Regular Session - March 3, 2022
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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 3, 2022
11 11:41 a.m.
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 SENATOR SHELLEY B. MAYER, Acting President
19 ALEJANDRA N. PAULINO, ESQ., Secretary
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1 P R O C E E D I N G S
2 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The Senate
3 will come to order.
4 I ask everyone present to please
5 rise and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
6 (Whereupon, the assemblage recited
7 the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: In the
9 absence of clergy, let us bow our heads in a
10 moment of silent reflection or prayer, and let us
11 acknowledge the very sad passing of the son of a
12 colleague of ours, Assemblymember Pat Fahy, whose
13 son, Brendan Fahy Bequette, passed away this week
14 at the age of 25 after a 20-month battle with
15 cancer.
16 (Whereupon, the assemblage respected
17 a moment of silence.)
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Reading of
19 the Journal.
20 THE SECRETARY: In Senate,
21 Wednesday, March 2, 2022, the Senate met pursuant
22 to adjournment. The Journal of Tuesday, March 1,
23 2022, was read and approved. On motion, the
24 Senate adjourned.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Without
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1 objection, the Journal stands approved as read.
2 Presentation of petitions.
3 Messages from the Assembly.
4 Messages from the Governor -- oh, my
5 apologies. The Secretary will read.
6 THE SECRETARY: Senator Sanders
7 moves to discharge, from the Committee on Banks,
8 Assembly Bill Number 8293 and substitute it for
9 the identical Senate Bill Number 1684, Third
10 Reading Calendar 496.
11 Senator Skoufis moves to discharge,
12 from the Committee on Mental Health and
13 Developmental Disabilities, Assembly Bill Number
14 6506 and substitute it for the identical Senate
15 Bill Number 4253, Third Reading Calendar 529.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: So
17 ordered.
18 Messages from the Governor.
19 Reports of standing committees.
20 Reports of select committees.
21 Communications and reports from
22 state officers.
23 Motions and resolutions.
24 Senator Gianaris.
25 SENATOR GIANARIS: Madam President,
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1 please take up Resolution 1956, by Leader
2 Stewart-Cousins, have that resolution read in its
3 entirety, and recognize Senator Cleare on the
4 resolution.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
6 Secretary will read.
7 THE PRESIDENT: Senate Resolution
8 1956, by Senator Stewart-Cousins, memorializing
9 Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2022 as
10 Women's History Month in the State of New York.
11 "WHEREAS, March is Women's History
12 Month; and
13 "WHEREAS, March 8th is International
14 Women's Day; and
15 "WHEREAS, Each year New York State
16 officially sets aside time to recognize the
17 unique contributions that New York women have
18 made to New York State and beyond; and
19 "WHEREAS, New York State has a
20 distinguished history of monumental achievements
21 in the area of women's rights; and
22 "WHEREAS, In 1826, New York State
23 opened one of the first public high schools for
24 girls, resulting in a future for women in which
25 they were no longer confined to the home, a
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1 future in which they were educated and able to
2 use this education to better their social and
3 economic status; and
4 "WHEREAS, In 1848 in New York, the
5 first women's rights convention was held at
6 Seneca Falls to secure for all women the right to
7 vote; and
8 "WHEREAS, In 1903, The Women's Trade
9 Union League of New York was formed to represent
10 working women, later becoming the nucleus for the
11 International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; and
12 "WHEREAS, In 1917, New York
13 guaranteed women the right to vote in all
14 elections, and in the following year the first
15 two women, Ida Sammis and Mary Lilly, were
16 elected to the New York State Legislature and
17 became the first women to then serve in 1919; and
18 "WHEREAS, In 1955, Bessie Buchanan
19 was the first African-American woman to serve in
20 the New York State Legislature; and
21 "WHEREAS, In 1967, Muriel Siebert
22 became the first woman to own a seat on the
23 New York Stock Exchange, opening the door for
24 women to gain positions of greater economic
25 power; and
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1 "WHEREAS, In 1968, New York State
2 Assemblywoman Shirley Chisholm became the first
3 Black woman elected to Congress, and in 1972, she
4 ran for President of the United States, another
5 first for Black women; and
6 "WHEREAS, In 1970, New York City was
7 the site of the first Women's Strike for
8 Equality, in which 50,000 people marched for
9 equal rights; and
10 "WHEREAS, In 1978, Olga Mendez
11 became the first Latina woman to serve in the
