ALBANY, N.Y.—While hundreds of public education supporters jammed Capitol stairwells Monday calling for more state support, New York’s Republican-controlled Senate approved eight bills intended to ensure women’s rights in the workplace and housing while excluding an Assembly-backed ninth measure to codify abortion rights.
The Senate’s 62-0 vote on each of the eight bills highlighted a divide that kept all nine measures effectively stalled last year when the upper chamber passed each one separately but the Assembly kept all nine in one package.
The Assembly leader, emphasizing on Monday the need to establish in state law the abortion rights New York women currently have under court rulings, signaled a possible repeat this year of the stalemate.
NY Senate OKs Women’s Rights Bills; Schools Provoke Debate
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Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean in the Senate Chamber at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. The Republican-controlled Senate has approved eight bills intended to ensure women's rights in the workplace and housing. AP Photo/Mike Groll
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