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Requires drivers licenses issued to registered sex offenders to bear a code identifying them as sex offenders

Requires state driver's licenses to indicate whether the holder is a registered sex offender; makes additional amendments regarding sex offender registration obligations and dissemination of…

Mike SpanoCorrection Committee

Prohibits municipalities from entering into contracts for the provision of fire services by a private entity

Prohibits any municipality from entering into a contract for the provision of fire protection, suppression, prevention or training services with any entity not established by a municipality and…

RoAnn DestitoGovernmental Operations Committee

Restricts insurers from demanding intrusive personal, financial and tax information from insureds as a standard practice in ordinary theft claims

Restricts insurers from demanding intrusive personal, financial and tax information from insureds as a standard practice in processing ordinary theft claims where no special circumstances warranting…

Jeffrey DinowitzInsurance Committee

Provides school tax exemption relief (STAR) to small business with 20 or fewer employees

Provides school tax exemption relief (STAR) to small business with 20 or fewer employees.

David KoonReal Property Taxation Committee

Establishes distinctive "Support Our Troops" number plates for motor vehicles

Establishes distinctive "Support Our Troops" number plates for motor vehicles.

Mike SpanoTransportation Committee

Provides for the recordation of restrictive covenant modification documents where conveyance instruments include language violative of civil rights laws

Provides for notice of illegal restrictive covenant language in documents to be recorded and the recordation of restrictive covenant modification documents where conveyance instruments include…

Michele TitusJudiciary Committee

Extends periods of time of placement for juvenile delinquents

Extends maximum periods of time of placement for juvenile delinquents; class A felonies shall not exceed five years, class B felonies shall not exceed three years, class C felonies shall not exceed…

Joseph ErrigoChildren And Families Committee

Authorizes municipalities to regulate trapping on land owned by such municipality

Authorizes municipalities to regulate trapping on land owned by such municipality.

Steven EnglebrightEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Directs the commissioner of general services to establish a demonstration program of specialized cost control known as value engineering

Directs the commissioner of general services to establish a demonstration program of specialized cost control known as value engineering; such program shall utilize a systematic approach to identify…

David KoonGovernmental Operations Committee

Establishes a separate part of the housing part of the New York City Civil Court to be devoted to cases by and against two-family or three-family homeowners

Establishes a separate part of the housing part of the New York City Civil Court to be devoted to cases by and against two-family or three-family homeowners.

Alan MaiselJudiciary Committee

Relates to electric capacity and power procurement

Relates to electric capacity and power procurement; further relates to the powers of the Long Island power authority respecting portfolio management services.

James F. BrennanOn the Assembly floor

Relates to providing free fare on metropolitan transportation authority transit systems

Relates to providing free fare on metropolitan transportation authority transit systems for senior citizens sixty-five years of age or older.

James F. BrennanCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Provides that utility interference work required for public works contracts shall be bid for separately from such public works contract

Provides that any political subdivision may, before advertising for sealed bids on a public works contract, determine that such contract requires utility interference work and have such utility…

Joseph ErrigoLocal Governments Committee

Enacts the Juvenile Justice Accountability and Procedural Reform Act; repealer

Enacts the Juvenile Justice Accountability And Procedural Reform Act; implements procedural reforms that will promote juvenile accountability and parental support; increases severity and diversity…

Joseph ErrigoChildren And Families Committee

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 Committee

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