Sponsored bills

Requires reporting of the identities of persons acting as intermediaries or bundlers of political contributions in certain cases

Requires reporting of the identities of persons acting as intermediaries or bundlers of political contributions in certain cases; defines relevant terms; provides for exceptions in other cases where…

Suzi OppenheimerElections Committee

Empowers fire district commissioners to acquire real property and buildings for housing use by firefighters and residents of fire district; related provisions

Empowers fire district commissioners to acquire (by purchase, lease, gift, devise or condemnation) real property, and to erect, construct, alter, repair and equip suitable buildings for the purpose…

Suzi OppenheimerLocal Government Committee

Requires contracts for the collection and transportation of commercial waste to specify recyclable, reusable, and other components for separation

Provides that every written contract for the collection and transportation of commercial waste from a place at which such waste is generated shall specify the recyclable, reusable or other…

Suzi OppenheimerConsumer Protection Committee

Amends provisions regarding prescriptions for and supervision over student housing and safety by councils of SUNY state-operated institutions

Amends provisions regarding prescriptions for and supervision over student housing and safety by councils of SUNY state-operated institutions: provides that councils shall (in prescribing for and…

Suzi OppenheimerHigher Education Committee

Enacts the Healthy Teens Act which requires the commissioner to amend regulations to include medically accurate, age appropriate sexual education in secondary schools

Enacts the Healthy Teens Act which requires the commissioner to amend regulations to include medically accurate, age appropriate sexual education in secondary schools.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Regulates the treatment and display of elephants

Regulates the treatment and display of elephants; requires persons who bring elephants into the state as part of a traveling exhibition to file an itinerary of the elephant's stay in the state with…

Suzi OppenheimerAgriculture Committee

Provides that permanent impairment or incapacitation of one spouse shall not preclude husband and wife from adopting together or a competent spouse from adopting

Provides that the permanent impairment or incapacitation of one spouse shall not preclude a husband and wife from adopting together or a competent spouse from adopting as a single parent.

Suzi OppenheimerChildren And Families Committee

Requires reporting of toy-related injuries

Requires physicians who have treated a child for toy-related injuries to notify the state consumer protection board of such toy-related injuries within seventy-two hours of treatment; requires the…

Suzi OppenheimerHealth Committee

Allows a police officer with a permanent appointment to be appointed to the permanent position of detective based on training and experience

Allows a police officer with a permanent appointment to be appointed to the permanent position of detective based on training and experience according to the rules established by his or her civil…

Suzi OppenheimerCivil Service And Pensions Committee

Provides access to information on persons applying to be an auxiliary police officer

Provides access to information from police departments and the division of criminal justice services on persons applying to be an auxiliary police officer; authorizes the division of criminal…

Suzi OppenheimerFinance Committee

Makes ephedrine or any preparation thereof a controlled substance and revises definition of controlled substances

Makes ephedrine or any preparation (including botanical products of the genus ephedra which contain ephedrine) thereof a Schedule IV controlled substance requiring their sale by prescription through…

Suzi OppenheimerHealth Committee

Prohibits certain persons from membership on county rent guidelines boards

Provides that no member, officer or employee of any municipal rent regulation agency or the state division of housing and community renewal shall serve on a rent guidelines board and no person who…

Suzi OppenheimerHousing, Construction And Community Development Committee

Enacts the "Place A Child in Every School Seat Act of 2009" for the purposes of awareness of and incentives to improve school attendance

Enacts the "Place a Child in Every School Seat Act of 2009" for the purposes of awareness of and incentives to improve school attendance and retention.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Requires that teachers notify students of right to refuse to perform or witness a dissection prior to such event

Requires that teachers notify students of right to refuse to perform or witness a dissection prior to such event.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Relates to amount of apportionments of deficiencies in apportionments of state monies to certain nonpublic schools to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with certain state requirements

Relates to amount of apportionments and deficiencies in apportionments of state monies to certain nonpublic schools to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with certain state requirements.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Requires that any expenditure required pursuant to a legislative mandate be disregarded when determining total spending for purposes of a school's contingency budget

Requires that any expenditure required pursuant to a legislative mandate be disregarded when determining total spending for purposes of a school's contingency budget.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Authorizes mortgage loans by dormitory authority to certain hospitals and health care facilities operating not-for-profit day care facilities

Authorizes the New York state dormitory authority to provide mortgage loans to a non-profit hospital corporation, a county or municipal hospital or a non-profit corporation providing a residential…

Suzi OppenheimerCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Protects book publishers under the shield law: journalist's right to withhold the identity of confidential sources or notes or elements of professional work

Includes book publishers under the Shield Law which protects a journalist's right to withhold the identity of confidential sources or notes or elements of their professional work.

