Assembly set to break up Women’s Equality Agenda
Assembly Democrats are poised to break up a 10-point Women’s Equality Act that has failed to pass the Senate over the past two years and vote on at least some of the components separately.
The move will start Monday when the Assembly will vote on a sex-trafficking bill that has languished because the measure was tied to the larger women’s agenda that Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced in 2013.
“Civil rights is not all or nothing,” Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Scarsdale, Westchester County, who is sponsoring the sex-trafficking bill, said today. “You take baby steps, giant steps, middle steps to achieve civil rights for every population, and for women this is an advancement.”