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Relates to providing financial incentives for manufacturing firms to retain jobs in New York state

Relates to providing financial incentives for manufacturing firms to retain jobs in New York state.

Brian KolbEconomic Development Committee

Permits municipalities to adopt local law or ordinance to recover costs of emergency response to scene of alcohol or controlled substance related accident

Enacts the "alcohol and controlled substance expense recovery act"; permits each city, county, town and village to adopt a local law or ordinance providing for the civil recovery, from the operator…

Brian KolbAlcoholism And Drug Abuse Committee

Provides an additional aggravating factor to murder in the first degree and authorizes the jury to consider an indeterminate sentence therefor

Provides an additional aggravating factor to murder in the first degree and authorizes the jury to consider an indeterminate sentence therefor.

Robin SchimmingerCodes Committee

Authorizes the trading of existing but unused research and development credits and existing but unused net operating loss deductions to existing entities

Authorizes the trading of existing but unused research and development credits and existing but unused net operating loss deductions to existing corporations and partnerships in return for private…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Prohibits sale of explicit and violent video games to minors and requires labeling thereof

Prohibits the sale of video games containing sexually explicit or violent depictions to minors such as those that glamorize the commission of a violent crime, suicide, sodomy, rape, incest,…

Brian KolbConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Creates the public employees' fair employment act study commission to review the existing Taylor law

Creates the public employees' fair employment act study commission to review the existing Taylor law addressing labor relations between public employers and employees.

Robin SchimmingerGovernmental Employees Committee

Authorizes Westchester county to require local marinas provide for watercraft holding tank sewage disposal; prohibits littering of waterways

Authorizes Westchester county to require that local marinas provide for the handling and disposal of sewage from watercraft holding tanks; directs the department of environmental conservation to…

George LatimerEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Establishes the "Family and medical leave independent savings account act"; provides a tax credit for employee compensation deferred to such accounts

Establishes the "Family and medical leave independent savings account act"; provides a tax credit for employee compensation deferred to such accounts.

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Authorizes the issuance of small business health insurance policies

Enacts the "small business health insurance act"; authorizes the issuance of small business health insurance policies; sets forth eligibility requirements for small business health insurance,…

Robin SchimmingerInsurance Committee

Provides a real property tax exemption for first-time homebuyers of pre-owned real property as primary residential property

Provides a real property tax exemption, at local option, for first-time homebuyers of pre-owned real property as primary residential property and provides flexibility to local taxing authorities…

Robert SweeneyReal Property Taxation Committee

Provides a scholarship/stipend for home health care aides to get licensed practical nursing license while working as a home health aide

Provides a scholarship/stipend for home health care aides to get licensed practical nursing license while working as a home health aide; scholarship for in-state resident LPN program and stipend…

David KoonHealth Committee

Establishes the crime of criminal neglect of a vulnerable elderly person or a person with a disability

Establishes the crime of criminal neglect of a vulnerable elderly person or a person with a disability as a class A misdemeanor; consists of a caregiver who knowingly acts in a manner likely to…

Barbara ClarkCodes Committee

Provides for the creation of a new program for health insurance for individuals and groups of 50 or fewer; repealer

Provides for the creation of a new program for health insurance for individuals and groups of fifty or fewer employers or members; provides for open enrollment and community rating; provides for a…

William A. BarclayInsurance Committee

Provides for the development and maintenance of trails for all terrain vehicles; makes a $10,000,000 appropriation; repealer

Provides for the development and maintenance of trails for all terrain vehicles through the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation; provides state assistance for local enforcement of…

William A. BarclayTourism, Arts And Sports Development Committee

Requires all residential leases to disclose tenants' rights

Provides that all residential leases shall contain a detailed description of tenant's statutory rights including among others, warranty of habitability, willful violation of lease, right to…

Annette RobinsonJudiciary Committee

Places a moratorium on professional boxing and licensing pending an investigation on the safety and health of boxers by a temporary taskforce

Places a moratorium on professional boxing and licensing pending an investigation on the safety and health of boxers by a temporary taskforce; and appropriates $100,000 for expenses.

