Regular Session - March 15, 2022
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1 NEW YORK STATE SENATE
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9 ALBANY, NEW YORK
10 March 15, 2022
11 11:16 a.m.
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14 REGULAR SESSION
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18 SENATOR JAMAAL T. BAILEY, 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 BAILEY: The
3 Senate 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 BAILEY: In the
9 absence of clergy, let us bow our heads in a
10 moment of silent reflection or prayer.
11 (Whereupon, the assemblage respected
12 a moment of silence.)
13 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Reading
14 of the Journal.
15 THE SECRETARY: In Senate, Monday,
16 March 14, 2022, the Senate met pursuant to
17 adjournment. The Journal of Sunday, March 13,
18 2022, was read and approved. On motion, the
19 Senate adjourned.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Without
21 objection, the Journal stands approved as read.
22 Presentation of petitions.
23 Messages from the Assembly.
24 The Secretary will read.
25 THE SECRETARY: Senator Gaughran
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1 moves to discharge, from the Committee on
2 Education, Assembly Bill Number 9146 and
3 substitute it for the identical Senate Bill 8338,
4 Third Reading Calendar 648.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: So
6 ordered.
7 Reports of standing committees.
8 Reports of select committees.
9 Communications and reports from
10 state officers.
11 Motions and resolutions.
12 Senator Gianaris.
13 SENATOR GIANARIS: Mr. President,
14 on behalf of Senator Brisport, on page 40 I offer
15 the following amendments to Calendar 682,
16 Senate Print 5419, and ask that said bill retain
17 its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The
19 amendments are received, and the bill will retain
20 its place on the Third Reading Calendar.
21 Senator Gianaris.
22 SENATOR GIANARIS: I move to adopt
23 the Resolution Calendar.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: All those
25 in favor of adopting the Resolution Calendar
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1 please signify by saying aye.
2 (Response of "Aye.")
3 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Opposed,
4 nay.
5 (No response.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The
7 Resolution Calendar is adopted.
8 Senator Gianaris.
9 SENATOR GIANARIS: At this time
10 please take up previously adopted
11 Resolution 1996, by Senator Kennedy, read that
12 resolution's title, and recognize
13 Senator Kennedy.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The
15 Secretary will read.
16 THE SECRETARY: Senate Resolution
17 1996, by Senator Kennedy, honoring St. Patrick
18 and all persons of Irish descent upon the
19 occasion of the 2022 celebration of St. Patrick's
20 Day on Thursday, March 17, 2022.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Senator
22 Kennedy on the resolution.
23 SENATOR KENNEDY: Thank you,
24 Mr. President.
25 As a proud Irish-American, I rise to
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1 honor St. Patrick, one of the patron saints of
2 Ireland and a symbol of the Irish diaspora.
3 March 17th, the day of St. Patrick's
4 death, is both a day to celebrate a man who broke
5 free of the bondage of slavery and helped to
6 spread the Catholic faith in Ireland, ultimately
7 achieving sainthood, as well as to celebrate all
8 that is Ireland, especially its people and its
9 culture.
10 As an Irish-American whose family
11 came to the United States in search of a better
12 life, St. Patrick's Day is when we remember the
13 struggles of those who came before us who fought
14 for our freedom, who suffered in the face of
15 famine, and who ultimately built a strong, modern
16 and independent nation.
17 Over the generations, millions of
18 Irish immigrants left their homeland, making the
19 same trip that my own ancestors made to
20 North America. And today, according to the
21 Census Bureau, Irish-Americans live in all
22 3,142 U.S. counties, and the 31.5 million
23 Americans of Irish ancestry make up almost
24 10 percent of our nation's population.
25 On top of that, half of all U.S.
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1 presidents, including President Biden, can trace
2 some of their roots back to the Emerald Isle.
3 Needless to say, Irish-Americans
4 have left their mark on our country.
5 From the hundreds of thousands of
6 Irish-Americans who fought to preserve the Union
7 and end slavery in the Civil War, to the workers
8 who built New York's railroads, canals, ports,
9 subways, grain elevators and skyscrapers, today's
10 Irish-Americans have a proud legacy to look back
11 at and to build upon.
12 In Western New York, we celebrate
13 the Fenian Invasion, which fired some of the
14 first shots in the fight for Irish independence
15 when groups of Irish rode across the
16 Niagara River from Buffalo and attacked the
17 British fortifications in Canada in 1866, in an
18 effort to pull British forces out of Ireland, on
19 the other side of the pond.
