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Track 20,053 bills from the New York 2017 legislative session. 500 bills have passed. View New York Assembly and Senate legislation, sponsors, and voting records.
Bills (2000)
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Extends an occupancy tax in the village of Mount Kisco.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Exempts Nedrow Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes paid family leave for bereavement beginning in 2020.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Exempts the Pleasant Square Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Creates a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Requires that 85% of proceeds from the sale of any property that was previously used, operated or maintained by the office for people with developmental disabilities shall be used exclusively for state-operated residential services or state-operated community-based services provided by such office.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms a transportation contract of the Fulton city school district.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to authorizing the town of Tonawanda, county of Erie, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands for the placement and operation of a cellular tower facility.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Relates to authorizing the Broome 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 Broome.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Increases from 25 to 35, the number of land banks that are authorized statewide.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Authorizes the village of Clayton, county of Jefferson to transfer and convey certain parklands to Dean Hyde in exchange for certain lands owned by Dean Hyde which shall be used as parkland and as part of the village of Clayton's riverwalk project.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Establishes a commission to be known as the "New York seawall study commission" which will study the feasibility, costs, impacts, and best locations for construction of a seawall or sea gate being created to protect the city of New York from sea level rise and storm surge along the entire coastline.
Sponsor: Brian Barnwell
Authorizes the assessor of the county of Nassau to accept from Yeshiva Nishmas HaTorah, Inc. an application for exemption from real property taxes.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Establishes that directors of controlled corporations may serve on the designated audit committee of the board of such controlling corporation.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Includes the construction of public water mains and connections to provide a pure and wholesome source of drinking water to inhabitants whose drinking water supply has been contaminated by toxic or hazardous substances within the definition of water quality improvement project.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes the New York state interagency coordinating council for service-disabled veterans; defines the powers and duties of the council and requires an annual report by the council to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from prohibiting pharmacies from disclosing to consumers the cost of prescription medication, the availability of alternative medications or alternative means of purchasing prescription medications; and prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from collecting copayments from consumers of prescription medications.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Authorizes county clerks to establish a system to receive and retain maps utilizing electronic means.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the issuance of deer management permits for certain service-connected disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Relates to authorizing and regulating the use of electronic bell jar vending machines.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes the county of Yates to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Megan Morehouse, a deputy sheriff employed by such county.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Extends the empire state commercial production tax credit.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Provides that farm machinery, implements of husbandry and other machinery including road construction and maintenance machinery which are designed to operate at a speed greater than twenty-five mph but less than forty mph shall display a slow-moving vehicle emblem as well as a speed identification symbol.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Allows judicial notice of an image, map, location, distance, calculation, or other information taken from a web mapping service, a global satellite imaging site, or an internet mapping tool, when requested by a party to the action, subject to a rebuttable presumption.
Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Relates to a prohibition on diversion of funds dedicated to public transportation systems.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
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
Authorizes Chabad of Great Neck to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land in the village of Great Neck, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Designates court attendants employed by the town of Somers as peace officers.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Provides that the official state hymn of remembrance in honor of all American veterans shall be "Here Rests in Honored Glory".
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Designates certain lakes as inland waterways.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to the certification of a deputy sheriff as a police officer by the police department of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes reimbursement mechanisms for access to hospice services for residents of assisted living programs.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming certain transportation contracts of the Corning city school district.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to the award of burial expenses by the office of victim services; permits emergency awards for burial expenses in cases of undue hardship.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes the commissioner of DMV to require examination of a person involved in an accident caused by a loss of consciousness or awareness; directs DMV, in consultation with the New York state department of health and the New York state division of state police, to undertake a review of the department's medical review program regarding the department's reexamination of drivers who may suffer from a chronic, ongoing condition that may cause loss of consciousness, loss of awareness or loss of body control.
Sponsor: Robert Carroll
Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse to maintain a directory on their website.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Authorizes the North Bellmore Fire District to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: John Brooks
Validates certain acts by the Roscoe central school district in connection with final building cost reports required to be filed with the education department.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides for the establishment of the "Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Whitehall, New York".
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
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
Authorizes retroactive tier III membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Steven R. Grice.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to the production and sale of mead and braggot.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Enacts the "toll payer protection act" to establish a New York toll payers' bill of rights; provides that any person, firm, corporation, or other entity who is charged with the payment of a cashless toll fee in the state of New York shall have the option to be notified by text message or electronic mail that such fee has been so charged, the entity to which such fee must be paid, and the date by when such fee must be paid; further provides for the establishment of a payment plan for the payment of a toll fee and any related penalties; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to BOCES intermediate districts.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to authorizing the Tioga 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 Tioga.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Authorizes the assessor of the town of Haverstraw, county of Rockland, to accept an application for exemption from real property taxes from Iglesia Pentecostal 3RA Nueva Jerusalem, Inc.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Authorizes the port authority of New York and New Jersey to offer a certain retirement option to port authority police officers Eddy Stelter, Scarlet M. Cooper, William A. Mudry, John F. Fitzpatrick and Hugh A. Johnson.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs; provides that deputy sheriffs shall receive a pension of three-quarters of their final average salary.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Designates uniformed court officers in the town of Ossining, county of Westchester as peace officers.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Provides that component school districts cannot impose a tax levy for their share of the board of cooperative educational services capital expenditures.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the town of Camillus, in the county of Onondaga, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Erik Sauer.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes the empire state development corporation to develop a public awareness campaign promoting businesses located in New York state; requires the creating of the Buy New York Online Networking Directory to connect purchasers with businesses located in New York.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Requires that every publisher of a magazine sold by subscription shall disclose by a notice on the billing statement or billing invoice of each magazine mailed pursuant to subscription, a customer service telephone number; such notice shall be printed or written in a clear and conspicuous form.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes Stride, Inc. to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to real property tax exemptions for certain property owners who are required to participate in the federal flood insurance program because his or her real property is located in a special flood hazard area.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to the removal of all police markings and affixed lights from a vehicle prior to decommissioning and auction.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Requires combination gas and electric corporations, the New York Power Authority, and the Long Island Power Authority to provide an annual transparency statement to customers detailing certain charges on a gross basis which are included in each customer's delivery service portion of their utility bill.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Exempts the city of Middletown from the requirement that such city maintain a board for the licensing of master plumbers.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to clarifying alcoholic beverage tastings sales tax exemptions; establishes requirements for such tastings including number of samples offered.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Establishes an additional certification classification for minority and women-owned businesses which are ineligible for certification due to exceeding the personal net worth of small business thresholds.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Relates to the effective date for the tax exempt status of the real property of a land bank.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Establishes the town of Southampton community development agency.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the granting of a permanent vested easement for the Hudson river rail tunnel.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Provides for the automatic enrollment of employees of the city of New York eligible to join the New York city board of education retirement system.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to allowing two automatic free transfers for riders using pay-per-ride Metrocards.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Requires disclosure by principal creditors and debt collection agencies of the legal obligations of a deceased debtor's family.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Establishes the Peconic Bay region septic system replacement loan program; defines terms; authorizes any town in the Peconic Bay region to establish a septic system replacement loan program using water quality improvement monies from the Peconic Bay region community preservation funds; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Clarifies that the SUNY health science centers are included in the maintenance of effort provision pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Includes certain deputy sheriffs from Monroe county as peace officers.
Sponsor: David Gantt
Authorizes the state university of New York to enter into a lease and otherwise contract to make grounds available and facilities of the state university of New York at Stony Brook to the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, to ensure quality pediatric health care services to the surrounding community; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to insurance coverage for enteral formula; includes additional diseases and disorders for which enteral formula has been proven effective.
Sponsor: Steve Stern
Permits physicians who are licensed in another state or territory to provide medical services to athletes and team personnel at team sporting events in New York, provided such services are provided only to those athletes and team personnel at the team sporting event.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to requiring the Long Island Power Authority to provide public notice prior to the construction of utility transmission facilities.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to issue "Jamaican bobsled team" distinctive plates.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to prohibiting consumer credit reporting agencies from charging a fee for the placement, removal, or temporary lift of a security freeze following consumer credit reporting agency data breaches.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Adds lake Neatahwanta and the Oswego river to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
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
Grants retroactive eligibility to apply for enhanced Tier 3 status to former New York City police officer Mark Rivera.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Relates to damages to contracts occasioned by delay.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to providing Long Island residents water usage information with their bill.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Relates to the duties of the division of veterans' affairs concerning information about veterans received from nursing homes and residential health care facilities, including assisted living facilities and assisted living residences and adult care facilities.
Sponsor: Monica Wallace
Relates to the management of migratory game birds; extends effectiveness.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to repossession of a motor vehicle or motorcycle; extends the time frame in which the repossessor of a motor vehicle must submit the license plates to the department of motor vehicles from 24 hours to 10 days.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Increases the population limit of certain cities for purposes of requiring training of assessors of such cities.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to outreach, status and time limits relating to the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum; there shall be no less than a majority of the total number of members of the commission in order to transact any business, perform any duty or exercise any power.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Relates to the registration of real estate appraisal management companies or an individual or business entity that provides appraisal management services to creditors or to secondary mortgage market participants including affiliates by the department of state.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to assistance for certain small businesses including dry cleaners and those that practice nail specialty for necessary code related improvements.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to the amount of the supplemental basic tuition for charter schools.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Provides for state recognition and acknowledgement of the Montaukett Indians; provides that the Montaukett Indians shall have a chief or sachem, three tribal trustees and a tribal secretary; further provides for the qualification of voters; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Validates certain acts of the Chester Union Free school district with regard to two capital improvement projects and provides for payment of state aid for such projects.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Relates to authorizing the issuance of a license to certain motion picture theatres; authorizes the issuance of a license to three parcels located in Brooklyn.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Directs the MTA to study and report on the feasibility of rehabilitating the Lefferts Boulevard Bridge and requires the chairman of the MTA to submit a written report with the findings and recommendations of the study.
Sponsor: Daniel Rosenthal
Enacts various provisions relating to procurement procedures.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Designates criminal investigators employed by the United States transportation security administration's investigations division as peace officers.
Sponsor: Michele Titus
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law establishing an excess line advisory organization until 2024.
Sponsor: James Seward
Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Scott Goodfellow.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Includes SUNY police officers for purposes of presumption regarding impairment caused by heart disease.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland, to discontinue the use of the municipally owned park land, and dedicate certain other lands as park lands.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Validates certain acts of the Newburgh Enlarged city school district with regard to capital improvement projects and provides for payment of state aid for such projects.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Increases the monetary exclusion on the requirement of plain language in consumer contracts.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms a transportation contract of the Port Washington Union Free School District.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Adds the Nanticoke Creek to the definition of inland waterways as a major creek.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
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: Elaine Phillips
Authorizes Trooper Katsur to receive state police retirement credit for services performed as a SUNY police officer.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to replacing all instances of the words or variations of the words fireman or policeman with the words firefighter or police officer or variation thereof.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the emergency medical service.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to a referee's compensation; increases a referee's compensation generally to three hundred fifty dollars and upon a sale of real property pursuant to a judgment to seven hundred fifty dollars.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Creates the radon task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the prevention of human exposure to radon and make recommendations to reduce and minimize exposure to New York state residents; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to extending certain provisions relating to the taking of sharks; extends provisions for two years.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Adds the New York Racing Association, Inc. to the list of dormitories under the public authorities law.
Sponsor: Michaelle Solages
Relates to civil service provisional employees in New York city; extends certain provisions relating thereto.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to penalties and enforcement in the Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve; authorizes a police officer or peace officer to impound any all-terrain vehicle provided that such seizure is conducted pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires a minimum of 36 hours of mandatory continuing education for psychologists to be completed every 3 years.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to reimbursement methodologies for tuition.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to the Jaam'e Masjid Bellmore LI Inc. for the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: John Brooks
Establishes a committee on safety within the metropolitan transportation authority.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Relates to authorizing the superintendent of financial services to grant six credit hours of continuing education for a licensee's active membership in a statewide professional insurance producer association.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to increasing the revised rule public comment period from thirty days to forty-five days.
Sponsor: Monica Wallace
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
Extends the enforcement of the collection of delinquent real property taxes and the collection of taxes by banks and enforces the collection of taxes in certain villages.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Prohibits the head of the office for people with developmental disabilities from changing the auspice of any individualized residential alternative that is operated by the state.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Creates the digital currency task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on the potential effects of the widespread implementation of digital currencies on financial markets in the state.
Sponsor: Clyde Vanel
Instructs the office of temporary and disability assistance to apply for a waiver from the federal government to allow for the purchase of multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements with benefits through SNAP.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Relates to the qualifications of fire chiefs in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs fewer than five paid firefighters.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to food banks; establishes the gifts to food banks fund; authorizes and directs the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to distribute grants to local not-for-profit corporations for the distribution of food to persons in need.
Sponsor: William Magee
Directs the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision to undertake a study of the surveillance, prevention, treatment and prevalence of hepatitis C among the inmate population.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Subjects certain lands in the town of Blooming Grove and Chester, Orange county, acquired for a public use by the commissioners of the Palisades Interstate park, exclusive of improvements erected thereon by the state, to real property taxation; applies to assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after the date on which this act becomes law.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd. for portions of the 2016-2017 school and general taxes and all of the 2017-2018 school and 2018 general taxes.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Relates to electronic payment of fees of brand label registration and to changing the time required for an application to be deemed approved.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Requires the secretary of state to compile, make public and keep current certain information on persons subjected to section 73-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making positions; further requires the secretary of state to post such information on the department of state website.
Sponsor: Rebecca Seawright
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: Martin Golden
Directs the commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in consultation with New York state fire service organizations, to develop a plan to increase the number of skills required as part of the Firefighter certification, or the Firefighter Recruit I and II certifications, which can be completed at a trainee's home department or online.
Sponsor: Monica Wallace
Provides that the department of transportation shall conduct a study to evaluate the weight limitations of fire vehicles with pneumatic tires.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Authorizes members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system to repay the loan balance at any time.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Enacts the residential structure fire prevention act of 2018; provides a tax credit to homeowners who remove cock loft fire hazards in their homes; provides an insurance discount for the installation of smoke detecting alarm devices in cock lofts; provides that the repair of cock lofts for the purpose of fire prevention and safety shall be qualifying expenditures under state housing programs.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Provides a definition for electric energy storage equipment; further provides a tax abatement for electric energy storage equipment placed in service from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2021.
Sponsor: Robert Carroll
Relates to solicitation used by or on behalf of any charitable organization.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Gives members of the New York state legislature the ability to solemnize marriages, provided that they shall not charge a fee.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to state contracts for landscape architecture.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning and report the findings of such study and any recommendations to the governor and legislature.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Makes an appropriation to the account for payment of services and expenses related to the administration of the New York state and local employees' retirement system and the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Authorizes the division of minority and women's business development to accept the DD Form 214 issued by the United States department of defense upon retirement, separation, or discharge from active duty in the armed forces of the United States as proof of the race or ethnicity of an applicant and of certain personal information for purposes of certification of the applicant's business as a minority-owned business.
Sponsor: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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
Relates to extending the amount of time between notice of a project and a public hearing.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Extends the authority of the New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. to maintain bonds until 2023.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Directs the commissioner of education to establish and implement a museum education grant program to provide state aid to museums, historical societies, nature centers, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, aquariums and cultural organizations to establish education programs for elementary and secondary school students, and for those participating in continuing education in low-income urban, suburban or rural communities.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Provides for the establishment of a sexual assault victim bill of rights by the department of health, in consultation with the division of criminal justice services and the office of victim services; establishes a victim's right to notice.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Relates to the definition of overtime ceiling for members who first become members of a public retirement system of the state on or after April first, two thousand twelve.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
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: Elaine Phillips
Extends authorization for certain exemptions from filing requirements.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes the lease of certain lands located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; authorizes the state university trustees to lease and otherwise contract to make available to The Southampton Hospital Association a portion of the lands of the university on its Southampton campus.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes the village of Lynbrook to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Police Officer Ronald J. Fleury who is employed by such village.
Sponsor: John Brooks
Extends provisions of law relating to catastrophic or reinsurance coverage issued to certain small groups.
Sponsor: Vivian Cook
Removes the three-year exemption of mandatory continuing education for newly licensed certified public accountants and public accountants.
Sponsor: Albert Stirpe
Authorizes the dormitory authority to provide financing to the New York Academy of Medicine.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Authorizes the county of Erie to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Christopher J. Lysy, Kristin M. Rozycki, Marc J. Bristow, Daniel E. Walczak, Thomas Van Wie and Donald Hoelscher who are deputy sheriffs employed by such county.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage striped bass.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to authorizing Konbit Neg Lakay Inc. of Spring Valley to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to probationary periods for tenure in certain school districts.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the town justice court of the town of Canandaigua to hold justice court in the city of Canandaigua.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage monkfish.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to the energy storage deployment policy.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to the disposition of cats; allows shelters to put cats, whose owners cannot be identified by any collar, tags or microchip, up for adoption after three days and after an examination by a veterinarian.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the definition of eligible securities in relation to obligations of domestic corporations.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
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: Neil Breslin
Relates to substances containing chorionic gonadotropin expressly intended for administration through implants or injection to cattle or other nonhuman species.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to death benefits for certain members under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Creates the people's history project within the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation to foster the recognition of heretofore overlooked personages, sites, and events of historical significance; provides for the establishment of a committee to pass on nominations made by the citizens of this state for the inclusion of personages, sites, and events in the project; provides for suitable commemorative markers, a map and website listings of such.
Sponsor: Inez Dickens
Establishes a Columbia/Dutchess carbon farming pilot project to study the carbon sequestration potential of a range of farming practices in Columbia and Dutchess counties, including, but not limited to, those practices already promoted by the state; and provides for the repeal of such program upon expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Requires water works corporations and municipal water systems to annually calculate and submit to the public service commission their water cost index.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to five-year capital plans for the state university of New York and the city university of New York.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Creates a disabled person retrofit tax credit.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Directs the superintendent to develop a public information campaign regarding establishment of joint deposit and convenience accounts.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Grants retroactive membership in the teachers' retirement system to Margaret Russo based upon prior employment with the Brooklyn public library.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Grants the village of Farmingdale retroactive real property tax exempt status for lots located at 254 Main Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act to ensure compliance of insurers and health plans with state and federal requirements for the provision of mental health and substance use disorder treatment and claims.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Establishes the military family relief fund and provides taxpayers a method by which they may contribute to the fund.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage lobster.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to disability retirement for members of the department of environmental conservation, forest rangers, university police officers and the regional state park police.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Mandates the creation of a reference list of businesses that provide locator technology designed to assist in the expedited location of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or disoriented.
Sponsor: Toby Stavisky
Establishes a kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facility program within the urban development corporation; provides grant funding to local development corporations, municipalities, educational institutions and not-for-profit entities for the development or expansion of kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facilities which make available services such as food production, technical assistance, business management and marketing, distribution, storage and retailing assistance, particularly in economically distressed areas.
