.)
11 SENATOR BENJAMIN: And let me give
12 you a little bit of information on what she
13 spends her time doing at the age of 86. I've
14 spent most of my time with Dr. Hazel N. Dukes on
15 the community board, Community Board No. 10.
16 I've always known her as a living legend, a
17 leader in the NAACP fighting for justice for us
18 all around the world.
19 But I met her really on Community
20 Board No. 10, which she somehow finds the time to
21 serve as the chair of the health committee for a
22 community board in Manhattan. And on that
23 community board, she is a lioness. I mean, there
24 is no issue that she doesn't take on.
25 But I have a funny story that I want
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1 to share with you. She's summoned a lot of us to
2 her house one day -- by the way, I'm the chair of
3 the board. I was the chair of Community Board
4 No. 10 because she put me there. But she
5 summoned us to her house and she was all up in
6 arms because on 135th Street and Lenox, there was
7 all this garbage outside. And she had already
8 been telling the mayor what he needs to do, but
9 she felt that we needed to do more and we needed
10 to get these garbage bins, those big-bellied
11 garbage bins.
12 And so we're -- so she's, you know,
13 she's just letting us know what needs to happen.
14 And "Mr. Chair, you do this" and -- very
15 respectful. It looks like she respects me though
16 she's really in charge. I just think it's a
17 wonderful thing that she does that.
18 (Laughter.)
19 SENATOR BENJAMIN: "Mr. Chair, you
20 need to do this, and everyone needs to do that."
21 Next thing you know, Hillary
22 Clinton's calling her on the phone, she has to
23 step out for a second because I guess Hillary
24 wanted her to introduce her at something. And
25 then she comes backs in and she's back on the
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1 issue: Sanitation, cleanliness in Harlem.
2 I mean, that is what you want in a
3 public servant. You know, some people use public
4 service for self-aggrandizement. They get some
5 positions, and then they're off in the clouds.
6 Whereas Hazel lives on 135th and Lenox. And
7 while she might hang out with the celebrities and
8 do all these amazing things on behalf of this
9 country, she knows where she lives and she does
10 the real work on the ground. And that's what
11 I've learned from Hazel N. Dukes.
12 And that is why, in my opinion,
13 she's a living legend. Congratulations, Hazel N.
14 Dukes. I am honored to be your State Senator.
15 (Applause from gallery.)
16 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
17 Parker.
18 SENATOR PARKER: Thank you,
19 Mr. President.
20 I could do no less but to stand to
21 add my voice to those who are congratulating
22 Dr. Hazel N. Dukes upon the occasion of her
23 designation as recipient of the Empire State and
24 Nation Builders Award during the Black,
25 Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislators
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1 Caucus this year.
2 First let me thank my colleague
3 Senator Velmanette Montgomery for bringing
4 forward this legislative resolution so that we
5 can have this time to give Dr. Dukes her flowers
6 while she's here with us.
7 But -- I'm being formal because
8 we're on the floor of the State Senate, but, you
9 know, when we're in the community, we don't call
10 her Dr. Dukes. She is Mama Dukes. And we want
11 to thank Mama Dukes today for all that she has
12 done.
13 And I think you've heard all of the
14 accolades around the things that she's done in
15 terms of community service. Her work around
16 civil rights is absolutely legendary. And I
17 think all of those things are really not even
18 spoken about as much as she's done. This is
19 somebody who has been engaged for really almost
20 50 years in civil rights nationally. And you
21 hear from Senator Benjamin that that work even
22 extends down to doing this day-to-day stuff on
23 her community board. And it's like, you know,
24 who has time to do all of those things and pays
25 attention?
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1 Really what I want to speak about is
2 not what you already know -- we already know that
3 she's an outspoken campaigner on behalf of
4 African-Americans and other underprivileged and
5 underrepresented groups. We know that she is
6 somebody who has been a person who has been a
7 voice that speaks truth to power. We know that
8 Dr. Dukes really has been an opponent to policies
9 that undermine the achievements of civil rights,
10 but more importantly has been somebody who has
11 stood up for civil rights and has spoken to the
12 issues that we need to deal with like what we're
13 seeing in the budget this year with early voting.
14 That has been one of the things that she has been
15 talking about in the state for a long time.
