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Otis Explains Commercial Tenants Bill
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Otis: Businesses Get Their Day in Court vs. Landlords
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Otis Legislation Makes Parking Tickets an Accusatory Instrument
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caption: 'April 1, 2019<br />Assemblyman Otis highlights an additional $500 million towards water quality programs for the 2019-20 FY. This is the first installment of a new five-year, $2.5 billion program to address water quality issues proposed by Governor Cuomo, and will supplement the 2017, five-year, $2.5 billion program that is already bringing important grant money to local governments under Water Infrastructure Improvement Act (WIIA) that Otis helped to create in 2015 (<a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A02004&term=2019&Summary=Y\">A.2004-C</a>)',
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Otis: Capital Budget Provides for Clean Water Around NY
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Otis: Budget Offers Significant Water Grant Funding
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caption: 'February 6, 2019<br />Assemblyman Steven Otis asks questions of MaryEllen Elia, Commissioner of NYS Department of Education, about speeding up the process for school districts to get their building plans approved, while participating in a joint Senate and Assembly hearing to determine the 2019-2020 Executive Budget's effect on Elementary and Secondary Education in the State of New York.<br /> ',
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Otis Asks for Suggestions to Improve Building Plan Approvals
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Otis Discussing Metro North and Overcrowding
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caption: 'January 23, 2019<br />"The most searing and disturbing of these reversals is the one that relates to violence against individuals based upon bias-hate crimes on the rise," said Assemblymember Otis, who today stood to give support to an Assembly Resolution honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (<a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=K00048&term=2019&Summary=Y&Text=Y\">K.48</a>)<br /> ',
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Otis Fights to Stop the Reversal of Equality
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Otis Questions Natural Gas Moratorium in Westchester Co.
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caption: 'January 22, 2019<br />"Here in Albany today, we are having to explain why women should be in control of their own medical decisions, truly unbelievable. But we're here and we're doing the right thing in New York State, across the country other states are trying to go in the wrong direction and the supreme court is trying to go the wrong direction… New York can again be proud that we are standing up for women," said Assemblymember Otis explaining his support for enacting New York's new Reproductive Health Act. <a href=\"https://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A00021&term=2019&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A0021</a><br /> ',
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Otis Fights for Every Woman's Right to Choose
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caption: 'June 19, 2018<br />"Employees and volunteers at child-care facilities, for them there is a duty in the law, when giving references and background information, a duty in the law be to be accurate. But for caregivers coming into the home, there is no such duty in the law. The legislation before you today corrects that. This is an important step in making children and families safer," said Assemblyman Steve Otis, author of legislation that would enact Lulu and Leo's Law, which establishes the crime of misrepresentation by, or on behalf of, a caregiver for children when a person knowingly makes a misrepresentation about a caregiver's background. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=11125c&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A.11125-A</a>)<br /> ',
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Otis: Lulu and Leo's Law Closes Caregiver Loophole
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caption: 'May 29, 2018<br />"I would like to see a significant percentage of the people that are out, back in power within 48 hours. Certainly, under certain storms… 48 hours is not going to get you 100%, and what percent that should reasonably get you is something we should tackle… I think the model that you have setup through the regulations and that we have set up through the legislature, needs to include that kind of rigor, so that the public and the businesses that are out for extended periods of time, know that the utility companies have a higher burden that we as a state should require," said Assemblyman Otis to Thomas Congdon, the Executive Deputy for the Department of Public Services. The Assemblyman's comments came during a Public Hearing on the response of utilities to winter storms in the Hudson Valley.<br /> ',
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Otis Proposes Storm Restoration Standards
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Otis Questions Con Ed Executives on Storm Response
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Otis Supports Empowering Local School Districts
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Water Infrastructure Improvement Act
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caption: 'February 14, 2018<br />"The federal government is taking a big risk in this policy not just on Long Island but around the country because, what is at stake is on Long Island, our way of life, our economy, our recreational resource, our environment…the idea that you have this high-risk activity off the coast of Long Island and what that would mean, the impact that would be on the economy of this state, we would call that negligent by any measure," said Assemblyman Steven Otis during the public hearing held by the Assembly's Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation, Commission On Toxic Substances And Hazardous Wastes and the Assembly Long Island Sound Task Force to examine the impacts of a federal offshore natural gas and oil lease authorization on New York's environment<br /> ',
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Protecting New York's Environment
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Teacher Evaluation Update Inquiry
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Impact of Limited Funding to 4201 Schools
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Metro North Service
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Pedestrian Safety, Broadband and Long Island Sound Crossing
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Otis Asks About Expansion of Cashless Tolling
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caption: 'January 10, 2018<br />"Getting a local match for that grant…maybe you would have a sense of how big a problem that is? Are there libraries that are not applying because of the match requirements and should we be looking at more flexibility in that area to make sure that libraries that really need the money that have tight budgets have some access to the program?" asked Assemblyman Steven Otis, questioning MaryEllen Elia, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, and Mark Schaming, Cultural Education Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, at a public hearing held by the Assembly Standing Committee on Libraries and Technology to review the impact and effectiveness of funding of libraries in New York State including funding for library construction and the allocation of State Aid to libraries. <a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/publichearing/20171121.pdf\">PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE</a><br /> ',
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Otis Asks About Helping Libraries Obtain Local Matches for Grants
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Otis Inquires About Funding for Local Libraries
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caption: 'June19, 2017<br />"This follows on legislation that I sponsored last year that was signed into law to require all unidentified remains be reported to NamUs. Now, we're expanding this to include all missing person cases. NamUs is the federal database that family and friends use with law enforcement to try to solve those cases and provide closure," said Assemblyman Steven Otis, who authored legislation that requires missing persons reports be sent to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) when a person has been missing for 30 days. (<a href=\"http://nyassembly.gov/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=8286&term=2017&Summary=Y&Memo=Y\">A-8286B</a>)<br /> ',
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NamUs Mandatory for Missing Persons
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Otis Supports Early Voting Bill
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Amtrak Infrastructure Renewal Program Public Hearing
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$2 Billion Proposed for Clean Water
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Otis supports the Department of Environmental Conservation
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Assemblymember Otis questions New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Rose Harvey
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Funding Clean Water Initiatives
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Otis Municipal Clean Water Grant Proposal
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Assemblyman Otis Discusses Increased Penalties for Stealing Pets
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Otis calls Common Core rollout significantly flawed
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MTA Derailment
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Otis Calls New Haven Metro North Service Line a Crisis
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Otis questions the NYS Thruway Director on speeding and toll collection along the I-95 corridor
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Otis Questions DEC Chief on Mandated Sewer Costs
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Otis Calls Upon MTA to Improve Service
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Soccer Goal Safety
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Local Bills for Taxpayer Savings
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The Assembly Passes Equal Pay Legislation
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2013 Budget Review
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Minimum Wage Increase Passed
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School Budget
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