Sponsor: Rebecca Seawright
Relates to amending the contribution provisions applicable to certain special plans to allow using any excess basic or additional member contributions to offset any deficits in such other contribution account prior to the date of retirement.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to conduct a study on food waste initiatives and to provide recommendations based on the study's findings.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Relates to notice of determination of eligibility for medical assistance; provides for written notice and additional electronic information.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to requiring the department of health to review the safety of ultraviolet nail dryers and authorizes the department of state to promulgate any regulations deemed appropriate for governing the use of such devices by any appearance enhancement business conducting the practice of nail specialty.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the city of Albany to alienate certain lands used as parkland and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Prohibits smoking within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or association library.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Relates to providing county correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes the Albany Pine Bush commission to acquire real property as may be necessary for the purposes and functions of the commission.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to disability retirement benefits for sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, undersheriffs and correction officers in Nassau County.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes that no corporation shall have a membership comprised of fewer than three persons, except for a corporation that has no members; may have a corporation, joint-stock association, unincorporated association or partnership as a sole member, if it is owned or controlled by no fewer than three persons.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes New York Kali Mandir, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Authorizes the state commissioner of transportation to convey certain real property to the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Allows an individual in any taxable year to elect to contribute to the City University of New York (CUNY); all revenues collected shall be credited to the City University Construction Fund; the trustees of such fund shall report before the first of February each year on how such monies were utilized.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Relates to a compensation committee to determine the appropriate salaries for members of the legislature and certain other state officials; provides for approval by voters of any recommendations.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Authorizes the empire state development corporation to administer several revolving loan fund (RLF) programs in a manner consistent with how the small business revolving loan fund is administered.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Korean Presbyterian Church of Bayside for the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: John Brooks
Requires that a county's purchase of certain goods shall be administered pursuant to policies and procedures adopted by the county governing board and developed in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Establishes a New York state physical fitness and activity education campaign.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to develop guidelines for vegetation management plans to be used by persons or corporations that make claims that they provide pollinator protection.
Sponsor: William Magee
Relates to the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage deer and bear; extends effectiveness.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes entrepreneurship assistance centers to provide assistance to primarily minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and dislocated workers and veterans; requires the department of economic development to establish criteria and designation of such centers; sets forth requirements for each center.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Amends the effective date of a chapter of 2017 relating to rehabilitation programs for female inmates to require that female inmates are provided an array of programs comparable to those provided to male inmates.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Relates to impairments of health, presumption and Staph/MRSA.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Establishes a small business tax credit for the employment of disabled persons.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed.
Sponsor: Tremaine Wright
Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials on effective discharge planning of individuals with a mental health disorder who are discharged from a hospital and provide such materials to general hospitals across the state.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to leasing and licensing of property at Sampson state park and at Seneca Lake state park.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Directs the department of financial services to study the issue of ATMs that accept EVM-enabled chip cards to determine which measures may be necessary and proper to ensure that the cards and corresponding personal data and information of consumers is protected from falling into the hands of others.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Relates to transfer of retirement membership for certain employees of SUNY within the professional, scientific and technical bargaining unit.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the right of a defendant who has entered a plea of not guilty to an information which charges a misdemeanor to a jury trial.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Extends eligibility for tuition assistance program awards for certain undergraduates who must transfer to another institution as a result of a permanent college closure by two semesters.
Sponsor: Jo Simon
Establishes a comprehensive centralized system to coordinate procurement of books and non-print library materials and related ancillary services.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office of children and family services.
Sponsor: Alicia Hyndman
Relates to credit for unused sick leave for employees of community colleges.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Allows an individual to substitute correspondence work for classroom work when applying for an insurance agent license.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Permits Mercy Haven Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to authorizing sweepstakes with respect to subscriptions to "The Conservationist" from August 1, 2018 to August 1, 2021.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Requires written notice of the collection of a tax levy to be provided by registered or certified mail.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Requires the Hudson River Black River Regulating District to undertake a comprehensive study regarding the beneficiaries of the district and real property tax apportionments to establish a standard methodology for the determination of any future apportionment.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Relates to employees classified as the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority superior officers benevolent association of an MTA-employer and the resolution of disputes in the course of collective negotiations.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
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 impact studies on tick-borne diseases; requires the department to issue a report examining the mental health impacts of tick-borne diseases and blood-borne pathogens on mental illness rates in endemic areas of the state.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Makes certain tax abatement forms more readily available to seniors and authorizes certain entities to assist in the completion of such forms.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to the abandonment of cemeteries; notification and assistance.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Permits state lottery winners to remain anonymous to the general public.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to granting Tier I status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Thomas Amodeo.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Provides optional disability coverage for county probation officers.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to regulatory fines for small businesses; provides that upon an initial violation of a state agency's rules or regulations, a small business shall be afforded a cure period or other opportunity for ameliorative action, which if successful shall prevent the imposition of a fine or fines.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Relates to the collection of data regarding ninth grade students attending career education courses in trade/industrial education, technical education, agricultural education, health occupations education, business and marketing education, family and consumer science education and technology education programs.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
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
Amends chapter 348 of 2012 relating to a property conveyance by the city of Poughkeepsie to add legal descriptions of such property.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Authorizes hospitals to establish standing orders for the care of newborns in the hospital until the discharge of the newborn from the hospital following the birth, which may authorize an attending nurse to provide services and care to healthy newborns.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to the description of certain lands to be excepted as necessary for above-ground appurtenances in the village of Mamaroneck.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Relates to the implementation of a valuation manual and directs the department of financial services to study the impact of such implementation.
Sponsor: James Seward
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
Repeals certain provisions related to the New York state first home savings program added by chapter 472 of the laws of 2017 and studies the impacts of a first home savings program.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission; authorizes the department to issue a temporary educational exemption; requires the commission to make recommendations on the impact of requirements for achievement of a baccalaureate degree in any lesser period of time than required by law as condition to maintaining employment.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Establishes a task force on veteran employment opportunities, including membership requirements and powers and duties of the task force; and provides for the repeal of such provisions.
Sponsor: Michael DenDekker
Designates the Peconic Bay region as a heritage area.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the services provided for the care demonstration program established by the office for people with developmental disabilities, the monitoring of such program and the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to truancy allegations in persons in need of supervision and child protective proceedings in family court.
Sponsor: Maritza Davila
Relates to the creation of micro-business worker cooperatives upon transfer of ownership.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Authorizes continuing care retirement communities to adopt a written cybersecurity policy and requires such policies to be self-certified and approved by the superintendent.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
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: Andrew Hevesi
Grants Danielle Galasso a retroactive membership date in the New York state and local employees' retirement system for service starting in 2003.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Establishes that any income included pursuant to section 512(a)(7) of the internal revenue code shall be subtracted from federal unrelated business taxable income.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants to not-for-profit organizations and elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools to be used to help pay for the costs of conducting local blood drives.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Grants retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Joseph J. Maltese.
Sponsor: Ron Castorina
Relates to child abuse in an educational setting; requires the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations for training of, at a minimum, information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators of child abuse and maltreatment and certain statutory reporting requirements; and extends such provisions to private schools and such employees and volunteers within.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to permitted deductions from wages; extends the effectiveness of such provisions.
Sponsor: Michele Titus
Changes the dates of business entity license renewal dates for insurance brokers to June thirtieth of odd numbered years.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Grants retroactive membership in Tier IV of the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Shawn Coveny.
Sponsor: Joseph Errigo
Authorizes Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional 25 year retirement plan for forest rangers.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Relates to the establishment of the adolescent suicide prevention advisory council.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Relates to reporting requirements for various classifications of gas leaks by utility corporations.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Requires each clinical laboratory to have one or more supervisors upon the premises during business hours; provides for such supervisors' qualifications and duties.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to providing feminine hygiene products at no cost to individuals in correctional facilities and to any other individual in a punitive custodial setting.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Provides that the department of taxation and finance shall withdraw from county records a tax lien for which the tax debt has been paid in full and satisfied.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Places requirements on honoring warranties of fire vehicles and ambulances; establishes the new emergency vehicle lemon law bill of rights; regulates arbitration proceedings.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires the conducting of public hearings and reports thereon prior to the closure to public access of any real property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to authorizing the Wayne 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 Wayne.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Permits special proceedings against certain designated state officials to be commenced in a supreme court in the judicial district of the petitioner's residence or principal place of business; provides that a proceeding against the public service commission shall only be commenced in the supreme court, Albany county.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to authorizing pharmacy interns to administer immunizations.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Establishes the microenterprise development act to assist very small businesses and low-income business people.
Sponsor: Dan Quart
Directs the president of the civil service commission to study and publish a report evaluating public employers' wage disparities related to the job titles segregated by the gender, race and/or national origin of the employees in the title.
Sponsor: Barbara Lifton
Requires applicants for all-night liquor licenses to notify local community boards of their intent to apply for such licenses.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Permits the submission of electronic agricultural assessment applications.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to allowing Wyoming county to make application to the Foreign Trade Zones Board for a grant to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such county.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Requires the New York state department of transportation to conduct a study to evaluate the configuration and signage of entrance and exit ramps 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: Michaelle Solages
Imposes criminal liability for the failure to obtain medical care for a person in custody displaying medical distress.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Relates to leaving scene of an incident without reporting, making a violation involving a personal injury a class E felony.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to requiring social media and search engine reviews prior to the delivery of a rifle or shotgun; provides that prior to the delivery of any rifle or shotgun sold by a licensed dealer to any person, the purchaser shall consent to have his or her social media accounts and search engine history reviewed and investigated by the police authority of the locality where such sale is made; provides that after completion of the review, the purchaser shall provide the licensed dealer with proof of his or her approval to purchase such rifle or shotgun.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Relates to the creation of home stability support supplement programs.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Relates to removing the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons who have completed their sentencing, including any period of probation or parole.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Establishes a moratorium on the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities in residential placements for individuals with developmental disabilities; requires the office to study the dangers and effects of such placements and whether there are any other alternatives to such placements and to report to the governor and the legislature on its findings and recommendations.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Enacts the "restore faith in voting act"; relates to requiring the purchase of direct recording electronic machines which produce and retain a voter verified permanent paper record in the city of New York (Part A); relates to mandatory core curriculum and to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners, key staff of boards of elections and poll workers (Part B); and relates to establishing mobile operations voting equipment units (Part C).
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to requiring anaphylactic policies for child care services setting forth guidelines and procedures to be followed for both the prevention of anaphylaxis and during a medical emergency resulting from anaphylaxis.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; relates to the description of marihuana, and the growing of and use of marihuana by persons twenty-one years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of marihuana; relates to the qualification of certain offenses involving marihuana and exempts certain persons from prosecution for the use, consumption, display, production or distribution of marihuana; provides for the licensure of persons authorized to produce, process and sell marihuana; levies an excise tax on certain sales of marihuana; repeals certain provisions of the penal law relating to the criminal sale of marihuana and provisions of the general business law relating to drug paraphernalia; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Relates to requiring social media and search engine reviews prior to the approval of an application or renewal of a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver; requires a person applying for a license to carry or possess a pistol or revolver or a renewal of such license to consent to having his or her social media accounts and search engine history reviewed and investigated for certain posts and/or searches over a period of 1-3 years prior to the approval of such application or renewal; defines terms.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Provides for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Enacts the "child victims protection and accountability act"; relates to the period of limitation and commencement of actions for certain child abuse cases; requires that the office of court administration shall provide training for judges and justices with respect to crimes involving sexual abuse of minors (Part A); relates to reports of child abuse to law enforcement; relates to falsely reporting an incident in the third degree (Part B); and prohibits retaliatory personnel action by employers of corporations formed other than for profit (Part C).
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Enacts the "marihuana regulation and taxation act"; relates to the description of marihuana, and the growing of and use of marihuana by persons twenty-one years of age or older; makes technical changes regarding the definition of marihuana; relates to the qualification of certain offenses involving marihuana and exempts certain persons from prosecution for the use, consumption, display, production or distribution of marihuana; provides for the licensure of persons authorized to produce, process and sell marihuana; levies an excise tax on certain sales of marihuana; repeals certain provisions of the penal law relating to the criminal sale of marihuana and provisions of the general business law relating to drug paraphernalia; creates the New York state marihuana revenue fund, the New York state community grants reinvestment fund, and the marihuana microbusiness and marihuana license revolving loan fund; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Amends the Nassau county civil divisions act relating to the purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Fireman's Benevolent Association of East Meadow.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides that policies and contracts covering diagnostic screening for prostate cancer shall not be subject to cost sharing; requires notice of availability of such coverage without cost sharing to be provided in the notice to persons at risk of or having prostate cancer.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Provides that all increased payments for salary adjustments according to plan and step-ups or increments during a wage freeze be suspended; makes such provisions applicable to county employees and employees of covered organizations, whether or not they are covered by a collectively negotiated agreement; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Rules
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey certain unused state lands to MCB-Eagle New Paltz, LLC upon the consent of the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation, in consideration of fair market value and upon such other terms and conditions.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes the village of St. Johnsville to hire a village clerk/treasurer and code enforcement officer who is not a resident of such village.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Extends the licensure of private proprietary schools.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Relates to the calculation of nonpublic schools' eligibility to receive aid.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes a Lyme and tick-borne disease working group to review current best practices for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Provides that the court clerk and deputy clerk/treasurer of the village of Mount Morris, in the county of Livingston, need not be a resident of such town, so long as he or she is a resident of Livingston county or an adjoining county within the state.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Establishes the energy storage deployment policy.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to the one-call notification system.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Enacts the "living donor protection act of 2018"; prohibits discrimination in the provision of life, accident, and health 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
Validates certain acts of the Hendrick Hudson central school district with regard to two capital improvement projects and provides for payment of state aid for such projects.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes a tax exemption for certain energy systems; includes fuel-flexible linear generator among other energy systems which are exempt from taxation.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to extending the provisions relating to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund until five years after the commencement of the operation of a video lottery terminal facility at Aqueduct racetrack.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Modifies requirements for eligibility for the state science, technology, engineering and mathematics program to include students who enroll in a public or private institute of higher education.
Sponsor: Alicia Hyndman
Relates to standardized test administration; increases penalty for violations to one thousand dollars.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to use of personal confidential information received from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and political subdivisions thereof.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to providing that a deputy sheriff of the county of Chenango need not be a resident of such county.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Extends the effectiveness for two years authorizing the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to authorizing the village of Farmingdale to receive retroactive real property tax exemptions for lots located at 137 and 145 Main Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to dog licensing in the village of St. Johnsville.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to authorizing the village of Farmingdale to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for lots located at 387 Conklin Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes a patient's attending nurse practitioner to witness the patient's execution of a health care proxy; authorizes a nurse practitioner to act as a person's health care agent; authorizes an attending nurse practitioner to determine that a patient lacks capacity.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Extends the real property tax exemption for structures and buildings essential to agricultural and horticultural use to buildings built prior to January 1, 2029.
Sponsor: William Magee
Authorizes the town of New Castle, in the county of Westchester, to lease space on the sport field fences in 3 of its parks.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Extends until January 1, 2021, the deadline to apply for the solar electric generating system real property tax abatement.
Sponsor: Robert Carroll
Establishes the "New York State Silver Rose Veterans Service Certificate" for veterans exposed to dioxin or phenoxy herbicides during military service.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to installing Lyme and tick-borne disease warning signs at all state-managed parks including trail entryways and campgrounds due to the increased presence of such diseases within the state.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to authorized absences by healthcare professionals who volunteer to fight the Ebola virus overseas; extends effectiveness.
Sponsor: Harvey Epstein
Relates to clean air taxicabs; provides for the issuance of one thousand three hundred fifty clean air taxicab medallions; repeals certain provisions.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes Maranatha Grace Church to file, with the county of Nassau, an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Permits the Steuben County sheriff and correctional facility to hold detained persons between arrest and arraignment.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
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 providing insurance corporations with a tax credit for investments made in rural business growth funds; establishes the New York agriculture and rural jobs fund.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to use of accrued sick time, compensation time or vacation time.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Relates to providing insurance coverage for medical marihuana.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Authorizes certain law enforcement officers and firefighters to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Requires the enactment by the legislature of a code of corporate responsibility; requires all corporations formed under laws of other states doing business in this state to pay registration fees and taxes in New York and adhere to the code of corporate responsibility; includes limited liability companies and other entities having corporate powers within the definition of "corporation".
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Requires all public authorities owning, leasing, and controlling critical infrastructure to study the potential consequences of privatization.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Requires that prior to a contract with the state or other public entity being effective, a report must be filed with the comptroller disclosing financial interests.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes the power authority of the state of New York and the Long Island power authority to enter into public-private partnerships for the improvement of the state's electric transmission grid.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Enacts the "regulatory sandbox act" to allow persons to obtain limited access to the marketplace in order to test innovations in financial products or services; provides requirements for application and approval; provides requirements for operating an innovation in the regulatory sandbox.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to designating a portion of state route thirty-seven as the "Charles 'Chuck' Kelly Memorial Highway" in the town of Ogdensburg.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Establishes the crime of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree; defines performance.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Creates offenses of aggravated promotion and aggravated possession of an obscene sexual performance by a child.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Ulster county as the "Gary Pietropaolo Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to maintaining public data of open code violations in New York city housing authority developments.
Sponsor: Robert Rodriguez
Relates to establishing the passenger safety task force on safety for passengers transported by stretch limousines.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to enacting the stretch limousine safety act.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to a state veterans' cemetery; removes certain requirements for the establishment of such cemetery.
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Provides for a credit against personal income tax for volunteer firefighters who complete qualifications to become a training instructor; further provides that such credit shall be equal to the sum of five hundred dollars or the total amount of the tax owed by the taxpayer if less than five hundred dollars, whichever is lower.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Relates to exempting active duty service members from taxation of qualifying residential real property; exempts any person who is serving or has served in active duty for any period of time in the United States army, navy, marine corps, air force, or coast guard, for other than training purposes.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Sets forth the means of the disposition of campaign funds upon the conviction of a felony of a candidate, former candidate or holder of elective office.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Requires passengers to use seatbelts in stretch limousines; defines the term "stretch limousine".
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Establishes the offense of filing a false report concerning a minor.
Sponsor: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Relates to drug and alcohol testing and requirements for for-hire vehicle drivers and motor carriers.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to providing insurance coverage for medical marihuana.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to reporting a nonemergency incident to an organization having the function of dealing with emergencies; designates such offense a class B misdemeanor.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Enacts the New York state DREAM Act by creating the New York DREAM fund commission and amends eligibility requirements and conditions governing certain awards.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Prohibits U turns by any for hire vehicle with a capacity of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Directs the office of fire prevention and control to conduct a study, which evaluates the minimum recommended qualifications to becoming a volunteer firefighter; requires such office to provide a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly within twelve months of the effective date of this act.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Relates to the commissioner's duty to ensure employers inform workers about non-disclosure or non-disparagement provisions in employment contracts.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Relates to creating a pilot program for the field testing of driving while intoxicated vehicle sensor devices to be administered by the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles in consultation with the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety Program and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Relates to a moratorium on new licensed home care service agency approvals.
Sponsor: Alicia Hyndman
Relates to classroom safety mechanisms, emergency medical equipment, and evidence-based best practices for school safety planning and training.
Sponsor: Alicia Hyndman
Authorizes law enforcement officers to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to notification in the case of a change to the workers' compensation claims representative.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to a moratorium on new licensed home care service agency approvals.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Prohibits the sale of infant walkers and restricts the use of such infant walkers in certain settings.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to the provision of a waiver before the execution of a confidentiality agreement and requires the waiver to be signed and attached to the confidentiality agreement.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Prohibits the use of unmarked police vehicles, concealed identity police vehicles and undercover police officers for routine traffic enforcement.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Requires solar panels on installed light fixtures on all lands, including state parks and parkways, under the jurisdiction of the office.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Relates to the extension of an order of protection for aggravating circumstances; allows for a lifetime order of protection.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Establishes the New York Teach Program conditional tuition waiver; requires participants to teach at hard to staff school districts for four years after graduation in order to have tuition waived in full for accelerated bachelor's and master's degree programs in education.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Establishes extreme risk protection orders as a court-issued order of protection prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing or attempting to purchase or possess a firearm, rifle or shotgun.
