Current Office: Senator
First Elected: 11/05/1996
Next Election: 2012
Party: Democratic, Working Families

General

Gender: Male
Family: Wife: Crystal; 1 Child
Birth date: 06/17/1965
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Home City: Brooklyn NY
Religion: Christian

Profession

Attorney, Alter and Barbaro, Esquires, 1993-present Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society, New York, 1991-1993 Department of Environmental Conservation, 1988-1991 Litigation Assistant, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, 1987-1988 Paralegal, Corporation Counsel, New York

Education

JD, Albany Law School, 1991 BA, Political Science, Brooklyn College, 1987

Committees

Rules

S 1707A Authorizes Mixed Martial Arts
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 6735 Amends Pensions for New State Employees
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

A 9525 State Legislative Redistricting
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6733 Expands DNA Database to Include Misdemeanors
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

A 9525 State Legislative Redistricting
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

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S 1707A Authorizes Mixed Martial Arts
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 6735 Amends Pensions for New State Employees
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

A 9525 State Legislative Redistricting
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6733 Expands DNA Database to Include Misdemeanors
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

A 9525 State Legislative Redistricting
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6733 Expands DNA Database to Include Misdemeanors
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

A 9556 Authorizes Casino Gambling
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6733 Expands DNA Database to Include Misdemeanors
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6735 Amends Pensions for New State Employees
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6087-A Authorizes the Use of School Property for Religious Meetings and Worship
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 5560-A Requires DNA Testing of All Persons Convicted of Certain Crimes
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 8354 Marriage Equality Enactment
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 8496 Increasing The Number Of Taxicabs Serving New York
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

A 8354 Marriage Equality Enactment
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 8496 Increasing The Number Of Taxicabs Serving New York
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 5596 Revising The Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 8446 Extension of Rent Control Laws
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 8446 Extension of Rent Control Laws
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 5596 Revising The Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 1707 Authorization of Mixed Martial Arts Events
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2808 Implementing the Education, Labor, and Family Assistance Budget
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 3331 Constitutional Amendment for Non-Partisan Redistricting Commission
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 2706 Limitations on Tax Levies
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2707 Funding State Mandated Programs
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 1891 New York Jobs Tax Credit
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 1892 Limiting State Spending
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 1919 Amends Rules for Legislature
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 9710D 2010-2011 Budget Financing
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8129B Suspending Hydraulic Fracturing for the Extraction of Natural Gas
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 9703 2010-2011 Education, Labor, and Family Assistance Budget
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 1523 Allowing Unmarried Partners to Adopt a Child
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 9709 Omnibus Appropriations
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 9705 2010-2011 Transportation, Economic Development, and Environmental Conservation Budget
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 9709 Omnibus Appropriations
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 9705 2010-2011 Transportation, Economic Development, and Environmental Conservation Budget
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2165B Allows Mixed Martial Arts Performances and Ultimate Fighting
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 5620 Reducing Drug Penalties for Offenders with Hypodermic Syringes
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 3890 Divorce Law Amendments
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 5620 Reducing Drug Penalties for Offenders with Hypodermic Syringes
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8167 Emergency Appropriation Extension
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8089 Emergency Appropriation Extension
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2311D Labor Standards for Domestic Workers
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 11308 Emergency State Parks Appropriations
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 11310 Education Law Amendments Concerning Charter Schools
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 11308 Emergency State Parks Appropriations
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 7846 Emergency Appropriations
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 7777 Emergency Appropriations
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 7678 Amending Charter School Cap
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

R 3904 Expelling Senator Hiram Monserrate from the Senate
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 9544 Election and Campaign Finance Ethics Amendments
Stage: Override of Veto
Vote: Yea

A 9544
Stage: Passage
Vote: Z

A 40022 2009-2010 Budget Amendments
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 40003 Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 8903-A Extending City Board Jurisdiction Over New York City Schools
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 8501 Government Consolidation Bill
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 2020 SUNY Buffalo Education Bill
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 8501 Government Consolidation Bill
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 1363 Tenants' Protection In Foreclosure
Stage: Passage With Amendment
Vote: Yea

A 8180 Supplemental Fees and Taxes for MTA
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 157-B Budget Financing
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 158-B Budget Financing
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 159-B Budget Financing
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 156-B Budget Financing
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

A 163-A 2008-2009 Budget Amendments
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 249-A Budget Financing
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8738 State Spending Cap
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 8736 School District Property Tax Cap
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 11258 Mandatory Cigarette Taxation
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8736 School District Property Tax Cap
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 11258 Mandatory Cigarette Taxation
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8736 School District Property Tax Cap
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 11258 Mandatory Cigarette Taxation
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8638 Internet Sales Tax Repeal
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 4632 Reinstate the Death Penalty
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 2375 DNA Database Expansion
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 6823 Long Island Affordable Housing
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 7594 Gasoline Tax Holiday
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

A 9998 New York Racing Association Funding
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 6484 Driver's License Citizenship Requirements
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 319 Death Penalty For Certain Murders
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

S 3318 Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act
Stage: Passage
Vote: Yea

S 8446 DNA Database Expansion
Stage: Passage
Vote: -

S 6771 Death Penalty and Life Imprisonment Bill
Stage: Passage
Vote: Nay

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