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Requires contracts for the collection and transportation of commercial waste to specify recyclable, reusable, and other components for separation

Provides that every written contract for the collection and transportation of commercial waste from a place at which such waste is generated shall specify the recyclable, reusable or other…

Suzi OppenheimerConsumer Protection Committee

Directs the state inspector general to refer certain investigations to the attorney general

Directs the state inspector general to refer certain investigations to the attorney general; allows the state inspector general to refer to the attorney general investigations regarding matters…

George WinnerInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Relates to explosives

Relates to explosives; establishes that a license to own and possess explosives shall not permit the licensee to manufacture, sell, give or transfer ownership of any class of explosive; defines…

George WinnerLabor Committee

Authorizes Nassau county to impose a tax on tobacco products

Authorizes Nassau county to impose a tax on tobacco products.

Craig M. JohnsonInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Requires state agencies and certain covered authorities to purchase handguns from responsible suppliers

Requires state agencies and certain covered authorities to purchase handguns from responsible suppliers; defines criteria therefor; provides for exceptions.

Eric T. SchneidermanFinance Committee

Provides an election by a defendant in criminal matters to have the case appear before a judge or justice admitted to practice law in the state

Provides an election by a defendant in criminal matters to have the case appear before a judge or justice admitted to practice law in the state.

John L. SampsonJudiciary Committee

Requires inmates to have an acceptable residence to qualify for parole

Requires inmates to have an acceptable residence to qualify for parole.

Kenneth P. LaValleCrime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

Establishes health care organization responsibility

Provides that whenever health care organizations delay, fail or refuse to approve, provide, arrange for, or pay for in a timely manner any health care service that it is contractually obligated to…

Neil D. BreslinJudiciary Committee

Relates to large capital projects to be financed in whole or in part with public funds

Relates to large capital projects to be financed in whole or in part with public funds or to be supported by tax and other public incentives and the disclosure of such projects.

John J. FlanaganCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Enacts the "New York consumers catastrophe preparedness and protection act"; appropriation

Enacts the "New York consumers catastrophe preparedness and protection act"; defines terms; creates an advisory council; establishes the New York state catastrophe fund; makes a ten million dollar…

John J. FlanaganInsurance Committee

Provides that no person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in the back seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt

Provides that no person sixteen years of age or over shall be a passenger in the back seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor…

Charles J. Fuschillo Jr.Transportation Committee

Creates the Bloomfield public library district in the county of Ontario

Michael F. NozzolioLocal Government Committee

Relates to payments equivalent to tax by certain electric corporations

Relates to payments equivalent to tax by certain electric corporations.

Daniel L. SquadronEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Relates to refund anticipation loans

Relates to refund anticipation loans; requires that at the time a borrower applies for a refund anticipation loan, a facilitator shall disclose to such borrower certain information; defines terms.

Diane J. SavinoBanks Committee

Relates to the entitlement to unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence

Relates to the entitlement to unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for ninety days from employment to…

Diane J. SavinoLabor Committee

Relates to a theft of certain services

Relates to a theft of certain services; increases certain penalties and administrative fees for toll evaders; relates to the suspension of a registration of a toll evader.

Eric T. SchneidermanCodes Committee

Relates to period of imprisonment for leaving the scene of an incident

Provides that for a sentence imposed for leaving the scene of an incident without reporting where the accident caused death or serious physical injury, as required in section 600 of the vehicle and…

Carl KrugerTransportation Committee

Requires applicants to provide a street address when applying for a license and registration

Requires applicants to provide a street address when applying for a license and registration; allows police access to such street addresses.

Brian X. FoleyTransportation Committee

Provides free golf for veterans at state park golf courses

Provides that a person who is a veteran of the wars of the United States be permitted to use any of the state park golf courses in this state without the payment of any fees or other charges for the…

Joseph E. RobachVeterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

Establishes a closed-circuit television system and surveillance personal privacy act

Establishes a public authority closed-circuit television system and surveillance personal privacy act, a state highway closed-circuit television system and surveillance personal privacy act and a…

David J. ValeskyCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Relates to the early rate restructuring work group and early intervention demonstration projects

Relates to the early intervention rate restructuring work group and early intervention demonstration projects.

Thomas P. MorahanHealth Committee

Expands out of state medical and dental school opportunities for N.Y. state residents to certain universities outside the country

Seeks to open accessibility for academically qualified students who are bona fide residents of the state of New York to obtain reserved seats at minority institutions of higher learning; authorizes…

Carl KrugerHigher Education Committee

Relates to buyback of military service credit for gulf war veterans

Relates to buyback of military service credit for gulf war veterans.

