Co-sponsored bills

Creates the bioscience facilities development program

Creates the bioscience facilities development program; provides grants to local economic development corporations for the purpose of creating a revolving fund for loans to bioscience facilities to…

Adriano EspaillatVetoed

Vetoed

Provides for a lifetime license for hunting, fishing and trapping under certain circumstances

Provides for a transfer of a lifetime license for hunting, fishing and trapping under certain circumstances.

Robert SweeneySigned by Governor

Signed into law

Requires polling places to be accessible to physically disabled voters

Requires each polling place to be accessible to physically disabled voters and provides guidelines which shall be in accordance with the accessibility requirements mandated pursuant to the federal…

Kevin CahillSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Establishes an address confidentiality program in the office of the secretary of state for domestic violence victims who need to maintain secrecy of their location

Establishes an address confidentiality program in the office of the secretary of state for domestic violence victims who need to maintain confidentiality of their location; authorizes the secretary…

Helene WeinsteinVetoed

Vetoed

Requires model zoning and planning guidelines that foster age-integrated communities to provide for mixed-use development for senior residential housing

Requires model zoning and planning guidelines that foster age-integrated communities to include provisions to allow for accessory senior citizen units in areas zoned for single family residences and…

Steven EnglebrightSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Directs the president of the SUNY Upstate Medical University to conduct a study concerning the need for branch campuses in the Fort Drum/Watertown and Mohawk Valley

Directs the president of the SUNY Upstate Medical University to conduct a study to explore the viability and compelling need for branch campuses of the SUNY Upstate Medical University in the Fort…

RoAnn DestitoSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Allows satisfaction of constitutional requirement that bills be on members desks by distribution of bills in electronically written form

Allows satisfaction of constitutional requirement that bills be on members desks prior to passage/voting by distribution of bills in electronically written form: provides that a bill shall be deemed…

Sandy GalefJudiciary Committee

Relates to certain funds used by the center for advanced technology

Relates to certain funds used by the center for advanced technology.

Dennis H. GabryszakSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Prohibits political candidates from being nominated by more than one party for any public office

Prohibits political candidates from being nominated by more than one party for any public office.

Albert A. StirpeElection Law Committee

Relates to establishing a state high speed rail planning board

Relates to establishing a state high speed rail planning board and providing for the expiration thereof.

David GanttOn the Assembly floor

Broadens scope of prevailing wage requirements for service employees and establishes criminal penalties for violations

Broadens scope of prevailing wage requirements for service employees and establishes criminal penalties for violations.

Michael GianarisOn the Assembly floor

Relates to enacting the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote

Enacts the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; creates a compact between the states and the District of Columbia; defines terms.

Jeffrey DinowitzOn the Assembly floor

Requires the public service commission to conduct an in-depth public interest analysis of proposed mergers by telephone corporations and other telecom service providers

Requires the public service commission to conduct an in-depth public interest analysis of proposed mergers by telephone corporations and other telecommunications services providers; requires the…

Richard BrodskyRules Committee

Relates to cooperative bidding by libraries and library systems

Relates to cooperative bidding by libraries and library systems.

Amy PaulinOn the Assembly floor

Directs telecommunication and cable corporations to provide call center service assistance from centers located within the state

Directs telecommunications and cable corporations to provide call center service assistance from centers located within the state and such corporations' service area; includes a list of what…

Marc AlessiCodes Committee

Phases out the franchise tax on business corporations which are manufacturers over a two-year period

Phases out the franchise tax on business corporations that are manufacturers over a two-year period; defines terms "manufacturer" and "principally engaged".

Robin SchimmingerWays And Means Committee

Relates to the redemption of tax foreclosed real property by certain military members

Permits municipalities to allow the redemption of tax foreclosed real property by certain military members where such owner was deployed overseas and such foreclosure was the result of financial…

Adriano EspaillatOn the Assembly floor

Relates to persons authorized to withdraw blood at the request of a police officer

Establishes certain persons, without being under the supervision and at the direction of a physician, may withdraw blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic or drug content therein.

Harvey WeisenbergOn the Assembly floor

Prohibits the imposition of a surcharge by a seller in a sales transaction on a holder who uses a debit card

Prohibits the imposition of a surcharge by a seller in a sales transaction on a holder who uses a debit card.

Audrey PhefferCodes Committee

Enacts the "New York state construction industry fair play act"

Enacts the "New York state construction industry fair play act"; defines terms; provides notice to persons receiving remuneration from contractors and subcontractors; describes violations;…

Susan JohnOn the Assembly floor

Relates to food service waste reduction

Relates to food service waste reduction; prohibits the use of polystyrene foam by contractors and lessees who deal with the state through state and municipal contracts.

Brian KavanaghOn the Senate floor

Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing

Requires registered professional nurses to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure; provides exemptions for those currently licensed or enrolled in…

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act"

Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum…

Richard GottfriedWays And Means Committee

Requires access to new homes by persons with disabilities

Requires access to new homes by persons with disabilities.

Joan MillmanRules Committee

Requires all first-term members of boards of education to attend training sessions within six months of taking office

Requires all first-term members of boards of education to attend training sessions within one year of taking office to acquaint such member with the powers, functions and duties of boards of…

Robert SweeneyOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the regulation of the use of hydraulic fracturing fluids

Relates to the regulation of the use of hydraulic fracturing fluids.

Robert SweeneyRules Committee

Relates to preferences to veterans for rentals and selection of tenants by certain housing companies

Relates to preferences to veterans for rentals and selection of tenants by certain housing companies.

Michael GianarisOn the Assembly floor

Requires health care providers to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment, services that provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk thereof

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified…

Richard GottfriedRules Committee

Eliminates the twenty million dollar cap on civic facilities authorized to be financed by industrial development agencies and authorities

Relates to funding of certain civic facilities by industrial development agencies.

Joseph MorelleLocal Governments Committee

Establishes a toll-free statewide number for use in the investigation and prevention of animal fighting

Establishes a toll-free statewide number for use in the investigation and prevention of animal fighting; provides reports be transmitted to the state or local police department and/or to the SPCA.

Amy PaulinOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the display of the prisoner of war flag and the missing in action flag at public buildings

Relates to the display of the prisoner of war flag and the missing in action flag at public buildings.

Adriano EspaillatVeterans' Affairs Committee

Relates to offenses involving the sexual performance of a child

Relates to offenses involving the sexual performance of a child; increases penalties for offenses involving promoting and possessing the sexual performance of a child.

Amy PaulinCodes Committee

Commemorating the 235th Birthday of the United States Army on June 14, 2010

Robert CastelliAdopted

Adopted

Paying tribute to the WASPs upon the occasion of receiving the Congressional Gold Medal

Donna LupardoAdopted

Adopted

Memorializing Governor David A. Paterson to proclaim June 12, 2010, as Women Veterans' Recognition Day in the State of New York

Donna LupardoAdopted

Adopted

Memorializing the Governor to designate the week prior to Veteran's Day, held yearly on November 11th, as Veterans Awareness Week in the State of New York

Robert SweeneyAdopted

Adopted

Urging the New York State Congressional delegation to pass H.R. 1522

Ellen C. JaffeeAdopted

Adopted

Relates to use of personal confidential information received from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state

Relates to use of personal confidential information received from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and political subdivisions thereof.

Robert SweeneyVeterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

Relates to permits to drill oil and gas wells

Relates to permits to drill oil and gas wells.

Robert SweeneyRules Committee

Relates to the procedural continuity of legislation during the two-year session

Provides that bills which have reached order of third reading but which shall not have been acted on by the house before the end of the first year of the two-year legislative session shall maintain…

Sandy GalefRules Committee

Prohibits fracturing and horizontal drilling for natural gas or oil on land operated by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation

Prohibits fracturing and horizontal drilling for natural gas or oil on land operated by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation and within 1 mile thereof.

Steven EnglebrightRules Committee

Allows local governments to enact or enforce certain laws and ordinances

Allows local governments to enact or enforce certain laws and ordinances.

Barbara LiftonRules Committee

Establishes a moratorium on conducting hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of natural gas or oil until 120 days after federal EPA issues report thereon

Establishes a moratorium on conducting hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of natural gas or oil until 120 days after federal Environmental Protection Agency issues a report on the effects of…

Steven EnglebrightRules Committee

Requires an environmental impact statement to be prepared for any natural gas or oil drilling involving the use of hydraulic fracturing fluid

Requires an environmental impact statement to be prepared for any natural gas or oil drilling involving the use of hydraulic fracturing fluid.

Robert SweeneyRules Committee

Prohibits the on-site storage of flowback water

Prohibits the on-site storage of flowback water.

Robert SweeneyCodes Committee

Prohibits the disposal of drill cuttings at the drilling site

Prohibits the disposal of drill cuttings at the drilling site.

Robert SweeneyCodes Committee

Provides for the creation and administration of land banks, for the conversion of vacant, abandoned or tax-delinquent properties into productive use

Provides for the creation and administration of land banks, for the conversion of vacant, abandoned or tax-delinquent properties into productive use.

Sam HoytWays And Means Committee

Creates renewable energy credits for retail electric providers, the New York power authority and the Long Island power authority

Creates renewable energy credits for retail electric providers, the New York power authority and the Long Island power authority.

Andrew HevesiEnergy Committee