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Creates a task force on universal long term care insurance

Creates a task force on universal long term care insurance to develop a plan for the financing and provisions for universal long term care insurance for all New Yorkers; provides that the task force…

Steven EnglebrightInsurance Committee

Establishes the office for small business; repealer

Establishes the office for small business under the executive department; repeals the division for small-business which was in the economic development law; transfers powers from the division to the…

Bill PerkinsFinance Committee

Provides that qualified persons who are not registered to vote may register on a day of election at their polling places

Provides that qualified persons who have never previously registered to vote may register on any day, including a day of election, that the board of elections is open for business; requires…

Bill PerkinsElections Committee

Enacts the "2010 Campaign Finance Reform Act"

Enacts the "2010 campaign finance reform act"; relates to providing for optional partial public financing of certain election campaigns in this state; relates to identification of the source of…

Sheldon SilverElection Law Committee

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

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

Bill PerkinsHousing, Construction And Community Development Committee

Creates a task force on universal long term care insurance

Creates a task force on universal long term care insurance to develop a plan for the financing and provisions for universal long term care insurance for all New Yorkers; provides that the task force…

Ruben DiazInsurance Committee

Establishes the summer employment program

Establishes the summer employment program for youths between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one to be administered by the labor department; provides that local community-based organizations and…

Bill PerkinsLabor Committee

Prohibits operation of any motor vehicle equipped with device which affects the operation of traffic-control signals

Prohibits the operation of any motor vehicle equipped with a device which affects the operation of traffic-control signals; provides that the possession of such a device shall constitute a traffic…

Owen H. JohnsonCodes Committee

Relates to the NYS interim short-term financing account

Relates to the NYS interim short-term financing account; amends chapter 555 of the laws of 1989 relating to establishing a NYS interim short-term financing account within the state of New York…

Bill PerkinsCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Establishes the summer employment program

Establishes the summer employment program for youths between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one to be administered by the labor department; local community-based organizations and government…

Bill PerkinsLabor Committee

Establishes an urban and community development program within the state urban development corporation to assist projects in distressed areas

Establishes an urban and community development program in the urban development corporation; defines relevant terms; provides for procedures to be followed in implementing the program; provides for…

Bill PerkinsCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Relates to reports on certain criminal offenses on public transportation

Relates to reports on certain criminal offenses on public transportation.

Bill PerkinsTransportation CommitteeTransportation

Establishes the employee retirement system board of trustees to operate the New York state and local employees' retirement system

Establishes the employee retirement system board of trustees to operate the New York state and local employees' retirement system and the New York state and local police and fire retirement system,…

Michael MontesanoGovernmental Employees Committee

Recognizing National Train Day and the many benefits the Railroad brings to our State and Nation

Martin Malavé DilanAdopted

Adopted

Establishes the "minimum standards for subsidized jobs act"

Establishes the "minimum standards for subsidized jobs act"; defines terms; restricts persons, associations, corporations or other entities from being eligible to receive any economic development…

José PeraltaLabor Committee

Honoring Dorothy J. Austin upon the occasion of her designation as recipient of the 2010 New York State Senior Citizen of the Year Award

Darrel J. AubertineAdopted

Adopted

Requires all state agencies to provide paper copies of the forms they utilize to individuals and commercial entities required to file such forms

Requires all state agencies to provide paper copies of the forms they utilize to individuals and commercial entities required to file such forms.

Gary FinchGovernmental Operations Committee

Establishes the NYS EMP Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission

Establishes the NYS Electromagnetic Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission to study and investigate EMP threats to NYS infrastructures, gather information, make recommendations and inform…

Jane CorwinGovernmental Operations Committee

Enacts the "taxpayer bill of rights"; repealer

Enacts the "taxpayer bill of rights"; changes the state fiscal year to October 1 through September 30; requires the legislature to provide sufficient revenue to pay all state expenditures; provides…

Greg BallWays And Means Committee

Requires state legislators and candidates for the legislature to fully disclose the sources of all income, in excess of $1,000, from any employment

Provides for the disclosure by members of the legislature and candidates for member of the legislature, of the amount and source of any income, in excess of $1,000, from employment; requires the…

Greg BallGovernmental Operations Committee

Requires determinate sentence of imprisonment for driving under the influence assaults and homicides

Requires the imposition of a determinate sentence of imprisonment for conviction of vehicular assault in the second degree, vehicular assault in the first degree, aggravated vehicular assault,…

Greg BallCodes Committee

Relates to presumed consent

Relates to presumed consent.

Thomas K. DuaneHealth Committee

Enacts Danielle DiMedici and Jessica Tush's Law; creates a registry for domestic abuse offenders

Enacts Daniella DiMedici and Jessica Tush's Law; creates a registry for domestic abuse offenders.

Diane J. SavinoCrime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

Relates to the failure of auction and requirements for sale of real estate owned property

Relates to the failure of auction and requirements for sale of real estate owned property; defines terms; describes requirements for sale and penalties.

John L. SampsonJudiciary Committee

Clarifies the definition of the term liabilities with respect to the period for which an appropriation remains in full force and effect

Clarifies the definition of the term liabilities with respect to the period for which an appropriation remains in full force and effect.

