Sponsored bills

Authorizes school tax reductions for residents in certain communities

Authorizes school tax reductions of 25% for residents in communities that restrict ownership to those fifty-five years of age and older.

Thomas McKevittWays And Means Committee

Increases penalties for criminal use of a firearm in the first degree when committing a drug related felony offense

Increases penalties for criminal use of a firearm in the first degree when committing a drug related felony offense.

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Repeals section 7718 of the insurance law, relating to the prohibited advertisement of the corporation in sale of insurance

Repeals section 7718 of the insurance law, relating to the prohibited advertisement of the corporation in sale of insurance.

Thomas McKevittInsurance Committee

Relates to retirement credits for ambulance medical technicians who performed services for the Nassau County Medical center prior to September 1999

Provides credit for service for retirement of members who perform ambulance medical technician related services in the county of Nassau for the Nassau County Medical center prior to September…

Thomas McKevittGovernmental Employees Committee

Relates to the compensation of state-paid judges, NYC housing judges, and establishes special commissions; appropriation; repealer

Relates to the compensation of state-paid judges, NYC housing judges, and establishes specials commissions on compensation increases.

Thomas McKevittJudiciary Committee

Relates to aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree

Provides that a person who has in effect three or more suspensions or revocations of his or her driver's license imposed on at least three separate dates shall be presumed to know that such license…

Thomas McKevittTransportation Committee

Provides two year suspension of driver's license upon second DWI conviction and authorizes alternatives to restoration of such license

Provides for a two year suspension of a person's driver's license upon second driving while intoxicated conviction and authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to issue a conditional license…

Thomas McKevittTransportation Committee

Relates to professional education in the area of elderly abuse

Requires physicians, chiropractors, dentists, registered nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and dental hygienists to have completed two hours of coursework or training…

Thomas McKevittHigher Education Committee

Requires sentences for two or more crimes when one crime is arson to run consecutively

Requires the sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is arson; eliminates restrictions on the aggregate length of consecutive sentences for class A felonies…

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Relates to calculation of terms of imprisonment in certain instances

Provides that there shall not be a fifty year aggregate maximum term of consecutive sentences imposed for the conviction of three or more violent felony offenses one of which was a class B violent…

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Imposes an additional 5 years of imprisonment for certain offenses

Imposes an additional 5 years of imprisonment for sale of controlled substances to a person under the age of 16 or for committing a felony with a loaded firearm, shotgun, rifle or machine-gun.

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Expands definition of second felony offender to include a person who is convicted of any felony having previously been convicted of a felony

Expands the definition of "second felony offender" to remove the limitation that the second felony conviction be of a felony defined in the penal law.

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Provides for the admission of evidence of proof of similar offenses in criminal and civil proceedings involving the commission of a sex offense

Provides for the admission of evidence of proof of other sex offenses in criminal and civil proceedings involving the commission of a sex offense; provides for procedures therefor.

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Requires school buses to display a toll free number for reporting an improper operation of such school buses

Requires school buses to display a toll free number for reporting improper operation of such school buses.

Thomas McKevittEducation Committee

Relates to an exemption for real property owned by an incorporated volunteer fire company or fire department

Relates to an exemption for real property owned by an incorporated volunteer fire company or fire department; provides such property shall be removed from the tax rolls immediately by the county…

Thomas McKevittReal Property Taxation Committee

Authorizes use of the Long Island Rail Road at no charge for uniformed members of the reserve armed forces of the United States

Authorizes uniformed members with valid photographic military identification of the reserve armed forces of the United States in travel to inactive duty training to ride the Long Island Rail Road…

Thomas McKevittCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Relates to the New York state tobacco settlement cancer research and treatment program

Relates to the New York state tobacco settlement cancer research and treatment program; establishes such program within the Roswell Park Cancer Institute; provides for an annual report to the…

Thomas McKevittHealth Committee

Provides for exemption from real property taxation for physically handicapped persons

Authorizes municipalities to enact real property tax exemptions for physically handicapped persons, including guidelines for eligibility and penalties for wilful false statements in applying therefor.

Thomas McKevittReal Property Taxation Committee

Establishes additional notice requirements for site selection for community residential facilities

Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility and requires hearings to include evaluation of…

Thomas McKevittMental Health Committee

Relates to determining income for tuition assistance program awards

Relates to determining income for tuition assistance program awards; provides that transfers from individual retirement accounts to Roth individual retirement accounts not be included in determining…

Thomas McKevittHigher Education Committee

Relates to employer sponsored retirement plans

Relates to employer sponsored retirement plans; includes such plans in the term "income".