20 And today, as an Irish-American, I
21 continue to work personally to strengthen ties
22 between our two nations, to educate my children
23 on their own heritage, and to celebrate the
24 impact that Irish-Americans have made on our
25 community, our state, and our nation.
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1 This Thursday, March 17th, hundreds
2 of thousands of New York City residents will
3 gather for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade,
4 and this weekend tens of thousands of
5 Western New Yorkers will join together for both
6 the Old Neighborhood St. Patrick's Day Parade in
7 the Old First Ward and Valley neighborhoods, as
8 well as the Downtown Parade on Sunday. These
9 mark just a few of the parades and celebrations
10 happening throughout our great state.
11 To all those who are celebrating, I
12 say: "Beannachtaí na Féile Padráig dhuit agus
13 guím an t-ádh leat an gcuid eile don bhliain
14 seo." St. Patrick's Day blessings to you, and
15 may good luck go with you for the rest of the
16 year.
17 Mr. President, I wish you and all of
18 my colleagues and all those in this great state a
19 happy St. Patrick's Day.
20 Thank you.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Thank
22 you, Senator Kennedy.
23 Senator Mannion on the resolution.
24 SENATOR MANNION: Thank you,
25 Mr. President.
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1 Thank you, Senator Kennedy, for
2 advancing this resolution.
3 I think there are many stories of
4 the American dream and there are great stories of
5 the Irish-American dream, and many of those,
6 considering the world's events currently, are
7 very relevant.
8 So this is my American dream. It
9 started with my grandfather leaving the island of
10 Ireland in 1916, avoiding conscription and
11 drafting into the British army.
12 He came to this country, fought
13 proudly for his new country, the United States of
14 America, in World War One. And when it
15 concluded, he went back to Ireland, married my
16 grandmother, Catherine Spellman, and came to
17 Syracuse, New York, where there were good jobs
18 making luxury automobiles at Franklin Automobile,
19 now the site of Fowler PSLA High School.
20 Things were good for my family, and
21 it provided a great base for our American dream.
22 But it didn't come without challenges. The Great
23 Depression hit. My grandfather lost his job and,
24 shortly after that, he died of mouth cancer,
25 leaving four children behind, my father the
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1 second oldest -- three boys and the youngest
2 daughter having Down syndrome.
3 Everyone went to work immediately.
4 My father dropped out of school, joined the
5 New York Central Railroad at the age of 16, and
6 retired 42½ years later.
7 But before he took that job, his
8 family was on public assistance. And he shared
9 with me the stories of having to go get -- pick
10 up food that was provided for families on public
11 assistance, and he had to carry a loaf of bread
12 that was in a brown wrapper. And as he walked
13 through my home neighborhood of Tipperary Hill,
14 he was embarrassed by having to carry that loaf
15 and having to project out that his family needed
16 help.
17 So as I sit here in the New York
18 State Senate, just two -- just one generation
19 from my father, who left public assistance with
20 success, the American dream that we help
21 New Yorkers achieve on a day-to-day basis -- I'm
22 proud to sit here.
23 I'm proud to support this
24 resolution. I'm proud to be a graduate of
25 St. Patrick's School. I'm proud to be a
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1 parishioner at St. Patrick's Church. I'm proud
2 to be a dual citizen of Ireland. And I am proud
3 to stand here today in recognition of the great
4 accomplishments of Irish-Americans.
5 Thank you, Mr. President.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Thank
7 you, Senator Mannion.
8 Senator Savino on the resolution.
9 SENATOR SAVINO: Thank you,
10 Mr. President.
11 I rise today in support of my good
12 colleague here Senator Kennedy's resolution as a
13 proud Irish-American -- although no one ever
14 believes me. In fact, last night when I joined
15 Senator Kennedy and others at the AOH for dinner,
16 I had to show my DNA, my 23 and Me, to prove that
17 I am in fact 52 percent Irish. More Irish, in
18 fact, than I am Italian.
19 But like many children of Ireland,
20 daughters of Ireland, my journey, my family's
21 journey started many generations ago. In fact,
22 during the Famine, as they say, the diaspora, if
23 you were Irish, if you had any money, you came to
24 America. If you had a wee bit of money, you went
25 to England, like my grandmother's family did.
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1 And if you had no money, you went to Glasgow,
2 like my grandfather's family did. That's how the
3 Irish went.
4 My grandparents, though, at the age
5 of 16 and 18, left home, came to America -- now,
6 think about that. A 16-year-old girl left home
7 on her own. I have a 16-year-old niece. She
8 can't go to the mall by herself.
