For Immediate Release
January 6, 2021
Harckham Returns as Chair of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Committee for 2021-2022 Term
Albany, NY – New York State Senator Pete Harckham announced today that he is returning as Chair of the Senate Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse for the 2021-2022 legislative term. He will also return as a member of the Committees on Environment Conservation and Energy and Telecommunications while also serving three other Senate Committees: Finance, Women’s Issues and Insurance.
New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins conferred the committee assignments prior to the start of the Senate session, which officially begins on January 6.
In the 2019-2020 term, his first in the Senate, Harckham also was co-chair of the Joint Senate Task Force on Opioids, Addiction and Overdose Prevention.