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Requires the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to the adoption of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in senior high schools

Requires the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to the adoption of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of AEDs in senior high…

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Creates the parental choice private school voucher program; three hundred students shall be selected to receive vouchers to attend a participating school

Creates the parental choice private school voucher program; provides that three hundred students entering kindergarten or ninth grade shall be selected to receive vouchers to attend either a public…

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Relates to authorized leave for volunteer fire department members or volunteer ambulance squad members for states of emergency

Provides authorized leave for volunteer fire department members or volunteer ambulance squad members for states of emergency; deems leave is excused when a state of emergency is declared by the…

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to limiting eligible projects for the western New York power proceeds allocation act to certain businesses within the county of Erie

Relates to limiting eligible projects for the western New York power proceeds allocation act to certain businesses within the county of Erie.

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Authorizes the Buffalo school district to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten

Authorizes the Buffalo school district to require minors five years of age to attend kindergarten.

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage fish

Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage fish.

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo

Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.

Mark GrisantiSigned by Governor

Signed into law

Regulates heavy metals, magnets and batteries in children's jewelry

Enacts the comprehensive children's jewelry safety act; prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution of children's jewelry which does not meet certain standards.

Mark GrisantiConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Relates to integrated housing

Relates to increasing housing opportunities for people with developmental disabilities.

Mark GrisantiMental Health Committee

Relates to processing of public assistance through the use of electronic benefit transfers by private entities

Prohibits private entities which process public assistance benefits through the use of electronic benefits transfers from using the name of the state of New York or holding themselves out as a state…

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Prohibits mercury-added rotational balancing products

Prohibits mercury-added rotational balancing products.

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Relates to the reduction of mercury in mercury-added lamps

Relates to the prohibition of the sale, offer for sale or distribution of mercury added lamps that fail to meet the mercury content standards adopted by the department.

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Protects the privacy of employees' and prospective employees' social media accounts

Protects the privacy of employees' and prospective employees' social media accounts.

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Provides an asbestos remediation tax credit

Provides an asbestos remediation tax credit; allows for a twenty percent credit of all eligible costs which are incurred as a result of asbestos remediation, not to exceed $1,000,000.

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to cooperate with municipalities in establishing adopt-a-park programs

Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to cooperate with municipalities in establishing adopt-a-park programs; municipalities may enter into agreements with…

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Enacts the "Microbead-free waters Act" to prohibit the sale of personal cosmetic products containing microbeads

Enacts the "Microbead-free waters act" to prohibit sale of personal cosmetic products containing microbeads.

Mark GrisantiRules Committee

Relates to the special powers of the environmental facilities corporation

Relates to the special powers of the environmental facilities corporation.

Mark GrisantiWays And Means Committee

Relates to authorized leave for volunteer fire department members or volunteer ambulance squad members for states of emergency

Makes technical corrections to chapter allowing volunteers to take a leave of absence for emergencies.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Relates to the eligibility for participation in the brownfield cleanup program; appropriation

Relates to the eligibility for participation in the brownfield cleanup program; makes appropriation therefor.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Relates to the issuance of guidance documents to certain state oversight agencies for meeting reporting requirements established by the justice center

Relates to the issuance of guidance documents to certain state oversight agencies for meeting reporting requirements established by the justice center.

Mark GrisantiMental Health Committee

Relates to penalties for stealing of companion animals

Increases penalties for stealing of companion animals to one thousand dollars.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Relates to providing students an opportunity to take regents examinations if missed due to school closure

Relates to providing students an opportunity to take regents examinations if missed due to school closure.

Mark GrisantiEducation Committee

Exempts contractors employed by certain municipalities from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions

Exempts contractors employed by certain large municipalities from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Authorizes Lois J. Reid to apply for ordinary disability retirement benefits

Authorizes Lois J. Reid to apply for ordinary disability retirement benefits.

Mark GrisantiGovernmental Employees Committee

Relates to definition of tropical hardwoods for purposes of state purchasing restrictions

Includes additional definitions for procedures relating to state purchasing of tropical hardwoods; requires state to maximize the use of environmentally preferable building materials; requires use…

Mark GrisantiGovernmental Operations Committee

Relates to permitting local social services districts to prohibit certain informal child care providers from receiving funds as part of the child care block grant program

Allows social services districts to prohibit informal child care providers who are the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment on file with the statewide central registry, or have certain…

Mark GrisantiChildren And Families Committee

Establishes the offense of aiming a laser at an aircraft

Establishes the offense of aiming a laser at an aircraft; makes such offense a class A misdemeanor.

