Bills by

John J. Flanagan

Senator

123 bills as primary sponsorProfile and scorecard →flanagan@senate.state.ny.us

2015-2016 session

Sponsored bills

123 bills. Ordered by the date of each bill’s latest official action: referral, amendment, floor vote, passage or signature.

Impact is how much a bill would change if enacted, from 1 (minimal) to 10 (transformational). Passage is our estimate of the chance it becomes law this session. How we score

S4995Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken
Provides for licensure of school psychologists
Provides for the licensure of school psychologists; authorizes the use of the title "school psychologist" to licensed or exempt individuals; defines practice as a school psychologist; sets forth…
John J. FlanaganStricken
ImpactPending
PassagePending
S3944Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken
Relates to a retirement contribution reserve fund for the purposes of the New York state teachers' retirement system
Relates to a retirement contribution reserve fund for the purposes of the New York state teachers' retirement system.
John J. FlanaganStricken
ImpactPending

S3934Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to the repeal of authorization for the chief privacy officer to serve in multiple positions within the department of education

Relates to the repeal of authorization for the chief privacy officer to serve in multiple positions within the department of education.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S3214Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to fingerprinting of prospective employees of private special education schools; repealer

Relates to requiring the fingerprinting of prospective employees of approved private special education schools; phases in a requirement that all fingerprints submitted by prospective employees and…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S3206Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to computer-based assessment technology apportionment

Relates to computer-based assessment technology apportionment; provides aid for technology purchases beginning in the 2015-2016 school year for school districts and boards of cooperative educational…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2695Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to tort claims against water authorities of Erie, Suffolk, Monroe and Onondaga counties

Relates to tort claims against water authorities of Erie, Suffolk, Monroe and Onondaga counties.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2586Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Provides for accumulated child support arrears equivalent to or greater than ten thousand dollars to be punishable as a class E felony

Provides for accumulated child support arrears equivalent to or greater than ten thousand dollars to be punishable as a class E felony.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2588Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Provides for mandatory testing of breath, blood or urine in the event of a motor vehicle collision resulting in death or injury

Provides for mandatory testing of breath, blood or urine in the event of a motor vehicle collision resulting in death or injury; provides immunity from civil liability for those health care…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2585Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to encouraging school districts to include a mental health curriculum in their course of instruction

Relates to encouraging school districts to include a mental health curriculum in their course of instruction.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2589Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Provides that certain prospective employees of the department of education have a criminal background check conducted on them

Provides that certain prospective employees of the department of education have a criminal background check conducted on them.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S1999Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for family members of service members who died in the line of duty

Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for family members of service members who died in the line of duty.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2147Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Provides for random drug and alcohol testing of bus drivers

Provides for random drug and alcohol testing of bus drivers; further provides that no person shall consume a drug, controlled substance or an intoxicating liquor, regardless of its alcoholic…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2148Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to regional tuition rates for special education itinerant services

Relates to regional tuition rates for special education itinerant services.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2149Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to regional tuition rates for special education itinerant services

Relates to regional tuition rates for special education itinerant services.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2143Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to referrals to state adult service agencies for certain students with disabilities who have reached the age of 18; repealer

Relates to referrals to state adult service agencies for certain students with disabilities who have reached the age of 18.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2138Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus; school grounds or children's camp

Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2142Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Establishes that all school districts are approved evaluators of preschool students suspected of having a disability

Establishes that all school districts are approved evaluators of preschool students suspected of having a disability.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2144Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Amends the definitions of criminal enterprise and pattern of criminal activity for the purpose of criminal liability for enterprise corruption

Amends the definition of "criminal enterprise", for the purpose of criminal liability for enterprise corruption.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2132Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to the provision of special education services at charter schools

Relates to the provision of special education services at charter schools.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2091Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Establishes home invasion robbery offenses

