Bills by

James Tedisco

Assembly Member

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2011-2012 session

Sponsored bills

168 bills. Ordered by the date of each bill’s latest official action: referral, amendment, floor vote, passage or signature.

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A2041Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in codes
Relates to the penalty for the offense of predatory sexual assault against a child
Relates to the penalty for the offense of predatory sexual assault against a child; provides for lifetime parole for such felons.
James TediscoCodes Committee
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A2050Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to real property taxation
Establishes city and county property tax relief exemptions; establishes tax incentive for investments in empire zones
Eliminates the $100,000 limit on certain types of investments in empire zone businesses, which may be taken as credits against the franchise tax on business corporations and personal income taxes;…
James TediscoReal Property Taxation Committee

A2045Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in correction

Relates to transportation of certain persons subject to outstanding warrant of arrest

Creates a program to provide for the transportation of persons subject to outstanding warrants for felonies and class A misdemeanors by the department of corrections; continues program of…

James TediscoCorrection Committee

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A2042Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in correction

Allows the governor to review decisions by the parole board

Allows the governor to review decisions by the parole board to grant or deny release on parole to inmates serving a sentence of imprisonment, or the imposition of conditions of such release; allows…

James TediscoCorrection Committee

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A2047Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in judiciary

Requires certain final judgments, involving public funds disbursed for legislative initiatives, to require payments of three-fold the amount of property

Requires certain final judgments, involving public funds disbursed for legislative initiatives, to require payments of three-fold the amount or value of the state-owned or held property at issue.

James TediscoJudiciary Committee

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A2037Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in ways and means

Establishes an exemption from the state personal income tax for certain veterans seventy-five years of age or older

Establishes a total exemption from the state personal income tax for certain veterans of the armed forces of the United States seventy-five years of age or older with an annual total gross income of…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A2040Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to transportation

Requires legislative approval of any increased fees, rental or charges for the use of the thruway

Requires legislative approval of any increased fees, rental or charges for the use of the thruway; provides that any shortfalls in revenue resulting from a denied proposal shall be made whole by the…

James TediscoTransportation Committee

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A2039Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to real property taxation

Establishes a Co-STAR tax program for senior citizens and farmers

Establishes a Co-STAR tax program for senior citizens and farmers.

James TediscoReal Property Taxation Committee

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A2038Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in mental health

Allows the detention of a respondent of a "sex offender requiring civil management petition" pending trial and relates to standard of proof at trial

Allows the detention of a respondent if determined a "sex offender requiring civil management petition" pending trial; establishes the standard of proof at trial be "beyond a reasonable doubt"…

James TediscoMental Health Committee

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A2000Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· To attorney-general for opinion

Declares safe, secure and peaceful schools to be a state right

Amends the state constitution to provide that all students and staff of primary, elementary, junior high and senior high schools shall have the inalienable right to attend schools which are safe,…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1995Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in education

Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred for failure to receive timely payments of state aid

Relates to providing additional reimbursement to school districts for expenses incurred for failure to receive timely payments of state aid, including expenses relating to interest payments and…

James TediscoEducation Committee

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A1992Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· To attorney-general for opinion

Provides an alternative procedure for adoption of a state budget in instances where existing provisions have not been completed prior to April 1

Provides an alternative procedure for adoption of a state budget in instances where existing provisions have not been completed prior to April 1; provides for submission of multiple plans in which…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1996Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Assesses a penalty upon legislature and governor for late budget

Provides that members of the legislature shall be penalized one day's salary for each day the state budget is late; provides that legislative leaders and the governor shall be penalized two days pay…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1997Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Prohibits increase in state legislator's salary or allowance during lame duck session

Prohibits the legislature from increasing the salary or allowance payable to members of the legislature by a law enacted during the period running from the date of the general election until 12/31…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1998Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in ways and means

Exempts from state income taxation the first $250,000 earned by four-year college graduates or the first $150,000 earned by two-year graduates

Enacts the graduate outreach assistance law to exempt from state income taxation the first two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a fifty thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a four-year…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1991Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in ways and means

Grants taxpayers an automatic extension to file a return and pay taxes in certain cases

Grants taxpayer an automatic extension of time for filing a return and paying personal income taxes where a state budget is not timely enacted into law; provides that no penalties or interest shall…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1993Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in correction

