But although the administration quietly lined up support from a few council members before introducing the proposal, the speaker, Gifford Miller, has yet to sign on.
In introducing the proposal last week, Representative Jeff Miller, Republican of Florida, focused on the John Adams Project, a joint enterprise of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
In a May Op-Ed introducing the proposal in the Times, Squadron cited the disparities between Central Park and St. Mary's Park, in the South Bronx, "where the baseball bleachers don't have seats and the cracked tennis court has no net".
Last year, a Republican state senator, Arthur Orr, who says he was troubled by the Constitution's continuing deterrent effect on economic development, introduced the proposal again.
"Secretary Rubin intends to introduce the proposal in a 21 May speech, and to testify before the House Banking Committee the first week of June".
A Democratic Utah state representative, Susan Duckworth, introduced the proposal, which also included provisions to remove tax on adult incontinence products and children's diapers.
Monaco introduced the proposal because it said only extreme measures can save stocks of the iconic migratory fish, which have fallen by 75% due to widespread overfishing.
When they introduce the proposal, administration officials plan to argue that diesel exhaust may cause lung cancer, and clearly brings on asthma attacks and other respiratory problems.
"We need to catch up to the modern world," said Assemblywoman Sandra R. Galef, a former elementary schoolteacher from Ossining, who first introduced the proposal to cut down on paper in 1997, not long after the dawn of the Palm Pilot.
Squadron has indicated that he plans to introduce the proposal again in the state legislature, and has even suggested that the new mayor could implement its objectives through administrative means.
He first introduced the proposal in the aftermath of a 1998 incident involving a 16-year-old Brooklyn boy carrying a black water pistol, which resembled a semiautomatic handgun.
