ALBANY — Brooklyn Assemblyman Kalman Yeger introduced three bills last year, making him the state lawmaker who proposed the fewest pieces of legislation in the Legislature.
That is, if you don’t count a senator elected in November and Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, who represents the Bronx and who also sponsored three bills. Heastie’s legislation never made it to the governor’s desk.
In the upper chamber, state Sen. Stephen T. Chan, a Republican whose district covers parts of south Brooklyn, was among a handful of lawmakers to put forward the fewest bills. Chan was the primary sponsor on 18 pieces of legislation, the same amount as Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins who, like Heastie, controls her chamber’s legislative agenda and decides which bills get debated or voted on. Twelve of Stewart-Cousins’ bills were signed into law…