[NYAPRS Enews] GN: Senate's Special Session Agenda Includes T-Law/PTSD Bill

[Matt Canuteson]

NYAPRS Note: Last week New York State Senate leadership released a
tentative agenda for the Senate's special session that is scheduled to
take place this Thursday at 10am. The agenda includes a number of bills
dealing with appointments, ethics reform, and a green jobs initiative.

We are also happy to report that the agenda includes S.185 (Morahan),
legislation designed to add PTSD coverage under New York's Timothy's
Law. 

 

Senate To Take Up Ethics Reform In Next Week's Session

Cara Matthews Gannett News September 4th 2009

The Senate just put out its draft agenda for its special session
Thursday, and legislation to enact "comprehensive ethics oversight" tops
a four-page list of bills they plan to take up. The bill passed the
Assembly earlier this year and is sponsored by Sen. Daniel Squadron,
D-Brooklyn, in that chamber.

The legislation would establish a new, independent state commission to
monitor lobbying ethics and compliance, an Executive Ethics and
Compliance Commission to govern the executive branch (to replace the
Commission on Public Integrity) and a Joint Legislative Commission on
Ethics Standards to replace the Legislative Ethics Commission. It would
establish a new "Legislative Office of Ethics Investigations" and would
change state law to make more information on legislative ethics forms
public.

Other legislation on the agenda would expand the number of Family Court
judges in New York, establish stronger penalties for murdering a child,
develop a home-ownership program, set up a volunteer and emergency
services recruitment and retention fund, ban airport hustling and expand
Timothy's Law for mental-health treatment to include post-traumatic
stress disorder as a biologically based condition that has to be treated
under the law.

Legislative Agenda for September 10
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/19432455/Legislative-Agenda-for-September-10>


 

 

 

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