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In 2019, Cuomo again called for a conditional amendment to protect abortion rights in the state at an event with Hillary Clinton at Barnard College, after the Democratic Party took back control of the New York State Senate in the 2018 election, and shortly before the passage of the Reproductive Health Act. [12] [13]
The Reproductive Health Act passed the New York State Senate by a vote of 38–24 on January 22, 2019, [12] [2] the 46th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling. The state Assembly passed the Reproductive Health Act, 92–47, on the same day. [13] [14] It was signed into law by Governor Andrew Cuomo that evening. [15]
[1] [2] In January, 2018, the New York State Assembly Standing Committees on Codes, Health, and Alcohol and Drug Abuse opened public hearings on a reintroduced bill. [3] Testimony at the hearings came from those who thought the law would endorse a gateway drug, and those who thought it would decrease opioid abuse . [ 4 ]
New York State Legislature: Jurisdiction: New York, United States: Term: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022: Senate; Members Democratic (43) Republican (20) President: Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), until August 24, 2021; Lt. Gov-designate Brian Benjamin (D) Temporary President: Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D) Party control: Democratic: Assembly; Members
Burke cosponsored Assembly Bill A576, which passed the State Assembly on January 15, 2019 by a vote of 141-7, and passed the State Senate that same day by a vote of 57-4. [16] The bill expanded the Erie County conversion therapy ban to cover the entire state, and was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on January 25, 2019, taking effect immediately ...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani (born October 18, 1991) [1] is a Ugandan-born American democratic socialist politician. [2] He is the representative for the 36th district of the New York State Assembly, in Queens. Mamdani was elected after defeating incumbent Democrat Aravella Simotas in the 2020 primary. [3]
New York state will fine fossil fuel companies a total of $75 billion over the next 25 years to pay for damage caused to the climate under a bill Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law on Thursday.