Sponsored bills

Relates to the Poughkeepsie public library

Relates to the election of trustees and the adoption of an annual budget of the Poughkeepsie public library.

Frank SkartadosOn the Assembly floor

Relates to payments to rural critical access hospitals

Relates to payments to rural hospitals designated as critical access hospitals.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Designates Family Service, Inc. as the lead agency for executing the SNUG anti-gun violence program in the city of Poughkeepsie, county of Dutchess

Designates Family Service, Inc. as the lead agency for executing the SNUG anti-gun violence program in the city of Poughkeepsie, county of Dutchess.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances

Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain…

Frank SkartadosMental Health Committee

Provides all veterans with the opportunity to score additional points on civil service exams; provides that military service be weighted when applying for a non-classified civil service position

Provides all veterans with the opportunity to score additional points on civil service exams and provides that military service be weighted in the veteran's favor when applying for a non-classified…

Frank SkartadosGovernmental Employees Committee

Relates to the presence of official full or partial lane markings on roadway

Relates to the presence of official full or partial lane markings on roadways.

Frank SkartadosTransportation Committee

Relates to exempting certain counties from the Metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental license registration fees

Exempts the counties of Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland and Orange from the Metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental driver's permit and license registration fees.

Frank SkartadosTransportation Committee

Relates to the construction of a pipeline property under the control of the New York state thruway authority

Relates to the construction of a pipeline on property under the control of the New York State Thruway Authority.

Frank SkartadosCorporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

Relates to directing the commissioner of health to make recommendations relating to increasing certain ambulatory patient group reimbursment

Relates to directing the commissioner of health to make recommendations relating to increasing certain ambulatory patient group reimbursement rates.

Frank SkartadosHealth Committee

Establishes business franchise and personal income tax credits for expenses of natural resources improvement projects on farmlands and forestlands

Relates to establishing a business franchise and personal income tax credit for natural resources improvement projects upon farmlands and forestlands.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Authorizes real property taxing jurisdictions to grant a partial tax exemption for property purchased by a physician in a physician shortage area

Authorizes real property taxing jurisdictions to grant a partial tax exemption for property purchased by a physician in a physician shortage area, as determined by the commissioner of health, which…

Frank SkartadosReal Property Taxation Committee

Provides state aid to a city school district in the county of Dutchess

Provides state aid to a city school district in the county of Dutchess where certain real property was purchased by a religious corporation and granted tax exempt status.

Frank SkartadosReal Property Taxation Committee

Relates to directing the flag to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of certain first responders

Directs the flag to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of certain first responders who passed away in performance of emergency response activities in this state.

Frank SkartadosGovernmental Operations Committee

Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to allow distillers and brewers to file their taxes electronically

Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to allow distillers and brewers to file their taxes electronically.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Exempts certain veterans service organizations from taxes on the sales of beer, wine and soda

Exempts certain veterans service organizations from taxes on the sales of beer, wine and soda.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Establishes a small business tax credit for the employment of unemployed veterans

Establishes a small business tax credit for the employment of unemployed veterans.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Relates to a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises

Relates to a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises.

Frank SkartadosStricken

Prohibits the purchase of a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm by persons who are not citizens of the United States

Prohibits the purchase of a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm by persons who are not citizens of the United States.

Frank SkartadosStricken

Allows liquor licenses to be issued to certain premises within two hundred feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship

Allows liquor licenses to be issued to certain premises within two hundred feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.

Frank SkartadosEconomic Development Committee

Prohibits the imposition of any charge or fee on the telephone bill of a consumer when such fee is imposed by a third party, without the consent of the consumer

Prohibits the imposition of any charge or fee on the telephone bill of a consumer when such fee or charge is imposed by a third party, unless the consumer explicitly agrees to the nature and amount…

Frank SkartadosEnergy And Telecommunications Committee

Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school

Enables high school students to use public transportation without charge in order to ride to and from school.

Frank SkartadosEducation Committee

Relates to third party caretakers of children, custody determinations and reporting child abuse to the state central register of child abuse and maltreatment

Relates to third party caretakers of children, custody determinations and reporting child abuse to the state central register of child abuse and maltreatment.

Frank SkartadosJudiciary Committee

Relates to the location of presiding judge at arraignment, appearance proceedings and pursuant to a warrant

Relates to the location of presiding judge at arraignment, appearance proceedings and pursuant to a warrant.

Frank SkartadosJudiciary Committee

Provides schools the option to operate one hundred eighty days of instruction or the equivalent number of hours of pupil instruction

Provides schools the option to operate one hundred eighty days of instruction or the equivalent number of hours of pupil instruction.

Frank SkartadosEducation Committee

Adds rent, building expenses and the cost of utilities to the items for which the state will provide 50% reimbursement to soil and water conservation districts

Adds rent, building expenses and the cost of utilities to the items for which the state will provide 50% reimbursement to soil and water conservation districts.

Frank SkartadosEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes

Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes.

Frank SkartadosAgriculture Committee

Restricts an industrial development agency's authority to issue a payment in lieu of tax exemption or a property tax exemption

Restricts an industrial development agency's authority to issue a payment in lieu of tax exemption or a property tax exemption.

Frank SkartadosLocal Governments Committee

Provides strict liability for medical costs resulting from a dog bite or bites; exemptions allowed for police work dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs

Provides strict liability for medical costs resulting from a dog bite or bites; allows exemptions for police work dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs; allows additional recovery where it can be…

Frank SkartadosJudiciary Committee

Allows soil and water conservation districts, acting in cooperation with local governments, to be eligible applicants for the local waterfront revitalization grant program

Allows soil and water conservation districts, acting in cooperation with local governments, to be eligible applicants for the local waterfront revitalization grant program.

Frank SkartadosEnvironmental Conservation Committee

Requires drivers between 16 and 25 years of age to take and pass the national safety council course, or a similar course in order to obtain a license or upon conviction of a moving violation

Requires drivers between 16 and 25 years of age to take and pass the national safety council course, or a similar nationally recognized course in order to obtain a license or upon conviction of a…

Frank SkartadosTransportation Committee

Relates to limiting an employer's access to consumer credit reports in connection with employment applications

Relates to limiting an employer's access to consumer credit reports in connection with employment applications.

Frank SkartadosConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Relates to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel job protection

Relates to volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel job protection.

Frank SkartadosLabor Committee

Authorizes the issuance of a temporary retail permit to sell alcoholic beverages to certain applicants who hold licenses for other premises selling such beverages

Authorizes the issuance of a temporary retail permit to sell alcoholic beverages upon premises for which the applicant has applied for a license, when such applicant holds one or more licenses for…

Frank SkartadosEconomic Development Committee

Provides that actual valuation, for state school aid purposes, shall be based on the calendar in which the base year commenced

Provides that actual valuation, for state school aid purposes, shall be based on the calendar in which the base year commenced.

Frank SkartadosReal Property Taxation Committee

Enacts the state liquor authority license application modernization act; and establishing the state liquor authority license modernization fund

Enacts the state liquor authority license application modernization act; establishes the state liquor authority license modernization fund.

Frank SkartadosEconomic Development Committee

Permits sentences for two or more crimes committed through a single act to run consecutively when one of such crimes is a homicide

Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.

Frank SkartadosCodes Committee

Relates to providing witnesses with facility dogs

Relates to providing witnesses with facility dogs.

Frank SkartadosCodes Committee

Creates the broadband internet access act of 2015

Creates the broadband internet access act of 2015; provides a tax credit for the delivery of current generation broadband and next generation broadband.

Frank SkartadosWays And Means Committee

Relates to the Poughkeepsie public library

Relates to the election of trustees and the adoption of an annual budget of the Poughkeepsie public library.

Frank SkartadosVetoed

Vetoed

Relates to penalties and interest payments in towns of Dutchess county

Relates to penalties and interest payments on real property taxes due in towns of Dutchess county when the final payment date falls on a weekend or holiday.

Frank SkartadosOn the Assembly floor

Relates to authorizing the city of Poughkeepsie to sell certain parklands to a private entity for a public benefit and economic development

Relates to authorizing the city of Poughkeepsie to sell certain parklands to a private entity for a public benefit and economic development.

Frank SkartadosOn the Assembly floor

Designates uniformed court officers of the town of Marlborough as peace officers

Designates uniformed court officers of the town of Marlborough as peace officers.

Frank SkartadosOn the Assembly floor

Relates to sales and compensating use tax in Dutchess county

Allows Dutchess County to adopt a local law to continue to add an additional one percent of their sales tax to meet operating costs of the county government through 2017.

Frank SkartadosOn the Assembly floor

Relates to extending the authority of the county of Ulster to impose an additional 1 percent sales and compensating use tax

Relates to extending the authority of the county of Ulster to impose an additional 1 percent sales and compensating use tax.

Frank SkartadosOn the Assembly floor

Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Gomez Mill House-Newburgh Enlarged City School District Local History Program

Frank SkartadosAdopted

Adopted