Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Legislation topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Senate adopts Canada Day, Recovery Month resolutions and passes multiple bills on Feb. 3 calendar
Summary
The New York State Senate adopted two ceremonial resolutions and cleared a lengthy calendar Feb. 3, approving a series of bills across public health, education, corrections and tax law; roll-call tallies were announced on the floor for each item.
The New York State Senate on Feb. 3 adopted two resolutions honoring Canada Day and Recovery Month and approved a series of bills on its calendar spanning public health, corrections, education, insurance and tax law.
Resolution 297, introduced by Senator Cooney, asked the governor to proclaim Feb. 4, 2025, as Canada Day in New York; the floor adopted the resolution after remarks from Cooney and recognition of visiting Canadian officials. Resolution 301, introduced by Senator Fernandez, asked the governor to proclaim September 2025 as Recovery Month; Fernandez urged increased funding for treatment and harm-reduction services. Both resolutions were adopted by voice vote as read on the floor.
On the calendar, the clerk read several bills and the Senate recorded roll-call results as each item was taken up. Highlights from the transcript (bill identifiers, short descriptions as read on the calendar, and announced results):
- Calendar 33 — Assembly bill 1019 (public health law): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 35 — Senate print 760 (insurance law): announced result Ayes 60, Nays 1 (Senator Walzick named as voting nay); bill passed.
- Calendar 37 — Assembly bill 927 (public health law): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 38 — Assembly bill 1676 (correction law): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 39 — Assembly bill 1468 (public health law): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 41 — Assembly bill 424 (banking law): announced result Ayes 49, Nays 12; bill passed.
- Calendar 42 — Senate print 2250 (correction law): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 49 — Assembly bill 752 (education law): announced result Ayes 57, Nays 4 (Chan, Oberaker, O'Mara, Ort named); bill passed.
- Calendar 139 — Senate print 265 (real property tax services/related): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 149 — Senate print 2124 (parks, recreation and historic preservation/tax law tie): announced result Ayes 60, Nays 1; bill passed.
- Calendar 164 — Senate print 3190 (real property tax law): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
- Calendar 171 — Senate print 1157 (private housing finance law; First Home Savings Program): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed (see separate item for sponsor remarks).
- Calendar 173 — Senate print 2534 (administrative code amendment for New York City): announced result Ayes 61; bill passed.
Other calendar items were called and announced passed with various roll-call tallies recorded on the floor as read. The transcript records the clerk or presiding officer announcing each result; where the transcript garbled names or tallies, this listing reports the vote results as announced on the record. The Senate adjourned until Feb. 5 at noon.
Votes at a glance above reflect the roll-call announcements captured in the public transcript; the text of each bill and any fiscal notes provide fuller details not recorded verbatim in the floor reading.
