This week the New York State Senate passed 15 bills that I introduced.
They include bills that requires vine trimming for the maintenance of utility poles and allow mobile crisis response teams to display green lights on their vehicles when in transit to a behavioral health emergency.
There is Matthew's law, which will let pharmacists and healthcare professionals dispense fentanyl testing kits, and a bill to give a defendant written notice of his or her right to complete court ordered alcohol or substance use treatment in a nonreligious program.
Another of my passed bills will prohibit the application of pesticides to freshwater wetlands—and safeguard our fragile drinking water supplies.
Also passed were my bills to help local municipalities with a variety of issues, like waiving the residency requirement for the commissioner of planning, development, and public transportation for Putnam County; and exempting the Buchanan Engine Company No. 1 in Westchester from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
And there were bills regarding Lyme’s disease, road salt reduction, library budget votes, operation of all-terrain vehicles by minors—all passed.
When I was elected to the State Senate, I promised to work for everybody and get things done.
A productive week, but there is more work to do!
Thank you.
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