Establishes the crimes of home invasion robbery in the first and second degrees for the unlawful entry of or remaining in a dwelling with intent to commit a robbery, and during the course thereof…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2092Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to notification of discharge by the department of environmental conservation

Relates to notification of discharge by the department of environmental conservation; requires costs to provide the community notification shall be borne by the party responsible for the discharge…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2090Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Provides for disclosure of sexual offender information related to a patient or client

Provides for disclosure of sexual offender information related to a patient or client.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2084Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to the custody and visitation rights of a sex offender

Prohibits a sex offender from being granted by a court, physical or legal custody of, or unsupervised visitation with a child.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2089Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Requires state economic development agencies to provide preferences to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the programs that they administer

Requires the department of economic development, job development authority, and urban development corporation to provide preferences to small businesses and entrepreneurs in the administration of…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2079Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Requires buyers and lessees of residential real property to be given notice of public access to sex offender information

Requires that contracts for the sale or lease of residential real property include a notice that information on high risk sex offenders is available to the public and that the division of criminal…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2088Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to real property tax exemptions for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers in certain counties

Relates to real property tax exemptions for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers in certain counties; eliminates renewal application requirement under certain circumstances.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2082Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Changes the age of the victim of aggravated assault, penal law 120.12, from less than eleven to less than fourteen

Changes the age of the intended victim of aggravated assault, from less than eleven to less than fourteen years.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2080Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to adding the abuse of a person less than thirteen years old by a person eighteen years old or older to the aggravated sexual abuse crimes

Establishes a person is guilty of aggravated sexual assault in the third degree when he inserts a foreign object in the vagina, urethra or penis of the other person and the other person is less than…

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2058Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Relates to preventing defendants from making any profit from their crimes

Relates to preventing defendants from making any profit from their crimes; includes instances where defendant pleads not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2054Senate· Moved Jan 21, 2016· Recommit, enacting clause stricken

Prohibits the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislature

Prohibits the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislature.

John J. FlanaganStricken

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S6377Senate· Moved Jan 11, 2016· Referred to education

Provides for the gap elimination adjustment for the 2016--2017 school year

Provides that the gap elimination adjustment for the 2016--2017 school year shall equal zero.

John J. FlanaganEducation Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S4219Senate· Moved Jan 6, 2016· Referred to transportation

Relates to a motor vehicle accident prevention course for drivers convicted of driving while intoxicated or while under the influence of drugs

Relates to a motor vehicle accident prevention course for drivers convicted of driving while intoxicated or while under the influence of drugs.

John J. FlanaganTransportation Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S3912Senate· Moved Jan 6, 2016· Referred to education

Relates to establishing procedures for school safety where it is reasonable to believe that a student is at risk of harming him or herself as manifested by a threat of suicide or other conduct

Relates to establishing procedures for school safety where it is reasonable to believe that a student is at risk of harming him or herself as manifested by a threat of suicide or other conduct.

John J. FlanaganEducation Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2587Senate· Moved Jan 6, 2016· Referred to investigations and government operations

Provides a tax credit for the installation of fire sprinkler systems

Provides a tax credit for the installation of fire sprinkler systems.

John J. FlanaganInvestigations And Government Operations Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S1998Senate· Moved Jan 6, 2016· Referred to health

Prohibits any person from smoking at a playground

Prohibits any person from smoking at a playground; provides a definition as to what constitutes a playground.

John J. FlanaganHealth Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2145Senate· Moved Jan 6, 2016· Referred to higher education

Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing

Requires registered professional nurses to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure; provides exemptions for those currently licensed or enrolled in…

John J. FlanaganHigher Education Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending

S2133Senate· Moved Jan 6, 2016· Referred to insurance

Relates to primary medical malpractice insurance coverage

Lowers the primary medical malpractice coverage that a physician or dentist must have in force in order to be eligible for the NYS Excess Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Coverage program.

John J. FlanaganInsurance Committee

ImpactPending

PassagePending