Michael BenjaminTourism, Arts And Sports Development Committee

Establishes the manufacturing preservation and enhancement act and the office of the New York state homeshoring initiative

Establishes the manufacturing preservation and enhancement act and the office of the New York state homeshoring initiative.

Brian KolbEconomic Development Committee

Establishes a tax credit for on-the-job training

Establishes corporate business and personal income tax credits for taxpayers (employers of 100 or fewer) who provide employees with on-the-job training in an amount up to $300 per employee.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Creates the statewide commission on chronic disease tracking

Creates the statewide commission on chronic disease tracking.

Michael BenjaminHealth Committee

Prohibits insurers from limiting payment on claims based on pricing caps and from recommending a particular repair facility, and requires notice to insureds

Prohibits insurers from limiting payment on claims for damage to motor vehicles based on pricing caps for labor, parts, paint or repair materials; prohibits insurers from recommending a particular…

William MagnarelliInsurance Committee

Provides for the regulation of the use of human transporters in conformity with bicycles and in-line skates

Provides for the regulation of the use of human transporters in conformity with existing regulation of the use of bicycles and in-line skates.

Michael BenjaminTransportation Committee

Establishes the presumption in matrimonial proceedings of awarding shared parenting of minor children

Establishes the presumption in matrimonial proceedings for awarding shared parenting of minor children in the absence of an allegation that shared parenting would be detrimental to the best…

Michael BenjaminJudiciary Committee

Creates the crimes of domestic violence for acts of violence against family members

Establishes a new article, family offenses, creating crimes of domestic violence for acts of violence against family members, the article includes domestic violence, aggravated domestic violence,…

Hakeem JeffriesCodes CommitteeLegal

Raises senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE) threshold and provides for increase per changes in the consumer price index; excludes certain expenses

Provides for annual adjustment by the commissioner of housing and community renewal of the maximum income threshold for eligibility for the senior citizens' rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and for…

Audrey PhefferAging Committee

Increases the sentences for certain offenses committed by youthful offenders to standards that are above the current levels but fall below those imposed on adults

Increases the sentences for certain felony grade offenses committed by juvenile offenders to standards that are above the current levels but fall below those imposed on adults; notably, for the A…

David KoonCodes Committee

Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection and equity

Enacts the healthcare consumer and provider protection and equity.

Joan ChristensenInsurance Committee

Increases the tax credit for individuals who purchase long term health insurance policies

Increases the corporation and personal income tax credits for the purchase of long term health insurance policies to fifty percent of the premium paid during the taxable year.

Ellen C. JaffeeWays And Means CommitteeFinance

Expands duties of department of agriculture and markets regarding the purchase of certain vineyard grape plants and fruit processing capital goods

Expands the duties of the department of agriculture and markets regarding the direct marketing of grapes and other fruit products, the profitability of farming and the preservation of viable farm…

William MageeAgriculture Committee

Establishes a real property tax exemption for persons eighty years of age or over

Establishes a real property tax exemption for persons eighty years of age or over; provides that such exemption shall be phased in over a ten year period whereby ten percent of the assessed…

Steven EnglebrightAging Committee

Raises the minimum and maximum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per semester

Raises the minimum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per year to five hundred dollars and the maximum tuition assistance award an eligible graduate student…

N. Nick PerryHigher Education Committee

Provides for the transfer of funds for use by the director of the office for the aging for geriatric education centers

Provides for the yearly transfer of funds in an amount of up to one million dollars for use by the director of the office for the aging for services and expenses of the Finger Lakes Geriatric…

Steven EnglebrightAging Committee

Relates to qualifications for appointment to membership in the police force of the city of New York by certain New York city auxiliary police officers

Waives the 60 credits required for New York City Auxiliary Police Officers to become members of the regular NYC police force for up to a period of 5 years, provided they are enrolled in college,…

N. Nick PerryCities Committee

Requires adequate staffing at correctional facilities

Requires the commissioner of corrections to establish a staffing plan for all uniformed and non-uniformed employees; further requires adequate staffing at correctional facilities.

