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Grants an exemption from licensing requirements for certain social work and mental health professionals employed by certain corporations

Grants an exemption from licensing requirements for certain social work and mental health professionals employed by certain not-for-profit corporations, education corporations and business…

Toby Ann StaviskySigned by Governor

Signed into law

Creates a private right of action for improper debt collection procedures

Creates a private right of action for improper debt collection procedures; allows plaintiffs to recover punitive damages and reasonable attorneys' fees.

Michael GianarisRules Committee

Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children

Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children, allowing children of military families to achieve educational success by facilitating smoother transfers between…

Darrel J. AubertineEducation Committee

Relates to powers of banking board, restrictions on employees of the banking department, collecting assessment fees, suspending mortgage bankers; repealer

Relates to powers of banking board, restrictions on employees of the banking department, collecting assessment fees, suspending mortgage bankers and brokers for cause and eliminating outdated…

Brian X. FoleyCodes Committee

Relates to global warming pollution control

Relates to global warming pollution control; establishes greenhouse gas limits and a greenhouse gas reporting system.

Antoine M. ThompsonFinance Committee

Allows cell phone users to add a new phone line without having to renew the service plan and to cancel an additional line without paying any fee, charge or cost

Prohibits cell phone service providers from requiring a customer to renew his or her service plan when adding a new phone line to such plan; and prohibits such provider from lenghthening the time of…

Martin Malavé DilanConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Creates a local advisory board for the Belmont racetrack facility

Creates a local advisory board for the Belmont racetrack facility; such local advisory board shall be composed of fifteen members.

Craig M. JohnsonOn the Senate floor

Defines occupational therapy assistant and provides requirements for a license as an occupational therapy assistant

Defines occupational therapy assistant and provides requirements for a license as an occupational therapy assistant.

Kenneth P. LaValleHigher Education Committee

Requires any community service sentence imposed for an offense involving graffiti to include graffiti removal as a portion of required service

Requires any community service sentence imposed for an offense involving graffiti to include graffiti removal as a portion of required service; including but not limited to, the removal of graffiti…

Jeffrey D. KleinCodes Committee

Requires integrated pest management plans in child day care centers, head start day care centers and schools

Requires integrated pest management plans as developed or approved by the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation in consultation with the commissioner of education and the…

Neil D. BreslinEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Grants Robert V. Vassallo, Sr. disability retirement from the New York state police

Brian X. FoleyGovernmental Employees Committee

Directs the law revision commission to make recommendations to the legislature concerning proposed revisions to laws that relate to local government

Directs the law revision commission to make recommendations to the legislature concerning proposed revisions to laws that relate to local government.

Betty LittleOn the Senate floor

Saluting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) space shuttle orbiter program, and honor the men and women who made it a reality

Michael DenDekkerAdopted

Adopted

Relates to the shipment of cigarettes

Relates to the shipment of cigarettes.

Jeffrey DinowitzWays And Means Committee

Relates to consolidation and dissolution of local government entities

Relates to consolidation and dissolution of local government entities; makes technical corrections.

Suzi OppenheimerRules Committee

Relates to ethnic or racial profiling

Relates to ethnic or racial profiling.

Pedro Espada Jr.Rules Committee

Relates to a license to operate a beverage center

Relates to a license to operate a beverage center.

Craig M. JohnsonRules Committee

Enacts the "healthcare rule-making reform act"

Enacts the "healthcare rule-making reform act"; reconstitutes the state hospital review and planning council as the state health systems council; provides for the composition and certain duties…

Jeffrey D. KleinRules Committee

Relates to reimbursement of non-emergency ambulette transportation services

Relates to reimbursement of non-emergency ambulette transportation services.

John L. SampsonRules Committee

Provides for a 25 year retirement plan for court reporters employed by the unified court system and who are 55 years of age

Provides for a 25 year retirement plan for Tier 2, Tier 3 and Tier 4 court reporters employed by the unified court system upon attainment of age 55; provides that the costs will be borne by the…

Peter AbbateGovernmental Employees Committee

Relates to tax credits provided for solar energy system equipment

Relates to tax credits provided for solar energy system equipment; provides credit for the lease of solar energy equipment and the purchase of power generated by solar equipment.

Kevin CahillWays And Means Committee

Relates to the powers and duties of the commissioner and the department of environmental conservation relating to the pollution of fresh water supplies

Relates to the powers and duties of the commissioner and the department of environmental conservation relating to the pollution of fresh water supplies by oil, gas, salt water or other contaminants,…

Barbara LiftonEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Provides that court reporters employed by the unified court system may retire upon the completion of 25 years of creditable service

Provides that court reporters employed by the unified court system may retire upon the completion of 25 years of creditable service; provides that the benefit upon retirement would be an allowance…

Peter AbbateGovernmental Employees Committee

Directs the special advisory panel on homeowners' insurance/catastrophe coverage to study certain facets of profitability of insurance in coastal areas

Directs the special advisory panel on homeowners' insurance/catastrophe coverage to study certain facets of profitability of insurance in coastal areas.

George LatimerInsurance Committee

Relates to driving while intoxicated

Relates to driving while intoxicated; defines the terms impaired and intoxication.

Martin Malavé DilanRules Committee

Enacts the "reproductive health act"; repealer

Enacts the "reproductive health act"; provides a fundamental right to choose contraception and the right of a female to determine the course of a pregnancy; authorizes abortion prior to viability;…

Deborah GlickHealth Committee

Relates to recycling rechargeable batteries

Relates to recycling rechargeable batteries.

Liz KruegerRules Committee

Memorializing Governor David A. Paterson to proclaim January 2011 as Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Awareness Month in the State of New York

Mark J.F. SchroederAdopted

Adopted

Relates to prohibiting the recording of certain identifying information of a person subjected to temporary questioning or search in a public place by police

Prohibits the electronic recording of certain information identifying information of a person subjected to temporary questioning or search in a public place by police officers.

Hakeem JeffriesOn the Assembly floor

Establishes Life Pass It On Registry Fund and provides mechanisms to fund it

Enacts the "New York state organ donor awareness and education act" and provides mechanisms to fund the "life pass it on trust fund" through the department of motor vehicles.

John L. SampsonFinance Committee

Establishes the "vehicle lienholder accountability act"

Establishes the "vehicle lienholder accountability act"; requires lienholders to provide notice to the owner of the vehicle when such lienholder assigns his or her security interest and requires…

Michael DenDekkerRules Committee

Relates to the temporary suspension of a repair shop registration or license and the jurisdiction of repair shop appeals; repealer

Relates to the temporary suspension of a repair shop registration or license and the jurisdiction of repair shop appeals.

Martin Malavé DilanTransportation CommitteeTransportation

Relates to conflicts of interest of municipal officers and employees and codes of ethics; repealer

Relates to conflicts of interest of municipal officers and employees and codes of ethics.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsGovernmental Operations Committee

Prohibits smoking on platforms of the Long Island and Metro North railroads

Prohibits smoking on platforms of the Long Island and Metro North railroads.

Ellen C. JaffeeCodes Committee

Provides that any records indicating the proposed terms of a collective bargaining agreement be made available to the public

Provides that any records indicating the proposed terms of a collective bargaining agreement be made available to the public immediately when such records are sent to members of a public employee…

Craig M. JohnsonGovernmental Operations Committee

Limits the method of payment for dental services under the medical assistance program

Requires managed care programs to establish procedures to assure participant access to medical assistance dental services to which they are otherwise entitled, other than through the managed care…

Eric T. SchneidermanHealth Committee

Enacts the "improper payments reporting and reduction act" to require state agencies to annually report on its improper payments and to seek a reduction thereof

Enacts the "improper payments reporting and reduction act" to require state agencies to annually report on their improper payments and to seek to reduce or eliminate such payments.

Micah KellnerGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to the maintenance, improvement and repair of certain town highways

Permits the designation of low volume roads and minimum maintenance roads by town boards and enacts provisions relating to the maintenance, improvement and repair of such roads.

RoAnn DestitoTransportation Committee

Requires providers of non-emergency, clinical outpatient treatment to patients on a continuing basis to determine whether they are sex offenders

Requires providers of non-emergency, outpatient treatment to patients on a continuing basis to determine whether they are sex offenders; treatment to sex offenders shall be provided during those…

Robert SweeneyHealth Committee

Prohibits smoking on platforms of the Long Island and Metro North railroads

Prohibits smoking on platforms of the Long Island and Metro North railroads.

Brian X. FoleyHealth Committee

Relates to providing recourse for manufactured homeowners in manufactured home parks confronted with unjustifiable rent increases

Relates to providing recourse for manufactured homeowners in manufactured home parks confronted with unjustifiable rent increases; creates a local option in counties in New York state to provide…

Kenneth P. LaValleHousing, Construction And Community Development Committee

Relates to food donation by public food service establishments

Relates to food donation by public food service establishments.

Darrel J. AubertineOn the Senate floor

Relates to larceny of an automated teller machine

Relates to larceny of an automated teller machine.

Keith L.T. WrightOn the Assembly floor

Provides that photographs of sex offender registrants shall be contemporaneous with the act of registration

Provides that photographs of sex offender registrants shall be contemporaneous with the act of registration.

David KoonCorrection Committee

Defines offenses of trespasses on and damage to railroad property

Limits railroads' liability to intruders upon their property and rights-of-way; defines offenses of trespasses on and damage to railroad property and establishes penalties therefor; also penalizes…

RoAnn DestitoTransportation Committee

Requires coverage of orally administered chemotherapy treatments

Requires coverage of orally administered chemotherapy treatments.

Vito LopezInsurance Committee

Authorizes the city of Buffalo to adjudicate traffic infractions similar to other cities having a population of less than two hundred thousand

Authorizes the city of Buffalo to provide by local law for the adjudication of traffic infractions.

Crystal Peoples-StokesTransportation Committee

Provides for the requirements in absentee ballot applications for village elections to conform to state board of election absentee ballot requirements

Provides for the requirements in absentee ballot applications for village elections to conform to state board of election absentee ballot requirements.

Sandy GalefElection Law Committee