Establishes additional restrictions on the parole and relocation of sex offenders

Allows a municipality to reject sexual offenders, sexually violent offenders and sexual predators within such municipality if the municipality already contains a high concentration of such…

James TediscoCorrection Committee

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A1999Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in ways and means

Enacts the tax relief on energy act; appropriation

Enacts the tax relief on energy act; relates to the tax on furnishing of utility services; provides a sales and compensating use tax exemption on Energy Star appliances; provides for a heating…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1994Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in children and families

Requires employers and volunteer organizations to conduct a criminal history check of child care employees and volunteers

Requires employers and volunteer organizations to conduct a criminal history check of employees and volunteers who will come into contact with children under 18 years of age.

James TediscoChildren And Families Committee

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A1732Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Grants legislative minority leaders the right to participate in budget negotiations

Grants legislative minority leaders the right to participate in budget negotiations; defines budget negotiations as any formal or informal meetings conducted by or called at the request of the…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1698Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Provides for a special election to fill vacancies in the office of United States senator from this state; repealer

Provides for a special election to fill vacancies in the office of United States senator from this state.

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1695Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Provides for a program to transport persons subject to an outstanding warrant of arrest to the appropriate jurisdiction

Provides for a program to transport persons subject to an outstanding warrant of arrest to the appropriate jurisdiction initially to include persons charged with a felony, and then to include…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1696Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in children and families

Authorizes disclosure of death of biological parents and adoptive children by adoption registry

Authorizes the estate of either a natural parent or an adopted child to disclose the death of such person for inclusion in the health department's adoption information registry or an adoption…

James TediscoChildren And Families Committee

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A1697Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in economic development

Imposes restriction upon nude entertainment

Imposes the same restrictions applicable to establishments licensed under the alcoholic beverage control law upon places of entertainment which present nude entertainment.

James TediscoEconomic Development Committee

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A1670Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in education

Requires school principals review the list of school age missing children to determine whether attending students appear therein

Requires school principals to review the list of school age missing children supplied by the department of education on a monthly basis to determine whether attending students appear therein; such…

James TediscoEducation Committee

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A1669Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in education

Provides loans, grants and incentives to promote studies in math, science and technology or any other high-tech field deemed appropriate

Provides loans, grants and incentives to promote studies in math, science and engineering or any other high-tech field the commissioner deems appropriate on a high school and college level;…

James TediscoEducation Committee

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A1667Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in codes

Includes within crime of assault in the 2nd degree infliction of physical injury upon school district supervisory personnel

Includes activity constituting the causing of physical injury to school district or BOCES supervisory personnel whether or not such person is engaged in supervision or instruction at the time such…

James TediscoCodes Committee

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A1671Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to transportation

Relates to plea bargaining and personal court appearances by certain driver's license holders

Relates to plea bargaining and personal court appearances by certain driver's license holders; restricts class DJ or class MJ license holders from plea bargaining to a lesser charge unless the…

James TediscoTransportation Committee

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A1668Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in codes

Creates the crimes of criminal impersonation in the third and fourth degrees and increases the penalties for criminal impersonation in the first and second degrees

Creates the crime of criminal impersonation in the fourth degree for receiving a benefit worth under $100 for such impersonation in aggregate and makes it a class B misdemeanor; creates the crime of…

James TediscoCodes Committee

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A1621Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to real property taxation

Establishes city and county property tax relief exemptions

Establishes both a city state-supported tax relief, CitySTAR, and a county state-supported, CountySTAR, real property tax exemption; provides eligibility criteria therefor and formula for…

James TediscoReal Property Taxation Committee

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A1628Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to health

Appropriates funds to the Schenectady health care practitioner volunteer program

Appropriates $350,000 to the Schenectady Health Care Practitioner Volunteer program.

James TediscoHealth Committee

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A1626Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in judiciary

Relates to the number of city court judges in the city of Saratoga Springs; repealer

Relates to the number of city court judges in the city of Saratoga Springs.

James TediscoJudiciary Committee

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A1630Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to real property taxation

No local resolution is needed to extend the deadline for payment of real property tax for a member of the deployed military

Establishes that no local resolution is needed to extend the deadline for payment of real property tax for ninety days for a member of the deployed military.