12 New York State Legislature; and
13 "WHEREAS, In 1983, New York State
14 women legislators established the Legislative
15 Women's Caucus to improve the participation of
16 women in all areas of government, support issues
17 that benefit women and provide a network of
18 support for women in the State Legislature; and
19 "WHEREAS, In 2007, Ellen Young was
20 the first Asian-American woman to serve in the
21 New York State Legislature; and
22 "WHEREAS, In 2009, New Yorker Sonia
23 Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Justice
24 appointed to the United States Supreme Court; and
25 "WHEREAS, In 2015, New Yorker
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1 Loretta Elizabeth Lynch was appointed as
2 Attorney General of the United States, becoming
3 the first African-American woman to serve in this
4 esteemed position; and
5 "WHEREAS, New York has been the home
6 of many extraordinary women who have led society
7 to a better future: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
8 Susan B. Anthony led the campaign for women's
9 suffrage; Sojourner Truth spoke out for the
10 abolition of slavery and for suffrage for all
11 women; and
12 "WHEREAS, Carrie Chapman Catt became
13 the first president of the League of Women
14 Voters; Emma Willard opened the first endowed
15 institution for the education of women; Civil War
16 surgeon Dr. Mary E. Walker was the only woman
17 ever awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor;
18 Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who led slaves
19 to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad in
20 the 19th century; and
21 "WHEREAS, Elizabeth Blackwell and
22 Belva Lockwood were the first women in the fields
23 of medicine and law; pioneer birth control
24 educator and advocate Margaret Sanger established
25 a research center in New York City; and
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1 "WHEREAS, Emma Goldman founded the
2 Free Speech League, which led to the American
3 Civil Liberties Union; humanitarian Eleanor
4 Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the
5 United Nations; and
6 "WHEREAS, New Yorker Edith Windsor
7 fought to expand marriage equality in the
8 United States prior to the Marriage Equality Act
9 of New York, which became law in 2011; and
10 "WHEREAS, Civil rights lawyer and
11 New York State Senator Constance Baker Motley
12 became the first Black woman to sit on the U.S.
13 District Court in New York, and there have been
14 so many more known and unknown women who
15 championed rights and opportunity for all; and
16 "WHEREAS, New York State has hosted
17 many conventions, campaigns and events of the
18 Women's Rights Movement, from the 1848 convention
19 at Seneca Falls to the 1999 Berkshire Conference
20 of Women Historians, which was held to improve
21 the status of women in history and in the
22 historical professions; and
23 "WHEREAS, 50 percent of statewide
24 elected officials are women and, for the first
25 time, a woman has been elected Attorney General
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1 in the State of New York; and
2 "WHEREAS, 2022 marks the
3 102nd anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which
4 guaranteed women the right to vote in the
5 United States; and
6 "WHEREAS, Today, 73 women serve in
7 the New York State Legislature, making up
8 34 percent of the seats, holding leadership
9 positions in both houses and bringing the diverse
10 experiences of women into law and public policy;
11 now, therefore, be it
12 "RESOLVED, That this Legislative
13 Body pause in its deliberations to memorialize
14 Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2022 as
15 Women's History Month in the State of New York;
16 and be it further
17 "RESOLVED, That copies of this
18 resolution, suitably engrossed, be transmitted to
19 the Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State
20 of New York, and the Legislative Women's Caucus
21 of New York State."
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Senator
23 Cleare on the resolution.
24 SENATOR CLEARE: Good morning,
25 Madam President.
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1 It is my honor to rise in support on
2 the Majority Leader's resolution declaring March
3 as Women's History Month in the State of
4 New York.
5 As the proud chair of the Senate
6 Standing Committee on Women's Issues, this month,
7 this event and all interconnected ceremonies,
8 celebrations and associated calls to action take
9 on added significance.
10 Some like to call this Women's
11 Her-Story Month, and that term is appropriate,
12 because the long march towards equal rights and,
13 more importantly, equitable outcomes, is a
14 powerful and instructive narrative.
15 My personal inspiration, not only
16 for this month but pertaining to my public
17 service vocation, is the former Senator of my
18 district, Constance Baker Motley, who many do not
19 know played a tantamount role in the civil rights
20 movement as she was offered the position of law
21 clerk to Thurgood Marshall while she was still in
22 law school.
