Bills by

Suzi Oppenheimer

Senator

248 bills as primary sponsorProfile and scorecard →oppenhei@senate.state.ny.us

2011-2012 session

Sponsored bills

248 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

J3718Senate· Moved Mar 27, 2012· Adopted
Congratulating Megan Marie Maher on earning a Girl Scout Gold Award
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J3722Senate· Moved Mar 27, 2012· Adopted
Congratulating Megan Elizabeth Enright on earning a Girl Scout Gold Award
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S3533Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Directs court to consider barring parent who has threatened harm from home

Provides broader circumstances which the court may consider regarding orders of protection in domestic violence cases; provides that in cases where it is alleged and there is cause to believe that…

Suzi OppenheimerRules Committee

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S3472Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Allows local governments to enact or enforce certain laws and ordinances

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

Suzi OppenheimerRules Committee

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S1850Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Requires general hospitals to establish policies/procedures regarding domestic violence; to establish training programs; to designate staff to coordinate services

Requires hospitals to establish policies and procedures regarding domestic violence; establishes ongoing training programs on domestic violence for all current and new hospital employees; designates…

Suzi OppenheimerRules Committee

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S1845Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Provides business tax credit for employer provided day care

Provides employers with a tax credit in an amount not to exceed 20% of expenses incurred in providing day care services to the children and wards of its employees and in training persons employed by…

Suzi OppenheimerRules Committee

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S4215Senate· Moved Mar 8, 2012· Amend and recommit to local government

Establishes movable soccer goal safety

Establishes the movable soccer goal safety act requiring compliance with the United States consumer product safety commission's guidelines for movable soccer goal safety.

Suzi OppenheimerLocal Government Committee

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S6631Senate· Moved Mar 6, 2012· Referred to judiciary

Authorizes an accusing party to submit a response to the dismissal of a complaint, inquiry, investigation or proceeding relating to the conduct or discipline of an attorney

Authorizes an accusing party to submit a response to the dismissal of a complaint, inquiry, investigation or proceeding relating to the conduct or discipline of an attorney; provides for the sharing…

Suzi OppenheimerJudiciary Committee

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S3729Senate· Moved Feb 13, 2012· Reported and committed to finance

Authorizes the director of the office for the aging to establish a long term care worker training pilot program

Authorizes the director of the office for the aging to establish a long term care worker training pilot program for the purpose of expanding access to enhanced education and training for health care…

Suzi OppenheimerFinance Committee

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S1843Senate· Moved Feb 8, 2012· Opinion referred to judiciary

Requires that the governor's article 7 appropriation bills be specifically itemized to assure accountability

Requires that the governor's appropriation and reappropriation budget bills be specifically itemized to assure accountability; provides that the purpose of such appropriations shall be specified in…

Suzi OppenheimerJudiciary Committee

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S1575Senate· Moved Feb 8, 2012· Opinion referred to judiciary

Requires the legislature to provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free public libraries

Provides a constitutional guarantee that the legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free public libraries, wherein all the residents of this state may be provided…

Suzi OppenheimerJudiciary Committee

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S6300Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Referred to energy and telecommunications

Authorizes the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for public fire protection to be charged to all customer classes

Authorizes the public service commission, upon application by a municipality, to order costs for public fire protection to be charged to all customer classes located in such municipality; all costs…

Suzi OppenheimerEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

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S3478Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Amend and recommit to agriculture

Relates to penalties for pet dealers

Relates to penalties and fees for pet dealers and their violations.

Suzi OppenheimerAgriculture Committee

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S3479Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Amend and recommit to agriculture

Relates to administrative hearings and processes for pet dealers

Relates to administrative hearings and processes as they apply to pet dealers.

Suzi OppenheimerAgriculture Committee

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S3477Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Amend and recommit to consumer protection

Amends requirements for pet dealers

Amends requirements for pet dealers for the care and sale of cats and dogs; requires the implementation of an appropriate plan for the exercise of animals in their possession.

Suzi OppenheimerConsumer Protection Committee

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S3475Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Amend and recommit to consumer protection

Amends the definitions of pet dealers

Amends the definitions of pet dealers in the agriculture and markets law and the general business law.

Suzi OppenheimerConsumer Protection Committee

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S3476Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Amend and recommit to agriculture

Relates to recordkeeping requirements for pet dealers

Relates to recordkeeping requirements for pet dealers; license for pet dealers.

Suzi OppenheimerAgriculture Committee

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S1591Senate· Moved Jan 24, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Relates to the public librarian certification fee

Relates to the public librarian certification fee; increases fee from five dollars to fifty dollars; seventy-five dollars for conditional certification; requires regulations promulgated by…

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S3856Senate· Moved Jan 17, 2012· Amend and recommit to local government

Allows municipalities to provide real property tax exemption for disabled police officers, firefighters and ambulance corpsmen & to certain widows

Authorizes municipalities to provide a real property tax exemption and to determine the extent thereof on real property owned by totally disabled paid or auxiliary policemen, paid or volunteer…

Suzi OppenheimerLocal Government Committee

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S3733Senate· Moved Jan 17, 2012· Amend and recommit to investigations and government operations

Creates a real property tax credit for disabled persons

Creates a credit against income tax for disabled persons modeled after the "circuit breaker" tax credit which now exists for senior citizens and certain individuals; provides tax relief to those…

Suzi OppenheimerInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

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S1579Senate· Moved Jan 17, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Authorizes school districts to purchase curriculum and instructional resources with money that has otherwise been set aside for the purchase of textbooks

Authorizes school districts to purchase curriculum and instructional resources with money that has otherwise been set aside for the purchase of textbooks.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S1576Senate· Moved Jan 17, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Relates to amount of apportionments of deficiencies in apportionments of state monies to certain nonpublic schools to reimburse them for their expenses in complying

Relates to amount of apportionments and deficiencies in apportionments of state monies to certain nonpublic schools to reimburse them for their expenses in complying with certain state requirements.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S4350Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to insurance

Requires certain health insurance policies and contracts to provide coverage for human leukocyte antigen testing for use in tissue typing for bone marrow testing

Requires certain health insurance policies and contracts to provide coverage for human leukocyte antigen testing, also referred to as histocompatible locus antigen testing, for A, B, and DR…

Suzi OppenheimerInsurance Committee

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S3849Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to health

Adds 3 representatives of children's interests to the state camp safety advisory council; directs a study of improving the regulation of youth camps

Increases from 1 to 4, the number of members of the "state camp safety advisory council" who are to be representatives of children's interests who do not operate a camp; concomitantly increases the…

Suzi OppenheimerHealth Committee

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S3535Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to energy and telecommunications

Establishes procedure for public statement hearings before public service commission

Establishes a procedure for utility public statement hearings to determine the impact on consumers of major utility rate change applications; provides for notice to consumers of such hearings;…

Suzi OppenheimerEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

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S3032Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to investigations and government operations

Allows for a gift to the love your library fund on corporate and personal income tax return forms

Allows a taxpayer to elect to contribute a gift to the love your library fund on corporate and personal income tax return forms.

Suzi OppenheimerInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

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S2434Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to agriculture

Relates to the definition of pet dealer

Relates to the definition of pet dealer; in addition to the sale, includes the offering for sale of more than nine animals per year for profit to the public or to any broker, wholesaler, medical…

Suzi OppenheimerAgriculture Committee

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S1887Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to local government

Provides that owners of private real property exempt from taxation shall give municipalities notice of intention to sell

Provides that owners of private real property exempt from taxation shall give municipalities notice of intention to sell.

Suzi OppenheimerLocal Government Committee

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S1851Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to elections

Makes provisions regarding the designation of polling places on college campuses

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such…

Suzi OppenheimerElections Committee

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S1841Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to commerce, economic development and small business

Enacts "economic development program evaluation act"; directs state agencies to conduct annual comprehensive evaluation of economic development activities

Enacts the economic development program evaluation act and prescribes the functions and purposes of the special evaluation program bond act; requires state agencies involved in economic development…

Suzi OppenheimerCommerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee

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S1844Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to higher education

Requires registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, physicians, physicians assistants and specialist assistants to complete domestic violence training or course work

Requires registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, physicians, physicians assistants and specialist assistants to complete approved domestic violence training or course work; provides that for…

Suzi OppenheimerHigher Education Committee

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S1587Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Provides for the development and implementation of statewide school nutrition standards, for the review of school wellness policies

Provides for the development and implementation of statewide school nutrition standards for food and beverages that are sold to students and for the review of school wellness policies.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S1589Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend (t) and recommit to education

Defines tuition for the 2013-2014 school year

Defines tuition for the 2013-2014 school year; restricts tuition rates to not more than four percent of a school year's costs.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S1588Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Relates to teachers' rights

Relates to teachers' rights; adds other specified personnel to teachers and teaching assistants where the board of cooperative educational services takes over a program.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S1582Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to finance

Establishes the special education short-term revolving loan fund and authorizes the state comptroller to provide special education short-term revolving loans

Establishes the special education short-term revolving loan fund and authorizes the state comptroller to provide special education short-term revolving loans to certain special act school districts…

Suzi OppenheimerFinance Committee

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S1580Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Relates to the expenditure of pre-kindergarten program grant funds

Relates to the expenditure of prekindergarten program grant funds.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S1578Senate· Moved Jan 13, 2012· Amend and recommit to education

Requires teachers to be trained on combating bullying

Requires individuals applying for certification or licensure to be a teacher to complete a course of training in recognizing and responding to incidents of bullying and harassment.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S3853Senate· Moved Jan 11, 2012· Amend and recommit to investigations and government operations

Requires disclosure of the manner in which public funds have been expended by the executive and legislative branches of state government

Requires the legislature and state departments, agencies and other governmental entities to disclose the manner in which public funds have been expended and to detail the work location of employees…

Suzi OppenheimerInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

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S1574Senate· Moved Jan 11, 2012· Amend (t) and recommit to education

Establishes the education mandate relief act of 2012

Establishes the education mandate relief act; authorizes the board of education to enter into piggyback contracts with another school district for transportation services and directs BOCES to…

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S1570Senate· Moved Jan 11, 2012· Amend (t) and recommit to education

Enacts the "Place a Child in Every School Seat Act of 2012" for the purposes of awareness of and incentives to improve school attendance

Enacts the "Place a Child in Every School Seat Act" for the purposes of awareness of and incentives to improve school attendance and retention.

Suzi OppenheimerEducation Committee

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S6155Senate· Moved Jan 10, 2012· Reported and committed to finance

Authorizes approval of certain transportation contracts of the Port Chester-Rye union free school district

Authorizes approval of certain transportation contracts of the Port Chester-Rye union free school district for the 2007-2008 school year.

Suzi OppenheimerFinance Committee

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S6145Senate· Moved Jan 10, 2012· Reported and committed to finance

Authorizes approval of certain transportation contracts of the Mamaroneck union free school district

Authorizes approval of certain transportation contracts of the Mamaroneck union free school district for the 2008-2009 school year.

Suzi OppenheimerFinance Committee

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S5832Senate· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to local government

Relates to proceedings for challenges of real property assessments

Relates to proceedings for challenges to real property assessments.

Suzi OppenheimerLocal Government Committee

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S5585Senate· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to civil service and pensions

Authorizes NY state and local employees' retirement system to consider the application for disability retirement benefits for Michael Lombardi

Authorizes the New York state and local employees' retirement system to consider the application for accidental and/or ordinary disability retirement benefits for Michael Lombardi.

Suzi OppenheimerCivil Service And Pensions Committee

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S5361Senate· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to energy and telecommunications

Authorizes the city of New Rochelle to impose certain taxes on utilities

Authorizes the city of New Rochelle to impose certain taxes on utilities.

Suzi OppenheimerEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

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