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Relates to requiring family counseling in certain orders of protection

Provides that a court may require family counseling in orders of protection in juvenile delinquency proceedings, when not inconsistent with the person's religious beliefs.

Joseph ErrigoJudiciary Committee

Authorizes probation officer to execute warrant for probation violation

Authorizes probation officers to execute a warrant for a violation of probation and take the alleged violator immediately to family court, or if the family court is not in session, to the…

Joseph ErrigoJudiciary Committee

Requires all taxicabs and liveries in New York city to be equipped with at least one child safety seat that meets the standards of the vehicle and traffic law

Requires all taxicabs and liveries in New York city to be equipped with at least one child safety seat that meets the standards of the vehicle and traffic law; provides that a violation is…

Adriano EspaillatCities Committee

Provides for the management of ballast water from shipping vessels in an effort to prevent introduction of nonindigenous species

Provides for the management of ballast water from shipping vessels in an effort to prevent introduction of nonindigenous species; regulates release of ballast water, and provides penalties for…

David KoonEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Requires banks to issue a credit card that does not permit cash advances

Requires banks to issue a credit card that does not permit cash advances.

Sam HoytConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Relates to written demands for payment

Relates to written demands for payment; provides that written demands for the payment of dishonored checks may be in either English or Spanish, whichever is the spoken language of the drawer.

Thomas McKevittJudiciary Committee

Provides that information as to a student shall not be released by the state or city university of New York or an alumni association without student's consent

Provides that information as to a student shall not be released by the state or city university of New York or an alumni association thereof without the student's written consent.

William BoylandHigher Education Committee

Provides that the attorney general shall create a mortgage tracking system

William BoylandBanks CommitteeFinance

Relates to reimbursement of certain transportation costs provided by parents of students

Provides that the New York city school district shall reimburse parents for the cost of certain transportation which is provided by parents where children remain in school until 5:00 pm or later for…

Dov HikindEducation Committee

Provides for high school students to receive applications to enroll and vote by mail in their schools and for the transmission of applications by the school

Provides for high school students to receive applications to enroll and vote by mail in their schools and for the transmission of applications by the school.

William BoylandEducation CommitteeEducation

Provides that public pension systems in the state may invest in hedge funds and fund-of-hedge funds in accordance with rules and regulations

Provides that public pension systems in the state may invest in hedge funds and fund-of-hedge funds in accordance with rules and regulations.

William BoylandGovernmental Employees Committee

Provides that juniors and seniors at secondary schools and students at the state and city universities of New York must take a financial literacy course

Provides that juniors and seniors at secondary schools and students at the state and city universities of New York must take a financial literacy course.

William BoylandEducation Committee

Prohibits any person from transporting or selling a nonambulatory animal unless such animal is humanely euthanized

Prohibits any person from transporting, holding, buying, selling, giving, receiving or marketing a nonambulatory animal unless such animal is first humanely euthanized without undue delay from the…

Steven EnglebrightAgriculture Committee

Makes information contained in adoption records available to adult adoptees under certain circumstances

Makes information contained in adoption and foster care records available to adoptees aged 18 and over under certain circumstances; provides that such information shall include the adoptee's…

Vito LopezChildren And Families Committee

Creates the crime of aggravated criminal sale of marihuana

Creates the crime of aggravated criminal sale of marihuana; makes it a class E felony.

Susan JohnCodes Committee

Creates the New York state housing opportunities zones act

Enacts the "New York state housing opportunity zones act;" authorizes a pilot program to create locally proposed housing opportunity zones, providing for a mixture of locally approved and state…

Vito LopezHousing Committee

Requires filings to keep current name, address, telephone number and other particulars of owner of multiple dwelling in N.Y. city

Requires the name, address and other particulars of identification, ownership or control contained in registration statements filed by owners of multiple dwellings to be kept current by requiring…

Vito LopezHousing Committee

Provides for legislative division of judicial districts in N.Y. city into political subdivisions for the election of supreme court justices

Permits the legislature to divide the judicial districts within NYC into smaller political subdivisions for the purpose of electing justices of the supreme court.

Vito LopezJudiciary Committee

Provides a rental subsidy to persons in the nursing facility transition and diversion waiver program

Provides a rental subsidy to persons in the nursing facility transition and diversion waiver program.

Michele TitusHousing Committee

Requires licensed health care professionals and hospitals to make available to patients and prospective patients a printed copy of any medical malpractice conviction

Requires licensed health care professionals and hospitals to make available to patients and prospective patients a printed copy of any medical malpractice convictions or information; provides civil…

Michele TitusHealth Committee

Requires the implementation of educational programs in English literacy for certain non-English speaking pupils in N.Y. city

Requires that, in every school district in cities having a population of 1,000,000 or more, there shall be employed in every elementary school with non-English speaking pupils, at least one teacher…

Vito LopezEducation Committee

Provides for payment of state aid on account of state lands in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area

Directs state aid to be payable to any municipal corporation or special district that contains land in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management…

Robert OaksGovernmental Operations Committee

Provides exemption from jury service for election inspectors

Provides exemption from jury service for election inspectors for a period of four years.

Brian KavanaghJudiciary Committee

Designates sweet corn as the state vegetable

Designates sweet corn as the state vegetable.

