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.
All sponsored legislation
433 bills and resolutions, newest firstHide resolutions
- 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
- S2357In Senate Committee· Mar 25, 2014Prohibits the application of certain lawn fertilizers to any watersheds and drainage basins in certain counties
- S2359In Senate Committee· May 15, 2014Increases the value of the exemption for certain renewable energy systems or farm waste energy systems
- S2355In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Relates to absentee ballots for fire district elections
- S2354In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Makes provisions with respect to service of real property assessment challenges upon fire districts
- J166Adopted· Jan 24, 2013Honoring George Tvelia upon the occasion of his retirement after 43 years of distinguished service to Suffolk County Community CollegeAdopted
- S2279In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Provides a tax exemption from certain taxes for open spaces and open areas owned by a local government or not-for-profit corporation
- S2281In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Provides for the development of individual site specific disaster preparedness plans for nuclear power plants operating within 50 miles of the state's borders
- S2277In Senate Committee· Feb 19, 2014Increases income limitations and tax credits for real property tax circuit breaker credit
- S2282In Assembly Committee· Jun 3, 2014Provides that the territory of central high school districts that merge in the county of Suffolk does not need to be contiguous
- S2278In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Removes a cap on allowable real property tax exemptions available to certain veterans
- S2280In Senate Committee· Jan 8, 2014Relates to inspection stations in certain Suffolk county towns
Committees
- Higher EducationChair
- Aging
- Education
- Environmental Conservation
- Finance
- Insurance
- Judiciary
- Rules