Schneiderman Bill Extends Equal Environmental Protection To Every New Yorker
In a major victory for equality, the state Senate overwhelmingly passed an environmental justice bill today. The legislation (S4407), sponsored by Senator Eric T. Schneiderman (D-Manhattan/Bronx), declares a policy of equal treatment of people of all races, cultures, religions, incomes, education levels and sexual orientation in the development and enforcement of environmental...
The Rev. Al Sharpton, Senator Eric T. Schneiderman and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries joined forces with a statewide coalition today to announce a new organizing campaign plan to end prison-based gerrymandering in New York State before the 2010 Census.
The coalition’s goal is to organize across the state to pass Senator Schneiderman’s bill that would require New York State to count incarcerated persons...
Schneiderman bill includes stricter campaign finance rules and greater penalties for violations, increased disclosure of outside income for legislators, enhancements to the lobby law, strengthened legislative and executive oversight
In an historic victory for public integrity, the State Senate passed sweeping ethics and election law reform by a vote of 59-1. The legislation (S.6457) I sponsored includes provisions that would require greater disclosure from lobbyists and lobbying clients, create an investigative body for legislative ethics, restore...
The Special Committee of Inquiry, chaired by Senator Eric T. Schneiderman, to investigate the conduct for which Senator Hiram Monserrate was convicted by the State Supreme Court of Queens County, today released its final report with recommendations.
In its report, the Committee finds that the nature and seriousness of Senator Monserrate's conduct, as demonstrated by the surveillance video and the other unrebutted evidence, showed a reckless disregard for his partner, Karla Giraldo's well-being and for the...
In his first press conference since being exonerated after serving 18 years for a crime he did not commit, Fernando Bermudez joined me, Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan), civil rights advocates and elected officials to endorse the "Actual innocence Act." This legislation establishes "actual innocence" as a lawful basis for vacating a prior conviction, giving the wrongfully convicted an opportunity to directly...
It's official - the Rockefeller drug law reforms are in effect. Now, the failed drug policies of the past are replaced with a smarter approach that will make our communities stronger and safer.
For 35 years, the Rockefeller Drug Laws were a one-size-fits-all punitive approach that failed to allow for the rehabilitation of non-violent addicted offenders and wasted billions of dollars. They devastated families and tore communities apart. As a result of the Rockefeller laws, the...
I proudly introduced Ian's Law in the New York State Senate to protect patients from egregious insurance industry practices. Among other things, it makes it illegal for insurers to drop entire classes of insurance as a pretext to deny coverage to individual policyholders.
The bill is named for Ian Pearl, a 37-year-old man with muscular dystrophy who lost his insurance when Guardian...
In its preliminary 2009 Voters' Guide, Environmental Advocates named Senator Eric T. Schneiderman (D-Manhattan/Bronx) the greenest Senator in New York. The rating from the statewide advocacy group is based on Sen. Schneiderman's support for green bills and opposition to bills that have a negative environmental impact.
"To me, this ranking is a badge of honor. Now is the time to break the short-sighted political dialogue on this issue and seize the opportunities of the green economy,"...
State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman, Assemblymember Adriano Espaillat and City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez were joined by Northern Manhattan public officials and community leaders at a press conference on St. Nicholas Avenue and West 186th Street to announce proposed State legislation that cracks down on the sale of alcohol without an appropriate license. The announcement comes on the heels of recent investigations, including one by the Daily...
An editorial in today's Newsday called on the State Senate to pass my legislation requiring firearm microstamping in New York State. Microstamping ensures that when a gun is fired, information identifying the make, model and serial number of the gun is stamped onto the cartridge as numbers and letters. This technology allows law enforcement officials to trace firearms through cartridge casings found at crime scenes, even if the crime gun is never found....
Last year, the Nation magazine published an article I authored entitled, “Transforming the Liberal Checklist.” The article describes the need for Democrats to engage in transformational politics as part of our long term progressive strategy. As I argued in the column, the necessity to focus on transformational politics is obvious when we compare the success of the conservative movement over the past thirty years with the collapse of the American progressive coalition.