9 (Laughter.)
10 SENATOR SAVINO: But both of them
11 left England and Scotland to come to the
12 United States for a better life for themselves,
13 to build a life, like immigrants do today. And
14 you think of the fortitude of that.
15 And they came here for a variety of
16 reasons. I remember my grandfather would tell me
17 he left Glasgow because the future for a young
18 Irishman in Glasgow was you were going to work in
19 the shipyards, and the likelihood is you were
20 going to die young in the shipyards of Glasgow.
21 And so he came to New York, and he
22 wound up working in the shipyards of Brooklyn.
23 But the difference between here and there was he
24 had a union in the shipyards of Brooklyn, and he
25 worked there for a very long time and he earned a
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1 really good living, and he raised a family.
2 And he met my grandmother along the
3 way. She was working first at Wanamaker's, and
4 then she worked at the Hotel Astor as a
5 coat-check girl, and she loved that job. And
6 then eventually she worked, you know, for the
7 Irving Trust Company, working at night. And she
8 raised three daughters.
9 And like so many Irish-Americans who
10 lived in the outer boroughs, they raised a family
11 successfully, and then they watched their
12 children marry Italians.
13 (Laughter.)
14 SENATOR SAVINO: You know, as they
15 say, similar enough to be comfortable and
16 different enough to be exotic.
17 But that was the continuing diaspora
18 of Irish-Americans.
19 I am as proud of both of my
20 heritages as I possibly can be. And for those of
21 you who spend some time around me, you say to
22 yourself: Hmm, she really is Irish. I have the
23 gift of gab.
24 And when people say, you know, "That
25 fiery temper you have, that must be the Italian
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1 in you," I say, "Oh, no, it's not. It is the
2 Celt in me that will kick your butt."
3 (Laughter.)
4 SENATOR SAVINO: So today as we
5 celebrate St. Patrick's Week, St. Patrick's
6 Month, I want to wish all of you, who I know each
7 and every one of you has a little bit of Irish in
8 you, you have to -- even you, Senator Bailey,
9 even though you don't think you do -- a happy
10 St. Patrick's Day. On behalf of all of us, we
11 are Irish always.
12 And as we say, American first, Irish
13 always. Thank you.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Thank
15 you, Senator Savino.
16 Senator Helming on the resolution.
17 SENATOR HELMING: Thank you,
18 Mr. President.
19 During the 19th and 20th centuries,
20 millions of Irish immigrants provided the
21 workforce here in the United States that was
22 needed to help drive our country into the modern
23 world as we know it. Many of these immigrants
24 went straight into construction. They helped to
25 build the skyscrapers, the bridges, the roads and
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1 the highways that still stand today.
2 They and their descendants have made
3 incalculable contributions. For instance,
4 Mary Harris, later known as Mother Jones,
5 committed more than 50 years of her life to
6 unionizing workers in various occupations
7 throughout the country.
8 Irish-Americans today continue to
9 build upon the work and success of our ancestors.
10 We continue to be active and successful
11 contributors in politics, industry, organized
12 labor, religion, literature, music, food and art.
13 I'm proud of my Irish-American roots
14 and, Mr. President, I am proud to support this
15 resolution recognizing St. Patrick's Day and all
16 the amazing accomplishments of my Irish-American
17 ancestors.
18 Thank you.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Thank
20 you, Senator Helming.
21 Thank you, Senator Kennedy, for
22 allowing me to be an honorary Irishman for the
23 day.
24 The resolution was previously
25 adopted on March 8th.
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1 Senator Gianaris.
2 SENATOR GIANARIS: Mr. President,
3 Senator Kennedy would like to open this
4 resolution for cosponsorship.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The
6 resolution is open for cosponsorship. Should you
7 choose not to be a cosponsor of the resolution,
8 please notify the desk.
9 Senator Gianaris.
10 SENATOR GIANARIS: Let's take up
11 the calendar, please.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The
13 Secretary will read.
14 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 92,
15 Senate Print 2004, by Senator Jackson, an act to
16 amend the Public Officers Law.
17 SENATOR GIANARIS: Lay it aside for
18 the day.
19 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
20 will be laid aside for the day.
