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Classifies as murder in the first degree a deliberate and premeditated design to effect death by a cold-blooded killer; lets jury choose prison for less than life

Classifies as murder in the first degree a deliberate and premeditated design to effect death by a cold-blooded killer; permits jury to choose prison for less than life; specifies that if the jury…

Robin SchimmingerCodes Committee

Reduces the marginal personal income tax for taxable years beginning after 2005 from 6.85% to 6.5%

Reduces the marginal personal income tax for taxable years beginning after 2005 from 6.85% to 6.5%.

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Provides an exemption from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax for certain equipment purchased by companies located in college incubator facilities

Provides an exemption from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax for equipment, with a purchase price of five hundred dollars or greater, purchased by companies located in college incubator…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Relates to increasing the limit of the amount of money which may be on deposit with the excelsior linked deposit program

Increases the limit on the amount of funds which may be on deposit with the excelsior linked deposit program at any given time from $460 million to $525 million.

Robin SchimmingerEconomic Development Committee

Establishes the strategic network partnerships program to organize, integrate and coordinate state programs designed to assist manufacturing industries

Establishes the strategic network partnerships program to organize, integrate and coordinate state programs designed to assist manufacturing industries to become more competitive and productive;…

Robin SchimmingerOn the Assembly floor

Permits one to three owner-officer corporations to elect workers' compensation coverage for such owner-officers as if they were employees or decline coverage

Increases the number of executive owner-officers of a small corporation who may elect to be included in or excluded from workers' compensation insurance coverage from two to three.

Robin SchimmingerLabor Committee

Increases the estate tax unified credit threshold to the unified credit amounts allowable under the internal revenue code

Increases the estate tax unified credit threshold to the unified credit amounts allowable under the internal revenue code beginning January 1, 2011; eliminates the New York estate and…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Reduces the tax on aviation fuel businesses under article 13-A of the tax law; repealer

Reduces the tax on aviation fuel businesses by repealing the Kero-jet fuel tax.

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Removes the authority of state agencies, public authorities, school districts and municipalities to require project labor agreements for public works projects; repealer

Removes the authority of state agencies, public authorities, school districts and municipalities to require project labor agreements for public works projects.

Robin SchimmingerLabor Committee

Relates to requirements for financial assistance through the urban development corporation

Relates to requirements for financial assistance through the urban development corporation; provides that UDC requirements for the receipt of financial assistance shall include job creation levels…

Robin SchimmingerEconomic Development Committee

Allows for simplified case resolution, where authorized; available in an action for money damages only

Allows for simplified case resolution, where authorized, to be available in an action for money damages only where the amount sought to be recovered does not exceed $75,000, exclusive of interest…

Robin SchimmingerJudiciary Committee

Enacts the "medical liability reform act"; repealer

Enacts the "medical liability reform act"; requires attorney for plaintiff in a medical, dental or podiatric malpractice case to include with the certificate of merit, an affidavit of an appropriate…

Robin SchimmingerJudiciary Committee

Relates to the collection of DNA samples of designated offenders, the preservation of biological evidence and establishes the commission of exoneration review

Relates to the collection of DNA samples of designated offenders, retention and confidentiality of DNA samples, collection and preservation of biological evidence, and the establishment of the…

Robin SchimmingerCodes Committee

Raises tax credits for long-term care insurance from twenty percent to fifty percent

Raises tax credits for long-term care insurance from twenty percent to fifty percent; applies to the corporation tax, franchise tax on business corporations, personal income tax, franchise tax on…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Expands the asset transfer look-back period, disallows certain asset shelters, eliminates spousal refusal, caps spousal impoverishment asset allowances for medicaid

Expands the asset transfer look-back period, disallows certain asset shelters, eliminates spousal refusal, caps spousal impoverishment asset allowances, and eliminates the shielding of additional…

Robin SchimmingerHealth Committee

Provides that no person shall be ineligible to receive an enhanced STAR exemption for senior citizens on certain income/late payment grounds

Provides that no person shall be ineligible to receive an enhanced STAR exemption provided to senior citizens on the basis that his or her income exceeds the eligibility requirements because of the…

Robin SchimmingerReal Property Taxation Committee

Proposes to limit state revenue growth, creates a revenue limitation and establishes a budget stabilization fund

Implements provisions to limit state revenue growth; creates a revenue limitation; establishes a budget stabilization fund; sets rates for allowable growth; exempts emergencies declared by the…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Authorizes health insurers to provide actuarially appropriate reductions in health insurance premiums for participation in a wellness program

Authorizes health insurers, subject to the approval of the superintendent of insurance, to provide actuarially appropriate reductions in health insurance premiums for an enrollee's or insured's…

Robin SchimmingerInsurance Committee

Exempts motor vehicles owned by volunteer firefighters and used in firefighter duties from the payment of fees and use tax for the registration of their vehicles

Exempts motor vehicles owned by volunteer firefighters and used in firefighter duties from the payment of registration fees and any vehicle use tax based upon the weight or value of the vehicle.

Robin SchimmingerTransportation Committee

Provides for furnishing a copy of the autopsy report of the deceased to certain physicians upon application to the coroner or medical examiner

Provides for furnishing a copy of the autopsy report of the deceased to the attending physician of the deceased or a physician representative of the hospital quality assurance committee where the…

Robin SchimmingerLocal Governments Committee

Provides that a study be done by the commissioners of health and education on telemedicine; defines such term; repealer

Adds new article to public health law to provide for the study of telemedicine; defines such term to mean the use of interactive audio, video or other electronic media to deliver health care…

Robin SchimmingerHealth Committee

Provides for optional excusal from jury service for persons age 70 or over

Provides for optional excusal from jury service for persons age 70 or over, without any need to show mental or physical incapacity, undue hardship or extreme inconvenience to the applicant.

