Sponsored bills

Extends drug-free school zones to include public libraries and free association libraries

Extends drug-free school zones to include public libraries and free association libraries.

Ann RabbittCodes Committee

Includes Lake Ronkonkoma within the definition of inland waterways for the purposes of waterfront revitalization

Includes Lake Ronkonkoma within the definition of "inland waterways" for the purpose of waterfront revitalization.

Ginny FieldsOn the Assembly floor

Allows credit unions, savings banks, savings and loan associations and federal savings associations to accept and secure deposits from municipal corporations

Allows credit unions, savings banks, savings and loan associations and federal savings associations to accept and secure deposits from municipal corporations.

Carl HeastieBanks Committee

Exempts domestic and imported animals harvested at a game hunting preserve from the sales and compensating use tax

Exempts domestic and imported animals harvested at a game hunting preserve from the sales and compensating use tax.

William MageeWays And Means Committee

Exempts farm operations from limited liability filing fees and certain business franchise taxes

Exempts farm operations from limited liability filing fees and certain business franchise taxes.

William MageeWays And Means Committee

Provides a mandatory jail sentence for violations of non-family orders of protection and global positioning system monitoring for certain defendants

Provides a mandatory jail sentence of thirty days for violations of non-family orders of protection and global positioning system monitoring for certain defendants.

Grace MengCodes Committee

Provides a mandatory jail sentence for violations of non-family orders of protection and global positioning system monitoring for certain defendants

Provides a mandatory jail sentence of thirty days for violations of non-family orders of protection and global positioning system monitoring for certain defendants.

Frank PadavanCodes Committee

Relates to state aid payments made to certain cities on state-owned lands

Relates to state aid payments made to certain cities on state-owned lands.

Neil D. BreslinInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Authorizes payment of additional state aid for certain state-leased or state-owned lands

Authorizes payment of additional state aid for certain state leased or state owned lands.

Neil D. BreslinInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Authorizes payment of additional state aid for certain state-leased or state-owned lands

Authorizes payment of additional state aid for certain state leased or state owned lands.

John McEnenyGovernmental Operations Committee

Establishes a Haitian Earthquake victims survivor college scholarship program for children and spouses injured in the January twelfth, two thousand ten earthquake

Establishes a Haitian Earthquake victims survivor college scholarship program for persons and children or spouses of persons who survived the January twelfth, two thousand ten earthquake in Haiti.

N. Nick PerryEducation Committee

Relates to state aid payments made to certain cities on state-owned lands

Relates to state aid payments made to certain cities on state-owned lands.

John McEnenyGovernmental Operations Committee

Requires each public senior high school to provide incoming students with information about sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking prevention measures

Requires each public senior high school to provide incoming students with information about sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking prevention measures.

Janele Hyer-SpencerEducation Committee

Relates to employment of sex offenders

Prohibits permissible employment, and volunteer activities that may be preformed by convicted sex offenders; specifically, prohibits a sex offender to have unsupervised access to residential living…

Stephen M. SalandCrime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

Relates to electronic permit applications, regulatory impact statements and meetings of public bodies

Relates to electronic permit applications, regulatory impact statements and attendance at meetings of public bodies.

Finance Committee

Relates to ethics reform and campaign finance reform; repealer

Relates to ethics reform and campaign finance reform; creates a state government ethics commission and a designating commission; relates to duties of the attorney general; establishes the employee…

Finance Committee

Eliminates numerous advisory boards, councils, and committees and makes conforming technical changes to law

Eliminates numerous advisory boards, councils, and committees; makes conforming technical changes to law; repeals various provisions of law.

Finance Committee

Relates to ethics reform and campaign finance reform; repealer

Relates to ethics reform and campaign finance reform; creates a state government ethics commission and a designating commission; relates to duties of the attorney general; establishes the employee…

Ways And Means Committee

Relates to the regulation of the use of the state's water resources; repealer

Relates to the regulation of the use of the state's water resources; requires permits for interbasin diversions of water and approval of modification to existing systems; increases fees for water…

Antoine M. ThompsonEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Authorizes certain counties, cities and school districts to impose up to a four percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes; repealer

Authorizes certain counties, cities and school districts to impose up to a four percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes.

Catharine YoungInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels and authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes

Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels and authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level.

Catharine YoungEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Mandates university and building level educational institution safety plans for possible acts of violence occurring at educational institutions within the state

Mandates university and building level educational institution safety plans for possible acts of violence occurring at educational institutions within the state.

Antoine M. ThompsonHigher Education Committee

Provides for increasing the applicability of brand name and generic prescription drug and other medical services co-payments for medicaid recipients

Provides for increasing the applicability of brand name and generic prescription drug and other medical services, except diagnostic services, co-payments for medicaid recipients.

Michael H. RanzenhoferHealth Committee

Amends the definition of disguised gun to include certain guns that are designed and intended to appear to be a toy gun

Amends the definition of a "disguised gun" to include a weapon or device capable of being concealed on a person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive which is…

Craig M. JohnsonCodes Committee

Authorizes municipalities to create a real property tax exemption for the installation of dry fire hydrants

Authorizes municipalities to create a real property tax exemption for the installation of dry fire hydrants.