Jeffrey D. KleinCivil Service And Pensions Committee

Relates to residential wireless telephone service

Relates to residential wireless telephone service; disclosure, notification and consumer protection requirements in wireless telecommunications consumer transactions; plain language disclosures to…

Kevin S. ParkerConsumer Protection Committee

Authorizes extension by local law of an exemption to un-remarried spouses of deceased five year members of volunteer fire companies or ambulance services; repealer

Authorizes the extension by local law of a volunteer firefighter/volunteer ambulance worker property exemption to unremarried spouses of deceased 5 year members of volunteer fire companies or…

Owen H. JohnsonLocal Government Committee

Requires inspection of vehicle windshield and window light transmittance during annual vehicle safety inspection

Requires inspection of the vehicle windshield and window light transmittance during annual vehicle safety inspection to assure that such glass surfaces are in compliance with provisions limiting…

Owen H. JohnsonTransportation Committee

Creates division of developmental assistance, environmental indemnification and land use control to provide developers with indemnification for contamination; repealer

Creates a division of developmental assistance, environmental indemnification and land use control, within the department of economic development, the purpose of which is to provide developers with…

Owen H. JohnsonCommerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee

Creates the crime of luring or enticing a child on the internet

Creates the crime of luring or enticing a child on the internet.

Andrew J. LanzaCodes 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.

Carl KrugerFinance Committee

Relates to the registration and regulation of animal breeders

Relates to the registration and regulation of animal breeders; requires each to be licensed; creates a breeders licensing fund; exempts not-for-profit organizations.

Andrew J. LanzaAgriculture Committee

Provides exceptions to FOIL; identify which portions of the record shall be exempt from disclosure

Provides exceptions to FOIL; identifies which portions of the record shall be exempt from disclosure; specifies that one month prior to the expiration of the exception, the agency may extend the…

Craig M. JohnsonInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Expands the products which may be purchased for public use

Expands the products which may be purchased for public use by including renewable energy resources; further increases the cost premium percentage of a product deemed reasonably competitive.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsLocal Government Committee

Establishes $200 personal income tax credit for households residing within 1 mile of electric generating facility

Establishes a $200 personal income tax credit for each household which resides within 1 mile of an electric generating facility.

George OnoratoInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Exempts improvement to historic property from taxation if certified and agreed by appropriate agency

Encourages the preservation and viewing of historic properties by allowing an exemption from local real estate tax for improvements to historic real property and by requiring certain public access…

George OnoratoLocal Government Committee

Requires social services districts to maintain a waiting list of families who have applied for child care assistance and data regarding the income of such families

Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; further requires the local districts to report such list to the…

Velmanette MontgomeryChildren And Families Committee

Creates a traffic adjudication appeals bureau in executive department for appeals from traffic violations bureau; repealer

Establishes a separate bureau within the executive department to receive, consider and determine appeals from determinations of hearing officers of the department of motor vehicles traffic…

Carl KrugerFinance Committee

Enacts the Healthy Teens Act which requires the commissioner to amend regulations to include medically accurate, age appropriate sexual education in secondary schools

Enacts the Healthy Teens Act which requires the commissioner to amend regulations to include medically accurate, age appropriate sexual education in secondary schools.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Requires landlords to make certain records available upon request of the rent guidelines board

Requires landlords to make books and records available regarding income and other certain information upon request of the rent guidelines board to be used in determining whether certain rents for…

Carl KrugerHousing, Construction And Community Development Committee

Allows firefighters who live in one town but volunteer in another town to take advantage of the real property tax exemptions

Allows firefighters who live in one town but volunteer in another town to take advantage of the real property tax exemptions.

Vincent L. LeibellLocal Government Committee

Relating to the creation of a system of uniform identification cards for firefighters and emergency services personnel by the state director of homeland security

Provides for the creation of a system of uniform identification cards for firefighters and emergency services personnel by the state director of homeland security; details information to be included…

Vincent L. LeibellVeterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

Establishes the sex offender alert line to permit members of the public to request notification of the residence of a registered sex offender in certain zip codes

Establishes the sex offender alert line to permit members of the public to request notification of the residence of a registered sex offender within certain zip codes; provides that notification…

Darrel J. AubertineCrime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

Relates to automobile manufacturers' warranty adjustment programs

Relates to required notice to consumers of automobile manufacturers' warranty adjustment programs.

Hiram MonserrateConsumer Protection Committee

Bans the sale, use or possession of 50-caliber weapons

Bans the sale, use or possession of 50-caliber or larger weapons and directs the division of state police to embark on a program whereby persons currently in lawful possession of such weapons may be…

Eric T. SchneidermanCodes Committee

Requires private hospital security officers to receive forty hours of comprehensive training and authorizes the commissioner to develop such training

Requires private hospital security officers to receive forty hours of comprehensive training in fire prevention, basic criminal law, first aid, use of restraint and any other training deemed…

Andrew J. LanzaLabor Committee

Relates to pre-existing condition provisions for group and blanket disability policies

Relates to pre-existing condition provisions for group and blanket disability policies which excludes coverage under the policy for a disability commencing during the twelve months following the…

Neil D. BreslinInsurance Committee

Relates to the rights of youth in detention and residential programs for youth

Defines a bill of rights for juveniles in the juvenile justice system.

Velmanette MontgomeryChildren And Families Committee

Creates the sustainable energy loan program to assist homeowners in the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements

Creates the sustainable energy loan program to assist homeowners in the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy efficiency improvements; loan program offered…

Kevin S. ParkerLocal Government Committee

Establishes the class D felony of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds

Establishes the class D felony of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds; authorizes municipalities to place gang free school zone signs on highways passing through school grounds.

Andrew J. LanzaCodes Committee