Robin SchimmingerJudiciary Committee

Increases project size for which separate contracts on public work are required; repealer

Raises the threshold total project cost dollar amount under the Wicks Law (requiring separate contracts for the plumbing, heating and HVAC components of public construction projects) requirements…

Robin SchimmingerLocal Governments Committee

Exempts the amount of any service award paid to any volunteer firefighter or ambulance worker from personal income tax

Exempts the amount of any service award paid to any volunteer firefighter or ambulance worker from personal income tax.

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Provides for a plan of expenditure for monies appropriated and received by the state on behalf of a gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo

Provides for a plan of expenditure for monies appropriated and received by the state on behalf of a gaming facility located in the city of Buffalo: provides for the repeal of such provisions on…

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Establishes corporate franchise tax credit for uncollected prescription co-payments

Establishes a corporate franchise tax credit for co-payments for prescription drugs which are not collected by pharmacies pursuant to federal law or regulations.

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Authorizing the commissioner of health to apply for a medicaid reform demonstration waiver

Authorizes the commissioner of health to apply for a medicaid reform demonstration waiver; creates an initiative to provide for a more efficient and effective medicaid services delivery system; sets…

Robin SchimmingerHealth Committee

Establishes procedure for governor to make both a voluntary declaration of inability and cessation of inability and establishes procedure to have governor removed

Establishes procedure for voluntary declaration by governor of an inability to discharge the duties of the office, and for subsequent declaration that inability has ceased; also establishes…

Robin SchimmingerGovernmental Operations Committee

Amends license fees to sell liquor at retail for on premises consumption outside the city of New York to standardize such fees

Amends license fees to sell liquor at retail for on premises consumption outside the city of New York to standardize such fees.

Robin SchimmingerEconomic Development Committee

Relates to certification and decertification of businesses as empire zone enterprises; repealer

Relates to certification and decertification of businesses as empire zone enterprises.

Robin SchimmingerEconomic Development Committee

Provides a tax credit for the purchase of certified sustainably harvested wood products

Provides a tax credit for the purchase of FSC-certified wood products.

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Requires committing to custody of sheriff a person against whom a verified statement has been filed alleging the intimidation of a victim or a witness while on bail

Requires the incarceration of a defendant, pending a bail revocation hearing, upon filing of a statement alleging the intimidation of a victim or witness while such defendant was at liberty on bail;…

Robin SchimmingerCodes Committee

Relates to tuition increases, leasing, contracting, and the overall daily operation at the State University of New York at Buffalo

Relates to tuition increases, leasing, contracting, and the overall daily operation at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Robin SchimmingerHigher Education Committee

Changes eligibility requirements for applicants for temporary retail permits

Changes eligibility requirements for applicants for temporary retail permits.

Robin SchimmingerEconomic Development Committee

Relates to temporary transfer retail permits

Relates to temporary transfer retail permits.

Robin SchimmingerEconomic Development Committee

Enacts the academic research information access act

Enacts the academic research information access act to provide public and private academic and research libraries of New York access to information resources at institutions of higher education and…

Robin SchimmingerVetoed

Vetoed

Includes eligible businesses in certain areas designated under the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 in the Excelsior Linked Deposit Act loan program

Includes eligible businesses located in federally designated areas under the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 (26 U.S.C.

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Makes standards for various on premises liquor licenses consistent

Makes standards for various on-premises liquor licenses consistent.

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to the specialty pharmacy program

Exempts certain pharmacies owned and operated by a not-for-profit organization solely for the purpose of providing drugs to individuals diagnosed with cystic fibrosis from the provisions of the…

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Creates within the department of economic development the strategic training alliance program to fund regional skills training programs; repealer

Creates within the department of economic development the strategic training alliance program to fund regional skills training programs within specific areas or industries to enhance employer access…

Robin SchimmingerVetoed

Vetoed

Requires economic development program performance plans and evaluations; establishes private industry review council

Directs the commissioner of economic development to prepare performance plans covering financial and business assistance programs and reports thereon; establishes a private industry review council…

Robin SchimmingerVetoed

Vetoed

Extends the provisions of law requiring deposits on kegs

Extends the provisions of law requiring deposits on kegs.

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

An act to amend part L of chapter 60 of the laws of 2004, amending the tax law relating to exempting parts used for aircrafts

Relates to exempting parts used exclusively to maintain, repair, overhaul or rebuild aircrafts from the sales and compensating use tax, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Extends provisions of law relating to the self-employment assistance program

Extends provisions of law relating to the self-employment assistance program.

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Paying tribute to Roswell Park Cancer Institute upon the occasion of hosting its Clinical Research Services Week

Robin SchimmingerAdopted

Adopted

Extends authorization for private sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo

Extends authorization for private sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo to include serial bonds or notes issued on or before June 30, 2010.

Robin SchimmingerOn the Assembly floor

Extends the authorization of the county of Erie to impose additional sales and compensating use taxes

Extends the authorization of the county of Erie to impose additional sales and compensating use taxes.

Robin SchimmingerOn the Assembly floor

Extends the date on which a final report is due from the law revision commission

Extends the date on which a final report is due from the law revision commission.

Robin SchimmingerSigned by Governor

Signed into law