Sponsored bills

Relates to the description of the bounded area for which the residential parking permit system in the village of Tuckahoe, county of Westchester, may be established

Relates to the description of the bounded area for which the residential parking permit system in the village of Tuckahoe in the county of Westchester may be established.

Jeffrey D. KleinTransportation Committee

Establishes the education mandate relief act of 2010

Establishes the education mandate relief act; authorizes the board of education to enter into piggyback contracts with another school district for transportation services and directs BOCES to…

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

Relates to providing health insurance coverage to domestic partners of insured persons

Requires insurers providing family health insurance coverage to offer coverage for the domestic partner of an insured person according to qualification standards to be adopted by the superintendent.

Daniel O'DonnellInsurance CommitteeFinance

Provides that employers shall notify employees of potential state and federal earned income tax credits

Provides that employers shall notify employees of potential state and federal earned income tax credits and delineates the contents, timing and manner of providing notice as well as options…

Herman D. FarrellOn the Assembly floor

Allows for adjacent towns to merge into one single court facility

Allows for adjacent towns to merge into one single court facility.

Joseph A. GriffoJudiciary Committee

Establishes offenses of throttling and strangulation

Establishes offenses of throttling and strangulation.

Eric T. SchneidermanCodes Committee

Requires certain nursery school operators to file with the office of children and family services and to fingerprint applicants for purpose of conducting searches

Requires nursery school operators providing service to more than three preschool children of 5 years of age or less for three hours or less per day per child for 3 or more days per week to file with…

Aileen GuntherChildren And Families Committee

Provides for the design and use of in-home reverse vending machines for beverage containers

Provides for the design and use of in-home reverse vending machines for beverage containers; authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to award a $125,000 grant to the designer or…

Steven EnglebrightEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Creates the metropolitan transportation authority interim finance authority

Creates the metropolitan transportation authority interim finance authority.

Catherine NolanCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Prohibits sex offenders from residing within a child day care center

Prohibits sex offenders from residing within a child day care center; violation of such prohibition shall be a class E felony upon the first conviction thereof and a class D felony upon a second or…

Robert SweeneyCodes Committee

Eliminates any requirement that solar electric generating equipment of less than 25 kilowatts have an external disconnect switch

Eliminates any requirement that solar electric generating equipment of less than 25 kilowatts have an external disconnect switch, so long as such equipment complies with the interconnection…

Steven EnglebrightEnergy Committee

Authorizes the lease of lands adjacent to state, public authority and local highways for operation of wind or solar electric generating systems

Authorizes the lease of lands adjacent to state, county and town highways for operation of wind or solar electric generating systems; authorizes the metropolitan transportation authority to enter…

Steven EnglebrightTransportation Committee

Relates to prohibiting the transloading of certain wastes at facilities in Richmond county

Prohibits the transloading of municipal solid waste, toxic waste or hazardous wastes at facilities in Richmond county unless such waste originates in such county except after an environmental impact…

Andrew J. LanzaCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Relates to establishing the New York state seniors trust fund and directing certain moneys to be deposited into such fund

Relates to establishing the New York state seniors trust fund and directing certain moneys to be deposited into such fund.

Ruben DiazFinance Committee

Changes tax provisions to allow little cigars to be taxed at the same rate as cigarettes

Changes tax provisions to allow little cigars to be taxed at the same rate as cigarettes.

Barbara LiftonWays And Means Committee

Authorizes a new type of professional service corporation to be known as a professional service corporation

Permits the incorporation of design professional service corporations (engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, land surveying, or any combination thereof) in which non-professionals may…

Ronald CanestrariHigher Education Committee

Relates to design professional corporations

Permits the incorporation of design professional service corporations (engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, land surveying, or any combination thereof) in which non-professionals may…

Kenneth P. LaValleCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Increases penalties for violation of overtaking and passing a school bus and creates the crime of vehicular homicide in the third degree

Increases penalties for violation of overtaking and passing a school bus; allows permissive suspension of a driver's license for up to six months for such violation, and creates the crime of…

Michael CusickTransportation Committee

Relates to alternative institutional support programs for school districts

Relates to experimental alternative institutional support programs for school districts.

Charles LavineEducation Committee

Exempts library districts from consolidation or dissolution

Exempts library districts from consolidation or dissolution.

Dennis H. GabryszakLibraries And Education Technology Committee

Relates to the use of ultra low sulfur diesel fuel and the best available technology by the state

Relates to the use of ultra low sulfur diesel fuel and the best available technology by the state.

James L. SewardEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Establishes offenses of throttling and strangulation

Establishes offenses of throttling and strangulation.

Joseph LentolCodes Committee

Relates to hepatitis vaccinations

Allows the commissioner to establish a statewide program requiring hepatitis vaccinations for school employees.

William ScarboroughEducation Committee

Relates to the recovery of governmental costs from industrial development agencies; repealer

Relates to the recovery of governmental costs from industrial development agencies.

