Child Victims Act Advocate Optimistic about Senate Passage

By David Lombardo
Times Union
May 3, 2018

https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/281954/child-victims-act-advocate-optimistic-about-senate-passage/

Gary Greenberg hasn’t given up hope on the Child Victims Act for 2018.

Gary Greenberg (Bryan Pace/New York Daily News)

In the wake of the Assembly’s action on the bill this week, he was optimistic about its chances in the Republican controlled Senate, which is seen as the last stumbling block to the Child Victims Act becoming law.

Greenberg, who formed a political action committee to advance the CVA, believes the bill could still reach the floor in the state Senate before the end of session in June. Pointing to meetings with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and central Republican staff, he said there is a recognition among Senate Republicans that they need to act on the bill sooner than later.

Greenberg argued that the 40,000 robocalls by his political action committee on behalf of the successful Senate special election campaign of Democrat Shelley Mayer didn’t go unnoticed. “The CVA is a hot potato for the Republican Senate,” he said.

There are seven weeks left in the legislative session.