KRUEGER’S BILLS SEE LIGHT OF DAY

After years of being in the minority, and a month of being in a deadlocked chamber, State Sen. Liz Krueger finally got to celebrate the passage of legislation she has championed.

After the State Senate stalemate was resolved, the chamber passed rules reform legislation. Krueger has long pushed for such reform in the Senate, even as she ran to unseat longtime Upper East Side GOP incumbent Roy Goodman. In 2005, Krueger sued the State Legislature to implement changes to its operation.

“I am proud that these reforms are the culmination of all that transpired,” Krueger said, referring to the Senate Republican coup and subsequent stalemate. “After seven years as a minority Senator and just six months in the majority, these reforms are especially gratifying.”

The changes impose, among other rules, eight-year terms for Senate leaders and committee chairs and an equal distribution of office resources. They also strengthen the power of individual senators to bring a bill to a vote.

Soon after the rules reform, the Senate passed Krueger’s Breastfeeding Mothers’ Bill of Rights. That legislation mandates that new mothers be informed of their breastfeeding options. The bill also bans baby formula companies from lobbying new mothers while in maternal facilities.

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