Sponsored bills

Requires any person engaged in commercial mold remediation to be certified by the commissioner

Requires any person engaged in commercial mold remediation to be certified by the commissioner.

Linda RosenthalEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Exempts from licensure instructors in yoga and martial arts

Requires licensure for instructors in religion, dancing, music, painting, drawing, sculpture, poetry, dramatic art, languages, reading comprehension, mathematics, recreation and athletics.

Linda RosenthalSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Makes monk (Quaker) parakeets protected birds

Makes Monk (Quaker) Parakeets protected birds.

Linda RosenthalEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Eliminates the MTA's exemption from environmental quality review standards established by article 8 of the environmental conservation law

Eliminates the MTA's exemption from environmental quality review standards established by article 8 of the environmental conservation law.

Linda RosenthalWays And Means Committee

Establishes a tax credit for personal property replacement as a result of bedbug infestation

Establishes a tax credit for personal property replacement as a result of bedbug infestation; credit of 15% not to exceed $750; certification determined by commissioner.

Linda RosenthalWays And Means Committee

Relates to the powers and duties of N.Y. state energy research and development authority (NYSERDA) with respect to collection of information regarding energy efficiency

Relates to the powers and duties of NYSERDA with respect to collection of information regarding energy efficient outdoor lighting; requires NYSERDA to make available for public and private uses, the…

Linda RosenthalEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Requires written notification where a pharmacist is substituting a generic version of a drug product by one manufacturer for a generic version of a drug product by another manufacturer

Requires written notification to patients where a pharmacist is substituting a generic version of a drug product by one manufacturer for a generic version of a drug product by another manufacturer.

Linda RosenthalHigher Education Committee

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of major capital improvements

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Relates to the right of tenant association to have the first option to purchase a housing unit

Relates to the right of tenant association to have the first option to purchase a housing unit.

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Relates to mutual companies in N.Y. city

Requires a Mitchell-Lama cooperative seeking to dissolve to offer cooperators who may not be able to afford the increased carrying charges the opportunity to sell.

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Authorizes study of housing programs for low and middle income families; provides for a moratorium on the voluntary dissolution of limited profit, limited dividend and redevelopment housing companies

Authorizes the state division of housing and community renewal to study housing programs for low and middle income families, and provides for a moratorium on the voluntary dissolution of limited…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Requires written notification to parents of infants whose DNA or blood spots are retained

Requires written notification to parents of infant's whose DNA or blood spots are retained.

Linda RosenthalHealth Committee

Enacts the healthy, safe and energy efficient outdoor lighting act to reduce harmful outdoor lighting

Enacts the healthy, safe and energy efficient outdoor lighting act to reduce harmful outdoor lighting; sets standards for outdoor lighting; provides for the designation of dark-sky preserves;…

Linda RosenthalOn the Assembly floor

Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions

Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law.

Linda RosenthalCodes Committee

Requires epinephrine auto-injector devices at children's overnight, summer day and traveling summer camps

Requires epinephrine auto-injector devices at children's overnight, summer day and traveling summer day camps.

Linda RosenthalHealth Committee

Recodifies the animal cruelty laws from the agriculture and markets law to the penal law; repealer

Recodifies the animal cruelty laws from the agriculture and markets law to the penal law.

Linda RosenthalCodes Committee

Recodifies the animal cruelty laws from the agriculture and markets law to the penal law and reclassifies certain penalties within; repealer

Recodifies the animal cruelty laws from the agriculture and markets law to the penal law and reclassifies certain penalties within.

Linda RosenthalCodes Committee

Classifies the penalties for various provisions of animal cruelty; makes an increased penalty for multiple violations

Classifies the penalties for various provisions of animal cruelty; makes an increased penalty for multiple violations.

Linda RosenthalAgriculture Committee

Imposes civil penalties on landlords for including unenforceable provisions in residential leases

Imposes civil penalties on landlords for including unenforceable provisions in residential leases.

Linda RosenthalJudiciary Committee

Prohibits tail docking of cattle

Prohibits tail docking of cattle.

Linda RosenthalAgriculture Committee

Relates to the remediation and prevention of indoor mold and requiring the disclosure of indoor mold history upon the sale of certain real property

Relates to the remediation and prevention of indoor mold; requires the disclosure of indoor mold history upon the sale of certain real property; directs the commissioner of housing and community…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Requires the rent guidelines board to take other sources of income received by landlords from commercial rents and unregulated residential units into account when establishing annual calculations

Requires the rent guidelines board to take other sources of income received by landlords from commercial rents and unregulated residential units into account when establishing annual calculations.

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Expands the exemption provided to professional journalists and newscasters from contempt to include employment or association with a web log

Expands the exemption provided to professional journalists and newscasters from contempt to include employment or association with a web log; defines web log as a website or webpage that contains an…

Linda RosenthalGovernmental Operations Committee

Directs that all ambulances' shall be equipped with epinephrine auto-injector devices

Directs that all ambulances shall be equipped with epinephrine auto-injector devices.

Linda RosenthalHealth Committee

Relates to state policy regarding the preservation of the unique qualities of the nighttime sky

Relates to state policy regarding the preservation of the unique qualities of the nighttime sky.

