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Authorizes the Time Out Club Development Corporation to file an application for a real property tax exemption

Authorizes the Time Out Club Development Corporation to file an application for a real property tax exemption.

Earlene HooperSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the Hebrew Academy of Nassau county to file an application for a real property tax exemption

Authorizes the Hebrew Academy of Nassau county in the town of Hempstead to file an application for a real property tax exemption.

Earlene HooperReal Property Taxation Committee

Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey an abandoned state armory to the village of Freeport

Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey an abandoned state armory to the village of Freeport.

Earlene HooperGovernmental Operations Committee

Requires signatures for payments in lieu of taxes

Requires signatures of chief executives of local municipalities for payments in lieu of payments prior to the grant of application or the effectiveness of any such grant for a payment in lieu of…

Earlene HooperLocal Government Committee

Provides for the issuance by the metropolitan suburban bus authority to enable passengers to transfer from one to another within Nassau county

Provides for the issuance by the metropolitan suburban bus authority of transfers to enable bus passengers to transfer from one bus to another within Nassau county; directs the metropolitan…

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Relates to appointment of a superior officer in the police department of the village of Freeport

Relates to appointment of a superior officer in the police department of the village of Freeport.

Earlene HooperStricken

Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits

Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.

Earlene HooperHigher Education Committee

Expands the health care practitioner volunteer pilot programs to include a program in the unincorporated community of Uniondale, in the town of Hempstead

Expands the health care practitioner volunteer pilot programs to include a program in the unincorporated community of Uniondale, being in the town of Hempstead and county of Nassau.

Earlene HooperStricken

Authorize the First United Methodist Church of Roosevelt to file an application for real property tax exemptions

Authorizes the First United Methodist Church of Roosevelt to file an application for real property tax exemptions.

Earlene HooperOn the Assembly floor

Relates to combining the Nassau and New York city regional off-track betting corporations into the metropolitan off-track betting corporation; repealer

Relates to combining the Nassau and New York City regional off-track betting corporations into the metropolitan off-track betting corporation.

Earlene HooperRacing And Wagering Committee

Congratulating the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program upon the occasion of celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2010

Earlene HooperAdopted

Adopted

Relates to combining the Nassau and New York city regional off-track betting corporations into the metropolitan off-track betting corporation; repealer

Relates to combining the Nassau and New York City regional off-track betting corporations into the metropolitan off-track betting corporation.

Earlene HooperRacing And Wagering Committee

Authorizes the county of Nassau to impose by local laws an excise tax on cigarettes

Authorizes the county of Nassau to impose by local laws an excise tax on cigarettes.

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Relates to the location of cash registers in retail establishments

Relates to the location of cash registers in retail establishments to ensure that customers are able to view the numbers and amounts of such purchases as the cash register attendant inputs such…

Earlene HooperConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Excludes compensation received as juror from personal income tax

Excludes compensation and lawful expenses received for services rendered as a juror from being taxed as income.

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Authorizes certain counties to impose taxes on cigarettes, cigars and tobacco products

Authorizes the counties of Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester, Dutchess and Rensselaer to impose local taxes on the use, possession, sale, transfer, storage, withdrawal or…

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Establishes demonstration program providing electronic monitoring devices to victims of domestic violence in 5 counties

Establishes a 1 year demonstration program requiring the local social services district of the county of Nassau to provide electronic monitoring devices to victims of domestic violence who are…

Earlene HooperCodes Committee

Requires that the village of Lakeview, Nassau county, vote on the levy of any taxes for library purposes

Requires that the village of Lakeview, Nassau county, approve any taxes for library purposes by a majority vote in a general village election or meeting at which taxes may be voted before any such…

Earlene HooperLibraries And Education Technology Committee

Requires reporting of cash transactions in excess of $10,000

Requires any person engaged in a trade or business who, in the course of such trade or business, receives more than $10,000 in cash in a single transaction or in two or more related transactions to…

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Makes provisions regarding engineered sterile seeds

Defines the term engineered sterile seeds and directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to study the implications of the development, sale and use of such seeds; prohibits the production…

Earlene HooperAgriculture Committee

Relates to the exclusion of certain local indebtedness

Excludes in ascertaining a locality's power to contract indebtedness, any indebtedness contracted to provide for the supply of electricity.

Earlene HooperLocal Governments Committee

Places stricter provisions and consequences on the operation of class DJ or MJ learner's permits or licenses

Prohibits passengers under the age of eighteen in a car with a driver having a class DJ or MJ learner's permit or license unless the passengers are related, increases the suspension period for…

Earlene HooperTransportation Committee

Relates to special proceedings to convey title to abandoned dwellings to individuals

Relates to special proceedings to convey title to abandoned dwellings to individuals whose income level is below the EPIC income level; provides that such individual shall pay the taxes and restore…

Earlene HooperJudiciary Committee

Authorizes the county of Nassau to issue bonds to refund bonds issued by the Nassau county interim finance authority

Authorizes the county of Nassau to issue bonds to refund bonds issued by the Nassau county interim finance authority.

