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Track 18,534 bills from the New York 2015 legislative session. 500 bills have passed. View New York Assembly and Senate legislation, sponsors, and voting records.
Bills (2000)
Directs the department of health to establish regulations for the donation and redispensing of unused prescription drugs.
Relates to limitations on real property tax exemptions for veterans in the city of New York; requires the local legislative body to adopt a local law providing the exemption.
Designates that portion of state route 357 in the town of Franklin, county of Delaware, as the "Corporal Nicholas K. Uzenski Memorial Highway".
Relates to extending the authorization for the imposition of additional sales and compensating use tax in Herkimer county.
Relates to exemptions available to veterans.
Relates to sidewalk shed permit renewals and the New york city building code; one-time renewal where removal of the sidewalk shed may expose the public to potential harm.
Expands the class B misdemeanor of public lewdness to include the commission of a lewd act while trespassing in a dwelling and being observed by a lawful occupant.
Relates to awarding high school diplomas to veterans.
Makes appropriations for the support of government - Capital Projects Budget.
Increases the wireless surcharges for the county of Cortland from thirty cents to one dollar per month.
Relates to the definitions of a switchblade knife and a gravity knife; excludes knives which have a spring, detent, or other mechanism designed to create a bias toward closure and that requires exertion applied to the blade by hand, wrist, or arm to overcome the bias toward closure and open the knife.
Sponsor: Dan Quart
Relates to vendor fees at certain vendor tracks.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes the town of Greenburgh, villages in the town of Greenburgh and the village of Sleepy Hollow in the town of Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to reporting school finances, reserve funds, final annual budgets and multi-year financial plans.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to notice provisions in public works contracts; requires any contract made and awarded by a public owner for any public work project to contain, or be presumed to contain, the following: "The failure to give any notice required to be given by such contract within the time prescribed therein shall not invalidate any claim made by the contractor or any other claimant, unless the failure to provide timely notice has materially prejudiced the public owner"; requires a showing of material prejudice.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Mount Kisco.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides that participants in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children may receive foods from any vendor approved by such program, including infant formula.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to the imposition of a hotel and motel tax in the town of Woodbury.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Provides for enhanced protection of water supplies from and emergency planning for terrorism and cyber terrorism attacks.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to expedited utilization review of prescription drugs.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Directs the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations establishing workload standards for child protective service employees.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Mamaroneck.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Establishes a state insurance advisory board promoting the development and growth of the insurance industry in the state.
Sponsor: James Seward
Establishes tax credits for premiums paid for life insurance which is used for long term health care.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Requires state reimbursement to counties and cities in which a county is located of the full amount of expenditures for indigent legal services.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes the imposition of an occupancy tax in the village of Port Chester.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Imposes an occupancy tax in the town of North Castle.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Requires the department of health and mental hygiene in a city having a population of one million or more to issue a performance summary card to each child care service.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Establishes a hospital supplemental reimbursement rate adjustment for enhanced safety net hospitals.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Clarifies that a musician or other performing artist who is exempt from the requirement to have workers' compensation insurance because he or she is an executive officer of a corporation who is deemed excluded from coverage.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Harrison.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to the imposition of an occupancy tax in the village of Tuckahoe.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to employment agencies, including application for license; relates to procedures; relates to granting of licenses and enforcement of provisions relating thereto.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Authorizes Richard Insogna, Sr. to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer for the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to the early childhood advisory council.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to the issuance of license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; amends the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to defining consummation of a mortgage loan.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to the issuance of bonds to finance airport improvements at the East Hampton Airport.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to directing the division of criminal justice services to notify the appropriate agencies, within 48 hours of the receipt of a change of address, or of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a sex offender.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Requires telemarketers to transmit to consumers the correct caller identification information.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Provides that all schools shall ensure that their health education programs recognize the multiple dimensions of health by including mental health and the relation of physical and mental health so as to enhance student understanding, attitudes and behaviors that promote health, well-being and human dignity.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to recording taxes.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to requiring certain persons providing substance abuse treatment or counseling to complete training in medication assisted treatment.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to financing and construction of capital facilities for Dancewave, Inc.
Sponsor: Jo Simon
Provides that all schools shall ensure that their health education programs recognize the multiple dimensions of health by including mental health and the relation of physical and mental health so as to enhance student understanding, attitudes and behaviors that promote health, well-being and human dignity.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the financing and construction of facilities by the dormitory authority for Summit Educational Resources, Inc.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to the issuance of bonds to finance airport improvements at the East Hampton Airport.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to recording taxes.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Directs that the New York state office of general services statewide administrative services contract be used to select qualified interpreters to be used for translation services for inmates appearing before the parole board.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Relates to the issuance of license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; amends the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to defining consummation of a mortgage loan.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to the processing and maintenance of sexual offense evidence kits.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Requires telemarketers to transmit to consumers the correct caller identification information.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to financing and construction of capital facilities for Dancewave, Inc.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Relates to directing the division of criminal justice services to notify the appropriate agencies, within 48 hours of the receipt of a change of address, or of enrollment, attendance, employment or residence at an institution of higher education by a sex offender.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Directs that the New York state office of general services statewide administrative services contract be used to select qualified interpreters to be used for translation services for inmates appearing before the parole board.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Relates to the early childhood advisory council.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires organizations applying for arts and cultural grants from the New York State council on the arts to provide documentation demonstrating that the organization's principal place of business is within New York State.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Relates to requiring certain persons providing substance abuse treatment or counseling to complete training in medication assisted treatment.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to the financing and construction of facilities by the dormitory authority for Summit Educational Resources, Inc.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Authorizes Richard Insogna, Sr. to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a full-time police officer for the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Requires organizations applying for arts and cultural grants from the New York State council on the arts to provide documentation demonstrating that the organization's principal place of business is within New York State.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the processing and maintenance of sexual offense evidence kits.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to membership of the board of directors of the New York racing association.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Directs child protective services to investigate and test, for the presence of controlled substances, a child under the age of 3 who was in the vicinity of a drug arrest of a parent, guardian or person legally responsible for the child; authorizes family courts to order the production of such a child for the purpose of conducting such testing; and directs the office of children and family services to compile data on such testing, and to submit a report thereon to the governor and the legislature.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Grants Tier I status to Cynthia Falletta in the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York with a membership date of June 1, 1972.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Relates to requiring the commissioner to establish licensing and educational standards for individuals providing canine training for non-service and non-police dogs.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Requires all agencies of the city of New York which issue summons to document violations with photographic evidence when feasible.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Enacts the "tax returns uniformly made public act".
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Establishes the New York state familial search policy; relates to the release of certain information for familial DNA searches where a written agreement governing the use and dissemination of such DNA records exists.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Directs that the New York state office of general services statewide administrative services contract be used to select qualified interpreters to be used for translation services for inmates appearing before the parole board.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Relates to the issuance of bonds to finance airport improvements at the East Hampton Airport for a period not to exceed 30 years.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to tier IV retirement benefits for Luke Parga; accords him tier IV benefits due to his past employment in 2006.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Relates to the mandatory rededication of unused funds in the New York state local government records management improvement fund to such fund.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to duties of certain parole officers.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the membership of the early intervention coordinating council; adds representatives of managed care plans or managed care plan trade associations familiar with how claims for services are provided to the council.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Relates to establishing the temporary advisory board for upstate transit funding.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Directs the director of the division of minority and women's business development to provide for the minority and women-owned business certification of business entities owned by Indian nations or tribes.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Directs the department of financial services to study and report upon the provision of long term care insurance coverage in this state.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to civil service provisional employees; extends certain provisions.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; provides for the annual service charge to be deposited into the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund and the excess of six thousand dollars to be deposited to the credit of the cure childhood cancer research fund; establishes the "cure childhood cancer research fund".
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to the residence of sex offender registrants.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Directs the office of children and family services to study and report on the availability of child day care for working parents.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Provides that personal income tax refunds may be sent to designated accounts, including but not limited to, up to three accounts with financial institutions that have routing and account numbers and are held in the names of the taxpayer's spouse or joint account; provides that designated accounts held in one spouse's name may receive personal income tax refunds from a married filing joint return.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes the county of Fulton to impose a tax on hotel and motel occupancy of up to four percent of the charge therefor.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Relates to the transmission of caller identification information to consumers.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Establishes the Suffolk county felony youth part demonstration program; makes services provided by the office of children and family services, such as but not limited to, therapeutic and intensive care management services, available to youth prosecuted in the Suffolk county felony youth part; requires a written evaluation of the demonstration program two years after the establishment of the felony youth part.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to medical authorization forms to disclose private medical information for people in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision to any next of kin or other representative; provides such authorization shall remain in force until inmate is transferred, dies or revokes such authorization in writing.
Sponsor: Michael Blake
Relates to electronic delivery of property/casualty insurance notices and posting property/casualty insurance policies on the internet; authorizes electronic delivery of insurance notices with consent and the posting of policies on the internet if certain conditions are met.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the timeframe in which an invoice of assessment is to be submitted to the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Erik Dilan
Authorizes the city of Binghamton to classify certain cooperative apartments as homestead properties.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Directs the commissioner of labor and the president of the civil service commission to prepare reports on how many women were referred to counseling or skills development and training for jobs and careers that offer higher earning potential, including jobs traditionally dominated by men.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Relates to rules and regulations pertaining to the operation of social adult day care programs.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Establishes the "complex needs patient act" including definitions and reimbursement and billing procedures; preserves access to quality complex rehabilitation technology for patients with complex medical needs.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to extending the filing deadline from two years to five years for active and retired firefighters in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to creating a comprehensive website of small business and minority and women-owned business enterprise assistance; requires the department of economic development to review its existing websites, directories, and registries offering assistance to small businesses and minority and women-owned business enterprises and consolidate them into a comprehensive website.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to the licensure of pathologists' assistants.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the assessment and payment of taxes on watershed and agricultural easements on easements acquired before January 1, 2011.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to defining consummation of a mortgage loan.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Establishes an interagency council for the purpose of coordinated planning on issues related to older adults which shall assess current programs and services across multiple agencies and shall consider current and projected needs.
Sponsor: Charles Barron
Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to grant an easement through the Boutwell Hill state forest for electric generation facilities associated with a wind powered electric generation project.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Provides for the notification of the next of kin of the death of an inmate.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Establishes the New York state ocean acidification task force to identify the causes and factors contributing to ocean acidification and to evaluate ways of addressing the problem by applying the best available science as to ocean acidification and its anticipated impacts.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Requires the office of children and family services to complete a report on the impact of a tax deduction for expenses, including adoption fees, medical and legal fees, court costs and any other related expenses paid or incurred by a taxpayer attributed to the adoption of a child in foster care.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to requirements under Medicare part D employer group waiver plans.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to standards for the inspections of parking structures.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Requires the provision of translation services for inmates appearing before the parole board.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Relates to contracts for the transportation of school children; makes provisions regarding the ability to extend such contracts for periods of time and amends provisions relating to requests for proposals and amendments to transportation contracts.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Relates to railroad safety; requires joint inspection of traffic signals; increases penalties for the failure to comply with regulations; aligns railroad bridge inspection requirements with federal regulations; establishes and increases penalties for failure to obey certain signals and stops.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Makes provisions for payment to certain parole officers employed by the department of corrections and community supervision for salary and medical expenses while subject to sickness.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Includes the examination of tinted or shaded windows in the periodic inspection of motor vehicles required by law; authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate any and all rules and regulations necessary.
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Requires parole decisions to be published on a publicly accessible website within 60 days of such decision.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Permits an authorized physician to direct that physical therapy care may be rendered by a certified physical therapist assistant.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to participation by state agencies in a system used by the comptroller to compile vendor responsibility information; defines information technology for procurement purposes; clarifies the use of best and final offers for invitations for bids and requests for proposals for goods, services and technology; clarifies the use of contracts let by another governmental agency; clarifies the valuation of non-cash contracts by the state comptroller.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to age and service eligibility requirements for ordinary retirement for members of the unified court system; restores 55/30 for all members and reduces the retirement age from 63 to 62.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to comprehensive emergency management plans' provisions for homecare and hospice in counties and in cities with a population of one million or more.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to establishing a temporary commission for the purpose of celebrating the 100th anniversary of World War I.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Provides for a tax deduction for the adoption of a child with special needs.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to the reform of charitable corporations and trust governance.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Relates to the transfer and conveyance of certain unappropriated state land to the county of Greene, in relation to using the land for a 911 emergency call center.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Provides that uniformed court officers and peace officers employed in the unified court system shall be entitled to accidental disability retirement if they sustain injuries as the result of a physical assault by an assailant suffered while in service.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires school district compliance with physical education instruction requirements in elementary grades in public schools to be reported to the department of education.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the emergency medical service.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Defines the term "necessary court appearance" for purposes of the determination of a crime victim's award to include any part of a proceeding from arraignment through sentencing, pre and post trial hearings and grand jury hearings.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Relates to creating a farm investment fund.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Relates to improving evaluations of the potential impact of rules on jobs and employment opportunities.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to including certain reserve veterans for purposes of the veteran alternative exemption; includes Operation Graphic Hand.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to the Kings county health care facility transformation program.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires the division of criminal justice services to provide notice to the appropriate local police agency, within 48 hours, of the change of address, or the other information relating to a sex offender.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Authorizes participating employers in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system offering 20 year retirement plans to offer such plans on a non-contributory basis.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the Sag Harbor Union Free School District, Suffolk County, New York, to expend the proceeds of certain bonds issued by the district for an object or purpose that differs from the original object or purpose for which said bonds were issued.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Limits the amount of time to appeal certain judgments regarding freedom of information violations.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to the provision of enriched social adult day services and authorizes the director to establish an application process where eligible entities may apply to offer enriched and/or optional services and authorizes the director to make grants to eligible entities.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Establishes the nineteen member autism spectrum disorders advisory board.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health, to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan.
Sponsor: Jose Serrano
Relates to private school agents' certificates.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes volunteer firefighters from other states to offer and provide their services to fire departments, districts and companies in this state.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to a credit for purchase, construction or retrofitting of a principal residence to achieve universal visitability pursuant to guidelines developed by the division of code enforcement and administration within the department of state; caps tax credits awarded at 1 million dollars per year for 5 years.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Provides an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain personal property manufactured and sold by veterans.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Repeals the definition of "transportation purpose" for the purposes of the metropolitan transportation authority.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Provides medical assistance coverage for the cost of donor breast milk which is medically necessary for certain prematurely born infants.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the filling of borrow pits in Jamaica Bay and the effectiveness thereof; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Allows certain social service or health personnel to disclose confidential HIV related information for research purposes.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to prohibiting fees to be charged to agencies for copies of certain clinical records.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Extends the ability of the county of Albany to impose and collect taxes on occupancy of hotel or motel rooms in Albany county.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Authorizes the town of Clifton Park, Saratoga county to impose a tax on hotel and motel occupancy of up to 1 1/2 percent of the charge therefor.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Enacts the "charitable gaming act of 2016"; allows games known as "raffles" to accept legal tender, credit or debit card for payment; further authorizes "raffles" at the discretion of the games of chance licensee, to be purchased via the internet or mobile application with a credit or debit card upon the account holder's direct consent; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Relates to the creation of the New York jockey injury compensation fund.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Authorizes the office for the aging to conduct a public education campaign relating to elder abuse.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Provides for the processing of and maintenance of sexual offense evidence kits.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to a small business online lending awareness and outreach campaign.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to automated ticket purchasing software.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Relates to disaster preparedness.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Establishes age sixteen as the minimum age for assisting in the conduct of any game of bingo.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Requires persons providing substance abuse treatment or counseling to complete training in medication assisted treatment.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to authorizing pharmacists to refill non-controlled substance prescriptions for quantities of drugs not to exceed a ninety day supply.
Sponsor: Michael Simanowitz
Provides that dependents of military servicemembers who are transferred out of the state shall remain eligible for certain developmental disability services received under federal home and community based services programs.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Excludes newspaper delivery persons from unemployment insurance coverage, the minimum wage and workers' compensation coverage.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Permits a city wholly within the county of Orange to opt out of a county law permitting the sale and possession of sparklers.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to prohibiting employees of a not-for-profit corporation from serving as chair of the board.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Requires the office of children and family services to post any additional relevant qualifications of child day care providers which are submitted to such office on its website.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Allows colleges and universities participating in the higher education opportunity program to spend program funds on certain expenses beneficial to students: student travel for academic activities or conferences; expenses related to helping students apply for and prepare for graduate or professional school; the hiring of students participating in an Arthur O. Eve opportunity for higher education work-study program.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to contributions made to family tuition accounts; provides that a taxpayer may deposit a sum derived from his or her personal income tax refund into college savings accounts.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Authorizes the regulation of taxicabs, limousines, livery and transportation network company vehicles in certain municipalities.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to mandatory retirement age; increases the age at which a member must retire to receive an additional pension from sixty-two to sixty-five.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus; provides for an advisory council consisting of representatives of people with lupus and their families and health care providers who specialize in treating lupus.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Allows certain entities to convert their status of filing as a not-for-profit organization to a for-profit entity.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Provides for patient access to FDA approved abuse-deterrent technology to help combat opioid abuse.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to minimum standards for online posting of rulemaking information.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to HIV-related testing and to screening for certain diseases; authorizes certain health care professionals to prescribe or execute an order for a seven day starter packet of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to health insurance buyout programs.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Allows pharmacies to electronically transfer prescriptions to other pharmacies.
Sponsor: Michelle Schimel
Relates to the powers and duties of the president of the state civil service commission.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Authorizes the city of Hudson to impose hotel and motel taxes.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to prohibiting the New York state council on the arts from awarding arts and cultural grants when an organization has no place of business within the state and does not apply awarded monies to New York state programs.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or at a long term care facility.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Directs the department of transportation to conduct a study of level grade rail crossings and to submit a report to the governor and the legislature on or before April 1, 2017.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to authorizing certain advanced home health aides to perform certain advanced tasks.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Relates to any adoption by the department of environmental conservation of a management plan concerning mute swans.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Relates to disability benefits for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Establishes a tax credit for the purchase and installation of geothermal energy systems.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Grants Kevin Moriarty Tier IV status in the New York state teachers' retirement system.
Sponsor: Dean Murray
Establishes the empire state music production credit and the empire state digital gaming media production credit; defines terms.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to off-hours arraignment parts in counties outside the city of New York; authorizes the establishment of a plan to designate off-hours arraignment parts in select local criminal courts of a county.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to the investigation of illegally operating child day care services, including the review process of applicable advertisements.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to increasing the bonding authority of the New York city housing development corporation.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Establishes a tax credit for donation of wholesome food to a food bank or other emergency food program by eligible New York state farmers.
Sponsor: Francisco Moya
Authorizes the village of Montgomery, in the county of Orange, to discontinue use of certain lands as parkland, and use such lands to generate energy through the installation and operation of solar panels thereon.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Reinstates certain entities as empire zone business enterprises that were improperly decertified.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Provides that certain persons who adjust claims on behalf of municipal cooperative health benefit plans shall be considered adjusters.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to requirements for notice to local governments, community organizations and other interested parties of the potential for significant service reductions at certain state-operated hospitals.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Provides for the issuance of special ballots to emergency responders who respond to emergencies declared by the governor or a court of competent jurisdiction.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to access to viable agricultural land for new and beginning farmers.
Sponsor: William Magee
Relates to the powers and duties of the receiver of taxes and assessments and school boards.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Directs the commissioner of health to make regulations for the donation and redispensing of unused prescription drugs.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes the county of Livingston to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Excludes the services of the sole employee of an employer that is a corporation, limited liability company or partnership, when such employee is the owner of such employer, from the definition of "employment" for purposes of unemployment insurance provisions.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Requires retailers of electronic cigarettes, not otherwise registered with the department of taxation and finance to sell tobacco products, to register with the department of health.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Enacts the "state workforce injury reduction act"; requires state agencies to submit a written action plan for reducing occurrences of injuries in the coming year to the governor and the legislature.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Relates to providing county correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes a sentencing court to consider an application for poor person relief on appeal.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to landlord's proposed rental amenity changes and increased rent.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Eliminates restrictions upon transferring between public retirement systems.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Exempts the real property of a land bank from all special ad valorem levies and special assessments as defined in section one hundred two of the real property tax law.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to qualifications to serve as an emergency medical technician.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to dissolving the Madison County Sewer District and transferring its assets, obligations and liabilities to the town of Cazenovia.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Establishes business franchise and personal income tax gifts for the support of state veterans' homes; establishes the "veterans' home assistance fund" as a repository of revenue from such gifts, grants and bequests thereto; requires annual state appropriations thereto to be used for the support of the 5 state veterans' homes in the state.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to the financing and construction of facilities by the dormitory authority for Summit Educational Resource, Inc., of Western New York.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Provides that any head of household issued a tax abatement certificate for five consecutive years shall not be required to file every two years for a tax abatement certificate upon local option.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to sales of certain property made to the Suffolk County Landbank Corporation.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to pro rata license fees for seasonal bars.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Requires the DOT to determine which entrances to parkways in Westchester county are most frequently accessed by oversized commercial vehicles and to install certain barriers to prevent such vehicles from accessing such entrances.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Repeals certain provisions relating to the airport security registration fee.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Permits child performers to perform in community theater without having to obtain a permit from the department of labor.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Provides certain disability benefits for disabilities related to heart disease to sworn police officers of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, capital police officers in the office of general services and forest rangers; provides that any condition of impairment of health, caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to such sworn police officer, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance of such officer's duty.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Directs the commissioner of health and superintendent of financial services to establish a standard prior authorization request for a utilization review of prescription drug coverage.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to refunding contributions for New York city transit authority members in the title transit manager.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to eligibility for real property tax credit for payments in lieu of taxes made by a Qualified Empire Zone Enterprise for property located at 560 Broadway, Schenectady, New York.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Requires health care plans and insurers to provide expedited review of applications of health care professionals who are joining a group practice.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes an insured to designate a third party to receive cancellation notification.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Increases certain prize amount thresholds for raffles.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the licensing of custom beermakers, custom cidermakers and custom winemakers; defines terms; sets fees.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes the superintendent of financial services to suspend crediting of underwriting earnings for a fiscal year for the purpose of accumulating a subscriber's operating reserve.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Provides that freestanding diagnostic and treatment centers receiving comprehensive family planning reproductive health services grants, shall be eligible for state aid for indigent care.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Relates to the process of selling surplus fire equipment and vehicles.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Establishes public arbitration panels that shall take into consideration for employees of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority who are employed as bridge and tunnel officers and are peace officers, a comparison of peculiarities in regard to other trades or professions.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Authorizes the villages of Sag Harbor and East Hampton, county of Suffolk, to reduce speed limits in certain cases.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Prohibits certain sex offenders from living near or entering upon parklands that contain a playground.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to the obligation of hospitals, nursing homes, residential health care facilities, and facilities providing health related service to provide life-sustaining health care treatment.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Authorizes peace officers at the video lottery gaming facility at the Aqueduct racetrack.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to qualification procedures for bus drivers.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Provides that when a flood event not covered under a policy or specifically excluded is a contributing factor in or occurs simultaneously as a covered event or peril, the insurer shall not deny or exclude coverage for the loss or damage caused by the covered event or peril.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Makes an appropriation to reimburse St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway for costs incurred as a result of remaining open and providing services to the community during and after Hurricane Sandy.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to providing partial tax abatements for certain rebuilt properties in certain fiscal years.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to pay for military duty covering forty working days or sixty calendar days.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to requiring proof of title or replacement title for certain vehicle transfers.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Provides that certain revenue generated from video lottery terminals at the Aqueduct racetrack be used solely for the maintenance and upgrading of the Aqueduct racetrack.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Authorizes Bnos Bais Yaakov to file an application for exemption from real property taxes.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Requires health care facilities to respect each patient's religious beliefs with regard to the provision of health care.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of police officers, peace officers, court officers, emergency medical technicians or paramedics; provides that such crime is a class E felony.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Authorizes the observance of September 11th Remembrance Day in public schools and a brief period of silence in public school classrooms at the opening of such day.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Grants a waiver of half of the civil service examination fee for veterans.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Prohibits the imposition and collection of a fare, toll, rental, rate, charge or other fee on the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge or on any other bridge located entirely within one county of the state as security for bonds and notes issued by the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority or by the metropolitan commuter transportation authority.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to extending a partial tax abatement for certain rebuilt property.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to peace officer residency requirements; provides that a peace officer may be a lawful permanent resident.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Provides for electronic monitoring of defendants in judicial diversion programs.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop a program for veterans who served on or after January 1, 1973 to receive high school diplomas.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Creates the New York flood insurance association.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Provides grants to owners of small businesses to rebuild storefronts severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Caps annual water rate increases at four percent in a city having a population of one million or more persons.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Establishes St. Patrick's day, March 17th, as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to the imposition of mandatory gratuities.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Authorizes Bnos Bais Yaakov to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for certain assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Prohibits individuals under the age of twenty-one from gambling.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Prohibits the disclosure of highway, bridge, tunnel and other thoroughfare toll records, and commuter railroad and transit records to protect privacy, unless necessary to perform law enforcement functions of certain public officials and bodies or to further another public entities official functions.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Regulates and restricts the reduction of the mental health census of adult homes; establishes a workgroup to study and report on the transition of persons with serious mental illness into the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Requires notice from employers to customers of service charges and administrative fees that are not distributed to employees as gratuities.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Authorizes the taxation of state land in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; makes such provisions permanent.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Grants the Scarsdale union free school district and Vernon Verona Sherrill central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to midwifery birth centers; includes term within the definition of a hospital; directs the commissioner of health to make regulations relating to establishment and operation of midwifery birth centers.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to permanent total disability benefits received by disabled volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; provides for a cost-of-living adjustment to such benefits.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Proscribes indemnity agreements in motor carrier transportation contracts.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to requiring certain agencies to submit regulatory agendas for publication in the state register.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Establishes the Senior Center Council to provide a forum for the discussion of challenges facing senior centers.
Sponsor: Robert Rodriguez
Increases the number of counties in which services can be performed to qualify for the empire state film production credit.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Extends the expiration of provisions relating to a restricted dental faculty license; requires a report proposing legislation to address the shortage of New York trained dentists pursuing academic careers in New York.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Establishes the School Energy Efficiency Collaborative Act of 2016 to reduce redundancies, raise awareness, and promote the efficient implementation of energy projects in school districts across the state.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Grants the Minisink Valley central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Relates to the consumption of alcohol by students under the age of twenty-one who are enrolled in certain courses of study.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Provides for the financing and construction of capital facilities for a certain not-for-profit corporation.
Sponsor: Jo Simon
Relates to notice of public hearings relating to the adoption of rules and regulations.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Requires the department of social services and not-for-profit corporations to inquire into whether applicants for financial assistance have engaged in military service.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Codifies the early childhood advisory council to promote a comprehensive and high quality early childhood system.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Requires every general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center or outpatient department to provide identification, assessment, and appropriate treatment or referral of persons suspected as human trafficking victims; requires notification to social services where person is under the age of 18.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes the provision of free spaying and neutering services in lieu of self-instructional course work for continuing education requirements for veterinarians with services provided in the office of a licensed veterinarian.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to collection period after assessment not being extended as a result of hospitalization for members of the armed forces, astronauts and victims of certain terrorist attacks.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking and the duties and meeting requirements of such task force.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Relates to a certain agreement for a payment in lieu of taxes with respect to a lessee that is a qualified empire zone enterprise of certain real property.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to the effectiveness of payments in lieu of taxes made by certain entities for property located at One Nirvana Plaza, Forestport, New York.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Relates to clarifying the basis upon which the state liquor authority has the authority to revoke, suspend or cancel a license or permit by excluding perceived violations of the laws of other states unless the conduct falls within certain exceptions and established standards in statute for the delivery of beverage alcohol.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Relates to an exemption of capital improvements to multiple dwelling buildings within certain cities.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Relates to information concerning dense breasts.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Authorizes the state liquor authority to retain monies collected as fines for use for the operational purposes of the state liquor authority.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Establishes the commission on Roosevelt Avenue to study and make recommendations relating to crime and economic development on such avenue in the borough of Queens, between 49th Street and 114th Street.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to the taxation of state lands in the town of Bedford in Westchester county.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to the approval of the closure of nursing homes and residential health care facilities by the commissioner of health after a report is created on the closure.
Sponsor: Daniel Squadron
Increases the earned income tax credit in the city of New York from five to fifteen percent.
Sponsor: Jose Serrano
Relates to classifying U-47700 (Pink) as a schedule I opiate.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to prohibiting advertising for the use of dwelling units in a class A multiple dwelling.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to establishing a tree removal and emerald ash elimination credit.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to criminal sale of a controlled substance; adds the sale of one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing carfentanil to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and first degrees.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to distiller's licenses.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to the use of fulfillment services of certain persons.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Requires a 60 day license suspension for any driver convicted of 3 or more speeding violations within a school zone, committed within an 18 month period of time.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Directs the board of trustees of the state university to require applicants to state-operated institutions to state whether they have been convicted of a violent felony offense.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the compensation of presidents of the state university of New York and city university of New York; may not exceed the annual compensation provided to the chancellor of such university; such compensation limit shall not apply to the presidents of certain university centers or medical centers.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Enacts provisions governing the transmission of electronic prescriptions and the production of hard copies of such prescriptions.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to the sharing of revenue from gaming devices located within the county of Madison.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Extends until January 1, 2019, the deadline to apply for the solar electric generating system real property tax abatement.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to clarifying health education.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to making it unlawful for a caretaker to post a vulnerable elderly person on social media without their consent.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to study and report on the recruitment and retention of direct support professionals working with people with developmental disabilities by November 1, 2016.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Establishes an underground utility improvement district in the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to referrals of certain annexation petitions.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Provides for the use of certain property in the county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to taxation of unincorporated businesses.
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Provides that people receiving a United States Postal Service disability pension are eligible to participate in the disability rent increase exemption program.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Allows that additional taxes on each mortgage or real property be placed upon certain transportation districts.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Validates certain acts of the Islip Union Free school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects including project numbers 0003-12, 0011-007, 0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010, 0007-012 & 0011-009.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Requires the New York City Housing Authority to provide a written statement articulating the reasons for denial of any request when the denial precedes a tenant's right to institute a grievance procedure.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Provides for the administration of digital assets; defines terms; authorizes a user to use an online tool to direct the custodian to disclose or not to disclose some or all of the user's digital assets, including the content of electronic communications; provides that this article does not impair the rights of a custodian or a user under a terms-of-service agreement to access and use digital assets of the user; provides for a procedure for disclosing digital assets; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Allows certain not-for-profits to make purchases through use of county contracts.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Eliminates restrictions on the removal of human remains from the county in which the death occurred.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to providing additional enforcement mechanisms for collection of spousal or child support.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes a credit for beer produced within NYC by a taxpayer that is registered as a distributor under article 18 of the tax law.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to method of collection of charges by the Suffolk county water authority.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to the eligibility of J-51 tax abatements to reflect cost-of-living adjustments.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Provides that the bridge on county route 28, exits number 34 on the east and westbound Southern state parkway in the town of Babylon, county of Suffolk, shall be designated and known as the "Corporal Tony Casamento Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "6994th Security Squadron Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the port authority of New York and New Jersey to offer a certain retirement option to port authority police officers Timothy GaNun and Jason DeVirgilio.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the period of probable usefulness for the acquisition of land or permanent rights on land in the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the authorization of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to designate Sean William McCabe as a Tier III member.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to the resident curator program; adds the Susan B. Anthony House to such program.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Designates a portion of the state highway system, in the county of Ulster, as the "Private First Class Douglas Cordo Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Establishes an energy system tax stabilization reserve fund in the Lowville Central School District to lessen or prevent increases in the school district's real property tax levy resulting from decreases in revenue due to changes in or termination of the payments in lieu of taxes receivable by the school district.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to adding to definition of "for cause" in instances of revocation of licenses.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Requires the commissioner of mental health to develop detailed definitions of degrees of injuries that may result from attacks by persons confined to state forensic psychiatric centers.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to designating employees of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center working as public safety officers, supervisors or managers as peace officers.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to procedures involving taxpayer interviews.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to method of collection of charges by the Water Authority of Great Neck North.
Sponsor: Michelle Schimel
Designates employees of the village court of the village of Port Chester serving as uniformed court officers as peace officers.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Designates a pedestrian bridge over routes 5, 8, and 12 in the city of Utica as the "Corey Lee Carr Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Designates a portion of the state highway system, in the town of Lewisboro, county of Westchester, as the "Marine Lance Corporal James J. Jackowski Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to judicial wellness and assistance committees.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Requires the NYC housing authority to provide a notice of opportunity to meet to discuss possible termination of tenancy when an occupant is aged 62 years or older.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Provides for an exemption for certain real property in certain counties.
Sponsor: Barbara Lifton
Relates to the designation of the "United States Submarine Veterans' Memorial Highway - Saratoga County".
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Authorizes holding title of real property of a land bank in the name of a subsidiary; grants additional powers to land banks.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to exceptions to requirements for electronic prescriptions for oral prescriptions.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to rent increase exemption orders.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Designates a portion of state route 275 in the village of Richburg, county of Allegany, as the "Private First Class Duane C. Scott Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the powers and duties of fire district commissioners.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming a transportation contract of the Cold Spring Harbor central school district.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the town board of the town of Brookhaven to extend the Setauket fire district to include the village of Old Field.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Designates that portion of state route 357 in the town of Franklin, county of Delaware, as the "Corporal Nicholas K. Uzenski Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: James Seward
Designates a certain portion of state route two hundred seventy-seven in the town of West Seneca, county of Erie, to be the "West Seneca Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Michael Kearns
Relates to the tobacco revenue guarantee fund and filing an annual report regarding certain expenditures for indigent legal services.
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Designates a portion of state route 118 in the town of Yorktown, county of Westchester, as the "Army Captain Clayton Carpenter Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Grants authority to the village of Sag Harbor, county of Suffolk to regulate certain described waters bounding said village pursuant to the navigation law.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Designates a portion of state route 434 as the "Col. David Ireland Memorial Highway" in the city of Binghamton, in Broome County.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to filing a report on examination.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to a mixed use exemption program in certain villages.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to the waiver of a kitchen incubator processing license fee.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Authorizes Christopher Dyroff to apply for retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Relates to granting retroactive tier IV membership in the NYS and local employees' retirement system to Ryan L. Dickerson.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Designates the bridge on U.S. route 20, between Oak street and South Portage street, in the town of Westfield, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant Kevin W. White Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to increasing penalties for deceptive trade practices and unlawful acts by an automobile broker business.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Provides the land bank can assign all rights resulting from the land bank's successful tender for the property to the foreclosing governmental unit; allows the property to be deeded directly to the foreclosing governmental unit.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Designates certain portions of the Lake Ontario State Parkway in the town of Greece, county of Monroe, the "U.S. Navy Seabee Parkway".