Thomas McKevittReal Property Taxation Committee

Relates to public awareness of biofuel

Requires NYSERDA to establish a program of public awareness of the use and benefits of biofuel.

Thomas McKevittEnergy Committee

Authorizes grants and loans to businesses impacted or dislocated by state or local highway and bridge contracts

Authorizes grants, loans, and loan guarantees from the empire state economic development fund to businesses which are impacted or dislocated by local and state highway and bridge projects funded…

Thomas McKevittEconomic Development Committee

Requires insurers to display certain underwriting information on the declarations page to their homeowners and dwelling fire personal lines policies

Requires insurers to display certain underwriting information on the declarations page to their homeowners and dwelling fire personal lines policies.

Thomas McKevittInsurance Committee

Repeals certain provisions related to the special tax on passenger car rentals

Repeals certain provisions related to the special tax on passenger car rentals.

Thomas McKevittWays And Means Committee

Relates to written demands for payment

Relates to written demands for payment; provides that written demands for the payment of dishonored checks may be in either English or Spanish, whichever is the spoken language of the drawer.

Thomas McKevittJudiciary Committee

Provides a preference for New York state contractors for purposes of public works contracts

Provides a preference for New York state contractors for purposes of public works contracts; authorizes the commissioner of economic development and the commissioner of labor to promulgate necessary…

Thomas McKevittGovernmental Operations Committee

Establishes the regents high-tech graduate loan forgiveness program and appropriates twenty-five million dollars therefor

Establishes the regents high-tech graduate loan foregiveness program to provide annual loan payments of up to $10,000 a year to high-tech college graduates who are residents of the state, attended a…

Thomas McKevittEducation Committee

Establishes a biofuel/biodiesel permit process task force

Establishes a biofuel/biodiesel permit process task force; administered by NYSERDA.

Thomas McKevittEnergy Committee

Increases fines and license revocation periods for repeat alcohol and drug related offenses

Increases mandatory minimum fines and driver's license revocation periods for second and subsequent alcohol and drug related offenses including provision for "permanently" probationary license after…

Thomas McKevittTransportation Committee

Includes criminal trespass in third degree and unlawful imprisonment in second degree within family offenses over which family and criminal jurisdiction exists

Adds the offenses of criminal trespass in the third degree and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree to the offenses over which the family court and criminal courts have concurrent jurisdiction.

Thomas McKevittJudiciary Committee

Requires absentee ballots and nine polling hours for fire commissioner, library board and special district elections

Requires absentee ballots and nine polling hours for fire commissioner, library board and special district elections.

Thomas McKevittLocal Governments Committee

Establishes a state-wide database on the location and availability of medical procedures

Establishes a state-wide database providing the location and availability of medical procedures within New York state, specifying which hospitals are equipped to perform each procedure.

Thomas McKevittHealth Committee

Grants Tier 1 status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Lynn Levin

Grants Tier 1 status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Lynn Levin.

Thomas McKevittGovernmental Employees Committee

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Garden City union free school district

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Garden City school district.

Thomas McKevittEducation Committee

Relates to corporate defendants

Provides that upon finding a corporate defendant liable for a criminal charge, the district attorney may simultaneously file a civil judgment against such corporate defendant.

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Relates to the time within which prisoners shall be committed to the custody of the state department of correctional services

Requires that a prisoner be immediately committed to the custody of the state department of correctional services upon the pronouncement of a sentence of imprisonment requiring commitment to a state…

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Prohibits the sale of police insignia

Prohibits the sale of police insignia and badges to anyone other than an active or retired police officer or peace officer, a person engaged in the business of providing theatrical or movie props, a…

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Relates to mandatory dispositions and the commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm

Relates to mandatory dispositions and the commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm; provides an additional five years imprisonment.

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Relates to the enforcement of orders of restitution or reparation

Authorizes the enforcement of orders of restitution and reparation by allowing designated collection agencies, with court approval, to institute civil actions, and permits income execution…

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Increases fees for probation services

Provides that a court shall impose a fee for reports prepared unless a waiver is granted due to the indigency of the youth; provides for reimbursement of probation services in certain instances;…

Thomas McKevittCodes Committee

Authorizes the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island to file an application for a real property tax exemption with the assessor of the county of Nassau

Authorizes the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island to file an application for a real property tax exemption with the assessor of the county of Nassau.

Thomas McKevittSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to hospital-based transitional care units

Relates to hospital-based transitional care units; authorizes the department of health to provide four thousand transitional care units to medicare patients who have exceeded their diagnostic…

Thomas McKevittStricken

Honoring Nassau Community College upon the occasion of its 50th Anniversary

Thomas McKevittAdopted

Adopted