Martin Malavé DilanWays And Means Committee

Amends the civil penalties authorized to be levied by local boards of health

Amends the civil penalties authorized to be levied by local boards of health.

Suzi OppenheimerHealth Committee

Creates the economic benefit power program

Extends the expiration of the power for jobs program and the energy cost savings benefits program; creates the economic benefit power program to take over after the expiration of power for jobs and…

Darrel J. AubertineEconomic Development Committee

New York solar industry development and jobs act of 2010

Creates the New York solar industry development and jobs act of 2010; relates to the procurement of solar renewable energy credits; establishes schedule with annual percentages to be met for…

Andrew HevesiStricken

Relates to contracts for technology and telecommunications services between boards of cooperative educational services and third-party venders

Relates to contracts for technology and telecommunications services between boards of cooperative educational services and third-party vendors.

Michelle SchimelEducation CommitteeEducation

Relates to military ballots and absentee ballots

Enacts provisions relating to military and absentee ballots; designation of means of transmission of military voters and by special federal voters; prohibits refusal to accept voter registration and…

John L. SampsonOn the Senate floor

Requires the conducting of public hearings and reports thereon prior to the closure of any real property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation

Requires the conducting of public hearings and reports thereon prior to the closure to public access of any real property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation.

José M. SerranoFinance Committee

Authorizes the city of White Plains to impose an additional one-quarter of one percent sales and compensating use tax

Authorizes the city of White Plains to impose an additional one-quarter of one percent sales and compensating use tax.

Suzi OppenheimerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Establishes the nursing education expansion program; appropriation

Establishes the nursing education expansion program, including faculty development program, capital facility program and the recruitment and promotion program; creates regents nursing shortage…

Clifford CrouchHigher Education Committee

Requires purchasers of real property within 500 feet of an agricultural district to be provided with disclosure of farming activities within such district

Requires purchasers of real property within 500 feet of the boundary of an agricultural district to be provided with disclosure of farming activities within such district.

David KoonAgriculture Committee

Eliminates the 21-year limit for the duration of pet trusts

Eliminates the 21-year limit for the duration of pet trusts; provides that such trusts shall terminate when the living animal beneficiary or beneficiaries of such trust are no longer alive.

Deborah GlickSigned by Governor

Signed into law

No policy of group accident, group health or group accident and health shall impose copayments in excess of 20 percent of total reimbursement to the provider of care

Provides that no policy of group accident, group health or group accident and health shall impose co-payments in excess of twenty percent of total reimbursement to the provider of care.

Kevin CahillInsurance Committee

Establishes a working farmland property tax credit for owners of agricultural assessment land within agricultural districts

Establishes a working farmland property tax credit for owners of agricultural assessment land within agricultural districts.

Greg BallWays And Means Committee

Establishes a new day of commemoration to be known as Women's Equality Day

Establishes a new day of commemoration to be known as Women's Equality day, on August 26th.

Diane J. SavinoSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to provisions of law which permit health services and insurance for volunteer firefighters and ambulance companies through public corporations

Makes technical corrections to chapter 331 of 2008 which permits municipal corporations to offer health services and insurance for volunteer firefighters and ambulance companies.

Neil D. BreslinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to the composition of boards of elections

Relates to the composition of boards of elections.

Daniel L. SquadronElection Law Committee

Authorizes a court to order the confidentiality of election registration records of a victim of domestic violence

Authorizes the county court, or supreme court in the city of New York, to issue a court order providing for the confidentiality of election registration records of a victim of domestic violence.

Brian X. FoleySigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides that any municipality may appropriate and provide funding, goods, and/or services to a public cemetery corporation

Provides that any municipality may appropriate and provide funding, goods, and/or services to a public cemetery corporation.

Richard BrodskySigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides a tax check off box on personal income tax return forms for the life pass it on trust fund

Provides a tax checkoff box on personal income tax return forms for gifts for the life pass it on trust fund for gifts for organ and tissue donation outreach and research.

Michele TitusInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Creates a private right of action for unlawful price gouging for injunctive relief and recovery of actual damages or $1000 whichever is greater

Creates a private right to action for unlawful price gouging for injunctive relief and recovery of actual damages or $1000 whichever is greater, or both, in addition to right of action granted to…

Audrey PhefferCodes Committee

Relates to the sale of delinquent tax liens on brownfield property in Suffolk county

Authorizes Suffolk county to sell certain delinquent tax liens on brownfield property to private buyers.

Steven EnglebrightWays And Means Committee

Commissions a study regarding the quality of health care services received by foster children in New York state

Commissions a study regarding the quality of health care services received by foster children in New York state; provides for a report to be submitted by the commissioner of the office of children…

Michele TitusVetoed

Vetoed

Provides for the payment of the salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of any city of Yonkers detention officer injured in the line of duty

Provides for the payment of the salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of any city of Yonkers detention officer injured or becoming ill in the line of duty.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsFinance Committee

Provides for review by the superintendent of banking institution denials of banking services to "money services businesses" licensed in the state

Provides for review by the superintendent of banking institution denials of banking services to "money services businesses" licensed in the state.

Ruben DiazStricken