Linda RosenthalOn the Assembly floor

Provides a private right of action for nail specialists aggrieved by their employer in the case of a health and safety violation or retaliatory action

Provides a private right of action for nail specialist's aggrieved by their employer in the case of a health and safety violation, unlawful retaliatory action, or general labor issues such as hours…

Linda RosenthalJudiciary Committee

Authorizes administrative enforcement of state and local housing maintenance laws

Authorizes localities to establish administrative proceedings for the enforcement of state and local housing maintenance codes; permits administratively imposed penalties to be dockets and enforced…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Provides for the authority of the department of health to engage in or support research on the health effects of artificial night light

Provides for authority of the department of health to engage in or support research on the health effects of artificial night light.

Linda RosenthalOn the Assembly floor

Expands the requirements for teaching humane education to secondary school students

Expands the requirements for teaching humane education of animals to secondary school students.

Linda RosenthalEducation Committee

Creates the toxics information clearinghouse

Creates the toxics information clearinghouse; substances hazardous to public health, safety or the environment that have been identified or listed as a hazardous waste in regulations promulgated…

Linda RosenthalEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Allows clinical labs to provide biological data analysis services

Allows clinical labs to provide biological data analysis services upon the request of the person on whom the service is to be performed for personal genomics or biological data collection.

Linda RosenthalHealth Committee

Relates to witnesses to a health care proxy

Relates to witnesses to a health care proxy; changes the witness requirement for the health care proxy from two adult witnesses to one adult witness; makes an exception for persons who reside in…

Linda RosenthalOn the Assembly floor

Requires average monthly rate increase information to all residents of assisted living facilities

Requires average monthly rate increase information be provided to all residents of assisted living facilities; exempts nonprofit assisted living residences.

Linda RosenthalHealth Committee

Provides for the humane removal of downed animals

Provides for the humane treatment and removal of downed animals.

Linda RosenthalAgriculture Committee

Repeals provisions of the administrative code of the city of New York relating to the eviction of tenants where buildings are to be demolished or substantially altered

Repeals provisions of the administrative code of the city of NY relating to more readily permitting the eviction of tenants where buildings are to be demolished or substantially altered.

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Revises proceedings to recover possession to prevent avoidable eviction and resulting homelessness; requires improved notice to the respondent

Revises proceedings to recover possession of premises located in a multiple dwelling; requires premises to be registered with the local agency responsible for code enforcement; petition shall be…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Authorizes N.Y. city to impose the city earnings tax on nonresidents and repeals chapter 5 of the laws of 1999

Repeals chapter 5 of the laws 1999 and authorizes a city having a population of one million or more to impose the city earnings tax on nonresidents.

Linda RosenthalWays And Means Committee

Provides for banning the possession, sale or manufacture of assault weapons, subject to an exception; expands duties of superintendent of state police; repealer

Adds additional weapon models to the definition of an assault weapon and adds related definitions; bans the possession, sale or manufacture of assault weapons, subject to an exception; expands the…

Linda RosenthalCodes Committee

Permits tenants heat repair expense to be set off against rent

Allows tenants the right to offset rent with payments made for the repair or service maintenance of an oil fired or other heating device where reasonable efforts were made to notify the landlord of…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Requires a landlord to have clean hands to bring action for rent or eviction in certain cases

Provides that with respect to apartments covered by rent control, rent stabilization, or the emergency tenant protection act, a landlord must be free of outstanding building code violations to bring…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Enacts provisions relating to the trafficking of weapons and for the firearm, rifle and shotgun ballistic identification bank

Enacts provisions relating to the trafficking of weapons and for the firearm, rifle and shotgun ballistic identification bank; phases in reporting requirements for firearms and weapons.

Linda RosenthalCodes Committee

Creates a classification for vacant real property in a special assessing unit

Creates a classification for vacant real property in a special assessing unit.

Linda RosenthalReal Property Taxation Committee

Relates to labeling and sale of cloned animals and food products from cloned animals or the progeny of such animals

Requires disclosure and labeling of food products from cloned animals or the progeny of such animals.

Linda RosenthalConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Confinement of animals for food producing purposes

Pertains to confinement of animals for food producing purposes; prohibits any person to tether or confine any pig during pregnancy, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen who is kept on a farm for…

Linda RosenthalAgriculture Committee

Establishes the diesel emissions retrofit program and fund

Establishes the diesel emissions retrofit program and fund; fund supplements through federal diesel emission reduction act funds in addition to other state funds.

Linda RosenthalEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter weight loss supplements to minors and requires education to minors of the effects of weight loss supplements

Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter weight loss supplements to minors and requires education to minors of the effects of weight loss supplements; requires store owners to post a sign of such…

Linda RosenthalCodes Committee

Permits tenants in certain cities to take a rental offset for repair of hazardous conditions

Provides that in cities with a population of one million or more, a tenant or group of tenants, after proper notice to the landlord of the existence of a hazardous violation of housing codes and…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Provides for a state school tax reduction credit for low income renters against personal income tax for renters in a qualified residence

Provides for a state school tax reduction credit for low income renters against personal income tax for renters in a qualified residence; defines qualified residence as a rental unit subject to…

Linda RosenthalWays And Means Committee