Robin SchimmingerLocal Governments Committee

Requires bills to contain fiscal impact notes listing estimated costs to an affected entity; requires fiscal impact notes to be displayed on the digital board of the assembly chamber during deliberation of bills

Requires that legislative bills contain fiscal impact statements listing estimated costs to an affected entity; requires fiscal impact statements to be displayed on the digital board of the assembly…

Ann RabbittGovernmental Operations Committee

Mourning the untimely death of Specialist Alan N. Dikcis of Wheatfield, New York, and paying tribute to his courageous actions

George D. MaziarzAdopted

Adopted

Urging the New York State Congressional delegation to support H.R. 1194, the Federal Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act 2009

George LatimerGovernmental Operations Committee

Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension boards

Requires dating violence education and dating violence policies in school districts, board of cooperative educational services and county vocational education and extension boards; "dating violence"…

Michael CusickEducation Committee

Requires volunteers of youth sports organizations to be screened through use of the statewide sex offender registry

Provides for regulation of volunteers of youth sports organizations; requires volunteers to be screened through use of the statewide sex offender registry; requires notice and disqualification of…

Francine DelMonteHealth CommitteeHealth

Provides for submission of applications of charter schools to be made to the board of education of the local school district and to the chancellor, where appropriate

Provides for submission of applications of charter schools to be made to the board of education of the local school district and to the chancellor, where appropriate.

David KoonEducation CommitteeEducation

Provides that sex offender registrants may not receive a commercial driver's license

Provides that sex offender registrants may not receive a commercial driver's license.

Francine DelMonteTransportation Committee

Relates to state environmental purchasing and intergovernmental agreements; repealer

Relates to state environmental purchasing and intergovernmental agreements.

Robert CastelliEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to provide for the payment of refunds within 30 days of the receipt of a tax return

Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to provide for the payment by the department of taxation and finance of tax refunds within 30 days of the receipt of a taxpayer's tax return, unless…

Richard BrodskyOn the Assembly floor

Repeals section 2975-a of the public authorities law

Relates to the recovery of governmental costs from industrial development agencies.

David J. ValeskyCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes

Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes; includes the definition of homelessness.

Rory LancmanCodes Committee

Requires the provision of transportation services to recipients of medical assistance to a safe location during pest control procedures at their residences

Requires the provision of transportation services to Medicaid recipients for the purpose of transporting eligible Medicaid recipients from their residences to a safe location during the provision of…

Micah KellnerHealth CommitteeHealth

Exempts the sale and installation of commercial solar energy systems equipment from state sales and compensating use taxes; grants localities option to exempt

Exempts the sale and installation of commercial solar energy systems equipment, when the installer employs workers who are residents of this state, from sales and compensating use taxes; grants…

Steven EnglebrightWays And Means CommitteeFinance

Provides an exemption to the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance upon the possession of residual amounts of such in a hypodermic syringe or needle

Provides an exemption to the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance upon the possession of residual amounts of a controlled substance in a hypodermic syringe or hypodermic needle…

Richard GottfriedStricken

Changes community service to be compensatory service in certain sentencing alternative programs

Changes community service to be compensatory service in certain sentencing alternative programs to distinguish such service from the service provided by volunteers.

Jeffrey DinowitzOn the Assembly floor

Relates to streamlining planning and reporting requirements for school districts and boards of cooperative educational services

Relates to streamlining planning and reporting requirements for school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.

Catherine NolanEducation Committee

Directs NYSERDA to undertake a statewide study of consumer behaviors with respect to energy efficiency and clean energy technology

Directs NYS energy research and development authority to undertake a statewide study of consumer behaviors with respect to energy efficiency and clean energy technology programs.

Andrew HevesiEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Directs the department of health to evaluate and report on Medicaid prescription drug reimbursement to retail pharmacies

Directs the department of health to evaluate and report on Medicaid prescription drug reimbursement to retail pharmacies; creates a workgroup to conduct study and report findings to the legislature…

RoAnn DestitoHealth Committee

Provides for the inclusion of low income credit unions in the banking development district program in cities having a population of one million or more persons

Provides for the inclusion of low income credit unions in the banking development district program in cities having a population of one million or more persons.

Brian KavanaghBanks Committee

Requires the provision of transportation services to recipients of medical assistance to a safe location during pest control procedures at their residences

Requires the provision of transportation services to Medicaid recipients for the purpose of transporting eligible Medicaid recipients from their residences to a safe location during the provision of…

Daniel L. SquadronHealth Committee

Authorizes the provision of certain optometric services by the college of optometry of the state university of New York to persons receiving medical assistance

Authorizes the provision of optometric services, which are provided by certain diagnostic and treatment centers licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law and affiliated with the…

Liz KruegerOn the Senate floor

Relates to open meetings of public bodies

Relates to open meetings of public bodies.

David J. ValeskyOn the Senate floor

Authorizes the commissioner of transportation to alienate and convey certain land to the Community Ambulance Company, Inc.

Authorizes the commissioner of transportation to alienate and convey certain land to the Community Ambulance Company, Inc.; parcel of land, situate, lying and being at the corner of Sunrise Highway…

Owen H. JohnsonTransportation Committee

Expands duties of dept of Ag & Mkts regarding and authorizes an exemption for certain structures and buildings used in the operation of wineries and distilleries

Expands the duties of the department of Agriculture and Markets regarding the direct marketing of grapes and other fruit products, the profitability of farming and the preservation of viable farm…

William J. Larkin Jr.Finance Committee