Mark GrisantiStricken

Provides for the local social services district to notify the office of children and family services when there is a change in the eligibility level

Provides for the local social services district to notify the office of children and family services when there is a proposed change in the financial eligibility level.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Relates to the authority of the state fire administrator to waive certain membership requirements

Gives the state fire administrator the authority to waive certain membership requirements affecting non-residents who want to join the volunteer fire company.

Mark GrisantiLocal Governments Committee

Eliminates the sales tax on transportation services; repealer

Eliminates the sales tax on transportation services.

Mark GrisantiWays And Means Committee

Relates to a tax credit for visitability

Relates to a credit for purchase, construction or retrofitting of a principal residence to achieve universal visitability pursuant to standards adopted by the division of housing and community…

Mark GrisantiWays And Means Committee

Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap

Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap: street signs, funeral markers, government entity, utility, cemetery or railroad items; preempts local laws.

Mark GrisantiEconomic Development Committee

Authorizes the board of education of any school district in the state to enter into a contract for the sale of advertising space on school athletic fields

Authorizes the board of education of any school district in the state to enter into a contract for the sale of advertising space on school athletic fields owned or leased by the school district;…

Mark GrisantiEducation Committee

Requires the board of education in the city of Buffalo to submit the school district budget to the voters for approval prior to adoption

Requires the board of education in the city of Buffalo to submit the school district budget to the voters for approval prior to adoption.

Mark GrisantiEducation Committee

Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation

Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.

Mark GrisantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Exempts contractors employed by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions

Exempts contractors employed by a municipality from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

Mark GrisantiLabor Committee

Increases certain penalties for aggravated cruelty to animals

Increases certain penalties for aggravated cruelty to animals.

Mark GrisantiAgriculture Committee

Relates to the report of programs available to survivors of domestic violence

Relates to the report of programs available to survivors of domestic violence.

Mark GrisantiGovernmental Operations Committee

Provides for election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city school district in November rather than May

Provides for the election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city school district in November rather than in May; creates a timetable for the electoral proceedings therefor; extends…

Mark GrisantiEducation Committee

Exempts contractors employed by the city of Buffalo from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions

Exempts contractors employed by the city of Buffalo from payment of asbestos project notification fees for demolitions.

Mark GrisantiLabor Committee

Determines town populations according to the two thousand decennial federal census

Determines town populations according to the two thousand decennial federal census.

Mark GrisantiReal Property Taxation Committee

Increases the maximum award available under the historic preservation tax credit

Increases the maximum award available under the historic preservation tax credit from five million dollars to twelve million dollars over a period of three years.

Mark GrisantiWays And Means Committee

Establishes a green development home tax exemption

Establishes a green development home tax exemption authorizing a 35% exemption from local real property taxation for homes that are part of green developments as LEED certified or certified by the…

Mark GrisantiReal Property Taxation Committee

Relates to the environmental restoration program; responsible parties for petroleum contaminated sites and incentives to parties who are willing to remediate petroleum contaminated sites; repealer

Relates to the environmental restoration program; relates to responsible parties for petroleum contaminated sites and incentives to parties who are willing to remediate petroleum contaminated sites.

Mark GrisantiEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim June 1-7, 2014, as CPR-AED Awareness Week in the State of New York

Mark GrisantiAdopted

Adopted

Provides that certain provisions of laws relating to the percentage of non-resident members of a fire company shall not apply to the village of Blasdell volunteer fire department

Provides that certain provisions of laws relating to the percentage of non-resident members of a fire company shall not apply to the village of Blasdell volunteer fire department.

Mark GrisantiOn the Senate floor

Relates to prohibiting the use of chemical flame retardants on residential upholstered furniture

Enacts the upholstered furniture safety act; requires furniture sold in this state shall meet certain smolder resistant standards.

Mark GrisantiFinance Committee

Relates to distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients

Relates to distinctive plates for medal of honor recipients; removes the word "congressional" from distinctive plates; provides for the reissuance of plates to persons assigned distinctive plates…

Mark GrisantiTransportation Committee