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires used motor vehicle dealers to have a $20,000 surety bond if they sell 50 or less cars a year, and a $100,000 surety bond if they sell more than 50 cars a year.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Designates a portion of state route 23 in the town of Windham, county of Greene, as the "Wayne C. Speenburgh Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: George Amedore
Establishes the Yonkers city school district joint schools construction and modernization act.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Requires the division of veterans' affairs to establish, operate and maintain a free mobile application for the purposes of providing veterans and their family members with information relating to services provided by the division and other state agencies, the federal government and other organizations; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Michael Blake
Extends provisions of the Schenectady county metroplex development authority from August 31, 2033 until August 31, 2038; increases the bond limit from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Designates that portion of state route 208 in the village of Washingtonville, Orange county, as "John Spear Way".
Sponsor: William Larkin
Authorizes the town of Hyde Park to convey to the Greenfields Town Water District an easement through land located in the town's Greenfields Park currently utilized as a public ground water supply with underground water mains, electrical lines and well heads as a part of the existing public water supply system.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to the issuance of a retail license for on-premises consumption for certain premises in the county of Erie.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Relates to electronic prescriptions; permits health care practitioners to make note in a patient's chart (rather than notifying the health department) when they issue a non-electronic prescription under certain conditions.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Increases certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows, widowers or the deceased member's children.
Sponsor: Margaret Markey
Relates to limitations on real property tax exemptions for veterans in the city of New York; requires the local legislative body to adopt a local law providing the exemption.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Prohibits certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke or other particulate emissions.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Creates the New York state center for the expansion of nanoscale science and engineering.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides that the office of non-public school services shall create and revise a document titled the state standards report which is to be completed by the superintendent of every school district for each non-public school in such district, and which will assist and guide the school district in determining that all resident children attending a school other than a public school receive instruction from competent teachers and is at least substantially equivalent to the instruction given to minors of like age and attainments at the public schools where the minor resides; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to promoting animal fighting and appropriately punishing individuals associated with such activities.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Restricts fees on gift cards and gift certificates issued by merchants for goods and services; permits a service fee to be assessed after the twenty-fourth month.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Relates to the interment of pet cremated remains.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to biodiversity in planting projects; requires municipalities to follow the 10-20-30 principle for planting projects.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Authorizes the Hindu Welfare Association of New York, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to having the state reimburse all local costs for medicaid.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Authorizes hunting of big game with rifles in the county of Livingston.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Increases the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Removes the prohibition on changing an assessment following litigation.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Requires child protective service or other child protective agency to report findings regarding children allegedly abused or neglected within fourteen days where ordered or requested by court to investigate, unless just cause can be shown to extend such time to twenty-one days.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Exempts an employer from paying into the unemployment insurance fund with respect to former public assistance recipients who are now his employees and direct the commissioner of labor and the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to report to the legislature on the effectiveness of such provision.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Requires that assessing authorities answer discovery demands in assessment review.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Directs the workers' compensation board to establish and operate a video conferencing hearing site in the city of Hornell, county of Steuben.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Repeals provisions of the environmental conservation law requiring hunters to display back tags.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Provides that if an assessment is reduced by 25% or greater of the challenged value, reasonable attorney fees shall be allowed.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Provides that the open season for hunting coyotes shall be all year long.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Requires that real property tax assessment information be subject to the Freedom of Information Law.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Designates various portions of state route 15A in the counties of Monroe and Livingston to be the "Brighton Veterans Memorial Highway", "Henrietta Veterans Memorial Highway", "Rush Veterans Memorial Highway", "Mendon Veterans Memorial Highway", "Lima Veterans Memorial Highway", "Livonia Veterans Memorial Highway", "Canadice Veterans Memorial Highway" and "Springwater Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Provides that if an assessment is challenged and ultimately reduced, the petitioner is entitled to interest on the refunded amount.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Designates portions of state route 15A in the county of Livingston to be the "Livonia Veterans Memorial Highway" and the "Springwater Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Authorizes approval of certain transportation contracts of the Dansville central school district which failed to comply with certain filing requirements.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Amends the sentencing procedures and jury charges in capital cases.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Reduces the salaries of members of the legislature to $35,000 a year and provides that regular session ends on March 31st.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Allows filling stations located within marinas to sell motor fuel that does not contain ethanol.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Repeals certain provisions of chapter 1 of the laws of 2013, amending the criminal procedure law and other laws relating to suspension and revocation of firearms licenses.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Penalizes the price gouging of pharmaceuticals; penalty not to exceed one million dollars.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the apportionment of expenses; includes the total assessed value of payment in lieu of taxes in apportionment calculation.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of the department of health to conduct biomonitoring on the residents of Hoosick Falls, Hoosick, and Petersburgh regarding PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) contamination.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Eliminates eligibility for medical parole based cognitive inability to present a danger to society or debilitating illness; eliminates requirement for medical parole, that a terminally ill inmate shall have served at least one-half of his or her sentence; requires an inmate to apply for such parole; directs the department of corrections and community supervision to establish standards for medical discharge plans.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Provides that the attorney general may require reporting of contributions or grants from a government agency by registered charitable organizations; includes contributions by foreign government entities.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Adds controlled substance analogues to the definition of controlled substances; and relates to adding controlled substance analogues to the definition of controlled substances and to define the term knowingly, with respect to controlled substance offenses.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes farm brewery licensees to sell wine and spirits manufactured by the licensee or a licensed farm winery or distillery.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to cider sold at retail for consumption.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to participants in the World Trade Center rescue.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to giving public notice of meetings through electronic means; allows notice to be given by posting through electronic means or electronic transmission.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to online posting of full text of rules, statements and analyses.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Authorizes the office of general services to sell certain state-owned land to the Montefiore Medical Center.
Sponsor: Ruth Hassell-Thompson
Relates to authorizing David Poplawski, a former employee of the state university of New York NY Network who is now employed by NYS department of taxation and finance, to retain membership in the optional retirement program.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Requires applicants for licenses and for renewals thereof as real estate brokers and real estate salesmen to complete instruction in the law of agency.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes licensing of certain military spouses whose spouse is transferred by the military to this state; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Requires certain establishments to display a poster with information regarding the national human trafficking resource center hotline.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Makes the text of emergency rules available online.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Permits retail farm operations as an accessory use to agricultural lands pursuant to the Peconic Bay region community preservation fund.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Adds certain parcels of land in the city of Peekskill and in the town of Greenburgh to the list of premises which are exempt from the provisions of law which restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Relates to waiving the residency requirement for the town board-appointed officers in the town of LaGrange, Dutchess county.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Enacts the "integrated employment, economic development and safety net system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities act"; directs the commissioner of transportation to establish a rural integrated transportation demonstration program in 6 rural counties; establishes a tax credit for integrated business enterprise investments; extends eligibility for the credit for employment of persons with disabilities to taxpayers employing persons with disabilities, who are certified by the office for people with developmental disabilities, on a full-time or part-time basis.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to providing a period of probable usefulness for an intangible asset classified as a capital asset.
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Exempts certain parcels of land from the provisions of law which generally restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Requires state authorities to conduct open meetings and provide an internet broadcast of its meetings, where practicable.
Sponsor: Adriano Espaillat
Prohibits charging a fee to obtain a death certificate for an inmate who has died under custody.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to undertake projects to protect national historic landmarks from shore erosion.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Expands the farm, apple and cuisine trails programs.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to meetings and absences of the board of regents.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes a pilot program to conduct scientific research and assessment of the feasibility of seaweed cultivation.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Extends from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2047, the expiration of provisions authorizing the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to lease the Hyde hall historic site at the Glimmerglass state park.
Sponsor: William Magee
Relates to the misbranding of escolar or oilfish as tuna, albacore tuna or white tuna.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Relates to authorizing alcohol and substance abuse treatment in another jurisdiction for defendants in judicial diversion programs.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Prohibits mercury-added rotational balancing products.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the lease of advertising space on sports field fences in the city of Rye, Westchester County.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Requires the transmission of forward-facing employment data in labor market information.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to the rates set by the Sandy Hook pilots surcharge board.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to disability benefits for certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund; presumes performance of duty for certain illnesses; authorizes the board of trustees of the New York city fire department pension fund to draw upon the assets of such fund to pay expenses.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes a fund to benefit the residents of Hoosick Falls, Hoosick, and Petersburgh regarding medical monitoring expenses for those exposed to PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) contaminated water for all expenses not covered by insurance.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the reorganization of the alcoholic beverage control law.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to conduct periodic testing of school potable water sources and systems to monitor for lead contamination in certain school buildings; provides additional aid to such districts and boards for the costs incurred due to the testing of such potable water sources and systems containing an unacceptable amount of lead.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to analyzing and reporting on the vulnerability of electronically stored voter and election information, including but not limited to an examination of the vulnerability of registration records and voting machines, and to electronic hacking and cyber-attacks from both foreign and domestic sources.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to the substitution of brand name epinephrine autoinjectors with generic epinephrine autoinjectors provided that the prescriber does not prohibit substitution.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to information contained in the annual water supply statement.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Requires the department of health to periodically review the United States environmental protection agency's contaminant candidate list, and make a determination whether the department of health should establish rules and regulations for the protection from contamination by any or all of the contaminants on the contaminant candidate list.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Designates a portion of state route twelve and a portion of state route twenty-eight in the town of Boonville in Oneida county for snowmobile use to provide for the safe use of state route twelve and state route twenty-eight and the safe operation of snowmobiles on the trails.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Authorizes the county of Ulster to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
Sponsor: Frank Skartados
Extends the village of Rye Brook occupancy tax for three years.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Includes vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition of "hazard vehicle".
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes farm vehicles to travel on a highway from the point of sale to a farm.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes emergency vehicles and tow trucks to travel on shoulders or slopes of controlled-access highways when dispatched to the scene of an accident.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Authorizes the county of Dutchess to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to the registration of commuter vans.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Authorizes the denial of the issuance or renewal of a cabaret license in the city of New York upon the determination of the community board that the licensed premises would have a negative impact on the surrounding community; authorizes the imposition of a fine of up to $10,000 for unlicensed operation of a cabaret or for violations by cabarets; provides for mandatory suspension or revocation of a cabaret license for violations thereof.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Directs the state liquor authority to issue a farm winery license to the Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association Inc. Grape Discovery Center in the town of Westfield, county of Chautauqua; provides for the activities which are authorized under such license.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to independent expenditures during election campaigns; provides that independent expenditures shall not include payments or expenditures where coordination occurs in the creation, formation or operation of the person making such payment or expenditure (Part A); relates to monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee (Part B); amends the election law, in relation to disposition of campaign funds (Part C); relates to in-kind donations (Part D); relates to contingency fees (Part E); relates to the disclosure of certain donations by charitable non-profit entities (Part F); relates to the disclosure of certain activities by non-charitable non-profit entities (Part G); relates to the registration of certain service providers and political consulting services; defines terms (Part H); relates to communications with professional journalists and newscasters (Part I); relates to investigations by the joint commission on public ethics and to violations of the lobbying act (Part J); and relates to financial disclosure forms (Part K).
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to jury pools for United States district courts; broadens jury pools for selection.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Relates to adding a representative from WUFO Studios to the Michigan Street African Heritage Corridor commission.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Authorizes the town justice of the town of Allen, in the county Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates for recipients of the conspicuous service cross or their spouses; requires payment of the regular registration fee and an additional, one-time service charge of ten dollars.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Enacts the "integrated employment, economic development and safety net system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities act"; directs the commissioner of transportation to establish a rural integrated transportation demonstration program in 6 rural counties; establishes a tax credit for integrated business enterprise investments; extends eligibility for the credit for employment of persons with disabilities to taxpayers employing persons with disabilities, who are certified by the office for people with developmental disabilities, on a full-time or part-time basis.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Exempts the city of Olean from article four of the general city law.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to exempting Prospect Terrace Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that a percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed 45% of the membership.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to micro-businesses and micro-loans.
Sponsor: Ron Kim
Elevates assault of a utility worker in the second degree to a class D felony; includes an employee of an entity governed by the public service law within such provisions.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Relates to the incorporation of certain businesses for the purpose of practicing professional geology.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Increases the fees imposed by the Lake George park commission for docks, wharfs, moorings and boats.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to persons joining a public retirement system on or after July 1, 2009 and before January 10, 2010.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to percent of wagers made at off-track betting facilities conducted by in-state thoroughbred racing corporations.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Authorizes the village of Hudson Falls, in the county of Washington, to discontinue use of certain lands as parkland, and use such lands for municipal parking.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to providing district management association members with written notice of meetings; and to providing minutes upon request.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Authorizes a retired employee of the Chittenango central school district to rescind such employee's retirement option.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Authorizes the Capital District transportation authority to enter into an agreement with any city, town or village located within the Capital District transportation district which has adopted an ordinance regulating the registration and licensing of taxicab vehicles; and authorizes any city, town or village located within the Capital District transportation district to contract with the Capital District transportation authority for certain purposes.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Includes the possession of a machete within the class A misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Authorizes school districts to grant the Cold War veterans' real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Authorizes SUNY college at Westbury to lease lands for the construction and operation of a child care center.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to attorney requirements regarding revocable trusts.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to lease state land, associated utility lines and television translator system to the Tioga county bureau of fire and other occupants.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a process server to obstruct from performing his or her lawful duty, or as retaliation against the process server for performing his or her lawful duty.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund and the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Relates to extending the authorization for the length of leased lands located at the state university of New York at Purchase.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Prohibits any person from attempting to or to in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, cover, remove or otherwise interfere with any traffic control device or railroad sign or signal; provides an affirmative defense therefor that operator can show he or she was not aware of the device.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Relates to village justices; changes the title of acting justice to associate justice.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to the distribution of the state register; requires the department of state make available at no cost an online version of the weekly state register, quarterly index and any special issues as directed by statute or deemed appropriate by the secretary of state.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
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: Kevin Parker
Increases fines for misbranding of fur-bearing articles of clothing; $1,000 for first violation; $2,000 for subsequent violations.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to the taxation of the transfer of real property to any housing development fund company or an entity of which a controlling interest is held by such company and such real property is subject to a certain regulatory agreement or restrictive covenant.
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Authorizes the sale, distribution, transportation and processing of industrial hemp.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to amortize over a period of 10 years, the payments made to town employees upon separation from employment.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Relates to an exemption of capital improvements to multiple dwelling buildings within certain cities with a population of more than eight thousand but less than nine thousand.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to certain water charges for hospitals and charities in New York city; extends expiration until September 1, 2018.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the village of Plandome Manor entering into contracts to sell delinquent tax liens.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to the election of trustees and the adoption of an annual budget of the Poughkeepsie public library.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Requires each hospital patient bill of rights and responsibilities to include a statement of the availability of a list of standard charges, participating health plans, the right to be held harmless from surprise bills and emergency services bills, to the independent dispute process, and to designate a caregiver.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to the match requirements for aid granted by the supportive service program for classic and neighborhood naturally occurring retirement communities.
Sponsor: Pamela Harris
Requires the commissioner to provide updates regarding the implementation of the report and recommendations of the transformation panel including progress made by the office in developing plans for and implementing recommendations, identifying statutory obstacles to implementation and any other information necessary to keep stakeholders informed of the implementation plan.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes persons 16 years of age or older to make an anatomical gift.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes awards for burial expenses of crime victims to be paid to a business.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Removes 123I ioflupane from being designated as a controlled substance.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Prohibits, in a city of 1,000,000 or more, delivery of an unclaimed body to a university, college, school or institute, unless the consent of the deceased or the person authorized to control the disposition of such body has been granted.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries; directs the release of the name, birthdate and date of death of certain patients 50 years after the date of death.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to contact by siblings in child protective, permanency and termination of parental rights proceedings.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to the location of service centers for independent living.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to collision or comprehensive coverage on motor vehicles.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
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
Establishes the research animal retirement act; requires research dogs and cats at higher education research facilities or facilities that provide research in collaboration with a higher education facility, to be offered for placement with non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations; provides that such facilities may enter into agreements with rescue and shelter organizations for implementation.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes the financing of and provides for a period of probable usefulness to the pre-payment of certain service contract obligations.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to providing for the reduction or revocation of the public pension of a public officer; authorizes the court to determine whether to reduce or revoke such pension based on the defined terms, and to consider and determine specific findings as to the amount of such forfeiture, if any, and whether forfeiture in whole or in part would result in undue hardship or other inequity upon any dependent children, spouse or other dependents; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to required prior notices; includes reverse mortgage transactions in the definition of home loan.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Requires the installation and testing of fire protection systems at pet stores.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Requires the accessibility of ring life buoys on piers in the canal system which comply with certain US Coast Guard standards.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to required prior notices; includes reverse mortgage transactions in the definition of home loan.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Requires health insurance coverage of infertility to be provided to insureds with same sex partners on the same basis as that provided to insureds with a partner of the opposite sex.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to the registration and regulation of interactive fantasy sports contests.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Authorizes emergency medical care personnel to provide certain emergency medical care to dogs and cats.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the discoverability of recordings found on police body cameras and vehicle cameras; establishes Panel of Experts on the Use and Disclosure of Recorded Video, Digital Audio, Film, and Photographs.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Prohibits an augmented reality game developer from developing any augmented reality game that causes or allows any in-game objective to be located at, or accessible within a one hundred foot radius of the digital location corresponding with the recorded place of residence of a sex offender as defined in Article 6-C of the correction law; defines "augmented reality game" to be a digital application or game, typically accessed on mobile devices, including but not limited to: smartphones; tablets; or augmented reality glasses; which causes users to physically move to and/or personally interact with locations outside the user's place of residence for the purpose of achieving goals or moving from place to place within the game; authorizes attorney general enforcement.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Prohibits sex offenders from playing augmented reality games.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to service retirement benefits for certain employees of the power authority of the state of New York.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to authorizing a parking permit system for park-and-rides in the borough of Staten Island in the city of New York; requires residents of Staten Island to receive a permit free of charge and out-of-state residents to pay an annual fee for such permit.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Allows public utility lines and bicycle paths on certain state lands in the forest preserve and establishes a forest preserve health and safety land account.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Provides for recall; provides that any state or local officer, including the governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller, attorney general and state legislators may be recalled; requires a petition for recall of a statewide officer to be signed by electors equal in number to fifteen percent of the votes case in the last election for the office with signatures in each of the twenty-seven congressional districts equal in number to five percent of the last vote for the office in the district; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Authorizes the state to convey certain forest preserve land; such sale shall be subject to legislative approval and the proceeds of such conveyance shall be used for acquisitions to the forest preserve.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Provides that every certificate of incorporation which indicates that the proposed corporation is to solicit funds for or otherwise benefit the armed forces of the United States or of any foreign country, or their auxiliaries, or of this or any other state or territory, shall have endorsed thereon or annexed thereto the approval of the adjutant general rather than the chief of staff.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Authorizes the Manhasset Park District to retroactively apply for a real property tax exemption for certain property in the hamlet of Manhasset, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York to apply to the assessor of the city of Saratoga Springs for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to authorizing the Orleans county jail to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Orleans.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Permits the New Hope Christian Church CRC to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Extends provisions relating to a limited license for clinical laboratory technology.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Extends the time period for the taking of deer in the county of Suffolk from December thirty-first until March thirty-first.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to including a lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention program within health care and wellness education and outreach programs.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to the definition of small business; extends effectiveness relating to requiring state agencies to pay small businesses within fifteen days of receipt of an invoice.
Sponsor: Michael Blake
Extends, from December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2017, the expiration of the authorization granted to residential property owners in high risk brush fire areas on Staten Island to cut and remove reeds from their property.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires statements made to the state board of parole by the victim of a crime be considered when determining whether to grant a discretionary release on parole.
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Adds financial literacy and elder abuse education and outreach to the list of congregate services provided by a public or a government agency or non-profit agency which are provided in community settings at which elderly people come together for services and activities.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to authorizing the Fulton county correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Fulton.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Authorizes the assessor of the city of Hornell, county of Steuben to accept from St. Ann's Academy an application for exemptions from real property taxes for the 2013-2014 assessment roll.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Extends provisions of law relating to the management of American lobster.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the leasing and licensing of the main house at Caumsett state historical park preserve in the ninth park region.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Includes the Rondout Creek in the definition of "inland waterways" for the purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Authorizes the state of New York mortgage agency to invest funds in Government National Mortgage Association mortgage backed securities.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Authorizes Friends of Science East, Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2013-2014 assessment roll.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Extends the effectiveness of chapter 405 of the laws of 2005 for two years authorizing the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Alienates certain parklands in the village of Kings Point in the town of North Hempstead in the county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Islip to file an application for retroactive tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Clarifies the definition of "restricted period" for purposes of disclosure of state contracts.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Designates the Claverack Creek, the Taghkanic Creek and the Agawamuck Creek as parts of the inland waterway system.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage bluefish.
Sponsor: Jaime Williams
Provides for issuance of distinctive plates to "Catholic War Veterans of America"; requires additional annual service charge of $10 to be deposited into the DMV distinctive plate development fund.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes the Congregation Lubavitch-Chabad House of Huntington Township, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the tolling of the statute of limitations relating to personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to any substance or combination of substances found within an area designated as a superfund site.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Authorizes BOCES to provide instruction to students at a certain property in Hudson.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Regulates the interest rate on obligations issued to finance the school rehabilitation and reconstruction within the city school districts of the city of Syracuse.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to authorizing the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Suffolk county police athletic league.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Authorizes the town of Irondequoit, in the county of Monroe, to lease parklands to T-Mobile Northeast LLC, as successor in interest to Omnipoint Communications Incorporated, and to dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lease and easement interest to the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage the American eel from December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2019.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Relates to authorizing the town of Brookhaven, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Mastic, Moriches, Shirley Community Library.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to the city of Albany pilot residential parking permit system and extends the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to temporary retail permits issued by the state liquor authority.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer real property from the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdensburg.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes the village of Skaneateles, county of Onondaga, to convey its interest in Austin Park to the town of Skaneateles.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to the creation of the cystic fibrosis foundation license plate and cystic fibrosis research and education fund.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Relates to adding the Ellicott Creek located in Erie county to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo; requires payment of fees applicable to parking within certain areas.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Authorizes St. Luke's Episcopal Church to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for the 1992-1993 through the 1999-2000 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Carl Heastie
Allows the comptroller to enter into a contract with the administrator of the NYS college choice tuition savings program for the purpose of administering the NY ABLE savings account program and providing account depositories and managers.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Extends certain provisions of law authorizing the hunting of big game in the county of Albany with rifles.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Waives the residency requirement for the code/zoning enforcement officer in the village of Aurora, Cayuga county.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Authorizes Micki Guy, a firefighter in the city of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren, to elect to participate in the optional 20 year retirement program.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Designates Charles lake, Lost lake (Putnam county), Putnam lake and Tonetta lake as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to educational requirements for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Extends the effectiveness of the state charter advisory board.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Repeals provisions of the election law relating to election inspectors and clerks.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Permits the Islamic Center of Long Island to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to the eligibility of Earnest Cawley, Jr. to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer in the town of Colchester, in the county of Delaware and to be placed on the eligibility list for appointment as a full-time police officer.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to adding the Black Creek located in Genesee and Wyoming counties to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to the operation of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Margaret Markey
Relates to notice of unpaid taxes in the county of Monroe; increases the notification requirement from 85 to 90 days.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Relates to adding the Roeliff Jansen Kill to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Authorizes Nicholas Cofield to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the town of Niagara.
Sponsor: John Ceretto
Extends the effectiveness of provisions related to licensing of establishments where animals or fowls are slaughtered.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Designates Glencoma lake, Lincolndale lake, MacGregor lake, Mahopac lake, Secor lake, Shenorock lake, Teakettle Spout lake and Wixon lake as inland waterways.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the county of Clinton to reinstate Aaron Heroux as a deputy sheriff, notwithstanding that such reinstatement will occur more than 1 year after leaving such position.
Sponsor: Janet Duprey
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage hickory shad.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to an informational leaflet relating to safe sleep; requires that the informational leaflet for maternity patients include recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics relating to safe sleep, including sleep space and position.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Permits food service in funeral establishments subject to certain restrictions and qualifications.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Designates Little Wolf and Simon lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Janet Duprey
Authorizes the Peconic Land Trust to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Brookhaven.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage fish.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Extends Warren county's additional mortgage recording tax authorization until December 1, 2018.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Authorizes Jain Samaj of Long Island, Inc. to apply to the assessor of the county of Nassau for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Extends, for an additional 4 years, the provisions of Lauren's law, providing for the election to or declining to elect to register in the donate life registry for organ and tissue donation.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Extends the provisions relating to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Authorizes the county of Westchester to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland.
Sponsor: Ruth Hassell-Thompson
Makes provisions of law, authorizing big game hunting with a rifle in the county of Livingston, permanent.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Reduces the number of signatures required on a petition for a person to be placed on the ballot for election of a trustee of the Norwood Public Library.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Relates to adding the Basher Kill and Shawangunk Kill to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes Lord-N-Fields Voice of Freedom Bible Church Community Workers International Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for the parcel located at 120 Beaverdam Road.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage alewife.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to excused leave to undertake a screening for prostate cancer.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to blackfish or tautog.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or volunteer first responder.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to the Onondaga Lake Amphitheater Infrastructure and Revitalization Project act.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists in the division of state police; implements an agreement covering such members of such unit; amends salary schedules for such members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; makes an appropriation therefor; and repeals certain provisions of such laws relating thereto.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes the Flower Hill Hose Company No. 1 to apply to the assessor of the county of Nassau for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to instructional tools and materials for school districts and libraries to assist in the education and awareness program to protect children from lyme disease and tick-borne infections.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment for certain state officers and employees; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage blackfish until December 31, 2019.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to extending certain provisions relating to the taking of sharks.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to electronic filing with the state board of elections of copies of political communications.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Extends until December 31, 2019, the authority of the department of environmental conservation to regulate the taking and landing of American shad.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to authorizing the village of Russell Gardens to file for a retroactive tax exemption.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes the New Hope International Ministries, Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Extends provisions authorizing the county of Wyoming to impose a county recording tax on obligations secured by a mortgage on real property.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Directs the commissioner of health to cause the distribution of crib safety information to maternity patients: information detailing safe sleeping procedures for babies, crib product recalls and disclosure of the federal standards on the manufacture and sale of cribs.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to increasing the amount of bond and note authorization totals that may be made by certain agencies.
Sponsor: Mark Gjonaj
Authorizes the Washington and Essex county correctional facilities to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in each such county.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the authority of the justice center to visit, inspect and appraise the management of out-of-state schools or facilities.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to certificates of occupancy for unmapped streets in the city of New York.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage clams.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Requires insurers to provide a copy of its repair estimate to the insured and include a disclosure relating to insured's right to have a vehicle repaired in the shop of his/her choice.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Grants retroactive real property tax exempt status to the Lutheran Church of Our Savior Parish.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Authorizes Thomas Malley to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Provides that a retired state employee shall not be barred from providing direct care or other services to an individual for whom those services were provided by such person while a state employee.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to the leasing and licensing of property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation for Sampson State Park.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Relates to authorizing the city of Fulton to discontinue its use of certain waterfront parklands.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes the Bronx Children's Museum program.
Sponsor: Jose Serrano
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to transfer ownership of certain parklands to SMW Property Holdings.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to posting the child abuse hotline telephone number in public and charter schools.
Sponsor: Michael Miller
Authorizes Patrick Cechnicki to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Authorizes Lucky Guys of Long Island Inc. to file an application for retroactive tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to adding the Bash Bish to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the termination without penalty of certain service contracts; allows active duty service members under certain conditions to cancel contracts without penalty with telecommunications service providers, internet service providers, health clubs, health spas, or television service providers when they receive their orders; requires service members include a copy of their orders when providing written notice.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to authorizing the village of Philadelphia to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Permits the Mandala Buddhist Association to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes the reopening of the twenty-five year retirement benefit plan to Jack Harb of Sullivan County who failed to make a timely election thereof due to a clerical error on the part of the County.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to adding Black Creek located in Monroe county to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Authorizes Richard Insogna, Jr. to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to the residential parking system in the village of Bronxville in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to adding Wyomanock Creek to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Makes technical changes relating to removing the requirement that an application for membership in the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System or the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System be notarized (acknowledged).
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to have access to certain criminal history information contained in the central data facility established by the division of criminal justice services.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to authorizing the town of Walton in the county of Delaware to alienate certain parcels of land used as parkland to Bruce Taylor and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes MiYaD Beis Jericho, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to the restore New York's communities initiative.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Extends the authorization for the county of Greene to impose an additional mortgage recording tax until 2018.
Sponsor: Peter Lopez
Expands the kinds of qualified wellness programs that can be offered to enrollees.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Authorizes minors who are hunting to wear solid or patterned pink material which shall be visible from all directions.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to NY ABLE account ownership, contributions and distributions.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Approves land transactions relating to implementation of the settlement of property disputes in Township 40, in the town of Long Lake.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Relates to guardianship of people who are intellectually disabled and people who are developmentally disabled.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the issuance of distinctive license plates for "Ducks Unlimited".
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Authorizes the Chabad Lubavitch Chai Center, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the House Of Judah Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to exempting certain basic necessities from sales and use taxes.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage weakfish.
Sponsor: Alicia Hyndman
Authorizes the Iglesia De Dios De Brentwood, Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Extends Herkimer county's mortgage recording tax authorization until 2018.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Authorizes the provision of financing by the dormitory authority to the Hampton Bays public library.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands in the town of Islip, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to merging town justice courts; excepts the towns of Erin and Chemung from the requirement that towns form a contiguous geographic area in order to merge their town courts.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate drug disposal sites for unused controlled substances; defines "chain pharmacy".
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Increases the terms of office of members of the legislature to four years; provided that in all legislative terms that commence immediately following a decennial census year, the terms shall be two years.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Enacts the "home health information and clinical technology act" to provide for the development and implementation of a health information and clinical technology infrastructure support program for the home care system.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to giving and/or receiving unlawful benefits.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Authorizes health care professionals licensed in other jurisdictions and appointed by the World Triathlon Corporation to practice in this state at a triathlon.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to eliminating the student performance category of teacher evaluations and replacing it with a teacher evaluation category created by a committee consisting of certified educators of this state.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides for enhanced review of licenses issued to construct, maintain and operate newsstands in the city of New York.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to the premises on which games of chance may be conducted; establishes that games of chance are not prohibited from being conducted on state-owned property.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes a state monitor for the town of Oyster Bay to provide direct oversight of the fiscal policies, practices, programs and decisions of the town of Oyster Bay.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to standards for fire hydrant systems.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to a residential reassessment exemption for the town of Ossining in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to a residential reassessment exemption for the town of Greenburgh in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Allows certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions; gives special and approved assessing units the authority to tailor their "cap" to local conditions each year, thereby removing the annual uncertainty; relates to adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the base proportion in approved assessing units in Nassau county.
Sponsor: Rules
Authorizes the taking and filing of oaths of office; authorizes officials who failed to take or file their required oath of office within the statutorily prescribed period to take and file such oaths within thirty days of the effective date of this act.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to building aid for reconstruction or modernizing projects of the Rochester joint schools construction board.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Extends the existence of the Hamilton county industrial development agency until July 21, 2026, regardless of whether it has any outstanding obligations.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Relates to bond volume allocations made pursuant to the federal tax reform act of 1986, the unified state bond ceiling and the private activity bond allocation act of 2016.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of New York city, the issuance of bonds or notes with variable rates of interest, interest rate exchange agreements of New York city, the refunding of bonds, and the down payment for projects financed by bonds; amends the New York state financial emergency act for New York city; makes further amendments relating to the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Extends from July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2019, the expiration of provisions relating to the estate tax treatment of dispositions to a surviving spouse who is not a United States citizen.
Sponsor: Dan Quart
Extends provisions relating to the disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions from July 1, 2016 until July 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Extends provisions of law relating to the sale of municipal notes and bonds of the county of Erie.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides that criminal history record checks received from the division of criminal justice services shall be available to nursing home and home care service agencies.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to supplementary funding for dedicated programs for public school students in the East Ramapo Central School District; appropriates funds therefor.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to repair of damaged pesticide containers; relates to the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to tuition waivers for police officer students of CUNY.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Extends time limitations for certain actions.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Extends the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to retirement systems.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Extends provisions of law relating to certified school psychologists and special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to June 30, 2018.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Extends from June 30, 2016 to June 30, 2018, the expiration of certain provisions of the Nassau county administrative code relating to assessments and the review of assessments.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Authorizes any qualified voter at least sixty-two years of age to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Provides authority for track owners and directors to race horses at such tracks subject to the consent of the certified representative organization of horsemen at such tracks.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Relates to additional options for local social services districts to implement effective welfare-to-work programs; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto.
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Provides that the office of non-public school services shall create and revise a document titled the state standards report which is to be completed by the superintendent of every school district for each non-public school in such district, and which will assist and guide the school district in determining that all resident children attending a school other than a public school receive instruction from competent teachers and is at least substantially equivalent to the instruction given to minors of like age and attainments at the public schools where the minor resides; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Establishes the "vehicle lienholder accountability act"; requires lienholders to provide notice to the owner of the vehicle when such lienholder assigns his or her security interest and requires such lienholder to execute a release of his or her security interest, within ten days of such assignment.
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Relates to the licensure of athletic trainers; provides certain exemptions and requires continuing education.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Establishes a tax credit for the purchase and installation of a security camera system on residential, commercial and non-profit owned properties.
Sponsor: Dov Hikind
Authorizes a city having a population of one million or more to impose the city earnings tax on nonresidents; provides a real property tax credit to those nonresidents.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Relates to coverage for the detection of breast cancer; requires certified mammography facilities to provide extended hours; allows certain public employees excused leave to undertake a breast cancer screening.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to the removal of residency as a condition precedent to employment for any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state or any of its agencies.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to a school tax reduction credit for residents of a city with a population over one million; relates to the school tax relief exemption (Part A); relates to the farm workforce retention credit (Part B); relates to the board of directors of NYRA (Part C); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to nonpublic school aid payable in the 2014-2015 state fiscal year (Part D); relates to home care worker wage parity (Part E); relates to effectiveness of certain managed care programs (Part F); relates to enforcement of building codes of the City of New York (Part G); intentionally omitted (Part H); relates to the New York state design and construction corporation act (Part I); extends provisions relating to the membership composition of the metropolitan transportation authority board (Part J); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to the office for aging community services program and the Wadsworth center for laboratories and research program (Part K); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to making technical corrections thereto (Part L); amends the capital projects budget, relating to general maintenance and improvements for the city university of New York and state university of New York (Part M); intentionally omitted (Part N); relates to extending the provisions relating to the reorganization of the NYC school construction authority, board of education and community boards; extends such provisions until 2017; relates to school based budgeting and expenditure reporting (Part O); and relates to the duties and powers of charter entities (Part P).
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Establishes the New York state community restoration fund.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Requires any chain pharmacy with twenty or more locations to pursue or maintain a non-patient specific prescription with an authorized health care professional to disperse an opioid antagonist to a consumer upon request, or to register with the department of health as an opioid overdose prevention program.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Authorizes the maintenance and use of opioid antagonists at public libraries for the treatment of opioid overdoses.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to utilization review program standards (Part A); relates to providing coverage for immediate access to a five day emergency supply of certain medications and prohibiting prior authorization for a prescription for buprenorphine for opioid addiction detoxification or maintenance treatment (Part B); relates to the heroin and opioid addition wraparound demonstration services program (Part C); relates to emergency services for persons intoxicated, impaired, or incapacitated by alcohol and/or substances (Part D).
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Prohibits courts from conditioning release of an eligible defendant into a judicial diversion program upon treatment using any specified type or brand of drug.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to providing limited exemptions from professional misconduct (Part A); relates to reporting opioid overdose data to the counties (Part B); relates to hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures (Part C).
Sponsor: George Amedore
Requires the commissioner of health to report data on opioid overdoses on a county basis; such reporting shall occur annually on or before October 1; such data shall be posted on the department of health website; such commissioner shall provide the data to counties on a monthly basis.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to providing training in pain management for certain individuals; relates to providing coverage for medically necessary inpatient services for the diagnosis and treatment of substance abuse disorder; directs the commissioner to create educational materials regarding the dangers of addiction to prescription controlled substances, treatment resources available and the proper way to dispose of unused prescription controlled substances; allows a pharmacy to offer counseling and referral services to customers purchasing hypodermic syringes.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Removes the personal appearance requirement for voter registration or renewals.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Relates to authorization of debt to respond to acts of terrorism, a limit on the total amount of state-funded debt, and the refunding of state debts.
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Relates to adding to definition of "for cause" in instances of revocation of licenses.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Allows public utility lines and bicycle paths on certain state lands in the forest preserve and establishes a forest preserve health and safety land account.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Provides a tax credit to homeowners who repair cock loft fire hazards in their homes.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Relates to encouraging school districts to include a mental health curriculum in their course of instruction.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes Yeshiva Bais Chaya Esther INC, in the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Requires the New York city planning commission to hold a public community forum prior to approving the location or continued operation of a supportive housing facility.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to the purchase of farm products by municipalities.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to conduct periodic testing of school potable water sources and systems to monitor for lead contamination in certain school buildings; provides additional aid to such districts and boards for the costs incurred due to the testing of such potable water sources and systems containing an unacceptable amount of lead.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Designates sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the city of New York as police officers.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Rescinds the anniversary day school holiday for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.
Sponsor: Toby Stavisky
Restricts the public employment of retired persons from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2018.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Prohibits public employer and employee organization appointees from testifying before the public arbitration panel they are appointed to.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the imposition of an occupancy tax in the village of Tuckahoe.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Authorizes the county of Suffolk to alienate certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the restore New York's communities initiative.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to duties of certain parole officers.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Mamaroneck.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to renting of housing through marketplace providers.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to criminal justice faculty employed by a community college.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires the fingerprinting of prospective employees of approved special education schools; expedites the removal of persons who commit fingerprint fraud; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the village of Montgomery, in the county of Orange, to discontinue use of certain lands as parkland, and use such lands to generate energy through the installation and operation of solar panels thereon.
Sponsor: Claudia Tenney
Relates to a waiver of earnings limitation for certain retirees of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who are employed by the state university.
Sponsor: Toby Stavisky
Elevates assault of a utility worker in the second degree to a class D felony; includes an employee of an entity governed by the public service law within such provisions.
Sponsor: Francisco Moya
Relates to early voting; provides that beginning the eighth day prior to any election and ending on and including the second day prior to the election a person duly registered and eligible to vote shall be permitted to vote.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Establishes Earth Day.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the jurisdiction of the justice center's special prosecutor and inspector general.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to assisting and protecting victims of domestic violence, child abuse and child neglect.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Repeals certain provisions relating to the airport security registration fee.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Grants municipalities the authority to provide real property tax exemptions for certain cold war veterans.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes contract requirements for third party litigation financing which includes requiring contracts to contain a right of rescission, a written acknowledgement by the attorney retained, a clear outline of the scheduled fee structure and a no penalty provision.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes the county of Livingston to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Relates to providing performance of duty disability retirement benefits for ambulance medical technician supervisors, ambulance medical technician coordinators and ambulance medical technicians in Nassau county.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Reclassifies court officers and court clerks of the unified court system as police officers and repeals provisions relating to their status as peace officers.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the powers and duties of the president of the state civil service commission.
Sponsor: Daniel Squadron
Extends the effectiveness of chapter 405 of the laws of 2005 for two years authorizing the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to admissibility of an opposing party's statement.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to the authenticating effect of a party's production of material authored or otherwise created by the party.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to extending the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to the New York city school district, to teacher certification, to enacting the education investment incentives act, to teacher evaluations and to contracts for transportation of school children; makes an appropriation to the aid to localities budget and the office of prekindergarten through grade twelve education program.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Raises the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing to twenty thousand dollars.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides health insurance coverage for a follow-up ultrasound for breast cancer screening upon the recommendation of a physician.
Sponsor: Marc Panepinto
Relates to real property tax liability of veterans receiving an exemption; provides that increase or decrease in tax liability as a result of reassessment shall be at local option.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Allows that additional taxes on each mortgage or real property be placed upon certain transportation districts.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to court ordered forensic evaluations and reports in child custody and visitation proceedings.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to the reorganization of the alcoholic beverage control law.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Enacts the health care professional transparency act; prohibits health care professionals from using deceptive or misleading advertising.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Authorizes ballot by mail by removing cause for absentee ballot voting.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Requires certain language on contribution forms.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Relates to establishing a product stewardship program for primary batteries.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Grants police officer status to members of the uniformed correction force of NYC department of correction.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the duty to report incidents to 911 and the county district attorney's office.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes the state financial literacy commission; creates a state financial literacy commission to measurably improve the financial literacy and financial capability of New York state residents.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Relates to disposal sites operated by pharmacies.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes the village of East Hills, town of North Hempstead, Nassau county to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Requires the department of social services and not-for-profit corporations to inquire into whether applicants for financial assistance have engaged in military service.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to the filing of objections to agency rules by the administrative regulations review commission.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Removes the requirement that federal participation must be provided for free-standing mental health clinics to be paid state funding owed to them for uncompensated care rendered.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to hours of sale for on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages at licensed premises in Erie county.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Provides that uniformed court officers and peace officers employed in the unified court system shall be entitled to accidental disability retirement if they sustain injuries as the result of a physical assault by an assailant suffered while in service.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to political contributions made by limited liability companies.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Exempts certain parcels of land from the provisions of law which generally restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Provides that the judgment of sale in a mortgage foreclosure action shall direct that in the event such premises is purchased collectively by more than one individual, the names of each individual purchaser shall be disclosed in writing to the sheriff of the county or referee conducting the sale.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to continuing the early college high school programs and the pathways in technology early college high school programs in this state.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Encourages investment by the private sector in the financing, construction and operation of public rental cabins at certain state parks; authorizes agreements not to exceed forty years.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes the county of Ulster to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals in the presence of a child; increases the potential term of imprisonment from two to four years when such crime is committed in the presence of a child; defines presence of a child.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to automated ticket purchasing software.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes the village of Amityville, county of Suffolk, to amortize the cost of payments to certain employees upon separation of service from the village.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards and authorizes such practices to operate a malpractice prevention program.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for prosthetic devices; requires coverage where the model is determined to be medically necessary for rehabilitative and habilitative purposes.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to electronic filing with the state board of elections of copies of political communications.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to physical assault of a process server.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to authorizing the authorities budget office to suspend local authority board members and executive staff.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Designates the bridge on state route 417, over Dodge creek, in the town of Portville, county of Cattaraugus, as the "Lieutenant Michael M. McGreevy, Jr. Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the powers and duties of fire district commissioners.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to school zone speed limits; requires signage and other traffic calming devices in such speed zones.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Defines a public group self-insurer for the payment of compensation to employees of county self-insurance plans, boards of cooperative educational services and consortia by boards of cooperative educational services; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to percent of wagers made at off-track betting facilities conducted by in-state thoroughbred racing corporations.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Provides that employers with more than fifty employees shall provide disability benefits.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Establishes the Leakage Prevention Clean Energy Act authorizing electric retail load serving entities to offer to business customers generation supply that is exempt from the electric retail load serving entities obligation of the clean energy standard mandate.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Allows the granting of academic credit at state operated institutions of the state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city university of New York to veterans, members of the military, and reservists.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Mount Kisco.
Sponsor: Rules
Authorizes the city of Jamestown to establish an administrative tribunal for the adjudication of parking infractions.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Requires a utilization review of a request for nursing home care after an inpatient hospital admission to be completed within 24 hours of the request.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires the provision of at least a 5 year warranty on electronic medical devices and implantable hip and knee medical devices.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Directs the board of standards and appeals in the city of New York to mail a copy of each application for a variance to property owners within 1 mile of the affected property.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides that when there is an involuntary admittance to an in-patient facility, the person's or the person's designee's choice of facility shall be respected as long as it is appropriate; provided, however, such choice shall be subject to the facility's ability to provide the person's necessary level of care and the availability of space.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Provides for the forfeiture of unspent campaign funds after conviction and resignation of the elected official.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Relates to the Kings county health care facility transformation program.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Authorizes the county of Fulton to impose a tax on hotel and motel occupancy of up to four percent of the charge therefor.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Relates to reporting requirements for various classifications of gas leaks by utility corporations.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Authorizes municipalities and districts to enter into cooperative agreements for the provision of centralized public employee administrative and personnel services.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Designates September eleventh of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Emergency Responders' Appreciation Day".
Sponsor: David Valesky
Clarifies methods for the payment of wages and authorizes the payment of wages by use of payroll cards.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to employment of retired persons without diminution of retirement allowance for the period of employment requested by the prospective employer.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to interviews of any officer or employee of the port authority or its subsidiaries.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes cities having a population of one million or more to provide a rebate during the 2017-2018 city fiscal year of a portion of the real property taxes on owner occupied 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 family residential real property, or residential real property held in the condominium or cooperative form of ownership.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Harrison.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to prohibiting sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Authorizes the county of Washington to impose an additional 25 cents per $100 of debt, mortgage recording tax; revenue therefrom shall be used for community college purposes.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to allowing agricultural districts to be converted to solar use without penalty.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to increasing the amount of bond and note authorization totals that may be made by certain agencies.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to payment in construction contracts; specifies the meaning of "substantial completion" for the purposes of requisition payments in construction contracts.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Adds an optional section to voter registration forms to allow for email addresses.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Establishes a leave of absence for veterans on Veterans Day, November 11th.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to increasing the bonding authority of the New York city housing development corporation.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Prohibits the unilateral diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance from May 1, 2008 until May 15, 2017; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to bio heating fuel requirements.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to health insurance buyout programs.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the infliction of excessive corporal punishment on a child.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a weapon during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council.
Sponsor: Michael Blake
Provides that the borough of Staten Island shall also be known and designated as the "borough of parks".
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to participation by state agencies in a system used by the comptroller to compile vendor responsibility information; defines information technology for procurement purposes; clarifies the use of best and final offers for invitations for bids and requests for proposals for goods, services and technology; clarifies the use of contracts let by another governmental agency; clarifies the valuation of non-cash contracts by the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Requires day care providers to escrow security deposits in excess of the value of two weeks of provided services.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Authorizes alcoholic beverage licensees to confiscate written evidence of age which is false, or fraudulent; provides such written evidence of age shall be delivered to the police for verification, and returned to rightful holder or destroyed.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to coverage for maternal depression screenings; provides for coverage for pediatric providers who provide screenings.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Permits travel in designated bus lanes under certain conditions.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a process server to obstruct from performing his or her lawful duty, or as retaliation against the process server for performing his or her lawful duty.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Relates to the requirement for policyholders to provide 30 days notice to withdraw from the state insurance fund.
Sponsor: James Seward
Provides that purchasers and sellers of real property shall be provided with voter registration forms at closing.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Authorizes certain establishments to keep alcoholic drinks on tap.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Specifies that a person convicted of loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution; a person convicted of prostitution; or a person whose participation in the offense is determined by a court to be a result of having been a victim of sex trafficking is excluded from the definition of designated offender.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to peace officer powers of safety officers.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Designates certain employees of the town of Brookhaven as peace officers.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to licenses to purchase, store or use certain compounds; $50 fee.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Requires agencies to provide potential adoptive parents with information concerning state-funded benefits or services available once the foster child is adopted as well as those that expire upon adoption.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Provides that any person, acting on behalf of a public officer, candidate or political committee, who solicits a contribution to a county or town committee for the benefit of a candidate to whom such direct contribution is unlawful, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to the reimbursement rates for complex rehabilitation technology products and services by managed care organizations.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Provides that a special education settlement agreement between a city school district in a city of one million or more and a child's parent or person in parental relation shall have a term of not less than 3 years; provides for the hearing of appeals of such school district's recommendation as to the provision of special education services and placement in a private school.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to state support for operating expenses of the state university of New York and the city university of New York.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to prohibiting advertising for the use of dwelling units in a class A multiple dwelling.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to duties of the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation; states that the office shall have no duty to guard, warn, supervise or otherwise keep safe for swimming, diving, bathing or wading by the public those areas of waterbodies which are not expressly designated by the office for such purposes or are used by the public outside the hours and seasonal times as authorized by the office.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage weakfish.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to establishing the private employers veterans' preference policy act.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the effectiveness of payments in lieu of taxes made by certain entities for property located at One Nirvana Plaza, Forestport, New York.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to authorizing the use of electronic benefit transfer technology at community supported agriculture markets.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Enacts the "local government jobs and revenue protection act of 2016".
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to judicial wellness and assistance committees.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to the creation and recognition of architectural districts.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to the effect of failed propositions on voter approval for remaining propositions not collectively exceeding the tax levy limit; relates to payment in lieu of taxes; exempts BOCES capital expenditures from limitations upon local school district tax levies.
Sponsor: Rules
Relates to providing state funding for the fees and costs associated with providing electronic benefit transfer technology at farmers' markets.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Designates physicians employed by a municipal police department, while deployed with the special weapons and tactics team, as peace officers.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to update a licensee's photo image at least every eight years.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Requires the NYC housing authority to include a notice informing a prospective tenant or tenant of the ability to add legal occupants to the lease or renewal lease and to provide a form to add the additional legal occupants.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the disclosure of information pertaining to a child abuse and neglect investigation.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Requires written notice of the collection of a tax levy to be provided by registered or certified mail.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Provides for the removal of a criminal action to another criminal court in the same county or an adjoining county that has been designated a veterans treatment court by the chief administrator of the courts.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Extends until December 31, 2019, the authority of the department of environmental conservation to regulate the taking and landing of American shad.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to the fingerprinting and background checks of contracted service providers of student support services.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the maintenance and use of opioid antagonists at public libraries for the treatment of opioid overdoses.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Provides for the designation of geologically significant areas, territories and sites throughout the state, and for the establishment of a state geological trail.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes the town of Clifton Park, Saratoga county to impose a tax on hotel and motel occupancy of up to 1 1/2 percent of the charge therefor.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Extends the ability of the county of Albany to impose and collect taxes on occupancy of hotel or motel rooms in Albany county.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Prohibits any state agency or public authority from contracting for goods or services with a contractor or a subsidiary thereof, when the contractor or subsidiary also provides consulting services or products relating to the activity for which the state agency or public authority seeks to contract.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes the imposition of an occupancy tax in the village of Port Chester.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to the imposition of a hotel and motel tax in the town of Woodbury.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Allows the comptroller to enter into a contract with the administrator of the NYS college choice tuition savings program for the purpose of administering the NY ABLE savings account program and providing account depositories and managers.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Designates Glencoma lake, Lincolndale lake, MacGregor lake, Mahopac lake, Secor lake, Shenorock lake, Teakettle Spout lake and Wixon lake as inland waterways.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Authorizes assessor of taxing municipality to accept late application for veterans exemption from real property taxes if veteran has sold a property that was exempt, the application is made prior to first day of new tax year and the property subject to taxation is a qualifying residential real property.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Establishes that in a FOIL proceeding, the court shall assess against an agency reasonable attorneys' fees and other litigation costs incurred when a person substantially prevails unless the court finds otherwise.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the creation of the New York jockey injury compensation fund.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to promotions of lieutenants; grants a lieutenant who has served for a period of fifteen years the same rights in respect to the police pension fund as a lieutenant detailed to act as lieutenant commander detective squad, or lieutenant special assignment.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the town of Deerfield in Oneida county to transfer jurisdiction of a road to the state.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer real property from the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdensburg.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Establishes a non-trail snowmobile registration for snowmobiles which shall be used solely for the purpose of gaining access to hunting, fishing and trapping areas.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to providing a period of probable usefulness for an intangible asset classified as a capital asset.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Amends the definition of all terrain vehicles to include certain vehicles of up to seventy inches long and 1500 pounds.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to authorizing a vehicle owned and identified as being owned by a political subdivision to operate in combination with other vehicles so authorized.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to conditional surrender of parental rights in family and surrogate's court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Increases local government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the illegal taking of deer.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Establishes a tax credit for the purchase and installation of a security camera system on residential, commercial and non-profit owned properties.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Provides the land bank can assign all rights resulting from the land bank's successful tender for the property to the foreclosing governmental unit; allows the property to be deeded directly to the foreclosing governmental unit.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to certain certification required for eligibility for the real property tax exemption for persons with disabilities and limited incomes.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Provides for the delivery and insurance coverage of telehealth services by means of home care services.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Provides immunity from administrative action against New York City fire officers who, due to lack of training, are effectively unable to properly conduct building inspections.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires that space be provided on applications for state university colleges and universities, community colleges and the city university of New York, applications for the practice of a profession or occupation, state income tax returns, applications to register a motor vehicle, for the applicant to register in the "donate life registry" for organ, eye and tissue donation established pursuant to section 4310 of the public health law.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Eliminates restrictions on the removal of human remains from the county in which the death occurred.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Makes the restrictions relating to smoking in public areas applicable to electronic cigarettes.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires insurers to provide a copy of its repair estimate to the insured and include a disclosure relating to insured's right to have a vehicle repaired in the shop of his/her choice.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to control of steering mechanism.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to authorizing the sale and possession of sparkling devices outside of cities with a population of one million or more; removes requirement that localities authorize sparkling devices in their jurisdictions; authorizes counties to opt out if they pass a local law and file an exemption with the secretary of state.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Increases certain penalties for aggravated cruelty to animals.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes NYSERDA to expend an amount not to exceed one hundred million dollars from proceeds collected from the auction at sale of carbon dioxide emission allowances.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Establishes the New York state educating leaders for excellence in community transformation program to provide loan forgiveness and scholarship awards to certain students who demonstrate excellence in student government, civic organizations, or through campus or community leadership activities.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Creates the "disaster preparedness and emergency planning act"; authorizes a local sales tax exemption for emergency preparedness supplies; requires the division of homeland security and emergency services, in conjunction with the department of taxation and finance, to establish, promote and publish on the web a list of eligible items.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to exemptions from licensure requirements for mold assessment and remediation.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to adding Wyomanock Creek to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Steven McLaughlin
Relates to consumer audio and video products energy efficiency standards.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
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: Diane Richardson
Relates to providing accidental disability retirement benefits for chief fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, division supervising fire marshals, supervising marshals, fire marshals and fire marshal trainees in Nassau County.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Provides a special accidental death benefit to employees of the department of sanitation of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to off-hours arraignment parts in counties outside the city of New York; authorizes the establishment of a plan to designate off-hours arraignment parts in select local criminal courts of a county.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to establishing the state university of New York and city university of New York endowment fund.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to NY ABLE account ownership, contributions and distributions.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to providing for identification cards for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Relates to payments in support of racing; sets up a fee applicants must pay if they are issued a gaming facility license and they do not possess either a pari-mutuel wagering license or franchise award.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance, in its plan for the low-income home energy assistance program, to utilize the maximum reduction in determining income eligibility.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to railroad safety; requires joint inspection of traffic signals; increases penalties for the failure to comply with regulations; aligns railroad bridge inspection requirements with federal regulations; establishes and increases penalties for failure to obey certain signals and stops.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Permits an employer to file an application with the department of labor to be exempted from the provisions of the workers' compensation law with respect to employees whose religious tenets or teachings oppose acceptance of any insurance benefits.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Enacts "Charlemagne's Law"; authorizes a consumer to seek reimbursement for treatment for an unfit cat or dog within 30 days of the purchase of such animal from a pet dealer.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Extends the village of Rye Brook occupancy tax for three years.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Requires agencies and other entities conducting street or sidewalk construction to post signs at work sites identifying the responsible agency or entity and its contact information, along with the dates of commencement and completion and the details of the type of construction work that shall be conducted.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides for daycare reimbursement by the state within thirty days of an invoice being issued.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires hospital and emergency room physicians to consult the prescription monitoring program registry and to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for certain employees with military combat experience, while engaged in the performance of ordered military duty.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to members of the twenty-year/age fifty retirement program for Triborough bridge and tunnel members.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to adjournments in contemplation of dismissal and suspended judgments in child protective proceedings in the family court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Provides for the pension benefits for first grade police officers of the city of New York who have served for 25 or 30 years.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Establishes requirements for purchase agreements for residential real property by which the buyer must maintain the property while full payment is outstanding.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Provides that the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of a sexual offense committed against a child shall not begin to run until the child turns 23 years of age; provides that a civil action for conduct constituting a sexual offense against a child, shall be brought before the child turns 28 years of age; revives previously barred actions related to sexual abuse of children; grants civil trial preference to such actions; eliminates the notice of claim requirements for such actions when the action is brought against a municipality, the state or a school district; designates members of the clergy as persons required to report cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment; requires judicial training relating to child abuse and the establishment of rules relating to civil actions brought for sexual offenses committed against children.
Sponsor: Margaret Markey
Increases limitation on replacement of highway equipment expenses in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk county, from one million dollars to two million six hundred thousand dollars.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Provides that any head of household issued a tax abatement certificate for five consecutive years shall not be required to file every two years for a tax abatement certificate upon local option.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Increases from 20 years to 30 years, the period during which sex offenders classified as level 1 must register with the division of criminal justice services.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to truancy allegations in persons in need of supervision and child protective proceedings in family court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to providing conditional renewal notices to policyholders; at least thirty days notice.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to prohibiting contract provisions that waive certain substantive and procedural rights.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of New York city, the issuance of bonds or notes with variable rates of interest, interest rate exchange agreements of New York city, the refunding of bonds, and the down payment for projects financed by bonds; amends the New York state financial emergency act for New York city; makes further amendments relating to the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage alewife.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to hours, wages and supplements in contracts for public work.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Allows soil and water conservation districts, acting in cooperation with local governments, to be eligible applicants for the local waterfront revitalization grant program.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to method of collection of charges by the Water Authority of Great Neck North.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Establishes issuers of credit cards and debit cards are prohibited from knowingly accepting or soliciting personal financial information of a cardholder from a third-party; establishes a civil penalty not to exceed two thousand dollars for each violation of this section.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Authorizes the Westchester health care corporation to enter into contracts and arrangements providing for the creation and operation of a delivery system network.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to excluding income from the employment of children when calculating income for the selection of tenants; excludes income from the employment of children under 18 and full-time students over 18 and earnings in excess of $480 per month.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Provides for a tax deduction for the adoption of a child with special needs.
Sponsor: Jo Simon
Authorizes the town of Greenburgh, villages in the town of Greenburgh and the village of Sleepy Hollow in the town of Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Extends the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to retirement systems.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the boards of education in union free school districts and central school districts to establish wards for the purpose of school board elections.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Enacts the "red tape reduction act".
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to authorizing the office of children and family services to release reports and records to certain law enforcement officials in the event of a kidnapping.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
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
Authorizes counties to employ computer generated registration lists; updates the list of supplies to be delivered to poll sites.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Prohibits the awarding of state and municipal contracts to contractors who have been debarred in another state.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to civil service provisional employees; extends certain provisions.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides for the extension of contract between a hospital or hospital system located in a certain county and a commercial health insurer.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Prohibits the sale or distribution of kratom.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes Congregation Divrei Chaim of Monsey to file an exemption for real property taxes.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to a real property tax exemption for Congregation Gates of Prayer in the county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Establishes the New York state community restoration fund.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Establishes the School Energy Efficiency Collaborative Act of 2016 to reduce redundancies, raise awareness, and promote the efficient implementation of energy projects in school districts across the state.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to the timing of mailing of absentee ballots.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Provides for the removal of restraints on children under 21 years of age upon entry into family court except in limited situations.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Designates a portion of state route 118 in the town of Yorktown, county of Westchester, as the "Army Captain Clayton Carpenter Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Relates to eliminating the wage board; removes any reference in article 19 of the labor law to the wage board.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to requirements of a witness to a designating petition or independent nominating petition.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to disability benefits for NYC fire department members who are New York city enhanced plan members.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the establishment of the home equity protection insurance program directing the agency to issue a commitment to insure and insure the full value of certain residences which are owner-occupied by persons who meet certain income qualifications.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Requires the medical advisory committee to establish the use of comprehensive nationally recognized treatment guidelines for all body parts or conditions which have no recommendations by such advisory committee.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Requires the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to death benefits for certain members under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to scheduling an examination for any position or positions in the classified services that provides child protection services.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the establishment of a human trafficking hotline for use in the investigation and prevention of human trafficking.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes the use and training of dogs for the hunting of bear; provides that dogs engaged in hunting and training as authorized by the environmental conservation law, shall not be deemed to be running at large in violation of any local law or ordinance.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Grants Kevin Moriarty Tier IV status in the New York state teachers' retirement system.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Prohibits the disclosure and discovery of the testimony of a party to a health care quality assurance or peer review proceeding; further adds the failure to cooperate and participate in the quality assurance, reporting, activities, requirements and procedures covered under such discovery to the definition of professional misconduct.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the election of trustees of the Long Island Power Authority.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Provides that each investor owned utility must file with the public service commission an electric vehicle charging tariff that allows a customer to purchase electricity solely for the purpose of recharging an electric vehicle; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Authorizes a group of businesses that are regulated by a state agency or a representative of such businesses to petition the state agency for alternate methods for implementing a regulatory mandate that restricts the conducting or management of business in this state.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Establishes time periods for the stages of determining and approving environmental impact statements.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to transparency and accountability in political expenditures and receipts.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Relates to selectively cutting timber and exclusion of current best management practices from regulated activities.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Provides that dependents of military servicemembers who are transferred out of the state shall remain eligible for certain developmental disability services received under federal home and community based services programs.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to increasing penalties for deceptive trade practices and unlawful acts by an automobile broker business.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes municipalities to treat unpaid fines for building code and fire code violations as unpaid real property taxes and to impose a tax lien therefor.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to the eligibility of J-51 tax abatements to reflect cost-of-living adjustments.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Lowers the annual candidate contribution limit from $150,000 to $75,000.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Relates to continuing education requirements for certain certified individuals employed by nonpublic schools.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the office of general services to sell certain state-owned land to the Montefiore Medical Center.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Provides for service of subpoena and delivery of records.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to the city of Albany pilot residential parking permit system and extends the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Provides for the state board of elections to prepare and distribute to each voter a ballot pamphlet for every general election; provides for contents thereof and makes numerous related provisions including the distribution of information relating to each ballot proposal that is submitted to a statewide vote at such general election; provides that candidates may submit a biography to be included in the statewide election pamphlet; permits any person eligible to vote on any ballot proposal to institute a proceeding as to the factual accuracy of statements or constitutional amendments.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Relates to the time period for state environmental quality review.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo; requires payment of fees applicable to parking within certain areas.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to hunting in the county of Broome.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Requires the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation to issue photographic identification cards for access to New York State parks and recreational facilities.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, Monroe county, to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Permits the management of certain marine species by orders of the department of environmental conservation.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish gift cards for distinctive and special number license plates.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to independent expenditures during election campaigns; provides that independent expenditures shall not include payments or expenditures where coordination occurs in the creation, formation or operation of the person making such payment or expenditure (Part A); relates to monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee (Part B); amends the election law, in relation to disposition of campaign funds (Part C); relates to in-kind donations (Part D); relates to contingency fees (Part E); relates to the disclosure of certain donations by charitable non-profit entities (Part F); relates to the disclosure of certain activities by non-charitable non-profit entities (Part G); relates to the registration of certain service providers and political consulting services; defines terms (Part H); relates to communications with professional journalists and newscasters (Part I); relates to investigations by the joint commissioner on public ethics and to violations of the lobbying act (Part J); and relates to financial disclosure forms (Part K).
Sponsor: Carl Heastie
Enacts the "charitable gaming act of 2016"; allows games known as "raffles" to accept legal tender, credit or debit card for payment; further authorizes "raffles" at the discretion of the games of chance licensee, to be purchased via the internet or mobile application with a credit or debit card upon the account holder's direct consent; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Imposes an occupancy tax in the town of North Castle.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Provides that in a city of one million or more flashing purple lights may be affixed to and displayed on buses operated on a bus rapid transit route.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Relates to requiring maternity patients and the other parent of a newborn child to be educated in safe sleeping practices.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to a school tax reduction credit for residents of a city with a population over one million; relates to the school tax relief exemption (Part A); relates to the farm workforce retention credit (Part B); relates to the board of directors of NYRA (Part C); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to nonpublic school aid payable in the 2014-2015 state fiscal year (Part D); relates to home care worker wage parity (Part E); relates to effectiveness of certain managed care programs (Part F); relates to enforcement of building codes of the City of New York (Part G); intentionally omitted (Part H); relates to the New York state design and construction corporation act (Part I); extends provisions relating to the membership composition of the metropolitan transportation authority board (Part J); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to the office for aging community services program and the Wadsworth center for laboratories and research program (Part K); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to making technical corrections thereto (Part L); amends the capital projects budget, relating to general maintenance and improvements for the city university of New York and state university of New York (Part M); intentionally omitted (Part N); relates to extending the provisions relating to the reorganization of the NYC school construction authority, board of education and community boards; extends such provisions until 2017; relates to school based budgeting and expenditure reporting (Part O); and relates to the duties and powers of charter entities (Part P).
Sponsor: Herman Farrell
Authorizes public welfare officials to withhold rent from a landlord when real estate taxes for the rental property are unpaid.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Establishes a task force on tree maintenance and safety in the city of New York to evaluate the department of parks and recreation's policies on tree maintenance, and to determine any improvements necessary to ensure public safety.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Eliminates the expiration of and makes permanent provisions of law establishing the property tax cap.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to the use of oral medications by optometrists.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to consideration of an employer's loss experience in rate setting and liability for compensation.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes the Empire State Development Corporation to acquire, by eminent domain, a certain parcel of real property in the borough of Brooklyn; authorizes the city of New York to develop certain parkland.
Sponsor: Daniel Squadron
Provides for the use of certain property in the county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Establishes the Suffolk county felony youth part demonstration program; makes services provided by the office of children and family services, such as but not limited to, therapeutic and intensive care management services, available to youth prosecuted in the Suffolk county felony youth part; requires a written evaluation of the demonstration program two years after the establishment of the felony youth part.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Major General Harold J. Greene Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: George Amedore
Expands orders of protection to cover child protective services workers.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Limits the amount of a property tax shift from one class of property to another for 2016-2017 in the county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to special proceedings to convey title to abandoned real property to cities, towns or villages.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to care and protection of children; adds to the definition of children at risk infants who test positive for a controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, in their bloodstream or urine, are born dependent on such drugs or who demonstrate drug withdrawal symptoms, or who have been diagnosed with a condition attributable to in utero exposure to illegal drugs.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to establishing the employer in situations involving multiple entities.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Requires blanket health insurance policies to provide coverage for outpatient treatment by mental health practitioners (mental health counsellors, marriage and family therapists, creative arts therapists and psychoanalysts) licensed pursuant to article 163 of the education law.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Relates to the unauthorized release of personally identifiable information relating to students.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Eliminates the one-year time requirement for aggregation payments.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Requires dealers to disclose information regarding fees for updating maps on global positioning systems installed in motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Authorizes the enactment or enforcement of local laws or ordinances requiring the monitoring of groundwater impacts resulting from mining or the reclamation of mines within counties with a population of one million or more which draws its primary source of drinking water for a majority of county residents from a designated sole source aquifer.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to notice provisions in public works contracts; requires any contract made and awarded by a public owner for any public work project to contain, or be presumed to contain, the following: "The failure to give any notice required to be given by such contract within the time prescribed therein shall not invalidate any claim made by the contractor or any other claimant, unless the failure to provide timely notice has materially prejudiced the public owner"; requires a showing of material prejudice.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to extending the effectiveness of the disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes the town board of the city of Rochester, county of Monroe to regulate speed limits in such city.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Establishes a hospital supplemental reimbursement rate adjustment for enhanced safety net hospitals.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to the failure to provide notice of a default judgment.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to disability retirement benefits for certain correction employees in Suffolk county.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to alcohol in certain motion picture theatres.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Authorizes Kelsey Wilczynski Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system with a membership date of July 5, 2007.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Prohibits the transmission of unsolicited advertising text messages to cellular telephones or pagers; makes an exception for providers of such services and their affiliates who have permission; provides for enforcement by the attorney general and a private right of action.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to mortgage guaranty insurance; removes requirement that mortgage guaranty insurers restrict their coverage, net of applicable reinsurance, to twenty-five percent of the total indebtedness to an insured.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to prescription drug formulary changes during a contract year.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Requires persistently dangerous schools to file an incident reduction plan detailing the steps the school will take to reduce incidents of violence and disruption and requires notice to be given to victims of harassment, bullying, or violent offenses of their right to transfer to another public school.
Sponsor: Ruben Diaz
Relates to reciprocity of debarments imposed under the federal Davis-Bacon Act.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Provides for the filing and determination of a petition for the posting of security by persons against whom criminal charges are pending as the result of a crime against the animal.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the village of Plandome Manor entering into contracts to sell delinquent tax liens.
Sponsor: Michelle Schimel
Provides that retired persons shall not be employed as the superintendent of schools of a school district for more than one year; provides for a waiver of such provision if such school district demonstrates undue hardship.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Prohibits mercury-added rotational balancing products.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Grants Eric Zausner tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Establishes contract requirements for third party litigation financing which includes requiring contracts to contain a right of rescission, a written acknowledgement by the attorney retained, a clear outline of the scheduled fee structure and a no penalty provision.
Sponsor: Michael Simanowitz
Requires five hour pre-licensing course to include a motorcycle awareness and safety component, and the driver's license examination to include two questions concerning motorcycle awareness and safety.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Relates to public petitions for rule making.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Provides for financial disclosure by employees of state operated campus foundations, including the Research Foundation of the State University of New York.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Enacts the "personal motor vehicle sharing act", to establish insurance requirements for and limitations on programs providing for the sharing of private passenger motor vehicles.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands in the town of Islip, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Provides that a foreign corporation's application for authority to do business in this state constitutes consent to jurisdiction of the courts of this state and a surrender of such application constitutes withdrawal of such consent.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to public works undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements and the use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities installing new or replacement window coverings on or after October 1, 2016, to install safer window coverings; requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities that have window coverings in place before October 1, 2016 to meet minimum safety standards established by ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2012.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides that no motor vehicle repair shop shall repair a tire that would not pass New York state inspection.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides that with respect to leases on motor vehicles, no lease shall provide that the lessee would be charged a turn-in fee at the expiration of the term which constitutes solely an additional fee for administrative, handling or clerical charges.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Directs the board of standards and appeals and the city planning commission in the city of New York to mail a copy of each application for and appeal of a variance to the city council member, borough president and state legislators for the affected land.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to automated ticket purchasing software.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the licensure of athletic trainers; provides certain exemptions and requires continuing education.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to recalculation of earned benefits for certain members enrolled in an optional retirement plan.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Creates the Peconic Bay regional transportation council to study the impacts of traffic congestion; defines terms; outlines the powers and duties of such council; requires the preparation and adoption of the transportation action plan and submission to the legislature.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to establishing the offense of false pretense.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Relates to the registration and regulation of interactive fantasy sports contests.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to cyber crimes and identity theft; increases penalties for certain acts involving use of personal information, fraud, tampering, theft and use of a computer to commit crimes.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires that when a tree is removed from a campus in the state university of New York system, another tree shall be planted on such campus.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides that party designation of a candidate for nomination for any office to be filled by the voters of the entire county shall be made by the county committee.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Requires state reimbursement to counties and cities in which a county is located of the full amount of expenditures for indigent legal services.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act".
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to excused leave to undertake a screening for prostate cancer.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Approves land transactions relating to implementation of the settlement of property disputes in Township 40, in the town of Long Lake.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Clarifies that a musician or other performing artist who is exempt from the requirement to have workers' compensation insurance because he or she is an executive officer of a corporation who is deemed excluded from coverage.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to lowering the age for universal hunting licenses from 14 years old to 12 years old.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides for payment of salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of members of the state police with injuries or illness incurred in the performance of their duties.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to approval of major capital improvement rent increases and extending the length of time over which major capital improvement expenses may be recovered.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Relates to the floor area ratio of certain dwellings in New York City.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Provides that a motor vehicle will be considered to be in motion while stopped at traffic control devices, stop signs and certain other situations for purposes of mobile phones and other portable electronic devices violations.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Provides for the labeling of raw agricultural commodities, processed foods, seed, and seed stock produced with genetic engineering; defines terms; imposes penalties for false labels and misbranding; sets forth exemptions.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to the imposition of tolls for certain bridges and tunnels.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires the DOT to determine which entrances to parkways in Westchester county are most frequently accessed by oversized commercial vehicles and to install certain barriers to prevent such vehicles from accessing such entrances.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to the revocatory effect of divorce.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Permits food service in funeral establishments subject to certain restrictions and qualifications.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to payment of bills for pharmaceutical services.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to an employee of a not-for-profit corporation serving as chair of the board.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Expands the definition of "mental abnormality", for purposes of sex offender civil commitment or supervision, to include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and psychopathy.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Authorizes the city of Hudson to impose hotel and motel taxes.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to New York bred and/or wholly owned horse harness races.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to transportation network companies.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes the county of Saratoga to transfer and convey reforested lands on Kinns Road to the town of Clifton Park, county of Saratoga for use by the town of Clifton Park for continued park and recreational purposes.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Relates to prohibiting the sale of crib bumper pads and to restricting the use of such pads in certain settings.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Requires any chain pharmacy with twenty or more locations to pursue or maintain a non-patient specific prescription with an authorized health care professional to disperse an opioid antagonist to a consumer upon request, or to register with the department of health as an opioid overdose prevention program.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes short distance commuter permits for travel at no charge between certain interchanges in the Syracuse area; permits the thruway authority to restrict the use of such permit to peak commuter hours.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes accredited office-based surgery practices, in existence prior to the effective date of this act to seek payment from health care plans for the use of the surgery location or setting of such practice, in addition to payment for services performed.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Defines the term "electric assisted bicycle" for purposes of the applicability of the vehicle and traffic law; requires persons sixteen years of age or older to wear a helmet when operating an electric assisted bicycle.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
Relates to permanent total disability benefits received by disabled volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; provides for a cost-of-living adjustment to such benefits.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to NY ABLE account ownership, contributions and distributions.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Requires legislative approval for the closure of correctional facilities and institutions.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to requiring the video recording of interrogations of juveniles in juvenile delinquency proceedings in family court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Redefines "campground" for the purposes of the Adirondack park and regulation by the Adirondack park agency; defines such term as a parcel of land with 5 or more campsites, including buildings and accessory structures; provides that recreational vehicles may be kept at a campground or campsite, with the consent of the owner of the campground, during periods of time when they are not in use, so long as they are not used in a manner which violates the campground permit.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Authorizes a plea of guilty and the payment of fines or penalties electronically via the internet.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Prohibits the use and sale of tobacco at state-operated institutions of the state university of New York.
Sponsor: Walter Mosley
Makes it a class B violent felony to fire a gun into a crowded space with the intent to harm or absent the intent to harm when such an act creates a great risk of death to one or more people within the crowded space; establishes the crime of criminal use of weapons; firing into a crowded space.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Directs the department of education of the city of New York to provide school bus service for students in grades K - 5, who live one-half mile or more away from school.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Increases, from 8,600 pounds to 10,000 pounds, the gross vehicle weight rating of vehicles engaged in commercial towing that must be registered as tow trucks.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires the medical advisory committee to establish the use of comprehensive nationally recognized treatment guidelines for all body parts or conditions which have no recommendations by such advisory committee.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Relates to filing requirements for the annual statement of financial disclosure.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Provides that adjustments made by a trustee, under the prudent investor act, shall be deemed to be re-characterizations for the purposes of the payment of commissions.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides that absentee ballots for all elections shall be made available in Braille and large print, upon request of a blind or visually impaired voter no less than 30 days prior to each election day.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to code enforcement officer training and certification.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Requires used motor vehicle dealers to have a $20,000 surety bond if they sell 50 or less cars a year, and a $100,000 surety bond if they sell more than 50 cars a year.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Requires state agencies to review all rules adopted before 1997 over a certain period of time.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to providing limited exemptions from professional misconduct (Part A); relates to reporting opioid overdose data to the counties (Part B); relates to hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures (Part C).
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Authorizes the regulation of taxicabs, limousines, livery and transportation network company vehicles in certain municipalities.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to the definition of electric assisted bicycle.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Prohibits employers from requiring low-wage employees to enter into covenants not to compete and requires employers to notify potential employees of any requirement to enter into a covenant not to compete.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to enacting the "renewable energy credit opportunity and exchange protection act" establishing the rights of consumers and businesses to own and trade renewable energy credits.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or a long term care facility.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides that reimbursement costs incurred by licensed transportation carriers in the city of New York may include fringe benefits, including, but not limited to, qualified tuition reductions allowable under federal law.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to the sale of tonic water, bitters and maraschino cherries at liquor stores.
Sponsor: Daniel Squadron
Relates to providing for the reduction or revocation of the public pension of a public officer; authorizes the court to determine whether to reduce or revoke such pension based on the defined terms, and to consider and determine specific findings as to the amount of such forfeiture, if any, and whether forfeiture in whole or in part would result in undue hardship or other inequity upon any dependent children, spouse or other dependents; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Extends the expiration of binding arbitration in the resolution of disputes in the course of collective negotiations; extends such provisions until July 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the creation of an ATV trail fund and the use of ATVs.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Enacts the "sewage flooding prevention act"; authorizes certain homeowners and not-for-profit agencies in New York City to receive an abatement of real property taxes up to two thousand dollars for the cost of installing sewer improvement check valve devices on certain dwellings; directs the New York City department of environmental protection to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Permits the installation of cameras on traffic lights in the town of Wallkill; relates to owner liability for failure to comply with traffic control indications.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to prohibitions on circus performances; prohibits circuses from conducting shows or other performances in the state for two years where a circus has been found to be in violation or in non-compliance with the Animal Welfare Act of 1966.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Prohibits the city of New York from increasing property taxes where a property's assessed value has decreased in the previous year; applies only to class one and class two properties.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Authorizes nurse practitioners to execute orders not to resuscitate and orders relating to life sustaining treatments.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to prohibiting employees of a not-for-profit corporation from serving as chair of the board.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Places the burden of proving culpable conduct on the party claiming the affirmative defense of comparative negligence.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Establishes the New York state pre-paid tuition plan by which a person may contribute to an account for the pre-payment of college tuition, tax free.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes school district property to be used for not-for-profit dental clinics providing care to families in the district upon the approval of the trustees or board of education of a school district.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Designates the sheriff of the county of Albany, and the judges and justices of courts of record in such county as firearms licensing officers for the county of Albany; and authorizes, in the county of Albany, the possession of a pistol or revolver while attending a firearms familiarity, safety, loading and firing course conducted by the office of the sheriff.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to extending the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to the New York city school district; creates position of education inspector to provide oversight and guidance for matters in the NYC school district.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Designates Charles lake, Lost lake (Putnam county), Putnam lake and Tonetta lake as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Makes provisions regarding the payment of utility bills to authorized payment agencies providing that such payment shall be deemed to be a payment to the utility on the date of payment to the agent, requiring written contracts between a utility and its payment agent and review of such contracts by the public service commission.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Increases the amounts of contributions that may be made tax free to family tuition accounts.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the furnishing of registration information by the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Enacts the triclosan awareness act prohibiting the sale of cleaning products containing triclosan, triclocarban or derivatives of such antibacterial compounds and establishes a civil penalty for selling such items.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to a stay of issuance of a warrant for eviction for certain holdover tenants.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Directs the governor to convene a work group to study and make recommendations to the legislature regarding the appropriate payment of supplements to construction workers; prohibits companies who violate the Davis-Bacon act from contracting with the state.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Names the wood frog the official amphibian of the state of New York.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to rentals in projects provided under limited-profit housing companies.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Authorizes the city of Troy to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to clarifying the basis upon which the state liquor authority has the authority to revoke, suspend or cancel a license or permit by excluding perceived violations of the laws of other states unless the conduct falls within certain exceptions and established standards in statute for the delivery of beverage alcohol.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to providing training in pain management for certain individuals; relates to providing coverage for medically necessary inpatient services for the diagnosis and treatment of substance abuse disorder; directs the commissioner to create educational materials regarding the dangers of addiction to prescription controlled substances, treatment resources available and the proper way to dispose of unused prescription controlled substances; allows a pharmacy to offer counseling and referral services to customers purchasing hypodermic syringes.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Enacts the "fair access to individualized residences (FAIR) act" to provide for family caregiver assessments for developmentally disabled persons living at home, who are on the residential request list maintained by the office for people with developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to utilization review program standards (Part A); relates to providing coverage for immediate access to a five day emergency supply of certain medications and prohibiting prior authorization for a prescription for buprenorphine for opioid addiction detoxification or maintenance treatment (Part B); relates to the heroin and opioid addition wraparound demonstration services program (Part C); relates to emergency services for persons intoxicated, impaired, or incapacitated by alcohol and/or substances (Part D).
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Relates to adding St. Lawrence county sheriff as an additional firearms licensing officer.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Dedicates and designates Jerome Park as parklands of the city of New York and establishes a working group for such park to enhance the use thereof.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Requires liability insurance rate reductions upon completion of a boating safety course or an advanced boating safety course.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Enacts the "Crohn's and colitis fairness act"; provides restroom access to persons with certain medical conditions; defines the term eligible medical condition.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Prohibits the sale of food products containing melatonin to minors; exempts food products naturally containing melatonin.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to referrals of certain annexation petitions.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Relates to authorizing the sale and possession of sparkling devices outside of cities with a population of one million or more; removes requirement that localities authorize sparkling devices in their jurisdictions; authorizes counties to opt out if they pass a local law and file an exemption with the secretary of state.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes the commission on prosecutorial conduct.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes the commissioner of the office of general services and state agencies to develop alternative procurement methods not otherwise authorized by law under certain circumstances; authorizes competitive negotiation concluding with a best and final offer.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Relates to equal pay disclosure with respect to state contracts.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Relates to establishing the community restoration fund.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Relates to the match requirements for aid granted by the supportive service program for classic and neighborhood naturally occurring retirement communities.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Enacts the voter friendly ballot act; relates to the form of the ballot for elections; removes additional provisions for primary elections for New York city.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Authorizes the assessor of the city of Hornell, county of Steuben to accept from St. Ann's Academy an application for exemptions from real property taxes for the 2013-2014 assessment roll.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Relates to the filling of borrow pits in Jamaica Bay and the effectiveness thereof; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Phillip Goldfeder
Relates to comprehensive emergency management plans' provisions for homecare and hospice in counties and in cities with a population of one million or more.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to property tax credits for farmers; adds property owned in trust to which a taxpayer is a beneficiary to qualified agricultural property.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to disability benefits for certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund; presumes performance of duty for certain illnesses; authorizes the board of trustees of the New York city fire department pension fund to draw upon the assets of such fund to pay expenses.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to the resident curator program; adds the Susan B. Anthony House to such program.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to home improvement contract provisions.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Extends provisions of the Schenectady county metroplex development authority from August 31, 2033 until August 31, 2038; increases the bond limit from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Relates to authorizing David Poplawski, a former employee of the state university of New York NY Network who is now employed by NYS department of taxation and finance, to retain membership in the optional retirement program.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Relates to authorizing certain advanced home health aides to perform certain advanced tasks.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Designates employees of the village court of the village of Port Chester serving as uniformed court officers as peace officers.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Relates to rent increase exemption orders.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Excludes newspaper delivery persons from unemployment insurance coverage, the minimum wage and workers' compensation coverage.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Provides for the financing of emergency room facilities in two hospitals in each borough by the New York city health and hospitals corporation and requires representation on the board from each borough.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the incidences of asthma in cities having a population of one hundred thousand or more and to prepare a report.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Relates to coverage for the detection of breast cancer; requires certified mammography facilities to provide extended hours; allows certain public employees excused leave to undertake a breast cancer screening.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to the transportation of liquefied natural and petroleum gas.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Limits denial of coverage of additional treatment related to health care services for which pre-authorization is required and was granted.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Provides an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain personal property manufactured and sold by veterans.
Sponsor: Michelle Schimel
Relates to an exemption of capital improvements to multiple dwelling buildings within certain cities.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Provides that members of a public pension or retirement system convicted of a felony involving breach of public trust be subject to forfeiture of pension benefits, rights and privileges.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to the eligibility of Earnest Cawley, Jr. to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer in the town of Colchester, in the county of Delaware and to be placed on the eligibility list for appointment as a full-time police officer.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Authorizes the taking and filing of oaths of office; authorizes officials who failed to take or file their required oath of office within the statutorily prescribed period to take and file such oaths within thirty days of the effective date of this act.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Relates to the definition of small business; extends effectiveness relating to requiring state agencies to pay small businesses within fifteen days of receipt of an invoice.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Exempts the city of Olean from article four of the general city law.
Sponsor: Joseph Giglio
Authorizes the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to have access to certain criminal history information contained in the central data facility established by the division of criminal justice services.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Provides that the abbreviation of "D.P.T." and title "doctor of physical therapy" may only be used by a person licensed or otherwise authorized by article 136 of the education law to practice physical therapy.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the transfer and conveyance of certain unappropriated state land to the county of Greene, in relation to using the land for a 911 emergency call center.
Sponsor: Peter Lopez
Relates to veteran suspended licenses.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Authorizes farm vehicles to travel on a highway from the point of sale to a farm.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to granting peace officer status to certain titles employed by the Nassau county police department.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to method of collection of charges by the Suffolk county water authority.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Provides that participants in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children may receive foods from any vendor approved by such program, including infant formula.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Relates to the authorization of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to designate Sean William McCabe as a Tier III member.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Establishes a tax credit for farmers who make food donations to food banks or other public, charitable or not-for-profit emergency food programs.
Sponsor: Margaret Markey
Extends time limitations for certain actions.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Allows for two or more counties to enter into a contract for the provision of a county jail.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Includes writers' and directors' salaries and fees within production costs eligible for the empire state film production credit.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes counties to employ computer generated registration lists; updates the list of supplies to be delivered to poll sites.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to persons joining a public retirement system on or after July 1, 2009 and before January 10, 2010.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires the office of children and family services to utilize a cost estimation model when determining the actual cost providers incur when providing child care and requires the office to prepare an annual report detailing such.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Directs the department of financial services to study and report upon the provision of long term care insurance coverage in this state.
Sponsor: Albert Stirpe
Requires the transmission of forward-facing employment data in labor market information.
Sponsor: Michele Titus
Relates to the sealing of certain convictions; defines terms; relates to criminal history record searches and references to undisposed cases; directs the commissioner of criminal justice services to direct that certain records of any action or proceeding terminated be sealed; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Authorizes the Capital District transportation authority to enter into an agreement with any city, town or village located within the Capital District transportation district which has adopted an ordinance regulating the registration and licensing of taxicab vehicles; and authorizes any city, town or village located within the Capital District transportation district to contract with the Capital District transportation authority for certain purposes.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to public works undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements and the use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts.
Sponsor: Michael Benedetto
Relates to the use of local cost data when adjusting claims; requires an insurer and independent adjuster to adjust certain claims made under an insurance policy that provides coverage for loss of or damage to property using cost data appropriate for the region of this state where the loss or damage occurred.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Relates to tier IV retirement benefits for Luke Parga; accords him tier IV benefits due to his past employment in 2006.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to the establishment of a wage data clearinghouse to assist in the effective collection, organization, management, aggregation or disaggregation and analysis of available wage, employment and education released data and the examination of student progress and outcomes over time, as well as the effectiveness of workforce preparation programs.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Creates the New York state veterans remembrance license plate; provides that any proceeds shall go to the credit of the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance operation fund.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Relates to members of the twenty-year/age fifty retirement program for Triborough bridge and tunnel members.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the taxation of the transfer of real property to any housing development fund company or an entity of which a controlling interest is held by such company and such real property is subject to a certain regulatory agreement or restrictive covenant.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to filing a report on examination.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Establishes a $500 personal income tax credit for the purchase of a gun safe.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to the residential parking system in the village of Bronxville in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to requiring a medical facility or related services to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to conduct periodic testing of school potable water sources and systems to monitor for lead contamination in certain school buildings; provides additional aid to such districts and boards for the costs incurred due to the testing of such potable water sources and systems containing an unacceptable amount of lead.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to certificates of occupancy for unmapped streets in the city of New York.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Establishes a biodiesel grant program for the agricultural production of biodiesel fuel; defines biodiesel fuel as a fuel comprised of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, designated B100, and meeting the requirements of the American Society of Testing and Materials designation of D 6751; establishes the biodiesel grant program fund.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Designates a portion of state route 23 in the town of Windham, county of Greene, as the "Wayne C. Speenburgh Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Peter Lopez
Provides that within twenty-four hours of any search or seizure undertaken without a warrant, the enforcement officer shall file with the court an affidavit or sworn statement describing the basis for probable cause justifying the places that were searched and the items that were seized.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to providing an increased death benefit for the survivors of Theodore Raffel.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Directs the public service commission to determine the undue advantages in the state's electricity markets provided to out-of-state generators because of the state's charges, fees, assessments, environmental standards and allowance auctions.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Establishes dates all propositions to be voted upon by the qualified voters of any school district shall be held.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Grants retroactive real property tax exempt status to the Lutheran Church of Our Savior Parish.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to the issuance of bonds to finance airport improvements at the East Hampton Airport for a period not to exceed 30 years.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to taxation of unincorporated businesses.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes the empire state music production credit and the empire state digital gaming media production credit; defines terms.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to creating a comprehensive website of small business and minority and women-owned business enterprise assistance; requires the department of economic development to review its existing websites, directories, and registries offering assistance to small businesses and minority and women-owned business enterprises and consolidate them into a comprehensive website.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Establishes the Yonkers city school district joint schools construction and modernization act.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Relates to authorizing pharmacists to refill non-controlled substance prescriptions for quantities of drugs not to exceed a ninety day supply.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to the assessment and payment of taxes on watershed and agricultural easements on easements acquired before January 1, 2011.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Extends provisions relating to the disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions from July 1, 2016 until July 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to safety in child day care programs and the licensure, registration or permission required by such programs.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Enacts Ruby's Law providing for mandatory testing of breath, blood or urine in the event of a motor vehicle collision resulting in death or injury; provides immunity from civil liability for those health care providers who comply with the provisions of law requiring such testing.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Relates to the permanent termination of parental rights for reason of developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to HIV-related testing and to screening for certain diseases; authorizes certain health care professionals to prescribe or execute an order for a seven day starter packet of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to refunding contributions for New York city transit authority members in the title transit manager.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to out-of-state hospital records produced pursuant to subpoena.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Increases the threshold sale amount triggering the additional tax imposed on certain conveyances of residential real property to $1.5 million.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Allows certain social service or health personnel to disclose confidential HIV related information for research purposes.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Expands the coverage to include cancer of the lymphatic or hematological systems, the digestive, urinary, prostate, neurological, breast or reproductive systems or melanoma.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Relates to the issuance of distinctive license plates for "Ducks Unlimited".
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Permits retail farm operations as an accessory use to agricultural lands pursuant to the Peconic Bay region community preservation fund.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires a written record of transactions and activities to be maintained pursuant to the rules of the commission in order to cash any check, make a loan, allow credit or release or discharge a debt or make a loan that represents any losses incurred by any player in a gaming activity.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Eliminates restrictions upon transferring between public retirement systems.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Designates the bridge on U.S. route 20, between Oak street and South Portage street, in the town of Westfield, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant Kevin W. White Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Relates to the adjudication of traffic infractions in the city of Rochester; establishes the Rochester traffic violations agency.
Sponsor: David Gantt
Increases the fees imposed by the Lake George park commission for docks, wharfs, moorings and boats.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Relates to notice of unpaid taxes in the county of Monroe; increases the notification requirement from 85 to 90 days.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes the village of Skaneateles, county of Onondaga, to convey its interest in Austin Park to the town of Skaneateles.
Sponsor: Gary Finch
Redefines the duties and renames the office of minority health to the office of health equity.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Designates as peace officers, members of the security force of Alfred University.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Limits the amount of time to appeal certain judgments regarding freedom of information violations.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to disability benefits for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Provides tuition waivers for two courses for police officer students of CUNY and SUNY which are related to their employment.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Includes the examination of tinted or shaded windows in the periodic inspection of motor vehicles required by law; authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate any and all rules and regulations necessary.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes the Congregation Lubavitch-Chabad House of Huntington Township, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Chad Lupinacci
Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists in the division of state police; implements an agreement covering such members of such unit; amends salary schedules for such members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; makes an appropriation therefor; and repeals certain provisions of such laws relating thereto.
Sponsor: John Ceretto
Establishes an energy system tax stabilization reserve fund in the Lowville Central School District to lessen or prevent increases in the school district's real property tax levy resulting from decreases in revenue due to changes in or termination of the payments in lieu of taxes receivable by the school district.
Sponsor: Kenneth Blankenbush
Repeals the definition of "transportation purpose" for the purposes of the metropolitan transportation authority.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to establishing the temporary advisory board for upstate transit funding.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Creates a self-sufficient retirement savings program in the form of an automatic enrollment payroll deduction IRA, and establishes an administrative board responsible for promoting greater retirement savings for private sector employees in a convenient, low-cost, and transferable manner.
Sponsor: Robert Rodriguez
Allows pharmacies to electronically transfer prescriptions to other pharmacies.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Exempts agricultural employers from paying for unemployment coverage for alien farm laborers, who are federally ineligible from receiving such benefits.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to permits for brewers, manufacturers, and importers to serve small samples of their beer or malt beverages at certain events; includes fees and definition of small sample; such permit shall include the privilege to sell such beverages for consumption off-premises.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
Requires Medicaid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for allergies.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land, the Freeport Armory, to the village of Freeport.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Relates to a small business online lending awareness and outreach campaign.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides for the processing of and maintenance of sexual offense evidence kits.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Establishes a task force to conduct a study on the ability to utilize telehealth within the workers' compensation system.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to supplementary funding for dedicated programs for public school students in the East Ramapo Central School District; appropriates funds therefor.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Grants the Scarsdale union free school district and Vernon Verona Sherrill central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment for certain state officers and employees; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the revocation and reissuance of licenses.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to code enforcement officer training and certification.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Directs the public service commission to issue an order governing the equitable sharing of interconnection costs for distributed generation resources.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Provides for paid time off for port authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who become ill or injured while in the performance of their duties as to necessitate medical or other remedial treatment.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the mandatory rededication of unused funds in the New York state local government records management improvement fund to such fund.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Relates to the inherent risks of operating agricultural tourism areas and participating in activities in agricultural tourism areas.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Authorizes Community Mainstreaming Associates, Inc. to file an application with the assessor of the county of Nassau for a retroactive property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to age and service eligibility requirements for ordinary retirement for members of the unified court system; restores 55/30 for all members and reduces the retirement age from 63 to 62.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the state university trustees to offer separate tuition rates to certain nonresident undergraduate students attending selected state-operated institutions.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to authorizing the Orleans county jail to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Orleans.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Authorizes the port authority of New York and New Jersey to offer a certain retirement option to port authority police officers Timothy GaNun and Jason DeVirgilio.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Permits the Islamic Center of Long Island to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to political contributions by limited liability companies.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Authorizes and directs the boards of trustees of SUNY and CUNY to review and revise the report of the New York State Governor's Task Force on Campus Fire Safety issued in July 2000.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to the reform of charitable corporations and trust governance.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Enacts the "New York City Panel for Education Policy Members Public Responsibility Act" requiring a quorum of the members of the city board to attend any hearing scheduled for purposes of allowing public comment on changes to educational plans for the school district of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes holding title of real property of a land bank in the name of a subsidiary; grants additional powers to land banks.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Permits child performers to perform in community theater without having to obtain a permit from the department of labor.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands in the town of Islip, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Authorizes the county of Dutchess to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Authorizes a retired employee of the Chittenango central school district to rescind such employee's retirement option.
Sponsor: William Magee
Requires the New York City Housing Authority to provide a written statement articulating the reasons for denial of any request when the denial precedes a tenant's right to institute a grievance procedure.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Provides that vacancies in the office of regent shall be filled by appointment.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides that where a temporary order of spousal support has not been issued the court may, in addition to issuing a temporary order of protection, issue an order for temporary spousal support.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Authorizes Bnos Bais Yaakov to file an application for exemption from real property taxes.
Sponsor: Rules
Provides for enhanced protection of water supplies from and emergency planning for terrorism and cyber terrorism attacks.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive plates for members of Kiwanis International.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Designates a certain portion of state route two hundred seventy-seven in the town of West Seneca, county of Erie, to be the "West Seneca Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides for disclosure of relationships between institutions of higher education and study abroad programs.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes a credit for beer produced within NYC by a taxpayer that is registered as a distributor under article 18 of the tax law.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the lease of advertising space on sports field fences in the city of Rye, Westchester County.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Prohibits, in a city of 1,000,000 or more, delivery of an unclaimed body to a university, college, school or institute, unless the consent of the deceased or the person authorized to control the disposition of such body has been granted.
Sponsor: Michael Simanowitz
Relates to establishing protections from excessive hospital emergency charges; includes hospital charges; extends coverage for members in certain counties.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to the tolling of the statute of limitations relating to personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to any substance or combination of substances found within an area designated as a superfund site.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Establishes an underground utility improvement district in the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the construction of pipe lines.
Sponsor: Frank Skartados
Provides for patient access to FDA approved abuse-deterrent technology to help combat opioid abuse.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Provides that a pre-sentence investigation and written report thereon shall not be required where a negotiated sentence of imprisonment for a term of three hundred sixty-five days or less has been mutually agreed upon by the parties with consent of the judge, as a result of a conviction or revocation of a sentence of probation; removes the requirement of solely in a city with a population of one million or more.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides that institutions of higher education shall compile reports regarding foreign students enrolled in such institutions; delineates the statistical information that each approved school must maintain for all foreign students attending with a student visa; requires the state department of education to provide a compilation to the legislature of the information submitted.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to employment agencies, including application for license; relates to procedures; relates to granting of licenses and enforcement of provisions relating thereto.
Sponsor: Francisco Moya
Authorizes Leila El-Chehabi to apply for service credit in the New York state teachers' retirement system; provides that no such credit shall be allowed where Leila El-Chehabi is receiving a benefit or will be entitled to receive a benefit at any future time from some other public or private retirement system or plan in this state or in any other state or from the federal government.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Relates to the provision of enriched social adult day services and authorizes the director to establish an application process where eligible entities may apply to offer enriched and/or optional services and authorizes the director to make grants to eligible entities.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to vendor fees at certain vendor tracks.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Enacts the "solar panel collection act" to require manufacturers of solar panels to collect such panels when they are taken out of use; requires educational outreach relating thereto; establishes collection goals therefor; requires reporting of collection efforts.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to providing for the reduction or revocation of the public pension of a public officer; authorizes the court to determine whether to reduce or revoke such pension based on the defined terms.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to pre-clearance of voting-related regulations and policies.
Sponsor: Latrice Walker
Authorizes participating employers in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system offering 20 year retirement plans to offer such plans on a non-contributory basis.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Requires health care plans and insurers to provide expedited review of applications of health care professionals who are joining a group practice.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to the placement of certain offices on the ballots of general elections.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Enables the victim of a misdemeanor to make a statement at the sentencing of the defendant.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Makes provisions for payment to certain parole officers employed by the department of corrections and community supervision for salary and medical expenses while subject to sickness.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to standards for the inspections of parking structures.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the Iglesia De Dios De Brentwood, Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Provides that certain persons who adjust claims on behalf of municipal cooperative health benefit plans shall be considered adjusters.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to amortize over a period of 10 years, the payments made to town employees upon separation from employment.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides that where the commissioner of health assumes the responsibility for the transportation of medicaid recipients in rural areas, existing public transportation systems shall be used when such systems are appropriate, available and the least expensive modes of transportation.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Excludes the services of the sole employee of an employer that is a corporation, limited liability company or partnership, when such employee is the owner of such employer, from the definition of "employment" for purposes of unemployment insurance provisions.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Increases fines for misbranding of fur-bearing articles of clothing; $1,000 for first violation; $2,000 for subsequent violations.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Extends paid family leave benefits to employees who perform construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, or improvements for multiple employers pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement who shall be eligible for family leave benefits if they were employed for at least twenty-six of the last thirty-nine weeks by any covered employer which is signatory to a collective bargaining agreement.
Sponsor: Pamela Harris
Relates to alcohol in certain motion picture theatres.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to authorizing the city of Fulton to discontinue its use of certain waterfront parklands.
Sponsor: William Barclay
Relates to early voting; provides that beginning the eighth day prior to any election and ending on and including the second day prior to the election a person duly registered and eligible to vote shall be permitted to vote.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Directs the commissioners of health and environmental conservation to study and develop a long term strategy to encourage and promote outdoor environmental education and recreational opportunities in New York state.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Requires child protective services to document home visits as part of a treatment plan, supervision and monitoring, pursuant to a court order, or on an emergency basis with photographs.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Defines the term "necessary court appearance" for purposes of the determination of a crime victim's award to include any part of a proceeding from arraignment through sentencing, pre and post trial hearings and hearings before the parole board.
Sponsor: Ruth Hassell-Thompson
Provides for issuance of distinctive plates for the "75th Anniversary of Ducks Unlimited"; requires additional annual service charge of $25 to be deposited into the DMV distinctive plate development fund.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Enacts the New York State Iran divestment act.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Authorizes MiYaD Beis Jericho, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles, to establish rules and regulations for the operation of ambulances.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to requirements under Medicare part D employer group waiver plans.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to a residential reassessment exemption for the town of Ossining in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes the villages of Sag Harbor and East Hampton, county of Suffolk, to reduce speed limits in certain cases.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Grants the Minisink Valley central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Establishes and implements the NY pride/NY certified program for agricultural products produced in the state meeting certain quality requirements.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to designating employees of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center working as public safety officers, supervisors or managers as peace officers.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to transfer ownership of certain parklands to SMW Property Holdings.
Sponsor: Anthony Palumbo
Enacts Daniella DiMedici, Jessica Tush and Brittany Passalacqua's Law; establishes the crimes of failure to register or verify as a domestic abuse offender in the first and second degrees; creates a registry for domestic abuse offenders; defines domestic abuse offender; allows discretion of the court to place offender on registry.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Allows certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions; gives special and approved assessing units the authority to tailor their "cap" to local conditions each year, thereby removing the annual uncertainty; relates to adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the base proportion in approved assessing units in Nassau county.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Enacts the "elephant protection act" to prohibit the use of elephants in entertainment acts.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Establishes a tax credit for donation of wholesome food to a food bank or other emergency food program by eligible New York state farmers.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to the registration of commuter vans.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to improving evaluations of the potential impact of rules on jobs and employment opportunities.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Creates a homeowners' bill of rights; directs the superintendent of financial services to issue a consumers' guide on insuring against catastrophic loss.
Sponsor: Alice Cancel
Directs the wood products development council to work to improve public understanding of the timber industry and authorizes the department of environmental conservation to execute contracts for timber or other forest products valued at under $50,000 without approval from the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the right to hunt, trap and fish; provides for regulation by the state.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to electronic prescriptions; permits health care practitioners to make note in a patient's chart (rather than notifying the health department) when they issue a non-electronic prescription under certain conditions.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to prohibiting the sale of crib bumper pads and to restricting the use of such pads in certain settings.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Grants access to confidential HIV and AIDS information, to the health care providers who have treated a patient and to the managed care organization insuring the patient.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Adds financial literacy and elder abuse education and outreach to the list of congregate services provided by a public or a government agency or non-profit agency which are provided in community settings at which elderly people come together for services and activities.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Repeals provisions of the election law relating to election inspectors and clerks.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to an exemption of capital improvements to multiple dwelling buildings within certain cities with a population of more than eight thousand but less than nine thousand.
Sponsor: Bill Nojay
Expands the residential-commercial exemption program to include any municipality regardless of the population of the county in which it is located.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to contact by siblings in child protective, permanency and termination of parental rights proceedings.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Adds a bicycle and pedestrian safety component to the pre-licensing driver's education course.
Sponsor: Walter Mosley
Authorizes the town board of the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk to reduce speed limits in certain cases.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to access to patient or client records in the investigation and prosecution of professional licensing and misconduct proceedings and summary suspension of professional licenses; creates a moral conduct requirement for criminal history records search for admission to a practice of a profession in this state; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to granting retroactive tier IV membership in the NYS and local employees' retirement system to Ryan L. Dickerson.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Requires the deposit, into the dedicated highway and bridge trust fund, of a portion of the sales tax collected on each gallon of motor fuel sold at retail.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Relates to withholding the governor's salary after the April first budget deadline until a state budget has been passed.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Provides for release of subcontractor's retainage held by a public owner or contractor sixty days after substantial completion of work.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to maintain the responsibility and costs of monitoring any person released on parole with the mandatory requirement of installation of an ignition interlock device on their motor vehicle.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the reporting of sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy; requires that when an autopsy shows a person died as a result of sudden, unexpected death in epilepsy, such cause shall be noted on the death certificate and filed with the North American SUDEP registry.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to providing loan forgiveness for agriculture educators.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Subject to an appropriation for the 2017-18 state fiscal year, provides that farmers shall receive an exemption from tolls when transporting products to the city of New York for consumption in such city.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the Sag Harbor Union Free School District, Suffolk County, New York, to expend the proceeds of certain bonds issued by the district for an object or purpose that differs from the original object or purpose for which said bonds were issued.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Requires registered sex offenders to personally appear annually, within thirty days of the anniversary of their initial registration date, at the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction for the purpose of having a photograph taken; failure to so appear shall constitute a class A misdemeanor; such agency shall forward a copy of the photograph to the division of criminal justice services, along with the date the photograph was taken; requires disclosure of the date that a photograph of a sex offender was taken.
Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance and the department of corrections and community supervision to examine and make recommendations on current sanctions placed by the state and local social services districts on individuals prior to and after their release from incarceration as part of the individual's re-entry planning.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Relates to the consumption of alcohol by students under the age of twenty-one who are enrolled in certain courses of study.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Extends the expiration of the authorization of county of Chautauqua to impose additional 1/2% sales and use taxes until November 30, 2017.
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Relates to making certain technical corrections relating to the UCC revisions.
Sponsor: Hugh Farley
Relates to safety in child day care programs and the licensure, registration or permission required by such programs.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to computer-based assessment technology apportionment; provides aid for technology purchases beginning in the 2015-2016 school year for school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Makes technical changes relating to removing the requirement that an application for membership in the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System or the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System be notarized (acknowledged).
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Permits the office for the aging to receive criminal history information on prospective employees and volunteers.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to protecting newly acquired state land.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to covered employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Prohibits the passage of bills by the legislature between the hours of midnight and eight o'clock a.m. unless 2/3 of the legislature is present; requires two-thirds approval for messages of necessity.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage blackfish until December 31, 2019.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes volunteer firefighters from other states to offer and provide their services to fire departments, districts and companies in this state.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to the payment of 5% of settlement funds totaling $1,000,000 or more to the principal balance of the state's general debt service fund.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Relates to the improvement of operations in thoroughbred racing; makes technical changes.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides that members of the legislature shall be penalized one day's salary for each day the state budget is late; provides that legislative leaders and the governor shall be penalized two days pay for each day the state budget is late with all monies to be placed in the New York State children and families trust fund.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Requires the assent of a two-thirds majority of the members elected to each branch of the legislature prior to the immediate vote on any legislation which has not aged for three days; establishes further provisions relating to message of necessity legislation.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to calculation of the personal income tax.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Includes public library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Prohibits charging a fee to obtain a death certificate for an inmate who has died under custody.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Authorizes Micki Guy, a firefighter in the city of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren, to elect to participate in the optional 20 year retirement program.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Authorizes Christopher Dyroff to apply for retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Makes the restrictions relating to smoking in public areas applicable to electronic cigarettes.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Requires that rehabilitation programs for female inmates in state correctional facilities be equivalent to those provided to male inmates of correctional facilities elsewhere in the state; provides that such rehabilitation programs shall include, but not be limited to, vocational, academic and industrial programs.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Provides for the recall power of the electors to remove an elective officer.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Provides that prior to the 2019-2020 school year, a school district shall not be subject to a withholding of yearly increases in general support for public schools from funds appropriated from the amount payable in the base year based upon the failure of such school district to fully implement the standards and procedures for conducting annual teacher and principal evaluations of teachers and principals in accordance with the requirements of section 3012-d of the education law provided that such school district that has not yet fully implemented the requirements of section 3012-d of the education law has fully implemented, or fully implements, an annual professional performance review for teachers and principals in accordance with the requirements of section 3012-c of the education law by September first of each respective year, commencing with September 1, 2015.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Provides that personal income tax refunds may be sent to designated accounts, including but not limited to, up to three accounts with financial institutions that have routing and account numbers and are held in the names of the taxpayer's spouse or joint account; provides that designated accounts held in one spouse's name may receive personal income tax refunds from a married filing joint return.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming certain actions or omissions relating to certain transportation contracts.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to mandatory retirement age; increases the age at which a member must retire to receive an additional pension from sixty-two to sixty-five.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Provides that municipal housing authorities in cities having a population of one million or more shall be subject to the review and regulation of the authorities budget office.
Sponsor: Bill Perkins
Authorizes the city of Binghamton to classify certain cooperative apartments as homestead properties.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to exempting Prospect Terrace Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that a percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed 45% of the membership.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Relates to failure to obtain an alteration permit or certificate of occupancy for a multiple dwelling; makes such crimes a felony.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to positions for disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to Senate apportionment; provides for sixty-two senators to be elected from each of sixty-two counties.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Increases certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows, widowers or the deceased member's children.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to requiring the commissioner of taxation and finance in conjunction with the health department and the office of temporary and disability assistance to conduct a study on the earned income tax credit and to propose changes thereto.
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Enacts term limits for members of the legislature.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Relates to the tobacco revenue guarantee fund and filing an annual report regarding certain expenditures for indigent legal services.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes cities having a population of between 250,000 and 300,000 to establish a senior citizen longtime resident real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Enacts the "urban science, technology, engineering and math (U-STEM) mentor volunteer program for youth act".
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Establishes the nineteen member autism spectrum disorders advisory board.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Relates to the election of trustees and the adoption of an annual budget of the Poughkeepsie public library.
Sponsor: Frank Skartados
Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than one year and for not less than thirty-five hours each week; grants up to $5,000 for a qualified vet and $15,000 for a qualified vet who is disabled.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Reduces travel expenses and per diems for members of the legislature living less than one hundred and twenty-five miles from the capitol.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Eliminates allowances for members of the legislature serving as an officer of either house except for the leaders in each house of either party.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Directs the commissioner of health to make regulations for the donation and redispensing of unused prescription drugs.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Creates distinctive license plates for members of the United States army 10th mountain division.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Grants a real property tax exemption, at the option of the local taxing authority, to nonprofit organizations that purchase real property after the particular municipality's levy of taxes or taxable status date if the organization files an application for exemption with the assessor.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to instant run-off elections in cities with a population of one million or more.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Permits class A-1 and B-1 distilleries to sell liquor manufactured by the licensee for consumption on the premises.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Entitles members to bring one statewide piece of legislation of his or her choosing to the floor for a vote without a home rule message and committee review during each two-year term.
Sponsor: Mark Johns
Provides for more frequent inspections of pet dealers which have been charged with or convicted of violations relating to cats and dogs.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to exempting the central New York regional transportation authority (CNYRTA) from bond issuance charges.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Requires the department of labor, in consultation with the education department, the office of temporary and disability assistance, the office of children and family services, and any other entity the department deems appropriate, to produce a report regarding summer youth employment programs funded by state, federal and local appropriations.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Enacts "Averyana's law"; provides a tax credit for the purchase and installation of certain smoke alarms which incorporate photoelectric technology including but not limited to: photoelectric detectors; dual photoelectric/ionization detectors; and photoelectric/carbon monoxide detectors.
Sponsor: Gary Finch
Provides for the mandatory revocation of a driver's license for certain convictions under the penal law, followed by a period of one year of operating with a post-revocation conditional license.
Sponsor: Toby Stavisky
Establishes a system for expedited consideration of bills in both the state assembly and senate.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Relates to exemptions from the compensating use tax for tastings held by a licensed brewery, farm brewery, cider producer, farm cidery, distillery or farm distillery in accordance with the alcoholic beverage control law.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Provides for the reporting on, processing of and transportation of sexual offense evidence kits.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Enacts the small business full employment act; enacts various measures to provide tax and regulatory relief for small businesses to encourage growth.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Prohibits the legislature from increasing the salary or allowance payable to members of the legislature by a law enacted during the period running from the date of the general election until 12/31 in any year in which members are elected to the legislature.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to contracts involving state agencies; prohibits a municipal officer or employee, for compensation, to represent private interests before any municipal agency or appear directly or indirectly on behalf of private interests in matters involving the respective municipality.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to sex offender registration and residency restrictions; sets limitations on the distance sex offenders may be required to live apart from certain areas.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Prohibits the siting of a natural gas compressor facility within two and one-half miles of any school property.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Prohibits private individuals or entities to pay for the administrative expenses associated with the conduct of a referendum.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to the registration of vintage snowmobiles.
Sponsor: James Seward
Requires all officers and employees in the executive and legislative branches to complete mandatory ethics training on an annual basis.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Creates a statewide central register of elder abuse and maltreatment reports and the elder justice coordinating council; mandates reporting by certain persons; facilitates interagency planning and reviews specific agency initiatives for their impact on the reporting and investigation of elder abuse and maltreatment in the state.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Provides for the establishment of a biennial budgeting system for the state of New York replacing the state annual budget process.
Sponsor: Mark Johns
Limits the time a legislator may serve as a legislative leader to 4 consecutive two year terms.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Amends the legislative law, in relation to term limits for committee chairs.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Relates to a residential reassessment exemption for the town of Greenburgh in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Relates to providing conditional renewal notices to policyholders; at least thirty days notice.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Authorizes the town of Irondequoit, in the county of Monroe, to lease parklands to T-Mobile Northeast LLC, as successor in interest to Omnipoint Communications Incorporated, and to dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lease and easement interest to the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Enacts the "honesty in permit processing act"; requires state agencies to annually report to the public on the time periods for processing applications of each type of permit, license, registration and certification; such report shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature, and made available to the public on the agency internet homepage; requires permit processing information to be printed on the cover page of each permit application; requires all permit applications to be processed within a time period equal to 134% of the average processing time during the previous calendar year; failure to complete processing within such period of time shall require the state agency to refund the application fees to the applicant.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to posting the child abuse hotline telephone number in public and charter schools.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Provides that public officers convicted of a felony related to the abuse of his or her office shall forfeit their state pension.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Requires Medicaid coverage of both blood testing and skin prick testing for allergies.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Provides for deposits for refillable beverage containers; excludes refund values received for refillable beverage containers from being deposited into refund value accounts.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires law enforcement agencies to inventory and report to the scientific crime detection laboratory and the attorney general's office the number of untested sexual assault collection kits; requires the scientific crime detection laboratory to report to the legislature the number of untested sexual assault collection kits held by each county; requires a plan for addressing the backlog of untested kits.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Places a limit on the annual salary of state officers and employees.
Sponsor: Andrew Raia
Authorizes the state of New York mortgage agency to invest funds in Government National Mortgage Association mortgage backed securities.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or volunteer first responder.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Exempts bibles from sales and compensating use taxes.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Relates to term limits for members of the legislature.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Requires the commissioner of mental health to develop detailed definitions of degrees of injuries that may result from attacks by persons confined to state forensic psychiatric centers.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Requires an equal distribution of legislative staff and appropriations to be made among all members of the legislature; provides for additional funds and staff for members in special capacities as long as such additional staff does not deal with constituent services.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes a task force on veteran employment opportunities, including membership requirements and powers and duties of the task force.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Designates certain portions of the Lake Ontario State Parkway in the town of Greece, county of Monroe, the "U.S. Navy Seabee Parkway".
Sponsor: Peter Lawrence
Increases funding to municipalities under the consolidated local street and highway improvement program.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Authorizes school tax reductions of 25% for residents in communities that restrict ownership to those fifty-five years of age and older.
Sponsor: Edward Ra
Relates to providing for taxpayer gifts for New York state natural disaster relief and establishing the New York state natural disaster relief fund.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Directs the director of the division of minority and women's business development to provide for the minority and women-owned business certification of business entities owned by Indian nations or tribes.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Extends the time period for the taking of deer in the county of Suffolk from December thirty-first until March thirty-first.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires all plea agreements offered to public officers and former public officers to include pension forfeiture.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Creates the office of the correctional ombudsman to achieve transparency, fairness, impartiality and accountability in New York state correctional facilities; relates to reports by coroners; designates investigators of the office of the correctional ombudsman as peace officers; authorizes the attorney general to investigate the alleged commission of any criminal offense committed by an employee of the department of corrections and community supervision in connection with his or her official duties; relates to the confidentiality of certain records; and includes the office of the correctional ombudsman records within the definition of public safety agency records; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Relates to the real property tax cap; removes the current required school district override super majority vote.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Requires the tax commission to refund any overpayment within 30 days of the filing therefor.
Sponsor: Raymond Walter
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "6994th Security Squadron Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Christopher Friend
Requires the budget submitted by the governor to include an itemization, by each individual school district, of appropriations for the support of school districts.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to truancy allegations in persons in need of supervision and child protective proceedings in family court.
Sponsor: Maritza Davila
Establishes the Senior Center Council to provide a forum for the discussion of challenges facing senior centers.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Establishes the New York state cornerstone program and the New York state discovery program.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Authorizes the city of Buffalo to add unpaid housing code violations to the city's annual tax levy.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to adjournments in contemplation of dismissal and suspended judgments in child protective proceedings in the family court.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Relates to aggravated cruelty to animals.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Authorizes the village of Mamaroneck to designate a portion of West Boston Post Road (United States Route 1) as a school zone.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to the investigation of illegally operating child day care services, including the review process of applicable advertisements.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Provides that a retired state employee shall not be barred from providing direct care or other services to an individual for whom those services were provided by such person while a state employee.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Establishes tax deductions for the tax paid by the taxpayer in connection with the purchase of a new automobile and for the interest paid by the taxpayer in connection with an automobile loan.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Establishes a farm drain tile financial assistance program.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to the definitions of a switchblade knife and a gravity knife; excludes knives which have a spring, detent, or other mechanism designed to create a bias toward closure and that requires exertion applied to the blade by hand, wrist, or arm to overcome the bias toward closure and open the knife.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Allows persons 60 years or older to keep and care for common household pets in building operated by the New York city housing authority, prevents eviction of such persons based on the ownership of pets; provides that any pet who poses a nuisance to the community may be removed; does not remove any pet owner from liability for the reasonable costs directly attributable to any damage caused by the pet.
Sponsor: Adriano Espaillat
Authorizes the county of Westchester to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Authorizes the civil committment of detained persons convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense or with a prior conviction in another state of an offense that would be a designated felony.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Allows colleges and universities participating in the higher education opportunity program to spend program funds on certain expenses beneficial to students: student travel for academic activities or conferences; expenses related to helping students apply for and prepare for graduate or professional school; the hiring of students participating in an Arthur O. Eve opportunity for higher education work-study program.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Requires mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts to be printed in large font type.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Enacts the "truth in spending act"; creates disclosure requirements prior to the allocation of certain funds.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes restrictions on consumer and employment contracts.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Prohibits any sex offender from residing within a quarter mile of any school, playground, park or building in which child day care is provided.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to a traumatic brain injury/PTSD treatment fund to provide funding for certain treatments not otherwise covered by insurance and other health care coverage.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Enacts provisions governing the conduct of audits of pharmacies by pharmacy benefit managers; provides timeframes for reports, specifies documentation to be used; exempts certain investigations.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to including certain reserve veterans for purposes of the veteran alternative exemption; includes Operation Graphic Hand.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Establishes "rural freshwater improvement and protection program" which provides for upgrading, repairing and replacing septic systems; directs DEC to prepare model ordinances for towns and villages; sets up revolving loan fund for homeowners to conform; also provides tax credit to homeowner.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Exempts hospitals from the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.
Sponsor: Dean Murray
Relates to commercial rent and occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Mandates NYC Transit Authority to produce annual reports concerning actions to reduce noise.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Authorizes the commissioner of the office of general services and state agencies to develop alternative procurement methods not otherwise authorized by law under certain circumstances; authorizes competitive negotiation concluding with a best and final offer.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to the timeframe in which an invoice of assessment is to be submitted to the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the promotion of public umbilical cord blood banking.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to conducting studies on personal income tax brackets and the corporate franchise tax.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Provides state assistance to the counties of Cayuga and Seneca in which an Indian nation is located.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the upper Hudson region as the "Upper Hudson Wine Trail".
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Provides for mandatory training for treasurers of political committees; requires treasurers to complete such training within forty-five days after first being appointed; requires the state board of elections to provide such training in any method it determines, as well as a web-based format; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to the availability of certain benefits and entitlements to exonerees.
Sponsor: Dan Quart
Relates to authorizing the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Suffolk county police athletic league.
Sponsor: Alfred Graf
Establishes that in a FOIL proceeding, the court shall assess against an agency reasonable attorneys' fees and other litigation costs incurred when a person substantially prevails unless the court finds otherwise.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to negligence in use or operation of vehicle attributable to owner; provides that there shall be no liability for cars loaned by dealers without a fee.
Sponsor: David Gantt
Imposes term limits for members of the assembly and senate of New York.
Sponsor: Mark Johns
Relates to the clarification of the applicability of certain exemptions to periodic distributions from a nonqualified pension plan.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Establishes a self-employed taxpayer credit.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Exempts the service of inflating tires and other inflatable personal property from sales and use taxes.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Includes vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition of "hazard vehicle".
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Relates to the salary of certain teachers employed by a board of cooperative educational services providing instruction in career and technical education to school age students.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to private school agents' certificates.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to a three phase power revolving loan program.
Sponsor: Kenneth Blankenbush
Relates to the licensure of pathologists' assistants.
Sponsor: Pamela Harris
Provides an itemized deduction for expenses for course-mandated supplies for eligible college students paid by taxpayers.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the terms of office of members of the legislature to four years and limit the terms of office a member of the legislature may serve.
Sponsor: Karl Brabenec
Establishes an interagency council for the purpose of coordinated planning on issues related to older adults which shall assess current programs and services across multiple agencies and shall consider current and projected needs.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Repeals provisions relating to the transition of the school tax relief property tax exemption to a personal income tax credit.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Enacts Invest-NY by implementing various tax benefits for businesses.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Requires the New York state department of transportation, in consultation with the department of motor vehicles, the governor's traffic safety committee, local police agencies, local transportation entities in Nassau and Suffolk to conduct a study to evaluate the configuration of entrance and exit ramps, and signage at entrance ways and exits on the Southern State Parkway in Nassau and Suffolk Counties to determine whether adequate safety measures exist to prevent collisions and the instance of wrong way drivers.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Establishes high-tech worker-NY.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to electronic bell jar games.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Designates that portion of state route 357 in the town of Franklin, county of Delaware, as the "Corporal Nicholas K. Uzenski Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Requires the commissioner of education to develop guidelines to encourage those in high school to participate in apprenticeships and to raise awareness in apprenticeship opportunities.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Designates a portion of state route 275 in the village of Richburg, county of Allegany, as the "Private First Class Duane C. Scott Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Joseph Giglio
Relates to prohibiting civilian drone use within 1000 feet of a correctional facility except when in use under the Federal Aviation Administration's authorization.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Provides certain disability benefits for disabilities related to heart disease to sworn police officers of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, capital police officers in the office of general services and forest rangers; provides that any condition of impairment of health, caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to such sworn police officer, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance of such officer's duty.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Enacts the "living donor protection act of 2016"; prohibits discrimination in the provision of life, accident, health and long-term care insurance based on the status of an insured as a living organ or tissue donor; authorizes the provision of family leave to provide care during transplantation preparation and recovery from surgery related to organ or tissue donation; and directs the commissioner of health to develop and distribute informational materials relating to the benefits of being a living organ or tissue donor.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires applicants for public assistance to be given notice in writing, that they may be liable to reimburse the state for benefits received; provides such notice shall be given as part of an informational booklet and as a standalone document.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Relates to providing funding for combating legionnaires' disease in cities having a population of one million or more; appropriates money therefor.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the Cedarmore Corporation for community programs.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Relates to authorizing the town of Walton in the county of Delaware to alienate certain parcels of land used as parkland to Bruce Taylor and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Allows certain entities to convert their status of filing as a not-for-profit organization to a for-profit entity.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Relates to driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or combined use of drugs and alcohol.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to making the first one hundred thousand dollars of an individual's private pension non-taxable.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Enacts Shop-NY; establishes various exemptions from New York's sales and compensating use tax.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Establishes a tax credit for patent fees not to exceed $1,500.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to the creation of the child care regulatory review task force.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Provides that the Rochester city school district may provide transportation to pupils that live more than one-half mile from the school.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Creates the New York Farm-to-Urban Consumer Solar Access Act of 2016 to permit a system implementing shared solar power benefits.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to actions involving public petition and participation.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Relates to the transmission of caller identification information to consumers.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Prohibits contracts for the purchase or lease of consumer goods from restricting venue in an action relating to such contract.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Grants sales and use tax exemptions for certain tangible personal property and services used in the operation of recreational skiing facilities.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the personal income tax, cost of living adjustment and standard deduction.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to negligence in use or operation of vehicle attributable to owner; provides that there shall be no liability for cars loaned by dealers without a fee.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes a special fee on firearms, rifles and shotguns; establishes the gun violence research fund.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Limits, in cities having a population of one million or more, the annual increase in real property taxes.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to jury pools for United States district courts; broadens jury pools for selection.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Authorizes county clerks to establish a system to receive and retain maps utilizing electronic means.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes the county of Clinton to reinstate Aaron Heroux as a deputy sheriff, notwithstanding that such reinstatement will occur more than 1 year after leaving such position.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Directs the chancellors of city school districts, in cities with a population of one million or more, to study and make recommendations concerning the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs in such city school districts.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Establishes the Collaborative Curriculum Development Fund and amends the education department's reappropriations.
Sponsor: Edward Ra
Establishes a tax credit for the purchase and installation of geothermal energy systems.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the incorporation of certain businesses for the purpose of practicing professional geology.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes a workgroup to examine and make recommendations on the security and protection of New York national guard recruiting centers and ROTC facilities.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the approval process of cable franchises; relates to renewal and amendment of franchises and system properties.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Exempts the counties of Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland and Orange from the Metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental driver's permit and license registration fees.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Limits temporary detention of defendants in violation of their release in a local correctional facility to 72 hours before transfer to state custody.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the beginning farmer revolving loan program.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Provides for an exemption for certain real property in certain counties.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to an assembly standing committee on ethics and guidance.
Sponsor: William Barclay
Authorizes SUNY college at Westbury to lease lands for the construction and operation of a child care center.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to excise tax on telecommunication services (Part A); relates to temporary municipal assistance sales and compensating use taxes for cities of one million or more on telecommunication services (Part B).
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to the funding of public transit systems.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Provides a tax credit for spay or neuter services.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Defines autocycle and specifies provisions applicable to such motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Authorizes the granting of a real property tax exemption for persons 65 years of age or older who are tenants residing in a manufactured home park in certain municipal corporations and school districts.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes the mobile and manufactured home replacement program.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Increases the fine for illegally parking in a space marked for use by handicapped persons to a range of $75 to $200 for the subsequent offense within two years.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Relates to coverage for maternal depression screenings; provides for coverage for pediatric providers who provide screenings.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to the study of the economic impact of public libraries and public library systems in the state.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming a transportation contract of the Cold Spring Harbor central school district.
Sponsor: Chad Lupinacci
Establishes Work-NY by implementing tax credits for various businesses based on hiring and investments.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Requires single-purpose day camps to ascertain whether an employee or volunteer is listed on the state sex offender registry pursuant to article six-C of the correction law; defines "single-purpose day camp".
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes the North Country Alliance Local Development Corporation to utilize interest derived from such entity's trust fund to cover administrative costs.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Enacts the "safe cars safe streets act"; requires the inspection of tinted or shaded windows, airbag systems, and antilock brake systems during the required periodic inspection of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to continuing the early college high school programs and the pathways in technology early college high school programs in this state; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Extends the existence of the Hamilton county industrial development agency until July 21, 2026, regardless of whether it has any outstanding obligations.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Provides a mandatory jail sentence for violations of family and non-family orders of protection and global positioning system monitoring for certain defendants.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Designates Little Wolf and Simon lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to contract with a certified public accounting firm for the conducting of an independent forensic audit of such authority.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Increases the number of counties in which services can be performed to qualify for the empire state film production credit.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to sealing records for certain proceedings that terminate in favor of the accused where the charges relate to the possession of marihuana.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Requires the board of regents to provide a live webcast of their meetings.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes minors who are 14 or older and are active members of a religious community to engage or assist in employment which such minors are otherwise prohibited from performing; requires such minors to be supervised by an adult member of such religious community.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to requiring employers to pay holiday premium pay to certain employees on certain federal holidays.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Provides that a portion of the local hotel occupancy tax in a city having a population of one million or more shall be dedicated to promoting tourism within each individual borough of such city.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or at a long term care facility.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the election of regents and the creation of the commission on regents.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires mandatory arbitration clauses in certain consumer contracts to be disclosed and explained to the consumer.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Appropriates $10 million for services and expenses of the office of mental health and eligible providers providing mental health care to uninsured and indigent individuals.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Exempts computer hardware and software and school supplies from sales tax during two specified one week periods.
Sponsor: Anthony Palumbo
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to deny employment or volunteer applications based on a criminal history report for such applicant.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to tuition assistance program awards.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the creation of the cystic fibrosis foundation license plate and cystic fibrosis research and education fund.
Sponsor: James Seward
Provides medical assistance coverage for the cost of donor breast milk which is medically necessary for certain prematurely born infants.
Sponsor: Michaelle Solages
Extends green residential building grant program until 2018.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Requires certain training for coroners and coroner's deputies.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to village justices; changes the title of acting justice to associate justice.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Authorizes the office for the aging to conduct a public education campaign relating to elder abuse.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Requires the real property transfer tax return relating to residential property sold or purchased by a limited liability company to include information on the ownership of such company.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Relates to the functions of the chief administrator of the courts; relates to reporting requirements.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to banning or limiting outside income for legislative leaders and committee chairs.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Provides that criminal history record checks received from the division of criminal justice services shall be available to nursing home and home care service agencies.
Sponsor: Alicia Hyndman
Provides that an employer's unemployment experience rating account shall not be charged for a claimant whose employment was terminated as the result of the return of an employee after family leave.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Authorizes the Chabad Lubavitch Chai Center, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Chad Lupinacci
Relates to funding for highway construction and improvements in western New York from funds appropriated to the MTA; appropriates funds therefor.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus; provides for an advisory council consisting of representatives of people with lupus and their families and health care providers who specialize in treating lupus.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Requires school district compliance with physical education instruction requirements in elementary grades in public schools to be reported to the department of education.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to clarifying health education.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Grants authority to the village of Sag Harbor, county of Suffolk to regulate certain described waters bounding said village pursuant to the navigation law.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Reduces the number of signatures required on a petition for a person to be placed on the ballot for election of a trustee of the Norwood Public Library.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Prohibits any funding of the administrative costs of the state's paid family leave program by employers.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to funding for the office for people with developmental disabilities; transfers one billion dollars to such office from funds appropriated to the MTA; appropriates funds therefor.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Reinstates certain entities as empire zone business enterprises that were improperly decertified.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to membership of the board of directors of the New York racing association.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Authorizes the Bronx Children's Museum program.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Relates to the waiver of a kitchen incubator processing license fee.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to requiring a child under the age of two or weighing thirty pounds or less to be secured in a rear-facing child restraint system.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Authorizes the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York to apply to the assessor of the city of Saratoga Springs for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Authorizes the Hempstead union free school district to issue up to seven million dollars in serial bonds to finance a deficit in its general funds.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Grants the superintendent of financial services additional powers to take action against insurers which are in a hazardous financial condition.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to directing the NY state department of health to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of Brooklyn in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan.
Sponsor: Jo Simon
Authorizes the county of Putnam to grant exemption from county sales and use taxes during the period August 15 - 24, 2016 for clothing and footwear.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Increases certain penalties and authorizes the payment of rewards for aid in the apprehension and conviction of persons guilty of certain felonies or misdemeanors relating to endangered and special species, species of special concern and illegal ivory articles and rhinoceros horns.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Increases the amount of income certain property owners may earn for the purpose of eligibility for the property tax exemption for persons sixty-five years of age or over and for persons with disabilities and limited income.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides that services to medical assistance recipients suffering from traumatic brain injuries or qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services shall be provided outside of managed programs.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to merging town justice courts; excepts the towns of Erin and Chemung from the requirement that towns form a contiguous geographic area in order to merge their town courts.
Sponsor: Christopher Friend
Authorizes Lois J. Reid to apply for ordinary disability retirement benefits.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to violations concerning number plates on a toll highway, bridge and/or tunnel facility.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Establishes the crime of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree; defines performance.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the creation of the cigarette tax enforcement fund; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes Congregation Anshe Divrei Chaim of Monsey to file an exemption for real property taxes.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Relates to conforming the definition of palliative care under hospice provisions to be the same as under other public health law provisions.
Sponsor: Adriano Espaillat
Authorizes Nicholas Cofield to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the town of Niagara.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes Kathleen M. Dalton to have maternity leave deemed as benefits eligible service for retiree health insurance purposes.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Enacts the "public assistance integrity act" to prohibit the sale or purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products or lottery tickets with public assistance benefits; prohibits the use of public assistance benefits, by means of an electronic benefit transfer transaction, at a liquor store, casino or adult entertainment facility; establishes the public assistance integrity fund.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to waiving the residency requirement for the town board-appointed officers in the town of LaGrange, Dutchess county.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Provides state aid to newly eligible municipalities in which a video lottery gaming facility is located.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Requires when the legislative budget is overdue that the members of the legislature shall have their compensation and allowances withheld and not paid until the date the final bi-weekly salary installment payment of the year is due and then an amount equal to the accrued, withheld and unpaid installments shall be promptly paid to each member.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to lease state land, associated utility lines and television translator system to the Tioga county bureau of fire and other occupants.
Sponsor: Christopher Friend
Relates to establishing a pilot program for the use of body-worn cameras on certain correction officers.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Enacts the "Volunteer Firefighter and Ambulance Worker Protection and Incentive Act of 2015"; increases the volunteer firefighters' and volunteer ambulance workers' credit in the amount of five hundred dollars; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; establishes priority access to wireless telephone and text messaging services for emergency service; provides safety for employees who are late or miss work because they have responded to an emergency; eliminates the expiration on benefits for volunteer firefighters for disease and malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Directs the office of children and family services to promulgate regulations establishing workload standards for child protective service employees.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to oversight by the New York state public authorities control board.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization and other fertility preservation treatments.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Requires notice to adjoining owners of construction, excavation or demolition work.
Sponsor: Annette Robinson
Relates to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis and other health care services for sexual assault victims.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Relates to access to patient or client records in the investigation and prosecution of professional licensing and misconduct proceedings.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes the affordable residential green building program which would provide incentives to owners for the construction of new residential buildings which are affordable.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Establishes the "help individuals reach employment program"(HIRE).
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to requiring automobile brokers to be licensed and bonded.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to admission requirements for graduate-level teacher and educational leader programs for certified teachers already holding a graduate degree; exempts certified teachers who already hold a graduate degree from the graduate record examination or substantially equivalent admission examination requirement.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes the financing of and provides for a period of probable usefulness to the pre-payment of certain service contract obligations.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Provides for the appointment of the members of the New York state housing finance agency, the housing trust fund corporation and the affordable housing corporation.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to participants in the World Trade Center rescue.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Prohibits the use of chemical flame retardants on residential upholstered furniture.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Provides resident individuals a deduction of an amount equal to one hundred percent of the cost of health insurance premiums expended by the taxpayer during the taxable year.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Directs the department of health to assign at least 1 narcotics investigator to each county in a city having a population of one million or more.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to clarifying the definitions of "illegal money transmission" and "money laundering"; relates to penalties for unlicensed money transmitters; relates to timeliness of prosecutions.
Sponsor: Ruben Diaz
Directs the department of health to make additional payments for inpatient services provided to recipients of medical assistance by certain public hospitals.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Establishes the New York student affordable refinancing for tomorrow program (New START) for the purpose of relieving student debt by directly paying an eligible participant's loan debt to the lending institution or lender and providing a repayment plan whereby payments will be deposited in the fund.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Establishes the city of New York education fund, the city of Yonkers education fund, the city of Rochester education fund, the city of Buffalo education fund and the city of Syracuse education fund each consisting of moneys collected from the additional imposition of one percent of real property taxes on all classes within the respective city.
Sponsor: Alfred Graf
Enacts the "omnibus emergency services volunteer incentive act" to provide benefits to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; increases the personal income tax deduction after four or more years of service; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; authorizes the provision of municipal health insurance coverage to such volunteers; establishes a volunteer recruitment service loan forgiveness program.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Requires the creation of a nine member advisory board within the department of agriculture and markets on food safety and inspection programs; such board is to advise, counsel and confer with the commissioner of agriculture and markets on matters dealing with enforcement of laws and regulations regarding food safety and protection and shall make recommendations regarding any necessary statutory or regulatory changes.
Sponsor: Vivian Cook
Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to grant an easement through the Boutwell Hill state forest for electric generation facilities associated with a wind powered electric generation project.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Provides for the payment of actuarially sound and adequate rates for managed care plans and service providers.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Repeals the START-UP NY program.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Computes sales and compensation use tax on retail sales of motor fuel and diesel motor fuel at a rate of cents per gallon.
Sponsor: Anthony Palumbo
Establishes a pilot program to conduct scientific research and assessment of the feasibility of seaweed cultivation.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Establishes corporate business and personal income tax credits for taxpayers (employers of 100 or fewer) who provide employees with on-the-job training in an amount up to $300 per employee.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Provides relief on statewide central registrar clearance fees for tax exempt organizations and that the fee of twenty-five dollars shall not apply to tax-exempt not-for-profit child care providers registered as a federal 501 c(3) charitable organization.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Requires certain bills which establish a commission, task force, board, council or any similar body shall have not less than one position appointed by each of the legislative leaders.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to admission to institutions of higher education for pupils receiving home instruction; prohibits the commissioner from requiring pupils who have completed the requirements of a home school education or a non-public school program to obtain or submit proof of having obtained a general education development certificate or any accredited diploma.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires the office of children and family services to post any additional relevant qualifications of child day care providers which are submitted to such office on its website.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the provision of services to public school students in grades 8 through 12 by guidance counselors.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Authorizes the reopening of the twenty-five year retirement benefit plan to Jack Harb of Sullivan County who failed to make a timely election thereof due to a clerical error on the part of the County.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to study and report on the recruitment and retention of direct support professionals working with people with developmental disabilities by November 1, 2016.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Designates a portion of the state highway system, in the city of Albany, county of Albany, as the "Charles M. Stern Jr. Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Provides for a sex offender public awareness outreach program to provide educational outreach to schools, community groups and clergy on issues related to sex offenders.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or volunteer first responder.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Makes technical corrections to rent control provisions; repeals certain provisions relating to real property tax abatements.
Sponsor: Rules
Relates to eligibility to assume office for certain elected officials owing past-due tax liabilities.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Provides for the temporary civil service appointment, without examination, to positions in information technology; limits certification from eligible civil service lists for certain information technology service positions; authorizes lump sum payments to certain employees of the office of information technology services in classified service who have completed certain courses of instruction.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to licenses to purchase, store or use certain compounds; $50 fee.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Prohibits use of lottery funds for any purpose other than education and prohibits co-mingling with funds for other purposes.
Sponsor: Ruben Diaz
Relates to sales of certain property made to the Suffolk County Landbank Corporation.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Authorizes Congregation Ginze Yosef, in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health, to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Creates a unicameral legislature consisting of seventy-five senators called the senate.
Sponsor: Mark Johns
Creates a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Establishes a temporary task force on black market cigarettes to examine and investigate such issues related to sale and distribution in New York of tobacco products for which required tax has not been paid, including, but not limited to, unlawfully manufactured cigarettes, cigarettes smuggled from low-tax jurisdictions, and stolen tobacco products from convenience stores, cargos and truck hijacking; provides such task force shall consist of nine members.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to exempting cranes from the petroleum business tax.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Establishes a spending cap and increases the maximum capacity of the rainy day fund.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Exempts from sales and use taxes certain motor vehicles, parts and services therefor and railroad rolling stock, parts and services therefor.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Relates to participation in managed long term care plans by medical assistance recipients in the traumatic brain injury waiver program and the nursing home transition and diversion waiver program; directs the commissioner of health to establish a statewide neurobehavioral resource project specializing in the evaluation and development of behavioral support plans for individuals with traumatic brain injuries.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to establishing the marine mammal and sea turtle protection area.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to grants and reimbursements to public and nonpublic schools for the costs related to the hiring of school resource officers or for costs related to the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Relates to rules and regulations pertaining to the operation of social adult day care programs.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Relates to the adoption by local governments of higher or more restrictive standards for construction.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to payments to rural hospitals designated as critical access hospitals.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
Relates to the licensing of custom beermakers, custom cidermakers and custom winemakers; defines terms; sets fees.
Sponsor: William Magee
Provides for giving of just compensation upon the taking of any billboard in accordance with the eminent domain procedure law; removes amortization schedules for the removal of billboards in areas other than industrial and manufacturing zones.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
Relates to employment preparation education programs; authorizes persons under 21 who are attending regular day school classes and are designated as English language learners to attend employment preparation education programs at no additional cost to the school district or BOCES, provided there is space available.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to procedures involving taxpayer interviews.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to the rates set by the Sandy Hook pilots surcharge board.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive plates for members of Kiwanis International.
Sponsor: Michael Miller
Alienates certain parklands in the village of Kings Point in the town of North Hempstead in the county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Michelle Schimel
Authorizes police officers to arrest a driver of a motor vehicle in certain circumstances without a warrant.
Sponsor: Daniel Squadron
Requires the office of temporary disability and assistance to conduct a homelessness study; requires a report by June 30, 2017.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes Peter G. LaSala, a police officer in the village of Potsdam, in the county of St. Lawrence, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides that school aid for prior years may be paid from funds for the general support for schools after deduction of excess payments that have been made; directs the education department to make prior years' school aid payments to the Fredonia central school district during the 2016 - 2017 state fiscal year.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the period of probable usefulness for the acquisition of land or permanent rights on land in the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Eliminates the corporate franchise tax and personal income tax on business corporations that are manufacturers; defines terms "manufacturer" and "principally engaged".
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Mandates fingerprint-based history record searches of applicants for police appointment.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Includes the Rondout Creek in the definition of "inland waterways" for the purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Authorizes emergency vehicles and tow trucks to travel on shoulders or slopes of controlled-access highways when dispatched to the scene of an accident.
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Creates a biotechnology research and development investment tax credit; provides that such credit shall be the product of fifteen percent and the qualified Bio/Med research and development costs paid or incurred in the state; allows credit for the taxable year in which the qualified Bio/Med research and development activity occurs.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to authorizing the village of Philadelphia to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Requires agents of licensed money transmitters to remit moneys to the licensee within the time frame provided in the contract between the agent and the licensee; makes agents liable for treble damages for failure to remit moneys in a timely manner.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Extends Herkimer county's mortgage recording tax authorization until 2018.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to a review of reimbursement methodologies under contracts or agreements with insurers under the medical assistance program for home and community-based long term care services.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Authorizes a sentencing court to consider an application for poor person relief on appeal.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Directs the commissioner of general services to place a POW/MIA chair and plaque in the capitol to honor United States prisoners of war and those still missing in action.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to recommendations by regional SUNY community college councils.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to adding Black Creek located in Monroe county to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Provides for random drug and alcohol testing of bus drivers; further provides that no person shall consume a drug, controlled substance or an intoxicating liquor, regardless of its alcoholic content, or be under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or drug, within eight hours before going on duty or operating, or having physical control of a bus.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Prohibits certain student organizations which participate in discrimination or intolerance from receiving funding from SUNY, CUNY or community colleges.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Major General Harold J. Greene Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Proscribes indemnity agreements in motor carrier transportation contracts.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Relates to funds of the state; prohibits certain public authorities, commissions or public benefit corporations from depositing moneys in certain banking institutions.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Authorizes the commissioner of finance of the city of New York to accept an application for exemption from real property taxes from Yeshiva Shareh Torah for a certain parcel of land located in the borough of Brooklyn.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Extends eligibility for the agricultural property tax credit to farmers having a leasehold interest of not fewer than five continuous years in qualified agricultural property.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Relates to providing a tax credit for qualified expenses relating to healthy living; provides such credit shall equal, up to one thousand dollars, the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified expenses relating to healthy living.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Requires the division of criminal justice services to provide notice to the appropriate local police agency, within 48 hours, of the change of address, or the other information relating to a sex offender.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Establishes a distinctive plate honoring the Boy Scouts of America for which the regular registration fee will apply plus an initial one time service charge of $25.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Expands the definition of dangerous contraband to include telecommunications and electronic recording devices.
Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Requires contracts between professional design firms and municipal corporations, state and local authorities, or state departments contain language concerning indemnification.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Permits an insurer to rescind or retroactively cancel a policy in circumstance involving an accident staged to defraud an insurer.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Reestablishes the town of Yorktown industrial development agency.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund and the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Requires statements made to the state board of parole by the victim of a crime be considered when determining whether to grant a discretionary release on parole.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Requires the department of health and mental hygiene in a city having a population of one million or more to issue a performance summary card to each child care service.
Sponsor: Michele Titus
Extends the authorization for the county of Greene to impose an additional mortgage recording tax until 2018.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to providing county correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; provides for the annual service charge to be deposited into the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund and the excess of six thousand dollars to be deposited to the credit of the cure childhood cancer trust fund; establishes the "cure childhood cancer trust fund".
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to direct dialing to public service answering points.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes Patrick Cechnicki to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Creates a homeownership rehabilitation credit; allows a taxpayer to be credited for fifteen percent of the qualified rehabilitation expenses made by such taxpayer with respect to a qualified residence against the tax imposed; defines qualified residence and qualified rehabilitation expenses.
Sponsor: Michael Fitzpatrick
Creates a temporary state commission on personal privacy, in light of the rapid advancement of technology in recent years, and provides for its powers, functions and duties; provides that said commission shall undertake a comprehensive study of the condition of personal privacy in the state and how best to protect it; directs the commission to report its findings and recommendations to the governor and the legislature.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Changes the fiscal year to begin on the first of May; requires the use of generally accepted accounting principles in the state fiscal plan.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to educational requirements for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Directs the commissioner of labor and the president of the civil service commission to prepare reports on how many women were referred to counseling or skills development and training for jobs and careers that offer higher earning potential, including jobs traditionally dominated by men.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Provides for certain health insurance benefits from the city of Mount Vernon for Yvonne D. Mosca upon her retirement.
Sponsor: Ruth Hassell-Thompson
Establishes public arbitration panels that shall take into consideration for employees of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority who are employed as bridge and tunnel officers and are peace officers, a comparison of peculiarities in regard to other trades or professions.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Exempts certain participants of a supervised collegiate summer baseball league from definition of employee for purposes of workers' compensation coverage.
Sponsor: James Seward
Increases from twenty-four to sixty months, the time for which reconsideration for parole for a violent felony offense shall be determined.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to requiring the video recording of interrogations of juveniles in juvenile delinquency proceedings in family court.
Sponsor: Pamela Harris
Authorizes an insured to designate a third party to receive cancellation notification.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage bluefish.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes awards for burial expenses of crime victims to be paid to a business.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to qualifications to serve as an emergency medical technician.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Enacts legislation implementing the provisions of a constitutional amendment authorizing public utility lines and bike paths to be located within the forest preserve, and establishes land banks within such preserve for public projects.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Creates the alternative fuel incentive fund; provides that monies allocated from the fund will be used for certain purposes; makes an appropriation therefor; provides that thirty million will be allocated for research and development, twenty seven million for the thruway authority to create alternative fuel stations on the thruway, twenty million for a cellulosic ethanol refinery and five million for administrative costs.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Authorizes the village of Hudson Falls, in the county of Washington, to discontinue use of certain lands as parkland, and use such lands for municipal parking.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to building aid for reconstruction or modernizing projects of the Rochester joint schools construction board.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Exempts services rendered with respect to the maintenance and repair of trucks having a gross weight exceeding 33,000 pounds from the state portion of the sales and compensating use tax.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Exempts from payment of sales and use taxes, receipts from sales made to any duly organized chapter or local group devoted to promoting interest in the plight of senior citizens, educating senior citizens and the general public about the aging process and aiding retired persons in their social, economic and intellectual needs.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Provides for corporate franchise tax and personal income gifts for the Helping Our Military in Emergencies (HOME) fund to help families encountering financial emergencies while their loved ones are serving in a combat zone; establishes such fund.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Provides that no landlord shall deny access to a licensed professional engineer or licensed registered architect hired by any tenant or tenant association representing tenants of a multiple dwelling of six units or more for the purpose of conducting an inspection of a major capital improvement for which an application for a maximum rent adjustment has been filed by the landlord; provides that such inspection shall be conducted after notice to the landlord and during normal business hours; provides for the filing of such inspection report by such tenants with the New York city rent agency for consideration in such application's determination.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms the actions of the Panama central school district regardless of the failure of such district to timely file final building cost reports.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the designation of the "United States Submarine Veterans' Memorial Highway - Saratoga County".
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to the payment of salaries for certain district attorneys; requires the state to provide state aid to pay such salaries; and appropriates $1,600,000 therefor.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Expands the kinds of qualified wellness programs that can be offered to enrollees.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Relates to exemptions from sales and use taxes for gift certificates, electronic gift cards and magnetic gift cards.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Relates to eliminating the canal corporation in relation to an implementation plan for continuing and reconstituting the NYS canal corporation as a subsidiary corporation of the power authority of NYS and transferring powers and duties regarding the NYS canal system from the NYS thruway authority to the power authority of NYS.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Enacts the "independent senior housing resident freedom of choice act" to authorize persons in independent housing, shelters and residences to receive services they could otherwise receive if they resided in a private residence.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Relates to establishing an electronic monitoring program for children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder as well as other developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the repeal of a portion of the tax law relating to the family tax relief credit; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Requires the licensing of persons engaged in the design, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, alteration and repair of elevators and other automatic people moving devices and creates the New York state elevator safety and standards board and the elevator and related conveyances safety program account.
Sponsor: Keith Wright
Provides additional personal exemption of $650 for each dependent who is 65 years of age or older and whose gross income for the calendar year is not more than $1500.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Authorizes Moses Jacobowitz Charitable Foundation, in the borough of Brooklyn of the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Places limitation upon personal income tax levy by the state of New York.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Directs the commissioner of education to distribute certain federal funds for the purpose of educating either unaccompanied minors or English language learners.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Eliminates the earnings limitation for retired police officers employed as school resource officers.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to the requirements of the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development.
Sponsor: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Enacts "Brittany's law" defining domestic violence offenses and offenders and requiring such offenders to register with the division of criminal justice services; establishes the crimes of failure to register or verify as a domestic violence offender in the first and second degrees.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Relates to the membership of the public service commission and clarifies the mandatory time frame within which the public service commission must act upon petitions submitted by regulated entities and citizenry.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Directs the empire state development corporation to conduct a study on the feasibility of a minority and women-owned business capacity enterprise mentorship program.
Sponsor: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Relates to the removal of an action from a problem solving court; provides that a "problem solving court" shall include, but not be limited to, domestic violence court, youth court, mental health court and veterans court.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Establishes a state insurance advisory board promoting the development and growth of the insurance industry in the state.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to the elimination of fees and renewal fees associated with the issuance of distinctive license plates for purple heart recipients.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the Washington and Essex county correctional facilities to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in each such county.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to the leasing and licensing of property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation for Sampson State Park.
Sponsor: Michael Nozzolio
Relates to an informational leaflet relating to safe sleep; requires that the informational leaflet for maternity patients include recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics relating to safe sleep, including sleep space and position.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Grants taxpayer an automatic extension of time for filing a return and paying personal income taxes where a state budget is not timely enacted into law; provides that no penalties or interest shall be assessed, or imposed upon a taxpayer during such extension.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Subtracts pensions to officers and employees of any state of the United States, or any agency or instrumentality of any such state, to the extent includible in gross income for federal income tax purposes, from adjusted gross income.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Relates to exemption of new and used ambulance vehicles to an emergency services organization, pursuant to a written contractual agreement, for use in the transportation of emergency services personnel, under the sales and compensating use taxes.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Authorizes police officer Christopher J. Cady to enroll in the optional twenty-five year retirement plan for firemen and policemen with tier 3 status.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to the use of voice recognition features on certain products.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Authorizes Richard Insogna, Jr. to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to affordable housing for persons with a disability or having attained the age of sixty-two.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Authorizes the village of Roslyn Estates, Nassau county to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to collective employment negotiations, notice of the issuance of debt and capital plans and projects of the port authority of New York and New Jersey.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires the division of veterans' affairs to establish, operate and maintain a free mobile application for the purposes of providing veterans and their family members with information relating to services provided by the division and other state agencies, the federal government and other organizations; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Validates certain acts of the Islip Union Free school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects including project numbers 0003-12, 0011-007, 0011-008, 0003-013, 0007-009, 0007-010, 0007-012 & 0011-009.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Provides for the definition of "environmental zones" for purposes of the brownfield redevelopment tax credit.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Extends certain provisions of law relating to the licensing of establishments where animals or fowls are slaughtered until August 5, 2020.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to exemptions from sales and use tax for books, candy, pictures, posters, trinkets, or any item containing a logo, collectable or seasonal item sold at a book fair or program.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Eliminates persons employed by or under the supervision of a district attorney, assistant district attorney, attorney general or assistant attorney general from definition of "prosecutor" for the purposes of the state commission on prosecutorial conduct.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Limits the state tax on motor and diesel fuels to the national average.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Authorizes municipalities to issue tax rebates without prior approval.
Sponsor: Kieran Lalor
Relates to authorizing a residential redevelopment inhibited property exemption; authorizes any city, town or village to, by local law, provide for a real property tax exemption for residential redevelopment inhibited property.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Establishes tax credits for premiums paid for life insurance which is used for long term health care.
Sponsor: Mark Gjonaj
Enacts the graduate outreach assistance law to exempt from state income taxation the first two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a fifty thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a four-year college graduate and the first one hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a twenty-five thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a two-year college graduate.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Provides for identification of retired police and peace officers and federal law enforcement officers; requires issuance of ID cards and inclusion in the state central registry of police and peace officers.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Prohibits certain borrowing arrangements; relates to the authorization for the contracting of debt; relates to the manner by which payments are appropriated and paid.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to granting tidal wetland permits.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to exempting the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority from bond issuance charges.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Requires an updated photo be taken in order to renew a driver's license.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Prohibits smoking in private passenger cars, vans and trucks where a minor less than 14 years of age is a passenger in such vehicles; provides for rebuttable presumption; provides that violations of such provisions shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Authorizes Thomas Malley to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Enacts the New York State Terrorist Registry Act; establishes the New York State terrorist registry; provides for terrorist registry information sharing; provides for registry information collection and notification; creates a special phone number and internet directory; establishes the crime of failure to register or verify with the NYS terrorist registry which is a class A-I felony.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to qualifications for holding the office of comptroller in the city of Rye in Westchester county.
Sponsor: George Latimer
Relates to extending the authorization for the length of leased lands located at the state university of New York at Purchase.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires that sanitary gloves be changed after handling raw foods, performing tasks that do not involve food preparation or processing, handling garbage and after performing any other work where gloves may have become soiled or contaminated.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Relates to eliminating the canal corporation in relation to an implementation plan for continuing and reconstituting the NYS canal corporation as a subsidiary corporation of the power authority of NYS and transferring powers and duties regarding the NYS canal system from the NYS thruway authority to the power authority of NYS.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Relates to dissolving the Madison County Sewer District and transferring its assets, obligations and liabilities to the town of Cazenovia.
Sponsor: William Magee
Authorizes Patricia Gill-Davanzo Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system; states past costs shall be borne by the North Babylon Union Free School District.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Provides a capital gains and investment income tax exemption for resident New Yorkers investing in a New York resident technology or science start-up company.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Relates to information concerning dense breasts.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires persons providing substance abuse treatment or counseling to complete training in medication assisted treatment.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Grants personal income taxpayers with a credit of $1.00 per day for each day up to a maximum of seventy-five days after April 1 until the legislature enacts the state budget provided such taxpayer has timely filed his or her return.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes a college student expense personal income tax credit for a taxpayer or his or her dependents who are enrolled full-time in an undergraduate college, equal to the amount paid for new and used required textbooks and laptop computers not to exceed one thousand dollars.
Sponsor: Michael Fitzpatrick
Establishes a one-time personal income tax credit for up to $10,000 for the expenses incurred by a resident taxpayer in the course of donating his or her organs for transplantation; repeals the personal income tax modification, reducing federal adjusted income, for such expenses.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Exempts institutions of higher education from the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to aid to school districts educating Native American pupils; requires payment be made to school districts educating Native American pupils within one hundred eighty days of the date that the number of Native American pupils educated by the district is determined by the department.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Establishes a geoparks task force to survey and formulate a plan for identifying sites for a system of geoparks, and a management and development strategy for such parks.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.
Sponsor: Charles Barron
Adds certain parcels of land in the city of Peekskill and in the town of Greenburgh to the list of premises which are exempt from the provisions of law which restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to disaster preparedness.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Provides for issuance of distinctive plates to "Catholic War Veterans of America"; requires additional annual service charge of $10 to be deposited into the DMV distinctive plate development fund.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to misuse of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; relates to agricultural districts law improvements; repeals provisions relating to the manufacture and sale of adulterated turpentine and linseed oil; repeals provisions relating to the interstate pest control compact; and repeals provisions relating to the sale of charcoal.
Sponsor: William Magee
Relates to the location of service centers for independent living.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
Requires the universal coding and electronic payment of medical assistance claims for mental health or substance abuse disorder services.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Provides for the temporary civil service appointment, without examination, to positions in information technology; limits certification from eligible civil service lists for certain information technology service positions; authorizes lump sum payments to certain employees of the office of information technology services in classified service who have completed certain courses of instruction.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Establishes the research animal retirement act; requires research dogs and cats at higher education research facilities or facilities that provide research in collaboration with a higher education facility, to be offered for placement with non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations; provides that such facilities may enter into agreements with rescue and shelter organizations for implementation.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Gives state income tax credit to volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance corps in good standing up to $2500; must be in good standing for a minimum of five years and maintain continued eligibility.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Relates to establishing a product stewardship program for primary batteries.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Establishes the "complex needs patient act" including definitions and reimbursement and billing procedures; preserves access to quality complex rehabilitation technology for patients with complex medical needs.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Makes care and services provided by licensed mental health practitioners eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Addresses prerequisites to a class action; an order allowing class action and appointing class counsel; the dismissal, discontinuance, compromise or settlement of a class action and attorneys' fees.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Exempts ski resorts from sales tax on equipment that is used in the operation of the business and from sales tax on electricity used in the operation of the business.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Exempts veterans eighty-five years of age and older from the obligation to pay New York state income tax.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Relates to murder in the first degree where the intended victim is a child twelve years of age or younger.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Exempts compensation for active military service from inclusion in a resident's adjusted gross income under certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Relates to the disposition of cats; allows shelters to put cats up for adoption immediately if they are found to be healthy by a veterinarian and do not have any collar, tags or microchip identifying their owners.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the process of selling surplus fire equipment and vehicles.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
Specifies requirements for motor fuel advertising media; requires clearly visible signs relating to the pricing of motor fuels.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Relates to qualified financial instruments of RICS and REITS.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to prohibiting homeowners' associations from restricting the installation of or use of solar power systems.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to the operation of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Makes certain state lands in the town of Argyle, Ft. Edward and Kingsbury, in the county of Washington, subject to taxation for all purposes.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to limitations on real property tax exemptions for veterans in the city of New York; requires the local legislative body to adopt a local law providing the exemption.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to establishing a temporary commission for the purpose of celebrating the 100th anniversary of World War I.
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Increases the amount of the farm workforce retention credit for farms located in the county of Westchester.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Enacts the "Voter Enfranchisement Modernization Act of 2016"; relates to establishing the electronic personal voter registration process; provides for online voter registration.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to notice of indicated reports of child maltreatment and changes of placement in child protective and voluntary foster care placement and review proceedings.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to study and report on potentially hazardous structures and storage areas under elevated train tracks, and its commuter notification system.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the town of Hyde Park to convey to the Greenfields Town Water District an easement through land located in the town's Greenfields Park currently utilized as a public ground water supply with underground water mains, electrical lines and well heads as a part of the existing public water supply system.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Requires the state board of elections to publish the campaign website addresses of the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state comptroller, member of the state senate and member of the state assembly candidates for public office; directs such candidates to provide their campaign website addresses to the state board of elections.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires the New York city planning commission to hold a public community forum prior to approving the location or continued operation of a supportive housing facility.
Sponsor: Michael Benedetto
Enacts the "over-expenditure, under-expenditure, transfer notification (OUT) act" to provide for the use of surplus appropriated funds and over-expenditure approval.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes a task force to examine and evaluate the operations of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs and to review the mission and operations of the justice center, the validity of claims of abuse and neglect and the appropriateness of prosecutorial actions.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Extends certain provisions of law authorizing the hunting of big game in the county of Albany with rifles.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Provides that students may be employed for up to five hours on any day preceding a school day as a qualified lifeguard or aquatic supervisory staff, provided that the employer receives and maintains both the written consent of the minor's parent or guardian and a certificate which shall be provided to the employer at the end of each marking period by the minor's school which shall assert that such minor is in satisfactory academic standing.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Provides that each investor owned utility must file with the public service commission an electric vehicle charging tariff that allows a customer to purchase electricity solely for the purpose of recharging an electric vehicle; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Directs the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 5 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Directs the department of environmental conservation to lease the Rogers environmental education center to the Friends of Rogers Environmental Education Center, Inc. for a term of not less than 40 years.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to certain recycling program requirements; requires stores to maintain records on recycling of plastic bags and make such records available to the department annually; requires the department to post such information on its website.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Authorizes Yeshiva Bais Chaya Esther INC, in the city of New York, to file a retroactive application for exemption from water and sewer charges for certain assessment rolls.
Sponsor: James Brennan
Requires a study of the implementation of medical marihuana in regards to banking, tax revenue collection, and employment tax collection issues.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Requires the commissioner to provide updates regarding the implementation of the report and recommendations of the transformation panel including progress made by the office in developing plans for and implementing recommendations, identifying statutory obstacles to implementation and any other information necessary to keep stakeholders informed of the implementation plan.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Provides a residential revaluation exemption in a county with a population of not less than 930,000 and not more than 1,200,000; establishes eligibility for such exemption and provides the exemption calculation; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to midwifery birth centers; includes term within the definition of a hospital; directs the commissioner of health to make regulations relating to establishment and operation of midwifery birth centers.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Alters the definition of a qualified historic home for the purposes of the historic homeownership rehabilitation credit.
Sponsor: Michael Fitzpatrick
Requires certain persons to report child abuse or suspected child abuse to law enforcement authorities.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Authorizes the sale, distribution, transportation and processing of industrial hemp.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes the New York state first home savings program to authorize first time home buyers to establish savings accounts to buy their first home.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Requires certain information to be included on labeling of fish by fish wholesalers.
Sponsor: Ron Kim
Extends from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2047, the expiration of provisions authorizing the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to lease the Hyde hall historic site at the Glimmerglass state park.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to standing of certain relatives in custody and guardianship proceedings.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Includes bias-related graffiti in hate crimes.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Establishes the New York state ocean acidification task force to identify the causes and factors contributing to ocean acidification and to evaluate ways of addressing the problem by applying the best available science as to ocean acidification and its anticipated impacts.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes the September eleventh, two thousand one scholarship fund.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Prohibits the sale and distribution of synthetic cannabinoids; establishes a statewide synthetic cannabinoid surrender program.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to voting and registration for voting by convicted felons; provides such convicted felons may vote if such person's maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired, or such person is serving a term of parole, presumptive release, conditional release or post-release supervision.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Relates to the purchase of farm products by municipalities.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to extending the filing deadline from two years to five years for active and retired firefighters in the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to defining and establishing a micro-business.
Sponsor: Mark Gjonaj
Creates a tax exemption for leasing of certain aircraft used for flight schools.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Relates to additional options for local social services districts to implement effective welfare-to-work programs; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Provides hunting safety instructors with a free hunting license in consideration for such services for the next license year beginning after the date the course was completed.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to the limitation on highway expenses in the town of Smithtown.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Creates the veterans' outreach advisory board; authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to such board.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to providing personal protective equipment to law enforcement officers in New York city to allow response to terrorist attacks and active shooter incidents.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the Peconic Land Trust to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Brookhaven.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Authorizes Lois J. Reid to reapply for ordinary disability retirement benefits.
Sponsor: Raymond Walter
Exempts the real property of a land bank from all special ad valorem levies and special assessments as defined in section one hundred two of the real property tax law.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Authorizes the town of Lewisboro, in the county of Westchester, to establish a 25 mile per hour speed limit on town roads or on designated town roads.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Requires the metropolitan transportation authority, the New York city office of emergency management, and the port authority of New York and New Jersey to report to the governor and the legislature on weather-related evacuation capabilities; requires the metropolitan transportation authority to certify as to its facilities and equipment.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Requires applications to purchase condominiums or cooperatives to be acted upon within forty-five days; failure to do so results in automatic approval.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes Congregation Beth-El Sephardic Center to retroactively apply for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Requires every general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center or outpatient department to provide identification, assessment, and appropriate treatment or referral of persons suspected as human trafficking victims; requires notification to social services where person is under the age of 18.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Extends provisions authorizing the county of Wyoming to impose a county recording tax on obligations secured by a mortgage on real property.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Establishes the state police communication interoperability demonstration project; authorizes the state police to conduct an interoperability demonstration project for the purpose of testing the use of established techniques to promote more efficient communications for state and local law enforcement agencies; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Enacts the "engineers', architects', landscape architects' and land surveyors' good samaritan act" to protect from liability for personal injury, wrongful death, property damage or other loss professional engineers, architects, landscape architects and land surveyors who render voluntary services, without compensation acting reasonably and in good faith, at the scene of a natural disaster or catastrophe.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides state aid and reimbursement to municipalities for certain services.
Sponsor: Alfred Graf
Authorizes the leasing and licensing of the main house at Caumsett state historical park preserve in the ninth park region.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Requires the office of children and family services to complete a report on the impact of a tax deduction for expenses, including adoption fees, medical and legal fees, court costs and any other related expenses paid or incurred by a taxpayer attributed to the adoption of a child in foster care.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Relates to the misbranding of escolar or oilfish as tuna, albacore tuna or white tuna.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires the department of motor vehicles to ensure that all licenses comply with the national driver register.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to interviews of any officer or employee of the port authority or its subsidiaries.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Requires the legislature to provide funding to reimburse localities for the costs associated with expenditures made as a requirement of any law which mandates the undertaking of a new program or increases the level of service of an existing program by a locality; requires the legislature to establish procedures for the allocation of funds among the local governments.
Sponsor: Christopher Friend
Provides a tax credit for businesses in a heightened flood risk zone that purchase flood insurance.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Allows certain interactive poker games be considered games of skill rather than games of luck; includes definitions, authorization, required safeguards and minimum standards, the scope of licensing review and state tax implications; makes corresponding penal law amendments.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to authorizing the Fulton county correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Fulton.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Relates to special proceedings.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Establishes the "New York's Own combat veterans healthcare choice program act" to establish tax free savings accounts to pay the healthcare costs of combat veterans on active duty during Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom, until covered by the federal government.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to allowing a physically disabled surviving spouse who was married to an enhanced STAR qualifying individual to continue to receive the exemption even if the surviving spouse is not sixty-two years of age.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the sale of governmental signage or other metal property.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Repeals article 26 of the tax law known as the estate tax.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes a Minority Coordinating Council on Asthmatic Affairs within the department of health to assess the asthma risk factors for the minority citizens of our state, counties and regions; identifies the existing barriers to quality asthma treatment and care among minorities; develops action steps for addressing care issues; launches a state-wide asthma awareness campaign to educate our citizens about the disease; requires report.
Sponsor: Carmen Arroyo
Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services.
Sponsor: Michael Venditto
Requires notaries public and commissioners of deeds to complete and retain certain documents relating to the transfer of residential real property.
Sponsor: Latrice Walker
Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal to review and report on compliance with the federal low-income and very low-income employment requirements for projects.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Requires the superintendent of financial services to study and issue a report on online small business lending products and platforms that originate from lenders licensed by New York state or advertised to small businesses within the state.
Sponsor: Alice Cancel
Relates to the definition of Indian reservation; ties such term to certain treaties.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Establishes an alternative energy systems and generating equipment tax credit for qualified expenditures meeting the criteria prescribed by the department of taxation and finance, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and the New York state energy research and development authority, for taxpayers subject to tax under articles nine-A, twenty-two, thirty-two and thirty-three of the tax law whose business is not substantially engaged in the commercial generation, distribution, transmission or servicing of energy or energy products.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Provides that people receiving a United States Postal Service disability pension are eligible to participate in the disability rent increase exemption program.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Provides a credit against personal income tax and corporate franchise tax for wine bottling, packaging and labelling expenses of wineries, breweries and distilleries licensed pursuant to certain provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law; allows any amount of credit not deducted in a tax year to be carried over to the following tax year or years.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Makes aggravated vehicular homicide a violent felony offense.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to conforming the definition of palliative care under hospice provisions to be the same as under other public health law provisions.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to a state transportation plan; requires the commissioner of transportation to submit to the governor and the legislature long-range transportation plans and five-year capital plans.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Extends Warren county's additional mortgage recording tax authorization until December 1, 2018.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Authorizes the county of Putnam to grant exemption from county sales and use taxes during the period August 15 - 24, 2016 for clothing and footwear.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Requires registered professional nurses to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure; provides exemptions for those currently licensed or enrolled in nursing programs.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Provides that rules that require changes to compliance or billing standards that could result in eventual withholdings or takebacks due to Medicaid auditing and/or self-disclosure obligations shall become effective no sooner than ninety days from the publication of adoption of the rules.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Requires sex offenders to verify their residence and registration on a biannual basis; provides that the division shall mail a verification form to each registered sex offender on a different random date during each six month period of the calendar year.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Allows the New York state thruway authority to provide a discounted toll rate to farmers transporting agricultural products.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Authorizes certain counties and cities to impose up to a four percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes; preserves the authority of certain municipalities to impose such taxes at rates in excess of four percent.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to payment of bills for pharmaceutical services.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to the Onondaga Lake Amphitheater Infrastructure and Revitalization Project act.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to the preparation of educational materials relating to substance abuse among students and designating employees to provide information regarding substance abuse to students, parents and staff.
Sponsor: Maritza Davila
Relates to repealing the empire state film production credit and making an appropriation to the education department.
Sponsor: Steve Katz
Relates to expanding eligibility for shock incarceration.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Grants the transplant council the power to make recommendations to the commissioner of health relating to organ donation, transplantation, procurement organizations, banks and storage; requires the council to make such recommendations annually.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes health care professionals licensed in other jurisdictions and appointed by the World Triathlon Corporation to practice in this state at a triathlon.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Amends provisions of the economically sustainable transportation demonstration program to provide an on demand transit service for seniors using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to minority and women-owned business enterprises.
Sponsor: Robert Rodriguez
Relates to adding the Black Creek located in Genesee and Wyoming counties to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Establishes the opt in program for reporting of suspected financial exploitation.
Sponsor: Annette Robinson
Relates to rates and charges associated with the use or rental of fire hydrants owned or operated by the water authority of Western Nassau county and the water authority of Western Nassau county district.
Sponsor: Jack Martins
Relates to authorizing the town of Brookhaven, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Mastic, Moriches, Shirley Community Library.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
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Passed (500)
Provides that participants in the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children may receive foods from any vendor approved by such program, including infant formula.
Authorizes the imposition of an occupancy tax in the village of Port Chester.
Imposes an occupancy tax in the town of North Castle.
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Mamaroneck.
Relates to the imposition of a hotel and motel tax in the town of Woodbury.
Relates to reporting school finances, reserve funds, final annual budgets and multi-year financial plans.
Establishes a state insurance advisory board promoting the development and growth of the insurance industry in the state.
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Mount Kisco.
Relates to payments from the New York state medical indemnity fund.
Relates to expedited utilization review of prescription drugs.
Imposes an occupancy tax in the village of Harrison.
Provides for enhanced protection of water supplies from and emergency planning for terrorism and cyber terrorism attacks.
Relates to employment agencies, including application for license; relates to procedures; relates to granting of licenses and enforcement of provisions relating thereto.
Authorizes the town of Greenburgh, villages in the town of Greenburgh and the village of Sleepy Hollow in the town of Mount Pleasant to adopt a local law to impose a 3 percent hotel/motel occupancy tax.
Requires the department of health and mental hygiene in a city having a population of one million or more to issue a performance summary card to each child care service.
Relates to the imposition of an occupancy tax in the village of Tuckahoe.
Relates to the issuance of bonds to finance airport improvements at the East Hampton Airport for a period not to exceed 30 years.
Relates to the timeframe in which an invoice of assessment is to be submitted to the state comptroller.
Permits a city wholly within the county of Orange to opt out of a county law permitting the sale and possession of sparklers.
Relates to contributions made to family tuition accounts; provides that a taxpayer may deposit a sum derived from his or her personal income tax refund into college savings accounts.
Provides for the issuance of special ballots to emergency responders who respond to emergencies declared by the governor or a court of competent jurisdiction.
Relates to off-hours arraignment parts in counties outside the city of New York; authorizes the establishment of a plan to designate off-hours arraignment parts in select local criminal courts of a county.
Relates to the reform of charitable corporations and trust governance.
Establishes the New York state ocean acidification task force to identify the causes and factors contributing to ocean acidification and to evaluate ways of addressing the problem by applying the best available science as to ocean acidification and its anticipated impacts.
Limits the amount of time to appeal certain judgments regarding freedom of information violations.
Relates to any adoption by the department of environmental conservation of a management plan concerning mute swans.
Authorizes the Sag Harbor Union Free School District, Suffolk County, New York, to expend the proceeds of certain bonds issued by the district for an object or purpose that differs from the original object or purpose for which said bonds were issued.
Relates to establishing a temporary commission for the purpose of celebrating the 100th anniversary of World War I.
Provides for the notification of the next of kin of the death of an inmate.
Relates to prohibiting fees to be charged to agencies for copies of certain clinical records.
Directs the commissioner of health to make regulations for the donation and redispensing of unused prescription drugs.
Includes the examination of tinted or shaded windows in the periodic inspection of motor vehicles required by law; authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to promulgate any and all rules and regulations necessary.
Allows certain social service or health personnel to disclose confidential HIV related information for research purposes.
Directs the commissioner of labor and the president of the civil service commission to prepare reports on how many women were referred to counseling or skills development and training for jobs and careers that offer higher earning potential, including jobs traditionally dominated by men.
Relates to the assessment and payment of taxes on watershed and agricultural easements on easements acquired before January 1, 2011.
Directs the department of transportation to conduct a study of level grade rail crossings and to submit a report to the governor and the legislature on or before April 1, 2017.
Relates to HIV-related testing and to screening for certain diseases; authorizes certain health care professionals to prescribe or execute an order for a seven day starter packet of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis.
Requires the division of criminal justice services to provide notice to the appropriate local police agency, within 48 hours, of the change of address, or the other information relating to a sex offender.
Authorizes the county of Livingston to offer an optional twenty-five year retirement plan to certain deputy sheriffs.
Provides that dependents of military servicemembers who are transferred out of the state shall remain eligible for certain developmental disability services received under federal home and community based services programs.
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive license plates bearing the words "Cure Childhood Cancer"; provides for the annual service charge to be deposited into the department of motor vehicles distinctive plate development fund and the excess of six thousand dollars to be deposited to the credit of the cure childhood cancer research fund; establishes the "cure childhood cancer research fund".
Relates to defining consummation of a mortgage loan.
Authorizes the county of Fulton to impose a tax on hotel and motel occupancy of up to four percent of the charge therefor.
Authorizes the village of Sleepy Hollow to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to a certain police officer employed by such village.
Relates to a small business online lending awareness and outreach campaign.
Allows colleges and universities participating in the higher education opportunity program to spend program funds on certain expenses beneficial to students: student travel for academic activities or conferences; expenses related to helping students apply for and prepare for graduate or professional school; the hiring of students participating in an Arthur O. Eve opportunity for higher education work-study program.
Excludes newspaper delivery persons from unemployment insurance coverage, the minimum wage and workers' compensation coverage.
Requires the provision of translation services for inmates appearing before the parole board.
Relates to minimum standards for online posting of rulemaking information.
Relates to prohibiting the New York state council on the arts from awarding arts and cultural grants when an organization has no place of business within the state and does not apply awarded monies to New York state programs.
Establishes the nineteen member autism spectrum disorders advisory board.
Relates to railroad safety; requires joint inspection of traffic signals; increases penalties for the failure to comply with regulations; aligns railroad bridge inspection requirements with federal regulations; establishes and increases penalties for failure to obey certain signals and stops.
Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to grant an easement through the Boutwell Hill state forest for electric generation facilities associated with a wind powered electric generation project.
Relates to private school agents' certificates.
Relates to automated ticket purchasing software.
Provides an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain personal property manufactured and sold by veterans.
Authorizes the city of Hudson to impose hotel and motel taxes.
Authorizes the office for the aging to conduct a public education campaign relating to elder abuse.
Provides for the processing of and maintenance of sexual offense evidence kits.
Relates to the licensure of pathologists' assistants.
Requires persons providing substance abuse treatment or counseling to complete training in medication assisted treatment.
Relates to increasing the bonding authority of the New York city housing development corporation.
Relates to authorizing certain advanced home health aides to perform certain advanced tasks.
Relates to the provision of enriched social adult day services and authorizes the director to establish an application process where eligible entities may apply to offer enriched and/or optional services and authorizes the director to make grants to eligible entities.
Relates to including certain reserve veterans for purposes of the veteran alternative exemption; includes Operation Graphic Hand.
Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus; provides for an advisory council consisting of representatives of people with lupus and their families and health care providers who specialize in treating lupus.
Requires the office of children and family services to complete a report on the impact of a tax deduction for expenses, including adoption fees, medical and legal fees, court costs and any other related expenses paid or incurred by a taxpayer attributed to the adoption of a child in foster care.
Extends the ability of the county of Albany to impose and collect taxes on occupancy of hotel or motel rooms in Albany county.
Relates to the transmission of caller identification information to consumers.
Allows pharmacies to electronically transfer prescriptions to other pharmacies.
Relates to the provision of off-site health care services; directs the commissioner of health to allow diagnostic and treatment centers and outpatient clinics of general hospitals to provide off-site services to existing patients who are chronically ill and temporarily or permanently homebound at their residence or at a long term care facility.
Allows certain entities to convert their status of filing as a not-for-profit organization to a for-profit entity.
Relates to civil service provisional employees; extends certain provisions.
Relates to the filling of borrow pits in Jamaica Bay and the effectiveness thereof; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
Relates to the membership of the early intervention coordinating council; adds representatives of managed care plans or managed care plan trade associations familiar with how claims for services are provided to the council.
Authorizes the city of Binghamton to classify certain cooperative apartments as homestead properties.
Authorizes a sentencing court to consider an application for poor person relief on appeal.
Exempts the real property of a land bank from all special ad valorem levies and special assessments as defined in section one hundred two of the real property tax law.
Relates to refunding contributions for New York city transit authority members in the title transit manager.
Establishes business franchise and personal income tax gifts for the support of state veterans' homes; establishes the "veterans' home assistance fund" as a repository of revenue from such gifts, grants and bequests thereto; requires annual state appropriations thereto to be used for the support of the 5 state veterans' homes in the state.
Eliminates restrictions upon transferring between public retirement systems.
Relates to the financing and construction of facilities by the dormitory authority for Summit Educational Resource, Inc., of Western New York.
Provides certain disability benefits for disabilities related to heart disease to sworn police officers of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation, capital police officers in the office of general services and forest rangers; provides that any condition of impairment of health, caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to such sworn police officer, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance of such officer's duty.
Provides that any head of household issued a tax abatement certificate for five consecutive years shall not be required to file every two years for a tax abatement certificate upon local option.
Relates to qualifications to serve as an emergency medical technician.
Authorizes the villages of Sag Harbor and East Hampton, county of Suffolk, to reduce speed limits in certain cases.
Relates to sales of certain property made to the Suffolk County Landbank Corporation.
Increases certain prize amount thresholds for raffles.
Relates to the licensing of custom beermakers, custom cidermakers and custom winemakers; defines terms; sets fees.
Requires health care plans and insurers to provide expedited review of applications of health care professionals who are joining a group practice.
Relates to pro rata license fees for seasonal bars.
Relates to the process of selling surplus fire equipment and vehicles.
Repeals certain provisions relating to the airport security registration fee.
Directs the commissioner of health and superintendent of financial services to establish a standard prior authorization request for a utilization review of prescription drug coverage.
Authorizes the superintendent of financial services to suspend crediting of underwriting earnings for a fiscal year for the purpose of accumulating a subscriber's operating reserve.
Authorizes an insured to designate a third party to receive cancellation notification.
Relates to eligibility for real property tax credit for payments in lieu of taxes made by a Qualified Empire Zone Enterprise for property located at 560 Broadway, Schenectady, New York.
Relates to dissolving the Madison County Sewer District and transferring its assets, obligations and liabilities to the town of Cazenovia.
Relates to the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; makes such provisions permanent.
Relates to an exemption of capital improvements to multiple dwelling buildings within certain cities.
Relates to information concerning dense breasts.
Proscribes indemnity agreements in motor carrier transportation contracts.
Codifies the early childhood advisory council to promote a comprehensive and high quality early childhood system.
Increases the number of counties in which services can be performed to qualify for the empire state film production credit.
Relates to midwifery birth centers; includes term within the definition of a hospital; directs the commissioner of health to make regulations relating to establishment and operation of midwifery birth centers.
Requires the department of social services and not-for-profit corporations to inquire into whether applicants for financial assistance have engaged in military service.
Establishes the Senior Center Council to provide a forum for the discussion of challenges facing senior centers.
Authorizes the provision of free spaying and neutering services in lieu of self-instructional course work for continuing education requirements for veterinarians with services provided in the office of a licensed veterinarian.
Provides for the financing and construction of capital facilities for a certain not-for-profit corporation.
Relates to the consumption of alcohol by students under the age of twenty-one who are enrolled in certain courses of study.
Grants the Minisink Valley central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Relates to requiring certain agencies to submit regulatory agendas for publication in the state register.
Extends the expiration of provisions relating to a restricted dental faculty license; requires a report proposing legislation to address the shortage of New York trained dentists pursuing academic careers in New York.
Relates to notice of public hearings relating to the adoption of rules and regulations.
Relates to collection period after assessment not being extended as a result of hospitalization for members of the armed forces, astronauts and victims of certain terrorist attacks.
Relates to the effectiveness of payments in lieu of taxes made by certain entities for property located at One Nirvana Plaza, Forestport, New York.
Relates to a certain agreement for a payment in lieu of taxes with respect to a lessee that is a qualified empire zone enterprise of certain real property.
Requires every general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center or outpatient department to provide identification, assessment, and appropriate treatment or referral of persons suspected as human trafficking victims; requires notification to social services where person is under the age of 18.
Establishes the School Energy Efficiency Collaborative Act of 2016 to reduce redundancies, raise awareness, and promote the efficient implementation of energy projects in school districts across the state.
Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking and the duties and meeting requirements of such task force.
Relates to permanent total disability benefits received by disabled volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers; provides for a cost-of-living adjustment to such benefits.
Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture.
Grants the Scarsdale union free school district and Vernon Verona Sherrill central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Relates to prohibiting advertising for the use of dwelling units in a class A multiple dwelling.
Extends until January 1, 2019, the deadline to apply for the solar electric generating system real property tax abatement.
Provides for the use of certain property in the county of Suffolk.
Establishes an underground utility improvement district in the town of East Hampton, county of Suffolk.
Provides that people receiving a United States Postal Service disability pension are eligible to participate in the disability rent increase exemption program.
Relates to taxation of unincorporated businesses.
Allows that additional taxes on each mortgage or real property be placed upon certain transportation districts.
Relates to clarifying health education.
Relates to the powers and duties of fire district commissioners.
Designates that portion of state route 357 in the town of Franklin, county of Delaware, as the "Corporal Nicholas K. Uzenski Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of state route 23 in the town of Windham, county of Greene, as the "Wayne C. Speenburgh Memorial Highway".
Relates to the authorization of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system to designate Sean William McCabe as a Tier III member.
Relates to the waiver of a kitchen incubator processing license fee.
Designates a portion of state route 275 in the village of Richburg, county of Allegany, as the "Private First Class Duane C. Scott Memorial Highway".
Requires the New York City Housing Authority to provide a written statement articulating the reasons for denial of any request when the denial precedes a tenant's right to institute a grievance procedure.
Designates a portion of state route 434 as the "Col. David Ireland Memorial Highway" in the city of Binghamton, in Broome County.
Allows certain not-for-profits to make purchases through use of county contracts.
Grants authority to the village of Sag Harbor, county of Suffolk to regulate certain described waters bounding said village pursuant to the navigation law.
Relates to method of collection of charges by the Suffolk county water authority.
Relates to the eligibility of J-51 tax abatements to reflect cost-of-living adjustments.
Authorizes Christopher Dyroff to apply for retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Designates that portion of state route 208 in the village of Washingtonville, Orange county, as "John Spear Way".
Relates to a mixed use exemption program in certain villages.
Relates to procedures involving taxpayer interviews.
Extends provisions of the Schenectady county metroplex development authority from August 31, 2033 until August 31, 2038; increases the bond limit from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000.
Authorizes the port authority of New York and New Jersey to offer a certain retirement option to port authority police officers Timothy GaNun and Jason DeVirgilio.
Requires the division of veterans' affairs to establish, operate and maintain a free mobile application for the purposes of providing veterans and their family members with information relating to services provided by the division and other state agencies, the federal government and other organizations; makes related provisions.
Provides the land bank can assign all rights resulting from the land bank's successful tender for the property to the foreclosing governmental unit; allows the property to be deeded directly to the foreclosing governmental unit.
Designates the bridge on U.S. route 20, between Oak street and South Portage street, in the town of Westfield, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant Kevin W. White Memorial Bridge".
Eliminates restrictions on the removal of human remains from the county in which the death occurred.
Designates a certain portion of state route two hundred seventy-seven in the town of West Seneca, county of Erie, to be the "West Seneca Veterans Memorial Highway".
Establishes an energy system tax stabilization reserve fund in the Lowville Central School District to lessen or prevent increases in the school district's real property tax levy resulting from decreases in revenue due to changes in or termination of the payments in lieu of taxes receivable by the school district.
Authorizes the town board of the town of Brookhaven to extend the Setauket fire district to include the village of Old Field.
Designates a pedestrian bridge over routes 5, 8, and 12 in the city of Utica as the "Corey Lee Carr Memorial Bridge".
Designates a portion of the state highway system, in the county of Ulster, as the "Private First Class Douglas Cordo Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of the state highway system, in the town of Lewisboro, county of Westchester, as the "Marine Lance Corporal James J. Jackowski Memorial Highway".
Designates certain portions of the Lake Ontario State Parkway in the town of Greece, county of Monroe, the "U.S. Navy Seabee Parkway".
Relates to the tobacco revenue guarantee fund and filing an annual report regarding certain expenditures for indigent legal services.
Relates to the designation of the "United States Submarine Veterans' Memorial Highway - Saratoga County".
Authorizes a credit for beer produced within NYC by a taxpayer that is registered as a distributor under article 18 of the tax law.
Relates to granting retroactive tier IV membership in the NYS and local employees' retirement system to Ryan L. Dickerson.
Requires the NYC housing authority to provide a notice of opportunity to meet to discuss possible termination of tenancy when an occupant is aged 62 years or older.
Requires the commissioner of mental health to develop detailed definitions of degrees of injuries that may result from attacks by persons confined to state forensic psychiatric centers.
Authorizes the town of Hyde Park to convey to the Greenfields Town Water District an easement through land located in the town's Greenfields Park currently utilized as a public ground water supply with underground water mains, electrical lines and well heads as a part of the existing public water supply system.
Establishes the Yonkers city school district joint schools construction and modernization act.
Relates to increasing penalties for deceptive trade practices and unlawful acts by an automobile broker business.
Provides that the bridge on county route 28, exits number 34 on the east and westbound Southern state parkway in the town of Babylon, county of Suffolk, shall be designated and known as the "Corporal Tony Casamento Memorial Bridge".
Increases certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows, widowers or the deceased member's children.
Provides for the administration of digital assets; defines terms; authorizes a user to use an online tool to direct the custodian to disclose or not to disclose some or all of the user's digital assets, including the content of electronic communications; provides that this article does not impair the rights of a custodian or a user under a terms-of-service agreement to access and use digital assets of the user; provides for a procedure for disclosing digital assets; makes related provisions.
Relates to adding to definition of "for cause" in instances of revocation of licenses.
Relates to method of collection of charges by the Water Authority of Great Neck North.
Relates to rent increase exemption orders.
Relates to providing additional enforcement mechanisms for collection of spousal or child support.
Authorizes holding title of real property of a land bank in the name of a subsidiary; grants additional powers to land banks.
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "6994th Security Squadron Memorial Highway".
Relates to the issuance of a retail license for on-premises consumption for certain premises in the county of Erie.
Designates a portion of state route 118 in the town of Yorktown, county of Westchester, as the "Army Captain Clayton Carpenter Memorial Highway".
Relates to the period of probable usefulness for the acquisition of land or permanent rights on land in the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk.
Relates to electronic prescriptions; permits health care practitioners to make note in a patient's chart (rather than notifying the health department) when they issue a non-electronic prescription under certain conditions.
Relates to the resident curator program; adds the Susan B. Anthony House to such program.
Relates to judicial wellness and assistance committees.
Provides for an exemption for certain real property in certain counties.
Requires used motor vehicle dealers to have a $20,000 surety bond if they sell 50 or less cars a year, and a $100,000 surety bond if they sell more than 50 cars a year.
Relates to the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices.
Relates to limitations on real property tax exemptions for veterans in the city of New York; requires the local legislative body to adopt a local law providing the exemption.
Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract.
Restricts fees on gift cards and gift certificates issued by merchants for goods and services; permits a service fee to be assessed after the twenty-fourth month.
Relates to the interment of pet cremated remains.
Authorizes farm brewery licensees to sell wine and spirits manufactured by the licensee or a licensed farm winery or distillery.
Relates to cider sold at retail for consumption.
Relates to participants in the World Trade Center rescue.
Extends from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2047, the expiration of provisions authorizing the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to lease the Hyde hall historic site at the Glimmerglass state park.
Authorizes the lease of advertising space on sports field fences in the city of Rye, Westchester County.
Prohibits mercury-added rotational balancing products.
Expands the farm, apple and cuisine trails programs.
Relates to giving public notice of meetings through electronic means; allows notice to be given by posting through electronic means or electronic transmission.
Permits retail farm operations as an accessory use to agricultural lands pursuant to the Peconic Bay region community preservation fund.
Authorizes the office of general services to sell certain state-owned land to the Montefiore Medical Center.
Relates to online posting of full text of rules, statements and analyses.
Establishes a pilot program to conduct scientific research and assessment of the feasibility of seaweed cultivation.
Relates to waiving the residency requirement for the town board-appointed officers in the town of LaGrange, Dutchess county.
Requires the transmission of forward-facing employment data in labor market information.
Relates to the rates set by the Sandy Hook pilots surcharge board.
Requires state authorities to conduct open meetings and provide an internet broadcast of its meetings, where practicable.
Relates to authorizing alcohol and substance abuse treatment in another jurisdiction for defendants in judicial diversion programs.
Requires applicants for licenses and for renewals thereof as real estate brokers and real estate salesmen to complete instruction in the law of agency.
Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to undertake projects to protect national historic landmarks from shore erosion.
Relates to providing a period of probable usefulness for an intangible asset classified as a capital asset.
Authorizes licensing of certain military spouses whose spouse is transferred by the military to this state; makes related provisions.
Requires police agencies to take reports of missing adults whenever the adult is reported to be missing.
Requires certain establishments to display a poster with information regarding the national human trafficking resource center hotline.
Prohibits charging a fee to obtain a death certificate for an inmate who has died under custody.
Adds certain parcels of land in the city of Peekskill and in the town of Greenburgh to the list of premises which are exempt from the provisions of law which restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Relates to meetings and absences of the board of regents.
Makes the text of emergency rules available online.
Relates to the misbranding of escolar or oilfish as tuna, albacore tuna or white tuna.
Relates to authorizing David Poplawski, a former employee of the state university of New York NY Network who is now employed by NYS department of taxation and finance, to retain membership in the optional retirement program.
Exempts certain parcels of land from the provisions of law which generally restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Relates to disability benefits for certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund; presumes performance of duty for certain illnesses; authorizes the board of trustees of the New York city fire department pension fund to draw upon the assets of such fund to pay expenses.
Relates to the reorganization of the alcoholic beverage control law.
Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to conduct periodic testing of school potable water sources and systems to monitor for lead contamination in certain school buildings; provides additional aid to such districts and boards for the costs incurred due to the testing of such potable water sources and systems containing an unacceptable amount of lead.
Authorizes the county of Ulster to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
Relates to the registration of commuter vans.
Authorizes the county of Dutchess to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
Authorizes emergency vehicles and tow trucks to travel on shoulders or slopes of controlled-access highways when dispatched to the scene of an accident.
Authorizes farm vehicles to travel on a highway from the point of sale to a farm.
Includes vehicles operated by sanitation workers in the definition of "hazard vehicle".
Designates a portion of state route twelve and a portion of state route twenty-eight in the town of Boonville in Oneida county for snowmobile use to provide for the safe use of state route twelve and state route twenty-eight and the safe operation of snowmobiles on the trails.
Extends the village of Rye Brook occupancy tax for three years.
Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.
Directs the state liquor authority to issue a farm winery license to the Concord Grape Belt Heritage Association Inc. Grape Discovery Center in the town of Westfield, county of Chautauqua; provides for the activities which are authorized under such license.
Relates to adding a representative from WUFO Studios to the Michigan Street African Heritage Corridor commission.
Relates to independent expenditures during election campaigns; provides that independent expenditures shall not include payments or expenditures where coordination occurs in the creation, formation or operation of the person making such payment or expenditure (Part A); relates to monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee (Part B); amends the election law, in relation to disposition of campaign funds (Part C); relates to in-kind donations (Part D); relates to contingency fees (Part E); relates to the disclosure of certain donations by charitable non-profit entities (Part F); relates to the disclosure of certain activities by non-charitable non-profit entities (Part G); relates to the registration of certain service providers and political consulting services; defines terms (Part H); relates to communications with professional journalists and newscasters (Part I); relates to investigations by the joint commission on public ethics and to violations of the lobbying act (Part J); and relates to financial disclosure forms (Part K).
Relates to jury pools for United States district courts; broadens jury pools for selection.
Authorizes the town justice of the town of Allen, in the county Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town.
Relates to providing district management association members with written notice of meetings; and to providing minutes upon request.
Authorizes SUNY college at Westbury to lease lands for the construction and operation of a child care center.
Increases the fees imposed by the Lake George park commission for docks, wharfs, moorings and boats.
Relates to micro-businesses and micro-loans.
Relates to the distribution of the state register; requires the department of state make available at no cost an online version of the weekly state register, quarterly index and any special issues as directed by statute or deemed appropriate by the secretary of state.
Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the intentional causing of physical injury to a process server to obstruct from performing his or her lawful duty, or as retaliation against the process server for performing his or her lawful duty.
Relates to certain water charges for hospitals and charities in New York city; extends expiration until September 1, 2018.
Relates to the election of trustees and the adoption of an annual budget of the Poughkeepsie public library.
Relates to extending the authorization for the length of leased lands located at the state university of New York at Purchase.
Authorizes school districts to grant the Cold War veterans' real property tax exemption.
Elevates assault of a utility worker in the second degree to a class D felony; includes an employee of an entity governed by the public service law within such provisions.
Increases fines for misbranding of fur-bearing articles of clothing; $1,000 for first violation; $2,000 for subsequent violations.
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.
Relates to an exemption of capital improvements to multiple dwelling buildings within certain cities with a population of more than eight thousand but less than nine thousand.
Authorizes a retired employee of the Chittenango central school district to rescind such employee's retirement option.
Exempts the city of Olean from article four of the general city law.
Relates to the village of Plandome Manor entering into contracts to sell delinquent tax liens.
Authorizes the village of Hudson Falls, in the county of Washington, to discontinue use of certain lands as parkland, and use such lands for municipal parking.
Relates to exempting Prospect Terrace Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that a percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed 45% of the membership.
Authorizes the Capital District transportation authority to enter into an agreement with any city, town or village located within the Capital District transportation district which has adopted an ordinance regulating the registration and licensing of taxicab vehicles; and authorizes any city, town or village located within the Capital District transportation district to contract with the Capital District transportation authority for certain purposes.
Relates to village justices; changes the title of acting justice to associate justice.
Relates to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund and the effectiveness thereof.
Relates to the incorporation of certain businesses for the purpose of practicing professional geology.
Relates to the taxation of the transfer of real property to any housing development fund company or an entity of which a controlling interest is held by such company and such real property is subject to a certain regulatory agreement or restrictive covenant.
Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to lease state land, associated utility lines and television translator system to the Tioga county bureau of fire and other occupants.
Prohibits any person from attempting to or to in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, cover, remove or otherwise interfere with any traffic control device or railroad sign or signal; provides an affirmative defense therefor that operator can show he or she was not aware of the device.
Relates to attorney requirements regarding revocable trusts.
Authorizes the sale, distribution, transportation and processing of industrial hemp.
Relates to persons joining a public retirement system on or after July 1, 2009 and before January 10, 2010.
Includes the possession of a machete within the class A misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
Authorizes the town of Hempstead, in the county of Nassau, to amortize over a period of 10 years, the payments made to town employees upon separation from employment.
Requires the commissioner to provide updates regarding the implementation of the report and recommendations of the transformation panel including progress made by the office in developing plans for and implementing recommendations, identifying statutory obstacles to implementation and any other information necessary to keep stakeholders informed of the implementation plan.
Relates to the match requirements for aid granted by the supportive service program for classic and neighborhood naturally occurring retirement communities.
Authorizes persons 16 years of age or older to make an anatomical gift.
Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries; directs the release of the name, birthdate and date of death of certain patients 50 years after the date of death.
Relates to contact by siblings in child protective, permanency and termination of parental rights proceedings.
Relates to the location of service centers for independent living.
Authorizes awards for burial expenses of crime victims to be paid to a business.
Prohibits, in a city of 1,000,000 or more, delivery of an unclaimed body to a university, college, school or institute, unless the consent of the deceased or the person authorized to control the disposition of such body has been granted.
Requires each hospital patient bill of rights and responsibilities to include a statement of the availability of a list of standard charges, participating health plans, the right to be held harmless from surprise bills and emergency services bills, to the independent dispute process, and to designate a caregiver.
Removes 123I ioflupane from being designated as a controlled substance.
Establishes the research animal retirement act; requires research dogs and cats at higher education research facilities or facilities that provide research in collaboration with a higher education facility, to be offered for placement with non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations; provides that such facilities may enter into agreements with rescue and shelter organizations for implementation.
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.
Authorizes the financing of and provides for a period of probable usefulness to the pre-payment of certain service contract obligations.
Relates to the registration and regulation of interactive fantasy sports contests.
Extends Warren county's additional mortgage recording tax authorization until December 1, 2018.
Authorizes the leasing and licensing of the main house at Caumsett state historical park preserve in the ninth park region.
Relates to educational requirements for occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants.
Extends the effectiveness of the state charter advisory board.
Relates to authorizing the Fulton county correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Fulton.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage alewife.
Authorizes the assessor of the city of Hornell, county of Steuben to accept from St. Ann's Academy an application for exemptions from real property taxes for the 2013-2014 assessment roll.
Extends the time period for the taking of deer in the county of Suffolk from December thirty-first until March thirty-first.
Authorizes minors who are hunting to wear solid or patterned pink material which shall be visible from all directions.
Relates to electronic filing with the state board of elections of copies of political communications.
Provides for issuance of distinctive plates to "Catholic War Veterans of America"; requires additional annual service charge of $10 to be deposited into the DMV distinctive plate development fund.
Designates Charles lake, Lost lake (Putnam county), Putnam lake and Tonetta lake as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Authorizes the Chabad Lubavitch Chai Center, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Relates to notice of unpaid taxes in the county of Monroe; increases the notification requirement from 85 to 90 days.
Extends provisions relating to a limited license for clinical laboratory technology.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage blackfish until December 31, 2019.
Relates to the termination without penalty of certain service contracts; allows active duty service members under certain conditions to cancel contracts without penalty with telecommunications service providers, internet service providers, health clubs, health spas, or television service providers when they receive their orders; requires service members include a copy of their orders when providing written notice.
Extends until December 31, 2019, the authority of the department of environmental conservation to regulate the taking and landing of American shad.
Permits the Islamic Center of Long Island to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Designates the Claverack Creek, the Taghkanic Creek and the Agawamuck Creek as parts of the inland waterway system.
Relates to adding the Roeliff Jansen Kill to the definition of inland waterways.
Permits the Mandala Buddhist Association to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Authorizes Jain Samaj of Long Island, Inc. to apply to the assessor of the county of Nassau for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Authorizes the Peconic Land Trust to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Brookhaven.
Repeals provisions of the election law relating to election inspectors and clerks.
Relates to posting the child abuse hotline telephone number in public and charter schools.
Relates to including a lyme disease and tick-borne infection awareness and prevention program within health care and wellness education and outreach programs.
Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of investigators, senior investigators, and investigative specialists in the division of state police; implements an agreement covering such members of such unit; amends salary schedules for such members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; makes an appropriation therefor; and repeals certain provisions of such laws relating thereto.
Relates to authorizing the village of Philadelphia to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage the American eel from December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2019.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage clams.
Relates to an informational leaflet relating to safe sleep; requires that the informational leaflet for maternity patients include recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics relating to safe sleep, including sleep space and position.
Relates to adding Black Creek located in Monroe county to the definition of inland waterways.
Designates Glencoma lake, Lincolndale lake, MacGregor lake, Mahopac lake, Secor lake, Shenorock lake, Teakettle Spout lake and Wixon lake as inland waterways.
Relates to the eligibility of Earnest Cawley, Jr. to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of police officer in the town of Colchester, in the county of Delaware and to be placed on the eligibility list for appointment as a full-time police officer.
Authorizes the county of Westchester to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland.
Authorizes the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York to apply to the assessor of the city of Saratoga Springs for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Extends the authorization for the county of Greene to impose an additional mortgage recording tax until 2018.
Relates to instructional tools and materials for school districts and libraries to assist in the education and awareness program to protect children from lyme disease and tick-borne infections.
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to transfer ownership of certain parklands to SMW Property Holdings.
Authorizes the Bronx Children's Museum program.
Requires insurers to provide a copy of its repair estimate to the insured and include a disclosure relating to insured's right to have a vehicle repaired in the shop of his/her choice.
Authorizes a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo; requires payment of fees applicable to parking within certain areas.
Relates to the creation of the cystic fibrosis foundation license plate and cystic fibrosis research and education fund.
Authorizes the state of New York mortgage agency to invest funds in Government National Mortgage Association mortgage backed securities.
Relates to compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment for certain state officers and employees; makes an appropriation therefor.
Relates to guardianship of people who are intellectually disabled and people who are developmentally disabled.
Authorizes the reopening of the twenty-five year retirement benefit plan to Jack Harb of Sullivan County who failed to make a timely election thereof due to a clerical error on the part of the County.
Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage weakfish.
Relates to increasing the amount of bond and note authorization totals that may be made by certain agencies.
Adds financial literacy and elder abuse education and outreach to the list of congregate services provided by a public or a government agency or non-profit agency which are provided in community settings at which elderly people come together for services and activities.
Relates to blackfish or tautog.
Relates to the leasing and licensing of property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation for Sampson State Park.
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer real property from the St. Lawrence psychiatric center to the city of Ogdensburg.
Relates to the authority of the justice center to visit, inspect and appraise the management of out-of-state schools or facilities.
Authorizes the Flower Hill Hose Company No. 1 to apply to the assessor of the county of Nassau for a retroactive real property tax exemption on a certain parcel of land.
Requires statements made to the state board of parole by the victim of a crime be considered when determining whether to grant a discretionary release on parole.
Authorizes St. Luke's Episcopal Church to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for the 1992-1993 through the 1999-2000 assessment rolls.
Relates to authorizing the town of Islip, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Suffolk county police athletic league.
Provides that every certificate of incorporation which indicates that the proposed corporation is to solicit funds for or otherwise benefit the armed forces of the United States or of any foreign country, or their auxiliaries, or of this or any other state or territory, shall have endorsed thereon or annexed thereto the approval of the adjutant general rather than the chief of staff.
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage hickory shad.
Reduces the number of signatures required on a petition for a person to be placed on the ballot for election of a trustee of the Norwood Public Library.
Designates Little Wolf and Simon lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Extends the provisions relating to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings.
Permits food service in funeral establishments subject to certain restrictions and qualifications.
Authorizes the Manhasset Park District to retroactively apply for a real property tax exemption for certain property in the hamlet of Manhasset, county of Nassau.
Authorizes the Washington and Essex county correctional facilities to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in each such county.
Relates to the issuance of distinctive license plates for "Ducks Unlimited".
Extends, for an additional 4 years, the provisions of Lauren's law, providing for the election to or declining to elect to register in the donate life registry for organ and tissue donation.
Extends the effectiveness of chapter 405 of the laws of 2005 for two years authorizing the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax.
Authorizes MiYaD Beis Jericho, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Makes provisions of law, authorizing big game hunting with a rifle in the county of Livingston, permanent.
Allows the comptroller to enter into a contract with the administrator of the NYS college choice tuition savings program for the purpose of administering the NY ABLE savings account program and providing account depositories and managers.
Relates to adding Wyomanock Creek to the definition of inland waterways.
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage bluefish.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage oysters.
Regulates the interest rate on obligations issued to finance the school rehabilitation and reconstruction within the city school districts of the city of Syracuse.
Relates to exempting certain basic necessities from sales and use taxes.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to the residential parking system in the village of Bronxville in the county of Westchester.
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage fish.
Authorizes BOCES to provide instruction to students at a certain property in Hudson.
Relates to certificates of occupancy for unmapped streets in the city of New York.
Permits the New Hope Christian Church CRC to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Relates to excused leave to undertake a screening for prostate cancer.
Relates to the operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or standing authorized emergency vehicle or hazard vehicle or volunteer first responder.
Waives the residency requirement for the code/zoning enforcement officer in the village of Aurora, Cayuga county.
Authorizes Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Islip to file an application for retroactive tax exempt status.
Extends, from December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2017, the expiration of the authorization granted to residential property owners in high risk brush fire areas on Staten Island to cut and remove reeds from their property.
Authorizes Nicholas Cofield to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the town of Niagara.
Relates to adding the Basher Kill and Shawangunk Kill to the definition of inland waterways.
Authorizes Friends of Science East, Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2013-2014 assessment roll.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions related to licensing of establishments where animals or fowls are slaughtered.
Authorizes the town of Irondequoit, in the county of Monroe, to lease parklands to T-Mobile Northeast LLC, as successor in interest to Omnipoint Communications Incorporated, and to dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of the lease and easement interest to the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.
Relates to adding the Bash Bish to the definition of inland waterways.
Relates to the identification of unknown dead and missing persons; requires the county medical examiner and coroner to provide certain information to the division of criminal justice services and to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System created by the Office of Justice Program's National Institute of Justice.
Authorizes Patrick Cechnicki to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Relates to merging town justice courts; excepts the towns of Erin and Chemung from the requirement that towns form a contiguous geographic area in order to merge their town courts.
Authorizes Richard Insogna, Jr. to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Authorizes Thomas Malley to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for such position in the village of Fort Plain.
Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to the operation of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft from January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2019.
Relates to the restore New York's communities initiative.
Approves land transactions relating to implementation of the settlement of property disputes in Township 40, in the town of Long Lake.
Authorizes the county of Clinton to reinstate Aaron Heroux as a deputy sheriff, notwithstanding that such reinstatement will occur more than 1 year after leaving such position.
Authorizes Micki Guy, a firefighter in the city of Glens Falls, in the county of Warren, to elect to participate in the optional 20 year retirement program.
Extends provisions of law relating to the management of American lobster.
Extends provisions authorizing the county of Wyoming to impose a county recording tax on obligations secured by a mortgage on real property.
Authorizes the Iglesia De Dios De Brentwood, Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Authorizes the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to have access to certain criminal history information contained in the central data facility established by the division of criminal justice services.
Expands the kinds of qualified wellness programs that can be offered to enrollees.
Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands in the town of Islip, county of Suffolk.
Relates to NY ABLE account ownership, contributions and distributions.
Includes the Rondout Creek in the definition of "inland waterways" for the purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Directs the commissioner of health to cause the distribution of crib safety information to maternity patients: information detailing safe sleeping procedures for babies, crib product recalls and disclosure of the federal standards on the manufacture and sale of cribs.
Authorizes the House Of Judah Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Clarifies the definition of "restricted period" for purposes of disclosure of state contracts.
Relates to the definition of small business; extends effectiveness relating to requiring state agencies to pay small businesses within fifteen days of receipt of an invoice.
Authorizes the provision of financing by the dormitory authority to the Hampton Bays public library.
Authorizes Lord-N-Fields Voice of Freedom Bible Church Community Workers International Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for the parcel located at 120 Beaverdam Road.
Relates to authorizing the Orleans county jail to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Orleans.
Provides that a retired state employee shall not be barred from providing direct care or other services to an individual for whom those services were provided by such person while a state employee.
Alienates certain parklands in the village of Kings Point in the town of North Hempstead in the county of Nassau.
Relates to extending certain provisions relating to the taking of sharks.
Relates to authorizing the town of Brookhaven, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Mastic, Moriches, Shirley Community Library.
Relates to the city of Albany pilot residential parking permit system and extends the effectiveness thereof.
Authorizes the New Hope International Ministries, Inc. to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land located in the town of Islip.
Relates to authorizing the village of Russell Gardens to file for a retroactive tax exemption.
Authorizes the village of Skaneateles, county of Onondaga, to convey its interest in Austin Park to the town of Skaneateles.
Grants retroactive real property tax exempt status to the Lutheran Church of Our Savior Parish.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to temporary retail permits issued by the state liquor authority.
Relates to authorizing the city of Fulton to discontinue its use of certain waterfront parklands.
Relates to the tolling of the statute of limitations relating to personal injury caused by contact with or exposure to any substance or combination of substances found within an area designated as a superfund site.
Makes technical changes relating to removing the requirement that an application for membership in the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System or the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System be notarized (acknowledged).
Extends certain provisions of law authorizing the hunting of big game in the county of Albany with rifles.
Relates to adding the Ellicott Creek located in Erie county to the definition of inland waterways.
Authorizes Lucky Guys of Long Island Inc. to file an application for retroactive tax exempt status.
Authorizes the Congregation Lubavitch-Chabad House of Huntington Township, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Relates to the Onondaga Lake Amphitheater Infrastructure and Revitalization Project act.
Extends Herkimer county's mortgage recording tax authorization until 2018.
Relates to adding the Black Creek located in Genesee and Wyoming counties to the definition of inland waterways.
Relates to authorizing the town of Walton in the county of Delaware to alienate certain parcels of land used as parkland to Bruce Taylor and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland.
Authorizes health care professionals licensed in other jurisdictions and appointed by the World Triathlon Corporation to practice in this state at a triathlon.
Relates to building aid for reconstruction or modernizing projects of the Rochester joint schools construction board.
Relates to a residential reassessment exemption for the town of Greenburgh in the county of Westchester.
Relates to a residential reassessment exemption for the town of Ossining in the county of Westchester.
Allows certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions; gives special and approved assessing units the authority to tailor their "cap" to local conditions each year, thereby removing the annual uncertainty; relates to adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the base proportion in approved assessing units in Nassau county.
Authorizes the taking and filing of oaths of office; authorizes officials who failed to take or file their required oath of office within the statutorily prescribed period to take and file such oaths within thirty days of the effective date of this act.
Extends the existence of the Hamilton county industrial development agency until July 21, 2026, regardless of whether it has any outstanding obligations.
Extends provisions of law relating to certified school psychologists and special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to June 30, 2018.
Extends from July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2019, the expiration of provisions relating to the estate tax treatment of dispositions to a surviving spouse who is not a United States citizen.
Relates to repair of damaged pesticide containers; relates to the effectiveness thereof.
Provides that criminal history record checks received from the division of criminal justice services shall be available to nursing home and home care service agencies.
Extends from June 30, 2016 to June 30, 2018, the expiration of certain provisions of the Nassau county administrative code relating to assessments and the review of assessments.
Extends time limitations for certain actions.
Relates to tuition waivers for police officer students of CUNY.
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of New York city, the issuance of bonds or notes with variable rates of interest, interest rate exchange agreements of New York city, the refunding of bonds, and the down payment for projects financed by bonds; amends the New York state financial emergency act for New York city; makes further amendments relating to the effectiveness thereof.
Relates to bond volume allocations made pursuant to the federal tax reform act of 1986, the unified state bond ceiling and the private activity bond allocation act of 2016.
Extends the rate of regular interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to retirement systems.
Relates to supplementary funding for dedicated programs for public school students in the East Ramapo Central School District; appropriates funds therefor.
Extends provisions relating to the disposal of surplus computer equipment by political subdivisions from July 1, 2016 until July 1, 2019.
Extends provisions of law relating to the sale of municipal notes and bonds of the county of Erie.
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.
Relates to coverage for the detection of breast cancer; requires certified mammography facilities to provide extended hours; allows certain public employees excused leave to undertake a breast cancer screening.
Establishes the New York state community restoration fund.
Relates to a school tax reduction credit for residents of a city with a population over one million; relates to the school tax relief exemption (Part A); relates to the farm workforce retention credit (Part B); relates to the board of directors of NYRA (Part C); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to nonpublic school aid payable in the 2014-2015 state fiscal year (Part D); relates to home care worker wage parity (Part E); relates to effectiveness of certain managed care programs (Part F); relates to enforcement of building codes of the City of New York (Part G); intentionally omitted (Part H); relates to the New York state design and construction corporation act (Part I); extends provisions relating to the membership composition of the metropolitan transportation authority board (Part J); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to the office for aging community services program and the Wadsworth center for laboratories and research program (Part K); amends the aid to localities budget, relating to making technical corrections thereto (Part L); amends the capital projects budget, relating to general maintenance and improvements for the city university of New York and state university of New York (Part M); intentionally omitted (Part N); relates to extending the provisions relating to the reorganization of the NYC school construction authority, board of education and community boards; extends such provisions until 2017; relates to school based budgeting and expenditure reporting (Part O); and relates to the duties and powers of charter entities (Part P).
Prohibits courts from conditioning release of an eligible defendant into a judicial diversion program upon treatment using any specified type or brand of drug.
Relates to utilization review program standards (Part A); relates to providing coverage for immediate access to a five day emergency supply of certain medications and prohibiting prior authorization for a prescription for buprenorphine for opioid addiction detoxification or maintenance treatment (Part B); relates to the heroin and opioid addition wraparound demonstration services program (Part C); relates to emergency services for persons intoxicated, impaired, or incapacitated by alcohol and/or substances (Part D).
Relates to providing training in pain management for certain individuals; relates to providing coverage for medically necessary inpatient services for the diagnosis and treatment of substance abuse disorder; directs the commissioner to create educational materials regarding the dangers of addiction to prescription controlled substances, treatment resources available and the proper way to dispose of unused prescription controlled substances; allows a pharmacy to offer counseling and referral services to customers purchasing hypodermic syringes.
Authorizes the maintenance and use of opioid antagonists at public libraries for the treatment of opioid overdoses.
Relates to providing limited exemptions from professional misconduct (Part A); relates to reporting opioid overdose data to the counties (Part B); relates to hospital substance use disorder policies and procedures (Part C).
Requires the commissioner of health to report data on opioid overdoses on a county basis; such reporting shall occur annually on or before October 1; such data shall be posted on the department of health website; such commissioner shall provide the data to counties on a monthly basis.
Requires any chain pharmacy with twenty or more locations to pursue or maintain a non-patient specific prescription with an authorized health care professional to disperse an opioid antagonist to a consumer upon request, or to register with the department of health as an opioid overdose prevention program.
Relates to veterans' health care options and requires the division of veterans' affairs to post certain information on its website.
Authorizes school districts to order from certain farmers without requiring a waiver.
Relates to jurisdiction for organized retail theft crimes.
Provides a person is guilty of facilitating female genitalia mutilation when such person intentionally aids the commission or attempted commission of a person circumcising, excising or infibulating female genitalia of a person less than 18 years old.
Relates to vacancies on boards of cooperative educational services.
Relates to ensuring that certain notification requirements are cost-effective and efficient.
Relates to the amount paid to lease a polling station.
Relates to the canvassing of primary returns by the board of elections.
Extends provisions relating to participation in the banking development districts program to January 1, 2023.
Relates to service of process upon limited liability corporations and limited liability partnerships.
Extends the chief administrator of the courts' authority to allow referees to determine certain applications to a family court for an order of protection; extends for two more years, the judicial hearing officer pilot program in the family courts of the seventh and eighth judicial districts for ordering a reference to determine an application for an order of protection or temporary order of protection in certain cases.
Relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.
Provides up to three years of service credit to members of public retirement systems of the state for military service; removes requirement that such military service occur during specified periods of hostilities; requires such members have at least five years of credited service, not including military service; appropriates $24,800,000 therefor.
Substitutes the term intellectual disability for the term mental retardation in family court proceedings.
Relates to authorizing certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with an event sanctioned by New York Road Runners; extends the provisions thereof.
Requires applications for health care coverage through the health benefit exchange to include registration space to register in the donate life registry for organ, eye and tissue donations.
Relates to agricultural districts law improvements.
Extends the amount of time the city of Middletown is authorized to sell or pledge delinquent liens held by such city.
Requires state agencies to pay small businesses within fifteen days of receipt of an invoice.
Extends certain provisions of law relating to the resale of tickets to places of entertainment through June 30, 2017.
Authorizes the city of New York to discontinue the use as city parkland of Christopher Park in the borough of Manhattan and to convey such interest to the United States for park, monument, historic, or recreational purposes.
Establishes protocols for combative sports; authorizes mixed martial arts events in this state; establishes procedures for applications for licenses; establishes penalties for violations; imposes taxes on gross receipts of such events.
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state health and mental hygiene budget for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year; intentionally omitted (Part A); amends the social services law, in relation to facilitating supplemental rebates for fee-for-service pharmaceuticals, and ambulance medical transportation rate adequacy review; amends the social services law, in relation to authorizing the commissioner of health to apply federally established consumer price index penalties for generic drugs, and authorizing the commissioner of health to impose penalties on managed care plans for reporting late or incorrect encounter data; relates to cost-sharing limits on Medicare part C; amends part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and other laws relating to known and projected department of health state fund medicaid expenditures, in relation to reporting requirements for the Medicaid global cap; amends the public health law and the social services law, in relation to the provision of services to certain persons suffering from traumatic brain injuries or qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services; amends the public health law, in relation to rates of payment for certain managed long term care plans; amends the social services law, in relation to medical assistance for certain inmates and authorizing funding for criminal justice pilot program within health home rates; amends part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and other laws relating to known and projected department of health state fund medicaid expenditures, in relation to extending the expiration of certain provisions relating to rates of payment to residential health care facilities based on the historical costs to the owner, and certain payments to the Citadel Rehab and Nursing Center at Kingsbridge; amends the public health law, in relation to case payment rates for pediatric ventilator services; directs the commissioner of health to implement a restorative care unit demonstration program; directs the civil service department to create a title for a medicaid redesign team analyst as a competitive class position; amends the social services law and part C of chapter 60 of the laws of 2014 authorizing the commissioner of health to negotiate an extension of the terms of the contract executed by the department of health for actuarial and consulting services, in relation to the extension of certain contracts; amends part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013 amending chapter 59 of the laws of 2011 amending the public health law and other laws relating to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates relating to the cap on local Medicaid expenditures; amends chapter 111 of the laws of 2010 relating to increasing Medicaid payments to providers through managed care organizations and providing equivalent fees through an ambulatory patient group methodology, in relation to rate protections for certain behavioral health providers; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part B); amends chapter 266 of the laws of 1986, amending the civil practice law and rules and other laws relating to malpractice and professional medical conduct, in relation to apportioning premium for certain policies; amends part J of chapter 63 of the laws of 2001 amending chapter 266 of the laws of 1986, amending the civil practice law and rules and other laws relating to malpractice and professional medical conduct, in relation to extending certain provisions concerning the hospital excess liability pool (Part C); amends chapter 474 of the laws of 1996, amending the education law and other laws relating to rates for residential healthcare facilities, in relation to extending the authority of the department of health to make disproportionate share payments to public hospitals outside of New York City; amends chapter 649 of the laws of 1996, amending the public health law, the mental hygiene law and the social services law relating to authorizing the establishment of special needs plans, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, amending the public health law relating to payment by governmental agencies for general hospital inpatient services, relating to the effectiveness thereof; amends the public health law, in relation to temporary operator notification; amends chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, amending the public health law relating to the general public health work program, relating to the effectiveness thereof; amends the environmental conservation law, in relation to cancer incidence and environmental facility maps project; amends the public health law, in relation to cancer mapping; amends chapter 77 of the laws of 2010, amending the environmental conservation law and the public health law relating to an environmental facility and cancer incidence map, relating to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 60 of the laws of 2014 amending the social services law relating to eliminating prescriber prevails for brand name drugs with generic equivalents, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; repeals subdivision 8 of section 84 of part A of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, amending the public health law and other laws relating to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates, relating thereto (Part D); intentionally omitted (Part E); relates to grants and loans authorized pursuant to eligible health care capital programs; amends the public health law, in relation to the health care facility transformation program (Part F); intentionally omitted (Part G); amends part D of chapter 111 of the laws of 2010 relating to the recovery of exempt income by the office of mental health for community residences and family-based treatment programs, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part H); amends chapter 723 of the laws of 1989 amending the mental hygiene law and other laws relating to comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs, in relation to the effectiveness of certain provisions thereof (Part I); amends chapter 420 of the laws of 2002 amending the education law relating to the profession of social work, in relation to extending the expiration of certain provisions thereof; amends chapter 676 of the laws of 2002 amending the education law relating to the practice of psychology, in relation to extending the expiration of certain provisions; amends chapter 130 of the laws of 2010 amending the education law and other laws relating to registration of entities providing certain professional services and licensure of certain professions, in relation to extending certain provisions thereof (Part J); intentionally omitted (Part K); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to the appointment of temporary operators for the continued operation of programs and the provision of services for persons with serious mental illness and/or developmental disabilities and/or chemical dependence; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part L); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to sharing clinical records with managed care organizations (Part M); amends the facilities development corporation act, in relation to the definition of mental hygiene facility (Part N); relates to reports by the office for people with developmental disabilities relating to housing needs; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part O); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to services for people with developmental disabilities (Part P); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to the closure or transfer of a state-operated individualized residential alternative; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part Q); amends the public health law and the education law, in relation to electronic prescriptions; amends the public health law, in relation to loan forgiveness and practice support for physicians; amends the social services law, in relation to the use of EQUAL program funds for adult care facilities; amends the public health law, in relation to policy changes relating to state aid; amends the public health law in relation to the relocation of residential health care facility long-term ventilator beds; amends part H of chapter 60 of the laws of 2014, amending the insurance law, the public health law and the financial services law relating to establishing protections to prevent surprise medical bills including network adequacy requirements, claim submission requirements, access to out-of-network care and prohibition of excessive emergency charges, in relation to the date the report shall be submitted; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part R); amends the elder law, in relation to the supportive service program for classic and neighborhood naturally occurring retirement communities; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part S).
Makes appropriations for the support of government - State Debt Service Budget.
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state public protection and general government budget for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year; intentionally omitted (Part A); amends Part H of chapter 503 of the laws of 2009, relating to the disposition of monies recovered by county district attorneys before the filing of an accusatory instrument, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part B); amends the tax law, in relation to suspending the transfer of monies into the emergency services revolving loan fund from the public safety communications account (Part C); intentionally omitted (Part D); amends chapter 268 of the laws of 1996, amending the education law and the state finance law relating to providing a recruitment incentive and retention program for certain active members of the New York army national guard, New York air national guard, and New York naval militia, in relation to the effectiveness of such chapter (Part E); amends chapter 83 of the laws of 1995 amending the state finance law and other laws relating to bonds, notes, and revenues, in relation to extending the expiration date of certain provisions thereof; amends chapter 1 of the laws of 2005 amending the state finance law relating to restricting contacts in the procurement process and the recording of contacts relating thereto, in relation to extending the expiration date of certain provisions thereof; and amends the state finance law, in relation to allowing the state comptroller to excuse non-material deviations in a procurement, authorizing the commissioner of the office of general services and state agencies to provide unsuccessful offerors a reasonable opportunity for debriefing, increase the threshold for the state comptroller's approval of certain contracts and clarify the valuation of non-cash contracts by the state comptroller, and the commencement of the restricted period during the procurement process (Part F); amends the workers' compensation law, in relation to authorizations of assessments for annual expenses, and payment of claims of affected World Trade Center volunteers (Part G); intentionally omitted (Part H); intentionally omitted (Part I); intentionally omitted (Part J); intentionally omitted (Part K); amends the civil service law, in relation to the expiration of public arbitration panels (Part L); amends the state finance law, in relation to the dedicated infrastructure investment fund (Part M); intentionally omitted (Part N); amends the public lands law, in relation to state aid on certain state leased or state owned land (Part O); amends the real property tax law, in relation to property tax benefits for anaerobic digestion of agricultural waste (Part P); amends the executive law, in relation to a mid-year report regarding the contracts awarded to service-disabled veteran-owned businesses; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part Q); amends chapter 747 of the laws of 2006, amending the state finance law relating to the tribal-state compact revenue account, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends part W of chapter 60 of the laws of 2011, amending the state finance law relating to disbursements from the tribal-state compact revenue account to certain municipalities, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; and amends the state finance law, in relation to the Niagara Falls underground railroad interpretive center (Part R); amends the legislative law, in relation to extending the expiration of payments to members of the assembly serving in a special capacity; amends chapter 141 of the laws of 1994, amending the legislative law and the state finance law relating to the operation and administration of the legislature, in relation to extending such provisions (Part S).
Makes appropriations for the support of government - Capital Projects Budget.
Makes appropriations for the support of government - State Operations Budget.
Makes appropriations for the support of government - Aid To Localities Budget.
Makes appropriations for the support of government - Legislature and Judiciary Budget.
Enacts into law major components of legislation which are necessary to implement the state fiscal plan for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year; amends the real property tax law and the tax law, in relation to transitioning the school tax relief (STAR) exemption into a personal income tax credit (Part A); intentionally omitted (Part B); intentionally omitted (Part C); amends the real property tax law, in relation to allowing applications for exemptions to be filed after the taxable status date in certain cases (Part D); amends the tax law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a new school tax reduction credit for residents of a city with a population over one million (Part E); amends the real property tax law, in relation to authorizing the commissioner of taxation and finance to make direct payments of STAR tax savings to property owners in certain cases (Part F); amends chapter 61 of the laws of 2011, amending the real property tax law and other laws relating to establishing standards for electronic tax administration, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part G); amends the public housing law, in relation to extending the credit against income tax for persons or entities investing in low-income housing (Part H); amends the tax law, in relation to extending the hire a veteran credit for an additional two years (Part I); amends the tax law, in relation to extending the empire state commercial production tax credit (Part J); amends chapter 604 of the laws of 2011, amending the tax law relating to the credit for companies who provide transportation to people with disabilities, in relation to extending the expiration of such provision; amends the tax law, in relation to the application of a credit for companies who provide transportation to individuals with disabilities (Part K); amends part I of chapter 58 of the laws of 2006, amending the tax law relating to providing an enhanced earned income tax credit, in relation to making the enhanced earned income tax credit permanent (Part L); amends part N of chapter 61 of the laws of 2005 amending the tax law relating to certain transactions and related information and relating to the voluntary compliance initiative, in relation to extending the expiration thereof (Part M); amends the tax law, in relation to extending the clean heating fuel credit for three years and updating the credit to reflect new minimum biodiesel fuel thresholds (Part N); amends the economic development law and the tax law, in relation to extending the excelsior jobs program for five years (Part O); amends the tax law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to making corrections to the corporate tax reform provisions (Part P); amends the tax law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the time for filing reports (Part Q); intentionally omitted (Part R); intentionally omitted (Part S); intentionally omitted (Part T); amends chapter 109 of the laws of 2006 amending the tax law and other laws relating to providing exemptions, reimbursements and credits from various taxes for certain alternative fuels, in relation to extending the alternative fuels tax exemptions for five years (Part U); amends the tax law, in relation to exempting from alcoholic beverage tax certain alcoholic beverages furnished at no charge by certain licensees to customers or prospective customers at a tasting held in accordance with the alcoholic beverage control law, and to expand the beer production credit to include wine, liquor and cider (Part V); intentionally omitted (Part W); amends the tax law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing room remarketers to purchase occupancies from hotel operators exempt from sales tax under certain circumstances (Part X); amends the tax law, in relation to charitable contributions and charitable activities being considered in determining domicile for estate tax purposes (Part Y); amends the state finance law, in relation to creating the aviation purpose account and ensuring that the funds deposited in the aviation purpose account are used for airport improvement projects; amends the tax law, in relation to providing for the distribution of revenues under section 301-e of such law; exempts sales of fuel sold for use in commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft from the prepayment of sales tax imposed pursuant to the authority of section 1102 of such law; excludes sales of fuel sold for use in commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft from the operation of sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the authority of section 1210 of such law (Part Z); intentionally omitted (Part AA); amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to increasing racing regulatory fee (Part BB); amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to the timing of harness track reimbursements and other technical amendments (Part CC); amends the tax law, in relation to the payment of vendors' fees (Part DD); amends the tax law, in relation to vendor fees at vendor tracks (Part EE); amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to licenses for simulcast facilities, sums relating to track simulcast, simulcast of out-of-state thoroughbred races, simulcasting of races run by out-of-state harness tracks and distributions of wagers; amends chapter 281 of the laws of 1994 amending the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law and other laws relating to simulcasting, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 346 of the laws of 1990 amending the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law and other laws relating to simulcasting and the imposition of certain taxes, in relation to extending certain provision thereof; amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to extending certain provisions thereof (Part FF); amends the tax law, in relation to capital awards to vendor tracks (Part GG); amends the state finance law, in relation to allocations from the commercial gaming revenue fund; amends the tax law, in relation to commissions payable to certain vendor racetracks (Part HH); amends the tax law, in relation to further clarifying disclosure procedures regarding medical marihuana (Part II); amends the real property tax law, in relation to STAR recoupment program (Part JJ); amends the tax law and the state finance law, in relation to the fees associated with a certificate of registration and decal imposed by article 21 of the tax law for certain vehicles operating on public highways in New York state (Part KK); amends the tax law, in relation to making corrections to the corporate tax reform provisions (Part LL); amends the tax law, in relation to the real property tax credit for manufacturers (Part MM); amends the tax law and the administrative code of the city of new York, in relation to the value of leased real property (Part NN); amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to health insurance for jockeys (Part OO); amends the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to the New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, Inc. (Part PP); amends the economic development law and the tax law, in relation to the economic transformation and facility redevelopment program tax credit (Part QQ); amends the tax law, in relation to creating a farm workforce retention credit (Part RR); amends the tax law and the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation to authorization to operate video lottery terminals and capital awards at certain facilities (Part SS); amends the tax law, in relation to providing a middle income tax cut under the personal income tax; repeals subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (a), subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (b) and subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 601 of the tax law relating to the imposition of tax; repeals subsection (d-2) of section 601 of the tax law relating to tax table benefit recapture for tax years after two thousand seventeen (Part TT); amends the tax law, in relation to requiring wholesalers of motor fuel to register and file returns (Part UU); amends the labor law, in relation to enhancing the urban youth jobs program tax credit by increasing the sum of money allocated to programs four and five (Part VV); amends the tax law, in relation to exempting commercial fuel cell electricity generating systems and electricity provided by such sources from the sales tax imposed by article 28 of the tax law and omitting such exemption from the taxes imposed pursuant to the authority of article 29 of the tax law, unless a locality elects otherwise (Part WW).
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year; intentionally omitted (Part A); intentionally omitted (Part B); intentionally omitted (Part C); amends the vehicle and traffic law and the state finance law, in relation to the dedication of revenues and the costs of the department of motor vehicles; amends chapter 751 of the laws of 2005 amending the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law relating to establishing the accident prevention course internet technology pilot program, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; repeals subdivision 2 of section 89-g of the state finance law relating to funds to be placed into the accident prevention course internet, and other technology pilot program fund; and repeals certain provisions of the state finance law relating to the motorcycle safety fund (Part D); amends the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to covered farm vehicles and to expand the scope of the P endorsement; and repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part E); amends the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation to extending certain provisions relating to the empire state economic development fund (Part F); amends chapter 393 of the laws of 1994, amending the New York state urban development corporation act, relating to the powers of the New York state urban development corporation to make loans, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part G); establishes the Transformational Economic Development Infrastructure and Revitalization Projects act; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part H); authorizes and directs the New York state energy research and development authority to make a payment to the general fund of up to $913,000 (Part I); authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to finance a portion of its research, development and demonstration, policy and planning, zero emissions vehicle and electric vehicle rebate and Fuel NY programs, and to finance the department of environmental conservation's climate change program, from an assessment on gas and electric corporations (Part J); authorizes the department of health to finance certain activities with revenues generated from an assessment on cable television companies (Part K); amends the public service law, in relation to authorizing the department of public service to increase program efficiencies (Part L); amends chapter 21 of the laws of 2003, amending the executive law, relating to permitting the secretary of state to provide special handling for all documents filed or issued by the division of corporations and to permit additional levels of such expedited service, in relation to extending the expiration date thereof (Part M); intentionally omitted (Part N); amends the general business law, in relation to authorized combative sports and to the costs of boxer medical examinations; and amends a chapter of the laws of 2016 amending the general business law and other laws relating to authorized combative sports, as proposed in legislative bill numbers S.5949-A and A.2604-C, in relation to the effectiveness thereof and the service of commissioners on the state athletic commission (Part O); amends chapter 584 of the laws of 2011, amending the public authorities law relating to the powers and duties of the dormitory authority of the state of New York relative to the establishment of subsidiaries for certain purposes, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part P); intentionally omitted (Part Q); intentionally omitted (Part R); amends the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation to transferring the statutory authority for the promulgation of marketing orders from the department of agriculture and markets to the New York state urban development corporation; repeals certain provisions of the agriculture and markets law relating to the marketing of agricultural products; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part S); amends the environmental conservation law, in relation to waste tire management (Part T); amends the state finance law, in relation to creating a new climate change mitigation and adaptation account in the environmental protection fund; amends the environmental conservation law, in relation to local waterfront revitalization programs; amends the environmental conservation law, in relation to climate smart community projects; and amends the executive law, in relation to payments for local waterfront revitalization programs (Part U); intentionally omitted (Part V); amends the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation to the criteria governing the award of grants from the beginning farmers NY fund (Part W); amends the environmental conservation law, in relation to retrofit technology for diesel-fueled vehicles (Part X); amends the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the disposition of certain fees received from the registration of snowmobiles (Part Y); amends the public service law, in relation to operation of farm waste electric generating equipment (Part Z); relates to establishing a zero emissions vehicle and clean burning fuel vehicle rebate program (Part AA); and amends subpart H of part C of chapter 20 of the laws of 2015, appropriating money for certain municipal corporations and school districts, in relation to funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation; and repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part BB).
Relates to retroactive enrollment in child health insurance plans.
Relates to real property tax exemptions available to veterans.
Relates to specification of Oneonta Fire District operations.
Requires reimbursement for surgical first assistant services.
Relates to burial of veterans of the armed forces.
Requires the consumer protection division to post on the division website information on the related risks associated with unsecured furniture, televisions, and appliances.
Relates to training for staff in residential mental health treatment unit programs inside correctional facilities.
Relates to authorizing a residential redevelopment inhibited property exemption in certain cities.
Relates to authorizing the Erie county medical center corporation to enter into agreements for the creation and operation of a health care delivery system network.
Establishes the Edward Hopper citation of merit for visual artists.
Relates to authorizing eligible surviving members of the household to apply for a transfer of the head of household's benefit under the SCRIE and DRIE programs.
Amends provisions relating to the management of the Roosevelt Island public benefit corporation; amends provisions relating to the effectiveness thereof; repeals certain provisions relating to not-for profit grant distribution.
Relates to home care worker wage parity.
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state education, labor, housing and family assistance budget for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year; amends the education law, in relation to contracts for excellence and the apportionment of public moneys; amends the education law, in relation to the gap elimination adjustment; amends the education law, in relation to the apportionment of public moneys in school districts employing eight or more teachers including foundation aid; amends the education law, in relation to community school aid; amends the education law, in relation to English language learner pupils; relates to pre-kindergarten programs; amends the education law, in relation to charter school facilities aid; amends the education law, in relation to the statewide universal full-day pre-kindergarten program; amends the education law, in relation to building aid; amends chapter 552 of the laws of 1995, amending the education law relating to contracts for the transportation of school children, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 756 of the laws of 1992, relating to funding a program for work force education conducted by the consortium for worker education in New York city, in relation to reimbursements for the 2015-2016 school year; amends chapter 756 of the laws of 1992, relating to funding a program for work force education conducted by the consortium for worker education in New York city, in relation to withholding a portion of employment preparation education aid and in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends the state finance law, in relation to the New York state teen health education fund; amends chapter 169 of the laws of 1994, relating to certain provisions related to the 1994-95 state operations, aid to localities, capital projects and debt service budgets, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 82 of the laws of 1995, amending the education law and other laws relating to state aid to school districts and the appropriation of funds for the support of government, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 147 of the laws of 2001, amending the education law relating to conditional appointment of school district, charter school or BOCES employees, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 425 of the laws of 2002, amending the education law relating to the provision of supplemental educational services, attendance at a safe public school and the suspension of pupils who bring a firearm to or possess a firearm at a school, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 101 of the laws of 2003, amending the education law relating to implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; relates to school bus driver training; relates to special apportionment for salary expenses and public pension accruals; relates to suballocations of appropriations; relates to the development, maintenance or expansion of magnet schools; relates to the support of public libraries; amends chapter 121 of the laws of 1996 relating to authorizing the Roosevelt union free school district to finance deficits by the issuance of serial bonds, in relation to certain apportionments; to amend the education law, in relation to aid for employment preparation education programs; directs the commissioner of education to examine the reduced price lunch program; amends the education law, in relation to extending the apportionment of public moneys to school districts employing eight or more teachers; directs the commissioner of education on how to recover certain penalties (Part A); amends the education law, in relation to school emergency response plans (Part B); intentionally omitted (Part C); amends the education law, in relation to the NY-SUNY 2020 challenge grant program act; amends chapter 260 of the laws of 2011, amending the education law and the New York state urban development corporation act relating to establishing components of the NY 2020 challenge grant program, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part D); amends the state finance law, in relation to the creation of the SUNY Stony Brook Affiliation escrow fund (Part E); intentionally omitted (Part F); amends chapter 161 of the laws of 2005 amending the education law relating to the New York state licensed social worker loan forgiveness program, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2005 amending the education law relating to the New York state nursing faculty loan forgiveness incentive program and the New York state nursing faculty scholarship program, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 31 of the laws of 1985 amending the education law relating to regents scholarships in certain professions, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends the education law, in relation to forgiving loans upon the death of the recipient (Part G); intentionally omitted (Part H); intentionally omitted (Part I); intentionally omitted (Part J); amends the labor law, in relation to the rate of minimum wage; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part K); intentionally omitted (Part L); amends the family court act, in relation to findings that must be made at permanency hearings; amends the social services law, in relation to guardianship expenses, the reasonable and prudent parent standard and the criminal history of prospective foster and adoptive parents (Part M); intentionally omitted (Part N); amends the social services law, in relation to increasing the standards of monthly need for aged, blind and disabled persons living in the community (Part O); utilizes reserves in the mortgage insurance fund for various housing purposes (Part P); amends part D of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011 amending the education law relating to capital facilities in support of the state university and community colleges, procurement and the state university health care facilities, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part Q); amends the education law, in relation to income for the purposes of student financial aid (Part R); amends part K of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010 amending the social services law relating to establishing the savings plan demonstration project, in relation to extending the period of effectiveness thereof (Part S); amends the education law, in relation to associate of occupational studies degree options (Part T); amends the education law, in relation to the foster youth college success initiative (Part U); amends the education law, in relation to tuition, aid and placement report for all non-public institutions of higher education (Part V); amends the social services law, in relation to the powers and duties of the commissioner of social services relating to the appointment of a temporary operator; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part W); amends the social services law, in relation to exempting certain automobiles from calculations of benefits of households under public assistance programs (Part X); amends the social services law, in relation to requiring an explicit written determination by the health care practitioner when the diagnoses differ from an applicant's treating health care practitioner (Part Y); amends the retirement and social security law, in relation to authorizing the state as an amortizing employer to make certain prepayments into the retirement system (Part Z); amends chapter 495 of the laws of 2004 amending the insurance law and the public health law relating to the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part AA); amends the insurance law, in relation to reduction in rates of property/casualty insurance on residential property for insureds who complete an approved homeowner natural disaster preparedness, home safety and loss prevention course (Part BB); amends the banking law, in relation to utilization of the standard financial aid award letter for undergraduate financial aid applicants (Part CC); amends the education law, in relation to chargeback rates for students of the state university of New York and the city university of New York (Part DD); amends part U of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, amending the real property tax law relating to the tax abatement and exemption for rent regulated and rent controlled property occupied by senior citizens, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof and limiting state liability for reimbursement to the city of New York pursuant thereto; amends section 4 of chapter 129 of the laws of 2014, amending the real property tax law relating to the tax abatement and exemption for rent regulated and rent controlled property occupied by persons with disabilities, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof (Part EE); authorizes the town of Riverhead, county of Suffolk to refund bonds previously issued for the acquisition of land for permanent rights on land (Part FF); amends the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, in relation to increasing the amount of permanent total disability benefits (Part GG); amends the transportation law, in relation to airport improvement and revitalization grants and loans (Part HH); amends part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005 authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and administration thereof, in relation to authorizing the commissioner of health to establish a statewide Medicaid integrity and efficiency initiative; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part II); amends part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and other laws relating to known and projected department of health state fund Medicaid expenditures, in relation to minimum wage increases (Part JJ); amends the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to police department reporting requirements (Part KK); amends the state finance law, in relation to establishing the Health Republic Insurance of New York fund (Part LL); amends the executive law, in relation to transferring certain functions to the division of state police from the division of homeland security and emergency services (Part MM); amends the public authorities law, in relation to committing the state of New York and the city of New York to partially fund part of the costs of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital program (Part NN); amends the public authorities law, in relation to procurements by the New York City transit authority and the metropolitan transportation authority; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part OO); amends the public authorities law and the general municipal law, in relation to the New York transit authority and the metropolitan transportation authority;