David TownsendReal Property Taxation Committee

Provides for separate personal income tax credits for solar electric, solar thermal and wind energy systems installed upon the residence of a taxpayer

Provides for separate personal income tax credits for solar electric, solar thermal and wind energy systems installed upon any residence of a taxpayer.

Marc AlessiWays And Means Committee

Requires retailers to provide balance inquiry services for electronic benefit transfer cards

Requires retailers in the state that accepts electronic benefit transfer cards to provide balance inquiry services for such cards.

Francine DelMonteConsumer Affairs And Protection CommitteePublic Safety & Consumer Affairs

Establishes the universal design incentive

Establishes the universal design incentive which authorizes the secretary of the department of state to reduce building permit fees for new construction or substantial alterations providing for…

Marc AlessiGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to prohibition of automatic waivers; repealer

Relates to prohibition of automatic waivers; repeals expiration of minority and women-owned enterprises.

Richard BrodskyGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to prohibition of automatic waivers; repealer

Relates to prohibition of automatic waivers; repeals expiration of minority and women-owned enterprises.

Antoine M. ThompsonFinance Committee

Provides that certain real property tax exemptions shall only be granted where such property is actually used for certain enumerated purposes;appropriation

Provides that real property tax exemptions granted to real property owned by corporations or associations organized or conducted exclusively for hospital or moral or mental improvement of men,…

John J. BonacicFinance CommitteeFinance

Relates to matching funds for grants under the naturally occurring retirement community supportive service program

Permits support from contiguous areas to provide required matching funds for grants under the naturally occurring retirement community supportive service program.

Jeffrey DinowitzAging CommitteeHealth

Prohibits and criminalizes the use by certain public officers and employees of state property or resources for activities related to private business

Prohibits and criminalizes the use by certain public officers and employees of state property, services or resources for activities related to private business or to a political campaign.

Daniel L. SquadronSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides that the senate shall be composed of 62 senators, each representing 1 county of the state

Provides that the senate shall be composed of 62 senators, each representing 1 county of the state.

Nancy CalhounJudiciary Committee

Makes a chapter amendment to A. 8568-B relating to the use of portable electronic devices

Relates to the use of portable electronic devices.

Dale M. VolkerTransportation Committee

Freezes state spending for fiscal years 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012

Freezes state spending for fiscal years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013; excess spending may be authorized in an emergency; excess revenue shall be used to pay down state debt; legislation with…

Dale M. VolkerFinance Committee

Directs distribution of health care proxy and organ donation information with mailings of license and registration renewals

Directs the distribution of health care proxy blank forms and instructions, and information on organ and tissue donation with mailings of drivers license and registration renewals; provides for…

Kemp HannonTransportation Committee

Authorizes county clerks to retain a portion of fees collected for motor vehicle related services through a department of motor vehicles' website or processing center

Authorizes county clerks to retain a portion of fees collected for motor vehicle related services through a department of motor vehicles' website or the Utica processing center.

Addie JenneGovernmental Employees Committee

Relates to professional services providers

Relates to professional services providers.

Harvey WeisenbergGovernmental Employees Committee

Limits ownership or possession of companion animals by "Buster's Law" violators

Limits ownership or possession of companion animals by "Buster's Law" violators and adds definition of equine companion while taking horses out of farm animal definition.

James TediscoAgriculture Committee

Relates to the naming of facilities after public officials

Provides that no facility supported by state funds may be named after a living public official unless such person has been out of public service for at least ten years.

Rory LancmanGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to game bird breeding

Relates to game bird breeding.

William MageeAgriculture Committee

Relates to candy and other food products packaged as tobacco products or drug paraphernalia

Prohibits the the sale, offering for sale and distribution of candy or other food products packaged, shaped or manufactured in the shape of tobacco products or drug paraphernalia; violations of such…

Joseph LentolConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Includes Niagara Frontier transportation authority and its police officers and aircraft rescue firefighters under provisions for resolution of impasse in collective

Includes Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority and its police officers and aircraft rescue firefighters in the provisions of the civil service law providing for the resolution of impasses in…

Dale M. VolkerCivil Service And Pensions Committee

Directs public service commission to require utilities involved in vegetation management plan to give 60 days notice prior to such activity; hold public hearing 30 days prior

Directs public service commission to require utilities involved in vegetation management program to give 60 days notice prior to such activity and to hold public hearings in affected communities 30…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Limits the exemption from open meetings law provisions applicable to deliberations of political committees, conferences and caucuses

Limits the current exemption from open meetings law provisions that is applicable to the deliberations of political committees, conferences and caucuses by amending the definition of deliberations…

Sandy GalefStricken

Prohibits certain state employees from soliciting or receiving contributions for campaigns for state or federal office

Establishes no officer or employee of a state agency or legislative employee required to file an annual statement of financial disclosure shall solicit or receive contributions for a campaign for…

Sandy GalefStricken

Establishes minimum staffing levels of various personnel in nursing homes throughout any particular day

Establishes minimum staffing levels of types of various personnel in nursing homes throughout any particular day; creates the advisory council on nursing home staffing to make recommendations to the…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee