Sponsored bills

Relates to special powers of the New York State environmental facilities corporation

Relates to special powers of the New York State environmental facilities corporation.

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Extends draft management plan submission dates and amends chapter 595 of the laws of 2007

Relates to the membership of the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission; extends draft management plan submission dates; relates to establishing the Michigan Street African…

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Returns the funding levels for municipalities in which video lottery gaming facilities are located to the state fiscal year 2008-2009 levels

Returns the funding levels for municipalities in which video lottery gaming facilities are located to the state fiscal year 2008-2009 levels.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Relates to chronic care for injured workers

Relates to chronic care for injured workers; authorizes workers' compensation board to approve a monthly dollar allowance or treatment frequency for an injured worker to continue specialized…

Mark GrisantiLabor Committee

Provides an exemption to the sale of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles from state sales and compensating use taxes

Provides an exemption to the retail sale of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles from state sales and compensating use taxes; authorizes local governments to adopt similar incentives.

Mark GrisantiInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Relates to preventing housing discrimination against victims of domestic violence; repealer

Prevents housing discrimination against victims of domestic violence.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Relates to penalties for violations relating to residential care programs for adults

Relates to increasing penalties for violations relating to residential care programs for adults and children; and amends provisions relating to determination of violations.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Enacts the "bird-friendly building council act" to establish a council to promote the use of bird-friendly building materials and design features in buildings

Enacts the "bird-friendly building council act" to establish a council to promote the use of bird-friendly building materials and design features in buildings; research the magnitude of problems…

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Relates to modifying the composition of membership of the Buffalo municipal housing authority

Relates to modifying the composition of membership of the Buffalo municipal housing authority.

Mark GrisantiHousing Committee

Authorizes health insurance reimbursement for certified registered nurse anesthetists providing anesthesia services

Authorizes health insurance reimbursement for certified registered nurse anesthetists providing anesthesia services.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Prohibits the purchase of certain items as scrap

Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap; street signs, funeral markers, government entity, utility, cemetery or railroad items; preempts local laws.

Mark GrisantiEconomic Development Committee

Provides for the training, examination and certification of dog control officers

Provides for the training, examination and certification of dog control officers.

Mark GrisantiAgriculture Committee

Relates to extending the provisions of chapter 122 of 2000

Relates to extending the provisions of chapter 122 of 2000, from August 1, 2012 to August 1, 2015.

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Establishes a domestic violence forensic examiner program

Establishes a domestic violence forensic examiner program.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Relates to expanding the TRIS-free children and babies act

Relates to expanding the TRIS-free children and babies act; expands the definition of "TRIS" to include TDCPP (TRIS (1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate).

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Does away with various taxes on motor fuel; repealer

Repeals article 12-A of the tax law in relation to taxes on gasoline and similar motor fuel; establishes exemptions from state sales tax and the petroleum business tax for retail sales of motor fuel…

Mark GrisantiInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Provides for election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city school district in November rather than May

Provides for the election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city school district in November rather than in May; creates a timetable for the electoral proceedings therefor; extends…

Mark GrisantiEducation Committee

Relates to the filing of a false financing statement

Relates to the filing of a false financing statement.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Authorizes the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara, to reduce the speed limit in downtown Niagara Falls

Authorizes the city of Niagara Falls, county of Niagara, to reduce the speed limit in downtown Niagara Falls to 25 miles per hour.

Mark GrisantiTransportation Committee

Relates to pharmaceuticals with an aesthetic or cosmetic use or purpose

Relates to pharmaceuticals with an aesthetic or cosmetic use or purpose; authorizes physicians to dispense a certain aesthetic pharmaceutical in excess of the seventy-two hour supply limit generally…

Mark GrisantiInsurance Committee

Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim May 2012, as Motorcycle Safety and Awareness Month in the State of New York

Mark GrisantiAdopted

Adopted

Establishes the crime of concealment of a death

Establishes the crime of concealment of a death when a person knowingly moves or otherwise conceals a human corpse so that discovery of the death of such person will be hindered; makes such crime a…

Mark GrisantiCodes Committee

Relates to instruction on the history of people with disabilities

Relates to instruction on the history of people with disabilities.

Mark GrisantiEducation Committee

Requires the placement of one recycling receptacle for drink containers for every four waste receptacles on state owned property

Requires the placement of one recycling receptacle for drink containers for every four waste receptacles on state owned property.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Adds the Buffalo River to the definition of inland waterways

Adds the Buffalo River to the definition of inland waterways.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Relates to the public safety communications surcharge; repealer

Relates to the public safety communications surcharge and amends the distributions of monies collected pursuant to such surcharge and provides for the repeal of certain provisions relating thereto.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Increases the minimum percentage collected by the municipal governments hosting the facility

Increases the minimum percentage collected by the municipal governments hosting the facility.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Creates the animal abuser central registry, and to require that certain convicted animal abusers register with such registry

Creates the animal abuser central registry, and requires that certain convicted animal abusers register with such registry; provides such registrants are prohibited from possessing, adopting,…

Mark GrisantiAgriculture Committee

Exempts contractors employed by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions

Exempts contractors employed by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Authorizes the creation of a geographic information system-based display to provide high-volume hydraulic fracturing information

Authorizes the creation of a geographic information system-based display to provide high-volume hydraulic fracturing information to the public; indicates the locations of permitted wells for…

Mark GrisantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Relates to natural gas production discharges from high-volume hydraulic fracturing; requires notification within two hours by any person causing such a discharge

Relates to natural gas production discharges from high-volume hydraulic fracturing and requires notification within two hours by any person causing such a discharge; requires the department to…

Mark GrisantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Restricts retail sale of dextromethorphan, commonly known as DXM, to behind the pharmacy counter or under retail establishment control

Directs any retail establishment that sells any product or products containing as an active ingredient dextromethorphan, to limit direct access to such products in a manner designed to prevent the…

Mark GrisantiHigher Education Committee

Permits the parents of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose an education intervention model

Permits the parents of pupils attending a persistently lowest-achieving school to choose an education intervention model.

Mark GrisantiStricken

Commemorating the 42nd Anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, 2012

Mark GrisantiAdopted

Adopted

Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Nature Conservancy

Mark GrisantiAdopted

Adopted

Amends chapter 274 of the laws of 2010, relating to repair of damaged pesticide containers, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

Relates to the repair of damaged pesticide containers, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Enacts the "protect our children act"; repealer

Enacts the "protect our children act"; establishes certain offenses relating to murder of and violence against a child, obstructing the location of a missing child and concealment of a death.

Mark GrisantiCodes Committee

Designates the Scajaquada pedestrian bridge as the "9/11 Memorial Bridge"

Designates the Scajaquada pedestrian bridge as the "9/11 Memorial Bridge" in Buffalo; requires the commissioner of transportation to install and maintain adequate signing.

Mark GrisantiTransportation Committee

Requires one trustee of the New York Power Authority be a resident of St. Lawrence County and one trustee to be a resident of Niagara county

Requires one trustee of the New York Power Authority be a resident of St.

Mark GrisantiCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Provides for source separation and disposal of recyclable materials and requires municipalities to adopt local laws providing therefor

Provides for source separation and disposal of recyclable materials and requires municipalities to adopt local laws providing therefor; prohibits transporters from commingling recyclables with other…

Mark GrisantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Creates the Pennies for Parks program providing funds for capital expenditures at state parks and historic sites; imposes fee on single use carryout bags

Creates the "Pennies for parks" program providing funds for capital expenditures at state parks and historic sites; imposes fee of five cents on single use carryout bags; establishes the pennies for…

Mark GrisantiCultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation Committee

Relates to the employment of New York state residents by taxpayers eligible to receive certain tax credits

Provides that a taxpayer shall not be eligible for any credit or credits provided by section 210 of the tax law for the purposes of engaging in a development project, the cost of which exceeds one…

Mark GrisantiInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Relates to authorizing the liquor authority to issue certain licenses to manufacture and sell alcoholic beverages in a premises commonly known as a restaurant-brewer

Relates to authorizing the liquor authority to issue certain licenses to manufacture and sell alcoholic beverages in a premises commonly known as a restaurant-brewer for certain premises in the…

Mark GrisantiEconomic Development Committee

Requires retailer rebates to be provided by the retailer to a consumer at the time of purchase

Requires all rebates to be provided by the retailer to a purchaser at the time of the purchase of the good or service to which the rebate applies; authorizes the retailer to determine and disclose…

Mark GrisantiConsumer Protection Committee

Requires that bottle deposits retained by the state shall be allocated to the environmental protection fund

Requires that bottle deposits retained by the state shall be allocated to the environmental protection fund.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Relates to claims against insurers for petroleum spills

Relates to claims against insurers for petroleum spills.

Mark GrisantiTransportation Committee

Urging the NY State Congressional delegation to remove the penalty associated with being a married individual with a disability receiving benefits

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Provides that drugs shall only be disposed of by means of a drug manufacturer collection program

Provides that drugs shall only be disposed of by means of a drug manufacturer collection program; requires all drug manufacturers to establish and conduct a collection program for expired and unused…

Mark GrisantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee