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Requires police accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the time of such vehicle accident

Requires police accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the time of such vehicle accident.

Toby Ann StaviskyOn the Senate floor

Requires the commissioner to establish standards for inspection and certification of green roofs and provides for a green roof installation credit

Requires the commissioner to establish standards for and a program of inspection and certification of green roofs prior to and after installation, including standards for environmentally acceptable…

Antoine M. ThompsonFinance Committee

Proposes an amendment to the constitution providing the electors with the power of initiative, indirect initiative and referendum

Proposes an amendment to the constitution providing the electors with the power of initiative, indirect initiative and referendum.

Michael H. RanzenhoferJudiciary Committee

Provides for determining the amount of an award under the tuition assistance program for certain people returning to full-time undergraduate study

Provides that for purposes of the amount of an award under the tuition assistance program, any student who received an award for not more than two semesters prior to the 1989-1990 academic year and…

Toby Ann StaviskyFinance Committee

Requires that the governor's article 7 appropriation bills be specifically itemized to assure accountability

Requires that the governor's appropriation and reappropriation budget bills be specifically itemized to assure accountability; provides that the purpose of such appropriations shall be specified in…

Suzi OppenheimerJudiciary Committee

Provides for making budget expenditure estimates available to the public, open hearings thereon, and for the use of conference committees

Requires the budget expenditure estimates of the departments of the executive branch be made available to the public; requires the governor to hold open hearings thereon; requires the use of joint…

Suzi OppenheimerJudiciary Committee

Creates a private right of action for unlawful price gouging for injunctive relief and recovery of actual damages or $1000 whichever is greater

Creates a private right to action for unlawful price gouging for injunctive relief and recovery of actual damages or $1000 whichever is greater, or both, in addition to right of action granted to…

Hiram MonserrateFinance Committee

Re-establishes the state superfund management board as the state remedial program oversight board; repealer

Re-establishes the state superfund management board as the state remedial program oversight board; provides for appointment of board members and for the functions, powers, and duties of the board.

Antoine M. ThompsonFinance Committee

Exempts veterans organizations in New York city from city sewer and water charges

Exempts veterans organizations in New York city, as defined in section 452 of the real property tax law, from payment of city sewer and water charges.

Jeffrey D. KleinOn the Senate floor

Prohibits more than one increase in the price of motor fuel in any twenty-four hour period

Prohibits more than one increase in the price of motor fuel in any twenty-four hour period.

Hiram MonserrateCodes Committee

Allows any family member working on a family farm to build a home on such land

Provides that in an agricultural district with a working family farm, any producer, as defined in subdivision three of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, shall have the authority to…

Michael F. NozzolioOn the Senate floor

Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient and outpatient departments

Provides Medicaid reimbursement for interpretation services provided by hospital inpatient, outpatient and emergency department settings and in diagnostic treatment centers; provides further that…

Thomas K. DuaneFinance Committee

Requires local government officials, school district superintendent and landowners to be notified of a petroleum discharge

Provides that upon notification of a petroleum discharge, the department of environmental conservation shall notify county and municipal executive officers, school district superintendent,…

Antoine M. ThompsonFinance Committee

Establishes a mentoring program within the office of children and family services

Establishes a mentoring program within the office of children and family services to assist juveniles released from juvenile facilities in the development of life skills in the city of New York;…

Carl KrugerFinance Committee

Authorizes tax increment bonds payable from real property taxes levied by a school district within a blighted project area

Authorizes tax increment bonds payable from real property taxes levied by a school district within a blighted project area.

William T. StachowskiOn the Senate floor

Provides that calls to hotlines operated by the office of children and family services are confidential

Provides that calls to hotlines operated by the office of children and family services are confidential; corrects cross references to penal law regarding filing a false report in the 3rd degree.

Velmanette MontgomeryCodes Committee

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals.

José M. SerranoCodes Committee

Simplifies the absentee ballot process by removing requirement of certain information that is to be provided

Simplifies the absentee ballot process to make it easier to vote in such manner by removing requirement for certain information on circumstances for the voter's absence.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.On the Senate floor

Relates to the definition of "direct relationship" for the purposes of article 23-A of the correction law regarding certain licensures and employment

Relates to the definition of "direct relationship" for the purposes of article 23-A of the correction law regarding licensures and employment of persons previously convicted of one or more criminal…

Jeffrion AubryOn the Assembly floor

Authorizes the board of elections to employ election inspectors to work half-day shifts with adjusted compensation

Authorizes the board of elections to employ election inspectors to work half-day shifts with adjusted compensation; county boards of election shall prescribe the necessary rule and procedures to…

Jeffrey D. KleinOn the Senate floor

Establishes the youth in progress advisory board for adolescents in foster care

Establishes the youth in progress advisory board and regional teams for adolescents in foster care to provide mentorship of youths in foster care; requires reporting.

Velmanette MontgomeryFinance Committee

Authorizes the immunization against hepatitis B of minors capable of consent who are housed in a local or state correctional facility

Authorizes the immunization against hepatitis B of minors capable of consent who are housed in a local or state correctional facility.

