Bills to ban sales of 'ghost guns,' expedite counting of absentee ballots in elections and enable sexual-abuse victims to sue their attackers are expected at the end of the New York state legislative session this week in Albany
Several gun-control measures, judicial nominations and a bill letting sexual-abuse victims sue their attackers are on New York state lawmakers’ to-do lists as they wrap up their annual legislative session this week in Albany.
Advocates are pushing Democrats who dominate the state Assembly and Senate to take up a series of measures, some of which have already cleared one legislative house, before the lawmakers’ scheduled adjournment on Thursday. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told Democratic members in a Thursday afternoon conference that the chamber planned to vote on bills that would jump-start the process of counting absentee ballots in elections and prohibit the sale ofBut several other measures remain up in the air, Assembly members said, including changes to parole laws designed to move people out of jail, and a bill that would extend the...
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