2011-2012 General Assembly

Relates to including members of the fire investigation unit in the city of Schenectady as peace officers.

Sponsor: George Amedore

Extends crossbow hunting provisions through 2014.

Sponsor: Robert Sweeney

Designates uniformed officers of the fire marshal's office of the town of Huntington as peace officers.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Requires insurers to perform a comparison of life insurance policies against the federal Death Master File to identify potential matches of its insureds or account holders and to complete a good faith effort to confirm the death of the insured and locate beneficiaries.

Sponsor: Joseph Morelle

Establishes that not-for-profit organizations shall be entitled to all prompt contracting interest due from a state agency at the time of the first payment made to any such organization.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Authorizes non-residents of the county of Allegany to be appointed as peace officers for the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for such county.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Extends certain provisions of Jonathan's law.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Provides that the Urban Development Corporation shall establish a Cyber Research Institute to perform research and development in cyber security.

Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi

Designates security services officers of the University of Rochester as peace officers.

Sponsor: Harry Bronson

Relates to limits on certain supplementary insurance; permits insured to refuse supplementary insurance; requires certain disclaimer; relates to payments to durable medical equipment providers.

Sponsor: Joseph Morelle

Requires that unredeemed container deposits shall be credited to the environmental protection fund.

Sponsor: Robert Sweeney

Requires wireless communications equipment vendors offering insurance on such equipment to disclose whether they pay a commission to the wireless communications equipment retailer.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Creates the four Orangetown public library districts; modifies the boundaries; authorizes individual libraries to apply for appropriations on an individual basis.

Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee

Designates court attendants in the town of Highlands as peace officers.

Sponsor: William Larkin

Grants uniform members of the bureau of fire prevention of the town of Islip peace officer status.

Sponsor: Philip Boyle

Provides that practicing or appearing as an attorney-at-law without being admitted and registered shall be a class E felony instead of a misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Creates the western NY economic development initiatives fund for purposes of funding approved projects from New York power authority surplus revenue; provides that money to come from surplus revenue.

Sponsor: Dennis Gabryszak

Enacts "Victoria's law" to promote boater safety; requires all persons operating a mechanically propelled vessel to be a holder of a boating safety certificate; establishes the boating safety fund to promote summer activities for children.

Sponsor: Eric Adams

Enacts "Alix's law"; relates to leaving the scene of an incident without reporting it; also relates to operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan

Permits apportionment of state aid where a school was not in session due to extraordinary weather conditions, disasters or emergencies during the two thousand twelve-two thousand thirteen school year.

Sponsor: Catherine Nolan

Denies custody of a child to a parent convicted of rape.

Sponsor: Eric Adams

Expands the definition of "criminal act", for purposes of enterprise corruption, to include computer offenses, identity theft, criminal use of an access device and unlawful possession of personal identification information or a skimmer.

Sponsor: Jose Peralta

Prohibits persons required to maintain registration under the sex offender registration act from entering into an area or room in a public, association or free library designated as a children's section or designed primarily to serve a population under the age of eighteen.

Sponsor: David Weprin

Establishes a cap on the amount of money a municipality may annually charge a mobile food vendor.

Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy

Establishes a one year moratorium on actions to foreclose a mortgage.

Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo

Authorizes a photo radar demonstration program in cities of one million or more imposing civil liability upon vehicle owners for maximum speed limit violations; authorizes such program to install a photo radar device on McGuinness Boulevard in the borough of Brooklyn; provides for the repeal of such demonstration program after three years.

Sponsor: Daniel Squadron

Requires liability insurance rate reductions of 10% upon completion of a boating safety course or 15% upon completion of an advanced boating safety course.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Requires training of fire officers in a city with a population of one million or more: requires field training and classroom instruction on the fire and building codes and any relevant local ordinances of such city by July 1, 2014.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Relates to requiring voting materials to be provided in Russian.

Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz

Relates to the authority of an agent to act outside a hospital setting to make certain decisions regarding the transport of the principal to a particular medical setting when such principal is unconscious or unresponsive.

Sponsor: Charles Lavine

Relates to referrals of patients for health related items or services.

Sponsor: Richard Gottfried

Relates to the employment of persons to function as central service technicians in certain healthcare facilities.

Sponsor: Harry Bronson

Requires pleadings in actions arising from the conduct of a business required to be licensed by the state to set forth in the pleadings that the business was licensed at the time the cause of action arose.

Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski

Relates to rates for pilotage on Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound.

Sponsor: Robert Sweeney

Provides for the licensure of perfusionists; allows for the issuance of limited permits for a fee of fifty dollars; provides that such permits are subject to the full disciplinary and regulatory authority of the board of regents and the education department.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Removes financial disincentives for voluntary public library system and reference and research library resources system mergers.

Sponsor: Hugh Farley

Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to provide a space on the forms of identification cards and licenses for a notation for veterans of the United States armed forces.

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Establishes the "tourism economic development fund" to be funded with revenue from the licensing of the "I Love NY" brand; moneys from such fund shall be appropriated for the promotion, attraction, stimulation, development and expansion of tourist travel, resort, vacation, culture and convention activities in this state.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Relates to activities by former state officers; permits certain state officers, terminated between January 1, 2009 and April 1, 2014 due to a reduction in the state workforce, to engage in certain activities representing any entity before a state agency or board.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Dissolves the West Park union free school district, in the town of Esopus in the county of Ulster; provides for the payment of the debts and obligations of such school district.

Sponsor: William Larkin

Increases the base pilotage tariffs at Sandy Hook, Sands Point and Execution Rocks.

Sponsor: Matthew Titone

Grants those assigned or employed for three continuous years as investigators and senior investigators in the bureau of criminal investigation or as a station commander, corporal, zone commander, zone sergeant, first sergeant, staff sergeant, captain or major within the division of state police protection from removal or other disciplinary action without a hearing.

Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan

Provides for the certification by the education department of certified registered nurse anesthetists.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Provides that certain tax credits shall not apply if the certificate of remediation required to qualify for such credits is issued after December 31, 2015.

Sponsor: Robert Sweeney

Allows a professional service corporation, in good standing, to convert to a design professional service corporation if it meets all stated requirements to become a design professional service corporation.

Sponsor: Ronald Canestrari

Relates to the adoption registry; permits applications from persons born outside the state but adopted within the state.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Designates a portion of the state highway to be the "Peconic highway".

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Excludes fund raising from consideration in appropriating state aid and reimbursement for services to volunteer ambulance companies, including regional emergency medical councils.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Extends certain provisions of law relating to the use of certain voting machines.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Does away with the legislative ethics commission and transfers certain duties to the joint commission on public ethics.

Sponsor: Tony Avella

Relates to the appointment of guardians.

Sponsor: Helene Weinstein

Relates to reimbursement for aerial spraying for mosquitoes on state land.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Adds additional weapon models to the definition of an assault weapon and adds related definitions; bans the possession, sale or manufacture of assault weapons, subject to an exception; expands the duties of the superintendent of state police with respect to identifying assault weapons.

Sponsor: Daniel Squadron

Requires limit to maximum length of stay at residential program for victims of domestic violence.

Sponsor: Rhoda Jacobs

Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service.

Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi

Enacts the New York state racing franchise accountability and transparency act of 2012; creates a temporary reorganization board to serve for a period of three years.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Creates the crime of aggravated sexual conduct in the first degree; makes such offense a class B felony; provides that persons guilty of aggravated sexual conduct in the first degree are placed on the sex offender registry.

Sponsor: Diane Savino

Makes reforms to the New York city board of elections by decreasing members to five; provides that two shall be appointed by the speaker of the city council, two appointed by the NYC mayor and one appointed by both; provides for three year terms; limits such service to four terms; provides that members shall not hold public office or participate in another candidate's campaign; restricts financial contributions to candidates.

Sponsor: Adriano Espaillat

Enacts Aidan's law to require adrenoleukodystrophy screening of newborns.

Sponsor: James Brennan

Relates to consignments of works of art to art merchants by artists and their successors in interest.

Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal

Relates to restrictions upon the conduct of games of chance.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Increases membership on the state procurement council to include a member of a not-for-profit organization representing the agricultural interests in the state.

Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery

Authorizes the SLA to issue company permits for certain vehicles over sixty-five thousand pounds.

Sponsor: Joseph Robach

Authorizes a lottery game for a community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services.

Sponsor: Tony Avella

Prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age.

Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal

Relates to the training of boards of directors or trustees of certain voluntary not-for-profit facilities or corporations.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the education department to study and report upon the establishment of a 4 day school week for students in public schools.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes the class D felony of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds; authorizes municipalities to place gang free school zone signs on highways passing through school grounds.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Provides that the definition of "school grounds" shall also include day care facilities for the purposes of criminal sale of a controlled substance.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits the manufacture, distribution and sale of certain toys and child care products containing phthalates; imposes a civil fine of not less than $10,000 a day for violation of such provisions.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits the placement and operation of wireless communication facilities on public housing, senior citizen housing and nursing home property.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes a genetically modified organism registry within the department of agriculture and markets; provides that such registry shall include information on the location, type and use of genetically modified organisms possessed and used by institutions of higher education, and included in seeds sold and distributed in this state.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires the guardian of a deceased incapacitated person to notify the local department of social services within 20 days of such death.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits plea bargaining to any lesser offense when a defendant is charged or indicted for the crime of rape in the first degree.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Relates to including certain information in the study of minority and women-owned business enterprise programs.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Provides that drug utilization review and the preferred drug program shall not apply to certain drugs.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits a retail mercantile establishment from requiring a purchaser of goods to provide identification in order to get a refund for or exchange returned goods when the purchaser presents the original sales receipt; provides that when the purchaser does not present an original sales receipt, such an establishment may require the presentation of identification; directs the attorney general to enforce such provisions and imposes civil penalties for the violation of such provisions; directs the department of law to establish a statewide register of those retail establishments which have violated such provisions.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Authorizes the commissioner of health to create cultural education demonstration programs for HIV/AIDS health care providers to instruct them on how to treat patients while being sensitive to their cultural traditions and mores; provides that such program shall focus on the Latin American and Asian cultures.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a station cleaner or terminal cleaner employed by a mass transit company, while such cleaner is engaged in such employment.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Designates investigators appointed by the state liquor authority as police officers, rather than peace officers.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Includes within the class D felony of promoting prison contraband in the first degree, the knowing and unlawful possession of a cellular telephone by a person confined in a detention facility; establishes the class C felony of provision of a cellular telephone to an inmate which prohibits a prison employee from providing a cellular telephone to an inmate.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Provides to any person early voting for a candidate for public office in a general election to take place no sooner than twenty days and no later than five days prior to election day, and for a special election to take place no sooner than eight days and no later than two days prior to election day; and such voting shall take place at such person's county board of elections.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Eliminates the maximum age of 29 years for appointment as a member of the New York state police and requires retirement at age 70.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Enacts the "New York state healthy kids act", to provide that only healthy foods and beverages be served, during the school day, in all schools in the state; directs the board of regents and the commissioner of education to establish nutritional standards therefor.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the department of audit and control to examine, evaluate and make recommendations on the establishment and operation of a public retirement system for the benefit of the employees of each provider of services issued an operating certificate pursuant to the mental hygiene law.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits health insurers providing prescription drug coverage from reducing reimbursement, imposing a higher deductible or imposing a higher co-payment for 3 month supplies of drugs to treat or alleviate a chronic illness or condition.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Grants one year of medical assistance eligibility to residents of the state who can prove that they have continuously resided in the United States since December 31, 1972, but cannot prove United States citizenship or permanent resident alien status.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires every institution of higher education in the state to interview students who withdraw to determine whether such withdrawal is the result of credit card debt incurred by the student; requires such institutions to annually report to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly on the number of students who withdraw because of credit card debt; requires that course of instruction on the implications of establishing a bad credit rating be given to newly entering students; requires such institutions to regulate the conduct of issuers of credit cards while on campus.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Imposes an additional $10 surcharge upon every offense that is related to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol; all such money shall be deposited into the New York state victims of drunk driving trust fund; one-third of such monies shall be expended by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services for adolescent alcohol abuse prevention programs in communities with the highest documented need for intervention; another one-third of such monies shall be expended by the crime victims board to compensate victims of alcohol related offenses and their families; the final one-third of such moneys shall be allocated to local stop DWI programs.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Amends provisions regarding prescriptions for and supervision over student housing and safety by councils of SUNY state-operated institutions: provides that councils shall (in prescribing for and exercising supervision over student housing and safety) explicitly provide for training for campus security and other institutional personnel, including campus disciplinary or judicial boards, that addresses issues of rape, sexual harassment and other gender-motivated offenses; the development of support services and programs, including medical or psychological counseling, specifically targeted to assist victims of rape or other gender-related offenses; the creation, dissemination and provision of assistance and information about options available to such victims regarding the bringing of disciplinary or other legal action; and implementation of rape education and prevention programs; defines gender-motivated offense.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Enacts "Suzanne's Law"; provides that offenses committed against a person on school grounds shall be deemed to be one category higher than the specified offense the person committed; authorizes the placement of assault and abduction free school zone signs.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires a defense attorney to advise a defendant that if he is an alien and he is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in his deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by an alien if such alien is threatened with deportation and such alien is not so advised of such threat of deportation.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the state comptroller to invest monies in the abandoned property fund in capital market investments in emerging domestic markets.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Enacts the "wireless telephone right to know law" to require wireless telephone retailers to provide consumers with information on radiofrequency emittance risks and precautions.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health; such division shall be responsible for assuring that mental health programs and services are culturally and linguistically appropriate to meet the needs of racial and ethnic minorities.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits, for elections after September 1, 2013, the at large election of members of town and village legislative bodies; requires county boards of elections to establish wards for such elections; provides for one time exemption for the first such election; requires reapportionment every 10 years.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the department of economic development to establish a consortium to operate a database on the emerging domestic marketplace.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes the single gender core course academies demonstration program within the education department; provides that such program shall be established in 4 elementary schools, 8 middle schools and 1 high school which are low performing schools in each of the cities of New York, Yonkers, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo; provides that the program shall provide single gender classroom instruction in English, social studies, mathematics and science; requires such schools to report progress to the department and a university center of the state university of New York for study and reporting to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly; students shall participate in such program upon consent of their parents.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires every passenger of a school bus which is equipped with seat belts to wear the seat belt while the bus is in operation; provides that the commissioner of transportation place on every school bus equipped with seat belts a sign warning passengers that seat belt use is required.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea to a misdemeanor or violation, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires public works contractor to agree to be subject to the regulations of the commissioner of labor relating to establishing a procedure for the reporting of fraud by the employees of such contractor or of any subcontractor thereof; requires posting of notice to employees of such fraud reporting procedure; provides employees the option to resign with 6 months pay upon reporting of fraud; violation of such provisions shall constitute a misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Authorizes municipalities and districts thereof to contract for goods or services jointly with the state or other municipalities.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires transparent methods of subcontracting by general contractors who enter public work contracts with the New York state dormitory authority.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires all seeds that are or include genetically engineered organisms to be labeled "These are genetically engineered seeds", and include labeling on the identity of the relevant traits and characteristics introduced into such seed, any requirements for the safe handling, storage, transport and use of the seed, the name, address and telephone number of the manufacturer of the seed and the person who labeled, sells, offers for sale or exposes such seed for sale.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Relates to filing and payment requirements for HMO claims, payment of claims for medical care, HMO electronic remittance advices, health care professional credentialing, and establishes HMO reporting requirements.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes the office for diversity and educational equity within the state university of New York administration.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes an adolescent gambling task force to study and make recommendations on the necessity, content and manner of instruction about problem gambling in grades 4 through 12.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires health insurers to provide full coverage for the prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder; establishes an advisory panel on health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder to annually compile a list of treatments and therapy options for which health insurers will be required to provide coverage; establishes a toll-free, 24 hour a day, autism and health insurance coverage hotline to receive and act upon complaints and questions from families with autistic children, relating to insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs that unclaimed or abandoned lottery prizes be used to make state aid payments due for prior years to public schools and deletes provisions allocating such funds to be used for payment of special lotto prizes.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Makes the inability to pay child support an affirmative defense to non-support of child offenses, rather than an element of such offenses.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Provides that directors of in-patient facilities and hospitals shall designate safety officers to act as special policemen.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits the use of coercion for the purpose of exposing a person's immigration status.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires hotels and motels with wireless communication facilities to provide guests with health warnings related to such facilities.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the division for small-business to examine and report on the establishment of new financial products for the benefit of small businesses in emerging domestic markets.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the department of economic development to identify those banks which have made a significant commitment to the community reinvestment program and emerging domestic markets; such department shall conduct an outreach program to provide such information to regional and local economic developers and financial institutions.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Relates to the membership of the state apprenticeship and training council.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires the establishment of a citizens' committee on cable television prior to granting or renewing a cable television franchise by a municipality; such committee shall study and make recommendations on the requirement of the municipality for public education and local government programming; all such recommendations shall be included in the franchise agreement; eliminates the authority of counties to enter into franchise agreements with cable television systems; requires every municipality having a population of less than one million, which charges cable television fees to annually put aside not less than $250,000 to be spent exclusively for the creation, operation and maintenance of a public access television station; requires cable television systems to post municipal franchise agreement on their internet websites.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs commissioner of criminal justice services to establish a pilot program for use of video equipment in police cars in five New York city precincts.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires the employers of police officers to provide such officers with a bullet proof and knife proof vest that provides front, back and side protection.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits, unless authorized by state law, municipalities from authorizing or requiring local law enforcement to enforce any provision of federal immigration law, rule or regulation; requires establishment of a civilian review board in each municipality authorized to enforce federal immigration law to review actions and report on actions relating to such enforcement.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Directs the director of the classification and compensation division to classify any position requiring foreign language skills as being entitled to be paid a salary differential; requires the establishment of supervisory positions for employees required to have foreign language skills; requires establishment of career ladders for such employees; directs the department of civil service to report to the governor and the legislature on employees in state service who are required to have foreign language skills.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Makes the owner of a vehicle used to pass or overtake a stopped school bus jointly liable with the operator thereof when such violation is captured on a camera or observed by a school bus driver; authorizes the use of photographic evidence in the prosecution of such infraction; includes within the class A misdemeanor of assault in the third degree, the causation of physical injury to another person while passing or overtaking a stopped school bus; includes within the class E felony of criminally negligent homicide, the causation of death to another person while passing or overtaking a stopped school bus.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Changes references to private duty nursing services to specialized nursing services.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"; provides for the establishment of a behavioral health and long-term care plan.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Authorizes the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance to make linked deposits with lenders to a series of eligible businesses, so long as no individual loan exceeds $50,000; authorizes excelsior linked deposit loans to be made to a series of eligible businesses, with no individual loan exceeding $50,000, and such loans may be used for financing or refinancing a small business in distressed communities.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Proscribes intentional damaging of a house of worship by starting a fire, within the class B felony of arson in the second degree and the class A-I felony of arson in the first degree; increases the severity of the degree of the crime of arson when it involves the arson of a house of worship; defines the term "house of worship".

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires commercial lines insurers to provide notice to consumers when credit information is used in the rating or underwriting of such insurance.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Requires institutions of higher education to disclose the average dollar amount of institutional aid awarded to students.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Prohibits the placement and operation of wireless communication facilities upon school property.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Provides for distribution to the public, over the internet, of information regarding credit card rates, charges, terms and other conditions; further provides for dissemination of information over the internet regarding types of bank accounts available, requirements for opening an account, and all fees charged the customer, including monthly fees and transaction fees.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes a gift for preserving religious landmarks option on state income tax returns; establishes the "preserving religious landmarks fund" into which all revenue from such gifts shall be deposited; monies shall be used to provide annual grants to religious organizations which occupy and use a historic, inner-city house of worship, for the preservation of such houses of worship.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Relates to coverage and payment for prescription drugs in Medicaid managed care programs.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Authorizes the department of health and the department of environmental conservation to commission a study on the effects of long-term, low radiation emissions from cellular phone antennas on human beings, specifically on the physical and mental development of adolescents.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Establishes a quality workers care task force; establishes who shall comprise such task force and its powers and duties; establishes such task force shall prepare a report on its findings.

Sponsor: Peter Rivera

Reduces personal income tax rates for the middle class.

Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan

Directs the president of the New York city economic development corporation to acquire the premises known as 589 Prospect Ave., Brooklyn, and provides for compensation therefor; provides that the president shall issue a request for proposals for a full-service supermarket to be operated at the property.

Sponsor: James Brennan

Requires persons possessing any firearm to hold a firearms safety certificate; establishes application and training process therefor.

Sponsor: Michael Gianaris

Directs the commissioner of empire state development to acquire the premises known as 589 Prospect Ave., Brooklyn, and provides for compensation therefor; provides that the commissioner shall issue a request for proposals for a full-service supermarket to be operated at the property.

Sponsor: James Brennan

Provides an exemption from requirements for fishing licenses for members of the U.S. armed forces who are on leave from active military duty.

Sponsor: John Ceretto

Relates to suspension or demotion upon the abolition or reduction of positions for labor class and noncompetitive titles.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Makes permanent provisions of the retirement and social security law that permit certain members of public retirement systems to receive partial lump sum distributions upon retirement.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Authorizes Suffolk county to regulate taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.

Sponsor: Fred Thiele

Relates to wine and liquor auctions; increases the number of auctions that can happen through the year.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Relates to extending the provisions relating to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund until two years after the commencement of the operation of a video lottery terminal facility at Aqueduct racetrack.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Requires the power authority of the state of New York to produce a report detailing best practices with regard to energy cost savings for schools in New York state.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Relates to requirements for unit pricing in certain non-chain convenience stores.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Relates to limitations on insurers that may provide certain surety bonds by changing the claims-paying ability rating needed for eligibility.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Authorizes the city of Yonkers to adopt a local law creating a bureau of administrative adjudication for code and ordinance violations regarding conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.

Sponsor: Shelley Mayer

Relates to an employees' ability to revert back to a previously held non-competitive or labor class title.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Allows employers to suspend a police officer without pay pending disciplinary charges.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Relates to distribution of surcharges for off track winnings.

