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Enacts the "New York Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act"

Enacts the "New York Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act."

Thomas AbinantiConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Establishes an affirmative defense for damages for violation of patent, trademark or intellectual property rights relating to genetically engineered organisms

Establishes an affirmative defense for causes of actions related to violation of a patent, trademark or other intellectual property right on grounds that a party possessed or used seeds or plants…

Thomas AbinantiJudiciary Committee

Directs commissioner of health and commissioner of developmental disabilities to require pediatric care providers to screen for autism; repealer

Directs the commissioner of health and commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to jointly promulgate rules and regulations requiring pediatric health care providers to…

Thomas AbinantiHealth Committee

Requires that a member of the Westchester county industrial development agency is a member of the governing body of Westchester county

Allows that the Westchester county governing body appoint an additional member of the Westchester county industrial development agency.

Thomas AbinantiLocal Government Committee

Authorizes the use of epinephrine auto-injectors in schools and by trained school nurses and employees

Authorizes the use of epinephrine auto-injectors in schools and by trained school nurses and employees.

Thomas AbinantiEducation Committee

Defines the term autism for the purposes of the education law and the mental hygiene law and the term autism spectrum disorder for the purposes of the insurance law

Defines the term autism for the purposes of the education law and the mental hygiene law and the term autism spectrum disorder for the purposes of the insurance law.

Thomas AbinantiMental Health Committee

Makes permanent certain provisions of law relating to the use of certain voting machines; repealer

Makes permanent certain provisions of law relating to the use of certain voting machines.

Thomas AbinantiElection Law Committee

Relates to a firearms safety course certificate for license applications made outside of the city of New York

Relates to a firearms safety course certificate for license applications made outside of the city of New York.

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Prohibit weapon promotion and sale on public property

Prohibits weapon promotion and sale on public property.

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Relates to the method for establishing real property assessments in certain counties

Relates to the method for establishing real property assessments in certain counties.

Thomas AbinantiReal Property Taxation Committee

Relates to sentencing

Relates to sentencing involving persistent felony offenders.

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against a person who protests against or discloses any bribery or attempted bribery of a public official

Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against a person who protests against or discloses any bribery or attempted bribery of a public official.

Thomas AbinantiLabor Committee

Relates to a ban on undetectable firearms, undetectable firearm receivers and undetectable ammunition magazines

Relates to a ban on undetectable firearms, undetectable firearm receivers and undetectable ammunition magazines.

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Enacts the 2013 Local Fair Elections act

Enacts the 2013 Local Fair Elections Act.

Thomas AbinantiElection Law Committee

Relates to allowing therapy dogs to enter public places and public transportation

Relates to allowing therapy dogs to enter public places and public transportation.

Thomas AbinantiTransportation Committee

Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by OPWDD for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological impairments

Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by the office for people with developmental disabilities for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological…

Thomas AbinantiMental Health Committee

Authorizes local governments to adopt a local law or ordinance requiring property owners to replace trees removed from their property

Authorizes local governments to adopt a local law or ordinance requiring property owners to replace each tree removed from their property with up to three trees and authorizes the imposition of…

Thomas AbinantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Restricts the right of an offender to use a computer in prison or access the internet if such offender has been convicted of certain sex offenses and used a computer

Restricts the right of an offender to use a computer in prison or access the internet if such offender has been convicted of certain sex offenses and used a computer in connection with the planning…

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Enacts the "philosophical exemption to immunizations act"

Enacts the "philosophical exemption to immunizations act" in order to establish an exemption to mandatory immunizations.

Thomas AbinantiHealth Committee

Safe storage of rifles, shotguns, and firearms

Relates to the safe storage of rifles, shotguns, and firearms.

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Authorizes certain counties to implement a real property tax administration system

Authorizes certain counties to implement a cooperative real property tax administration system.

Thomas AbinantiReal Property Taxation Committee

Enacts provisions imposing a moratorium on the planting and growing of genetically modified crops in New York state

Enacts provisions imposing a five year moratorium on the planting and growing of genetically modified crops in New York state and the use of a marketing plan to promote New York state agricultural…

Thomas AbinantiAgriculture Committee

Regulates the cutting, topping and removal of trees upon rights of way by providers of electric service; requires the planting of replacement trees in certain cases

Regulates the cutting, topping and removal of trees upon rights of way by providers of electric service; requires the planting of replacement trees in certain cases; provides for the enforcement of…

Thomas AbinantiEnergy Committee

Requires the commissioner of developmental disabilities to define a career path for direct support professionals

Requires the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to define a career path for direct support professionals.

Thomas AbinantiMental Health Committee

Prohibits election commissioners and deputy commissioners from holding a publicly elected office

Prohibits election commissioners and deputy commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.

Thomas AbinantiElection Law Committee

Authorizes the town of Greenburgh or specified villages therein or in the town of Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a 3% hotel/motel occupancy tax

Authorizes the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax; authorizes villages in the towns of Greenburgh amd Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to…

Thomas AbinantiWays And Means Committee

Relates to the pension costs of New York Health Care Corporations established under article 10-C of the public authorities law

Relates to the pension costs of New York Health Care Corporations established under Article 10-C of the public authorities law.

Thomas AbinantiGovernmental Employees Committee

Provides for the regulation of the conducting of hydraulic fracturing; repealer

Provides for the regulation of the conducting of hydraulic fracturing; requires producers to disclose the composition of hydraulic fracturing fluids to the department of environmental conservation;…

Thomas AbinantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Establishes a right of first refusal in municipalities for state land to be sold at public auction

Establishes a right of first refusal in municipalities for state land to be sold at public auction.

Thomas AbinantiGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families

Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.

Thomas AbinantiGovernmental Employees Committee

Exempts costs associated with revaluations or reassessments from the tax levy limit on real property

Exempts cost associated with revaluations or reassessments from the tax levy limit on real property.

Thomas AbinantiReal Property Taxation Committee

Provides that the Elmsford fire department may establish fees and charges for emergency services

Provides that the Elmsford fire department may establish fees and charges for emergency services.

Thomas AbinantiLocal Governments Committee

Provides for assistance to disabled drivers at gas stations

Provides for assistance to disabled drivers at gas stations.

Thomas AbinantiEconomic Development Committee

Enacts the reproductive health care facilities access act

Enacts the reproductive health care facilities access act; provides that the crime of criminal interference with health care services or religious worship shall be established by the mens rea of…

Thomas AbinantiCodes Committee

Requires the DOT to determine which entrances to parkways in Westchester county are most frequently accessed by oversized commercial vehicles

Requires the DOT to determine which entrances to parkways in Westchester county are most frequently accessed by oversized commercial vehicles and to install certain barrier to prevent such vehicles…

Thomas AbinantiTransportation Committee

Authorizes school nurses to administer epinephrine auto-injectors in the event of an emergency

Authorizes school nurses to administer epinephrine auto-injectors in the event of an emergency.

Thomas AbinantiEducation Committee

Relates to coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder

Relates to coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder; removes provisions of the monetary limit for coverage of applied behavior analysis.

Thomas AbinantiInsurance Committee

Relates to coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder

Relates to coverage for the screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.

Thomas AbinantiInsurance Committee

Provides for behavioral health wraparound demonstration projects combining services through the office for people with developmental disabilities, the office of mental health

Provides for behavioral health wraparound demonstration projects combining services through the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, the Office of Mental Health, and the Department of…

Thomas AbinantiHealth Committee

Establishes the direct support professional credential pilot program

Establishes the direct support professional credential pilot program to assist and attract individuals into the field of direct support, advance direct support as a career and professionalize the…

Thomas AbinantiVetoed

Vetoed

Clarifies the authority of the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District to lease certain properties and to expand its boundaries

Relates to a separate union free school district in the town of Greenburgh, in the county of Westchester; clarifies the authority of the Greenburgh North Castle Union Free School District to lease…

Thomas AbinantiVetoed

Vetoed

Authorizes the county of Westchester to discontinue the use as parkland of parcels of real property in the town of Greenburgh for the purposes of completing certain proposed improvements to Jackson Avenue

Authorizes the county of Westchester to discontinue the use as parkland of parcels of real property in the town of Greenburgh for the purposes of completing certain proposed improvements to Jackson…

Thomas AbinantiOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the dissolution of union free school district number 13 in the town of Greenburgh; repealer

Relates to the dissolution of union free school district number 13 in the town of Greenburgh.

Thomas AbinantiOn the Assembly floor

Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to certain police officers

Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty-year retirement plan to certain police officers.

Thomas AbinantiOn the Assembly floor