Bills by

John J. Bonacic

Senator

9,426 bills as primary sponsorProfile and scorecard →bonacic@nysenate.gov

2011-2012 session

Sponsored bills

9,426 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

S371Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules
Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship pilot program
Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship pilot program; grants awards for the purpose of enhancing opportunities for higher education for children and young adults receiving foster…
Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee
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S368Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules
Relates to school placement for homeless children
Relates to school placement for homeless children.
Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee
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S327Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Amends the education law relating to school based health and mental health clinics in certain cities

Amends the education law relating to school based health and mental health clinics in certain cities.

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S323Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Prohibits possession of certain condoms as evidence

Provides that possession of a condom may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, promoting prostitution, permitting…

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S313Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Requires posting of sign in all premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises which offers to assist patrons in obtaining alternative transportation

Requires the posting of a sign in all premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises which offers to assist patrons in obtaining an alternative means of transportation should their…

Ruben DiazRules Committee

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S308Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Renames and broadens the geriatric service demonstration program to include older adults with mental health disabilities and chemical dependence

Broadens the geriatric service demonstration program to include older adults with mental health disabilities and chemical dependence; renames the program to be the geriatric mental health and…

Ruben DiazRules Committee

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S303Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Establishes the bureau of the senior tenants' advocate in the state office for the aging

Establishes the bureau of the senior tenants' advocate within the state office for the aging; provides that the senior tenants' advocate shall assist senior citizen tenants in resolving complaints…

Ruben DiazRules Committee

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S250Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Relates to requiring first consideration of persons defined in the federal workforce investment act programs for hiring for positions created as a result of economic

Relates to requiring first consideration of unemployed individuals, low-income individuals, dislocated workers, individuals training for nontraditional employment, as defined in the federal…

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S131Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Regulates debt collection practices; repealer

Enacts the fair debt collection practices act; prohibits debt collectors and creditors from attempting to collect debts by threatening violence, falsely accusing any person of fraud or of a crime,…

José PeraltaRules Committee

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S127Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Provides that limited liability for persons held jointly liable shall not apply to parties held liable for failing to provide reasonable security

Provides that limited liability for persons held jointly liable shall not apply to parties held liable for failing to provide reasonable security or failing to provide security required by federal,…

José PeraltaRules Committee

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S128Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Requires police officers and peace officers to report any discharge of their weapon to the agency which employs them

Requires every police officer and peace officer to report every discharge of his or her weapon, regardless of whether he or she is on duty, to the law enforcement agency which employs such officer;…

José PeraltaRules Committee

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S106Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate issues affecting reentry of inmates released from correctional facilities; appropriation

Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate issues affecting reentry of inmates released from correctional facilities; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration…

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S101Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Enacts the "corporate political activity accountability to shareholders act"

Enacts the "corporate political activity accountability to shareholders act"; establishes the corporate political activity accountability to shareholders act which requires that corporate…

Daniel L. SquadronRules Committee

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S71Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Mandates comprehensive, medically accurate and age appropriate sex education be taught in all public schools, grades one through twelve

Mandates comprehensive, medically accurate and age appropriate sex education be taught in all public schools, grades one through twelve; provides that the commissioner of education will create and…

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S67Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders

Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office…

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S65Senate· Moved Mar 12, 2012· Committee discharged and committed to rules

Relates to establishing a juvenile justice smart investment program

Creates a juvenile justice smart investment program.

Velmanette MontgomeryRules Committee

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S6699Senate· Moved Mar 11, 2012· Referred to insurance

Establishes the New York health insurance exchange study commission

Establishes the New York health insurance exchange study commission providing for a study of whether the state should establish and operate a New York health insurance exchange or participate in a…

James L. SewardInsurance Committee

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S6697Senate· Moved Mar 11, 2012· Referred to aging

Expands the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage to the level of coverage provided prior to the 2011 budget; repealer

Expands the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage to the level of coverage provided prior to the 2011 budget.

Kemp HannonAging Committee

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S6687Senate· Moved Mar 9, 2012· Referred to education

Relates to intervention in chronically underperforming school districts

Relates to intervention in chronically underperforming school districts, directs the development of a plan for school districts in academic or fiscal at-risk status and provides for the appointment…

John J. FlanaganEducation Committee

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S6684Senate· Moved Mar 9, 2012· Referred to judiciary

Requires reasonable modifications

Requires reasonable modification to apartments for seniors and persons with physical impairments.

David J. ValeskyJudiciary Committee

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S6683Senate· Moved Mar 9, 2012· Referred to codes

Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole or probation, or conditionally discharged from being upon the premises of any facility providing child day care

Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole or probation, or conditionally discharged from being upon or within 1,000 feet of the premises of any facility providing child day care, while any person…

Greg BallCodes Committee

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A2754Assembly· Moved Mar 9, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental employees

Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity

Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in the workplace.