Sponsor: Gary Pretlow

Provides that no agreement for preauthorized electronic fund transfers entered into on or after January first, two thousand thirteen permit or require the transfer of any amount as a penalty or final payment after a stop payment notice has been given.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Legalizes the dissolution of the office of fire commissioners by the town of Deposit.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Relates to payments to rural hospitals that are critical access hospitals.

Sponsor: Addie Jenne

Authorizes the town of Salem, in the county of Washington, to extend the Salem fire protection district into the village of Salem.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to establish a speed limit of less than 30 miles per hour on certain highways in the community of Lido Beach.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Authorizes the sheriff of Albany county to enter into agreements for custody of inmates from other states.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Extends the provision of law authorizing Pawling central school district to lease lands not located within the school district.

Sponsor: Steve Katz

Relates to derivative transactions and over the counter derivative instruments.

Sponsor: Joseph Morelle

Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance certain facilities of the Young Men's Christian Association-Women's Community Center of Rome.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Establishes requirements for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants to complete continuing competency courses as part of their triennial license renewal; also provides for a mandatory continuing competency fee to be paid at the time of license renewal and which will be in addition to the triennial registration fee.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Allows canal corporation to waive fee for work permit for project on canal lands if it adds value to lands at no cost to canal corporation or state.

Sponsor: Robert Oaks

Authorizes a bus passenger service permit system in cities having a population of one million or more; designates locations for the loading and unloading of passengers for intercity buses; excludes tour buses.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Exempts the sale and installation of commercial solar energy systems equipment from sales and compensating use taxes; grants municipalities the option to grant such exemption from local sales and use taxes.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Relates to the transfer of certain funds to the Brockport fire district from the village of Brockport and the Sweden Fire Protection District and the Clarkson Fire Protection District upon the dissolution of such districts.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Establishes a residential-commercial exemption program in certain counties.

Sponsor: Philip Palmesano

Relates to fees collected for animal licenses; makes technical corrections relating thereto.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Directs the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation or other state agency having jurisdiction of a state park or recreational facility to establish a 3 year and a 5 year access fee that is valid in all state parks and recreational facilities.

Sponsor: Jose Serrano

Relates to the location for loading and unloading of bus passengers by an intercity bus; provides that the city agency shall consult with the port authority of New York and New Jersey if such location overlaps with an existing bus facility of such port authority.

Sponsor: Sheldon Silver

Relates to the establishment, extension, powers and expenses of watershed protection improvement districts.

Sponsor: Fred Thiele

Incorporates the Main-Transit Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association and provides for its powers and duties.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Prohibits compensation based on home loan terms by mortgage brokers or mortgage lenders.

Sponsor: Liz Krueger

Relates to review of standards, guidelines and criteria for education, development or learning in programs.

Sponsor: Catherine Nolan

Increases the membership of the New York City Housing Authority by adding 2 additional members; provides members shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor of the city of New York and the tenant members shall serve for terms of 3 years.

Sponsor: Jose Peralta

Relates to license terms for new applicants for certain insurance licenses.

Sponsor: James Seward

Relates to the ability of the Randolph Academy union free school district to acquire, purchase, lease or otherwise operate territory for use by the school district.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Authorizes the city of Long Beach, Nassau County to establish speed limits on Cleveland Avenue, Harding Avenue, Mitchell Avenue, Belmont Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Coolidge Avenue, Wilson Avenue and Taft Avenue below 30 miles per hour.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Permits the continued use of certain outdoor advertising signs which were in existence prior to 1965, were rebuilt prior to 2007 and are located in Montgomery county.

Sponsor: George Amedore

Relates to assault on a New York city sanitation worker; provides that such assault is either a class C felony or constitutes assault in the second degree when such assault is by means of releasing or failing to control an animal with the intent to obstruct such person from performing their lawful duties.

Sponsor: Joseph Lentol

Enhances the criminal penalties for assaulting certain employees of a local social services district while in the performance of their duties; elevates it to assault in the second degree, a class D felony.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to temporary alternative methods of financing flood relief expenses.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Relates to the licensure of private proprietary schools; provides for increased competition among schools to improve the quality of training provided at private proprietary schools and the quality of student performance in the workplace.

Sponsor: Deborah Glick

Authorizes the county of Rockland to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.

Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee

Repeals certain sections of the general municipal law, in relation to urban renewal agencies and industrial development agencies; transfers any books, records and remaining rights of any dissolved facility to an identifiable location.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Relates to reciprocity of debarments imposed under the federal Davis-Bacon Act; provides that any contractor who has been debarred from federal job sites for having disregarded obligations to employees under the Davis-Bacon Act shall also be debarred under the labor law from bidding on or being awarded similar contracts on public work job sites sponsored by the state or any of its political subdivisions; provides that the contractor may appeal such a determination to the department of labor; provides that whether or not a contractor is debarred under the Davis-Bacon Act will be considered in the selection of a lowest responsible bidder.

Sponsor: Diane Savino

Prohibits prison inmates from accessing, collecting or performing data processing of personal identifying information pertaining to New York State residents.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz

Relates to telemarketing; prohibits pre-recorded messages in certain circumstances; requires a mechanism for consumers to automatically add their number to the seller's do-not-call list.

Sponsor: Didi Barrett

Provides for universal background checks for the sale of firearms; makes the violation of such provisions a class A misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Michael Gianaris

Establishes the class A misdemeanor of unlawful procurement of a firearm, for the purchase or acquisition of more that 1 firearm during any period of 30 days.

Sponsor: Michael Gianaris

Requires all persons who operate a mechanically propelled vessel to hold a boating safety certificate; requires the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation, in conjunction with the department of motor vehicles, to conduct a twenty-four month focused public information session campaign to make the public aware of changes to the boating safety certificate requirements.

Sponsor: Harvey Weisenberg

Establishes a substituted cathinone surrender program and designates substituted cathinones as schedule I stimulant controlled substances.

Sponsor: Edward Braunstein

Relates to operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; provides that no person shall operate a vessel while such person has .18 of one per centum or more by weight of alcohol in such person's blood as shown by chemical analysis of such person's blood, breath, urine or saliva; provided, further, that no person shall operate a vessel in violation of paragraph (b) of this section while a child who is fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such vessel; relates to the effect of prior convictions for operation of certain vehicles while intoxicated upon imposition of penalties for boating while intoxicated; requires all persons who operate a mechanically propelled vessel to hold a boating safety certificate.

Sponsor: Harvey Weisenberg

Provides certain real property a 15% tax exemption.

Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy

Requires all persons who operate a mechanically propelled vessel to hold a boating safety certificate; requires the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation, in conjunction with the department of motor vehicles, to conduct a twenty-four month focused public information session campaign to make the public aware of changes to the boating safety certificate requirements.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Relates to the pension costs of New York Health Care Corporations established under Article 10-C of the public authorities law.

Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of Hamburg central school district.

Sponsor: Kevin Smardz

Waives interest and penalties due on surcharges and assessments due prior to January 1, 2012, relating to payments to health care providers.

Sponsor: Richard Gottfried

Provides for temporary approval of applications to operate a WIC program, if the applicant currently operates another approved program.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin

Establishes a voluntary surveillance access database where residential homeowners and business owners may elect to have information and/or images obtained from their closed-circuit television or other electronic surveillance systems made available to law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: Michael DenDekker

Includes certain commercial equine operations in the definition of land used in agricultural production.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Relates to the office of city comptroller of the city of Salamanca.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Prohibits the sale or purchase of more than 500 rounds of ammunition during any period of 30 days; makes a violation of such provisions a class A misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Jose Peralta

Authorizes certain premises to sell liquor.

Sponsor: Hugh Farley

Relates to where beer may be sold relating to brewpubs.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Establishes the workforce guidance and information for women policy; requires the department of labor to provide guidance to local workforce investment boards and staff, to improve services and training for both women and men to qualify for higher paying jobs and careers; provides that such guidance shall promote program services for both women and men job seekers that provide: (a) current information about compensation for jobs and careers that offer high earning potential including jobs that traditionally employ predominantly men; (b) services such as counseling and skills development and training that encourage both women and men to seek employment in such jobs; and (c) referrals to employers offering such jobs.

Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee

Relates to maintaining up-to-date photographs of sex offenders subsequent to release.

Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi

Increases penalties associated with the packaging, sale or certification of kosher foods; increases first violation from one thousand dollars to two thousand five hundred dollars; increases second violation from five thousand dollars to seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Authorizes the Monroe County Water Authority to lease and maintain water systems owned by the village of Bloomfield.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance certain facilities of Xavier High School in New York City.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Validates, ratifies and confirms certain bonds issued by the village of Dansville, in the county of Livingston, and authorizes issuance of further bonds to finance the objects and purposes of the validated bonds.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Permits brewers with a certain annual volume and with a certain percentage of sales to terminate an agreement with a beer wholesaler without having good cause; requires payment of fair market value of the applicable distribution rights lost; allows for the arbitration panel to review the fair market value; sets forth definitions.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Relates to agency reports; requires such reports to be posted on line; provides for a letter or notice to be sent to members of the legislature indicating the website address and the name of the person at such state agency to whom a legislator may request a printed copy of such report; relates to confidentiality of certain information in such reports.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Authorizes the town of Greenburgh, county of Westchester to lease certain park lands for tennis uses.

Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti

Increases the reimbursement cap for districts from $30,000 to $60,000.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Requires employers to provide emergency escape systems to firefighters.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Allows a parent to request an additional parent residing in the school district to participate in committees on special education.

Sponsor: Michael Benedetto

Relates to the description of lands to be conveyed by the Longwood central school district to the state of New York.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Relates to the powers of the state of New York mortgage agency and extending the provisions thereof.

Sponsor: Vito Lopez

Authorizes the transfer of interim probation supervision where the defendant moves to or lives in another county; provides that sentencing court retains jurisdiction; applies to judicial diversion.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Allows a principal employed by a certain district to make a written request to the board of education for an extended leave of absence to serve as a principal at a charter school.

Sponsor: Catherine Nolan

Relates to provisions establishing and constituting as a separate union free school district certain territory in the town of Greenburgh; authorizes such district to use real property outside of its territorial limits.

Sponsor: Carl Heastie

Relates to tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities; relates to providing notice to those eligible of the need for reapplication.

Sponsor: Aravella Simotas

Requires access aisles of handicapped accessible parking spaces to be at least eight feet wide.

Sponsor: Charles Lavine

Adds the town of Kendall, Orleans county to the towns served by the Monroe county water authority.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Hoosick Area Partnership for Parents and Youth.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Extends provisions relating to citizenship requirements for permanent certification as a teacher.

Sponsor: Catherine Nolan

Provides authority for dormitory authority financing and construction of facilities for Mercy Flight Central, Inc., of Central New York.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey certain state lands in the city of Kingston to the county of Ulster for $1, to be used for transitional housing for veterans and provision of other assistance to veterans.

Sponsor: William Larkin

Includes the Sons of the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary in the definition of "club," extending certain provisions to such groups.

Sponsor: Robin Schimminger

Authorizes the exchange of property between the state of New York and Syracuse University.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Designates a portion of the Taconic State Parkway as the "Westchester County Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway".

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Requires notification on the department of health's website that all physician information may not be all-inclusive or up-to-date; requires an active link to the website maintained by the unified court system containing information on active and disposed cases in the local and state courts in the state.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin

Allows those submitting applications to the department of education under title eight of the education law to submit an affirmation in lieu of an oath.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Authorizes the use of the Albany county correctional facility for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court in the county of Albany.

Sponsor: Neil Breslin

Makes part-time police officer positions in the villages of Corfu and LeRoy in Genesee county non-competitive for civil service purposes.

Sponsor: Stephen Hawley

Requires publication of laws relating to the control of invasive species.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Adds the Seneca Lake scenic byway into the state scenic byways system.

Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara

Relates to subpoenas in proceedings before the public employment relations board; relates to exclusions from article 23 of the civil practice law and rules.

Sponsor: Keith Wright

Allows electronic access to a student's individualized education program.

Sponsor: Catherine Nolan

Makes an appropriation to pay to Verna Kirwan, the widow of Thomas J. Kirwan, member of the 100th assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2011.

Sponsor: Brian Kolb

Provides for the financing and construction of capital facilities for the Guilderland public library.

Sponsor: Neil Breslin

Authorizes a lease between the county of Onondaga and the Onondaga Yacht Club for boating and related recreational activities.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Authorizes the Suffolk county water authority to sell water in bulk at public events at its regular retail rates or other reasonable rates.

Sponsor: Robert Sweeney

Relates to funding for contracts of neighborhood preservation companies and not-for-profit corporations.

Sponsor: Vito Lopez

Relates to the sale of abandoned property location services and to restrictions on agreements to locate abandoned property.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz

Authorizes the town of Islip to lease certain lands to a business corporation.

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin

Extends the authority of the city of White Plains to impose an occupancy tax through December 31, 2015.

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Relates to records of parole release interviews for inmates detained as sex offenders.

Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi

Relates to conferring a state seal of biliteracy for students who achieve certain criteria in the language arts.

Sponsor: Carmen Arroyo

Relates to operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; provides that no person shall operate a vessel while such person has .18 of one per centum or more by weight of alcohol in such person's blood as shown by chemical analysis of such person's blood, breath, urine or saliva; provided, further, that no person shall operate a vessel in violation of paragraph (b) of this section while a child who is fifteen years of age or less is a passenger in such vessel; relates to the effect of prior convictions for operation of certain vehicles while intoxicated upon imposition of penalties for boating while intoxicated; requires all persons who operate a mechanically propelled vessel to hold a boating safety certificate.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Requires the department of environmental conservation, in cooperation with the department of agriculture and markets, to take action with respect to nonnative animal and plant species.

Sponsor: Robert Sweeney

Confers authority on the state comptroller to verify and pay the claim of A. Servidone, Inc./B. Anthony Construction Corp., J.V. against the state of New York with respect to construction of a project known as the reconstruction and bridge replacement on Route 17 at Exit 122 in the Town of Wallkill, Orange County, New York.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Provides that bond anticipation notes issued during calendar years 2006 and 2007 may not extend more than seven years beyond the original date of issuance of such bond notes.

Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Authorizes office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to lease and license the use of buildings and facilities within Knox Farm state park.

Sponsor: Margaret Markey

Authorizes pupils and camp attendees to carry and use topical sunscreen products with the written permission of their parents or guardians; requires a record of such permission be maintained in the child's school office and/or camp office.

Sponsor: Aravella Simotas

Relates to establishing the repowering and local mitigation fund for payments to certain electric generating facilities.

Sponsor: Charles Lavine

Clarifies the use of the ballot in New York city for primary elections.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz

Relates to establishing the New York state small business affordable health care insurance act.

Sponsor: Andrew Goodell

Authorizes the state to engage in a land exchange with NYCO Minerals, Inc. relating to certain land in the town of Lewis, county of Essex, within the state forest preserve.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Provides that school aid shall not be reduced if a school is closed due to extraordinary circumstances, emergency or disaster and such days cannot be made up prior to scheduled regents exams.

Sponsor: Donna Lupardo

Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to establishment of certain water charges for hospitals and charities in New York City for two additional years.

Sponsor: Sheldon Silver

Provides eligibility for dormitory authority financing for construction of capital facilities for the Mamakating library district.

Sponsor: Aileen Gunther

Extends from December 1, 2012 to December 1, 2015, the expiration of the authorization to the county of Essex to impose an additional mortgage recording tax.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Authorizes Mesivta Atres Yaakov to apply for a retroactive real property tax exemption for parcels in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to establishing a pilot grant program to help working artists secure shared use facilities.

Sponsor: Joan Millman

Changes the poll hours for the Staatsburg Library District.

Sponsor: Joel Miller

Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system between Deansboro and Clinton, NY the "Deputy Kurt Wyman Memorial Highway".

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Relates to branches, trust offices and interstate branching transactions.

Sponsor: Annette Robinson

Authorizes the reopening of the twenty-five year retirement benefit plan to certain deputy sheriffs of Sullivan county who failed to make a timely election thereof.

Sponsor: Aileen Gunther

Authorizes the reestablishment of the existence of the Middletown community development agency.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Extends the occupancy tax in the city of Rye until September 1, 2015.

Sponsor: George Latimer

Extends, until January 1, 2017, the expiration of the electronic public bond sale pilot program for the county of Westchester; and makes technical corrections to the provisions of such program.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin

Authorizes people to hunt by crossbow in the county of Cortland.

Sponsor: James Seward

Authorizes Casey Wall to participate in the optional 20 year retirement for police officers.

Sponsor: Michelle Schimel

Designates the Roslyn Viaduct over Hempstead Harbor in honor of William Cullen Bryant.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Authorizes the use of sewer surplus for infrastructure projects other than sewer projects in the village of Patchogue.

Sponsor: Dean Murray

Relates to self-funded student health benefit plans.

Sponsor: James Seward

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Tamara Hemminger.

Sponsor: Brian Kolb

Authorizes the county of Albany to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the city of Albany, county of Albany.

Sponsor: Neil Breslin

Relates to the incorporation of co-operative property/casualty insurance companies and to the keeping of records by such companies.

Sponsor: Aileen Gunther

Extends the authority for villages to hold tax lien sales.

Sponsor: Michelle Schimel

Authorizes the city of Mechanicville, in the county of Saratoga, to offer a certain retirement plan to Anthony J. Toleman and David M. Altamura.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Authorizes the village of Ellenville to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to certain police officers.

Sponsor: Kevin Cahill

Authorizes Konbit Neg Lakay located in the village of Spring Valley, town of Ramapo, county of Rockland, to file an application for exemption from real property taxes.

Sponsor: David Carlucci

Extends the application of the clean heating fuel credit until January 1, 2017.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Authorizes the city of Glen Cove to amortize the cost of payments to employees upon separation of service from the city.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Relates to charitable bail organizations; authorizes the superintendent to issue certificates to a charitable bail organization to deposit money as bail under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Jeffrion Aubry

Authorizes school districts to provide bussing to pre-kindergarten students.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Extends the chief administrator of the courts' authority to allow referees to determine certain applications to a family court for an order of protection.

Sponsor: Helene Weinstein

Extends provisions relating to the residential care off-site facility demonstration project.

Sponsor: Joseph Morelle

Designates the bridge crossing the Long Island Expressway in the town of Brookhaven as the "FDNY Lt. Richard Nappi Memorial Bridge."

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin

Revises procedures regarding the issuance of retail and special retail liquor, bottle club, restaurant-brewer and cabaret licenses for on-premises consumption for premises located within 500 feet of 3 or more existing premises in cities, towns and villages of twenty thousand or more; provides that the hearing which the authority is required to hold before issuing such a license may be rescheduled, adjourned or continued and that the authority must give notice to the applicant and the municipality or community board of such rescheduled, adjourned or continued hearing; and provides that the authority or commissioners thereof may also hold a public meeting in connection with issuance of such a license which may also be rescheduled, adjourned or continued, and that the authority must give notice to the applicant and the municipality or community board of the meeting including any rescheduled, adjourned or continued meeting.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Authorizes a municipality to contract for the assistance of a volunteer wilderness/inland search and rescue team for the purpose of locating and rescuing an individual or individuals; provides that such a municipality shall not be liable to the team or its members.

Sponsor: William Magee

Authorizes the Grayson Street Assembly to apply for a retroactive real property tax exemption for a certain parcel in the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Relates to the powers of chairman and members of the state liquor authority.

Sponsor: Robin Schimminger

Extends the authorization for the county of Greene to impose an additional mortgage recording tax until 2014.

Sponsor: James Seward

Allows for rifle hunting in Cayuga county.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Authorizes assessor of town of Islip, County of Suffolk to exempt certain parcels owned by BB/S Facilities Management Corporation from taxation.

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin

Authorizes the city of Long Beach to amortize the cost of payments to or for the benefit of employees upon separation from employment.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Authorizes the Nassau Land Trust, Inc. to submit an application for real property tax exemption to the assessor of the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Authorizes the assessor of the town of Islip to accept an application for a real property tax exemption for a certain parcel owned by the Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Long Island Chapter Inc.

Sponsor: Owen Johnson

Authorizes the commissioner of health to issue a death certificate to any applicant upon the request of a sibling of the deceased.

Sponsor: Aileen Gunther

Extends from December 31, 2012 until March 31, 2013, the expiration and repeal of provisions of law relating to the review of assessments in the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Earlene Hooper

Authorizes the Schenectady city assessor to accept an application for real property tax exemption from the Schenectady Light Opera Company.

Sponsor: Hugh Farley

Relates to adding the superintendent of financial services to the early intervention coordinating council.

Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi

Authorizes pilot program permitting use of electronic means for commencing actions in certain criminal and family court proceedings.

Sponsor: Helene Weinstein

Relates to a partial tax exemption for new residential reconstruction, alteration or improvement of residential structures in cities with a certain population.

Sponsor: Gary Finch

Prohibits persons from owning, possessing, selling, transferring or manufacturing animal fighting paraphernalia with intent to engage in animal fighting.

Sponsor: John McEneny

Extends from December 1, 2012 until December 1, 2015, the expiration of the authority of the county of Hamilton to impose a mortgage tax.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Provides for a period of probable usefulness to the payment for a separation incentive program by the town of Southampton.

Sponsor: Fred Thiele

Designates a bridge on interstate route 86 over Strunk Road in the town of Ellicott as the "Robert H. Jackson Memorial Bridge".

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Relates to the repeal of section 71-c of the navigation law, relating to capacity plates.

Sponsor: Nick Perry

Extends through January 1, 2015, provisions authorizing the operation of certain leased personal watercraft and prop-craft without a boating safety certificate.

Sponsor: Margaret Markey

Authorizes the state, local governments and public authorities to arrange for redeposit of moneys through a deposit placement program through a bank or trust company that serves as custodian with respect to the moneys and arranges for the redeposit of the moneys in one or more banking institutions, the monies being secured, provided that the depository receives deposits from customers of other financial institutions that are at least equal to the amount of the moneys so invested.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Authorizes and validates the alienation of certain parkland known as Empire Fulton Ferry state park in accordance with letters patent dated July 8, 2010 from the office of general services to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation and master ground lease agreement dated as of July 29, 2010 for a term of 99 years to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation providing for the use of such land as a part of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Civic and Land Use Improvement Project.

Sponsor: Joan Millman

Authorizes certain municipalities to approve a partial tax exemption for reconstruction, alterations or improvements to qualified residential structures.

Sponsor: Kevin Smardz

Prohibits dangerous practices at companion animal grooming facilities; provides that no heating elements in cage or box dryers shall be turned on; provides that any violation shall be punishable of a fine between $250-$500.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin

Adds the Allegheny river and Cattaraugus creek to the definition of "inland waterways" for purposes of waterfront revitalization.

Sponsor: Joseph Giglio

Relates to the filing of a false financing statement.

Sponsor: Dennis Gabryszak

Relates to the effectiveness of provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law relating to temporary retail permits; provides that such provisions expire on October 12, 2013.

Sponsor: Robin Schimminger

Relates to the time frame in which municipalities and school districts that incur debt can make adjustments to their budget, updating the types of obligations and other technical amendments.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Authorizes Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, Inc. to apply for a real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land in the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Authorizes the Farmingdale public library to submit an application for real property tax exemption to the assessor of the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Authorizes Christopher Rowe to take the competitive examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position as village patrolman in the village of East Syracuse, county of Onondaga.

Sponsor: Samuel Roberts

Authorizes the assessor of the county of Nassau to accept from Family Life Worship Center Inc., an application for exemption from real property taxes.

Sponsor: Edward Ra

Authorizes Tabernacle of Praise Church to file an application for a real property tax exemption.

Sponsor: Kevin Parker

Relates to the terms of sale of alcoholic beverages.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Authorizes the governing boards of two or more municipalities which have mutually agreed to study the annexation of territory to, by joint resolution, propose the annexation of such territory, as an alternative to annexation solely by petition.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Authorizes a physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, registered nurse, licensed practical nurse or emergency medical technician to act as a designated camp health director or to provide health services at a children's overnight, summer day, or traveling summer day camp with a permit.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Authorizes the town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau to amortize the cost of payments to employees upon separation of service from the town.

Sponsor: Charles Lavine

Authorizes the assessor of the town of Islip to accept an application for a real property tax exemption for a certain parcel owned by the Morgan Center.

Sponsor: Owen Johnson

Authorizes the board of education of the city school district of the city of New York to require minors who are five years old to attend kindergarten instruction.

Sponsor: Catherine Nolan

Authorizes Muslims on Long Island, Inc. to retroactively apply for real property tax exemptions for certain properties in Bethpage, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.

Sponsor: James Conte

Relates to the eligibility for crime victim awards of certain family members of homicide victims.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Authorizes the use of revenues from sewer rents for certain non-sewer related infrastructure payments in the village of Sherburne.

Sponsor: James Seward

Directs the commissioner of education to change the name of the Delhi Central School District to the Delaware Academy Central School District at Delhi.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Relates to information and counseling on appropriate treatment options.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Provides for the application of the Iranian energy sector divestment act to public authorities and SUNY and CUNY; prohibits certain contracts.

Sponsor: Sheldon Silver

Creates the class D felony of citizenship document fraud in the first degree and the class E felony of citizen document fraud in the second degree to deter the manufacture, distribution, sale or use of false documents to conceal citizenship or resident alien status.

Sponsor: Barbara Clark

Provides that possession of a condom may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, promoting prostitution, permitting prostitution, maintaining a premises for prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or maintaining a bawdy house.

Sponsor: Barbara Clark

Provides that any firefighter who is killed while performing services in the line of duty be included on the fallen firefighters memorial.

Sponsor: Harvey Weisenberg

Prohibits bullying and cyberbullying in public schools.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Designates that portion of New York state route 7 which constitutes the causeway over the Tomhannock Reservoir in the town of Pittstown in Rensselaer county, state of New York as the "Brigadier General James Kenney Memorial Highway".

Sponsor: Tony Jordan

Designates the New York state route 9P bridge over Fish Creek linking the city of Saratoga Springs and the town of Saratoga as the "Saratoga County Veterans Memorial Bridge".

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Designates portions of state route 120 in the county of Westchester in memoriam; designates a portion of route 120 in the town/village of Harrison as the "Specialist Anthony N. Kalladeen Memorial Highway"; designates the bridge on route 120 which crosses the Saw Mill River Parkway in the town of New Castle as the "Staff Sergeant Kyu Hyuk Chay Memorial Bridge".

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Designates the bridge on state route 76 crossing interstate route 86 in the village of Sherman, county of Chautauqua, as the "Alfred F. Jones Memorial Bridge".

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Designates the bridge on interstate route 86 crossing state route 305 in the village of Cuba, county of Allegany, as the "Sergeant Mark Bradley Memorial Bridge".

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Relates to docketing of adjudications of violations of laws enforced by the New York city department of consumer affairs.

Sponsor: Karim Camara

Amends provisions authorizing the village of Herkimer to finance a litigation settlement by the issuance of serial bonds and/or anticipation notes, in relation to the requirements of issuing and levying taxes on such bonds and notes.

Sponsor: James Seward

Relates to pre-need funeral services and provides that the department of financial services will conduct a study of pre-arranged funeral services and goods.

Sponsor: Joseph Robach

Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Relates to the private activity bond allocation act of 2012; relates to redistributing 2011 bond volume allocations made pursuant to section 146 of the federal tax reform act of 1986; relates to the allocation of the unified state bond volume ceiling.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Authorizes the towns of Lodi and Ovid in Seneca county to elect a single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Permits the county of Erie to market serial bonds at private sale through June 30, 2013.

Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan

Extends certain provisions of law relating to tuition waivers for police officer students of the city university of New York.

Sponsor: Joseph Lentol

Authorizes the town of Alden to convey an easement to the village of Alden in the Alden Town Park.

Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan

Relates to allowing certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions.

Sponsor: Harvey Weisenberg

Extends from June 30, 2010 until June 30, 2014 the provisions relating to the Oneida Indian Nation real property tax depository fund.

Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi

Relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.

Sponsor: Gary Pretlow

Authorizes the town of Greenburgh to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax; authorizes villages in the towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax.

Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Relates to the composition of boards of elections.

Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh

Prohibits persons or business entities from filing unnecessary personal identifying information with an agency; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Requires entities that submit records to state agencies that are excepted from disclosure under FOIL to periodically re-apply for the exception.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Relates to requiring a particularized and specific justification for denial of access to records under the freedom of information law, exemption from disclosure under the freedom of information law of certain law enforcement related records and to records identifying victims.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Relates to brownfield site cleanup; establishes environmental covenants; repeals provisions of law relating to brownfield redevelopment tax credits.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Provides for the creation of a uniform system for the issuance of identification cards for retired members of the state police.

Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan

Relates to pre and post test reporting requirements, test site registration and sign in.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Establishes an affirmative defense against patronizing a prostitute.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Relates to labor performed under certain public work contracts; defines "job order contract" as certain competitive bid, indefinite quantity, fixed price, multi-task contracts; provides that such contracts shall have a defined scope of work and detailed description of such work; provides that such information shall be filed with the fiscal officer before soliciting for bids; provides that the cost of a job order contract may not exceed $500,000.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Authorizes an agency in a city with a population of one million or more to send notices, bills and other communications by electronic means.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Increases the amount of members of the town of Lansing Housing Authority from five to seven.

Sponsor: Barbara Lifton

Relates to a stay of issuance of a warrant for eviction for certain holdover tenants.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Requires vacancy leases and renewals of leases for rent regulated housing accommodations to be for a term of one year.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Authorizes the county of Saratoga to discontinue for reforestation purposes the use of certain lands and to convey such lands.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Relates to off-premises beer and wine products sales in premises licensed for on-premises consumption.

Sponsor: Hugh Farley

Grants the superintendent of financial services authority to investigate fraudulent activities, such as motor vehicle operators who drive with no insurance coverage, and those who misrepresent their principal place of residence or where their motor vehicle is principally garaged and operated; authorizes such superintendent to accept reports of suspected fraudulent insurance actions; requires insurance companies and self-insurers to report incidents of insurance fraud to the department of financial services; includes within the class D felony of forgery in the second degree, the forgery of a certificate of insurance or an insurance identification card; includes within the class C felony of forgery in the first degree, the forgery of 10 or more written instruments; includes within the class E felony of insurance fraud in the fourth degree, the operation of a motor vehicle in this state when the vehicle is insured in another state, but it is actually garaged in this state or the owner principally resides in this state; requires applicants for motor vehicle registrations and driver's licenses to provide the department of motor vehicles with the address of their principal place of residence.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Relates to brownfield site cleanup; relates to the repeal of certain brownfield redevelopment tax credits.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Authorizes the city of Jamestown, county of Chautauqua, to discontinue the use of certain lands as parklands and requires the dedication of other certain parcels of land for public park purposes.

Sponsor: Andrew Goodell

Grants the electors of villages with the option to make unlawful the sale of alcoholic beverages within such villages if the petition therefor is approved at a general election.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Parkway".

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Enacts the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; creates a compact between the states and the District of Columbia; defines terms.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Establishes dates all propositions to be voted upon by the qualified voters of any school district shall be held.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Relates to the sale of over-the-counter methamphetamine precursor drugs.

Sponsor: David Valesky

Directs the department of health to provide oversight of the transitioning of individuals to managed long term care plans operated by health maintenance organizations.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Expands the geographical area of employment of university police officers.

Sponsor: Joseph Lentol

Adds the town of Kendall, Orleans county to the towns served by the Monroe county water authority.

Sponsor: Stephen Hawley

Requires disclosure of title service charges by a title insurance provider to the customer upon receipt of an application for a title insurance policy.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Requires the out-of-state placement committee to develop standards, regulations and recommendations for adverse crisis intervention methods and techniques.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Designates a bridge on state route 20 in the town of Nassau, county of Rensselaer, as the "Staff Sergeant Derek Farley Memorial Bridge".

Sponsor: Steven McLaughlin

Exempts the sale and installation of commercial solar energy systems equipment from sales and compensating use taxes; grants municipalities the option to grant such exemption from local sales and use taxes.

Sponsor: Steven Englebright

Authorize Paul Liberatore to apply for retroactive membership in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Creates a veteran's home and land ownership loan program to provide loans to veterans to purchase homes or unimproved land suitable for building; such loans to be secured by a second mortgage.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Authorizes and directs the committee on open government to study proactive disclosure as a means of increasing transparency and access to government information.

Sponsor: Daniel Squadron

Extends crossbow hunting provisions through 2014.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Requires signage alerting motorists of red light cameras in the areas where red light camera demonstration programs have been authorized.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Relates to discovery.

Sponsor: Joseph Lentol

Relates to resources of the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund.

Sponsor: Gary Pretlow

Extends provisions relating to the powers of the state of New York mortgage agency.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Relates to price gouging of medicine and provides for a private right of action for persons injured by the price gouging of medicine.

Sponsor: Naomi Rivera

Relates to the disclosure of social security numbers.

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin

Exempts food and beverages sold from vending machines for one dollar and fifty cents or less from the sales and use tax.

Sponsor: William Magee

Authorizes Muslims on Long Island, Inc. to retroactively apply for real property tax exemptions for certain properties in Bethpage, Town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Authorizes the triborough bridge and tunnel authority, its licensees and contractors to have certain powers to erect, install, repair, reconstruct, maintain, operate or paint outdoor advertising signs or devices, including electronic displays, on or about its bridges, tunnels, projects, structures, facilities and other properties, including approaches.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Relates to background checks in connection with certain contracts and current and transferred employees of the division of homeland security and emergency services.

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Allows for electronic display of bills for local legislative bodies.

Sponsor: Nicole Malliotakis

Authorizes the adoption of a local law requiring certain individuals currently serving or who shall be sentenced to a period of probation upon conviction of any crime to pay the local probation department with the responsibility of supervising the probationer an administrative fee of up to twenty dollars per month.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Implements a drug disposal demonstration program.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Authorizes municipalities and districts to enter into cooperative agreements for the provision of centralized public employee administrative and personnel services; provides for health insurance coverage of municipal employees pursuant to standardized health insurance contracts; and authorizes the provision of reduced premiums for municipal health insurance plans which offer wellness programs.

Sponsor: David Carlucci

Authorizes the assessor of the county of Nassau to accept from Family Life Worship Center Inc., an application for exemption from real property taxes.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Relates to the disqualification of tax delinquent bidders with some exceptions; provides that no agency shall be permitted to enter into a contract with a bidder or subcontractor who has an unsatisfied warrant filed against him or her pursuant to provisions of the tax law.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Relates to the establishment, extension, powers and expenses of watershed protection improvement districts.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Relates to providing recourse for manufactured homeowners in manufactured home parks confronted with unjustifiable rent increases; creates a local option in counties in New York state to provide such protection.

Sponsor: Fred Thiele

Restores the tuition freeze for charter schools to the 2009-2010 school year level for the City School District of the city of Albany.

Sponsor: John McEneny

Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to establish certain speed limits.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Relates to limits on certain supplementary insurance; permits insured to refuse supplementary insurance; requires certain disclaimer; relates to payments to durable medical equipment providers.

Sponsor: James Seward

Proposes the removal of pension and retirement benefits from persons convicted of certain felonies.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Authorizes the sheriff of Albany county to enter into agreements for custody of inmates from other states.

Sponsor: Ronald Canestrari

Grants the department of agriculture and markets the exclusive authority to regulate cervid (deer and elk) farms; eliminates the authority of the department of environmental conservation to regulate such farms.

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Creates the crime of fraudulent retail sales receipts or universal product code fraud.

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin

Authorizes the village of Goshen, Orange county, to appoint Michael Wilson from part-time to full-time competitive police officer status.

Sponsor: William Larkin

Creates a task force on interagency cooperation within the forestry industry.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Includes within the schedules of controlled substances, any substances designated as controlled substances pursuant to the federal Analog Act.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Relates to assault on a New York city sanitation worker; provides that such assault is either a class C felony or constitutes assault in the second degree when such assault is by means of releasing or failing to control an animal with the intent to obstruct such person from performing their lawful duties.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Repeals section 396-ff of the general business law relating to the pistol and revolver ballistic identification databank.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Extends from December 31, 2012 until March 31, 2013, the expiration and repeal of provisions of law relating to the review of assessments in the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Authorizes persons who are members or retirees of the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System pursuant to administrative agreements between the Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency and certain development corporations or centers to continue to receive credit for service.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Relates to restrictions upon the conduct of games of chance.

Sponsor: Robin Schimminger

Relates to the disqualification of tax delinquent bidders with some exceptions; provides that no agency shall be permitted to enter into a contract with a bidder or subcontractor who has an unsatisfied warrant filed against him or her pursuant to provisions of the tax law.

Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh

Authorizes Tabernacle of Praise Church to file an application for a real property tax exemption.

Sponsor: Nick Perry

Authorizes a non-party deponent's counsel to participate and make objections on behalf of his or her client in an examination before trial in the same manner as counsel for a party.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Provides that no person shall be a passenger in the back seat of a motor vehicle unless such person is restrained by a safety belt approved by the commissioner of motor vehicles.

Sponsor: Martin Dilan

Expands the powers and duties of the community district education council and restricts the authority of the city board of education of the city of New York to co-locate schools.

Sponsor: Keith Wright

Authorizes the town of Amherst, county of Erie to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.

Sponsor: Raymond Walter

Relates to the advertising medium for motor fuel sales; requires appropriate signage visible from businesses for certain sales; makes provisions relating to advertising media letters, words, figures and numerals used in such signage.

Sponsor: Lee Zeldin

Provides for automatic renewal for agricultural assessments; provides that application for agricultural assessment shall be valid without annual filing as long as the applicant maintains and can prove eligibility; requires reapplication if additional parcels are added and notification if land is reduced.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Establishes a defense for underage sale of alcoholic beverages to licensees which perform transaction scans and have no violations for 2 years.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Prohibits bullying on school property and at school functions and enacts the "Law to Encourage the Acceptance of All Differences (LEAD)".

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Relates to an employees' ability to revert back to a previously held non-competitive or labor class title.

Sponsor: Rules

Increases penalties for the crimes of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first, second, third and fourth degrees and criminal sale of a prescription.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Provides that the borough of Staten Island shall also be known and designated as the "borough of parks".

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Relates to residential parking in the town of Harrison.

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Provides for the implementation of the Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P. decision with regard to rent regulated housing accommodations; and extends until June 1, 2015, the deadline for local legislative action providing tax incentives for the rehabilitation or improvement of multiple dwellings.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Permits the outdoor consumer use of fireworks upon completion of a safety course and issuance of a permit.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Relates to the description of fuel gas transmission lines.

Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara

Relates to branches, trust offices and interstate branching transactions.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Exempts from the imposition of sales tax the purchase of military service flags, prisoner of war flags and blue star banners.

Sponsor: Michael Cusick

Authorizes the transfer of certain state lands to the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland.

Sponsor: David Carlucci

Grants the court discretionary authority to retain alternate jurors after final submission of the case.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Authorizes municipalities and districts thereof to contract for goods and services jointly with the state or other municipalities.

Sponsor: Addie Jenne

Relates to responsible parties for petroleum contaminated sites and incentives to parties who are willing to remediate such sites; provides that a discharger may present evidence as to third party responsibility for petroleum discharge; provides for apportionment of liability; provides that parties willing to remediate such discharge shall be entitled to liability limitation.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Authorizes the village of Ilion to finance a litigation settlement by the issuance of serial bonds and/or anticipation notes, in relation to the requirements of issuing and levying taxes on such bonds and notes.

Sponsor: Marc Butler

Relates to the the exemption from taxation of alterations and improvements to multiple dwellings to eliminate fire and health hazards; relates to a partial abatement of real property taxes for condos and co-ops, in a city having a population of one million or more; relates to interim multiple dwellings in a city with a population of one million or more persons; relates to certain tax credits and exemptions in a city having a population of one million or more.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Authorizes big game hunting in Albany county with a pistol, rifle, shotgun, crossbow or long bow for a period of 2 years.

Sponsor: Neil Breslin

Extends the occupancy tax in the city of Rye until September 1, 2015.

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Provides that towers, including communications towers, etc., may not be erected on special parkway lands (Westchester county) without the consent of the local government in which located and must comply with all local laws, regulations, etc.

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Relates to filing of an order imposing against revoked premises a proscription against future licensure.

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Establishes a preference for NYS entities contracting with architects, landscape architects or engineers having their principal place of business within New York State.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Relates to pre and post test reporting requirements, test site registration and sign in, and establishes crimes related to educational testing fraud.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Relates to the dates of hostilities participated in by the military forces of the United States in Lebanon.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Provides an exception to high school athletic competition eligibility by permitting pupils with a developmental or physical disability to compete for a fifth year.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Amends provisions relating to proceedings for the determination of applications for recognizance or bail based upon the dangerousness of the defendant.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Enacts "the foreclosure fraud prevention act of 2012"; creates the crimes of residential mortgage foreclosure fraud in the first and second degrees.

Sponsor: Helene Weinstein

Relates to a partial tax exemption for new residential construction, alteration or improvement of residential structures in cities with a certain population.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Requires notice of public work projects to residents in cities with a population of one million or more.

Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo

Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Enacts provisions relating to the reporting of child abuse; requires immediate reporting of certain actions by certain persons and officials; failure to report is a class A misdemeanor.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Makes permanent provisions of the retirement and social security law that permit certain members of public retirement systems to receive partial lump sum distributions upon retirement.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Provides that an eligible member of the public retirement system may buy service credit for certain military service with two years of credited service.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Authorizes a corporation to allow attendance of a meeting of shareholders by remote communication.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Establishes the formula for determining the interest payable on a delayed legacy.

Sponsor: Helene Weinstein

Relates to the sale, by counties, of delinquent tax liens on brownfields property.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Authorizes the town of Ticonderoga to offer a 20 year retirement plan to police officer Dale W. Quesnel, Jr.

Sponsor: Teresa Sayward

Establishes the "trafficking victims protection and justice act"; makes various provisions relating to prostitution offenses; creates crimes of aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Relates to service of papers; amends the definition of "mailing" to allow mailing from outside of the state; provides that six days shall be added to a prescribed period when service is made by mail from outside the state; requires a stipulation prior to service by facsimile on an attorney.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Relates to display of Missing In Attack On Our Nation flag commonly known as MIA-OON flag.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Provides for the certification by the education department of certified registered nurse anesthetists.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin

Allows municipalities to lease naming rights of government-owned property.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Authorizes the Sandy Creek Central School District to alienate and convey parkland to the Community Parks Association.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Relates to agency regulatory agendas and extends provisions relating to requiring certain agencies to submit such agendas for publication.

Sponsor: David Carlucci

Incorporates the Main-Transit Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association and provides for its powers and duties.

Sponsor: Raymond Walter

Authorizes Lois J. Reid to apply for ordinary disability retirement benefits.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Provides that an individual shall not become ineligible under the EPIC program due to an increase in social security benefits or a public or private pension where such increase does not exceed the CPI.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Authorizes big game hunting in Albany county with a pistol, rifle, shotgun, crossbow or long bow for a period of 2 years.

Sponsor: Steven McLaughlin

Relates to sexual offenses by health care or mental health care providers; requires the professional conduct officer designated to investigate a complaint of professional misconduct to report certain sex offenses to the appropriate law enforcement official or authority.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Enacts the "sewage pollution right to know act"; requires publicly owned treatment works to report discharges of untreated or partially treated sewage.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Validates, ratifies and confirms certain bonds issued by the village of Dansville, in the county of Livingston, and authorizes issuance of further bonds to finance the objects and purposes of the validated bonds.

Sponsor: Daniel Burling

Relates to transparency in health insurance claims data for public employers participating in the New York state health insurance program.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Relates to non-contributory retirement service credit for members of the New York city retirement systems called to military duty on or after September eleventh, two thousand one and prior to January first, two thousand six.

Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal

Increases penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judgments of $5,000 or more with court clerk from $100 to $500.

Sponsor: Liz Krueger

Prohibits the retention of any amount of payment due and owing for materials delivered and accepted for a public or private construction project.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Authorizes the city of New York to lease certain parklands to the New York Botanical Garden for a term of 30 years.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Relates to the applicability of local building codes to state and state agency owned buildings; requires full compliance upon alteration or if such building ceases to be owned by the state.

Sponsor: Richard Gottfried

Relates to a prohibition on diversion of funds dedicated to public transportation systems.

Sponsor: James Brennan

Includes lakes in adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or roadway programs.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Relates to the powers of the public employment relations board to investigate unfair labor practices.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system, the police pension fund, subchapter two, the fire department pension fund, subchapter two and the board of education retirement system of such city by public employers and other obligors required to make employer contributions to such retirement systems; establishes the entry age actuarial cost method of determining employer contributions to such retirement systems; makes contributions to such retirement systems by such public employers and such other obligors; credits special interest and additional interest to members of such retirement systems; allows interest on the funds of such retirement systems; relates to employer contributions to the board of education retirement system of such city.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Relates to review of standards, guidelines and criteria for education, development or learning in programs.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Presumes for certain members of the NYS&LP&FRS that the contracting of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was in the discharge or performance of duties as the natural and proximate result of an accident; provides 3/4 pension for such members.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Establishes a prescription pain medication awareness program within the department of health to educate the public and health care practitioners about the risks associated with prescribing and taking controlled substance pain medications.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Relates to the right of vested members to withdraw from the New York city teachers' retirement system; allows a member who has permanently ceased teaching in New York to elect to withdraw his/her accumulated contributions to enable the member to obtain credit for the teaching service in another state provided such member has at least five years of service credit in that system, and the withdrawal must be necessary in order for the member to obtain credit in the other system.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Authorizes the town of Greenburgh, county of Westchester to lease certain park lands for tennis uses.

Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Relates to podiatry and the scope of podiatric practice.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Excepts agricultural land defined as livestock and livestock products from the prohibition on salt licks made, set or used on land inhabited by deer or bear; prohibits hunting deer or bear with the aid of a salt lick.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Prohibits sale or distribution of any product containing a synthetic cannabinoid; defines the chemical compounds which constitute a synthetic cannabinoid; imposes a civil penalty of not more than $500 for a violation thereof; creates defenses based on over the counter drugs approved by the federal food and drug administration or lack of knowledge that the product contained a synthetic cannabinoid.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Relates to the acquisition of land for the erection of monuments; requires a two-thirds vote of its members to authorize change in status.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Regulates heavy metals, magnets and batteries in children's jewelry; prohibits the manufacture, sale and distribution of children's jewelry which does not meet certain standards.

Sponsor: James Alesi

Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".

Sponsor: Joseph Robach

Requires police accident reports to indicate whether a mobile phone was in use at the time of such vehicle accident.

Sponsor: Toby Stavisky

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Friendship central school district.

Sponsor: Joseph Giglio

Expands requirements relating to the development and operation of a data match system to facilitate the identification and seizure of non-exempt financial assets of tax debtors.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Establishes the formula for determining the interest payable on a delayed legacy.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Creates the crime of unlawful defilement of a water supply; provides that a person is guilty of such crime when he introduces, places, or causes to be introduced or placed a defiling agent into a water supply; makes definitions; establishes such crime as a class B felony.

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Relates to the regulation of the sale and analysis of fertilizer; prohibits local governments from enacting any laws relating to the labeling, quality, transportation, treatment or recordkeeping requirements for the sale or use of fertilizer in this state.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Authorizes Suffolk county to sell certain delinquent tax liens on brownfield property to private buyers.

Sponsor: Carl Marcellino

Relates to the powers of the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Provides for a tax exemption for commercial horse boarding services when provided by a commercial horse boarding operation; defines terms.

Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer

Designates security services officers of the University of Rochester as peace officers.

Sponsor: James Alesi

Relates to accountable care organizations which are certified by the department of health to provide integrated health services and reduce health care costs.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Directs NYS power authority to release requests for proposals on certain natural gas powered generating facilities in New York city.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Directs the department of agriculture and markets and the state soil and water conservation committee to review and define farm conservation practices which are within the professions of engineering, land surveying and architecture.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Relates to requiring attendance at motor vehicle accident prevention courses for certain individuals.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Requires the preparation of a comprehensive economic development plan for the use of eminent domain when the primary purpose is economic development and certain residential premises are to be acquired; requires municipal approval of the exercise of eminent domain power in such cases; enacts the "eminent domain reform act".

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Relates to violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age.

Sponsor: Owen Johnson

Relates to the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system, the police pension fund, subchapter two, the fire department pension fund, subchapter two and the board of education retirement system of such city by public employers and other obligors required to make employer contributions to such retirement systems; establishes the entry age actuarial cost method of determining employer contributions to such retirement systems; makes contributions to such retirement systems by such public employers and such other obligors; credits special interest and additional interest to members of such retirement systems; allows interest on the funds of such retirement systems; relates to employer contributions to the board of education retirement system of such city.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to the presence of official full or partial barrier markings on roadways which prohibit crossing of such markings.

Sponsor: Martin Dilan

Authorizes streamlined adjudicatory proceedings for small businesses appearing as respondents before certain state agencies; authorizes a pilot program by the departments of environmental conservation, health and labor and requires a report after 1 year.

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Authorizes counties to establish a tax free week in August exempting purchases of clothing and footwear from county sales tax for a 7-day period in August.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Relates to managed care health savings accounts.

Sponsor: James Seward

Provides that in order to qualify to file for no fault divorce, where a marriage is broken down irretrievably and the non-petitioning spouse is a documented victim of domestic violence by the petitioning spouse, the non-petitioning spouse must consent to the divorce in order for it to occur.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Relates to the consideration of equitable claims and defenses in small claims actions.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Relates to permitted deductions from wages.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Designates a portion of the Taconic State Parkway as the "Westchester County Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway".

Sponsor: Robert Castelli

Authorizes persons who are members or retirees of the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System pursuant to administrative agreements between the Jefferson County Industrial Development Agency and certain development corporations or centers to continue to receive credit for service.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Disqualifies providers for receipt of monies for the improvement of recruitment and retention of non-supervisory workers providing home health services, when such monies are not provided to the certified home health service agencies employing such workers and providing standards for payment of claims for certain long term care services.

Sponsor: Richard Gottfried

Relates to the definition of an artist and theatrical employment agencies.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to the the exemption from taxation of alterations and improvements to multiple dwellings to eliminate fire and health hazards; relates to a partial abatement of real property taxes for condos and co-ops, in a city having a population of one million or more; relates to interim multiple dwellings in a city with a population of one million or more persons; relates to certain tax credits and exemptions in a city having a population of one million or more.

Sponsor: Vito Lopez

Provides that any dog that has been released from their confinement for hunting purposes shall be deemed to be under the reasonable control of its owner while engaged in hunting or returning from hunting.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Grants the commissioner of buildings of New York City the power to waive provisions of the multiple dwelling law with regard to construction or alteration of multiple dwellings.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to the appointment of guardians.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Relates to charitable bail organizations; authorizes the superintendent to issue certificates to a charitable bail organization to deposit money as bail under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera

Expands the state investment tax credits to include tangible property used for providing investment advisory services or management of investment portfolios with investment objectives of over one million dollars.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Allows nurse practitioners to perform any function in conjunction with the making of a diagnosis of illness or physical condition.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Authorizes Ronald Martin to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position as village patrolman.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Increases the length of time vehicle registrations, drivers' licenses and non-resident driving privileges for individuals who drive without insurance are revoked; makes driving without insurance on a vehicle a misdemeanor; increases the penalties for driving without a license; increases penalties for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Provides an exception to the hearsay rule to allow testimony from persons with developmental disabilities.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Provides for the protection of parkland by petition and referendum.

Sponsor: Jack Martins

Allows a city of one million or more to provide tax and rent relief to senior citizens based on the metered use of water in a dwelling unit.

Sponsor: Diane Savino

Relates to the estate tax treatment of dispositions to surviving spouses who are not United States citizens.

Sponsor: John Bonacic

Enacts the "MTA safety data reporting act"; requires the MTA to submit annual reports on assaults, including sexual assaults, attacks, injuries or deaths reported to or otherwise known to it in connection with its facilities and premises; requires a report relating to assaults, including sexual assaults, and attacks on employees and non-employees, and a report relating to physical infrastructure, safety, condition, security and other health hazards; requires separate tabulations for employees and other persons; requires recommendations to reduce such incidents.

Sponsor: Bill Perkins

Enacts "Tiffany Heitkamp's law"; relates to the effect of prior conviction for operation of certain vehicles while intoxicated upon imposition of penalties for boating while intoxicated.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Brian Stebbins.

Sponsor: Ronald Canestrari

Relates to orders of observation for the purpose of determining incapacitation.

Sponsor: Stephen Saland

Authorizes certain organizations in a city of one million or more to be known as "fire patrols" under the not-for-profit corporation law and includes fire patrol vehicles as emergency vehicles under the vehicle and traffic law.

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Makes an appropriation to pay to Verna Kirwan, the widow of Thomas J. Kirwan, member of the 100th assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2011.

Sponsor: William Larkin

Authorizes the town of Inlet to offer a 20 year retirement plan to police officer John Harrington.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Provides that the state policy with regard to the alcoholic beverage control law shall be to promote economic development and job opportunities in the beer, wine and liquor industries of the state.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Authorizes Christopher Rowe to take the competitive examination for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position as village patrolman in the village of East Syracuse, county of Onondaga.

Sponsor: David Valesky

Relates to requiring voting materials to be provided in Russian.

Sponsor: David Storobin

Increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident where personal injury is involved without reporting such incident from a class B to a class A misdemeanor; increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident where personal injury resulted in death or serious physical injury from a class E to a class C felony; and increases fines therefor.

Sponsor: John Sampson

Authorizes boards of cooperative educational services to enter into contracts with public libraries for high-speed telecommunications services.

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Allows employers to suspend a police officer without pay pending disciplinary charges.

Sponsor: Diane Savino

Designates sweet corn as the state vegetable.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Requires electric corporations to submit electric utility emergency plans to the public service commission for review and approval; provides such plans shall set forth training and planning for power outages, procedures to determine the extent of outages, procedures to determine the length of time the outages will continue, load relief policies, decision making plans, and any other information such commission requires; annually requires electric corporations file emergency plans and verification of the ability to implement such plan; requires electric corporations to report to the public service commission within 60 days of an outage which lasts more than 48 hours.

Sponsor: Francisco Moya

Provides for more effective review of existing rules; requires more frequent review of certain rules and publication of agencies which fail to review rules; extends certain provisions relating to the state register.

Sponsor: David Carlucci

Relates to prescription prices and pharmacies for injured employees.

Sponsor: Aravella Simotas

Prohibits the sale of academic dissertations, theses and term papers whether written or provided through electronic media.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Permits employees of authorized organizations to operate games of chance.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Permits interior designers to enter into joint enterprise or partnership of a design corporation.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Authorizes the town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau to amortize the cost of payments to employees upon separation of service from the town.

Sponsor: Rules

Relates to maple syrup packaging; exempts wash water from maple syrup processing from environmental permit requirements.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Sarah Fish.

Sponsor: David Valesky

Authorizes a no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the towns of Suffolk.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Relates to reporting requirements for commercial pesticide applicators; requires application to contain the county and five digit zip code.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Provides for high income decontrol of rent regulated housing accommodations based upon the average annual income of the tenants for the previous two years.

Sponsor: Catharine Young

Provides credit to members of public retirement systems of the state for military service rendered during periods of military conflict.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Relates to election canvass procedures; removes certain provisions relating to return of canvass.

Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh

Relates to the revocation or reissuance of licenses.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Enacts the "patient privacy protection act"; prohibits interviews of other party's treating physicians or health care providers in personal injury, medical, dental, or podiatric malpractice or wrongful death actions.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Provides that the driver's license of a veteran of the armed forces of the United States shall have imprinted thereon "U.S. Veteran".

Sponsor: Owen Johnson

Establishes a registry to help locate individuals with autism, Alzheimer's and dementia in the event they go missing.

Sponsor: Hugh Farley

Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".

Sponsor: Harry Bronson

Extends certain provisions of Jonathan's law.

Sponsor: Felix Ortiz

Enacts "private environmental law enforcement act"; authorizes any private citizen who has an interest which is or may be adversely affected to commence civil judicial actions for injunctive or declaratory relief to remedy environmental harms under certain circumstances; provides that such action may be commenced against any person for any violation of an administrative or court order compelling an investigation or remediation of an inactive hazardous waste disposal site.

Sponsor: Kevin Parker

Relates to the description of fuel gas transmission lines.

Sponsor: Donna Lupardo

Enacts the "Rockland county deficit financing act" to authorize the county of Rockland to issue bonds.

Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee

Allows certain not-for-profits to make purchases through use of county contracts.

Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Regulates vehicle licensing recovery fees as they relate to rental vehicles.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein

Authorizes the village of Lynbrook, in the county of Nassau, to finance employee separation costs over a period of 10 years.

Sponsor: Dean Skelos

Relates to fees collected for animal licenses; makes technical corrections relating thereto.

Sponsor: William Magee

Requires operators of ice arenas in which a resurfacing machine is used to have a certificate of acceptable air quality for the ice arena.

Sponsor: Michael Gianaris

Eliminates the Mount Kisco urban renewal agency; transfers any books, records and remaining rights of the dissolved authority to the village of Mount Kisco.

Sponsor: Greg Ball

Imposes a moratorium on the initiation of school closings in cities with a population of one million or more.

Sponsor: Hakeem Jeffries

Provides that the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply to any police officer of any political subdivision maintaining a police department serving a population of three thousand or less if the eligible list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit and fitness set forth in the civil service law.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Decreases certain amounts of payments wrongfully received that would trigger higher degrees of the crime of health care fraud.

Sponsor: John Sampson

Relates to authorizing the village of Southampton, in the county of Suffolk, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Theodore Raffel, Jr.; specifies the time frame under which the village of Southampton shall pay the costs for implementing such retirement option.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Prohibits the procurement of human body parts for use in human transplantation except as provided by law; requires that procurement of body parts be performed only at registered facilities and requires reporting to the county medical examiner or coroner.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Requires public contracts to include clauses authorizing contractors to recover damages for delay which are caused by acts or omissions by the public owner, as otherwise permitted by law, and requires the contractor, when submitting a claim, to certify that the supporting data is accurate to the best of his or her knowledge and the amount of the claim he or she believes to be the public owner's liability.

Sponsor: Thomas Libous

Authorizes streamlined adjudicatory proceedings for small businesses appearing as respondents before certain state agencies; authorizes a pilot program by the departments of environmental conservation, health and labor; requires a report after 1 year.

Sponsor: George Latimer

Makes residential facilities controlled by state agencies subject to local site plan review.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Provides that batteries in battery operated single station smoke detecting alarm devices shall be non-replaceable, non-removable and capable of powering the devices for a minimum of ten years.

Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio

Relates to payments in lieu of taxes made by certain entities for property located at 176 Rinaldi Boulevard, Poughkeepsie, New York.

Sponsor: Frank Skartados

Authorizes the town of Cheektowaga, county of Erie, to extend the lease for certain park lands in such town.

Sponsor: Dennis Gabryszak

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

Sponsor: John Flanagan

Prohibits pay-per-call prize schemes from charging more for the call than that charged by a telephone corporation regulated by the appropriate regulatory commission for the same call.

Sponsor: Charles Fuschillo

Directs the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the public service commission, to conduct a study and report on current trends in the workforce that supports the generation and transmission of power in the utility industry; authorizes additional studies and reports upon rates hikes, complaints by third parties or upon identification of a shortage.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Includes additional definitions for procedures relating to state purchasing of tropical hardwoods; requires state to maximize the use of environmentally preferable building materials; requires use of information provided by forest certifiers; requires the governor to develop a list of eligible forest certifiers and chain of custody certifiers.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Authorizes a candidate to designate a committee of not less than 3 persons to appoint and remove the treasurer of his or her campaign committee.

Sponsor: John DeFrancisco

Relates to providing pharmacists access to New York's prescription drug monitoring program resources.

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Requires the annual reporting of criminal activity on subways.

Sponsor: James Brennan

Relates to obligations for certain taxes by captive insurance companies.

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Relates to the imposition of tax on cigars; caps tax at one dollar per cigar.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students.

Sponsor: Helene Weinstein

Relates to absentee voting.

Sponsor: David Weprin

Prohibits the possession, sale, offering for sale, trade or distribution of shark fins.

Sponsor: Mark Grisanti

Designates a portion of highway as the "Saratoga County Veterans' Memorial Highway".

Sponsor: Roy McDonald

Exempts limited-profit housing companies from being required to test for friable asbestos under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Michael Benedetto

Excludes certain seasonal fair workers from the definition of employee for purposes of the minimum wage act.

Sponsor: George Maziarz

Authorizes property owners in the Dunewood fire district, regardless of where they reside, to vote, in person or by absentee ballot, in district elections.

Sponsor: Owen Johnson

Relates to claims for loss or damage to real property; creates continuing education requirements for licensed persons and qualifications for public and independent adjusters; allows for a revocation of licenses with an opportunity to reapply for such licenses.

Sponsor: David Weprin

Provides that certain tax credits shall not apply if the certificate of remediation required to qualify for such credits is issued after December 31, 2015.

Sponsor: Rules

Requires notification of parents when student directory personally identifiable information is released to third parties; provides an opportunity to opt out.

Sponsor: Suzi Oppenheimer

Relates to requiring individuals and businesses who offer or solicit pet cremation or burial services for profit to use a facility that is in compliance with New York state laws.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Relates to the definition of certain covered projects; relates to making certain provisions of the authorities budget office permanent.

Sponsor: Martin Golden

Prohibits any county, city, town or village from enacting a local law, ordinance or regulation prohibiting or restricting posting of election material.

Sponsor: Keith Wright

Restricts the residency of certain sex offenders; provides guidelines for the location of level two and level three sex offenders; allows municipalities to reject the placement of additional level two and level three sex offenders in such municipality if certain factors and requirements are met.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Enacts "Amendment No. 1 to the New York state MWBE asset management and financial institution strategy", which relates to requirements for reporting about the use of minority and women-owned business enterprises, providing that such reports be submitted within 150 days of the relevant fiscal year.

Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes

Includes certain commercial equine operations in the definition of land used in agricultural production.

Sponsor: William Magee

Provides for the licensure of perfusionists; allows for the issuance of limited permits for a fee of fifty dollars; provides that such permits are subject to the full disciplinary and regulatory authority of the board of regents and the education department.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Relates to transparency in health insurance claims data for public employers participating in the New York state health insurance program.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Provides that in an assessing unit which is a city the current base proportion of any class shall not exceed the adjusted base proportion or adjusted proportion of the preceding year by more than 1 1/2 precent.

Sponsor: Herman Farrell

Relates to audits by the state comptroller of certain organizations directly or indirectly controlled by municipal corporations and certain other government entities.

Sponsor: William Magnarelli

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms the Penn Yan fire department length of service award program.

Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara

Relates to self-funded student health benefit plans.

Sponsor: Joseph Morelle

Relates to designating certain employees of the Seneca county sheriff's office serving as uniformed marine patrol officers and uniformed court security officers as peace officers.

Sponsor: Brian Kolb

Extends through January 1, 2015, provisions authorizing the operation of certain leased personal watercraft and prop-craft without a boating safety certificate.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Provides that the Monroe-Woodbury central school district shall be entitled to full aid notwithstanding the fact that they were in session for only 179 days.

Sponsor: Nancy Calhoun

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of Hamburg central school district.

Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy

Authorizes Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk, Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 assessment roll.

Sponsor: Philip Ramos

Relates to viable agricultural land and renewal of agricultural assessments.

Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie

Designates uniformed officers of the fire marshal's office of the town of Huntington as peace officers.

Sponsor: James Conte

Increases the base pilotage tariffs at Sandy Hook, Sands Point and Execution Rocks.

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Provides continuous coverage at the same rate to spouse or dependents of public employees who are injured in the performance of duty or taken ill as a result of a performance of duty until such time as the member has returned to active service, has separated from service or retires.

Sponsor: Peter Abbate

Relates to the taking of fish for commercial purposes.

Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle

Directs the public service commission to undertake a study of consumer protections adopted by electric corporations and utilities; includes reporting on the adequacy of the public service commission's assistance to customers facing disconnection of utility service.

Sponsor: Aravella Simotas

Elevates promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child and promoting a sexual performance by a child to be class B felonies; prohibits pleading to a lesser offense after indictment for either such offense.

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Provides that medicaid reimbursement for services to medically fragile children rendered by pediatric rehabilitation diagnostic and treatment centers shall be at a fee-for-service rate until the workgroup on medicaid payment for services for medically fragile children completes its report.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Authorizes the city of Glen Cove to amortize the cost of payments to employees upon separation of service from the city.

Sponsor: Charles Lavine

Establishes provisions of law, as authorized by a proposed constitutional amendment, providing for the settlement of land disputes between the state and private parties with regard to parcels in township 40, Totten and Crossfield Purchase, in the town of Long Lake, county of Hamilton.

Sponsor: Elizabeth Little

Terminates the Clifton-Fine Health Care Corporation, a public benefit corporation, and transfers any assets and powers to the Clifton-Fine Health Care Corporation, a not-for-profit corporation.

Sponsor: Joseph Griffo

Relates to permanency planning in juvenile deliquency and persons in need of supervision proceedings.

Sponsor: Amy Paulin

Mandates a study of energy-efficient and sustainable forms of power to replace power generated by Indian Point units 2 and 3.

Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee

Relates to certain information about special education upon entry to school.

Sponsor: Harvey Weisenberg

Authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to the explore the cosmos New York fund and authorizes the issuance of distinctive "Explore the Cosmos New York" license plates.

Sponsor: Andrew Lanza

Authorizes the Academy Charter School to submit an application for real property tax exemption to the assessor of the county of Nassau.

Sponsor: Kemp Hannon

Relates to the employment of persons to function as central service technicians in certain healthcare facilities.