16 You know, I don't want to speak to
17 the things you know already about her political
18 career, her 30 years of service in terms of
19 Head Start, the work that she's done with Nassau
20 County Economic Opportunity Commission, with the
21 Nassau County Democrats. I mean, you know, we
22 can spend all day even talking about the fact
23 that she's been one of the 20th century's most
24 important civil rights leaders in this entire
25 country.
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1 What the resolution and her
2 accolades and her bio don't speak to is the kind
3 of people-to-people connection that she has made
4 with people not just around the state but around
5 the country.
6 And let me just speak personally
7 that from the moment that I really got acquainted
8 with Ma Dukes 20 years ago working on Hillary
9 Clinton's campaign, that there's never been a
10 time when she hasn't individually pulled me aside
11 to tell me what I should be doing.
12 And those of you who know her know
13 that she's done that with every single one of us,
14 is that if you don't -- if you're not clear, if
15 you're not clear about your assignment -- and one
16 of the things they talk about in the Baptist
17 Church already is your assignment. Everybody has
18 come to this planet with an assignment. And if
19 you're not clear about what your assignment is,
20 apparently Ma Dukes' assignment is to make sure
21 you know what your assignment is. And if you're
22 not working on your assignment, she certainly is
23 helpful with some corrective action.
24 And there's not one time that she
25 has led me astray or not set the course straight
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1 with me with my assignment. And for that, I
2 thank you, for that I love you, and for the times
3 that I have done things that are not quite right,
4 it's because I have not been, you know, attentive
5 enough to the things that she's told me and the
6 ways that she's tried to put me, you know, on the
7 right course. Because every single time she's
8 put me on the right course, it's been the right
9 course.
10 And so thank you so much for all
11 that you have done for our community, all you
12 have done for our people, and all you've done for
13 the people of the great State of New York.
14 God bless you.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
16 Stewart-Cousins.
17 SENATOR STEWART-COUSINS: Thank
18 you, Mr. President.
19 I rise also to really, first of all,
20 thank Senator Montgomery. Because Senator
21 Montgomery, as iconic as she is in these
22 chambers, has always said, you know, what are we
23 going do, what are we going to do for Hazel, what
24 are we going to do for Dr. Dukes?
25 And frankly, as much as we do, it's
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1 never really enough. Because the life that you
2 have led has been nothing but one of commitment,
3 one of giving, one of consciousness, and one of
4 always moving the ball forward. And whether you
5 are correcting people and explaining what their
6 role was to be in life, what their assignment is,
7 or whether you could just be a support for
8 somebody who knew what their assignment was, you
9 have always filled that role.
10 And as I've had a chance -- as many
11 of my colleagues have had and spoken so
12 eloquently -- to speak about you, you know -- and
13 by the way, we speak about in February, you know,
14 we speak about black history, in March it's
15 women's history. The fact that we have you to
16 speak to and speak of, frankly, is a privilege
17 for each and every one of us.
18 I did not want to miss the
19 opportunity to say thank you, to tell you how
20 important you are as a role model, to thank you
21 for the people that you have continued to
22 nurture. Because many of the young women who are
23 on the scene -- I see L. Joy Williams, Tamika
24 Mallory -- so many are your mentees. And we
25 thank you for not only staying on task, having a
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1 vision for the future, but also making sure that
2 you have the time to make sure that when, when
3 you are not here -- and I can't even imagine life
4 without you -- that there will be people, as the
5 NAACP has continued to do, to carry the torch.
6 Thank you for all that you've done,
7 and congratulations. We can never thank you
8 enough.
9 (Applause.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
11 Bailey.
12 SENATOR BAILEY: Thank you,
13 Mr. President.
14 We don't -- we shouldn't throw the
15 title "legend" around loosely. You know, Michael
16 Jordan is a legend, Magic Johnson was a legend.
17 Hazel Dukes is a legend, folks.
18 Let's make no mistake about it. She is of that
19 ilk, she is of that significance, she is of that
20 magnitude.
21 And I don't have the luxury, like
22 Senator Benjamin, to have her in my district, but
23 she comes up to mine. And sometimes you get
24 star struck in this business. And the first time
25 I met the governor or I met this person and that
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1 person, you're like, wow. The first time Hazel
2 Dukes said my name -- "Senator Bailey, could you
3 come here for a second?" Me? Hazel Dukes knows
4 my name? The legend Hazel Dukes knows my name.