23 Her tenacious and unconquerable
24 drive led to her being the first woman hired by
25 the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a
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1 civil rights lawyer. Furthermore, she researched
2 and wrote the original complaint in the Brown v.
3 Board of Education case.
4 She would go on to take a
5 substantial part in every major case brought in
6 the march to freedom. Amazingly, she was the
7 first Black woman to argue a case at the Supreme
8 Court, and she went on to argue 10 landmark civil
9 rights cases, winning nine.
10 Harlem was honored when she became
11 our State Senator in the early 1960s, the first
12 woman of color to ever serve in this body. I am
13 the second Harlem woman representative.
14 Shortly thereafter, she was
15 appointed by President Johnson to become a
16 federal judge for the Southern District of
17 New York, where her work on equal rights as well
18 as free speech and due process continued for
19 multiple decades.
20 Her life's work has been cited as an
21 inspiration not just by me, but by others such as
22 our first woman vice president, Kamala Harris,
23 and United States Supreme Court nominee Ketanji
24 Brown Jackson.
25 I personally seek to build upon the
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1 legacy of my wonderful predecessor, Constance
2 Baker Motley, for my work in the Women's Issues
3 Committee, where the issues of maternal health
4 and other health disparities, housing, education,
5 workforce, eradicating domestic violence and
6 ending human trafficking, are of paramount
7 importance.
8 We have much work to do to live up
9 to her legacy and to transition from civil rights
10 to equal rights and then to a fundamentally just
11 world that cares about equity and outcomes.
12 While I am the second woman of color to hold this
13 State Senate seat, and Ketanji Brown Jackson will
14 become the first woman of color to sit on the
15 Supreme Court, our legacy will be about creating
16 seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths, and hundredths,
17 thousandths and millionths in terms of
18 opportunities for women, particularly those of
19 color.
20 We stand on the shoulders of those
21 who first opened the doors, and now it is our
22 charge to take the doors off the hinges.
23 Thank you.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
25 Senator Cleare.
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1 Senator Krueger on the resolution.
2 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you very
3 much, Madam President.
4 I also rise to thank my leader,
5 Andrea Stewart-Cousins, for giving us one more
6 reminder of why women's history is so crucial to
7 those of us who serve in government and to
8 everyone in the State of New York. And I am
9 honored to be following our new Senator Cleare
10 and her highlighting of history.
11 I was thinking about this and
12 thinking about how many of the truly great women
13 in government for the country actually have come
14 from New York. And we're pulling up a few
15 quotes -- actually because a very good friend of
16 mine, who's a Grammy-nominated musician, has
17 produced or will soon be producing a concert on
18 the essential voices of women in American
19 history.
20 And so she had pulled all these
21 amazing quotes. And so I was just reading a few
22 of the ones that she sent me, and I thought how
23 appropriate for the floor of the chamber today,
24 on this day.
25 Of course I automatically go to
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1 Eleanor Roosevelt whenever I'm thinking of what
2 would Eleanor do in this situation because I'm
3 not sure: "Freedom makes a huge requirement of
4 every human being. With freedom comes
5 responsibility."
6 Hillary Clinton: "Human rights are
7 women's rights, and women's rights are human
8 rights, once and for all."
9 Shirley Chisholm: "In the field of
10 equal rights ... laws ... can be used to provide
11 protection for those who are most abused, and to
12 begin the process of evolutionary change by
13 compelling the insensitive majority to reexamine
14 its unconscious attitudes."
15 And even though I thought my whole
16 life Eleanor would be my default woman to go to
17 for inspiration, I have to say reading Ruth Bader
18 Ginsburg and the work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has
19 sort of given me a struggle between the two
20 women.
21 So just very quickly: "Women's
22 rights are an essential part of the overall human
23 rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and
24 ability to live in freedom all people should
25 enjoy."
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1 "Women belong in all places where
2 decisions are being made" -- certainly important
3 for us here in this chamber. "It shouldn't be
4 that women are the exception, just there."
5 And "People ask me sometimes when --
6 when do you think it will be enough? When will
7 there be enough women on the Supreme Court? And
8 my answer is when there are nine."
9 So just a reminder to all of us of
10 how far we've come and how far we have to go.
