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Relates to increasing the penalty for willfully making a material false statement in any application for registration to vote

Relates to increasing the penalty for willfully making a material false statement in any application for registration to vote.

Michael BenjaminElection Law Committee

Prohibits the direct merchandising of credit cards through SUNY and CUNY

Prohibits the direct merchandising of credit cards through SUNY and CUNY to any enrolled student; defines direct merchandising.

Steven EnglebrightHigher Education Committee

Prohibits the publication of original signatures obtained under any provisions of the election law

Prohibits the posting or publication of original signatures obtained under any provisions of the election law by any person; makes such violation a misdemeanor.

Audrey PhefferElection Law 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

Requires the assent of two-thirds of the members of the legislature for the passage of emergency appropriation bills

Provides that the assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature shall be requisite to every bill making an emergency appropriation prior to the passage of the state…

Fred ThieleWays And Means Committee

Prohibits automobile liability insurers to refuse to insure or increase the premiums for insuring any automobile operated by a volunteer driver

Prohibits automobile liability insurers from refusing to insure or increasing the premiums for insuring any automobile operated by a volunteer driver; a "volunteer driver" is a person who provides…

Steven EnglebrightInsurance 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

Regulates the use of body-gripping traps and requires the posting of public land where trapping is permitted; repealer

Prohibits the use of body-gripping traps within 100 feet of a public highway, public road, dwelling, school, playground, day care facility, place of worship, athletic field, or public bike paths,…

Steven EnglebrightEnvironmental Conservation 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

Regulates hazardous substance storage facilities

Provides that any person storing a hazardous substance shall furnish the department of environmental conservation with information on the storage facility, repairs or replacements, hazardous…

Barbara ClarkEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Requires employees of certain child day cares to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid

Requires certain employees of certain child day cares to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid; such training and certification must be maintained as current…

William ScarboroughChildren And Families Committee

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate

Relates to aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate to include in the definition of employee, an employee of the division of probation and correctional alternatives, or a police officer.

Jeffrion AubryCodes 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

Provides that localities be reimbursed by the state for costs incurred while transporting prisoners to state prison

Provides that localities be reimbursed by the state for costs incurred while transporting prisoners to state prison, specifically for the salaries of employees engaged in the transportation of such…

Jeffrion AubryCorrection Committee

Establishes the state task force on campus safety

N. Nick PerryHigher Education CommitteeEducation

Provides that the hotel room occupancy tax cannot be imposed in the county of Richmond

Provides that the hotel room occupancy tax cannot be imposed in the county of Richmond.

Louis TobaccoWays And Means Committee

Provides for a thirty day limit on additional punishment for certain contempt citations involving an employee organization and view acts of extreme provocation

Provides for a thirty day limit on additional punishment for certain contempt citations involving an employee organization and view acts of extreme provocation in a light most favorable to the…

N. Nick PerryJudiciary CommitteeLegal

Requires banks to post information about basic banking services

Requires banks to post information about basic banking services near their exits and entrances, including information concerning minimum balances, initial deposits, maximum fees chargeable, and…

N. Nick PerryBanks Committee

Allows cities with a population of 150,000 or more to impose a twenty-five cent fee on sporting event tickets and to use the money collected for sport programs

Authorizes cities with a population of one hundred fifty thousand or more to impose an additional twenty-five cent fee upon the ticket price of four dollars or more for any sporting event held…

N. Nick PerryTourism, Arts And Sports Development Committee

Requires operators of bicycles, skateboards and in-line skates who are under 18 years of age to wear protective headgear

Requires operators of bicycles, skateboards, inline skates and scooters who are under eighteen years of age to wear protective headgear; increases the age requirement from fourteen years to eighteen…

William MagnarelliTransportation Committee

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

Provides that 1 member of Broome county industrial development agency shall be a member of the political party which has the second most members in the county legislature

Provides that one member of the Broome county industrial development agency shall be a member of the political party which has the second most members in the county legislature of such county.

Clifford CrouchLocal Governments Committee

Provides that before a person may receive public assistance benefits, he or she must submit to a drug test

Provides that before a person may receive public assistance benefits, he or she must submit to and pass a drug test.

Clifford CrouchSocial Services Committee

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 a fire protection and emergency task force in rural areas

Establishes a fire prevention and emergency task force to develop a plan for training requirements and standards for fire prevention and emergency response services in rural areas.

Clifford CrouchGovernmental Operations Committee

Bars recovery for personal injuries incurred by persons committing crimes from the victim or person acting on behalf of the victim

Completely bars the recovery of damages from the victim or a person acting on behalf of the victim for personal injury sustained by a person convicted of a crime when such injury occurred during the…

Michael GianarisJudiciary CommitteeLegal

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

Requires the commissioner of correctional services to consult with the chief executive officer of the locality where a prison scheduled to be closed is located

Directs the commissioner of correctional services to provide a report for an adaptive reuse plan at the time the notice of closure of a correctional facility is provided; such commissioner shall…

Jeffrion AubryCorrection 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

Prohibits work release programs from operating in areas zoned exclusively residential by a municipality

Prohibits prison work release programs from operating in areas zoned as exclusively residential by a municipality.

David KoonCorrection Committee

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

Relates to immigration services; appropriation

Relates to immigration services; appropriates ten million dollars to the office of temporary and disability services to provide competitive grants to support qualified community-based organizations…

Nelson CastroSocial Services 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

Transfers any unspent funds from the regents health care professional opportunity scholarship program to the regents physician loan forgiveness program

Transfers any unspent funds from the regents health care professional opportunity scholarship program to the regents physician loan forgiveness program and provides direction to distribute these…

J. Gary PretlowHigher Education Committee

Clarifies that guide dogs, hearing dogs, and service dogs are allowed in public places during their training and socialization process

Clarifies that guide dogs, hearing dogs, and service dogs are allowed in public places during their training and socialization process; provides that such dog must wear an identifying item stating…

Clifford CrouchGovernmental Operations Committee

Provides for counseling services or reimbursement for counseling services for witnesses to homicide by the Crime Victims Board

Provides for counseling services or reimbursement for counseling services for witnesses to homicide by the Crime Victims Board.

David KoonGovernmental Operations Committee

Requires that the board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services develop an asthma management program

Requires that the board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services to develop for each school within such district an asthma management program to…

Rhoda JacobsEducation Committee

Provides for continuing austerity contingency budget in the event of a budget stalemate

Provides that where the legislature has not passed a budget by the start of the fiscal year the budget bills for the previous year shall remain in effect with a five percent reduction in all…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Increases penalties for criminal convictions of drunk or drugged driving where a child, under the age of 17, is a passenger

Increases penalties for criminal conviction of drunk or drugged driving in those cases where a child, under the age of seventeen, is a passenger in the vehicle being operated in violation of the…

David KoonCodes Committee

Establishes a class D felony for sex offenders who fail to register or verify and is found at locations where children often frequent

Establishes a class D felony for sex offenders who fail to register or verify and is found at locations where children often frequent, including parks, schools, day care centers, libraries or…

David KoonCorrection Committee