Sponsor: Walter Mosley
Prohibits single-use plastic straws in state and municipal run food service establishments; defines terms; provides that no state or municipal run food service establishment in the state shall offer to consumers any single-use beverage straw made of plastic or any other non-biodegradable material; further provides for exceptions.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Provides that qualified privilege shall not be an affirmative defense to defamation if the statements giving rise to the claim are made in the course of a judicial proceeding or a quasi-judicial proceeding and are not pertinent or cannot be deemed relevant despite every liberality of interpretation to such proceedings.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Places restrictions on the transfer of funds from a candidate's political committee for a federal office to a candidate's political committee for a state, county or local office.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Prohibits insurers issuing policies insuring personal injury and property damage arising out of home ownership or lease, from cancelling or refusing to issue or renew such a policy, or charging increased premiums based upon the harboring of a specific breed of dog on the premises; provides that such provisions shall not apply if the dog harbored has been designated as a dangerous dog pursuant to section 123 of the agriculture and markets law.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Provides a tax credit for small businesses employing a person previously convicted of a crime other than a violent felony; provides a tax credit of one thousand five hundred dollars for each person employed.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Establishes the crimes of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person and predatory sex trafficking when a person intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of a vulnerable person.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Requires that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings be designated as gender neutral; requires installation of a single occupancy bathroom in the event a building does not have such bathroom on the effective date of this act.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Provides amnesty for certain persons from penalties and liabilities resulting from failure to perform snow, ice and dirt removal; defines senior citizen and disability for purposes of such amnesty.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Extends the time to file a complaint for an unlawful discriminatory practice from one year to three years; provides that the notice of intention to file pursuant to the court of claims act for any claim to recover damages for an unlawful discriminatory practice shall be filed within six months.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Requires schools to provide instruction on the history of the Ukrainian Genocide-Holodomor of 1932 to 1933.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Prohibits the process, sale, offer for sale, purchase, trade, barter, distribution or possession of any part or product of the skin or body of a Giraffe.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Exempts lemonade stands operated by persons under sixteen years of age from department of health permitting requirements.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
Authorizes the study of the number of senior citizens in New York state who have filed for bankruptcy in the past ten years; provides that the director of the office for the aging shall deliver a copy of the findings of the study conducted and any legislative recommendations to the governor and the legislature.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Relates to providing for the establishment, organization and operation of police departments in the towns of Westchester county.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to a state veterans' cemetery; removes certain requirements for the establishment of such cemetery.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Requires manufacturers of connected devices to equip such devices with reasonable security features.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to petition for expungement of records for certain marihuana convictions.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
Establishes the New York state school resource officer program; provides for grants for school resource officers (Part A); relates to peace officers who are retired police officers employed by a school district as a school resource officer (Part B); and allows retired police officers to be employed by a school district as a school safety officer, school security officer or any other substantially similar position for an annual salary of $50,000 or less to continue to receive their full retirement benefit (Part C).
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to enacting the stretch limousine safety act.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to creating a contraband and drug information hotline for state correctional facilities.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Relates to the statute of limitations on rent overcharges; increases from four years to six years; requires records to be kept for six years; requires units to be re-regulated where they have been deregulated due to overcharges.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Relates to the definition of wiretapping by requiring the consent of both the sender and receiver for the recording to be legal.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to the definition of wiretapping by requiring the party recording the conversation to receive the consent of both parties present for the recording to be legal.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Prohibits the state, state agencies and departments and contractors doing business with the state, its agencies or departments from retaining facial recognition images or sharing such images with third parties without legal authorization by a court.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to extending the Thousand Islands - Seaway Wine Trail to include the White Caps Winery and the Cape Winery.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Prohibits the process, sale, offer for sale, purchase, trade, barter, distribution or possession of any part or product of the skin or body of a Giraffe.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to the qualifications of members of the gaming commission.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Repeals provisions amending the real property tax law relating to establishing an energy-related public utility mass real property central assessment pilot program; directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to submit a report relating to public utility mass real property.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to body imaging scanning equipment including proper registration, limitations and reporting of use.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Designates the "Bear Mountain bridge" as the "Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: William Larkin
Requires urine polymerase chain reaction testing for cytomegalovirus of newborns with hearing impairments; and directs the department of health to establish an education program for women who may become pregnant, expectant parents and parents of infants relating to various aspects of cytomegalovirus.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Allows Educational Housing Services Inc. to finance new housing utilizing the Dormitory Authority of New York State.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Requires the provision of guides containing best practices for retaining employees who are informal caregivers; provides that such guide shall be available on the websites of the state office for the aging, the department of labor and the department of state.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Designates the bridge on state route 213 over Rondout creek in the town of Marbletown, county of Ulster, as the "Kathy Cairo Davis Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: George Amedore
Designates state route 256 in the town of Conesus, county of Livingston, as the "Conesus Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Newburgh as the "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: William Larkin
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Sullivan county as "The Woodstock Way".
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Designates the Thomas C. Rotondo, Jr. Bridge as the Thomas C. Rotondo, Jr. Memorial Bridge.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Prohibits auto lenders from remotely disabling a vehicle without first giving notice of the disabling to the debtor.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the affordable residential green building program; adds additional aspects to such program and requires the state authority to furnish a report determining the benefits of providing new financial incentives for the construction of affordable residential green buildings.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Directs the department of health to post on its website information relating to emerging contaminant notification levels and educational materials relating thereto.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes a permit for a vehicle owned by a municipality to not expire until such municipality removes such permitted vehicle from operation.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to the operation of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2021.
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Relates to the distribution of lymphedema information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema and lists which patients are considered high risk.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Erie county as the "SGT Brian K. Baker Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes domestic companion animals be permitted to board any public transportation or public transportation service in the event of a state of emergency and evacuation.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) research and education; creates the New York ALS research and education fund.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
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: Fred Thiele
Clarifies the duty of the state board of parole in reporting parole statistics; specifies necessary information.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Designates state route 20 in the village of Fredonia, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to the early intervention coordinating council and the maternal child health services block grant advisory council.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to study significantly improving high-performance efficiency in commercial office buildings.
Sponsor: Latrice Walker
Relates to the proper venue for an impounding organization to file a petition for a security to be paid by the owner of a seized animal currently in the care of such organization.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to establishing a court-appointed special advocates program to aid the family court.
Sponsor: Albert Stirpe
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Wyoming county as the "PFC David P. Coveny Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Authorizes the crime victims board to accept other official documents in lieu of police reports for documentation of eligibility for compensation for rape, sexual assault and child abuse and domestic violence.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Extends the expiration of provisions relating to a restricted dental faculty license.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Prohibits the construction of any mausoleum or columbarium in a cemetery where such mausoleum or columbarium is the only form of interment offered in a cemetery, except in limited circumstances to assure the perpetual care of remains already in a mausoleum or columbarium.
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund; creates the school-based health centers fund; specifies the use for which moneys of the fund may be expended.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Authorizes the geriatric service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration within the program.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to the determination of adjusted base proportions in special assessing units which are cities for the fiscal year two thousand nineteen; provides that the current base proportion of any class shall not exceed the adjusted base proportion of the immediately preceding year by more than one-half of one percent.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Relates to the incorporation of certain businesses for the purpose of practicing professional geology.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Provides for taxpayer gifts for lupus education and prevention, and establishes the lupus education and prevention fund and outreach program.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Relates to correcting the spelling of the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to patronage capital contributions, allocations and retirements.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Philadelphia, county of Jefferson as the "New York State Trooper Joel R. Davis Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Designates state route 394 in the town of Ellicott, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant James C. Matteson Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Roger J. Mazal Memorial Bridge" on state route two-hundred three.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Erie county as the "S Sgt Michael F. Kaczmarek Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Designates certain portions of the state highway system as the "Lt. Christopher J. Raguso FDNY-CFD Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Establishes uniform hours during which the polls are open during primary elections; provides that primary elections shall be conducted between 6:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to theft of services from barbershops, salons or beauty salons and makes such offense a violation.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route one hundred four in the town of Lewiston, county of Niagara as the "General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the county of Suffolk as the "Jolly 51 Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Prohibits the leasing of companion animals; prohibits using companion animals as security for a contract.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "T Sgt Henry "Hank" Dylong Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to allowing for the use of medical marihuana as an alternative to opioids for pain management and substance use disorder.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to maintaining public data of open code violations in New York city housing authority developments.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Implements combination lap safety and shoulder harness seat safety belts; requires students use safety belts on school buses.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Permits consecutive sentencing for homicide convictions where there are multiple victims and the defendant was on parole or probation at the time of the crime.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Includes contacts via text, email or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Authorizes the awarding of punitive damages to persons aggrieved by sexual harassment.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to matching financing; relates to the New York state campaign finance fund and the abandoned property fund.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities; provides that registered sex offenders with developmental disabilities shall be placed only in residential placements specifically designated for registered sex offenders by the office.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Prohibits public display of tobacco advertisements and smoking paraphernalia within five hundred feet of schools; imposes a maximum penalty of five hundred dollars per violation; exempts tobacco businesses from the prohibition.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Permits additional persons to provide notification to the board of elections in the case of the death of a registered voter.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Requires school buildings and indoor facilities maintain a temperature of at least sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and no greater than eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Authorizes and directs the committee on open government to study proactive disclosure as a means of increasing transparency and access to government information.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Includes removal or threat of removal of religious clothing as aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Requires certain contractor, subcontractor and worker certifications for certain contracts which involve industrial painting or industrial coating work.
Sponsor: Monica Wallace
Prohibits campaign contributions from lobbyists, those seeking benefits from government, certain donors with contracts with the government, public employees and public unions; prohibits payment of referral fees to public officials from lobbyists; requires disclosure from certain donors when they hire a family member of a legislator or public official.
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Establishes a culturally responsive education curriculum and standards; requires all school districts, charter schools and private schools to integrate culturally responsive education throughout the education of all students at all grade levels; establishes a pilot program in culturally responsive education; appropriates $25,000,000 therefor.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to the definition of customer-generator.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Provides that the sentence for murder in the first degree shall be life imprisonment without parole.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Requires all law enforcement to report information regarding certain firearms to the National Crime Information Center; further requires law enforcement to test-fire seized firearms and submit the resulting ballistics information to the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network and to also submit to the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network ballistics information regarding spent shell casings found at crime scenes.
Sponsor: Jo Simon
Relates to 1,4-Dioxane levels; requires the department of health and department of environmental conservation to establish a maximum contaminant level of 0.35 parts per billion for the presence of 1,4-Dioxane in public supplies of potable water, ground water and runoff water from a wastewater treatment plant or water supply treatment plant.
Sponsor: Jacob Ashby
Relates to the liability of an employee committing an unlawful discriminatory practice; creates joint and several liability for employers and employees responsible for unlawful discriminatory practices.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Requires a certified dietitian, pursuant to the education law, on-site during hours of operation in order to apply as a comprehensive care center for eating disorders.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Requires the public school curriculum for children in kindergarten through grade twelve to include a minimum of two hours per week instruction in civics lessons.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Requires independent consideration for each confidentiality provision in a settlement agreement.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Relates to the maximum age at which a homeless youth can continue to receive shelter services; raises the age from twenty-one to twenty-four.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Relates to eliminating the default proceed firearm loophole by requiring a "proceed" response from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System before a licensee delivers a firearm to any person.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Establishes a legal procedure to obtain a serial number or other mark of identification from the division of state police prior to the assembly of firearms, and provides for the creation of the dealers' record of sale account to fund such activities by the division of state police and the gun violence family relief fund to provide assistance to the victims of gun violence and their families.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Relates to Gio's Law; requires members of all emergency service providers to be trained in the administration of emergency anaphylaxis treatment and to carry emergency anaphylaxis treatment in their vehicles.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Exempts breast pump replacement parts and certain supplies from sales and compensating use taxes.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Designates all that portion of the state highway system constituting state route sixty-three in the town of North Dansville, county of Livingston, as the "Dansville Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Joseph Errigo
Relates to prohibiting the sale, trade or bartering or possession with intent to sell, trade or barter of certain wild animals or wild animal products and to the penalties imposed therefor.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Requires video camera recording in special education classrooms where pupils are unable to communicate effectively.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Relates to the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities; provides that registered sex offenders with developmental disabilities shall be placed only in residential placements specifically designated for registered sex offenders by the office.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Provides that an individual who has been the victim of a family offense pursuant to the criminal procedure law or the family court act may make a complaint to any local law enforcement agency in the state regardless of where the act took place.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to requests for cancellation of the designation of a polling place; provides that the board or agency controlling a designated polling place may file a written request for a cancellation of such designation where there has been a security concern in such building and that such building does not possess the proper structure or procedures to keep the public safe in the event of a security concern arising during the use of such building as a polling site.
Sponsor: Anthony D'Urso
Relates to the establishment of the New York Health Benefit Exchange.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Prohibits the state, state agencies and departments and contractors doing business with the state, its agencies or departments from retaining facial recognition images or sharing such images with third parties without legal authorization by a court.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Includes acts of domestic violence in the criteria the court shall consider in determining the equitable disposition of property during divorce proceedings.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Provides health insurance coverage for New Yorkers if the federal Affordable Care Act is repealed.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Establishes Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as public holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Relates to preventing banks from asking account holders for proof of citizenship and using citizenship as a reason for freezing a bank account.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Includes falsely reporting an incident in the third, second, and first degrees as a specified offense for the purposes of hate crimes.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Prohibits ear clipping and tail docking of dogs unless deemed medically necessary to protect the life or health of the dog.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Requires state police to carry and offer use of jumper cables to disabled vehicles.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Establishes the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a domestic violence offender in the first and second degrees.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to establishing the Long Island Rail Road commuter relief fund for the purpose of maintaining fares on the Long Island Rail Road at 2018 levels.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Establishes the office of special investigation within the department of law to investigate and prosecute any alleged criminal offense or offenses committed by a police officer or peace officer, concerning the death of any person as a result of any encounter with such police officer or peace officer.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Sullivan county as the "SPC Allan Milk Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Adds licensed municipal public safety officer to the list of public employees for which prevention of duties constitutes assault in the second degree.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Increases the maximum contribution under a defined contribution plan service award from $700 to $2,100.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Designates uniformed court officers in the town of Wallkill, county of Orange as peace officers.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites from 120 to 75 at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario, for purposes of an exemption on restrictions on manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Extends provisions of law relating to a health savings account pilot program.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes the village of Massena, town of Massena, county of St. Lawrence to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to participants in the World Trade Center rescue.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires a joint report by the state board of elections and state education department concerning the safety of students and staff at schools used as polling places for elections.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Designates Oceola lake and lake Mohegan as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to certain examinations taken by funeral directors.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides that persons employed in the labor class for a minimum of five years shall not be removed or otherwise subjected to any disciplinary penalty provided in this section except for incompetency or misconduct.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Designates Katonah lake, Kitchawan lake, Oscaleta lake, Rippowam lake, Truesdale lake and Waccabuc lake as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Requires potable water testing at schools and parks at least once every three years and any finding of lead contamination must be abated within ninety days.
Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Relates to prohibiting the sale, trade or bartering or possession with intent to sell, trade or barter of certain wild animals or wild animal products and to the penalties imposed therefor.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Eliminates the department of homes and community renewal's major capital improvement program; creates the guaranteed habitability protections program within the department of homes and community renewal; creates a guaranteed habitability protections tax credit; eliminates rent increases to pay for major capital improvements.
Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Grants a state personal income tax deduction for retirement plan distributions used to purchase long-term care insurance; exempts distributions from individual retirement accounts and individual retirement annuities from state personal income taxation when such distributions are used to purchase long-term health care insurance.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Establishes the office of financial resilience to develop and implement new programs and initiatives for the purpose of supporting local economies and promoting resilient financial models.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Prohibits a person, partnership, corporation, association or other business entity from providing private probation services within the state.
Sponsor: Rafael Espinal
Enacts "the prison minimum wage act" relating to payment for labor performed by inmates.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Relates to access to reports of child abuse and maltreatment by criminal justice agencies; requires the office of children and family services to establish a centralized database of reports of child abuse and maltreatment for criminal justice agencies to access in the performance of their duties; defines criminal justice agencies.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Eliminates the department of homes and community renewal's major capital improvement program; creates the guaranteed habitability protections program within the department of homes and community renewal; creates a guaranteed habitability protections tax credit; eliminates rent increases to pay for major capital improvements.
Sponsor: Brian Barnwell
Enacts the Michael Sandy Act, providing that evidence of a defendant and victim having the same protected category is inadmissible in hate crime cases unless determined relevant by the court.
Sponsor: Rafael Espinal
Prohibits a grant or lease of any state-owned real property where such real property shall be used for a privately owned or operated correctional facility.
Sponsor: Rafael Espinal
Relates to requests for cancellation of the designation of a polling place; provides that the board or agency controlling a designated polling place may file a written request for a cancellation of such designation where there has been a security concern in such building and that such building does not possess the proper structure or procedures to keep the public safe in the event of a security concern arising during the use of such building as a polling site.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Relates to making certain technical corrections relating to the UCC revisions.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Authorizes fire districts to expend from revenues amounts appropriated for cost of insurance to provide firefighters with an enhanced cancer disability benefit insurance program.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Permits NYC correction officers to borrow from accumulated contributions.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the issuance of a distinctive license plate for members of the New York state Elks association of the benevolent and protective order of the Elks.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Relates to Buffalo sewer authority bonds, increasing the total amount of bonds which may be issued and outstanding at one time.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Provides for pre-employment and 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: Donna Lupardo
Implements an agreement between the state and an employee organization which provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain incumbents in the professional service in the state university; provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain employees of the state university of New York who are excluded from collective bargaining and certain employees of the contract colleges of Cornell and Alfred universities; makes an appropriation for the purpose of effectuating certain provisions thereof.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Defines a hotel license.
Sponsor: Anthony D'Urso
Provides a tax check off box on personal income tax return forms for gifts for the life pass it on trust fund for gifts for organ and tissue donation outreach and research and provides for certain reporting requirements for such fund.
Sponsor: Michele Titus
Prohibits a commercial landlord from interfering with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon his or her property or premises.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Authorizes the towns of Fayette and Varick in the county of Seneca to adopt, amend and enforce local laws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state or the United States, with respect to the restriction and regulation of the manner of construction and location of boathouses, moorings and docks in any waters within or bounding the respective municipality to a distance of fifteen hundred feet from the shoreline.
Sponsor: Brian Kolb
Relates to justices presiding in an off-hours arraignment part.
Sponsor: Frank Skartados
Relates to limitations on powers and immunities of executors and testamentary trustees.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Relates to the New York state business incubator and innovation hot spot support act.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Relates to membership in the New York state dental association.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Designates Great Valley creek and its tributaries as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Joseph Giglio
Extends certain provisions of the general municipal law, relating to granting localities greater contract flexibility and cost savings by permitting certain shared purchasing among political subdivisions.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Extends provisions relating to water pollution control revolving fund agreements.
Sponsor: Steve Stern
Relates to the discontinuation of utility service to residential customers.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation; removes the five years of service residency issue.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Prohibits the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops; authorizes collaboration with entities to provide space to showcase cats or dogs owned by certain entities for the purpose of adoption.
Sponsor: Michael Gianaris
Provides that the attorney - client privilege shall apply to communications between a lawyer referral service and a client.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Increases the bonding authority of the New York city housing corporation.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Mandates autism screening, that is in compliance with guidelines established by the American Academy of Pediatrics for children three years of age and under.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Provides for community service as one of the punishments for the violation of a local law in a municipality.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Exempts certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Makes permanent certain provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law authorizing the sale of gift bags and wrapping, and manufacturers to transport alcoholic beverages to their retail establishments.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Relates to a real property tax exemption for Kehillas B'nai HaYeshivos.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Relates to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings; extends effectiveness.
Sponsor: Rafael Espinal
Relates to the local administration of empire zones; provides an exception for the requirement to provide a certified annual report to the local zone administration board for certified businesses whose benefit period as a QEZE business enterprise has expired.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Requires immediate notification by law enforcement of the filing of an accusatory instrument alleging a sex offense by an employee; provides that no cause of action against law enforcement or school district shall exist for damages related to the dissemination of criminal history or arrest records.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Prohibits certain practices concerning or consideration for referrals by providers of substance use disorder services.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
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
Allows for payment in lieu of taxes imposed on real property with respect to property located at 1800 Motor Parkway, Islandia, New York, with respect to a lessee that is a qualified empire zone enterprise.
Sponsor: Michael Fitzpatrick
Extends the effectiveness of the city of Albany pilot residential parking permit system.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Relates to the long-term care ombudsman program.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage scallops to two thousand twenty-one.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Designates Chazy lake as an inland waterway for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Provides for the establishment of the "Cold Spring Harbor Volunteer and Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association".
Sponsor: Steve Stern
Directs the autism spectrum disorders advisory board to improve outreach to minority group members relating to children with such disorders.
Sponsor: Carmen De La Rosa
Relates to requiring certain public school facilities to retain on premises at least one functional cardiac automated external defibrillator, in relation to naming such act the "Louis Acompora AED's in schools act".
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to services for victims of human trafficking including short-term and long-term safe housing.
Sponsor: Andrew Hevesi
Requires notice to adjoining owners of construction or demolition work at the time such application for approval is submitted.
Sponsor: Tremaine Wright
Allows water works corporations to provide water usage data to municipalities.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Relates to transportation of individuals; provides that within staffing limitations and upon request, an individual who is being transported to or from a facility may be accompanied by same gender staff.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Provides for service of subpoena and delivery of records.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Relates to the authenticating effect of a party's production of material authored or otherwise created by the party.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Changes references in law from "hearing impaired" to "deaf or hard of hearing".
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Allows for service by mail to a nominated executor's domicile when exercising the right of election by a surviving spouse.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Relates to the disposal of property upon a judgment or order of forfeiture; requires a percentage of money from such disposal of property to be deposited into a subaccount of the general fund to be used for law enforcement diversion purposes.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Relates to the elections of members to the board of education of the city school district of the city of Albany.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Relates to the inspection and sale of seeds, agricultural liming materials and commercial fertilizer.
Sponsor: William Magee
Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school crossing guards.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Relates to remedying the inconsistent definitions for local correctional facility and municipal official and fixes other technical errors.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Directs the department of taxation and finance to study and report on the impact on localities in the counties of Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess of state-owned lands, and the methods of compensating such localities for the real property taxes lost as a result of such state-owned lands.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes the World Trade Center memorial scholarship fund.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Establishes identification cards for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Authorizes the village of Spring Valley justices to live in the towns of Ramapo or Clarkstown, county of Rockland.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Includes persons appointed as Indian police officers within the definition of the term "law enforcement agency" for the purposes of the law enforcement accreditation council.
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Relates to the presence of a companion animal when executing a warrant for eviction or dispossession of property and directs the executing officer to make arrangements for the safe removal of such animal.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Creates a cashless tolling amnesty program, providing up to six months to pay a cashless toll fee to have any violation fees related to such toll waived.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to the reimbursement of shelter costs and crime scene cleanup for certain, non-injured victims including battered spouses and children.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Establishes the commission on prosecutorial conduct.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Prohibits the use of placement agents or intermediaries by investment managers doing business with the common retirement fund.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Prohibits smoking at all times in facilities that provide child care services in a private home provided that such private home is required to be licensed or registered for child care services, regardless of whether or not children receiving such services are present.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Authorizes the town of Yorktown, in the county of Westchester, to alienate certain parklands.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to criminal justice faculty employed by a community college.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the liability of design professionals; prohibits broad indemnification of a state or local agency or political subdivision involving public work for contracts executed on or after January 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes the village of Phoenix to alienate and sell parklands at fair market value to the Phoenix Central School District with the understanding that such village shall dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of such parklands being alienated to the acquisition of new parklands and/or improvements to existing parklands.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes the Family Service League to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires a market and financial feasibility study prior to approval of an application to construct a hotel or motel in a city with a population of over one million; requires such study to be provided to the municipal authority reviewing such application.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Validates certain acts of the North Syracuse central school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects; such projects shall be eligible for state aid.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
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
Designates all that portion of the state highway system constituting state route sixty-three in the town of North Dansville, county of Livingston, as the "Dansville Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to authorizing custom liquor production for a non-licensed individual by farm distilleries; establishes conditions for such production including that such custom liquor shall not be offered for sale.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Includes certain lands used in the single operation for the production of hopyards in the definition of agricultural land and provides a real property tax abatement for the owners of certain hopyards.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Enacts Lulu and Leo's law establishing the crime of misrepresentation by, or on behalf of, a caregiver for children when a person knowingly makes a misrepresentation about a caregiver's background.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Relates to tanning facilities.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Establishes the crime of sex trafficking of a child; intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of another where such person is a child less than eighteen years old.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times and to store such kits in an accessible location and to make such kits available for use by any person who enters the premises of the business.
Sponsor: Victor Pichardo
Prohibits a retail business from directing an employee to engage in human billboard activities during extreme temperatures.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Prohibits fuel oil, grade number four in any building or facility in the state after July 1, 2025.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Provides that the judge shall not prohibit a parent from undergoing gender reassignment as a condition of custody.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Establishes the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender long-term care facility residents' bill of rights.
Sponsor: Aravella Simotas
Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: William Colton
Relates to reporting a nonemergency incident to an organization having the function of dealing with emergencies; designates such offense a class B misdemeanor.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Requires public employers to provide bi-annual anti-bias and inclusion training; requires such training also be provided to private sector employees who are front-line service professionals.
Sponsor: Robert Carroll
Relates to authorizing counties to set interest rates imposed on late payment of property taxes and delinquencies and redemption of property subject to more than one tax lien.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Relates to human trafficking courts; authorizes transfer of cases after arraignment, by order or with consent of the DA, to another local criminal court or a designated human trafficking court.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Directs the public service commission to study the feasibility of a municipal broadband program within the state.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Requires certain lodging facilities to make available information concerning services for human trafficking victims.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Includes falsely reporting an incident in the third, second, and first degrees as a specified offense for the purposes of hate crimes.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Includes contacts via text, email or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Relates to the obligation of a pharmacy to properly dispense or refill a prescription for a drug or device, or a non-prescription drug or device regardless of the ethical, moral or religious beliefs of any employee of such pharmacy.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to exempting full time active duty military members from certain requirements regarding drivers' licenses, learners' permits, non-driver identification cards and the registration of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Defines certain independent contractors who install temporary traffic controls as employees for purposes of defense and indemnification.
Sponsor: Anthony D'Urso
Establishes the office of financial resilience to develop and implement new programs and initiatives for the purpose of supporting local economies and promoting resilient financial models.
Sponsor: Ron Kim
Prohibits physical contact or activity in any organization's initiating ceremony.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Directs the office of children and family services to study and report on the availability of child day care for working parents.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Limits who may bring a private right of action for identifying a victim of a sex offense; only brought by the victim where the information has not otherwise been publicly disclosed.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to notify eligible taxpayers of the nursing home assessment credit.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Exempts lemonade stands operated by persons under sixteen years of age from department of health permitting requirements.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Increases allowable maximum income of certain persons otherwise eligible for tax abatement in the county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Relates to allowing the Yeshiva of Staten Island to provide driver education courses in alternate locations including at the Arthur Kill Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island and the Manor Road Jewish Community Center of Staten Island, located in the county of Richmond.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the manufacture, assembly, possession, license and disposal of ghost guns, the establishment of the offense of unlawful dissemination of instructions for the assembly of a weapon and the sentencing for certain offenses regarding ghost guns; relates to the suspension and revocation of certain licenses or registrations; adds the offense of unlawful dissemination of instructions for the assembly of a weapon to the list of designated offenses for the purpose of obtaining eavesdropping and video surveillance warrants; and includes the offense of unlawful dissemination of instructions for the assembly of a weapon in the definition of violent or serious crime.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Permits the construction of an art installation within the historic footprint of pier 52 consisting of a life-size skeletal replica of pier 52.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Allows qualified persons residing in the county of Orange or Westchester to be appointed as a peace officer in the county of Rockland at the instance of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for the county of Rockland.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Requires that the certification of the final state equalization rate, class ratios, and class equalization rates, if required, shall occur no later than thirty days prior to the last date set by law for levy of taxes of any municipal corporation to which such equalization rate, class ratios, and class equalization rates are applicable.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Provides that in the event that certain lands cease to be used exclusively by the International Boxing Hall of Fame for the purposes of developing, expanding and operating a boxing hall of fame and museum and are not developed by July 31, 2023, title to such lands and any improvements thereon shall revert to the state of New York.
Sponsor: William Magee
Allows out of state health care professionals to perform services at the Ironman Lake Placid and the Ironman 70.3.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to certain water charges for hospitals and charities in New York city; extends expiration until September 1, 2020.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance certain facilities of the New York Military Academy.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Authorizes the United Veterans Beacon House to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Extends certain provisions of law authorizing the hunting of big game in the county of Albany with rifles.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Relates to the powers of the Terence Cardinal Cooke health care center, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Robert Rodriguez
Extends certain provisions of law relating to limiting the check cashing exemption for national banks and other regulated entities from August 1, 2018 to August 1, 2023.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Relates to certain payments to the horsemen's organization.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
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
Includes Round lake in the list of inland waterways eligible for the local waterfront revitalization program.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Extends the city of Rye occupancy tax for three years.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Authorizes Johel E. Dongo, Carl Cacace Jr., Douglas Parrish and Christopher Saya, firefighters in the Arlington fire district, in the county of Dutchess, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to residency requirements for stenographers in the county of Broome; authorizes the district attorney of Broome county to appoint a stenographer residing in the county of Onondaga or in any county of the sixth judicial district.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to the New York seafood marketing task force and relates to state agencies having seafood marketing roundtable meetings with relevant stakeholders.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the residential parking permit system in the village of Tarrytown.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to authorizing the reclassification of controlled substances by regulation; authorizes the commissioner of health to reclassify controlled substances by regulation or emergency regulation if the substance is redesignated or rescheduled.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the town of Bedford to be used exclusively for the purposes of operating and maintaining a wastewater treatment plant and appurtenant facilities and operations.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to the residence of the part-time judge of the city court of Lackawanna; authorizes the part-time judge of the Lackawanna city court to reside anywhere in Erie county provided his or her term of office commenced during the two thousand eighteen calendar year.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Extends limitations on the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Clarkstown, county of Rockland.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Extends the authority of the city of New Rochelle to impose an occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Limits the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Includes Cazenovia Lake and Chittenango Creek in the definition of inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: William Magee
Extends provisions authorizing the county of Wyoming to impose a county recording tax on obligations secured by a mortgage on real property until December 1, 2021.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Authorizes a person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Oswego to reside in an adjoining county within the state.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Extends Herkimer county's mortgage recording tax authorization until 2020.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Relates to real property tax exemption for Congregation Gates of Prayer of Far Rockaway in the county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Extends provisions of law relating to the use of electronic means for the commencement and filing of papers in certain actions or proceedings until September 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Authorizes Family Service League, Inc. to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption for the 2015 assessment roll.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Relates to the determination of a quorum for the transaction of business of the New York convention center operating corporation.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to the total amount of bonds the Upper Mohawk Valley memorial authority may issue; authorizes, for certain public works undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements, use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts; increases the members of the governing body to nine.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Extends, from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2023, the expiration of the provisions of the public authorities law authorizing the dormitory authority to construct and finance facilities for the not-for-profit members of the New York State Rehabilitation Association and the New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Provides for the financing and construction of facilities by the dormitory authority for North Country School.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Relates to residency requirements for certain peace officers in Albany county.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Extends, from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2019, 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: Michael Cusick
Designates Ley Creek and Butternut Creek as inland waterways.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to the ability of the New York state medical care facilities finance agency to issue certain bonds and notes.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the residency requirement for the court clerk for the town of Sodus in the county of Wayne; permits such court clerk to not be an elector of such town.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Extends provisions of law relating to authorizing a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Authorizes Yaphank Presbyterian Church to file an application for exemption for real property taxation.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive "West Indian-American Day Carnival" license plates; provides an additional annual service charge for such plates shall support such parade.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Chief George Bell Memorial Highway" on state route twenty-two.
Sponsor: Jacob Ashby
Authorizes the county of Suffolk to transfer and convey a portion of county parkland to the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk for continued park and recreational purposes and as a commercial fishing dock.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Authorizes Chabad at Stony Brook, Inc. to submit a retroactive application for a real property tax exemption to the assessor of town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, for a parcel at 3 Galloway Court.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Authorizes the city of Syracuse to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Increases the special accidental death benefit paid to a widow or widower or the deceased member's children under the age of eighteen, or if a student, under the age of twenty-three.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the city of Buffalo to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Relates to a provisional permit for clinical laboratory technology.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to authorizing the building inspector in the town of Wilson, county of Niagara, to reside outside of such town.
Sponsor: Michael Norris
Extends the chief administrator of the courts' authority to allow referees to determine certain applications to a family court for an order of protection; removes the expiration of 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.
Sponsor: Robert Carroll
Authorizes The Reboli Center for Art and History to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to the New York Wine and Culinary Center; authorization to hold through its wholly owned subsidiary a branch office permit at the Finger Lakes Welcome Center; authorizes the sale of NYS produced cider.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Relates to the issuance of distinctive Down's syndrome awareness license plates and the creation of the "Down's syndrome research fund".
Sponsor: Michael Miller
Includes the use of farmer-purchased farmland protection agreements in the commissioner's evaluation of applications for funding for agricultural protection plans.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Extends the deadline for tax exemption applications for certain improved properties affected by Superstorm Sandy from March 1, 2018 until March 1, 2020.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
Authorizes Chabad at Stony Brook, Inc. to submit a retroactive application for a real property tax exemption to the assessor of town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, for a parcel at 22 Sturrock Way.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Limits the amount of a property tax shift from one class of property to another for 2018-2019 in the county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Designates Minerva Lake as an inland waterway for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Designates Cortlandt, Dickiebusch, Furnace Brook and Meahagh lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Authorizes the city of Cohoes, in the county of Albany, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Jeffrey Bressette.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Waives the residency requirements for the persons performing the functions of building inspector/code enforcement officer or assistant/deputy building inspector/code enforcement officer for Putnam Valley, Putnam County.
Sponsor: Kevin Byrne
Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance regional juvenile detention facilities.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Requires the department of health to establish criteria for risk factors of drowning by children in various age groups and requires the department to conduct an ongoing public awareness and education program on drowning risks, precautions and life-saving procedures.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to the creation of a searchable database; establishes a searchable database that displays Empire state economic development benefits and other state economic development benefits that qualified participants have been awarded; defines terms.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole and in civil confinement from voting in certain elections.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Authorizes Edward P. Ackley to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Hudson Falls.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Authorizes Sean Ralston, a part-time village of Altamont police officer in the county of Albany, to take the civil service examination for full-time police officer, and to be placed on the eligible list for appointment if his score on the examination is high enough.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Provides that no person may act as or hold the position of an acting or temporary commissioner of any state agency, department or office for more than forty-five days while the legislature is in session or for more than thirty days after the legislature convenes if the legislature was in recess when the vacancy occurred.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to return of member contributions of New York city correction officers after more than fifteen years of service.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Directs the New York state comptroller and New York Public Service Commission to conduct a feasibility study on supplying public water to all of New York American Water customers; provides for a report to be issued within one year of the effective date of this act.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Includes certain pharmacists as qualified health care professionals and authorizes such pharmacists to complete a waived test and directs the commissioner of health to establish a list of CLIA-waived tests.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Requires authorized agencies to report on unaccompanied alien children under such agencies' care; provides that a person who knowingly submits false information shall be guilty of offering a false instrument for filing; provides that the commissioner of social services may deny, revoke, or terminate an authorized agency's existing licensure or registration for failure to report such information in the prescribed time frame.
Sponsor: Harvey Epstein
Provides a real property tax exemption for Bokharian Communities Center Inc. for the tax years 2013-2014.
Sponsor: David Weprin
Relates to the statute of limitations for actions based on harassment; six years.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Requires dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency testing prior to fluoropyrmidine or other antimetabolite treatment; requires policies and contracts of insurance to include coverage for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency testing; provides for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency testing under the medical assistance program.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to reduce the percentage of on-farm or estate produced grapes for farm wineries located outside of an American viticultural area and allows for such farm wineries to import grapes from New York state grape growers.
Sponsor: Albert Stirpe
Expands the definition of the offense of coercion in the second degree to include the production or dissemination of intimate images; and relates to the definition of "sex offense".
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to transition and inauguration donations and expenses and funds for personal use.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Establishes a ten day waiting period from contact of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) before a firearm, shotgun or rifle may be delivered to a person.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Approves land transactions relating to the implementation of the land exchange for the forest preserve health and safety land account and public utility improvements.
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Requires plainly legible display of building numbers on all buildings to which numbers have been assigned and provides for a fine for violations of such requirement.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to providing financial equity to certain state employees who received a bargaining unit change; directs the governor's office of employee relations to conduct a study to determine if any state employee suffered a financial loss due to the public employment relations board decision C-6005; requires the state comptroller to make a payment to any employee determined to suffer a reduction in pay equal to the amount of such reduction.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Relates to transportation accommodations for passengers with disabilities; requires compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and indication for accommodations when requesting a ride; creates an on-demand vehicle accessibility fund.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Directs the state energy planning board to conduct a study of the technical and economic feasibility of a one hundred percent renewable energy system and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Establishes "Junior's law" which requires a business with fifty employees or less to provide safe haven to endangered children and creates a "safe walk home zone" program between local boards of education and school boards and local chambers of commerce.
Sponsor: Victor Pichardo
Requires annual health inspections of schools for health hazards which might impact the health of students, teachers and employees.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Enacts the non-motion under the influence of electronics act; prohibits using an electronic mobile device while temporarily stopped in a vehicle.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Establishes the New York state renewable reclamation projects program to stimulate the development of renewable energy on certain brownfield sites, dormant electric generating sites, and real property.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Authorizes in the city of New York, for certain public work for the Elmhurst Hospital emergency room renovation in Queens undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements, use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts.
Sponsor: Rafael Espinal
Authorizes counties with a population of one million or more to implement real property tax exemptions for property owned by water-works corporations; authorizes whole and partial exemptions provided the legislative bodies of such counties adopt a local law so providing.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Requires authorized agencies to report on unaccompanied alien children under such agencies' care; provides that a person who knowingly submits false information shall be guilty of offering a false instrument for filing; provides that the commissioner of social services may deny, revoke, or terminate an authorized agency's existing licensure or registration for failure to report such information in the prescribed time frame.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Steve Godlewski Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: D. Billy Jones
Relates to prohibiting discrimination against police and firefighters injured in the line of duty; prohibits the city of New York and the NYC police and fire departments from penalizing members injured in the line of duty in any manner including transfer, denial of promotion, dismissal or any other actions related to a member's medical leave.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to tax certiorari proceedings by the Long Island power authority.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to the funding of certain CUNY programs by the state including the city university of New York's accelerated study in associate program (ASAP) and the accelerate, complete, engage (ACE) program; state shall pay until both programs are fully funded.
Sponsor: Victor Pichardo
Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Creates tax parity by imposing an eight and one-half percent tax on all combative sport event ticket sales.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to establishing a uniform metric for measuring noise impacts that will be used by airports for the purpose of noise exposure maps and noise compatibility programs.
Sponsor: Ron Kim
Relates to the school-based health centers fund.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to enter into an agreement with the Republic of China (Taiwan) for reciprocity of driver's licenses.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Expands cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and retraining for police departments to all cities, towns, and villages.
Sponsor: Michael Blake
Provides for the conduct of lead case management by the department of health and local departments of health based on the blood level of a child; establishes protocol for blood levels based on various micrograms.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Establishes the resiliency rebate program to provide rebates to eligible resiliency facilities installed at any critical facility or residential facility.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to benefits for police officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel diagnosed with PTSD by making their injury compensable if it cannot be shown, by a preponderance of evidence, that the PTSD was caused by factors unrelated to their occupation.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Requires the commissioner of health to appoint a work group to conduct a thorough review of the accessibility and fairness of the New York State Grant Gateway for individual applicants for funds under the physician loan repayment and physician practice support programs.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to prohibiting the use of residential automatic pesticide misting systems.
Sponsor: Inez Dickens
Enacts the consumer litigation funding act to promote consumer protections related to consumer litigation funding transactions; provides for contract requirements, including that the contract contain a no penalty provision for the pre-payment of the funded amount prior to the settlement of his or her case; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to prohibiting the use of certain grades of fuel oil in any building or facility in the state.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to notifying homeowners whose property netted a surplus at a tax foreclosure auction.
Sponsor: Erik Bohen
Relates to rechargeable battery recycling; allows a city with a population of one million or more to enforce through its own agencies.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Establishes a clean and resilient energy program to encourage the development of qualified clean and resilient systems by public or private entities that provide vital public services during an outage of the electric grid.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to allowing former National Guard members to apply for the veterans alternative exemption.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires landlords to notify tenants when applying for a major capital improvement tax abatement within seven days of submitting the application.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Steve Godlewski Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to requiring the governor to publicize the criteria used when granting a commutation, pardon or reprieve; and requires disclosure of information related to such commutations, pardons or reprieves within 30 days instead of annually.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Requires a law enforcement officer or peace officer who discharges his or her weapon under circumstances where a person could be struck by a bullet to immediately report the incident to his or her superiors.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Prohibits the use of flammable gas to clean or blow the gas piping of a major electric generating facility.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Requires certain health care providers to disclose the fact that the provider is on probation to current and new patients.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Extends the expiration of certain powers of the state liquor authority for an additional 3 years.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to requiring notice where the tentative equalization rate varies more than five percentage points from the locally stated level of assessment within ten days of reciept of such rate or filing of the tentative assessment roll.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Regulates the issuance of insurance policies covering veterinary expenses.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Permits the manufacture and sale of ice cream or other frozen desserts made with wine, beer or cider or any combination thereof; requires notice.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to local government borrowing practices and mandate relief.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Relates to requiring the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance to establish segment special equalization rates for certain school districts in the town of Guilderland; specifically the Rotterdam-Mohonasen School District, Schalmont School District and Voorheesville School District.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to the administration of real property tax refunds and credits in Nassau county on class four property.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to extending workers' compensation coverage to certain TNC drivers including a TNC driver that is logged onto a TNC digital network and is not engaged in a TNC prearranged trip but is engaged in an activity reasonably related to driving as a TNC driver.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Enacts the drug take back act requiring certain manufacturers to operate a drug take back program to accept and dispose of covered drugs; provides that for any city with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more as of the last decennial census, the commissioner of health shall establish by regulation a distribution plan that ensures that on-site collection receptacle or dropbox placement shall be reasonably accessible to all residents.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Extends the city of Yonkers occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Relates to elevated lead levels in children; establishes that elevated lead levels means a blood lead level greater than or equal to five micrograms per deciliter of whole blood; requires the department of health to establish a hotline for physicians to report elevated lead levels; and requires insurance companies to cover testing for elevated lead levels.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Provides beach access routes for mobility impaired persons on all public state and local beaches up to the median high tide level at tidal beaches; mean high water level at river beaches; or normal recreation water level at lake, pond, and reservoir beaches.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Authorizes the use of campaign funds for childcare expenses where they are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Permits the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Great South Bay Sayville to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to disclosure of address in advertisements for short term rentals of private dwellings; imposes a civil penalty for violations.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Amends the education law relating to the licensure of pathologists' assistants, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Extends until July 30, 2023, the expiration of payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property in the town of Hempstead.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Extends provisions of law relating to urban development action areas from June 30, 2018 until June 30, 2021.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Relates to extending certain provisions relating to the repair of damaged pesticide containers; extends provisions for two years.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Extends provisions relating to the establishment of initial rents in housing accommodations rehabilitated with loans to housing development companies.
Sponsor: Erik Dilan
Relates to extending certain provisions of the public health law and the social services law.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Extends expiration of authority granted to the department of housing preservation and development of city of New York to restructure rents of dwelling units in buildings foreclosed upon by the federal government.
Sponsor: Latrice Walker
Expands protections afforded to renters of motor vehicles and makes certain provisions relating to rental vehicle protections permanent.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Extends provisions relating to rental vehicle protections.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Relates to the effectiveness of chapter 375 of the laws of 1999 relating to the management of buildings for which administrators have been appointed.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Extends expiration of authority granted to the city of New York to restructure the rents of units in buildings receiving municipally financed rehabilitation loans.
Sponsor: Yuh-line Niou
Extends authorization for contracts for the provision of special education and related services for certain patients hospitalized in hospitals operated by the office of mental health.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Extends time limitations for certain actions relating to phenoxy herbicide exposure.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to the sale of tickets to places of entertainment; establishes notice and disclosure requirements for the sale or resale of tickets.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Permits an assessing unit within the town of Neversink, county of Sullivan, to file their tentative assessment roll for 2018 no later than June 30, 2018.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to excess medical malpractice insurance and extending the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Steven Cymbrowitz
Extends provisions of law relating to the sale of municipal notes and bonds of the county of Erie.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Extends provisions of law implementing the federal individuals with disabilities education improvement act of 2004.
Sponsor: Barbara Lifton
Extends provisions relating to period of probable usefulness of certain judgments, compromised claims or settled claims.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to physical therapy assistants.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to elections and elective officers of new towns.
Sponsor: William Larkin
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: Helene Weinstein
Extends the provisions of chapter 563 of the laws of 2001 relating to providing for an emergency technician 5 year re-certification demonstration program.
Sponsor: Steve Stern
Relates to the rate of interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system, the police pension fund, the fire department pension fund and the board of education retirement system of such city by public employers and other obligors required to make employer contributions to such retirement systems, the crediting of special interest and additional interest to members of such retirement systems, and the allowance of supplementary interest on the funds of such retirement systems.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Extends the expiration of authority granted to the city of New York to restructure rent for units in multiple dwellings getting small loans to remove substandard or insanitary conditions.
Sponsor: Harvey Epstein
Relates to federal bond volume allocations, the unified state bond ceiling and the private activity bond allocation act of 2018.
Sponsor: William Magnarelli
Extends from June 30, 2018 to June 30, 2020, the expiration of certain provisions of the Nassau county administrative code relating to assessments and the review of assessments.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law pertaining to the residential care off-site facility demonstration project.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Amends provisions relating to buildings that are part of urban development action area projects and are rehabilitated with municipal loans, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Ron Kim
Relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Relates to requiring local building and planning regulations to accommodate the use of solar thermal, photovoltaics, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy, ocean thermal, farm waste electric generating equipment, and fuel cells.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Establishes a carpet stewardship program; requires manufacturers to coordinate with wholesalers, retailers and installers to recycle old carpets; provides penalties for noncompliance.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Permits the Patchogue Fire District to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to home heating system conversion; requires certification by a utility company, gas corporation, electric corporation or contractor.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Requires property owners who use 1 or 2 family dwellings for short term rentals to certify that such property does not have any pending violations of the housing and/or building codes.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires disclosure by crisis pregnancy centers to clients that such center will not provide abortion or birth control services or make a referral for such services, and that such center is not a licensed medical provider; such notice shall be conducted upon first communication or first contact with the client and shall be either in a written statement or oral communication by staff assisting the client.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Relates to filling vacancies in the office of comptroller or attorney-general, providing for special elections to fill such positions for the remainder of the term.
Sponsor: Nicole Malliotakis
Directs the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study on the life cycle of battery use and disposal; and directs such department to develop options and recommendations for a battery recycling collection program and a battery recycling outreach and education program.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to the operation of games of chance by employees of authorized organizations.
Sponsor: Kenneth Blankenbush
Relates to the appointment of a standby guardian due to administrative separation; defines administrative separation and the process for such appointment.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Provides that a parent of a minor or incapacitated person may designate another person as a person in parental relation to such minor or incapacitated person pursuant to sections twenty-one hundred sixty-four and twenty-five hundred four of the public health law and sections two and thirty-two hundred twelve of the education law for a period not exceeding twelve months; provides that a designation may not be more than twelve months.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Makes an appropriation to the Frank K. Skartados Living Trust, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for the portion of the year 2018.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to factors for the issuance of an order of recognizance or bail.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes an airport mass transit project at LaGuardia airport.
Sponsor: Jeffrion Aubry
Relates to lump sum distributions used for the payment of post-secondary education loans; provides an exemption from the imposition of a separate tax.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to making an appropriation to pay Thomas M. Clark Jr., widower of the late Barbara M. Clark, member of the assembly from the thirty-third assembly district, the balance due of her unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2016.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to including sexual acts against a child prior to his or her seventeenth birthday in crimes of course of sexual conduct against a child in the first and second degree.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes a county probation service or the probation services of New York city to impose a probation administrative fee upon any person convicted of a domestic violence crime and sentenced to probation to pay for the cost of such person's probation, not in excess of thirty dollars per month or actual expenses, whichever is less.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to making an appropriation to pay Debra Gordon, widow of the late William R. Nojay, member of the assembly from the one hundred thirty-third assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2016.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Relates to automotive members of the New York city employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires homeowner's insurance policies, upon issuance or renewal, to include notice that such a claim may adversely affect future premiums, renewal, or may condition policy renewal upon change of limits or elimination of coverages.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to making an appropriation to pay Jennifer Simanowitz, widow of the late Michael A. Simanowitz, member of the assembly from the twenty-seventh assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2017.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Relates to providing cost-of-living adjustments; increases benefits from fifty to one hundred percent.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Enacts the Jonah Bichotte Cowan Law; relates to pre-term labor care and directs the commissioner of health to require hospitals to provide pre-term labor patients with information regarding the potential health effects of pre-term labor and pre-term delivery on an expectant mother and on her unborn child; and requires insurance policies to provide coverage for pre-term labor hospitalizations.
Sponsor: Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
Relates to compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Grants service credit to members of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of correction covered by provisions of law for over 25 years.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to photo speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones in the city of New York; makes technical corrections relating to photo speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones in the city of New York; extends provisions of law relating to establishing in a city with a population of one million or more a school speed zones by means of photo devices; doubles the fines for traffic infractions and misdemeanors committed in school traffic control zones; provides that all monetary penalties collected pursuant to section 1180-b of the vehicle and traffic law shall be used exclusively for the purpose of the placement of either a traffic light or stop sign at every intersection or corner immediately surrounding a school safety zone within such school zone pursuant to section 1800-a of the vehicle and traffic law.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes merit time allowance credits and certain administrative privileges credits for local correctional facilities for eligible inmates.
Sponsor: Brian Benjamin
Requires the appointment of a transit dependent and para-transit dependent representative on various transportation authorities.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Authorizes the issuance of licenses and non-driver identification cards containing a Lifetime Liberty Pass distinguishing mark.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to the provision of certain professional services to children's camps.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
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 expanding the geographical area of employment of university police officers; extends the jurisdiction of New York state university police officers from state university of New York property and abutting roadways to all areas of the state.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Authorizes Scarsdale Congregational Church to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption for 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Establishes a temporary commission on AMBER Alert effectiveness to study and make recommendations on any improvements that may be taken toward the activation and dissemination of the alert; makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes Anthony J. Marrano to elect to participate in the optional twenty-year retirement plan for police officers employed by the town of Lancaster in the county of Erie.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides for the appointment of the state medicaid director by the governor subject to confirmation by the senate.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to payments to rural hospitals designated as critical access hospitals.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Regulates political contributions and expenditures by limited liability companies and the reporting thereof.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Extends murder in the first degree to include victims who are members of the military or reserves.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to physical therapist assistants; establishes that physical therapist assistants shall be licensed.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Creates the office of safe schools to serve as a central repository for best practices, training standards, and compliance oversight in all matters regarding school safety and security, including prevention efforts, intervention efforts, and emergency preparedness planning.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to the award of contracts to small businesses, minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Designates baseball as the official sport of the state of New York.
Sponsor: James Seward
Repeals the provision of law that volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers who receive a real property tax exemption for service may not receive the income tax credit for such service; makes technical corrections.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Requires public utilities to submit emergency preparation plans to the public service commission on an annual basis; requires submission of reports after the restoration of service in an emergency; relates to vegetation management and communications during power outages; requires penalties to be used towards investments in improving storm restoration.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to the seizure of animals.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Establishes competitive paperwork reduction project grants; provides that such grants may be included for calculations of government efficiency plans.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Requires financial reports from the New York state broadband program office which detail expenditures of state and federal funds from the inception of the program and annually.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
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
Authorizes school districts to establish rules and regulations to determine academic eligibility requirements for school-sponsored extra curricular activities.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to increasing the fines associated with passing a stopped school bus by commercial motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes Young Israel of New Rochelle to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption for the 2017-2018 assessment roll.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes the renaming or designation of the Governor Mario M. Cuomo bridge as the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Authorizes state reimbursement to the Jasper-Troupsburg central school district for the purchase of school buses.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology ("FIRST") robotics competition and appropriates funds for the grant program to fund high school participation in the competition and to encourage study in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to procedures, petitions and special provisions regarding abandoned infants; defines abandoned infant; sets forth preliminary procedures; and provides for sustaining or dismissing a petition alleging a child is an abandoned infant.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Establishes that a person is guilty of arson when he damages a building or motor vehicle by fire or explosion in the course of the commission or attempted commission of a felony.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to teen dating violence education programs; requires school districts to create policies, procedures and guidelines to implement education programs for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to prevent, deter and address incidents of teen dating violence; defines teen dating violence.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Designates July 25, "Medal of Honor Day", as a day of commemoration.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Directs physicians to screen newborns for neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to the unlawful transaction of prescription drugs; provides that a violation of this section is a class D felony and drugs packaged, sold, transferred, distributed, or delivered in violation of the section are subject to seizure.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes courts, other than courts in a city of a million or more, to render default judgments in cases of failure to answer for unlawful possession of an alcoholic beverage with the intent to consume by persons under the age of twenty-one years; requires clerks to notify defendants prior to the plea and judgment being rendered; allows judgment to have full force and effect.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Prohibits a sex offender whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a child care provider, preschool or any facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to assault on a member of the military or reserves.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
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
Relates to applicant registration for wholesalers or manufacturers of prescription drugs; defines criminal history search.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Enacts the "New York state YouthBuild act"; sets program requirements; authorizes grants to eligible YouthBuild participants and establishes application requirements.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Mandates insurance companies to provide coverage for non-experimental infertility treatments; provides that coverage shall not be required to include the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in connection with the reversal of elective sterilizations, sex change procedures, cloning or medical or surgical services or procedures that are deemed to be experimental; provides the superintendent of financial services in consultation with the commissioner of the department of health shall determine infertility for purposes of coverage.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Prohibits certain student organizations which participate in discrimination or intolerance from receiving funding from SUNY, CUNY or community colleges.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
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
Prohibits making alterations to student athletic records.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Prohibits the commissioner of general services from leasing or granting certain property rights to any entity to lay electric transmission lines when such lines transmit energy over an electric transmission line that interconnects a location outside of the United States when the transmission does not provide access to electric generating facilities within the state.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to directing the public service commission and the department of public service to study and report upon the potential to pass the tax savings incurred by public utility companies to ratepayers; requires two public hearings on such topic; repealer.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to granting certain court reporters peace officer status.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms a transportation contract of the Port Washington Union Free School District.
Sponsor: Anthony D'Urso
Bans smoking in adult care facilities.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd. for portions of the 2016-2017 school and general taxes and all of the 2017-2018 school and 2018 general taxes.
Sponsor: Anthony D'Urso
Relates to categorizing members of an auxiliary police program organized and maintained by a state or local police department with police officers and peace officers for purposes of certain felony classifications.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Establishes the New York city housing authority repair certificate program to grant zoning benefits to developers which perform capital repairs to housing projects.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to the rape shield law; rules of evidence regarding the admissibility of evidence of a victim's sexual conduct in sex offense cases.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the appointees to the interagency coordinating committee on rural public transportation, and transportation of eligible persons residing in a rural area.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Prohibits smoking in public parks and pedestrian plazas; sets $50 fine; defines terms.
Sponsor: Toby Stavisky
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
Authorizes Hatzoloh EMS Inc. of Monsey to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the reporting of electronic waste collection and recycling data, the sale of electronic waste and the carry-forward of sales of electronic waste.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Grants the Bedford central school district the authority to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Provides that physician registration and hospital admission registration forms in a city with a population of one million or more include the name of school attended by school-aged patients.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Enacts "Joanne's law"; requires notification of actions of perpetrator of crime in workplace to the workplace.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Prohibits any funding of the administrative costs of the state's paid family leave program by employers.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Establishes a tax credit for employment of an individual who has successfully completed a judicial diversion substance abuse treatment program or graduated from drug court.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to authorizing the town of Tonawanda, county of Erie, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands for the placement and operation of a cellular tower facility.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Establishes the task force on mobile sports wagering for the purpose of conducting certain hearings regarding mobile sports wagering and reporting its finding to the governor and the legislature.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Grants retroactive membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Joseph J. Maltese.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming a transportation contract of the Cold Spring Harbor central school district.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the availability of subject matter lists of records in the possession of a state agency.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Increases the penalty for the fraudulent sale of poppies, forget-me-nots, daisies, flags and other articles sold for patriotic purposes.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to permitting the Tonawanda city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Provides for the synchronization of multiple prescriptions for recipients of medical assistance.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Directs the flag to be flown at half-staff to commemorate the death of certain first responders who passed away in performance of emergency response activities in this state.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to establishing a maximum rent of one-third of household income for the senior citizens rent increase exemption and disability rent increase exemption.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes the class E felony of vehicular assault in the third degree; redefines the requirements for a violation of vehicular assault in the second degree; expands the offenses of vehicular assault and vehicular manslaughter; and establishes the class D felony of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Requires applicants for the renewal of a driver's license to prove they have acceptable vision to operate a motor vehicle.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to recommendations by regional SUNY community college councils.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Extends the effectiveness for two years authorizing the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Requires the regents to include certain information with respect to increased costs when altering or amending rules or regulations.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes maximum age requirements for New York city correction officers; provides that the commissioner of correction shall not appoint a person as a correction officer if such person is more than thirty-five years of age as of the date of the applicant's appointment or eligibility to compete in a promotion examination.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
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 requiring the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to certify the status and nature of certain land before reclassifying the use of such land.
Sponsor: Jose Serrano
Relates to notifying the owner of an animal killed on a highway.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires persons having claims under a life insurance policy to provide reasonable assistance to the insurer in obtaining information relating to misrepresentations made by the insured.
Sponsor: James Seward
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 the sale of tickets to places of entertainment; establishes notice and disclosure requirements for the sale or resale of tickets.
Sponsor: Daniel O'Donnell
Creates the radon task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the prevention of human exposure to radon and make recommendations to reduce and minimize exposure to New York state residents; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to the confidentiality of clinical records.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Regulates the use and terms of rent to own leases in and outside of manufactured home parks.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Authorizes the West Babylon Church of God of Prophecy Inc., to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for certain assessment rolls.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Clarifies that the parole board may condition release on parole for certain inmates subject to deportation.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to providing students an opportunity to take regents examinations if missed due to school closure.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Grants credit for certain service in the teachers' retirement system for teacher assistants.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes municipalities in the county of Rockland to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Enacts "Officer Randolf Holder's law"; relates to the judicial diversion program for certain felony offenders.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the village of St. Johnsville to hire a village clerk/treasurer and code enforcement officer who is not a resident of such village.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
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 a temporary blue ribbon commission to study bail and the bail industry; requires an interim report be issued one year after the effective date of this act including the commission's findings, conclusions and recommendations, and a final report of the same shall be issued two years after the effective date of this act including legislative proposals as it deems necessary to implement such recommendations.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Directs hospitals, office-based surgery practices and health care providers who accept walk-in patients, who are not regularly seen by the provider, to utilize and maintain an electronic health records system that connects to the local regional health information organization to facilitate exchange of health care information.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to reimbursement for studies for districts subject to reorganization when appropriated.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to requiring a notice promulgated by the attorney general to be posted on all automated teller machines regarding skimming.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Makes certain technical amendments to the estates, powers and trusts law and the surrogate's court procedure act to reflect the provisions of the marriage equality act.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Relates to requiring local building and planning regulations to accommodate the use of solar thermal, photovoltaics, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy, ocean thermal, farm waste electric generating equipment, and fuel cells.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Authorizes the town of Bethlehem to establish community preservation funds; authorizes the town of Bethlehem to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to the enforcement of taxes in certain school districts.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes municipalities to establish residency restrictions for sex offenders required to register with the division of criminal justice services.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Establishes that school districts can start classes up to three days before the first of September without losing department of education funding provided that the schools are in session for at least one hundred eighty days.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
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: David Weprin
Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the appointment of a standby guardian due to administrative separation; defines administrative separation and the process for such appointment.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Authorizes the town board of any town, which does not have a fire district, to establish and operate a town fire department.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Grants the superintendent of financial services authority to investigate fraudulent activities, such as motor vehicle operators who drive with no insurance coverage, and those who misrepresent their principal place of residence or where their motor vehicle is principally garaged and operated; authorizes such superintendent to accept reports of suspected fraudulent insurance actions; requires insurance companies and self-insurers to report incidents of insurance fraud to the department of financial services; includes within the class D felony of forgery in the second degree, the forgery of a certificate of insurance or an insurance identification card; includes within the class C felony of forgery in the first degree, the forgery of 10 or more written instruments; includes within the class E felony of insurance fraud in the fourth degree, the operation of a motor vehicle in this state when the vehicle is insured in another state, but it is actually garaged in this state or the owner principally resides in this state; requires applicants for motor vehicle registrations and driver's licenses to provide the department of motor vehicles with the address of their principal place of residence; relates to the crime of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; adds other motor vehicle related crimes as predicate crimes which may increase punishment for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the second degree when one is convicted of such crimes within the preceding ten years.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Authorizes Overcoming Love Ministries to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
Establishes a Lyme and tick-borne disease working group to review current best practices for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to extending certain filing deadlines for the industrial and commercial abatement program by authorizing the department of finance to accept certain applications for an additional three months.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Validates certain acts of the Hendrick Hudson central school district with regard to two capital improvement projects and provides for payment of state aid for such projects.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Requires the commissioner of education to reschedule cancelled regents examinations within 20 business days of the original date.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes uniform procedures authorizing municipalities to grant building permits upon certification by a licensed professional engineer or a registered architect in good standing for certain alterations to existing residential or commercial buildings which do not alter load bearing walls, accessibility that is compliant with the ADA or fire egress and which maintains fire ratings.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to changing the licensing requirement to allow drivers with valid driver's licenses from other states to act as a transportation network company driver in New York.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes pharmacists and certified nurse practitioners to provide hepatitis A and hepatitis B immunizations.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of transportation and the New York state emergency medical services council, to promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of ambulances.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Gives members of the New York state legislature the ability to solemnize marriages, provided that they shall not charge a fee.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to eye and tissue donation; requires coroners to develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital including calling the federally designated organ procurement organization for donor registry verification and a donor suitability determination.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to extending the effectiveness of the New York state ocean acidification task force from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2022.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Ensures that insurers are permitted to offer loss prevention programs as long as such programs are offered to the general public and the insurer's policyholders.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the availability of certain benefits and entitlements to exonerees.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Creates a service learning program for students serving as active volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers, and mandates certain features of such program.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Requires public officers and public bodies to make reasonable efforts to provide qualified interpreters at no charge for the hearing impaired at public meetings and hearings upon written request to the public officer responsible for the siting of such hearing; also requires installation and use of assistive listening devices.
Sponsor: Inez Dickens
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
Authorizes banking institutions to temporarily refuse or delay disbursement from the account of a vulnerable elderly person if certain criteria are met.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to chemical testing for prospective foster parents; includes, but is not limited to drug and alcohol testing; authorizes office of children and family services to issue random chemical testing, including but not limited to, drug testing, to foster parents.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Grants immunity from liability to organizations which establish physician committees the purpose of which is to confront and refer to treatment physicians who are thought to be suffering from addiction or mental illness.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for health related services for certain employees not employed by the state who served in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
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 capital punishment.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to sealing petty offenses.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to offenses committed by a defendant in a criminal proceeding against court employees by causing or attempting to cause such court officer to come into contact with blood, seminal fluid, urine, feces, or the contents of a toilet bowl, by throwing, tossing or expelling such fluid or material; such offense shall be a class E felony.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the location of presiding judge at arraignment, appearance proceedings and pursuant to a warrant.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Removes post-retirement earnings restrictions for New York city department of correction uniformed personnel with respect to a retiree subsequent to his or her earliest eligibility date for service retirement.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the New York state council on the arts to award certificates of merit to artists in selected disciplines.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Requires medical professionals to report patients diagnosed with conditions which cause unconsciousness or unawareness to the department of motor vehicles for the purpose of determining driving privileges; requires licensed drivers having any such condition to report the condition to the commissioner of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to reasonable late fees included in a lien on the goods in a self-storage facility.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Places requirements on honoring warranties of fire vehicles and ambulances; establishes the new emergency vehicle lemon law bill of rights; regulates arbitration proceedings.
Sponsor: Monica Wallace
Relates to standing to file paternity petitions, necessary parties in paternity cases and vacating acknowledgments of paternity regarding an alleged father when the mother has signed an acknowledgment of paternity with another man.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
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
Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to cooperate with municipalities in establishing adopt-a-park programs; municipalities may enter into agreements with volunteer groups for provision of services.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to extending the effectiveness of the New York state ocean acidification task force from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2022.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to establishing protections from excessive hospital emergency charges; includes hospital charges.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the authenticity, attribution and authorship of fine works of art; defines the term authenticator and stipulates that in a civil action regarding authenticity, the claimant must specify with particularity the facts and prove the elements by clear and convincing evidence; entitles the authenticator to recover reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses if he/she prevails.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the entitlement to unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for ninety days from employment to address on-going domestic violence; defines "address on-going domestic violence"; contains provision to protect the individual's job position and benefits.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires day care providers to escrow security deposits in excess of the value of two weeks of provided services.
Sponsor: Velmanette Montgomery
Requires that documentation of statutory authority be accompanied to proposed rules prior to the public comment period.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Exempts the Pleasant Square Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
Sponsor: Marc Butler
Creates a tax credit for companies that purchase New York-grown crops and use such crops in their value added products; such credit increases with increased net sales.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes the town of Camillus, in the county of Onondaga, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Erik Sauer.
Sponsor: Gary Finch
Relates to disclosure of arrest and prosecution records of applicants for employment as police officers or peace officers; authorizes the disclosure of arrest and prosecution records to prospective employers of police officer and peace officer applicants provided that every person who is an applicant for the position of police officer or peace officer shall be furnished with a copy of all records and afforded an opportunity to make an explanation thereto.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to civil service provisional employees in New York city; extends certain provisions relating thereto.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to vendor fees at certain vendor tracks.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to changes in assessment for businesses that make payments in lieu of taxes; establishes that any reduction in school taxes shall not take effect until the following taxable status year.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes the class C felony offense of assault on a school employee for the intentional causing of physical injury to a school employee while upon school grounds.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Makes aggravated vehicular homicide a violent felony offense.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
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: Kemp Hannon
Relates to promotions of detectives; grants detectives of the third grade and detectives of the second grade the same rights in respect to the police pension fund as detectives of a grade higher after a certain period of time.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
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
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
Authorizes the New York city water board to grant a 10 percent discount on NYC water bills to senior citizens and veterans.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides a tax exemption for U.S. military reservists and members of the National Guard.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Prohibits advertising for tobacco products and herbal cigarettes on school grounds or within 500 feet of the boundary line of the real property of any public or private school; provides for a civil penalty of between $250 and $1000 for a first violation, $500 to $2000 for a second violation, and at least $1000 for any subsequent violation.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Relates to the redemption of real property subject to a delinquent tax lien.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to designating the Eltingville transit center as the "Iraq War and Afghanistan War Veterans' Memorial Transit Center".
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to permitting the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda union free school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Designates certain portions of the state highway system as the "Lt. Christopher J. Raguso FDNY-CFD Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Michael Fitzpatrick
Authorizes the use of benthic barriers, between July 1 and October 31, to control invasive aquatic plants around docks.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Wyoming county as the "PFC David P. Coveny Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: David DiPietro
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 for financial disclosure by employees of foundations of state operated campuses, including the Research Foundation of the State University of New York.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
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: Tony Avella
Relates to limiting liability for lands used for rock climbing.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Mandates the creation of a reference list of businesses that provide locator technology designed to assist in the expedited location of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or disoriented.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Authorizes the lease of certain lands located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; authorizes the state university trustees to lease and otherwise contract to make available to The Southampton Hospital Association a portion of the lands of the university on its Southampton campus.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Requires state agencies to review all rules adopted before 1997 over a certain period of time.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade Center condition.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
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
Relates to providing Long Island residents water usage information with their bill.
Sponsor: Christine Pellegrino
Authorizes courts to suspend a driver's license where the holder fails to appear before the court, pay a fine, complete an alcohol awareness program or complete community service within the period of time established by such court.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Increases the average assessed value threshold; relates to the eligibility of J-51 tax abatements to reflect cost of living adjustments.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Establishes an age 55/25 temporary retirement incentive for certain public employees.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Prohibits a commercial landlord from interfering with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon his or her property or premises.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to the inspection and sale of seeds, agricultural liming materials and commercial fertilizer.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Provides for the establishment of the "Cold Spring Harbor Volunteer and Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association".
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Enhances the financial condition of domestic mutual property and casualty insurance companies.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the protection of the health, safety and employment rights of employees suffering employment loss as the result of the sale or closure of a nuclear electric generation facility.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the assessor of the town of Haverstraw, county of Rockland, to accept from Hi Tor Animal Care Center, Inc. an application for exemption from real property taxes.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to increasing and extending the authority of the Nassau county interim finance authority to issue bonds and notes.
Sponsor: Charles Lavine
Relates to the handling of appeals regarding recommendations for children with handicapping conditions; extends certain provisions of law relating thereto.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Establishes a postconsumer paint collection program; requires producers of architectural paint sold at retail in the state or a representative organization to submit a plan to the commissioner of environmental conservation for the establishment of a postconsumer paint collection program; prohibits a producer or retailer from selling architectural paint in the state unless the producer or producer's representative organization is implementing an approved program plan.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes standardized practices and procedures which guarantee that allegations of child abuse by school bus employees are reported.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Directs the commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in consultation with New York state fire service organizations, to develop a plan to increase the number of skills required as part of the Firefighter certification, or the Firefighter Recruit I and II certifications, which can be completed at a trainee's home department or online.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Prohibits the sale and distribution of synthetic cannabinoids; establishes a statewide synthetic cannabinoid surrender program.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to primary elections and amends certain deadlines to facilitate the timely transmission of ballots to military voters stationed overseas; relates to the date of primary elections; and relates to filling vacancies in elective offices.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to establishing a pre-licensing course internet program.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Extends provisions of law implementing the federal individuals with disabilities education improvement act of 2004.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes an office of the state medical indemnity fund ombudsman and a medical indemnity fund advisory panel to advocate for, assist and represent the interests of qualified plaintiffs.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Extends the city of New Rochelle occupancy tax for three years; extends the city of Rye occupancy tax for three years; extends the city of Yonkers occupancy tax for three years; extends the expiration of the authority of the county of Essex to impose an additional mortgage recording tax; extends the expiration of the authority of the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax; extends Warren county's additional mortgage recording tax authorization; extends the authorization for the county of Greene to impose an additional mortgage recording tax; extends provisions of law relating to authorizing the county of Cattaraugus to impose an additional mortgage recording tax; 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 adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the determination of adjusted base proportions in special assessing units which are cities for the fiscal year two thousand nineteen; limits the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland; relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo; relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers (Part A); requires a resolution by the board of trustees of a school district to authorize the installation, administration, operation, notice processing and maintenance of and use of photo monitoring devices on school buses to detect and record vehicles illegally passing or overtaking a school bus; provides for owner liability of a motor vehicle detected by a camera to have illegally passed or overtaken a school bus; provides that liability shall be a monetary penalty in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars; relates to photo speed violation monitoring systems in school zones in the city of New York; and establishes in the city of Buffalo a demonstration program implementing speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones by means of photo devices (Part B); relates to increasing and extending the authority of the Nassau county interim finance authority to issue bonds and notes (Part C); and relates to the administration of real property tax refunds and credits in Nassau county on class four property (Part D).
Sponsor: Carl Heastie
Requires all agencies of the city of New York which issue summons to document violations with photographic evidence when feasible.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Allows the Ithaca city school district to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to allowing public welfare officials to withhold payment of rent to landlords who owe delinquent tax liabilities to local municipalities, school districts or counties.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Instructs the office of temporary and disability assistance to apply for a waiver from the federal government to allow for the purchase of multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements with benefits through SNAP.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive "West Indian-American Day Carnival" license plates; provides an additional annual service charge for such plates shall support such parade.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Relates to licensing requirements for bail bond agents; requires additional course instruction and other pre-requisites to licensure.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the assessment, levy and collection of taxes, including school district taxes in the county of Erie; and relates to authorizing and providing for the sale of lands for the nonpayment of taxes, and for the foreclosure of such lands.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Establishes crime of aggravated criminal conduct to provide more severe penalties for persons who have committed 3 or more qualifying misdemeanors or felonies within ten years of the present class A misdemeanor offense.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Expands the crimes included in domestic violence to include identity theft, grand larceny and coercion, for purposes of assistance to victims thereof.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Expands the definition of "sex offender" to encompass someone convicted of any misdemeanor or felony offense for which the offender is required to register pursuant to specified laws and expands the specified laws to include the uniform code of military justice.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to peace officer powers of safety officers.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to establishing the quorum size of the early intervention coordinating council.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the number of medical marijuana dispensing sites that each registered organization may operate.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Prohibits the sale of forged instruments; includes the sale and manufacture of government issued documents in the class C felony of forgery in the first degree.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to affordable housing corporation grants by increasing the amount that can be granted to a high cost project.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Relates to saliva swabs and chemical tests in certain cases.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Authorizes the village of Bayville to alienate certain parcels of land used as parkland and to acquire other parcels of land to replace such parkland and acquire other parcels of land.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes September fourth as "Mother Teresa Remembrance Day".
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to providing that green bank funds include fund programs assisting certain building owners with installing energy efficient upgrades.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Requires health clubs with a membership of 50 or more to have at least 1 automated external defibrillator on the premises which is accessible to the staff, members and guests.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
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: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the calculation of consecutive definite sentences into an aggregate term.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Prohibits sex offenders designated as level 2 or level 3, or whose victim was under 18 years, from entering or remaining upon school grounds, or upon the grounds of any facility or institution for the care or treatment of children under 18, while any such child remains upon the premises thereof; violation of such prohibition constitutes a class D felony.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes certain banks, trust companies or national banks which are eligible and seeking to participate in the banking development district program and which have total assets of less than five billion dollars to have an abbreviated application for participation.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Establishes the crimes of criminal trespass on a school bus, school grounds or children's camp.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to insurance fraud in the fourth degree.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes Edward P. Ackley to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Hudson Falls.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to the one-call notification system.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Creates a real property tax exemption for land of a farm operation which is in the process of being certified for the production of organic crops.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes Hatzoloh EMS Inc. of Monsey to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Prohibits the taking of zoo, petting zoo, carnival or circus animals; provides that violations shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
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
Relates to access to patient or client records in the investigation and prosecution of professional licensing and misconduct proceedings.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes a real property tax abatement for the value of land used for replanting or crop expansion of woody biomass used for the production of ethanol or biodiesel, including willow.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Extends the city of Rye occupancy tax for three years.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Requires notice to the appropriate community board of any application for a liquor store license in a city having a population of one million or more not less than 30 days before submission of such application.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to increasing the penalty for larceny and criminal mischief during a declaration of a state of emergency by the governor, when committed within the geographical area where the state of emergency is in effect.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes use of closed-circuit television for the testimony of domestic violence victim witnesses in a criminal proceeding subject to the same restrictions as are applicable to child witnesses.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Criminalizes acting as a runner or soliciting or employing a runner to procure patients or clients.
Sponsor: James Seward
Prohibits the alleged child victim of a child abuse report from being interviewed in the presence of any other person named in the report.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Creates a legislative task force on outdoor environmental education and recreation that will benefit residents of New York state by fostering stewardship and conservation of the environment, and an appreciation of the importance of the wise use of natural resources as well as acknowledgment of the health benefits of time spent in nature.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Prohibits the expenditure of state, local and public authority moneys relating to any civilian criminal trial of enemy combatants for acts of terrorism in any federal court in the state of New York.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires information on concussions and sub-concussive blows to be provided to all parents of children playing tackle football.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Eliminates the obligation for motorists in certain counties to pay the metropolitan commuter transportation district supplemental registration fee.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
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
Relates to appointments to the water board of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides that Nassau county undertakes a reassessment of class one real property for the January 2019 tentative assessment roll; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Requires plainly legible display of building numbers on all buildings to which numbers have been assigned and provides for a fine for violations of such requirement.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Establishes the class E felony of dissemination of false missing child information.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance, when using external indices to determine sales and compensating use tax due because of failure to file a return or filing of an incorrect return, to use external indices which reflect local economic conditions.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the Family Service League to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to amending the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program subscription amount for regions other than New York city.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
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 requiring a sentence of imprisonment for sex offenses where the victim of the offense lacked the ability to consent due to incapacity.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to agricultural districts and assessments; authorizes farms to challenge the denial of an agricultural value assessment through the small claims assessment review process.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Imposes additional fines when a person fails to appear before the court, pay fines or complete counseling and/or community service as mandated under a conviction of unlawful possession of an alcoholic beverage with intent to consume by persons under the age of twenty-one.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to penalties for the promotion of prison contraband; amends the definition of dangerous contraband and amends the promotion of prison contraband in the first degree to a class C felony.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
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
Extends the imposition of an occupancy tax in the city of Yonkers to September 1, 2021.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Provides for the financing and construction of facilities for Village of Lake Placid, Inc. by the dormitory authority.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to international baccalaureate examinations.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to permitting appeals to the department to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Sullivan county as "The Woodstock Way".
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to decreasing the time a vacant property may sit in foreclosure in Erie county.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the issuance of a winery and cidery license for a certain premises in Orange County in order to allow the licensee to conduct tastings of, and sell cider for consumption so long as the licensee keeps food available for sale to its customers on the premises.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Adds lake Neatahwanta and the Oswego river to the definition of inland waterways.
Sponsor: William Barclay
Relates to the definition of prevailing market price and to preferred source subcontracts; authorizes a preferred source to subcontract an incidental portion of a contract to a vendor that is or is not a preferred source, provided that such subcontract does not diminish bona fide employment opportunities for persons who could otherwise be new clients of an entity previously accorded preferred source status.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to commercial rent and occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires the appointing of special assistant district attorneys who are employees of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs to prosecute cases from the justice center in supreme court.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Expands endangering the welfare of a child to include using a child for the purpose of begging, rag picking, collecting cigar stumps or refuse, or peddling.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to the reversion of certain parkland to the city of New York if such parkland is not used for the purpose of construction and operation of a pre-kindergarten center with a focus on instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to certain assault crimes wherein a person is aided or encouraged to strike the victim in the head and cause unconsciousness.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes the "help individuals reach employment program" (HIRE).
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Creates the dairy farm improved energy efficiency program; provides grants and low interest loans to dairy farms who make energy efficient improvements.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Grants sales and use tax exemptions for certain tangible personal property and services used in the operation of recreational skiing facilities.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Requires that the state fund any program which imposes a mandate upon municipal corporations or school districts; establishes criteria for any exemption from such law if such mandate is ordered by the judiciary, pursuant to an executive order or requested by the locality; expands the reporting requirements of the mandate relief council.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Erie county as the "SGT Brian K. Baker Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Allows water works corporations to provide water usage data to municipalities.
Sponsor: Shelley Mayer
Relates to causing the death of a police officer.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to venue in matrimonial actions.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
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
Relates to the early intervention coordinating council and the maternal child health services block grant advisory council.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes hazard vehicles designed for the towing or pushing of disabled vehicles to display amber and blue lights for rear projection when such vehicles are engaged in a hazardous operation.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Requires the New York city housing authority, in reviewing applicants, to grant homeless domestic violence victims the same preference as granted the homeless.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to mandatory reporting of convictions and misconduct proceedings and summary suspension of professional licenses; adds a moral character requirement for certain professional certifications; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes the traffic control board of the city of Rochester, county of Monroe to regulate speed limits in such city.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to lowering the minimum required course load and permitting application prior to matriculation for the recruitment incentive and retention program for members of the New York state organized militia.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the term "income" for purposes of the school tax relief exemption.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Relates to establishing a commercial driver's license (CDL) class A young adult licensing pilot program for qualified 18-20 year olds; such drivers shall not be permitted to drive after 9:00 PM and before 5:00 AM.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Prohibits certain persons convicted of article six-C of the correction law from serving as a trustee, principal, officer, or member of a board of education of any public school in any BOCES, city, union free, common or central school district or any charter school.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the substitution of brand name epinephrine auto-injectors with alternate epinephrine auto-injectors in certain cases.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides for pre-employment and 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
Establishes a person is guilty of arson in the first degree when he intentionally damages a building or motor vehicle by causing an explosion or a fire and when such explosion or fire is accelerated by use of ignitable liquid or flammable gas.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to authorizing the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to approve a retired person's employment in a position in the department of corrections and community supervision.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to insurance coverage up to fifty thousand dollars for women ages 21 to 44 for in vitro fertilization and other fertility preservation treatments.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Creates a sales and use tax exemption for school buses and related items.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to providing county correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Prevents discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in regards to organ donations.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to notification of and engagement with parents in proceedings involving sixteen and seventeen year old defendants in youth parts of superior courts.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to solicitation used by or on behalf of any charitable organization.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to the unauthorized practice of a profession, the unauthorized use of a professional title and the practice of esthetics.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the county of Suffolk as the "Jolly 51 Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to assault on a peace officer, police officer, firefighter, emergency medical services professional, sanitation enforcement agent or New York city sanitation worker.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the enforcement of provisions relating to carriers of household goods by motor vehicle; authorizes the attorney general to seek an injunction to enjoin and restrain the continuance or threat of certain violations by such carriers.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires the establishment of an appeals process for students who are denied the state resident tuition rate at any public university or college.
Sponsor: Charles Barron
Relates to membership dues in an employee organization and signed authorizations for deduction.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Increases from 25 to 35, the number of land banks that are authorized statewide.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Allows the Ithaca city school district to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: Barbara Lifton
Requires that all wine and liquor sold in the state be received from a primary American source of supply; such a source shall be the manufacturer, when the wine or liquor can be secured by a distributor in the United States, or a manufacturer or bottler who is the authorized exclusive agent of the manufacturer of liquor or wine, from whom a distributor in the United States can secure the wine or liquor; provides that primary American sources of supply shall register with the state liquor authority, and such registration shall include the brands of wine and liquor sold by such source and the wholesalers who buy wine and liquor from them.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to establishing the private employers veterans' preference policy act.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the failure to provide notice of a default judgment.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Directs the board of trustees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to report on the current composition of faculty at four year campuses and community colleges.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
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
Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency or supervising agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 30 days prior to the application renewal date.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
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
Requires all motor carriers to post on their internet websites a link to such motor carrier's federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration safety measure systems profile.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Allows any person who holds a license to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on premises to allow players to engage in certain recreational contests.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Enacts the drug take back act requiring certain manufacturers to operate a drug take back program to accept and dispose of covered drugs; provides that for any city with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more as of the last decennial census, the commissioner of health shall establish by regulation a distribution plan that ensures that on-site collection receptacle or dropbox placement shall be reasonably accessible to all residents.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Requires that prepaid cellular telephone cards have the expiration date of the minutes purchased printed on the card in conspicuous print.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Exempts Nedrow Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Makes permanent the authorization to hunt big game with rifles in the county of Albany.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Requires school emergency response drills to include drills to respond to an active shooter, other lethal attackers, and attacks with explosives, or chemical, biological or radiological agents.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to additional information required in annual reports for limited-profit housing companies.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to the minimum retirement allowance for members of the New York state teachers' retirement system who retired prior to July 1, 1980.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Authorizes the town of Chester to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Extends provisions relating to water pollution control revolving fund agreements.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to direct interstate and intrastate cider shipments; establishes requirements regarding age verification and shipping limits.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Establishes the energy storage deployment policy.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Amends the Nassau county civil divisions act relating to the purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Fireman's Benevolent Association of East Meadow.
Sponsor: John Mikulin
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
Enacts the community bank service corporation act; relates to the authorized activities and investment of community bank service corporations.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Enacts "Renee's Law"; directs the commissioner of children and family services to provide training to all employees of programs and facilities in which youths are placed or committed; grants access to office of children and family services' records, juvenile delinquency records, youthful offender records and juvenile offender records of youths placed or committed to a facility, to staff members and employees who are exposed to such youths and to foster parents who take custody of such person after his or her release; grants courts and attorneys access to such records in any proceeding for the commission of a crime while a youth is in the custody of the office of children and family services; prohibits the release, discharge or transfer of any youth who has engaged in criminal activity while in custody; requires the reporting to law enforcement authorities of criminal activity by a youth in the custody of the office of children and family services; requires a police officer to escort an employee sent to find a youth who is absent without authorization.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Adds the Nanticoke Creek to the definition of inland waterways as a major creek.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Relates to insurance coverage for FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products and contraceptive education, counseling and follow up services.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes manufacturers and wholesalers to offer quantity discounts to retailers on different sized bottles of certain similar wines or liquors from the same manufacturer.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Establishes a credit against income tax for the rehabilitation of distressed commercial properties; allows for 30% of the qualified rehabilitation expenditures up to $100,000; requires that to be eligible, the commercial property is located within a distressed commercial area, as identified by each locality through local law, that is deemed an area in need of community renewal due to dilapidation and vacancies; provides that the property which has been substantially rehabilitated is where the qualified rehabilitation expenditures in relation to such building total ten thousand dollars or more.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and any employee of the inmate-patient facility as requested by the member of the legislature if the member requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and county sheriffs to visit inmate-patient facilities of the department of mental hygiene.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Establishes the task force on daylight saving time to study the effects of New York state opting out of daylight saving time.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the enforcement of provisions relating to carriers of household goods by motor vehicle; authorizes the attorney general to seek an injunction to enjoin and restrain the continuance or threat of certain violations by such carriers.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Allows county correctional facilities to use the profits from commissaries or canteens within the facilities for the general purposes of the institution.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Provides for revocation of probation where a person is convicted of a felony or an offense in another jurisdiction which if committed in this state would constitute a felony, while the defendant is under probation supervision for a felony offense.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the disclosure of information pertaining to a child abuse and neglect investigation.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Provides that real property owned by private water-works corporations shall be wholly or partially exempt from taxation.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to certain affirmative defenses available under the labor law.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Provides for community service as one of the punishments for the violation of a local law in a municipality.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to authorizing the Broome 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 Broome.
Sponsor: Donna Lupardo
Extends provisions of law relating to authorizing a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Makes technical corrections to rent control provisions; repeals certain provisions relating to real property tax abatements.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Establishes the crime of larceny of a controlled substance making it an A-II felony to steal more than 25 dosage units of a schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance from a pharmacy.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the appropriation of funds for the training of firefighters.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to creating a tax credit for taxpayers who purchase and install a water filtration or purification system in their residence or business.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Requires the Hudson River Black River Regulating District to undertake a comprehensive study regarding the beneficiaries of the district and real property tax apportionments to establish a standard methodology for the determination of any future apportionment.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Provides that a police officer in the county of Westchester can be suspended without pay for not more than 30 days pending a trial of disciplinary charges.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
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
Authorizes Stride, Inc. to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Jacob Ashby
Prohibits sex offenders from playing augmented reality games.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to home inspection professional licensing; requires home inspection professionals to pass the National Home Inspector examination.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to training of city firefighters promoted to first-line supervisor.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Establishes the sexual assault forensic examination telemedicine pilot program to provide expert, comprehensive, compassionate care to patients and training to support providers in health care facilities that do not have a designated sexual assault forensic examination program.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to granting peace officer status to traffic enforcement officers and traffic enforcement agents employed by the city of New York.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to the definition of "abused child".
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the taking of menhaden; provides that menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) from which oil or meal is made may not be taken from the waters of the marine district with a purse seine; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to the repurchase of untaxed or seized cigarettes; requires the manufacturer of untaxed or seized cigarettes to repurchase such cigarettes and pay to the commissioner an amount equal to the cost of such cigarettes as sold to a wholesaler or agent.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires employees of gaming facilities to undergo human-trafficking recognition training which shall address the nature of human trafficking, how human trafficking is defined in law, how to identify victims of human trafficking, relief and recovery options for survivors, and social and legal services available to victims.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes the reasonable charge for electronic copies of medical records and patient information.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Prohibits the formation of a subsidiary of a public authority without prior approval of the legislature.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes the division of minority and women's business development to accept the DD Form 214 issued by the United States department of defense upon retirement, separation, or discharge from active duty in the armed forces of the United States as proof of the race or ethnicity of an applicant and of certain personal information for purposes of certification of the applicant's business as a minority-owned business.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Enacts the "youth violence prevention task force act" to create the youth violence prevention task force to study and evaluate the effectiveness of current and existing programs related to the prevention of youth violence.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to increasing penalties for certain violations relating to the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products; requires revocation of license to sell lottery tickets and revocation of a liquor license.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the authorization of solemnization of marriages by a civil celebrant; establishes criteria to qualify as a civil celebrant.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Authorizes Trooper Katsur to receive state police retirement credit for services performed as a SUNY police officer.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the protection of the health, safety and employment rights of employees suffering employment loss as the result of the sale or closure of a coal electric generation facility.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes the appointment of a temporary operator to provide foster care on a temporary basis where the established operator is unable to ensure the proper operation of their foster care program.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Designates Dutchess, French, Green Mountain, Harmony, Quaker, Ray and Wonder lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning and report the findings of such study and any recommendations to the governor and legislature.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Establishes a twenty-five year retirement program for members of the NYC employees' retirement system employed as water supply police; provides for employer pick-up of certain additional member contributions required to be made by certain participants in the 25-year retirement programs.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the local administration of empire zones; provides an exception for the requirement to provide a certified annual report to the local zone administration board for certified businesses whose benefit period as a QEZE business enterprise has expired.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the unlawful possession of a patient record; a class A misdemeanor.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes and empowers the town of DeWitt to adopt and amend local laws to impose an occupancy tax.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to the central pine barrens area and the core preservation area; adds metes and bounds descriptions for property additions to the central pine barrens area and core preservation area.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires the pre-licensing course to operate a motor vehicle to include information on organ and tissue donation and how to register as an organ donor.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms the actions of the Huntington union free school district regardless of the failure of such district to timely file final building cost reports.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Authorizes the transfer of certain pumping stations located in the borough of Queens to the city of New York.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to services for individuals with traumatic brain injuries sustained after age twenty-one in rural areas.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Includes in class A misdemeanor of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree, the dissemination of an image of a person to a computer network internet website that is obscene, without the consent or knowledge of the person in the image.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Exempts all personal injury or wrongful death actions from requiring a sum of money to be on the summons which will be the judgment in the event of a default.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides for the regulation of key persons in addition to directors and officers of certain corporations.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes the village of Clayton, county of Jefferson to transfer and convey certain parklands to Dean Hyde in exchange for certain lands owned by Dean Hyde which shall be used as parkland and as part of the village of Clayton's riverwalk project.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Relates to the declaration of a sign as a public nuisance and its removal by order of the commissioner.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to election inspectors at poll sites; requires at least one inspector of each major political party to be present at all times polls are open; does not require the same inspectors to be there the entire time.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to the liability of design professionals; prohibits broad indemnification of a state or local agency or political subdivision involving public work for contracts executed on or after January 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Changes New York state history month from November to October.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to the governance of food labels or the portion of food produced, processed, transported, stored, marketed, distributed, sold or offered for sale by the state; vests jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to such exclusively in the state; preempts any local rule or ordinance on such subject.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Establishes a pilot program to provide early screening and intervention services for children with risk factors for dyslexia.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites from 120 to 75 at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario, for purposes of an exemption on restrictions on manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Directs the commissioner of DMV to establish a sex trafficking awareness and prevention program to provide education and awareness literature and educational materials to all drivers with a commercial motor vehicle license.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; further requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; further requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Provides that all members of the board of regents shall be elected by concurrent resolution of the legislature on the second Tuesday of March, regardless if such election is to fill the expired term of a regent or to fill the unexpired term of a regent.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to permitting the enlarged school district of Middletown to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to mandatory greenhouse gas emissions and clean energy standard reporting; requires the public service commission and the New York state energy research and development authority to submit annual reports to the governor and the legislature regarding state's progress toward meeting the goals of the clean energy standard.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to responsible parties for petroleum contaminated sites and incentives to parties who are willing to remediate such sites; provides that a discharger may present evidence as to third party responsibility for petroleum discharge; provides for apportionment of liability; provides that parties willing to remediate such discharge shall be entitled to liability limitation.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Removes the requirement that party emblems be included in ballot design.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade Center condition.
Sponsor: Stacey Pheffer Amato
Creates the crime of aggravated harassment of a family member of a person in active military service of the United States and makes such crime a class E felony.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes November first of each year as a day of commemoration known as Military Opportunities Day.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Grants special agents of the veterans affairs office of the inspector general peace officer status.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Requires all goods, except food, sold at retail in state parks, recreational facilities and historic sites to be produced in the United States.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Increases directing a laser at an aircraft in the second degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class D felony, and increases directing a laser at an aircraft in the first degree from a class E felony to a class B felony.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to making certain technical corrections relating to the UCC revisions.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes the district attorney to intervene in a proceeding brought by the owner of a premises upon which the tenant's occupancy is illegal.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Includes the financial exploitation of the elderly or disabled within the definition of the crime of larceny; defines terms.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Relates to the definition of an accusatory instrument; provides that a parking ticket may be an accusatory instrument if certain criteria are met.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Enacts the "surplus food to charitable organizations act", to require supermarkets to make a reasonable effort to make surplus food available to charitable organizations providing food to the poor, needy and disadvantaged.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Relates to the qualifications of fire chiefs in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs fewer than five paid firefighters.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Increases the number of alternate physicians who may be appointed by the board, the commissioner of health, and the commissioner of citywide administrative services from four to seven, who shall hold office at the pleasure of such appointing board or official.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Grants retroactive membership in the teachers' retirement system to Margaret Russo based upon prior employment with the Brooklyn public library.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent abuse of prescription opioids.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides for the payment of the annual contributions owed and to be owed on behalf of the New York city off-track betting corporation to the New York city employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap: any metal items bearing markings of any government entity, utility company, cemetery or railroad items; preempts local laws.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the creation and recognition of architectural districts.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires the department to review laws and policies pertaining to free or reduced cost hunting and fishing licenses.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance regional juvenile detention facilities.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Allows a notice of any parking violation to be sent by first class mail to any person alleged to be liable as an owner of the motor vehicle within fourteen business days if the owner is a New York state resident or forty-five business days for a non-resident.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to the transportation of liquefied natural and petroleum gas.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes the military family relief fund and provides taxpayers a method by which they may contribute to the fund.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
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
Establishes the lease and landlord fraud public awareness program to promote public awareness of the potential risks of signing a fraudulent lease with an individual misrepresenting themselves as a landlord.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes the Albany Pine Bush commission to acquire real property as may be necessary for the purposes and functions of the commission.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Relates to manufactured homes' certificate of title and the conveyance and encumbrance of manufactured homes as real property.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Adds new conditions on authorized lenders of reverse mortgages including: delivery of a plain language notice, providing the borrower with a reverse mortgage worksheet guide and counseling, and a lapse of seven days between the reverse mortgage counseling and acceptance of the borrower's final application.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Restricts automatic renewal of contracts for electronic and life safety alarm services; makes such automatic renewal provisions unenforceable unless: the automatic renewal offer terms or continuous service offer terms are presented to the consumer in a clear and conspicuous manner; the business or person furnishing the electronic and life safety alarm service obtains the consumer's affirmative consent; and such renewal or continuous service offer provides an acknowledgment of the contract cancellation policy, and information regarding how to cancel in a manner that is capable of being retained by the consumer.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Requires that 85% of proceeds from the sale of any property that was previously used, operated or maintained by the office for people with developmental disabilities shall be used exclusively for state-operated residential services or state-operated community-based services provided by such office.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to standing of certain relatives in custody and guardianship proceedings.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires completion of annual training by persons and officials required to report cases of suspected child abuse or maltreatment; such training shall be offered online free of charge and address the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Directs the department of taxation and finance to study and report on the impact on localities in the counties of Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess of state-owned lands, and the methods of compensating such localities for the real property taxes lost as a result of such state-owned lands.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to maintaining bridges over the canal system in a manner to not impede commercial motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to false statements in documents submitted to the department of buildings of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study to analyze the adequacy of health networks and the delivery of gerontologic services and senior health care in New York state.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
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
Relates to gambling and the creation of a self-exclusion request for removal form.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage scallops to two thousand twenty-one.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to allowing Wyoming county to make application to the Foreign Trade Zones Board for a grant to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such county.
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Relates to identifying lands at risk from sea level rise or flooding as eligible sending districts.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the residential parking permit system in the village of Tarrytown.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Prohibits certain employment agreements by state and local authorities.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to contracts by the New York City school construction authority; provides that a bid shall not be rejected or be deemed invalid, impaired or in any manner defective solely for harmless, technical, or ministerial defects, where the intent is clearly discernible and unintentional, provided, however, that this section shall not be deemed to relieve any bidder from any criminal or civil liability as may be imposed by reason of his or her act, nor enlarge the actual authority of any officer of the authority, nor, except as stated in this sentence, limit any other statute or rule of law.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.
Sponsor: Diane Richardson
Relates to the operation of simulcast at entertainment theaters in certain areas as special demonstration projects.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Requires telecommunications companies providing prepaid card services to provide certain levels of call quality; requires providers of prepaid calling services to disclose on every prepaid calling card the parent corporation of such provider and the telephone numbers of the federal and state agencies with which complaints against such provider may be filed.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Increases penalties from $500 to $2000 for violations relating to test agencies and standardized testing.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Adds an optional section to voter registration forms to allow for email addresses.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Provides for an exemption requirement from registration for ATVs operated on lands owned by the owner or to which the owner has certain contractual rights when the ATV is not operated elsewhere in the state and no consideration is paid to the owner for operation.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
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
Directs the commissioner of education to establish and implement a museum education grant program to provide state aid to museums, historical societies, nature centers, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, aquariums and cultural organizations to establish education programs for elementary and secondary school students, and for those participating in continuing education in low-income urban, suburban or rural communities.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Relates to electronic permit applications and electronic recordkeeping.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey certain unused state lands to MCB-Eagle New Paltz, LLC upon the consent of the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation, in consideration of fair market value and upon such other terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to auxiliary police and their ability to carry a collapsible police baton.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Establishes a central registry of child care service complaints in New York city.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Authorizes the villages of Malone, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake, in the county of Franklin, to employ retired former members of the division of state police as part-time village police officers.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
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
Directs the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to fund and conduct the empire state games on an annual basis.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Enacts the "red tape reduction act".
