Co-sponsored bills

Enacts the "taxi driver protection act"

Enacts the "taxi driver protection act"; requires a sign in every for-hire vehicle that states that "WARNING: Assaulting A Taxi Driver Is Punishable By Up To Twenty-Five Years In Prison."

Rory LancmanVetoed

Vetoed

Relates to provisions regarding domestic workers and such workers' employment regulations, employment restrictions and employment contracts

Relates to provisions regarding domestic workers and such workers' employment regulations concerning hours of labor and wages, employment restrictions and employment contracts.

Keith L.T. WrightSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to abandoned infants and endangering the welfare of a child

Relates to abandoned infants and endangering the welfare of a child.

Amy PaulinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to a report on the capacity and staffing of the state prison system

Requires certain reports to the legislature regarding correctional facilities.

Jeffrion AubryVetoed

Vetoed

Prohibits the implementation of electronic billing and/or payment of rent without the tenant's consent

Prohibits the implementation of electronic billing and/or payment of rent by a landlord without the tenant's consent; landlords shall not require participation in an electronic payment system as the…

Linda RosenthalSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Grants a waiver of the civil service examination fee to persons who have completed the displaced homemakers program or job training program

Grants a waiver of the civil service examination fee to persons who have completed the displaced homemakers program or job training program; allows a waiver for a maximum of two examination…

Vanessa GibsonVetoed

Vetoed

Relates to providing unlisted numbers for domestic violence victims

Relates to providing unlisted telephone numbers without charge for certain victims of domestic violence.

Naomi RiveraSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to the manner in which certain provisions of the correction law are enforced

Relates to the manner in which certain provisions of the correction law are enforced.

Hakeem JeffriesVetoed

Vetoed

Relates to extending the effectiveness of certain provisions until 2018

Relates to extending the effectiveness of the emergency housing rent control law and certain other provisions relating thereto until 2018.

Vito LopezOn the Senate floor

Adds a representative of veteran and alcoholism or substance abuse programs to the advisory council on alcoholism and substance abuse services

Adds a representative of veteran and alcoholism or substance abuse programs to the advisory council on alcoholism and substance abuse programs and a representative who is a combat veteran and is…

Amy PaulinVetoed

Vetoed

Enhances the reporting requirements for businesses, outside of a city with population of one million or more, which store or use hazardous materials

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.

Mike SpanoRules Committee

Directs the department of health to establish a certificate of recognition of stillbirth

Directs the department of health establish a certificate of recognition of stillbirth; provides such form shall be given to the parents of a stillborn child; makes related provisions.

Janele Hyer-SpencerWays And Means Committee

Relates to entrepreneurship assistance centers; repealer

Relates to entrepreneurship assistance centers to provide assistance to primarily minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and dislocated workers; requires the department of…

Adriano EspaillatRules Committee

Allows state police officers to receive an improved death benefit if they die without 20 years of service credit but with enough vacation and sick time to reach 20 years

Allows state police officers to receive an improved death benefit where such officers die without twenty years of service credit but with enough unused vacation and sick time to get them to twenty…

Albert A. StirpeOn 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 increasing participation by minority and women-owned business enterprises

Relates to increasing participation by minority and women-owned business enterprises.

Crystal Peoples-StokesOn the Assembly floor

Authorizes the city of New York to sell certain property that cannot be independently developed

Authorizes the city of New York to sell certain property that cannot be independently developed.

James F. BrennanOn the Assembly floor

Requires certain day care centers to provide notice before it intends to close its facility

Requires certain day care centers to provide notice before it intends to close its facility.

Michael BenjaminOn the Assembly floor

Commending Paul Levine and Carmen Collado upon the occasion of working to solve the issue of the social worker shortage in the State of New York

Peter RiveraAdopted

Adopted

Relates to notice requirements when funding cuts are made

Relates to notice requirements to families and providers when funding cuts are made.

Crystal Peoples-StokesChildren And Families Committee

Places responsibility for supervision of probation services in family court with the judiciary

Places responsibility for supervision of probation services in family court with the judiciary, including the obligation to budget the statutory percentage of state reimbursement to localities for…

Helene WeinsteinCodes Committee

Relates to the provision of information on post-adoption services to adoptive services

Relates to the provision of information on post-adoption services to adoptive services.

Barbara ClarkRules Committee

Enacts the "hospital closure planning act"

Enacts the "hospital closure planning act"; provides that whenever a general hospital closes, the commissioner of health shall within thirty days of being notified of such closure, hold a public…

Rory LancmanOn the Assembly floor

Adopts the interstate compact for juveniles; repealer

Adopts the interstate compact for juveniles.

Jeffrion AubryOn the Assembly floor

Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Harriet Tubman Memorial Highway"

Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route 34 from its intersection with state route 104 southerly to its intersection with state route 17-c as the "Harriet Tubman…

Gary FinchOn the Assembly floor

Relates to exculpatory material

Relates to exculpatory material and requires for disclosure of such to the defense.

Adriano EspaillatRules Committee

Allows certified nurse practitioners to practice without collaboration of a licensed physician

Allows the practice of registered professional nursing by a certified nurse practitioner to include diagnosis and performance without collaboration of a licensed physician.

Richard GottfriedHigher Education Committee

Enacts the "reproductive health act"; repealer

Enacts the "reproductive health act"; provides a fundamental right to choose contraception and the right of a female to determine the course of a pregnancy; authorizes abortion prior to viability;…

Deborah GlickHealth Committee

Enacts the public benefits for professional facilities act

Enacts the "public benefits for professional facilities" act; defines terms; provides that any state or local authority that grants any benefit, for the purpose of construction, reconstruction,…

Brian KavanaghRules 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

Prohibits debt collectors from collecting or attempting to collect a debt owed by a deceased debtor that is known by such debt collector to be deceased

Prohibits debt collectors from collecting or attempting to collect a debt owed by a deceased debtor that is known by such debt collector to be deceased.

Linda RosenthalRules Committee

Requires certain health insurance policies to include coverage for the cost of certain infant and baby formulas

Requires certain health insurance policies to include coverage for the cost of certain infant and baby formulas.

Grace MengInsurance Committee

Relates to the offense of sexual abuse in the first degree

Provides that sexual contact upon a person under the age of 13 by a person 21 years of age or older shall be sexual abuse in the first degree.

RoAnn DestitoOn the Senate floor

Prohibits the dissemination of depictions of animal cruelty

Prohibits the dissemination of depictions of animal cruelty.

Deborah GlickCodes Committee

Relates to preauthorized electronic fund transfers

Provides that no agreement for preauthorized electronic fund transfers entered into on or after January first, two thousand eleven shall permit or require the transfer of any amount as a penalty or…

Darryl TownsCodes Committee

Includes the use of a governmental agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree

Includes the use of a governmental agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree.

Michael G. MillerCodes Committee

Requires licensed appearance enhancement professionals to take continuing education classes concerning infection control and transmission

Requires licensed appearance enhancement professionals to successfully complete a prescribed continuing education course or program in the prevention of the transmission of infection and the proper…

Darryl TownsWays And Means Committee

Prohibits the hiring of a level 2 or level 3 sex offender as a building superintendent or resident manager, provides that sexual harassment of a tenant is a violatio

Prohibits the owner, agent or operator of a multiple dwelling from hiring as a building superintendent, managing agent, or resident manager any person who is registered as a level two or level three…

Micah KellnerCodes 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

Establishes the domestic violence registration act

Establishes the domestic violence registration act defining domestic violence offenses and offenders and requiring such offenders to register with the division of criminal justice services.

Hakeem JeffriesCorrection Committee

Enacts the health care consumer and provider protection act relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans

Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses…

Ronald CanestrariWays And Means Committee

Relates to health-related legal services programs

Establishes a health-related legal services program to make grants for the purpose of providing on site legal services without charge to assist, on a voluntary basis, income eligible patients and…

Richard GottfriedWays And Means Committee

Adds records of the office of homeland security to the definition of the term "public safety agency record"

Adds records of the office of homeland security to the definition of the term "public safety agency record."

Margaret MarkeyCodes Committee

Requires builders to include the school district on the building permit application

Requires builders to include, on any building permit application, the name of the community school district in which the proposed dwelling or dwelling units will be located, the number of families…

Linda RosenthalEducation Committee

Entitles defendants charged with an offense the ability to telephone any number located in the United States or Puerto Rico

Entitles defendants charged with an offense the ability to telephone any number located in the United States or Puerto Rico for the purpose of obtaining counsel and informing a relative or friend.

Michael DenDekkerSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to enhancing the collective bargaining obligations of public employers and adjusting penalties for striking of public employees

Relates to enhancing the collective bargaining obligations of public employers and adjusting penalties for striking of public employees.

Adriano EspaillatCodes Committee

Prohibits the sale of tires which are more than six years old

Prohibits the distribution, sale or offer for sale of tires which are more than six years old.

Michael DenDekkerTransportation Committee

Provides that a person may not alter his or her caller identification with the intent to defraud or harass a third party or the recipient of the call

Provides that a business entity may not provide false caller identification with the intent to defraud or harass any party; provides definition of business entity.

Amy PaulinConsumer Protection Committee