ALBANY —New York lawmakers want to make it a crime to threaten someone’s immigration status. A measure slated to pass the Assembly this week would guard immigrants against the threat of deportation from employers, landlords or abusive partners who attempt to coerce or extort them. The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages (D-Nassau County), would add deportation proceedings to a .
A measure slated to pass the Assembly this week would guard immigrants against the threat of deportation from employers, landlords or abusive partners who attempt to coerce or extort them.
The top Senate Republican will appoint a new member to the stateâs Independent Redistricting Commission in the coming weeks after one of its 10 commissioners resigned over financial disclosure requirements included in the 2021-22 budget.
George Winner, a Republican former senator and assemblyman who represented parts of the Finger Lakes for 30 years, resigned May 5 from the commission tasked with drawing elective lines after language in the 2021-22 state budget delegates commissioners as legislative employees, which requires them to publicly disclose their financial records.
Winner was initially told because the commission was independent from the Legislature, the 10-member group would not be subject to Section 73-A of state Public Officers Law, which mandates legislative employees file an annual statement of financial disclosure with the legislative ethics commission.
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