Sponsored bills

Relates to the coverage of hospice services and palliative care for HEALTHY NY insurance policies

Relates to the coverage of hospice services and palliative care for HEALTHY NY insurance policies.

Clifford CrouchInsurance Committee

Relates to exempting wood or wood pellets for commercial heating purposes from taxation

Relates to exempting wood or wood pellets for commercial heating purposes from taxation.

Clifford CrouchWays And Means Committee

Provides for emergency appropriation for the period April 1, 2010 through June 3, 2010

Provides for emergency appropriation for the period April 1, 2010 through May 31, 2010.

Signed by Governor

Signed into law

Extends provision of law relating to multiple dwellings and the game of quick draw and relates to certain funds and accounts, and deposits and transfers

Extends provision of law relating to multiple dwellings and the game of Quick Draw and relates to certain funds and accounts, and deposits and transfers.

Signed by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to the processing of personal identifying information

Relates to the processing of personal identifying information.

Audrey PhefferCodes Committee

Relates to licensure of senior living facilities

Relates to rebuttable presumption for facilities providing services to persons over age sixty-five as senior living facilities, application requirements for licensure and documentary evidence…

Carl KrugerAging Committee

Extends the expiration of the power for jobs program and the energy cost savings benefits program

Extends the expiration of the power for jobs program and the energy cost savings benefits program.

Kevin CahillSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the comptroller and each examiner of municipal affairs to examine the financial affairs of certain organizations controlled by local government entities

Authorizes the comptroller and each examiner of municipal affairs to examine the financial affairs of certain organizations controlled by local government entities.

Sam HoytWays And Means Committee

Requires manufacturers and sellers of manufactured homes to provide customers with notice that owners of manufactured home parks may change the use of land comprising manufactured home parks

Requires manufacturers and sellers of manufactured homes to provide customers with notice that owners of manufactured home parks may change the use of land comprising manufactured home parks…

José PeraltaCodes Committee

Relates to health-related legal services programs

Establishes a health-related legal services program to make grants for the purpose of providing on site legal services without charge to assist, on a voluntary basis, income eligible patients and…

Richard GottfriedWays And Means Committee

Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to operate all state parks and historic sites at the beginning of 2010-2011 according to the same staffing and service levels as 2009-2010

Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to operate and maintain all state parks and historic sites under its jurisdiction during the fiscal year that ends March 31, 2011…

José M. SerranoWays And Means Committee

Authorizes the metropolitan transportation authority to offer a no fare program to certain police officers and New York city fire marshals

Implements a program authorizing the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, to permit police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride the Long…

Harvey WeisenbergCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Adds records of the office of homeland security to the definition of the term "public safety agency record"

Adds records of the office of homeland security to the definition of the term "public safety agency record."

Margaret MarkeyCodes Committee

Makes the owner of a vehicle used to pass or overtake a stopped school bus jointly liable with the operator thereof when violation is on camera or observed

Makes the owner of a vehicle used to pass or overtake a stopped school bus jointly liable with the operator thereof when such violation is captured on a camera or observed by a school bus driver;…

Brian X. FoleyCodes Committee

Relates to establishing the New York state organ donation tax credit

Relates to establishing the New York state organ donation tax credit.

Thomas K. DuaneFinance CommitteeFinance

Relates to the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to certain retirement systems

Relates to the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to certain retirement systems.

Diane J. SavinoOn the Senate floor

Relates to the appointment of the commander of the New York Air National Guard

Relates to the appointment of the commander of the New York Air National Guard.

RoAnn DestitoInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Relates to a defendant's ability to call certain persons upon being charged with a crime

Relates to a defendant's ability to call certain persons upon being charged with a crime.

Michael DenDekkerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to medicaid payments to free-standing clinics licensed pursuant to article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law

Relates to medicaid payments to free-standing clinics licensed pursuant to article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law.

Harvey WeisenbergHealth Committee

Makes technical corrections to provisions establishing powers of attorney for financial and estate planning

Makes technical corrections to provisions establishing powers of attorney for financial and estate planning.

John L. SampsonOn the Senate floor

Authorizes the facsimile transmission or transmission by electronic means of orders of protection and temporary orders of protection

Authorizes the facsimile transmission or transmission by electronic means of orders of protection and temporary orders of protection for the purpose of the service thereof.

John L. SampsonOn the Senate floor

Requires builders to include the school district on the building permit application

Requires builders to include, on any building permit application, the name of the community school district in which the proposed dwelling or dwelling units will be located, the number of families…

Linda RosenthalEducation Committee

Authorizes commissioner of general services to sell and convey certain lands to the town of Alden, county of Erie

Authorizes commissioner of general services to sell and convey certain lands to the town of Alden, county of Erie.

Dale M. VolkerInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Relates to establishing the New York state public pension fund security act

Enacts the New York state public pension fund security act; provides definition of defrauding the government.