5 That means I'm doing something okay.
6 Shirley Chisholm once said that if
7 they don't have a seat at the table, you bring a
8 folding chair. Well, Ms. Dukes, you have brought
9 many, many, many folding chairs, and you have
10 taught other young women to not only bring those
11 folding chairs to the table but to sit them
12 down -- like Leader Stewart-Cousins said, Tamika
13 Mallory, when she was being honored at an event
14 in the Bronx, she referenced your name no less
15 than 10 times about how influential you were for
16 her.
17 And when you gave your speech about
18 how important it was to vote, a generation of
19 fourth-graders who maybe know you, if at all, in
20 name only, stood to their feet in celebration of
21 you.
22 That is the impact that you have on
23 this world. That is the impact that you've had
24 on me. And I'm lucky to know you. God bless
25 you. And thank you for everything that you do.
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1 (Applause.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
3 Kennedy.
4 SENATOR KENNEDY: Thank you very
5 much, Mr. President.
6 I have got to say, first and
7 foremost, how honored and privileged I am to
8 stand here among greatness. Dr. Hazel Dukes,
9 words cannot describe how extraordinary of a life
10 not only you have lived, but the people that you
11 have touched, not only in this great state but
12 clearly in this extraordinary nation.
13 I want to thank our colleague
14 Senator Montgomery. And I want to thank, of
15 course, Harlem's finest, Brian Benjamin, your
16 godson Senator Benjamin. All of my colleagues, I
17 put my words with theirs, associate my words with
18 theirs.
19 You know, the resolution today, as
20 fitting and as articulate and eloquent as it is,
21 still leaves so much, because Dr. Dukes has done
22 so much for all of us. No matter who we are, no
23 matter where we come from, no matter what our
24 background is, no matter what our ethnicity is,
25 no matter what our gender is, no matter what our
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1 sexual orientation may be, no matter what our
2 religion may be, Dr. Hazel Dukes has epitomized
3 what it means to be a leader in the State of
4 New York and in this great nation.
5 She has always acted as a strong
6 moral compass, for us in leadership here in the
7 state and in the nation to follow suit. Whether
8 it's her fight for civil rights and human rights,
9 voting rights, criminal justice reform, the
10 rights of the poor, the neediest, the most
11 vulnerable in our communities, children and
12 women, she has always done so with great
13 respect and dignity.
14 She has also always done so keeping
15 her faith at the center of the decisions that she
16 makes, always having that moral compass led
17 through her faith in Jesus Christ.
18 Recently Dr. Hazel Dukes came up to
19 Buffalo and visited ELIM Christian Fellowship
20 Church with me. And I had never seen her in
21 action. But I will tell you what -- well, I've
22 seen her in action; I have never seen her in
23 action like this. Dr. Hazel Dukes brought the
24 house down, to the extent that the bishop of ELIM
25 Church said "You all got your word today."
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1 She speaks from the heart, she
2 speaks from the mind, she speaks for all of us.
3 And as much as this resolution encapsulated her
4 extraordinary life, it left out one magnificent
5 piece of history I'd like to bring to everyone's
6 attention, that as a child coming up in Alabama,
7 Dr. Hazel Dukes' own life was touched by another
8 legend in our country, as she was taught in
9 Sunday school by a nation builder, a change
10 maker, and a civil rights legend: Rosa Parks.
11 Not only did that help her, but it
12 should show each and every one of us that every
13 single thing that we do, whether we're in this
14 auspicious chamber making decisions on the
15 20 million people that depend on us to do what's
16 right by them and their families in our
17 communities respectively -- but it also shows us
18 that when we're out in the community every single
19 thing that we do to touch another one's life does
20 make a difference.
21 Dr. Hazel Dukes, I'm honored to be
22 your friend. I'm honored to see you here in the
23 chamber with us today. Thank you for everything
24 that you have done for all of us, for this great
25 state and for this great nation. We are forever
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1 indebted to your leadership.
2 Congratulations.
3 (Applause.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Dr. Dukes,
5 on behalf of Majority Leader Flanagan and the
6 New York State Senate, we want to thank you for a
7 lifetime of service and dedication not only to
8 your community, to your state, but to your
9 country.
