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393 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
Enacts the "protection of people with special needs act"; enacts various provisions for the protection of persons in state operated and licensed facilities from abuse, neglect and mistreatment;…
Signed into law
Extends certain provisions of Jonathan's law.
Signed into law
Exempts food and beverages sold from vending machines for one dollar and fifty cents or less from the sales and use tax.
Vetoed
Relates to activities by former state officers; permits certain state officers, terminated between January 1, 2009 and April 1, 2014 due to a reduction in the state workforce, to engage in certain…
Signed into law
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
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Hoosick Area Partnership for Parents and Youth.
Signed into law
Permits brewers with a certain annual volume and with a certain percentage of sales to terminate an agreement with a beer wholesaler without having good cause; requires payment of fair market value…
Signed into law
Authorizes the city of Mechanicville, in the county of Saratoga, to offer a certain retirement plan to Anthony J.
Signed into law
Authorizes a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse or emergency medical technician to act as a designated camp health director or to provide…
Signed into law
Designates the Roslyn Viaduct over Hempstead Harbor in honor of William Cullen Bryant.
Signed into law
Designates a bridge on state route 20 in the town of Nassau, county of Rensselaer, as the "Staff Sergeant Derek Farley Memorial Bridge".
Signed into law
Designates the New York state route 9P bridge over Fish Creek linking the city of Saratoga Springs and the town of Saratoga as the "Saratoga County Veterans Memorial Bridge".
Signed into law
Adopted
Adopted
Adopted
Relates to the appointment of guardians.
Relates to obligations for certain taxes by captive insurance companies.
Allows municipalities to lease naming rights of government-owned property.
Provides an exception to the hearsay rule to allow testimony from persons with developmental disabilities.
Relates to the acquisition of land for the erection of monuments; requires a two-thirds vote of its members to authorize change in status.
Relates to the definition of "stallion" for the purposes of the NYS thoroughbred breeding and development fund.
Authorizes the county of Saratoga to discontinue for reforestation purposes the use of certain lands and to convey such lands.
Establishes a prescription pain medication awareness program within the department of health to educate the public and health care practitioners about the risks associated with prescribing and…
Provides that the initial prescription or dispensing of a controlled substance for acute pain shall be limited to a 3-10 day supply; prohibits the imposition of an additional health insurance…
Relates to the revocation or reissuance of licenses.
Provides that the driver's license of a veteran of the armed forces of the United States shall have imprinted thereon "U.S.
Relates to accountable care organizations which are certified by the department of health to provide integrated health services and reduce health care costs.
Relates to the monies of the spinal cord injury research trust fund; provides that 5.6 % of monies collected by the mandatory surcharge imposed pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 1809 of the…
Prohibits bullying on school property and at school functions and enacts the "Law to Encourage the Acceptance of All Differences (LEAD)".
Relates to prescription prices and pharmacies for injured employees.
Provides for preferences under the affordable home ownership development program for service related disabled veterans.
Creates a veteran's home and land ownership loan program to provide loans to veterans to purchase homes or unimproved land suitable for building; such loans to be secured by a second mortgage.
Designates a portion of highway as the "Saratoga County Veterans' Memorial Highway".
Authorizes the town of Clifton Park to discontinue the use of certain park land and lease such land for use as a wireless communications facility.
Designates that portion of New York state route 7 which constitutes the causeway over the Tomhannock Reservoir in the town of Pittstown in Rensselaer county, state of New York as the "Brigadier…
Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.
Provides that medicaid reimbursement for services to medically fragile children rendered by pediatric rehabilitation diagnostic and treatment centers shall be at a fee-for-service rate until the…
Adopted
Adopted
Enacts the "public assistance integrity act" to prohibit the sale or purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products or lottery tickets with public assistance benefits; prohibits the use of public…
Adopted
Relates to certain veterans and entitles them to 10 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are disabled and entitles them to 5 additional competitive civil service exam points if…
Enacts "the foreclosure fraud prevention act of 2012"; creates the crimes of residential mortgage foreclosure fraud in the first and second degrees.
Includes within the class D felony of grand larceny in the fourth degree, the theft of a blank official New York state prescription form; includes within the class D felony of criminal possession of…
Requires applicants for the renewal of a driver's license to prove they have acceptable vision to operate a motor vehicle.
Relates to payment of independent contractors and authorizes the department of labor to investigate complaints, make claims for compensation, assess liquid damages, civil penalties and criminal…
Relates to clarifying health education.
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