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Lawmakers say legislative session will end Wednesday

Jun 20, 2018 6:45 am
Bill Mahoney and Nick Niedzwiadek are reporting for Politico New York the state Legislature is scheduled to adjourn for the year at some point Wed., Jun. 20. “We’re just going ahead with the bills that need to be voted on, and whatever deals are out there, I really don’t know,” said Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco. The Senate quickly voted on 175 bills before adjourning at 10 p.m. Tuesday. The Assembly had voted on 108 measures as of 10:40 p.m., but it was still working its way through a lengthy calendar for the evening. Various uncontroversial items that would allow individual counties and towns to continue charging the amount of sales and hotel occupancy taxes they want still need to be passed. However, the Assembly Tuesday night, began to advance a new bill that would link those tax extender bills to the proposed expansion of traffic cameras in New York City, an issue that has been held up in the Senate. But Assembly members were confident they would come to some sort of an arrangement by the 20th. “I can’t imagine that tax extenders would not happen,” DeFrancisco said. “But as to other things, who knows.” Some significant items that did receive final passage: Legislation that would create a new commission tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct by prosecutors; a bill to increase funding for mandatory costs at public universities; and a measure establishing a sexual assault survivor bill of rights. The Assembly also passed a bill that would reinstate net neutrality at the state level. Read the full story at Politico New York.