10 And we'd like you to stand and be
11 recognized by this chamber.
12 (Extended standing ovation.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
14 resolution has been previously adopted on
15 March 15th.
16 Senator DeFrancisco.
17 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Can we now go
18 back to Calendar Number 423 and call the roll on
19 that bill.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: We will
21 indeed.
22 Senator DeFrancisco, it's my
23 understanding that Senator Montgomery would like
24 to open this resolution for cosponsorship. If
25 you would like to be a cosponsor, you should
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1 please notify the desk.
2 And we will return to the calendar,
3 and the Secretary will read.
4 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Thank you.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
6 Secretary will read.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 423, by Senator Robach, Senate Print 7549, an act
9 authorizing.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The
11 Secretary will ring the bell.
12 Read the last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
14 act shall take effect immediately.
15 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Call the
16 roll.
17 (The Secretary called the roll.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
19 Stavisky to explain her vote.
20 SENATOR STAVISKY: To explain my
21 vote.
22 There's no question that helmets
23 save lives, they prevent brain injuries. And if
24 the helmet law is repealed, my question is
25 really: Who's next? Are we going to repeal the
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1 helmet law for football players, let them play
2 football without a helmet? Bicyclists? Well, if
3 we're going to take that kind of approach,
4 perhaps the seat belt law ought to be repealed.
5 Secondly, the memo says that there's
6 no fiscal impact. There really is. Because
7 people are injured when they have an accident and
8 they are not wearing a helmet. It provides some
9 kind of protection.
10 And somebody very close to me's son
11 was a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering at
12 Berkeley. He wasn't wearing a helmet, he was
13 riding his motorcycle. And he spent the rest of
14 his life in custodial care. He couldn't move, he
15 couldn't speak, he couldn't eat. And the cost
16 was tremendous -- not to the family, but to the
17 taxpayers. And I visited him on many occasions
18 in the hospital, and I kept saying to myself,
19 That's why we need a helmet law.
20 And Mr. President, I vote no.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
22 Stavisky to be recorded in the negative.
23 Senator Hoylman to explain his vote.
24 SENATOR HOYLMAN: Thank you,
25 Mr. President.
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1 I'll be voting for the reasons cited
2 by my colleagues. I did want to point out that
3 March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month.
4 And actually tomorrow, as I understand it, there
5 will be a resolution on this floor commemorating
6 Brain Injury Awareness Day.
7 So for all those reasons stated by
8 my colleagues, and also the focus on protecting
9 our brains -- our most vital organ -- from
10 injuries, I'll be voting no.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
12 Hoylman to be recorded in the negative.
13 Senator Brooks to explain his vote.
14 SENATOR BROOKS: Thank you,
15 Mr. President.
16 As someone who has responded to
17 probably far too many motorcycle accidents over
18 the years, I have seen many accidents where
19 clearly the use of a helmet has made a
20 difference.
21 I'll be voting yes on this bill
22 because included in this bill is a study to see
23 how helmets will be more effective, and I think
24 that's important. There's no question in my mind
25 that there are accidents where helmets have made
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1 a difference. If through this legislation we can
2 find further improvements, it's the right thing
3 to do.
4 I'll be voting aye.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: Senator
6 Brooks to be recorded in the affirmative.
7 Announce the result.
8 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
9 Calendar 423, those recorded in the negative are
10 Senators Gianaris, Hoylman, Kaminsky, Kavanagh,
11 Krueger, Parker, Phillips, Sanders, Serrano,
12 Stavisky and Stewart-Cousins.
13 Ayes, 49. Nays, 11.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: The bill
15 is passed.
16 Senator DeFrancisco, that concludes
17 the reading of the controversial calendar.
18 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: Is there any
19 further business at the desk?
20 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: There is
21 no further business before the desk.
22 SENATOR DeFRANCISCO: If that in
23 fact is the case, I move to adjourn until
24 Tuesday, March 20th, at 3:00 p.m.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT CROCI: On motion,
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1 the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday,
2 March 20th, at 3:00 p.m.
3 (Whereupon, at 4:32 p.m., the Senate
4 adjourned.)
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