21 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number 94,
22 Senate Print 2725, by Senator Krueger, an act to
23 amend the Legislative Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
25 last section.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
2 act shall take effect immediately.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
7 the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
9 Calendar Number 94, those Senators voting in the
10 negative are Senators Akshar, Gallivan, Helming,
11 Jordan, Oberacker and Ortt.
12 Ayes, 57. Nays, 6.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 263, Senate Print 5236B, by Senator Kennedy, an
17 act to amend the Executive Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
21 act shall take effect immediately.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
23 roll.
24 (The Secretary called the roll.)
25 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
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1 the results.
2 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
3 Calendar Number 263, those Senators voting in the
4 negative are Senators Akshar, Borrello, Gallivan,
5 Griffo, Helming, Jordan, Lanza, Martucci,
6 Mattera, Oberacker, O'Mara, Ortt, Palumbo, Rath,
7 Ritchie, Stec, Tedisco and Weik.
8 Ayes, 45. Nays, 18.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
10 is passed.
11 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
12 385, Senate Print 3120, by Senator Kavanagh, an
13 act authorizing and directing the Committee on
14 Open Government to study proactive disclosure as
15 a means of increasing transparency and access to
16 government information.
17 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
18 last section.
19 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
20 act shall take effect immediately.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
22 roll.
23 (The Secretary called the roll.)
24 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
25 the results.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
2 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
3 is passed.
4 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
5 601, Senate Print 6616, by Senator Skoufis, an
6 act to amend the State Finance Law.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
8 last section.
9 THE SECRETARY: Section 4. This
10 act shall take effect one year after it shall
11 have become a law.
12 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
13 roll.
14 (The Secretary called the roll.)
15 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
16 the results.
17 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 604, Senate Print 8086, by Senator
22 Reichlin-Melnick, an act to require the Office of
23 the State Comptroller to conduct a study on all
24 contracts entered into by the Executive.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
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1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 3. This
3 act shall take effect on the 30th day after it
4 shall have become a law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Senator
9 Reichlin-Melnick to explain his vote.
10 SENATOR REICHLIN-MELNICK: Thank
11 you very much, Mr. President.
12 You know, transparency is critical
13 to the foundation of our democracy. The
14 separation of powers doctrine empowers the
15 New York State Comptroller, who is elected by the
16 people, to be the financial watchdog for our
17 state, and it's his role to review any contracts
18 that the Governor enters into to make sure that
19 the taxpayer isn't getting a raw deal.
20 During the prolonged COVID-19
21 pandemic, the former governor used his executive
22 emergency authority to exempt contracts from two
23 critical sections of the State Finance Law,
24 Sections 112 and 163 that provide for oversight
25 by our State Comptroller.
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1 That's why my bill will empower the
2 Comptroller to retroactively review those
3 contracts that should have been within his
4 purview to review in the first place.
5 Now, rightfully, in the middle of a
6 statewide disaster emergency, it does make sense
7 the Governor should be able to quickly and
8 efficiently enter into a contract for the
9 betterment of the state without waiting for the
10 bureaucratic process of Comptroller review.
11 However, during extended state
12 disaster emergencies like the one we've been
13 living through and we lived through during the
14 past years due to COVID, there is no good reason
15 to withhold the Comptroller's authority to review
16 those contracts for such an extended period of
17 time.
18 And so as chair of the Procurement
19 and Contracts Committee, I am keenly aware of the
20 importance of checks and balances and government
21 transparency. So this bill will direct the
22 Executive and state agencies and authorities to
23 provide the Comptroller with any information he
24 may need and his office may need in order to
25 carry out the study to support efforts to improve
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1 transparency for emergency contracts going
2 forward.
3 I was also heartened to see that the
4 Senate one-house budget yesterday removed
5 language that would limit the Comptroller's
6 oversight, sending a message to the people of
7 New York that our government is more transparent
8 and open today than it ever was under our former
9 governor.
10 I vote aye.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Senator
12 Reichlin-Melnick to be recorded in the
13 affirmative.
14 Announce the results.
15 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
17 is passed.
18 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
19 605, Senate Print 8145, by Senator Skoufis, an
20 act to amend the Executive Law.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
22 last section.
23 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
24 act shall take effect April 1, 2023.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
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1 roll.
2 (The Secretary called the roll.)
3 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
4 the results.
5 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
6 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
7 is passed.
8 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
9 606, Senate Print 344, by Senator Kaplan, an act
10 to amend the State Administrative Procedure Act.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
12 last section.
13 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
14 act shall take effect on the 60th day after it
15 shall have become a law.
16 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
17 roll.