James TediscoReal Property Taxation Committee

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A1622Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to transportation

Relates to speed limits on state highways

Provides that the maximum speed limit on state highways may be established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the…

James TediscoTransportation Committee

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A1624Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in ways and means

Provides for corporate franchise tax and personal income gifts for the Helping Our Military in Emergencies (HOME) fund and establishes such fund

Provides for corporate franchise tax and personal income gifts for the Helping Our Military in Emergencies (HOME) fund to help families encountering financial emergencies while their loved ones are…

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1627Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental employees

Relates to the employment of veterans with disabilities by municipalities

Establishes that by enactment of a local law, any county, city, town or village may determine a number of positions that may be performed by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities who are…

James TediscoGovernmental Employees Committee

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A1632Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in agriculture

Expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to a companion animal during the commission of a felony

Expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to animals during the commission of a felony.

James TediscoAgriculture Committee

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A1633Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in children and families

Redefines maltreated child to include children of alcohol or drug abusers

Amends definition of maltreated or neglected child to include children of alcohol or drug abusers who are unable to provide minimal care to the child or where such parent used alcohol or drugs…

James TediscoChildren And Families Committee

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A1634Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in codes

Enacts provisions to insure community safety using moneys available to inmates

Enacts provisions to insure community safety using moneys available to inmates by allowing courts the power of assessing inmates the per diem cost of incarceration where they have the means to pay…

James TediscoCodes Committee

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A1618Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to local governments

Allows a county clerk to employ an attorney-at-law to defend against certain civil actions or proceeding brought against him in his official capacity

Allows a county clerk to employ an attorney-at-law to defend against certain civil actions or proceeding brought against him in his official capacity as an agent of the commissioner of motor…

James TediscoLocal Governments Committee

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A1620Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Referred to social services

Provides for access to certain conviction records by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America

Provides for access by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America to certain conviction records maintained by state law enforcement agencies.

James TediscoSocial Services Committee

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A1631Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in codes

Extends forfeiture provisions to obscenity crimes

Allows counties in the state to be more effective in closing stores that deal in obscene material by providing for the forfeiture of the obscene materials after conviction of any misdemeanor or…

James TediscoCodes Committee

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A1619Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Provides for a program to transport persons subject to an outstanding warrant of arrest to the appropriate jurisdiction

Provides for a program to transport persons subject to an outstanding warrant of arrest to the appropriate jurisdiction initially to include persons charged with a felony, and then to include…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1623Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in ways and means

Requires that any bill which provides revenue to the state in a non-recurring manner shall pass by a two-thirds majority in order to become law

Requires that any bill which provides revenue to the state in a non-recurring manner shall pass by a two-thirds majority in order to become law.

James TediscoWays And Means Committee

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A1625Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Authorizes the office of general services of the state of New York to sell certain land in the county of Schenectady

Authorizes the office of general services to convey certain land to Northeast Parent and Child Society, Inc.

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1629Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Relates to the payment of compensation and allowances to members of the state legislature

Requires when the legislative budget is overdue that the members of the legislature shall have their compensation and allowances withheld and not paid until the date the final bi-weekly salary…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1615Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Imposes a penalty of one day's salary for governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller and members of the legislature for late budget

Imposes a penalty equal to one day's salary upon members of the legislature, the governor, the lieutenant governor and the comptroller for each day the budget is delayed beyond April first of each…

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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A1617Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in education

Requires parents to submit proof of age and nature of parental relation upon enrolling child in school

Requires persons in parental relation to an individual or a person required to attend school to submit proof of age and parental relation to school in which individual is enrolled; requires school…

James TediscoEducation Committee

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A1614Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental employees

Allows municipal civil service commissions in the state to prescribe a number of positions with duties to be performed by veterans with disabilities

Provides for employment of veterans with disabilities by municipalities; allows municipal civil service commissions in the state to prescribe a number of positions, not to exceed two hundred, with…

James TediscoGovernmental Employees Committee

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A1616Assembly· Moved Jan 4, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental operations

Prevents the viewing of pornographic content on state computers

Prevents the viewing of pornographic content on state and any political subdivision of the state computers; includes definitions.

James TediscoGovernmental Operations Committee

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