Sponsored bills

Requires landlords to furnish each tenant either renewing or entering into a lease with a document describing the rights and duties of landlords and tenants

Requires landlords to furnish each tenant either renewing or entering into a lease with a rider describing the rights and duties of landlords and tenants; further requires the rider to conform to…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsJudiciary Committee

Requires sanitation workers to receive certain training

Requires sanitation workers to receive certain training; requires the department of labor to establish certain regulations related thereto.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsLabor Committee

Relates to performance and payment bonds

Increases the contract threshold for which performance and payment bonds are required for small and certified minority and women owned businesses.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsFinance Committee

Requires physicians to report instances of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus infections to the commissioner of health

Requires physicians to report instances of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus infections to the commissioner of health.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsHealth Committee

Prevents withdrawal or reduction of community projects grants upon departure of sponsoring members and prevents such members from randomly distributing such funds

Prevents the withdrawal or reduction of grants for community projects upon departure of the original sponsoring member and prohibits such a member from distributing such funds for purposes other…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Creates the micro business outreach center assistance program and micro business outreach center

Creates the micro business outreach center assistance program within the department of economic development, and provides for its functions, powers and duties; further creates the micro business…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsCommerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee

Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities

Establishes a maximum temperature in school buildings and indoor facilities.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsEducation Committee

Authorizes city, town, and village industrial development agencies to merge and share services

Authorizes contiguous city, town, and village industrial development agencies to merge and authorizes industrial development agencies within the same county or counties to share services.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsLocal Government Committee

Establishes a small business energy assistance and advocacy services program

Establishes a small business energy assistance and advocacy services program as part of the division of small business to assist small businesses in accessing energy conservation, energy efficiency…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsCommerce, Economic Development And Small Business Committee

Establishes a 25 year retirement plan for detention officers employed by the city of Yonkers

Establishes a 25 year retirement plan for detention officers employed by the city of Yonkers.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsCivil Service And Pensions Committee

Authorizes the Westchester county board of elections to merge any election district with 50 or fewer registered voters into an existing election district

Authorizes the Westchester county board of elections to merge any election district with 50 or fewer registered voters into an existing election district.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsElections Committee

Establishes a policy and procedures for state site selection in urban areas

Establishes a policy that state facilities and state uses of space in urban areas shall serve to strengthen the state's cities; establishes criteria and procedures to carry out such policy.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

Makes technical corrections to provisions of law pertaining to the qualification and cancellation of voter registration; and the investigation surrounding such issue

Makes technical corrections to provisions of law pertaining to the qualification and cancellation of voter registration and the investigation surrounding such issues.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsElections Committee

Designates local employees excercising executive functions of the chief executive officer, as unclassified service employees

Designates local employees exercising executive functions on behalf of the chief executive officer of the locality, as unclassified service employees.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsCivil Service And Pensions Committee

Requires any utility company involved in a vegetation management plan to give prior notice to the local legislative body and residents of the affected community

Requires any utility company involved in a vegetation management plan to give prior notice to the local legislative body and the residents of the affected community and to hold a public meeting…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsLocal Government Committee

Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers

Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsHigher Education Committee

Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city schools

Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsEducation Committee

Provides for designation of agency on aging in city of Yonkers

Allows chief executive officer of city of Yonkers to designate an agency on aging for purposes of county plans under community services for the elderly program (1965 federal older Americans act).

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAging Committee

Provides for the erection of a physical barrier on a section of the Sprain Brook parkway to effectively screen the sound of motor vehicles

Provides for the construction and erection of one or more physical barriers on a section of the Sprain Brook Parkway from the state maintenance facility on West Grassy Sprain Road and running thence…

Andrea Stewart-CousinsTransportation Committee

Requires schools to provide instruction on the history of the Ukrainian genocide-holodomor of 1932 through 1933

Requires schools to provide instruction on the history of the Ukrainian genocide holodomor from 1932 through 1933.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsEducation Committee

Provides for the payment of the salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of any city of Yonkers detention officer injured in the line of duty

Provides for the payment of the salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of any city of Yonkers detention officer injured or becoming ill in the line of duty.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsLocal Government Committee

Directs the discontinuance of the Yonkers toll plaza on the New York state thruway

Directs the New York state thruway authority to discontinue and remove the Yonkers toll plaza on the New York state thruway.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsTransportation Committee

Prohibits deceptive practices and the suppression of voters, and increases penalties for violations of the elective franchise

Makes the suppression of voters a civil violation.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsElections Committee

Relates to limited profit housing companies

Relates to limited profit housing companies.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsHousing, Construction And Community Development Committee

Authorizes recording officers to accept conveyance of real property presented for recording as electronic records

Permits recording officers to require that conveyances of real property presented for recording be presented as digitized paper documents in the form of digitized images of original paper records.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Extends the authority of the city of Yonkers to impose a mortgage recording tax

Extends the authority of the city of Yonkers to impose a mortgage recording tax.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the county of Westchester to issue serial bonds to finance certain payments over a period of five years

Authorizes the county of Westchester to issue serial bonds to finance certain payments over a period of five years for any costs associated with or related to the 2010 Early Retirement Incentive.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Commemorating July 1, 2011, as the 68th Anniversary of the creation of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers

Relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Valhalla Volunteer Ambulance Corps on May 7, 2011

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Extends the expiration date of the personal income tax surcharge imposed in the city of Yonkers

Extends the expiration date of the personal income tax surcharge imposed by the city of Yonkers.

Andrea Stewart-CousinsOn the Senate floor

Paying tribute to Ronald J. Garan, Jr. for his career-long service as an astronaut with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Commending the Greenburgh Police Explorer Post No. 2003 upon the occasion of its designation as Unit of the Year by the Northeast Regional Law Enforcement Association

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating the Irvington High School Girls Basketball Team upon the occasion of capturing their New York State Class B Championship

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 17-23, 2011, as Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week in the State of New York

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Commending Firefighter Michael Giroux in recognition of his heroic action on March 4, 2011, in saving the lives of two citizens

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted

Honoring Yonkers Public School Superintendent Bernard P. Pierorazio upon the occasion of being named the New York State School Superintendent of the Year

Andrea Stewart-CousinsAdopted

Adopted