Sponsored bills

Relates to bills containing provisions requiring appointments to be made by the legislative leaders

Requires certain bills which establish a commission, task force, board, council or any similar body shall have not less than one position appointed by each of the legislative leaders.

Brian KolbGovernmental Operations Committee

Establishes the metropolitan transportation authority fiscal oversight control board to oversee and regulate the finances of the MTA; repealer

Establishes the metropolitan transportation authority fiscal oversight control board to oversee and regulate the finances of the metropolitan transportation authority.

Brian KolbCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Creates the "veteran owned business enterprise act" to promote such business enterprises

Creates the "veteran owned business enterprise act" to promote such business enterprises and includes service related veteran owned businesses with minority and women owned businesses.

Brian KolbVeterans' Affairs Committee

Establishes a procedure for the approval of increasing transfer capability of existing electric transmission lines

Establishes a procedure for the approval of increasing the transfer capability of existing electric transmission lines.

Brian KolbEnergy Committee

Makes certain technical corrections with regard to absentee voting

Makes several technical corrections to the election law in regards to absentee voting; provides that no ballot shall be declared void or partially blank if such ballot has been torn or defaced after…

Brian KolbElection Law Committee

Provides for the exemption of honorably discharged U.S. veterans from payment of New York Thruway tolls

Provides for the exemption of honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces of the United States from New York State Thruway tolls; provides reimbursement for any loss in net revenue up to one…

Brian KolbCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Closes loophole by requiring additional consecutive sentence of five years where a determinate sentence is imposed for criminal use of a firearm in the first degree

Provides that additional consecutive sentence of five years of imprisonment imposed upon conviction of criminal use of a firearm in the first degree shall be added to the minimum sentence of…

Brian KolbCodes Committee

Establishes statewide green jobs development and recruitment strategy and creating tax credit incentives to attract green jobs

Establishes statewide green jobs development and recruitment strategy and creates tax credit incentives to attract green jobs.

Brian KolbEconomic Development Committee

Amends the education law and certain technical provisions therein

Relates to the apportionment of aid for external defibrillators, the powers of the commissioner pertaining to individualized education programs, excluding the issue of the cost of criminal history…

Brian KolbEducation Committee

Requires lifetime post-release supervision for certain offenders; prohibits good behavior allowances against certain determinate sentences

Requires lifetime post-release supervision for offenders convicted of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, course of sexual…

Brian KolbCodes Committee

Provides for the inclusion of victim impact statements from neighborhood watch groups in pre-sentencing reports

Provides for the inclusion of victim impact statements from neighborhood watch groups in pre-sentencing reports where the court deems such inclusion to be appropriate.

Brian KolbCodes Committee

Relates to the disclosure of unemployment insurance files to the state legislature

Relates to the disclosure of unemployment insurance files to the state legislature.

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Allows any family member working on a family farm to build a home on such land

Provides that in an agricultural district with a working family farm, any producer, as defined in subdivision three of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, shall have the authority to…

Brian KolbAgriculture Committee

Establishes a state autism advisory board

Establishes a state autism advisory board.

Brian KolbHealth Committee

Enacts Shop-NY; establishes various exemptions from New York's sales and compensating use tax

Enacts Shop-NY; establishes various exemptions from New York's sales and compensating use tax.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Allows counties to opt out of providing certain optional Medicaid benefits to prospective beneficiaries

Authorizes the state to allow counties to opt out of the county cost of medical assistance payments to any new enrollees who have either never received such benefits or who have reenrolled after a…

Brian KolbHealth Committee

Removes the mandatory aggregate trust fund deposit requirements for non-scheduled permanent partial disability cases

Removes the mandatory aggregate trust fund deposit requirements for non-scheduled permanent partial disability cases.

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Authorizes financial assistance for civic facilities by industrial development agencies

Authorizes financial assistance for civic facilities by industrial development agencies; defines civic facility.

Brian KolbLocal Governments Committee

Requires that annual reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member

Requires that annual department reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member.

Brian KolbGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to the definition of a business startup and funds reserved for business startups

Relates to the definition of a business startup and funds reserved for business startups.

Brian KolbEconomic Development Committee

Relates to making the first one hundred thousand dollars of an individuals' private pension non-taxable

Relates to making the first one hundred thousand dollars of an individual's private pension non-taxable.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Places a permanent moratorium on unfunded mandates

Places a permanent moratorium on unfunded mandates.

Brian KolbGovernmental Operations Committee

Limits the time a legislator may serve as a legislative leader

Limits the time a legislator may serve as a legislative leader to 4 consecutive two year terms.

Brian KolbGovernmental Operations Committee

Provides that an employer shall not be liable for unemployment benefits for an employee who voluntarily leaves employment

Provides that an employer's account for unemployment insurance coverage shall not be charged when an employee quits without good cause, regardless of whether the former employee has filed and been…

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Authorizes employers of manual workers to apply to commissioner of labor for exemption from requirement of paying manual workers weekly

Authorizes employers to apply to commissioner of labor for exemption from requirement of paying workers weekly if such employers satisfy certain criteria; removes language which would require…

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Changes the fiscal year to begin on the first of May; requires the use of generally accepted accounting principles in the state fiscal plan

Changes the fiscal year to begin on the first of May; requires the use of generally accepted accounting principles in the state fiscal plan.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Establishes a tax credit for on-the-job training

Establishes corporate business and personal income tax credits for taxpayers (employers of 100 or fewer) who provide employees with on-the-job training in an amount up to $300 per employee.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Requires operators of bowling centers to give certain notices to bowlers and grants immunity from civil liability to operators of bowling centers from certain action

Requires operators of bowling centers to give certain notices to bowlers and grants immunity from civil liability to operators of bowling centers from certain actions.

Brian KolbConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Relates to ambulance registration fees

Relates to ambulance registration fees.

Brian KolbTransportation Committee

Provides an itemized deduction for expenses for course-mandated supplies for eligible college students paid by taxpayers

Provides an itemized deduction for expenses for course-mandated supplies for eligible college students paid by taxpayers.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Establishes the "Family and medical leave independent savings account act"; provides a tax credit for employee compensation deferred to such accounts

Establishes the "Family and medical leave independent savings account act"; provides a tax credit for employee compensation deferred to such accounts.

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Relates to the clarification of the applicability of certain exemptions to periodic distributions from a nonqualified pension plan

Relates to the clarification of the applicability of certain exemptions to periodic distributions from a nonqualified pension plan.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Enacts the "scaffold reform act"

Enacts the "scaffold reform act"; grants counties a local option to require contractors working on projects within their respective jurisdictions to comply with the regulations and standards set…

Brian KolbLabor Committee

Provides for the submission to the people of a proposition or question to convene a constitutional convention

Provides for the submission to the people of a proposition or question to convene a constitutional convention.

Brian KolbJudiciary Committee

Establishes a spending cap and increases the maximum capacity of the rainy day fund

Establishes a spending cap and increases the maximum capacity of the rainy day fund.

Brian KolbWays And Means Committee

Extends the authorization of the county of Seneca to impose an additional one percent sales and compensating use tax until November 30, 2015

Extends the authorization of the county of Seneca to impose an additional one percent sales and compensating use tax until November 30, 2015.

Brian KolbSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to extending the authorization for Ontario county to impose additional rates of sales and compensating use taxes until 2015

Extends the authorization for Ontario county to impose additional rates of sales and compensating use taxes until 2015.

Brian KolbSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Authorizes the county of Ontario to apply to the federal government to establish, operate and maintain foreign trade zones within such county

Authorizes the county of Ontario to apply to the federal government to establish, operate and maintain foreign trade zones within such county.

Brian KolbSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the City of Canandaigua, New York, on April 27, 2013

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted

Honoring Vincent L. Caraccilo upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of the 2013 Father Beatini Memorial Award

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted

Relates to designating certain employees of the Seneca county sheriff's office as peace officers

Relates to designating certain employees of the Seneca county sheriff's office serving as uniformed marine patrol officers and uniformed court security officers as peace officers.

Brian KolbOn the Assembly floor

Exempts the Hopewell Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. from the law requiring that the percentage of non-resident members not exceed 45%

Exempts the Hopewell Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. from the law requiring that the percentage of non-resident members not exceed 45%.

Brian KolbOn the Assembly floor

Honoring Walter J. Gable upon the occasion of his designation as recipient of the 2013 Convention Days Community Service Award

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted

Authorizes hunting in the county of Ontario until October 1, 2015

Authorizes hunting in the county of Ontario until October 1, 2015.

Brian KolbOn the Assembly floor

Congratulating Taylor Elliott-Roggie on earning the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout, the most prestigious of Scouting honors

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Nicholas B. Jensen upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Logan Michael Fleming upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout, the most prestigious of Scouting honors, on June 8, 2013

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted

Congratulating Kenneth W. Campbell upon the occasion of receiving the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout

Brian KolbAdopted

Adopted