Evelyn Yang + Drew Dixon + Attorney Gloria Allred to NYS Assembly: You Have 9 Days Left to Pass the ASA!

ALBANY, NY (05/12/2022) (readMedia)-- With just nine days left of the legislative session, survivors of sexual abuse and Safe Horizon will call on the NYS Assembly to pass the Adult Survivors Act (S66-A/A648-A). Two weeks ago, the New York State Senate passed the bill for the second year in a row, with unanimous support.

The press conference will be streamed live here.

The pressure is now on NYS Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie - and NYS Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair Charles D. Lavine - to move the ASA for a floor vote and for the Governor to ultimately sign it into law. A majority of the NYS Assembly Judiciary Committee members support the bill and seventy Assembly Members have joined lead sponsor Linda B. Rosenthal to co-sponsor the ASA, including Republicans.

Survivors will be joined by famed victims' rights attorney Gloria Allred, who represented Rita Pasarell – a co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group – nearly a decade ago in Rita's harassment claims against the Assembly when she was then a staffer for former Assemblymember Vito Lopez. Ms. Allred has very strong feelings that she will express about the fact that leadership appears to be blocking a vote on the ASA.