GOP wages 11th hour fight for human trafficking crackdown bill
In the waning days of the legislative session in Albany, state lawmakers were a whirlwind of activity, running around, advocating for various bills and hoping that their proposed legislation made the final cut.
With the session’s June 19 end in plain sight, Republicans from New York City, like Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-C-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) and state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-C-Staten Island) were busy waging an 11th hour effort to try to get the assembly to pass a bill that would add more prison time to anyone convicted of human trafficking.
Both Malliotakis and Lanza took part in a rally at the State Capitol on June 17 calling on the Democratic-led assembly to pass the bill before the legislative session ends. The Republican-led senate unanimously approved the legislation, which Lanza sponsored, last week.