Senate · District 1 · 2013–14
Kenneth P. LaValle
SD-1No longer in office
Chair, Higher Education
In office since 2009 · 6 sessionslavalle@nysenate.gov
Sponsored
433
318 bills, 115 resolutions
Passed a house
57
bills, Senate or Assembly
Signed into law
16
by the governor
Avg impact
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no rated bills passed yet
Vote participation
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no floor votes recorded yet
Effectiveness
39 of 434 sponsored bills passed (13.8%), ranking #7 of 62 in the Senate. Effectiveness points, which weigh each passed bill by its impact, start with the 2023–24 session.
Sponsored bills
318 bills, newest firstInclude resolutions
- S2897Senate Floor Calendar· Mar 7, 2013Repeals certain requirements for sponsors of learning activities which contribute to continuing education for occupational therapists; repealer
- S2898Senate Floor Calendar· Feb 11, 2013Relates to design professional service corporations
- S2887In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Provides that policies which provide hospital, surgical or medical coverage shall provide coverage for hysterectomies
- S2884In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Provides for the sale, use and storage of nitric acid
- S2885In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Requires that when a tree is removed from a campus in the state university of New York system, another tree shall be planted on such campus
- S2883In Senate Committee· Jun 20, 2014Authorizes the commissioner of education to restrict the sale and advertisement of alcoholic beverages at certain sporting events
- S2882In Senate Committee· Mar 24, 2014Establishes the pandemic preparedness task force
- S2881In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Relates to the visitation rights of great-grandparents
- S2858In Senate Committee· Apr 30, 2014Authorizes the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding paperwork requirements imposed by the department of education
- S2788In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Establishes health care organization accountability for delay, failure or refusal to approve, provide, arrange or timely pay for certain health care services
- S2671In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Excludes housing for students at state university of New York institutions from the definition of the term "state-supported debt"
- S2486In Assembly Committee· Jun 11, 2014Increases from twenty-four to sixty months, the time for which reconsideration for parole for a violent felony offense shall be determined
- S2449In Senate Committee· Feb 19, 2014Provides for a constitutional amendment directing the legislature to establish a procedure for the creation of Peconic county
- S2405In Assembly Committee· Mar 3, 2014Relates to the unlawful sale of dissertations, theses and term papers
- S2395In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Prohibits the mailing of credit card applications to persons under twenty-one years of age
- S2393In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Relates to transportation of school pupils
- S2398In Senate Committee· Feb 19, 2014Establishes procedures and guidelines for which a test subject may request and obtain information and materials regarding a standardized test
- S2394In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Permits fire districts to equip emergency rescue and first aid squads
- S2358In Senate Committee· Mar 26, 2014Creates a tax credit for the purchase and installation of a sun tunnel in a principal residence
- S2356In Senate Committee· Jun 20, 2014Provides villages with the local option to make unlawful the sale of alcoholic beverages within such villages
Committees
- Higher EducationChair
- Aging
- Education
- Environmental Conservation
- Finance
- Insurance
- Judiciary
- Rules