11 And that we are a better state the more equality
12 we have for every single citizen, men or women or
13 X-gender, no matter where they came from, no
14 matter what their race or religion or ethnicity.
15 That truly will guarantee us that we can be the
16 greatest state in this nation.
17 Thank you, Madam President.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
19 Senator Krueger.
20 Senator Weik on the resolution.
21 SENATOR WEIK: Thank you,
22 Madam President.
23 I rise today in recognition of
24 Women's History Month and as a member of the
25 Women's Issues Committee.
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1 There's no better month than March
2 to celebrate the countless contributions women
3 make in our country and our world. From being
4 wives and moms to being professionals solving
5 everyday global problems, the positive impact
6 women have in our society is immeasurable.
7 And here in New York we are the home
8 of monumental moments in women's history. The
9 historic women's suffrage movement began right
10 here in New York at the Seneca Falls convention.
11 And it would be decades before women had the
12 sacred right to vote.
13 There are many fearless and historic
14 leaders that come to mind: Susan B. Anthony,
15 Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many, many
16 more. It's because of these courageous female
17 leaders that we all now live in a more perfect
18 state and union.
19 Later this month we'll be
20 celebrating International Women's Day. This
21 whole month, and next Tuesday, it's essential to
22 remember the brave trailblazers in our past that
23 fought for a better tomorrow and brought us here
24 today.
25 Let's continue to lift women up.
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1 Let's recognize and achieve the trailblazing
2 women that have paved the way and the women who
3 carry the torch today. And let's continue to
4 invest in the future by inspiring and empowering
5 young girls across our great state to be the next
6 generation of excelling women.
7 I proudly support this resolution
8 and all the extraordinary women in our
9 communities. Thank you.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
11 Senator Weik.
12 Senator Bailey on the resolution.
13 SENATOR BAILEY: Thank you,
14 Madam President.
15 Thank you for allowing me to speak
16 on this resolution. It is fit that you are
17 presiding today. I want to thank you and
18 Senator Persaud for also allowing me to preside
19 from time to time.
20 I want to thank our leader for
21 introducing this resolution, and Senator Cleare
22 for her eloquent words.
23 And I want you to look at the
24 composition of this body and how far we've come.
25 The leader of this house is obviously Senator
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1 Andrea Stewart-Cousins. The Secretary of the
2 Senate is Alejandra Paulino. Chief of staff,
3 Shontell Smith. The chair of the Finance
4 Committee, Liz Krueger. The very top positions
5 in the New York State Senate are held by women.
6 And I find that not to be
7 coincidence, I find that to be extremely fitting
8 in terms of the way that we have been able to do
9 things that we've never done in this state under
10 the leadership of these women.
11 I think about something Senator
12 Cleare said in women's history month being March.
13 And I never thought about what the word "March"
14 meant in context with the drive that women have
15 had to make in the workplace and in terms of
16 respect. But it's a constant march, right? It
17 is a constant proceeding. It is a constant
18 looking for respect that women have deserved over
19 the years but, quite frankly, has escaped them.
20 Now this march is getting louder and
21 it's getting stronger. We have in the Bronx,
22 where I hail from, a majority-women City Council,
23 a majority-women Assembly delegation. Many
24 women -- more women in the Bronx on the bench
25 than men.
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1 And so this march is something that
2 is happening, is critically important. In the
3 Bronx we have Vanessa Gibson, our first woman
4 borough president; Darcel Clark, the first Black
5 woman D.A.; Adrienne Adams, the first Black woman
6 to be the Speaker of the City Council; and so
7 many other legendary figures or soon-to-be
8 legendary figures.
9 And I say soon-to-be-legendary
10 figures because if you haven't heard about her,
11 her name is Giada Bailey. She just happens to be
12 my oldest daughter. And she is a philosopher in
13 her own right. And you can find her saying
14 things such as "If you can't win, you win. But
15 you don't win, then you still win." The
16 inspiration of a then-5-year-old, now a
17 7-year-old.
18 And I think about my youngest,
19 Carina, Carina Bailey -- I also have to make sure
20 I say her name in full. Because names are
21 powerful, Madam President. Names are things that
22 we hold with respect. And especially when it
23 comes to our young women, our young women and
24 girls, we have to make sure that we uplift them.
