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931 bills. Ordered by the date of each bill’s latest official action: referral, amendment, floor vote, passage or signature.
Impact is how much a bill would change if enacted, from 1 (minimal) to 10 (transformational). Passage is our estimate of the chance it becomes law this session. How we score
Suspends hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of natural gas or oil until May 15, 2011; suspends the issuance of new permits for such drilling.
Vetoed
Authorizes the commissioner of economic development together with the commissioner of agriculture and markets to devise a program to promote and distribute statewide and regional guides to farms,…
Vetoed
Establishes the wage theft prevention act providing for certain notifications to employees in their primary languages and protections for employees.
Signed into law
Provides that certain information shall be kept confidential and redacted or withheld from referees' hearings records or referees' decisions.
Signed into law
Requires that individual accident and health insurance policies shall provide coverage for screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
Vetoed
Relates to distressed property consultants advertisements.
Signed into law
Enacts the "access to justice in lending act"; relates to a mortgagor's right to recover attorneys' fees in actions or proceedings arising out of foreclosures of residential property which consists…
Signed into law
Enacts the "state workforce injury reduction act"; requires state agencies to submit a written action plan for reducting occurrences of injuries in the coming year to the governor and the legislature.
Vetoed
Provides that whenever rent is paid by NYC human resources administration on behalf of a tenant on public assistance, the department of housing preservation shall send a certification of payment to…
Vetoed
Establishes the child health plus and school meals enrollment coordination act.
Signed into law
Provides for persons whose eligibility for medical assistance is terminated to receive thirty days written notice in advance of the effective date of such termination and consideration of…
Vetoed
Prohibits radioactive or hazardous waste disposal or transfer stations from being sited within one thousand five hundred feet of school property.
Vetoed
Provides that upon application for public assistance or care, the local social services district shall notify the applicant both verbally and in writing of the availability of monetary grants for…
Signed into law
Provides for increased fines for overnight parking of tractor-trailer combinations, tractors, truck trailers and semi-trailers on residential streets in the city of New York.
Signed into law
Enacts the "New York state construction industry fair play act"; defines terms; provides notice to persons receiving remuneration from contractors and subcontractors; describes violations;…
Signed into law
Provides alternate retirement benefits for employees of the New York Power Authority, who are employed at the Charles Poletti Power Project.
Vetoed
Enacts Ian's Law, which provides enhanced consumer protections in the event of an insurer's discontinuance of coverage, including requiring approval of the superintendent and notice to policyholders.
Signed into law
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…
Signed into law
Relates to unlawful dissection, procurement and sale of human body tissue, organs and body parts.
Signed into law
Relates to adjustment to the maximum allowable rent.
Prohibits an owner from adjusting the amount of preferential rent, rent charged and paid by the tenant which is less than the legal regulated rent for the housing accommodation, upon the renewal of…
Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting statroute 34 from its intersection with route 104 southerly to its intersection with route 17-c as the "Harriet Tubman Memorial Highway."
Signed into law
Requires municipalities which sell, transfer or lease community garden real property to use proceeds therefrom for community garden purposes.
Vetoed
Extends dram shop liability to cover persons who sell false identification to a person under 21 years of age who causes injury or damages while intoxicated or whose ability is impaired.
Provides notice to public housing authorities whenever a sex offender is released to public housing.
Signed into law
Enacts the "bisphenol A-free children and babies act"; prohibits the manufacture, distribution and sale of child care products containing bisphenol A; prohibits the manufacture, distribution and…
Signed into law
Relates to the manner of posting and changing beer prices to beer wholesalers and retail licensees.
Enhances the reporting requirements for the storage or use of hazardous materials by businesses, outside of a city having a population of one million or more.
Requires a reduction in sulfur emissions by 2012 for all heating oil used in the state and allows the governor to suspend such reduction if there is not an adequate supply of the required fuel.
Signed into law
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.
Signed into law
Establishes the NY fraud, enforcement and recovery act.
Relates to enacting the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.
Expands eligibility for unemployment benefits.
Provides that people arrested in connection with a felony must submit a DNA sample.
Orders the confiscation of property or devices, used in willful and continual violation of any provision of this code or order or regulation promulgated by the commission or the board, which belongs…
Enacts the automobile fraud prevention act of 2010.
Establishes the homeless protection act which designates certain offenses against homeless persons as hate crimes; includes the definition of homelessness.
Relates to the siting of major electric generating facilities; relates to power plant emissions and performance standards.
Authorizes the incorporation of benefit corporations and provides for the public benefit to be created by benefit corporations, for the election and termination of the status of a benefit…
Relates to regulation of toxic chemicals in children's products; establishes the interstate chemical clearinghouse.
Adopted
Adopted
Adopted
Relates to the distribution of certain mandatory surcharges imposed for alcohol-related traffic convictions.
Enacts the child protection act of 2010; establishes the class A-I felony of aggravated murder of a child for which the sentence shall be life imprisonment without parole; aggravated murder of a…
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…
Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue use of certain park land and convey it to the St.
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