Jeffrion AubryCorrection Committee

Establishes the state task force on campus safety

N. Nick PerryHigher Education CommitteeEducation

Establishes a teacher preparation program to strengthen education opportunities available to children in low income areas

Establishes a teacher preparation program to train and retrain teachers to prepare them for teaching assignments in areas having concentrations of low-income families; provides that the commissioner…

Barbara ClarkHigher Education CommitteeEducation

Creates a tax surcharge to fund an omnibus education financing plan in New York city

Creates a tax surcharge to fund an omnibus education financing plan in New York city; also provides for a maintenance of effort requirement.

Barbara ClarkWays And Means Committee

Establishes voluntary certification of civil trial attorneys

Establishes a program providing for the voluntary certification by the state of civil trial attorneys; creates a board on civil trial attorney certification to administer such program; requires…

Michael GianarisJudiciary Committee

Relates to the offenses of sexual abuse and aggravated sexual abuse

Expands the definitions of sexual contact, foreign object and aggravated sexual contact and further broadens the crimes of sexual abuse in the second degree and all degrees of aggravated sexual…

Amy PaulinCodes Committee

Establishes certain persons who have previously provided a DNA sample shall not be required to pay a DNA databank fee for his or her conviction for certain offenses

Establishes that no person who has previously provided a DNA sample shall be required to pay a DNA databank fee for his or her conviction for a subsequent designated offense unless such sample has…

Jeffrion AubryCodes CommitteeLegal

Requires electronic monitoring for certain sex offenders

Requires electronic monitoring for any sex offender having been designated a level three risk or a sexual predator; requires the division of criminal justice services to establish a system of active…

David KoonCorrection Committee

Provides that a court shall modify an arbitration award if the award is subject to a valid offset provision

Provides that a court shall modify an arbitration award if the award is subject to a valid offset provision.

Joseph LentolCodes Committee

Provides for cost of living and marriage penalty adjustments to eligibility standards for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage

Provides for cost-of-living and marriage penalty adjustments to eligibility standards for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage.

Steven EnglebrightHealth Committee

Authorizes as a pilot program certified nurse practitioners to provide care and treatment to injured employees in workers' compensation cases

Authorizes as a pilot program certified nurse practitioners to provide care and treatment to injured employees pursuant to the provisions of the workers' compensation law; establishes a nurse…

Susan JohnLabor Committee

Authorizes the study of the feasibility of establishing a school-based influenza vaccination pilot program

Authorizes the department of health to study the feasibility of establishing a school-based influenza vaccination pilot program; includes examining the costs and benefits of establishing a…

Susan JohnHealth Committee

Provides a partial tax abatement to owners of property who lease units at less than the fair market rental value

Provides a partial real property tax tax abatement to owners of certain property in a city with a population of one million or more who lease units at less than the fair market rental value to…

Joseph LentolReal Property Taxation Committee

Enacts the "Unemployment Insurance Liability Act of 2009"

Enacts the "Unemployment Insurance Liability Act;" requires that employers that are relocated out of New York State continue to contribute to the unemployment insurance fund when former employees of…

James F. BrennanLabor Committee

Relates to the release on medical parole of certain inmates

Establishes the state board of parole shall have the power to release on medical parole any inmate who has been certified to be suffering from a significant and permanent non-terminal condition,…

Jeffrion AubryCorrection Committee

Prohibits "universal default clauses"; and prevents credit card issuers from increasing interests upon the holder of such credit card for late payment to creditors

Prohibits "universal default clauses" in contract agreements or contracts; prevents credit card issuers from increasing interests upon the holder of such credit card for late payment to other…

Joan ChristensenConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee