PA Bill Number: HB797
Title: Further providing for requirements of membership, for married persons and pensions to surviving spouses and for eligibility of surviving spouses.
Description: Further providing for requirements of membership, for married persons and pensions to surviving spouses and for eligibility of surviving s ...
Last Action: Third consideration and final passage (48-0)
Last Action Date: Apr 21, 2026
Architect of New York's Unconstitutional SAFE Act Found Guilty of Corruption :: 11/30/2015
The now former NYS Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D, Manhattan), one of the three men responsible for shepherding the NYS SAFE Act through the expedited passage through the NYS legislature, is found guilty on all charges of extortion and several kinds of fraud.
The second person, NYS Senator Dean Skelos (R, Nassau County), was arrested and is currently on trial for bribery and extortion. What does that tell you about people who are charged with protecting (or in this case, trampling) our constitutionally protected rights? Unfortunately, these laws cannot be found invalid because of the misdeeds of those in power at the time…