Michelle SchimelHealth Committee

Relates to a program for veteran speakers in classrooms to supplement instructional and educational aspects of American military history

Directs the director of the division of veterans affairs to develop a program relating to veteran educational speakers; requires distribution of informational pamphlet to schools describing program…

William ColtonVeterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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

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. VolkerOn the Senate floor

Establishes the commission on post-secondary correctional education

Jeffrion AubryWays And Means Committee

Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village

Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village.

Darrel J. AubertineTransportation Committee

Makes the director of the state office for the aging a member of the emergency services council

Makes the director of the state office for the aging a member of the emergency services council.

Martin J. GoldenOn the Senate floor

Pertains to the construction and interpretation of mutual aid agreements

Pertains to the construction and interpretation of mutual aid agreements.

Betty LittleFinance Committee

Conforms state law with federal law regarding imitation weapons and provides a private right of action for individual consumers

Conforms state law with federal law regarding imitation weapons; empowers the attorney general to enforce federal standards and provides a private right of action against retailers by individual…

John L. SampsonCodes CommitteeLegal

Defines a bill of rights for persons with autism or autism spectrum disorders

Defines a bill of rights for persons with autism or autism spectrum disorders.

Roy J. McDonaldMental Health And Developmental Disabilities Committee

Removes horses from the definition of farm animals and creates equine companion definition

Removes horses from the definition of farm animals and creates equine companion definition.

Eric AdamsAgriculture Committee

Celebrating Susan B. Anthony's life, work, and legacy

Michele TitusAdopted

Adopted

Paying tribute to the life and accomplishments of Rosa Parks

Darryl TownsAdopted

Adopted

Relates to the automatic expulsion of a public officer upon conviction for an egregious class A misdemeanor committed after such officer has taken the oath of office

Relates to the automatic expulsion of a public officer upon conviction for an egregious class A misdemeanor committed after such officer has taken the oath of office.

Pedro Espada Jr.Investigations And Government Operations Committee

Prohibits the state from entering into certain contracts with companies requiring employees to stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes

Prohibits the state from entering into certain contracts with companies requiring employees to stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes unless it excludes disputes involving sexual assault.

Kevin S. ParkerFinance Committee

Establishes New York state renewable electric generation pilot programs

Establishes New York state renewable electric generation pilot programs to authorize the development of up to three hundred megawatts renewable electric capacity statewide, in order to stimulate the…

Kevin S. ParkerEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Establishes the textbook transparency act

Establishes the textbook transparency act, requiring college textbook publishers to make the price, and revisions between the last two editions, copyright dates and the variety of formats for a text.

Kevin S. ParkerHigher Education Committee

Creates a downtown revitalization zone investment tax credit

Creates a downtown revitalization zone investment tax credit for the purchase of buildings and rehabilitation of buildings in a downtown zone; the credit shall be twenty percent of the purchase of…

Marc AlessiWays And Means Committee

Eliminates the real property tax exemption for fire districts, fire protection districts and ambulance districts developed through industrial development agencies

Eliminates the real property tax exemption for fire districts, fire protection districts and ambulance districts developed through industrial development agencies.

Marc AlessiReal Property Taxation Committee

Memorializing Governor David A. Paterson to proclaim February 5, 2010, as Wear Red for Women Day in the State of New York

Aileen GuntherAdopted

Adopted

Memorializing Governor David A. Paterson to proclaim February 2010, as Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Month in the State of New York

Margaret MarkeyAdopted

Adopted

Makes technical corrections to a chapter of the laws of 2009 relating to powers of the North Country power authority; repealer

Makes technical corrections to the powers of the North Country power authority.

Darrel J. AubertineStricken

Relates to gifted and talented pupils with special needs; repealer

Relates to gifted and talented pupils with special needs.

Fred ThieleEducation Committee

Establishes time restrictions for court issued consent orders for work performance to remove or remedy conditions in such petition

Establishes time restrictions for court issued consent orders for work performance to remove or remedy dangerous conditions or building code violations; permits sixty days for consent orders to be…

Jeffrey DinowitzJudiciary Committee

Relates to clarifying the grounds for an external appeal based on medical necessity

Relates to clarifying the grounds for an external appeal based on medical necessity; provides that where the health plan denies coverage for a health service on grounds of "medical necessity" the…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners' physicians and medical examiners

Authorizes the commissioner of health to develop and administer training programs for coroners, coroners' physicians and medical examiners; provides for the making of regulations for minimum…

Richard GottfriedHealth Committee

Requires real estate syndication offering to show property use is legal and authorized by applicable local law

Provides that the attorney general shall refuse to issue a letter stating that a real estate syndication offering has been filed unless such statement, prospectus or plan shows that the use for…

Jeffrey DinowitzJudiciary Committee

Relates to expanding the definition of bus to include certain buses owned and operated for the transportation of children less than school age

Expands the definition of bus to include those owned by public or governmental agency, pre-school, nursery school or private school or privately owned and operated for compensation for the…

David GanttTransportation CommitteeTransportation