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390 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
Increases the maximum award available under the historic preservation tax credit from five million dollars to twelve million dollars.
Vetoed
Enacts the "voter empowerment act of New York" to streamline the process for registering to vote.
Establishes a domestic violence fatality review team; adds members to the advisory council on domestic violence (part A); prohibits certain persons from controlling the disposition of a decedent's…
Signed into law
Establishes a cap on the amount of money a municipality may annually charge a mobile food vendor.
Establishes the "tourism economic development fund" to be funded with revenue from the licensing of the "I Love NY" brand; moneys from such fund shall be appropriated for the promotion, attraction,…
Vetoed
Establishes December third as "International Day of Persons with Disabilities".
Signed into law
Enacts the Internet system for tracking over-prescribing (I-STOP) act and creates a prescription monitoring program registry (part A); relates to prescription drug forms, electronic prescribing and…
Signed into law
Relates to Buffalo city school district petitions for nomination of school board members.
Signed into law
Provides certain real property a 15% tax exemption.
Authorizes the town of Cheektowaga, county of Erie, to extend the lease for certain park lands in such town.
Signed into law
Adds a second non-voting member to the Niagara Frontier transportation authority who shall represent the transit dependent or disabled community.
Signed into law
Authorizes the governing boards of two or more municipalities which have mutually agreed to study the annexation of territory to, by joint resolution, propose the annexation of such territory, as an…
Signed into law
Prohibits bullying and cyberbullying in public schools.
Signed into law
Adopted
Exempts veteran disability payments from inclusion as income of persons sixty-five years of age or over to determine eligibility for a real property tax exemption.
Enables veterans to receive benefit information upon applying for or renewing a driver's license.
Designates sweet corn as the state vegetable.
Relates to selectively cutting timber and exclusion of current best management practices from regulated activities.
Relates to persons designated as peace officers.
Prohibits certain sex offenders from residing within 1,350 feet of school grounds, except that in cities having a population of one million or more, no such sex offender may reside within 500 feet…
Provides for an exemption from sales and use taxes on the sale of general aviation aircraft.
Prohibits sale or distribution of any product containing a synthetic cannabinoid; defines the chemical compounds which constitute a synthetic cannabinoid; imposes a civil penalty of not more than…
Relates to sex offender registry check for certain employers.
Prohibits the employment of a sex offender in any position having substantial contact with children; defines "substantial contact" as any activity involving children; establishes criminal penalties…
Relates to distribution of surcharges for off track winnings.
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of Hamburg central school district.
Establishes offense for the electronic stalking of minors within the class A misdemeanor of stalking in the third degree; establishes offenses of criminal impersonation by electronic means; includes…
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of Hamburg central school district.
Increases maximum income eligibility levels for real property tax exemptions for seniors.
Adopted
Adopted
Adopted
Enacts "Alix's law"; relates to leaving the scene of an incident without reporting it; also relates to operating a vehicle while under the influences of alcohol or drugs.
Enacts "Brittany's Law" requiring registration of violent felony offenders; sets forth duties of the division of criminal justice services; establishes a special 900 telephone number; requires the…
Relates to preemption of local law.
Enacts "the foreclosure fraud prevention act of 2012"; creates the crimes of residential mortgage foreclosure fraud in the first and second degrees.
Requires the licensing of persons engaged in the design, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, alteration and repair of elevators and other automatic people moving devices and creates…
Establishes the Shop: Pride of New York program for food sellers which sell foods produced in New York state.
Requires schools to provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Establishes centers of workforce achievement to advance the creation of public/private partnerships between the state university of New York's community colleges and private businesses.
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.
Relates to eligibility for state aid for certain independent institutions of higher learning; provides that a former two-year institution may elect to continue to receive associate level degree…
Exempts contractors employed by the city of Buffalo from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.
Establishes the mandatory reporting by certain professional or official persons who come into contact with mentally or physically incapacitated persons who were abused including residents of…
Includes the financial exploitation of the elderly or disabled within the definition of the crime of larceny; defines terms.
Establishes the capital investment jobs retention program offering a tax credit program for businesses within New York state that opt to make large capital investments and maintain certain job levels.
Adopted
Adopted
Adopted
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