Assembly, Senate Push Bills On Rent Control, Internet Violence
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The state Assembly and Senate went in opposite directions today, with the Democratic-controlled Assembly announcing measures to help tenants mainly in the New York City area deal with rents and the Senate seeking tougher laws on Internet violence.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver supported a nine-bill package aimed at keeping rents affordable in the New York City area. The measures include keeping certain apartments under the rent control system by ending “high rent” vacancy decontrol, which allows landlords to remove apartments where rents exceed $2,000.
“Renters above so many people need to be protected,” said ACORN Executive Director Bertha Lewis.
Later in the day, Republican senators announced legislation to crack down on broadcasting purposeful acts of violence on the Internet, such as teens videotaping themselves beating up bums.
The measure would create a new crime of “unlawful violent recording when a person commits an assault while knowingly capturing the crime with a recording device.” It would be a fourth degree penalty, punishable up to four years in prison.
“These people in these videos, they make me sick,” said state Sen. John Flanagan, R-Suffolk County.
Both issues, though, are one-house bills at this point.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