Carl KrugerFinance Committee

Provides for the financing and construction of capital facilities for Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps, a not-for-profit corporation

Provides for the financing and construction of capital facilities for Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps, a not-for-profit corporation.

Audrey PhefferSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland

Authorizes the village of Sloatsburg, town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland.

Thomas P. MorahanOn the Senate floor

Authorizes the town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland

Authorizes the village of Sloatsburg, town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland.

Thomas P. MorahanOn the Senate floor

Prohibits sale or distribution of any product containing a synthetic cannabinoid; establishes a defense of lack of knowledge of the content of such product

Prohibits sale or distribution of any product containing a synthetic cannabinoid; defines the chemical compounds which constitute a synthetic cannabinoid; imposes a civil penalty of not more than…

John J. FlanaganCodes Committee

Provides that any district attorney who solicits, accepts or receives any gift or anything else of value, under any circumstance from a criminal defendant, is guilty of a misdemeanor

Provides that any district attorney who knowingly solicits, accepts or receives any gift, service, hospitality, thing or promise, campaign donation, or anything else of value, under any circumstance…

Pedro Espada Jr.Codes Committee

Requires insurance coverage for the HALO breast pap test to detect risk of developing breast cancer

Requires insurance coverage for the HALO breast pap test to detect risk of developing breast cancer.

Aileen GuntherInsurance Committee

Relates to contracts by state agencies by consultant services

Relates to contracts by state agencies for consultant services; defines "state agencies" and "consultant services"; provides that no state agency shall enter into a contract for consultant services…

Jeffrey D. KleinOn the Senate floor

Requires a sticker or label to be affixed to any tire identifying the creation date of any tire

Requires a sticker or label to be affixed to any tire being sold in the state identifying the creation date and manufacturer of any tire.

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.Codes Committee

Defines tuition for the 2011-2012 school year

Defines tuition for the 2011-2012 school year; restricts tuition rates to not more than four percent of a school year's costs.

Suzi OppenheimerFinance Committee

Requires the comptroller to transfer money into the environmental protection fund whenever such fund has insufficient money to meet its obligations

Requires the comptroller to transfer money into the environmental protection fund whenever such fund has insufficient money to meet its obligations.

Robert SweeneyWays And Means 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.

Keith L.T. WrightHousing Committee

Relates to the clean-up of petroleum discharges occurring during the delivery of home heating oil to a residence

Relates to the clean-up of petroleum discharges occurring during the delivery of home heating oil to a residence; any petroleum discharges shall be immediately cleaned up by the oil delivery…

J. Gary PretlowCodes Committee

Requires any passenger-type motor vehicles to be equipped with an outside passenger mirror

Requires any passenger-type motor vehicle, other than motorcycles, manufactured for sale, on or after January first in the year next succeeding the effective date of this new provision, to be…

N. Nick PerryCodes CommitteeLegal

Requires proper occupational safety equipment and a safe working environment for employees, subcontractors and employees of subcontractors

Requires proper occupational safety equipment and a safe working environment for employees, subcontractors and employees of subcontractors.

Mike SpanoWays And Means Committee

Provides court appointed special advocates access to certain records associated with child abuse and neglect cases

Provides court appointed special advocates access to certain records associated with child abuse and neglect cases.

Kevin CahillCodes Committee

Relates to the hours worked by nurses

Relates to the hours worked by nurses.

Aileen GuntherCodes Committee

Allows employment of retired police officers as special security officers for school districts

Authorizes the trustees or board of education of any school district to employ retired former members of police or sheriff's departments as special security officers for such school district upon…

David TownsendOn the Assembly floor

Establishes a distinctive license plate for the deaf and hearing-impaired

Establishes a distinctive license plate for the deaf and hearing-impaired; defines terms; creates the New York state deaf and hearing-impaired fund.

Joseph MorelleStricken

Requires secretary of state and county clerks to accept payment for notary public appointment or reappointment fees in form of cash, money order or checks

Requires the secretary or state and county clerks to accept payment for any fee relating to appointment or reappointment as a notary public in the form of cash, money order or by certified, company,…

Richard GottfriedSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Modifies medicaid services' availability to bring them more in line with those of private health insurance coverage; repealer

Modifies medicaid services' availability to bring them more in line with those of private health insurance coverage.

Robin SchimmingerHealth Committee

Permits certain not-for-profit conservation organizations to apply for agricultural protection state assistance payments

Permits certain not-for-profit conservation organizations to apply for agricultural protection state assistance payments.

William MageeSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland

Authorizes the town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland.

Thomas P. MorahanOn the Senate floor

Relates to restoring the fuel cell tax credit

Relates to restoring the fuel cell tax credit.

Kevin S. ParkerFinance Committee

Authorizes the Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church to file applications for a real property tax exemption with the county of Nassau

Authorizes the Wantagh Memorial Congregational Church to file applications for a real property tax exemption with the county of Nassau.

Charles J. Fuschillo Jr.Real Property Taxation Committee