Robert OaksGovernmental Operations Committee

Grants excused leave to civil service employees who are volunteer firefighters or ambulance workers during state of emergency

Grants excused leave to civil service employees during states of emergency as declared by the federal, state or a municipal government, when such employees are members of a volunteer fire department…

Robert OaksGovernmental Employees CommitteeFinance

Relates to the preparation of water supply emergency plans

Relates to the preparation of water supply emergency plans; includes certain persons who supply drinking water to fewer than three thousand three hundred people within the definition of a water…

Brian KavanaghHealth Committee

Makes provisions relating to grand jury proceedings and operations

Provides that a person to whom a child witness has initially disclosed evidence concerning a crime and who provides emotional support, including but not limited to, a professional counselor or…

Robert OaksCodes Committee

Allows the court to impose certain sanctions when claimant fails to accept a fair and equitable offer of compromise

Allows the court to impose certain monetary sanctions when claimant fails to accept a fair and equitable offer of compromise.

Brian KavanaghJudiciary Committee

Makes an appropriation to the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities to offset the cost of increased development of residential facilities

Makes an appropriation to the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities to offset the cost of increased development of residential facilities in unserved and underserved communities.

William BoylandMental Health Committee

Exempts an employer from paying into the unemployment insurance fund with respect to former public assistance recipients who are now his employees

Exempts an employer from paying into the unemployment insurance fund with respect to former public assistance recipients who are now his employees and direct the commissioner of labor and the…

Joseph ErrigoLabor Committee

Establishes a task force on women's health care and managed care; provides for expiration

Establishes a task force of thirteen members on women's health care and managed care to study the relationship of one to the other and any deficiencies in women's health care and whether such…

Marcus MolinaroHealth Committee

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds

Prohibits the erection or maintenance of billboards advertising alcoholic beverages within 1000 feet of schools and playgrounds; defines billboards.

Karim CamaraConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Enacts the community college and BOCES partnership act

Enacts the community college and BOCES partnership act to create a high technology manufacturing training program; provides grants for job training.

James ConteHigher Education CommitteeEducation

Enacts the criminal street gang abatement act of 2009; appropriation

Enacts the criminal street gang abatement act of 2009; creates the crime of gang solicitation, recruitment or retention; creates the crime of gang solicitation, recruitment or retention of minors;…

James ConteCodes Committee

Directs the commissioner of education to establish rules and regulations prohibiting school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for children

Directs the commissioner of education to establish rules and regulations prohibiting school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for children.

Felix OrtizEducation CommitteeEducation

Authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations authorizing school programs designed to educate students on the dangers of alcohol

Authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations authorizing school curriculums to include programs designed to educate students on the immediate and consequential…

Felix OrtizEducation Committee

Regulates the dissemination of personal information acquired by a provider of on-line computer services

Regulates the collection, disclosure and dissemination of personal information acquired by a provider of on-line computer services in order to ensure the privacy of subscriber information and wage…

Felix OrtizConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Provides that the failure to report a release of hazardous substances is a class A misdemeanor

Provides that the failure to report a release of hazardous substances is a class A misdemeanor and any such subsequent violation shall be a class E felony.

Linda RosenthalEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Creates central procurement offices for each public authority

Creates a central procurement office within each authority responsible for entering into all contracts for the procurement of goods or services on behalf of the authority or its subsidiaries.

Linda RosenthalCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Provides certain requirements for health care proxies and death certificates

Provides certain requirements for health care proxies and death certificates.

Janele Hyer-SpencerHealth Committee

Directs the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance (OTDA) to conduct a feasibility study of the use of computers in social services

Directs the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to conduct a feasibility study of the use of personal computers and modems as a means of determining certification and…

Vito LopezSocial Services Committee

Provides for distribution of health care proxy information in mailings related to license and vehicle registration mailings to residents

Provides for distribution of health care proxy information in mailings related to license and vehicle registration mailings to residents for a whole year, every four years, beginning not later than…

Linda RosenthalTransportation Committee

Provides that landlord's request for information regarding request to sublet shall be on forms prepared by housing agency

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to promulgate forms which a landlord of a rent regulated unit in a building with four or more such units shall be required to use when…

Linda RosenthalHousing Committee

Expands eligibility of the tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens

Expands eligibility of the tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens by permitting an exemption for rent increases above one-quarter of the combined…

James F. BrennanAging Committee

Provides for the regulation of campaign contributions and expenditures in the context of foreign elections

Provides for the regulation of campaign contributions and expenditures in the context of foreign (outside the 50 states and D.C.) elections; sets limits for contributions and requires the filing of…

Adriano EspaillatElection Law Committee

Governs election of board by residents of cooperatives and condominiums

Requires that the board of directors or board of managers of a converted cooperative or condominium, as the case may be, must be comprised of a majority of members elected by shareholders or owners…

Adriano EspaillatHousing Committee

Requires a risk analysis for diabetes and if necessary a test for diabetes for all children admitted to public schools and periodically, thereafter

Requires a risk analysis for diabetes and if necessary a test for diabetes for all children admitted to public schools and periodically, thereafter.

Felix OrtizEducation Committee

Provides a comprehensive plan for the protection of confidential personal information

Provides a comprehensive plan for the protection of confidential personal information; includes definitions, penalties and civil liability.

Audrey PhefferConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee