Sponsored bills

Requires electronic monitoring systems on school buses in the city of New York

Requires electronic monitoring systems on school buses in the city of New York; requires retrofitting, notification and record keeping.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Increases the liability of creditors to consumers for credit billing errors

Increases from $100 to $400 the maximum liability of a creditor to a consumer for a billing error, plus actual damages, costs and reasonable attorney fees, provided that the consumer complies with…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Authorizes and empowers the county of Suffolk to amortize the cost of payments to employees upon separation of service from the county

Authorizes and empowers the county of Suffolk to amortize the cost of payments to employees upon separation of service from the county.

Patricia EddingtonLocal Governments Committee

Establishes a drug treatment alternative to incarceration for certain offenders; appropriation

Establishes a program of drug treatment as an alternative to incarceration for eligible low level, non-violent drug offenders as provided for herein; provides for licensing of programs and criteria…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Exempts new electric vehicles, clean fuel vehicles and vehicles that meet the clean vehicle standards from first year of registration fees

Exempts new electric vehicles, clean fuel vehicles and vehicles that meet the clean vehicle standards from the first year of registration fees.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Provides for the sale of motor fuel to senior citizens sixty-five or older with full service at self service prices

Requires owners and operators of premises or facilities for the retail sale of motor fuels for use in motor vehicles and offering self service and full service at the same time to provide full…

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Authorizes audits of ambulance services by the state comptroller

Amends the general municipal law to authorize audits of ambulance services by the state comptroller.

Patricia EddingtonLocal Governments Committee

Provides for the issuance of distinctive plates for volunteer fire chiefs

Provides for the issuance of distinctive plates for volunteer fire chiefs.

Patricia EddingtonTransportation Committee

Provides that operators of hybrid vehicles shall be permitted to travel in high occupancy vehicle lanes regardless of the number of passengers in such vehicle

Provides that operators of qualified hybrid vehicles shall be permitted to travel in high occupancy vehicle lanes regardless of the number of passengers in such vehicle; defines terms.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Prohibits certain inventory financing practices by motor vehicle franchisors toward franchised motor vehicle dealers

Prohibits certain inventory financing practices by motor vehicle franchisors toward franchised motor vehicle dealers: placement or acceptance of loans or other financing by franchisor-related…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Relates to certain applications for or recipients of public assistance and care

Relates to certain applications for public assistance and care; provides that an applicant for or recipient of public assistance and care in the district comprising the city of New York shall be…

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Enacts "the preservation of quality education act" providing for the designation of quality educational units and waiver of required state examination requirements

Enacts "the preservation of quality education act" providing for the designation of quality educational units and waiver of required state examination requirements for a state-recognized high school…

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates for African-American veterans

Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates for African-American veterans; provides that such distinctive license plates shall bear the words "African-American Veteran"; provides for a…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Requires applicants for public assistance to be fully informed that they may be liable to reimburse the state for benefits received

Requires applicants for public assistance to be fully informed, orally and in writing, that they may be liable to reimburse the state for benefits received; requires an informed acknowledgment form…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Relates to the duties of the state police when there is an offense by a police officer that results in serious physical injuries to another person

Relates to the duties of the state police when there is an offense by a police officer that results in serious physical injuries to another person.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Relates to check of registrants and information notice by mail

Relates to check of registrants and information notice by mail.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Provides for taxpayer gifts for lupus education and prevention, and establishes the lupus education and prevention fund and outreach program

Provides for taxpayer gifts for lupus education and prevention, and establishes the lupus education and prevention fund and outreach program.

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Requires the registration of tax preparers

Requires the registration of tax preparers; defines terms; relates to confidentiality of information; establishes civil and criminal penalties; authorizes the commissioner of taxation and finance to…

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Authorizes municipalities to prohibit vehicles from idling

Authorizes municipalities and school districts to prohibit vehicles from idling.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Prohibits discharging alien employees who are legally restricted from other employment unless good cause for such discharge is shown

Provides that an employer shall not discharge an undocumented alien worker employed by such employer prior to November 6, 1986, who is legally restricted from holding other employment, unless such…

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Requires teachers and paraprofessionals employed in any school to have mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid training

Requires teachers or paraprofessionals employed in any school to have mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid training.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Removes the provision requiring a candidate's residence to be published prior to an election

Removes the provision requiring a candidate's residence to be published prior to an election.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Relates to the qualifications used by the board of elections for establishing the minimum number of voting machines

Relates to the qualifications used by the board of elections for establishing the minimum number of voting machines required in each polling place.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Expands coverage of sex offender registration act

Expands coverage of sex offender registration act.