Earlene HooperLocal Governments Committee

Provides for a graduated license for the operation of motor vehicles for youth

Provides for a graduated license for the operation of motor vehicles for youth: must have learner's permit for nine months; after obtaining license, may not transport passenger less than 20 years of…

Earlene HooperTransportation Committee

Increases the penalty for unlawfully dealing with a minor in the first degree to a class E felony

Increases the penalty for unlawfully dealing with a minor in the first degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony.

Earlene HooperCodes Committee

Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed social workers under the workers' compensation program

Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by duly licensed social workers under the workers' compensation program.

Earlene HooperLabor Committee

Provides housing subsidies for victims of domestic violence

Authorizes the payment of housing subsidies in the amount of seventy percent of the rental cost of the dwelling unit or the median housing rental cost for the county, whichever is lower, to certain…

Earlene HooperSocial Services Committee

Appropriates monies for and establishes a street level narcotics enforcement program within certain communities

Appropriates $44,500,000 for and establishes a street level narcotics enforcement program in the division of criminal justice services for counties not wholly contained within a city and having a…

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Prohibits discrimination against volunteers

Prohibits any charitable, civic, eleemosynary or other similar organization or association from discriminating against persons who are performing or are seeking to perform volunteer services on the…

Earlene HooperGovernmental Operations Committee

Prohibition of any municipality from using taxpayer funds to fiscally support private, local or free publications

Prohibits any municipality from using taxpayer funds to fiscally support private, local and free publications.

Earlene HooperLocal Governments Committee

Establishes additional notice requirements for site selection for community residential facilities

Grants the municipality sixty rather than forty days after such notice to approve or object to the proposed site for a community residential facility.

Earlene HooperMental Health Committee

Creates the Long Island workforce housing incentive program

Creates the Long Island workforce housing incentive program; requires a local government that approves a subdivision plat or site plan for five or more residential units to require the set aside of…

Earlene HooperJudiciary Committee

Relates to charter schools; repealer

Relates to charter schools; provides for local approval of charter schools, annual charter school budget votes and annual reporting to local boards of education; provides for collective bargaining…

Earlene HooperEducation Committee

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to give fair and legal estimates

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to give fair and legal estimates; provides a civil penalty of not more than three hundred dollars.

Earlene HooperConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Permits owners of a one family house to obtain a variance to legally establish codified second living quarters or rental spaces in their homes

Provides that except in a city with a population of one million or more, any municipality shall have the authority to permit owners of a one family house to obtain a variance to legally establish…

Earlene HooperLocal Governments Committee

Creates land banks for the acquisition of vacant and abandoned properties and authorizes the sale of such properties

Creates land banks for the acquisition of vacant and abandoned properties and authorizes the sale of such properties.

Earlene HooperLocal Governments Committee

Requires school districts and BOCES to recognize and credit teachers with transfer credit on a uniform basis

Provides that the school authorities of each school district and each board of cooperative educational services shall recognize and credit each teacher with transfer credit on a uniform and…

Earlene HooperEducation Committee

Relates to the reorganization of the Lakeview public library

Relates to the reorganization of the Lakeview public library; provides that candidates for the office of member of the board of trustees shall be nominated by petition; makes related changes…

Earlene HooperLibraries And Education Technology Committee

Requires that the owner shall have fifteen days from the approximate or estimated completion date specified in the contract for inspection of contracted home improvements

Requires that the owner shall have fifteen days from the approximate or estimated completion date specified in the contract for inspection of contracted home improvements prior to final payment…

Earlene HooperConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Grants home security personal income tax deductions

Permits a state income tax deduction for home security devices, including but not limited to exterior lighting, burglar and fire alarms, installed by the owner occupant of a one, two or three family…

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Allows board of education to provide certain children transportation to school for a lesser distance than two miles

Allows board of education to provide transportation to school for a child living a lesser distance than two miles from school if the parent or guardian of the child is nonambulatory and unable to…

Earlene HooperEducation Committee

Provides for the payment of regular wages to bay constables of the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, for injuries or illnesses sustained in the line of duty

Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty.

Earlene HooperLocal Governments Committee

Authorizes the division of the lottery to conduct the operation of video lottery wagering at the regional off-track betting facilities

Authorizes the division of the lottery to conduct a pilot program for video lottery wagering at the regional off-track betting facilities.

Earlene HooperRacing And Wagering Committee

Authorizes Nassau county to impose a tax on tobacco products

Authorizes Nassau county to impose a tax on tobacco products.

Earlene HooperWays And Means Committee

Presumptive evidence of hate crimes

States that verbally using commonly known profane slurs or biased language during the commission of specified offenses shall be presumptive evidence of a hate crime.

Earlene HooperCodes Committee

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

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

Earlene HooperSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Extends Nassau county's authority to initiate and enforce certain actions

Extends from October 1, 2009 until October 1, 2011, the date until which Nassau county has the authority to initiate and enforce certain actions.

Earlene HooperSigned by Governor

Signed into law