J. Gary PretlowGovernmental Employees Committee

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S6661Senate· Moved Mar 8, 2012· Referred to judiciary

Relates to requiring the last four digits of a credit card number is stated in the complaint in consumer credit actions

Relates to requiring plaintiffs in consumer credit actions involving credit card debt to state the last four digits of the credit card number in the complaint.

John J. BonacicJudiciary Committee

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S6652Senate· Moved Mar 8, 2012· To attorney-general for opinion

Relates to processes, warrants and other mandates of city courts outside the city of New York

Relates to processes, warrants and other mandates of city courts outside the city of New York.

John J. BonacicJudiciary Committee

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A3693Assembly· Moved Mar 8, 2012· Advanced to third reading cal.389

Authorizes utility corporations, telegraph and telephone corporations, and cable television corporations to provide notice of bills to third parties

Authorizes utility corporations, telegraph and telephone corporations, and cable television corporations to provide notice of bills to third parties at the request of the customer.

Brian KavanaghOn the Assembly floor

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A3301Assembly· Moved Mar 8, 2012· Amend and recommit to ways and means

Relates to sewer and water rates for those granted senior citizen real property or persons with disabilities and limited incomes tax exemptions in the city of NY

Relates to sewer and water rates for those granted senior citizen real property or persons with disabilities and limited income tax exemptions in the city of New York.

James F. BrennanWays And Means Committee

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A1581Assembly· Moved Mar 8, 2012· Advanced to third reading cal.386

Prohibits the imposition of certain fees at the expiration of a term on a motor vehicle lease which constitutes administrative, clerical or handling charges

Provides that with respect to lease on motor vehicles, no lease shall provide that the lessee would be charged a turn-in fee at the expiration of the term which constitutes solely an additional fee…

Steven EnglebrightOn the Assembly floor

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A570Assembly· Moved Mar 8, 2012· Advanced to third reading cal.384

Provides for the use of common areas in housing authority projects for tenant group meetings without the imposition of a fee

Provides for the use of common areas in housing authority projects by tenant groups, committees or organizations without the imposition of a fee providing that the meeting is peacefully conducted,…

Keith L.T. WrightOn the Assembly floor

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A9518Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to codes

Adds the prostitution of a child less than 17 by a parent, guardian or person charged with the custody of such child, to class B felony of promoting prostitution 1st degree

Includes within the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree, the knowing advancement or profiting from the prostitution of a child less than 17 years old by such child's parent,…

Michael SimanowitzCodes Committee

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S6637Senate· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to judiciary

Relates to the admissibility of certain business records kept by the DMV

Amends the civil practice laws and rules, in relation to the admissibility of certain certified business records of the department of motor vehicles.

John J. BonacicJudiciary Committee

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A9503Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to codes

Includes the protrusion of personal property, plants and trees, and water from hoses and sprinklers onto another person's premises within the violation of trespass

Includes the protrusion of personal property, plants and trees, and water from hoses and sprinklers onto another person's premises within the violation of trespass.

Michael G. MillerCodes Committee

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A9504Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to local governments

Provides that audits of service award programs in certain political subdivisions may be obtained from the chief fiscal officer of such political subdivision

Provides that audits of service award programs in certain political subdivisions may be obtained from the chief fiscal officer of such political subdivision.

Donald R. MillerLocal Governments Committee

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A9501Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Held for consideration in governmental employees

Relates to the service time of military personnel

Relates to the service time of military personnel.

Michael G. MillerGovernmental Employees Committee

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A9502Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to governmental employees

Relates to service credit for James N. Camarda for military service during his employment at the Long Island Rail Road

Relates to service credit for James N.

Michael G. MillerGovernmental Employees Committee

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A9500Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to cities

Requires notice of public work projects to residents in N.Y. city

Requires notice of public work projects to residents in cities with a population of one million or more.

Michael G. MillerCities Committee

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A9488Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Held for consideration in codes

Provides that an assault of a child where the defendant has a previous conviction for an assault of a child shall be an assault in the first degree

Provides that an assault of a child where the defendant has a previous conviction for an assault or an attempted assault of a child shall be an assault in the first degree.

Dennis H. GabryszakCodes Committee

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A9485Assembly· Moved Mar 7, 2012· Referred to health

Enacts comprehensive provisions to curtail the incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases

Enacts comprehensive provisions to curtail the incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases; requires teachers in public and non-public school systems to be trained in identifying and…

Marcos CrespoHealth Committee

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