Savino named vice chairman of key committees
Lawmaker to lead Finance, Codes panels
State Sen. Diane Savino is going to have a seat at the head of the table when key decisions are made about how New York state spends its money and how it cracks down on crime.
Savino (D-Coney Island-Bensonhurst, Staten Island) has been named to serve as vice chairman of two important state Senate committees: Codes and Finance. State Sen. Andrew Lanza, a Republican, is chairman of the Codes Committee. Another Republican, Catharine Young, will head the Finance Committeee with Savino.
The appointments were announced last week by the Senate Majority Coalition Leaders, Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan and Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) Leader Jeffrey Klein. Savino is a founding member of the IDC, a group formed in 2011 when Klein, Savino and other Democrats broke away from Democratic leaders in the state Senate to form their own caucus.