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205 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
Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to conduct periodic testing of school potable water sources and systems to monitor for lead contamination in certain school…
Signed into law
Allows public utility lines and bicycle paths on certain state lands in the forest preserve and establishes a forest preserve health and safety land account.
Requires state reimbursement to counties and cities in which a county is located of the full amount of expenditures for indigent legal services.
Authorizes ballot by mail by removing cause for absentee ballot voting.
Provides for the labeling of raw agricultural commodities, processed foods, seed, and seed stock produced with genetic engineering; defines terms; imposes penalties for false labels and misbranding;…
Relates to pre-clearance of voting-related regulations and policies.
Relates to public works undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements and the use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts.
Authorizes counties to employ computer generated registration lists; updates the list of supplies to be delivered to poll sites.
Creates a self-sufficient retirement savings program in the form of an automatic enrollment payroll deduction IRA, and establishes an administrative board responsible for promoting greater…
Relates to requiring a medical facility or related services to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.
Establishes that in a FOIL proceeding, the court shall assess against an agency reasonable attorneys' fees and other litigation costs incurred when a person substantially prevails unless the court…
Prohibits the use of chemical flame retardants on residential upholstered furniture.
Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application.
Relates to licenses to purchase, store or use certain compounds; $50 fee.
Enacts the "Voter Enfranchisement Modernization Act of 2016"; relates to establishing the electronic personal voter registration process; provides for online voter registration.
Relates to establishing a product stewardship program for primary batteries.
Relates to the membership of the public service commission and clarifies the mandatory time frame within which the public service commission must act upon petitions submitted by regulated entities…
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum…
Relates to voting and registration for voting by convicted felons; provides such convicted felons may vote if such person's maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired, or such person is serving a…
Requires the licensing of persons engaged in the design, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, alteration and repair of elevators and other automatic people moving devices and creates…
Creates standards by which the public service commission reviews and approves a merger or acquisition between telephone corporations, cable corporations and combination telephone and cable…
Prohibits lessors or agents thereof from assessing a lessee any fee for legal services in connection with any operation or rental of a residential unit unless the lessor has the legal authority to…
Prohibits mercury-added rotational balancing products.
Protects consumers from toxic chemicals in children's products; defines terms; establishes a list of chemicals of high concern to children; discloses information; makes related changes.
Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to conduct periodic testing of school potable water sources and systems to monitor for lead contamination in certain school…
Establishes the Move New York Fair Plan; creates a Move New York mobility fund, provides for outer bridges to be tolled in accordance with a specified ratio, provides for a taxi surcharge on certain…
Relates to disposal sites operated by pharmacies.
Provides for the inclusion, at a voter's option, of an e-mail address in the voter registration application and record, whereupon notices and other communication required to be sent to the voter by…
Prohibits an owner from adjusting the amount of preferential rent, rent charged and paid by the tenant which is less than the legal regulated rent for the housing accommodation, upon the renewal of…
Relates to the performance of a study regarding homeless persons who are veterans in the state of New York.
Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections and to model poll worker training programs; entitles state agency employees to leave for…
Establishes an electronic registration process integrated within designated agency applications; makes related provisions.
Relates to a state transportation plan; requires the commissioner of transportation to submit to the governor and the legislature long-range transportation plans and five-year capital plans.
Relates to access to reproductive services.
Relates to the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; makes such provisions permanent.
Enacts the New York state DREAM ACT by creating the New York DREAM fund commission and amends eligibility requirements and conditions governing certain awards.
Imposes a five cent tax on plastic and paper shopping bags used to transport every sale of tangible personal property by consumers; provides for certain exemptions and imposes limitations on the…
Enacts the New York state climate and community protection act; relates to climate change; renewable energy program; labor and job standards and worker protection.
Relates to time limits for a speedy trial.
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and…
Prohibits the sale or offering for sale of liquids, foods and beverages in containers containing bisphenol A.
Requires the MTA to publish the proposed capital program plan on their website.
Prohibits upon the vacancy of an unsold condominium or cooperative dwelling unit, the rental of such unit unless the original offering plan provided for such rental and a majority of the members of…
Prohibits the collection of rent arrearages accruing prior to the date of approval of an application for an adjustment in the legal regulated rent based upon a major capital improvement.
Makes conforming technical changes to the New York City administrative code and the emergency tenant protection act relating to vacancy decontrol.
Caps the amount of collectible rent increases due to major capital improvements at six percent of the legal regulated rent.
Relates to the uniform treatment of waste from the exploration, development, extraction, or production of crude oil or natural gas.
Enacts the "solar panel collection act" to require manufacturers of solar panels to collect such panels when they are taken out of use; requires educational outreach relating thereto; establishes…
Relates to the power and duties of the dormitory authority of the state of New York; includes within the definition of "public library" any library chartered by the state board of regents or…
Waives the state's sovereign immunity to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the…
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