25 And I can give you an excerpt from
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1 what happened today. Today happens to be "Dress
2 As What Your Career Would Be" Day in their
3 school. And so my wife, who -- Giamara, who is
4 incredible, they're having a conversation. And
5 Carina says, "Well, I'm going to be a
6 half-ballerina and a half-lawyer like Mom."
7 "Well, you know Dad's a lawyer too,
8 right?"
9 "But Mom's a lawyer, Dad. That's
10 what matters."
11 And then the conversation between my
12 wife and Carina: "Okay, well, tomorrow I'm going
13 to tell my teacher that you're a lawyer."
14 "Okay, are you going to tell her
15 that?"
16 "Yes. Well, yesterday she asked me
17 what you did for a living, and I couldn't quite
18 remember."
19 "So what did you tell them, Carina?"
20 "Well, I told them my mom was a
21 boss."
22 (Laughter.)
23 SENATOR BAILEY: If she can
24 conceptualize that at 5, I think it is our job,
25 regardless of what our gender may be, to make
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1 sure that we continue to feed these flames of
2 these incredibly inspiring young women.
3 Am I biased? A hundred percent.
4 These are my daughters. These are my flesh and
5 blood. And I happen to -- I live for them. But
6 we all live for the women in our lives. And we
7 all live for making sure that the advancement of
8 women is something critical.
9 I just want to -- before I close, I
10 want to make sure I shout out one of my
11 favorite -- one of my favorite former colleagues,
12 Senator Velmanette Montgomery, who did so much to
13 uplift so many of us. There would not be a
14 Women's History Month speech or statement from me
15 if I didn't talk about Velmanette and all the
16 great work that she's done.
17 And I think about, you know, just
18 the -- in closing, the -- what women like
19 Constance Baker Motley had to deal with, and
20 Senator Velmanette Montgomery, and Shirley
21 Chisholm. It's very easy because -- my daughters
22 can make statements like that because they see
23 their mother, right, and they see other women
24 now. But making those strides in those times
25 where you quite frankly did not see that, that's
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1 even all the more remarkable. And it makes what
2 they did, in retrospect, even more legendary.
3 And as I close, I want to think
4 about the legacy of a legendary woman who left us
5 far too soon, my great late mother-in-law.
6 March 27th, it will be two years. We miss her
7 every day. I'd like to thank her for being a
8 role model to me and teaching me.
9 And may God bless her legacy, and
10 God bless all the women of this great state and
11 country.
12 Thank you, Madam President.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
14 Senator Bailey.
15 Senator May on the resolution.
16 SENATOR MAY: Thank you,
17 Madam President.
18 And I want to add my voice to the
19 chorus of those thanking the Majority Leader for
20 bringing this resolution forward.
21 This week we watched the President
22 of the United States, just before he gave the
23 State of the Union address, turn to greet the
24 first woman Vice President and the first woman
25 Speaker of the House sitting behind him. And I
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1 know my heart swelled at that sight, and I think
2 the hearts of a lot of American women did too,
3 and girls. And the next generation coming, the
4 Bailey girls and others.
5 And I wanted to pick up on what
6 Senator Krueger said. I -- we just completed
7 Black History Month and now we're starting
8 Women's History Month, and both of these are
9 really important opportunities to lift up the
10 contributions of people whose place in history
11 has traditionally been marginalized.
12 But I think we also harbor a hope
13 that eventually we will understand that American
14 history and Black history, American history and
15 women's history are one and the same, and maybe
16 someday we won't need to have these special
17 months to make these celebrations.
18 But I wanted to mention one
19 particular woman who actually lived in what is
20 Senator Mannion's district, but was very
21 important in my region a century and a half ago:
22 Matilda Joslyn Gage, who was known as the woman
23 who was ahead of the women who were ahead of
24 their times.
25 She was an early abolitionist and
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1 suffragist, and a very outspoken critic of human
2 rights violations of all kinds. And she
3 ultimately broke with the women's movement
4 because she felt that they were being too
5 accommodating of some -- particularly some racist
6 views about which women should have rights.
7 And she got very involved with the
8 Haudenosaunee. She began to understand that the
9 Haudenosaunee women had a lot of power in
10 Haudenosaunee culture and government. And she
11 eventually became an honorary member of the
12 Haudenosaunee and became somebody who was really
13 lifting up the model that the Native American
14 system of government was offering to women in
15 New York State and around the world.
16 And so she ultimately -- her
17 son-in-law was Frank Baum, who wrote the Wizard
18 of Oz books, and he modeled his powerful, spunky
19 female leader heroine on his mother-in-law. So
20 she has had an impact on children all around the
21 world as well.