Suzi OppenheimerCodes Committee

Establishes procedure for public statement hearings before public service commission

Establishes a procedure for utility public statement hearings to determine the impact on consumers of major utility rate change applications; provides for notice to consumers of such hearings;…

Suzi OppenheimerEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Prohibits disclosure of an insurance claim for surgical procedure to the claimant's employer by an insurance carrier or health maintenance organization

Prohibits a licensed insurance carrier or certified health maintenance organization from disclosing to a claimant's employer the fact that an insurance claim for a surgical procedure has been…

Suzi OppenheimerInsurance Committee

Raises the level of claims to $6,000 for which proof of financial difficulty is required

Raises the level of emergency crime victims claims to $6,000 or less for which no finding of financial difficulty is required for which Crime Victims Board must determine that the claimant will…

Suzi OppenheimerCrime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

Provides no person, firm, etc. shall stamp or imprint any mark directly on edible skin, rind or peel of fresh fruit or vegetables for sale at retail

Provides that no person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other business association shall stamp or imprint any mark, including the price, directly on the edible skin, rind or peel of…

Suzi OppenheimerConsumer Protection Committee

Requires disclosure labels for dairy products from cows injected with a certain synthetic bovine growth hormone ("rBST")

Requires a milk producer who produces dairy products from animals that have been treated with the synthetic growth hormone, bovine somatotropin (rBST), to notify, by affidavit, his or her handler…

Suzi OppenheimerConsumer Protection Committee

Requires an owner to report any housing accommodation which has been vacant for more than 60 days, within 7 days; and to report the filling thereof; penalties

Requires an owner to register with the state department of housing and community renewal, any housing accommodation which has been vacant for more than 60 days (within 7 days of the 60th day)…

Suzi OppenheimerHousing, Construction And Community Development Committee

Grants private citizens broad authorization to commence civil judicial actions under certain titles of the environmental conservation law

Enacts "private environmental law enforcement act"; authorizes any private citizen who has an interest which is or may be adversely affected to commence civil judicial actions for injunctive or…

Suzi OppenheimerEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Exempts sale of sanitary napkins and tampons from sales and compensating use taxes

Exempts sale of sanitary napkins and tampons from sales and compensating use taxes.

Suzi OppenheimerInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Requires pre-sentence report and prohibits the waiver of pre-sentence investigation and a written report thereon in any instance involving a family offense

Requires a pre-sentence report in certain instances and prohibits the waiver of pre-sentence investigation and a written report thereon in any instance involving a family offense.

Suzi OppenheimerCodes Committee

Provides a limitation on actions to collect overcharges

Provides that an action to recover the amount of an overcharge based upon a mistake or billing error made by an electric, gas or telephone corporation must be commenced within ten years.

Suzi OppenheimerCodes Committee

Increases age of "child witness" to 16

Raises the permissible age of a "child witness" to 16 for purposes of allowing greater protection from in-court testimony by "child witnesses" in the prosecution of certain sex offenders.

Suzi OppenheimerCodes Committee

Provides limits on the duration of an order of protection depending on the level of the conviction

Provides limits on the duration of orders of protection depending on the level of the conviction; tolls family offense orders of protection for periods of imprisonment.

Suzi OppenheimerChildren And Families Committee

Aligns the education law more closely with the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act as to education of homeless children

Aligns the education law more closely with the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act as to education of homeless children.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Relates to the computation of approved operating expenses

Relates to the computation of approved operating expenses.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Enacts small business utility boards act to advocate for small business interests

Enacts the "Small Business Utility Boards Act"; creates one small business utility board as a not-for-profit corporation in each utility service area; promotes adequate representation of small…

Suzi OppenheimerCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to provide, by mutual agreement, for the payment of supplemental salary and benefits to district superintendent

Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to provide, by mutual agreement, for the payment of supplemental salary and benefits to district superintendents; authorizes accumulation of…

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Relates to the care and sale of dogs and cats by pet dealers

Relates to the care and sale of dogs and cats by pet dealers; provides more stringent care by pet dealers; must employ attending veterinarian; must develop and maintain appropriate plan to provide…

Suzi OppenheimerAgriculture Committee

Relates to involuntary transfer of violent or disruptive pupils

Permits involuntary transfer of violent or disruptive pupils to another school.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Memorializing Governor David A. Paterson to proclaim October 2009 as Learning Disabilities Awareness Month in the State of New York

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Provides for humane destruction or disposition of certain animals; repealer

Provides for humane destruction or disposition of certain animals; euthanasia of animals shall be accomplished by an injection of sodium pentobarbital administered by a technician while the animal…

Suzi OppenheimerOn the Senate floor

Allows the town board of the Town of Mamaroneck to adopt a local law or ordinance providing for a residential parking permit system

Allows the town board of the town of Mamaroneck to adopt a local law or ordinance providing for a residential parking permit system.

Suzi OppenheimerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Extends authorization of the city of New Rochelle to impose an additional sales and compensating use tax

Extends the authority of the city of New Rochelle to impose an additional sales and compensating use tax.

Suzi OppenheimerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Honoring Reena Kashyap upon the occasion of receiving the Alumni of the Year Award from Leadership Westchester

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Vaughn Austin Collins on attaining the rank of Eagle Scout

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Matthew Drucker upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Honoring Reverend Dr. Gordon Anderson upon the occasion of appearing at the Sunday Evening Services of the Historic Ossining Camp Meeting Association

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Henry Koster upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating William Marino upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Michael Martinez upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating John Chimento on attaining the rank of Eagle Scout

Suzi OppenheimerAdopted

Adopted