Patricia EddingtonCorrection Committee

Requires notification to insurers that an out-of-network physician may be used in their procedure, test or surgery

Requires notification to insureds that an out-of-network physician may be used in their procedure, test or surgery and such physician's services shall not be covered by their insurance policy; such…

Patricia EddingtonInsurance Committee

Establishes the bureau of the senior tenants' advocate in the state office for the aging

Establishes the bureau of the senior tenants' advocate within the state office for the aging; provides that the senior tenants' advocate shall assist senior citizen tenants in resolving complaints…

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Provides for grants for use of computer technology in kindergarten and grade one; appropriation

Authorizes the commissioner of education to award grants to local school districts for the use of computer technology to teach reading and writing skills to students in kindergarten and grade 1;…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Prohibits warehousing of housing accommodations and harassment of tenants; provides penalties therefor

Provides that civil penalties may be levied against an owner who intentionally withholds a housing accommodation from the market, including for the purpose of future co-operative conversion.

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Provides for establishment of special needs housing community advisory councils to foster cooperation and collaboration between residents and community stakeholders

Provides for establishment of special needs housing community advisory councils to foster cooperation and collaboration between residents and community stakeholders.

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Provides personal property that is otherwise exempt from application for satisfaction of a debt, may be applied to a debt to the state or its political subdivisions

Provides that personal property that is otherwise exempt from application for satisfaction of a debt, may be applied to a debt to the state or its political subdivisions, or if the debt is for child…

Eric T. SchneidermanSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides that designating petitions and independent nominating petitions may not contain candidates for the same public office from different political subdivisions

Provides that designating petitions and independent nominating petitions may not contain candidates for the same public office from different political subdivisions.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.On the Senate floor

Creates the lupus research enhancement program and the lupus research enhancement fund

Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund.

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Extends provisions of law relating to the disposition of sales and compensating use tax revenue in the county of Westchester

Extends provisions of law relating to the disposition of sales and compensating use tax revenue in the county of Westchester.

Suzi OppenheimerOn the Senate floor

Expands definition of "property of another", for purposes of criminal mischief, to include any property another person has an interest in

Expands definition of "property of another", for purposes of criminal mischief, to include any property another person has an interest in, regardless of whether the defendant has an interest in such…

Eric T. SchneidermanOn the Senate floor

Eliminates the state's recourse to public assistance recipients' residences for reimbursement of expenditures made for their benefit

Eliminates the state's recourse to public assistance recipients' or their relatives' residences, one, two or three family dwelling and the primary residence, including manufactured homes for…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Creates a temporary state commission concerning the incidence of asthma in the Bronx

Creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in New York city.

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus

Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus; provides for an advisory council consisting of representatives of people with lupus and their families and health…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Includes provisions where it is the duty of the department of environmental conservation to establish a method for individuals and businesses to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions

Includes provisions where it is the duty of the department of environmental conservation to establish a method for individuals and businesses to calculate their greenhouse gas emissions and best…

Antoine M. ThompsonStricken

Prohibits the sale of certain rated video games to minors

Prohibits the sale to minors of certain rated video games containing a rating that reflects content of various degrees of profanity, racist stereotypes or derogatory language, and/or actions toward…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Extends the expiration date of the personal income tax surcharge for the city of Yonkers

Extends the expiration date of the personal income tax surcharge for the city of Yonkers.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsOn the Senate floor

Relates to the applicability of certain provisions with respect to persons injured in the use of scaffolding and other devices for use by employees

Relates to the applicability of certain provisions with respect to persons injured in the use of scaffolding and other devices for use by employees.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.Stricken

Provides that procedures for photographic identification of a defendant in a criminal case be videotaped for the identification to be used in evidence

Provides that procedures for obtaining photographic identification of a defendant in a criminal case be videotaped in order for the identification to be used in evidence.

Antoine M. ThompsonStricken

Provides for corporate franchise and personal income tax check-offs for taxpayer gifts for lung cancer education and prevention; sets up education/prevention fund

Provides for a corporate franchise tax check-off and a personal income tax check-off for taxpayer gifts for lung cancer education and prevention; establishes the lung cancer education and prevention…

Aurelia GreeneStricken

Provides for an extension of time to the purchasing period for tenants to purchase a dwelling unit in a cooperative apartment building

Provides for an extension of time to the purchasing period for tenants to purchase a dwelling unit in a cooperative apartment building.

Ruben Diaz Jr.Stricken

Relates to the method of abandonment for the purposes of the canal system

Provides that the New York state canal corporation shall cause to be published in a newspaper in the municipality or locality where such lands are located notice of such abandonment and shall after…

David J. ValeskyOn the Senate floor

Extends the expiration of the mortgage recording tax imposed by the city of Yonkers

Extends the expiration of the mortgage recording tax imposed by the city of Yonkers.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsOn the Senate floor

Authorizes Suffolk county to impose a tax on tobacco products

Authorizes Suffolk county to impose a tax on tobacco products.

Patricia EddingtonWays And Means Committee

Relates to the brownfield redevelopment tax credit

Relates to the brownfield redevelopment tax credit.

Adam BradleyWays And Means Committee