18 (The Secretary called the roll.)
19 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
20 the results.
21 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
22 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
23 is passed.
24 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
25 615, Senate Print 1405, by Senator Serrano, an
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1 act to amend the Parks, Recreation and Historic
2 Preservation Law.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
4 last section.
5 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
6 act shall take effect immediately.
7 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
8 roll.
9 (The Secretary called the roll.)
10 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
11 the results.
12 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
13 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
14 is passed.
15 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
16 635, Senate Print 1333, by Senator Krueger, an
17 act to amend the Executive Law.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
19 last section.
20 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
21 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
22 shall have become a law.
23 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
24 roll.
25 (The Secretary called the roll.)
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Senator
2 Krueger to explain her vote.
3 SENATOR KRUEGER: Thank you,
4 Mr. President.
5 I rise to urge my colleagues to vote
6 for this bill.
7 I've already heard today and much of
8 yesterday the importance we all agree on of
9 transparency in our government -- transparency of
10 our laws, transparency of our programs. And this
11 bill would expand transparency of tracking the
12 revenues and expenditures in the State Budget by
13 having a database where anyone in the State of
14 New York can go and see what monies are being
15 collected, what monies are being spent and for
16 what purposes.
17 So I really think this is valuable
18 in endless kinds of ways to all of us, and urge
19 both houses to vote for this bill.
20 Thank you, Mr. President.
21 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Senator
22 Krueger to be recorded in the affirmative.
23 Announce the results.
24 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
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1 is passed.
2 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
3 636, Senate Print 2969A, by Senator Harckham, an
4 act to amend the Tax Law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
6 last section.
7 THE SECRETARY: Section 5. This
8 act shall take effect July 1, 2022.
9 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
10 roll.
11 (The Secretary called the roll.)
12 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
13 the results.
14 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
15 Calendar Number 636, voting in the negative:
16 Senator Akshar.
17 Ayes, 62. Nays, 1.
18 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
19 is passed.
20 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
21 644, Senate Print 3256, by Senator Comrie, an act
22 to amend the General Municipal Law and the
23 Public Authorities Law.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
25 last section.
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1 THE SECRETARY: Section 7. This
2 act shall take effect on the first of January.
3 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
4 roll.
5 (The Secretary called the roll.)
6 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
7 the results.
8 THE SECRETARY: In relation to
9 Calendar 644, those Senators voting in the
10 negative are Senators Akshar, Borrello, Griffo,
11 Oberacker, O'Mara, Ortt, Rath, Ritchie and
12 Serino.
13 Ayes, 54. Nays, 9.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
15 is passed.
16 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
17 648, Assembly Print Number 9146, by
18 Assemblymember Otis, an act to amend Chapter 618
19 of the Laws of 1998.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
21 last section.
22 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
23 act shall take effect immediately.
24 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
25 roll.
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1 (The Secretary called the roll.)
2 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
3 the results.
4 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
6 is passed.
7 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
8 661, Senate Print 3579A, by Senator Breslin, an
9 act to amend the Insurance Law.
10 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
11 last section.
12 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
13 act shall take effect immediately.
14 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
15 roll.
16 (The Secretary called the roll.)
17 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
18 the results.
19 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
20 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
21 is passed.
22 THE SECRETARY: Calendar Number
23 676, Senate Print 1667, by Senator Skoufis, an
24 act to amend the Public Officers Law.
25 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Read the
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1 last section.
2 THE SECRETARY: Section 2. This
3 act shall take effect on the 90th day after it
4 shall have become a law.
5 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Call the
6 roll.
7 (The Secretary called the roll.)
8 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: Announce
9 the results.
10 THE SECRETARY: Ayes, 63.
11 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: The bill
12 is passed.
13 Senator Gianaris, that completes the
14 reading of today's calendar.
15 SENATOR GIANARIS: Mr. President,
16 is there any further business at the desk?
17 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: There is
18 no further business at the desk.
19 SENATOR GIANARIS: Move to adjourn
20 until Monday -- I'm sorry -- yeah, Monday,
21 March 21st --
22 (Laughter.)
23 SENATOR GIANARIS: -- at
24 3:00 p.m., intervening days being legislative
25 days.
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1 ACTING PRESIDENT BAILEY: On
2 motion, the Senate stands adjourned until Monday,
3 March 21st, at 3:00 p.m., with the intervening
4 days being legislative.
5 (Whereupon, at 11:40 a.m., the
6 Senate adjourned.)
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