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Relates to special foreclosure proceeding for vacant and abandoned property

Relates to special foreclosure proceeding for vacant and abandoned property.

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Directs county clerks to submit to the office of court administration, on a quarterly basis, an itemized report on the surplus moneys for the sales of foreclosed properties

Directs county clerks to submit to the office of court administration, on a quarterly basis, an itemized report on the surplus moneys for the sales of foreclosed properties; requires referees to…

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Provides for summary action to foreclose upon vacant and abandoned residential real property

Provides for summary action to foreclose upon vacant and abandoned residential real property.

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Requires parental appeal of placement and educational programs to be provided to a child with a handicapping condition to be determined within 90 days

Requires parental appeal of placement and educational program to be provided to a child with a handicapping condition to be determined within 90 days; requires continued implementation of a…

Helene WeinsteinEducation Committee

Enacts the "foreclosure fraud prevention act of 2013"

Enacts "the foreclosure fraud prevention act of 2013"; creates the crimes of residential mortgage foreclosure fraud in the first and second degrees.

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Relates to waiver of privileged confidential information

Provides that in a civil action, an operator of a motor vehicle in this state shall be deemed to have waived privileged confidential information in regard to the results of any tests administered…

Helene WeinsteinCodes Committee

Provides for the admissibility of recordings and logs of inmate calls made by the department of correction of the city of New York, as business records

Provides for the admissibility of recordings and logs of inmate calls made by the department of correction of the city of New York, as business records.

Helene WeinsteinCodes Committee

Permits the audio and/or televising, broadcasting or taking of motion pictures of certain civil and criminal court proceedings; repealer

Permits the audio and/or televising, broadcasting or taking of motion pictures of certain court proceedings; authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules and regulations…

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Prohibits the use of job applicant's personal credit history as hiring criteria, unless a reasonable nexus exists

Prohibits the use of job applicant's personal credit history as hiring criteria, unless a reasonable nexus exists.

Helene WeinsteinGovernmental Operations Committee

Establishes certain proof requirements for plaintiffs seeking summary judgment or a default judgment in a residential foreclosure proceeding

Establishes certain proof and settlement requirements for plaintiffs seeking summary judgment or a default judgment in a residential foreclosure proceeding; provides that only the owner and holder…

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Establishes a private right of action for damages against an insurer which engages in unfair claim settlement practices

Establishes a private right of action for damages against an insurer which engages in unfair claim settlement practices.

Helene WeinsteinInsurance Committee

Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought

Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought i.e. grief and anguish; loss of love, society, protection, comfort,…

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Defines the kind of assistance required to be included as part of medicaid personal care services

Defines the kind of assistance required for a recipient to obtain medicaid personal care services, as assistance with health and safety needs including hands-on assistance, supervision and cuing to…

Helene WeinsteinHealth Committee

Provides that for settlements that require a court order the order shall provide for the payment of interest on the settlement amount at the statutory rate

Provides that for settlements that require a court order, the order, or the judgment in a special proceeding, shall provide for the payment of interest on the settlement amount at the statutory…

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Requires prior disclosure of income, assets, financial obligations of decedent to enforce surviving spouse's waiver of right of election; waives dead man's statute

Requires fair and reasonable disclosure of income, assets and financial obligations of decedent for surviving spouse's waiver of right of election to be enforceable and renders inapplicable the…

Helene WeinsteinJudiciary Committee

Adds identity theft, larceny and coercion to those offenses over which criminal and family courts have concurrent jurisdiction when involving family or household members

Adds identity theft, larceny and coercion to those offenses over which criminal and family courts have concurrent jurisdiction when involving family or household members; authorizes a court which…

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Protects the parties to a tort settlement from any claims by an insurer

Protects the parties to a tort settlement from any claims by an insurer.

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to settlement of account by a resigning fiduciary

Relates to settlement of account by a resigning fiduciary; requires the petition show the facts upon which an application to resign is founded.

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides that communications or contact between protected parties with a party against whom an order of protection is issued shall not affect the validity of such order

Provides that communications or contact between protected parties with a party against whom an order of protection or temporary order of protection is issued shall not affect the validity of such…

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to the effectiveness of the exercise of a power of appointment and an authorized trustee's authority to invade trust principal

Relates to the effectiveness of exercise of a power of appointment and an authorized trustee's authority to invade trust principal.

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Enacts the uniform guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act

Enacts the uniform guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act.

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Provides for the filing of a certificate of merit in certain residential foreclosure actions

Provides for the filing of a certificate of merit in any residential foreclosure action involving a home loan in which the defendant is a resident of the property subject to the foreclosure.

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes retired supreme court justices to serve as justice of supreme court until age 80

Authorizes retired supreme court justices to serve as justice of supreme court until age 80; provides that judges of the court of appeals need not retire until the end of the year in which they turn…

Helene WeinsteinPassed Senate

Authorizes a city of one million or more in population in the Hurricane Sandy federal disaster area to grant exemptions to filing fees related to federal Small Business Administration Disaster Loans

Authorizes a city with a population of one million or more in the Hurricane Sandy federal disaster area to grant exemptions for filing fees related to federal Small Business Administration Disaster…

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Provides that Saturday and Sundays shall not be included in the grace period for repairs of defective motor vehicle equipment

Provides that Saturday and Sunday shall not be included in the grace period for repairs of defective motor vehicle equipment.

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Relates to access to computer systems that carry information of orders of protection and warrants of arrest

Relates to access to computer systems that carry information of orders of protection and warrants of arrest.

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Establishes a procedure for the signatory to an acknowledgment of paternity to rescind the acknowledgment by filing a petition with the court to vacate the acknowledgment

Establishes a procedure for the signatory to an acknowledgment of paternity to rescind the acknowledgment by filing a petition with the court to vacate the acknowledgment.

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the estate tax treatment of dispositions to surviving spouses who are not United States citizens

Relates to the estate tax treatment of dispositions to surviving spouses who are not United States citizens.

Helene WeinsteinOn the Assembly floor

Urging the New York State Congressional delegation to pass an amendment to the Stafford Act

Helene WeinsteinAdopted

Adopted

Relates to the filing of notices of claim prior to the commencement of a cause of action against any state or municipal entity, public authority or public benefit corporation

Relates to the filing of notices of claim prior to the commencement of a cause of action against any state or municipal entity, public authority or public benefit corporation; amends chapter 500 of…

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Commending Madison Jewish Center on its 82nd Anniversary Journal Celebration on May 5, 2013 and applauding the honorees of the evening

Helene WeinsteinAdopted

Adopted

Relates to orders of observation for the purpose of determining incapacitation

Relates to orders of observation for the purpose of determining incapacitation.

Helene WeinsteinSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Requires all motor vehicle insurers to file annual detailed financial and claim data statements with the superintendent of financial services

Requires all motor vehicle insurers to file annual detailed financial and claim data statements with the superintendent of financial services; provides that all such statements shall be made…

Helene WeinsteinStricken

Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim February 17-23, 2013, as Court Reporting and Captioning Week in the State of New York

Helene WeinsteinAdopted

Adopted

Providing for the election of Carol M. Herbst to the office of Official Stenographer of the Assembly

Helene WeinsteinAdopted

Adopted