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
- S1852In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Establishes a registry of wills and codicils
- S1854In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Requires inmates to have an acceptable residence to qualify for parole
- S1856In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Provides that a person may be guilty of the crime disorderly conduct when he makes unreasonable noise which is disturbing to one or more persons
- S1851In Senate Committee· Mar 25, 2014Provides for local tidal wetlands protection
- S1855Senate Floor Calendar· Jun 12, 2013Authorizes a no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the towns of Suffolk
- S1858In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Extends powers of municipal corporations to acquire public utilities by the power of eminent domain
- S1860In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Authorizes certain towns in the Peconic Bay region to establish community housing opportunity funds
- S1857In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Adds national estuary implementation projects as projects eligible for state funding pursuant to the environmental protection fund
- S1859In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Creates the Peconic Bay regional transportation council
- S1846In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Requires the state university trustees to establish a process to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system
- S1847In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Requires health insurance contracts and policies to include coverage for ovarian/primary peritoneal cancer screening
- S1848In Senate Committee· Feb 19, 2014Enacts the "school buildings carbon monoxide detectors act"
- S1781In Senate Committee· Mar 25, 2014Enacts the New York state school taxpayers' protection act
- S1783In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Permits Suffolk County to refund penalties and interest associated with non-payment of real property taxes where customary payment-due notice was not provided
- S1782In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Creates the Peconic Bay regional transportation authority
- S1769In Senate Committee· Jun 20, 2014Provides for the inclusion of one ex officio student member to village boards of trustees
- S1767In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Establishes a capped property school tax rate for persons seventy years of age or older who meet the eligibility requirements for the enhanced STAR exemption
- S1766In Senate Committee· Apr 29, 2014Provides motor fuel tax exemption for sales of diesel motor fuel used in vessels used directly in a business providing sport fishing opportunities
- S1768In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Establishes the Suffolk School of Math, Science and Engineering Regional Technology Institute; provides governing board powers and duties
- S1770In Assembly Committee· May 29, 2014Authorizes agreements for county, city and town social services departments to access death certificates maintained by the department of public health
Committees
- Higher EducationChair
- Aging
- Education
- Environmental Conservation
- Finance
- Insurance
- Judiciary
- Rules