22 So I do want us not to forget, in
23 the list of suffragists and women who are really
24 pushing for women's rights in this state, that we
25 should never forget Matilda Joslyn Gage in that
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1 number.
2 So with that, I will thank you and
3 vote aye on the resolution.
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Thank you,
5 Senator May.
6 The resolution was previously
7 adopted on March 1st.
8 Senator Gianaris.
9 SENATOR GIANARIS: At the request
10 of Leader Stewart-Cousins, that resolution is
11 open for cosponsorship.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
13 resolution is open for cosponsorship. Should you
14 choose not to be a cosponsor of the resolution,
15 please notify the desk.
16 Senator Gianaris.
17 SENATOR GIANARIS: Please take up
18 the reading of the calendar.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The
20 Secretary will read.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
22 114, Senate Print 2542A, by Senator Rivera. An
23 act to amend the Social Services Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
25 last section.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
7 the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 496, Assembly Print Number 8293, by
13 Assemblymember Fahy, an act to direct the
14 Department of Financial Services to conduct a
15 study on underbanked communities.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
17 last section.
18 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
19 act shall take effect immediately.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
21 roll.
22 (The Secretary called the roll.)
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
24 the results.
25 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
2 is passed.
3 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
4 506, Senate Print 2687, by Senator Brooks, an act
5 to amend the Education Law.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
7 last section.
8 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
9 act shall take effect immediately.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
11 roll.
12 (The Secretary called the roll.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
14 the results.
15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
17 is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 511, Senate Print 6393, by Senator
20 Reichlin-Melnick, an act to amend the
21 Education Law.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
23 last section.
24 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
25 act shall take effect immediately.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
2 roll.
3 (The Secretary called the roll.)
4 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
5 the results.
6 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
8 is passed.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 525, Senate Print 2877, by Senator Ramos, an act
11 to establish a Latina suicide prevention
12 task force.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
14 last section.
15 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
16 act shall take effect on the 60th day after it
17 shall have become a law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
22 the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
25 is passed.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
2 526, Senate Print 3083, by Senator Salazar, an
3 act to establish an LGBT youth and young adult
4 suicide prevention task force.
5 SENATOR GIANARIS: Lay it aside for
6 the day.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
8 is laid aside for the day.
9 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
10 527, Senate Print 3409, by Senator Brouk, an act
11 to amend the Mental Hygiene Law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
13 last section.
14 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
15 act shall take effect immediately.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 529, Assembly Print Number 6506, by
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1 Assemblymember Gunther, an act to amend the
2 Mental Hygiene Law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
4 last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
6 act shall take effect immediately.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
8 roll.
9 (The Secretary called the roll.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
11 the results.
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 536, Senate Print 2940, by Senator Comrie, an act
17 to amend the New York State Urban Development
18 Corporation Act.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
20 last section.
21 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
22 act shall take effect immediately.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
2 the results.
3 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
4 Calendar 536, those Senators voting in the
5 negative are Senators Oberacker, O'Mara, Ortt,
6 Palumbo and Stec.
7 Ayes, 58. Nays, 5.
8 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
9 is passed.
10 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
11 541, Senate Print 7617, by Senator Mannion, an
12 act to amend Part Q of Chapter 59 of the Laws of
13 2016.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Read the
15 last section.
16 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
17 act shall take effect immediately.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Call the
19 roll.
20 (The Secretary called the roll.)
21 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: Announce
22 the results.
23 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: The bill
25 is passed.
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1 Senator Gianaris, that completes the
2 reading of today's calendar.
3 SENATOR GIANARIS: Is there any
4 further business at the desk?
5 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: There is
6 no further business at the desk.
7 SENATOR GIANARIS: Move to adjourn
8 until Monday, March 7th, at 3:00 p.m.,
9 intervening days being legislative days.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT MAYER: On motion,
11 the Senate stands adjourned until Monday,
12 March 7th, at 3:00 p.m., with the intervening
13 days being legislative days.
14 (Whereupon, at 12:09 p.m., the
15 Senate adjourned.)
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