Senate Coming Back August 8
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The state Senate officially announced today that it will come back Aug. 8 to approve the governor’s property-tax cap.
We wrote last week that they were targeting that day, even though it’s a little strange to have them return to session on a Friday.
So Senate Republicans will pass the tax cap and also do some appointments, including naming Sen. John Sabini, D-Queens to chair the state’s Racing and Wagering Board. The appointment means Sabini will leave the Legislature, giving the Republicans back its two-seat majority after Sen. Joseph Bruno’s resignation earlier this month.
Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are expected to push for their own property-tax relief plan, which includes a cap, a circuit-breaker and mandate relief. Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, has proposed the measures.
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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. 