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
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 the time period for state environmental quality review.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes Jaime Laczko to elect to participate in the optional 25 year retirement plan for forest rangers.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to creating the multi-disciplinary team demonstration program for complex cases of adult abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires newly certified teachers to be trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-injector; requires such teachers to be certified within 3 months of date of hire.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes a pilot program for peace/conflict resolution centers; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Relates to authorizing and regulating the use of electronic bell jar vending machines.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse to maintain a directory on their website.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes special permits to remain open during certain hours of the morning.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes municipalities in the county of Rockland to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy in accordance with applicable law.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to federal bond volume allocations, the unified state bond ceiling and the private activity bond allocation act of 2018.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to adding two more members to the Niagara Frontier transportation authority.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Designates state route 394 in the town of Ellicott, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant James C. Matteson Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Relates to membership in the New York city teachers' retirement system.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Allows judicial notice of an image, map, location, distance, calculation, or other information taken from a web mapping service, a global satellite imaging site, or an internet mapping tool, when requested by a party to the action, subject to a rebuttable presumption.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Relates to adjournments in contemplation of dismissal and suspended judgments in child protective proceedings in the family court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the causation of serious physical injury to another person while in the course of committing hazing in the first degree.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to franchised corporations remitting to the state each year a franchise payment which shall be calculated and equal to the lesser of the adjusted net income or operating cash.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Establishes an additional certification classification for minority and women-owned businesses which are ineligible for certification due to exceeding the personal net worth of small business thresholds.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Directs the Queens county board of elections to provide language assistance in Bengali, Punjabi and Hindi.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Relates to filing of papers; when received by board of elections.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to the authorization of solemnization of marriages by a civil celebrant; establishes criteria to qualify as a civil celebrant.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to presumptions for the death of an injured worker due to opioid overdose where that injured worker was prescribed opioids as a result of his or her workplace injury.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
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
Establishes a leave of absence for veterans on Veterans Day, November 11th.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes the city of Buffalo to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Provides that a person is guilty of aggravated grand larceny of an automated teller machine when he or she has been previously convicted of grand larceny in the third degree involving an ATM within the previous ten years.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Increases the penalties for the violent sex offenses of rape, criminal sexual act and aggravated sexual abuse when committed in a forcible manner where an actor or accomplice is armed with or displays a deadly weapon, uses or threatens the use of a dangerous instrument or inflicts physical injury upon the victim.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Prohibits compensation for service of auditing a return or report relating to certain taxes on utilities on a contingent fee basis.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Grants a tax deferment for persons sixty-five years of age or over who own and occupy real property in a city having a population of one million or more persons.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Relates to determinations of willful violations of orders of protection.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to health care professional applications and terminations.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Extends eligibility for tax exemption to the extent of any increase in assessed value of residential property resulting from the construction or reconstruction of such property for the purpose of providing living quarters for certain related senior or disabled relatives.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Enacts Brianna's Law; requires that operators of mechanically propelled vessels complete an in-classroom boating safety course.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Designates certain substances as schedule I opiates controlled substances; includes within the offenses of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second and first degrees, the sale of certain amounts of preparations, compounds, mixtures or substances containing heroin and schedule I opiates.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to the care of animals; requires regular diurnal light cycles of either natural or artificial light; requires separate space for pregnant or nursing dogs; requires sanitation of primary enclosures and cages; requires sanitary food receptacles; requires grooming.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to the approval of certain public authorities contracts by the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to criminal possession of computer related material in the first and second degree.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Authorizes paid family leave for bereavement beginning in 2020.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Adds koji (a fungus) based distilled spirits to the license to sell wine at retail for consumption on the premises.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Prohibits the taking of striped bass during the period of January 1 to April 15; changes from December 15.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Excludes capital projects in a municipality from the tax cap if the projects were approved by the voters of the municipality.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Requires school administrators in private schools to report allegations of child abuse in an educational setting; includes private schools in the reporting requirements relating to child abuse in an educational setting.
Sponsor: John Brooks
Provides that historical vehicles manufactured without a front number plate display area need only display such a plate on the rear of the vehicle.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to application of the state uniform fire prevention and building code; directs OGS to implement a phase-in of compliance for existing premises owned or leased by the state or certain public authorities.
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
Provides for consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to school zone speed limits; requires signage and other traffic calming devices in such speed zones.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Exempts new clean fuel vehicles and vehicles that meet the clean vehicle standards from the first year of registration fees.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
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
Relates to renaming the bridges of the state highway system after New York state's medal of honor recipients.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to authorizing the reclassification of controlled substances by regulation; authorizes the commissioner of health to reclassify controlled substances by regulation or emergency regulation if the substance is redesignated or rescheduled.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Directs the department of state to study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning safety standards at baseball stadiums to determine whether the protective netting currently in use at baseball stadiums is sufficient to protect spectators during baseball games.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
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
Requires posting notice of the department of financial services toll free consumer's hot-line telephone number.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to assaults on supervisory personnel of a transit system performing assigned duties; elevates such assault to second degree.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the date of the adjustment of the spousal maintenance cap and increases the amount of such cap.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to expanding the definition of agency; includes entities created by an agency or that are governed by a board of directors or similar body a majority of which is designated by one or more state or local government officials in the definition of agency under the public officers law.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes the state university of New York to enter into a lease and otherwise contract to make grounds available and facilities of the state university of New York at Stony Brook to the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, to ensure quality pediatric health care services to the surrounding community; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Requires law enforcement agencies to report sex offender changes of address within five business days to the division of criminal justice services.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to military voters and ballots for election of members of the board of education and school district public library trustees, and the adoption of the annual budget and school district public library budget and referenda.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides that court records in a proceeding under articles 77, 78 and 81 of the mental hygiene law shall not be perused, examined, disclosed, taken or copied by any other person than a party, the attorney or counsel of a party, the guardian, the court evaluator or the court examiner except by order of the court.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to fix by regulation measures for the management of crabs.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Requires the implementation of an electronic death registration system; all deaths occurring in the state must be registered using the electronic registration system.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Encourages the expansion of the production of fresh fruits and vegetables by community gardens; directs the state and municipalities to develop more and safer bike lanes and multiple use trails so as to encourage physical activity and reduce carbon emissions.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Philadelphia, county of Jefferson as the "New York State Trooper Joel R. Davis Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Relates to conditional surrender of parental rights in family and surrogate's court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Establishes time periods for the stages of determining and approving environmental impact statements.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Authorizes the state commissioner of transportation to convey certain real property to the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Steve Stern
Provides incentives for productive workers' compensation audits.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to persons designated by a general hospital to identify infectious disease processes, conduct surveillance and epidemiologic investigations, and develop plans to prevent and control the transmission of infectious agents within general hospitals.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes and directs the department of health and the office for the aging to conduct a study of fees and charges assessed to residents of assisted living facilities and to make recommendations to the legislature.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to prohibiting household cleansing products that contain 1, 4-dioxane.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to the statewide or regional multi-state contract administration for Section 8 project based housing assistance payments contracts.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Establishes that directors of controlled corporations may serve on the designated audit committee of the board of such controlling corporation.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
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
Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Relates to expanding the privileges of farm breweries, cideries, wineries and distilleries to allow for the sales of "farm brewed" alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to commercial fishing licenses extending the time period such licenses may be issued and setting limits on the number of licenses to be issued.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to prohibitions on certain 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
Relates to establishing incapacity to consent when a person is under arrest, detention or otherwise in actual custody.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes the healthy options and community outreach program; directs the empire state development corporation to conduct a public awareness campaign; establishes tax credits for small grocers and convenience stores participating in the program.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes all school districts to establish insurance reserve funds.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Transfers certain lands to the city of New York to be used as parklands.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides for the computation of the New York city corporate tax on real estate investment trusts and regulated investment companies.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Relates to licensing of guides and outfitters.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Establishes a gold star father distinctive number plate.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Chief George Bell Memorial Highway" on state route twenty-two.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Includes leaving the scene of an accident within the crimes of aggravated vehicular manslaughter and aggravated vehicular assault when physical injury or death occurs to a person or persons.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the Fishers Island ferry district in the town of Southold, Suffolk county.
Sponsor: Anthony Palumbo
Establishes the empire state digital gaming media production credit; provides such credit shall be calculated as a percentage of eligible production costs incurred within this state; provides such credits be allocated on a regional basis; limits credits to an aggregate of twenty-five million dollars per year.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Grants authority to assessment corporations to write specified kinds of standalone liability insurance.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the use of electronic means for the commencement and filing of papers in certain actions and proceedings; repeals provisions relating to residential foreclosure actions involving a home loan.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Enacts the higher education community service act to promote volunteer service by higher education students; creates a council for higher education community service to regulate and recognize persons and programs associated therewith; requires a report to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly.
Sponsor: Toby Stavisky
Requires liability insurance rate reductions upon completion of a boating safety course or an advanced boating safety course.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Provides that the public service commission shall require that all customers of electric and natural gas corporations shall have the opportunity to purchase electricity and natural gas from any supplier.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Provides that certain misdemeanors involving the revocation and suspension of hunting, trapping or fishing licenses shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment and fine.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Requires the formation of a cyber security advisory board and the implementation of a cyber security initiative.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Prohibits the retention of any amount of payment due and owing for materials delivered and accepted for a public or private construction project.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Provides for the regulation of distressed home loans.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to certain crimes related to the operation of a motor vehicle; establishes the crimes of persistent aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and persistent driving while intoxicated or while ability impaired by drugs.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
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
Includes cases and covers for cellular telephones, within the prohibitions related to imitation weapons.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Requires the department of homeless services of the city of New York to provide notice to local public officials relating to establishment of homeless shelters and the use of hotels for the homeless.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Increases the rates of compensation for the chairman, election inspectors and ballot clerks.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Enacts the health care professional transparency act; prohibits health care professionals from using deceptive or misleading advertising.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Prohibits lobbyists, political action committees and labor unions and certain persons registered with the state board of elections from making loans to candidates or political committees.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to the reissuance of permits for inactive wells that access a sole source aquifer in certain counties.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Adds public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools to the New York power authority's list of mandated customers.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes a property tax cap for persons over seventy years of age where the governing board of the municipality adopts a local law, ordinance or resolution providing for such cap.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
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: Peter Abbate
Provides that all increased payments for salary adjustments according to plan and step-ups or increments during a wage freeze be suspended; makes such provisions applicable to county employees and employees of covered organizations, whether or not they are covered by a collectively negotiated agreement; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Exempts school districts from the requirements of smart growth.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Provides for the administration of the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund by the state cemetery board; removes the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance from administering the fund.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Provides that the territory of central high school districts that merge in the county of Suffolk does not need to be contiguous in certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Increases local government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Establishes the offenses of phishing in the third degree, phishing in the second degree and phishing in the first degree; and relates to the time in which prosecution of such offenses must be commenced.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires every person operating a bicycle in the city of New York to wear a helmet.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to the disqualification of school bus drivers for certain offenses involving children.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to the duty of the office for the aging to provide certain information relating to services through electronic means including a mobile application.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to allowing for the use of medical marihuana as an alternative to opioids for pain management and substance use disorder.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to increasing reimbursement rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state arterials.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Enhances protections for persons with disabilities from sexual abuse; includes violations which occur post-discharge.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Permits the Viola Methodist Church to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2014 assessment roll.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Designates court attendants employed by the town of Somers as peace officers.
Sponsor: Kevin Byrne
Relates to leasing and licensing of property at Sampson state park and at Seneca Lake state park.
Sponsor: Joseph Morelle
Relates to disclosure of information relating to natural siblings of adopted persons.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Authorizes health insurers and health maintenance organizations, subject to the approval of the superintendent of financial services, to provide actuarially appropriate reductions in health insurance premiums or other benefits or enhancements for an enrollee's or insured's participation in a qualified wellness program.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to the remediation and prevention of indoor mold; requires the disclosure of indoor mold history upon the sale of certain real property; requires notification to prospective lessees; directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal and the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and standards for the remediation and prevention of indoor mold.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Includes persons appointed as Indian police officers within the definition of the term "law enforcement agency" for the purposes of the law enforcement accreditation council.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored e-liquid which creates a distinguishable flavor or aroma for use in e-cigarettes.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Establishes a blue alert system to aid in the identification, location and apprehension of any individuals suspected of killing or seriously wounding any local, state or federal law enforcement officer.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Makes the waiver of a pre-sentence investigation and report in certain instances applicable statewide.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires the superintendent of financial services to examine the Green Bank at least once every calendar year and requires that a copy of such examination shall be furnished to NYSERDA, the state comptroller, the senate and the assembly.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to providing alcoholic beverages on credit to an individual person where the order on credit is at least $200.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Promotes competitive property and casualty insurance markets for business to business insurance transactions.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to allowing members of the Nassau County auxiliary police force to possess a police baton when authorized by the police commissioner of such county.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Directs the empire state development corporation to study a proposed rule of the department of labor relating to call-in pay prior to its adoption.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to exempting the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority from bond issuance charges.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to integrating community supervision programs into an individual's employment, educational or vocational training schedule.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Establishes the agency regulatory reform officer and regulatory reform task force to oversee the implementation of regulatory reform initiatives and policies to ensure that agencies effectively carry out regulatory reforms; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the definition of mentally disabled and the crime of larceny.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Prohibits the head of the office for people with developmental disabilities from changing the auspice of any individualized residential alternative that is operated by the state.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to the distribution of certain mandatory surcharges imposed for alcohol-related traffic convictions; establishes an impaired driving safety fund.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Allows funds held in trust by a franchised corporation for a recognized horsemen's organization to be used as collateral to secure workers' compensation insurance coverage.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Permits suspension of jury deliberations beyond 24 or 72 hours on certain days.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes the city of Syracuse to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Provides a television writers' and directors' fees and salaries credit; provides that to be eligible the writer or director is a minority group member, or a woman, and provides, further, that any writer or director who is a profit participant in the qualified production shall not be eligible.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Limits the time between appointing an acting department head and the governor submitting a name for new department head to one hundred eighty days or two hundred seventy days when the senate is adjourned.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes school districts to establish reserve funds for the payment of their contributions to the New York state teachers' retirement system.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Authorizes the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland, to discontinue the use of municipally owned park land, and dedicate certain other lands as park lands.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Provides that conviction of assault on a social worker which prevents him or her from performing a lawful duty is a felony.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes the village of Phoenix to alienate and sell parklands at fair market value to the Phoenix Central School District with the understanding that such village shall dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of such parklands being alienated to the acquisition of new parklands and/or improvements to existing parklands.
Sponsor: William Barclay
Relates to the equalization of retirement benefits for police officers across New York state.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to fix by regulation measures for the management of crabs.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to the granting of a permanent vested easement for the Hudson river rail tunnel.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Authorizes The Reboli Center for Art and History to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Requires persons against whom an order of protection is issued to wear an electronic monitoring device; prohibits the tampering with such a device and violation of such prohibition constitutes a class E felony.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Restores the authorized reimbursement rate paid to governmental entities for enforcement of navigation laws to 75% of authorized expenditures.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Requires comprehensive training at least one time per year for school bus drivers and school bus attendants in the discouragement, prevention and detection of harassment, bullying and discrimination.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Newburgh as the "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to death benefits for certain members under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to make recommendations to the board of regents relating to the adoption of instruction in mental health in junior and senior high schools and to provide school districts with current information on drug abuse issues.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
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: Tony Avella
Increases the amount of additional points certain veterans receive in a competitive examination.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to liability for violations imposed through the use of traffic-control signal photo-monitoring systems and photo speed violation monitoring systems; provides for license suspension for six months after six or more findings of liability within a eighteen month period; provides that violations may be used for insurance purposes in the provision of motor vehicle insurance coverage upon a fifth or subsequent finding of liability in a two year period.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to authorizing private special education schools to seek department approval to offer alternative high school equivalency preparation programs.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Permits an assessing unit within the town of Neversink, county of Sullivan, to file their tentative assessment roll for 2018 no later than June 30, 2018.
Sponsor: Brian Miller
Relates to the taking of menhaden; provides that menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) from which oil or meal is made may not be taken from the waters of the marine district with a purse seine; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to licensing of independent insurance adjusters by waiving requirements regarding character references and a written examination if the applicant holds a claim certification from a nationally or state-based claims association.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Relates to the energy storage deployment policy.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides that the gaming commission may, at its discretion, authorize an increase to the limitation for individual video lottery facilities upon illustration of benefit to the state.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Authorizes a person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Oswego to reside in an adjoining county within the state.
Sponsor: William Barclay
Affords uniformed personnel of the NYC department of correction and uniformed members of the NYC department of sanitation the option of taking a monetary payment in lieu of terminal leave at the rate applicable on the date of retirement.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Grants the superintendent of financial services authority to investigate fraudulent activities, such as motor vehicle operators who drive with no insurance coverage, and those who misrepresent their principal place of residence or where their motor vehicle is principally garaged and operated; requires insurance companies and self-insurers to report incidents of insurance fraud, relating to automobile liability insurance, to the department of financial services.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Authorizes Yaphank Presbyterian Church to file an application for exemption for real property taxation.
Sponsor: Dean Murray
Provides for the calculation of vendor fees for the operation of video lottery gaming at certain race tracks; removes language limiting amounts over 2013 levels.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Requires the state power authority and the Long Island power authority to webcast all public meetings, record such meetings and make them accessible from the website for at least one year.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system as the North Country Craft Beer Trail.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to burglary in the second degree; adds language where the building is a dwelling which, at the time of the commission of the crime, is occupied by a person who is not a participant in the crime to what constitutes burglary in the second degree.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Establishes the intent of the legislature to generally defer to parental choices regarding the care, custody and control of their children; mandates that the death of a parent shall be a factor when considering a grandparent's standing to receive visitation or custody; directs that costs be payable by an unsuccessful petitioner where a contest was brought in bad faith.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Authorizes summer camps to hire licensed social workers, physical therapists, psychologists, athletic trainers, mental health care professionals, occupational therapists and other licensed professionals to provide services.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides procedures relating to the adoption and submission of an annual budget by the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonality of the town of Southampton.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Raises the maximum fine for persons who violate the law regulating telemarketing to twenty thousand dollars.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Requires that the board of assessment review not take less than ten business days to meet to hear complaints in relation to assessments.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to maintaining the continued viability of the state's existing large-scale, renewable energy resources.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Requires scrap processors to record the license plate number of motor vehicles driven by sellers of scrap materials.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Requires healthcare practitioners to provide a written or an alternative format of up to date and evidence based information on Down syndrome to pregnant women and parents of infants who test positive for Down syndrome.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
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
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Erie county as the "S Sgt Michael F. Kaczmarek Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Enacts the "living donor protection act of 2018"; prohibits discrimination in the provision of life, accident, and health 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: Aileen Gunther
Establishes the class C felony of assault of a patient in a mental health or developmental disability facility, for the intentional causation of physical injury to a patient residing in a facility operated, licensed or certified by the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides for the establishment of a sexual assault victim bill of rights by the department of health, in consultation with the division of criminal justice services and the office of victim services; establishes a victim's right to notice.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Subtracts from federal adjusted gross income qualified transportation fringe benefits.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Establishes that a resident taxpayer shall be allowed a credit against the tax in an amount equaling thirty percent of the qualified adoption expenses paid during the taxable year in conjunction with the taxpayer's adoption of a handicapped child or a hard to place child or five thousand dollars whichever is less.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes the crime of unlawful broadcast of criminal activity; prohibits the live broadcast of the commission of a felony by the person committing such acts or by an accomplice or agent.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Enacts the "buy from the backyard act"; requires the office of general services and other state agencies to buy 20% of all their food products from producers and/or processors in New York state; provides that the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall determine the New York food products that are available during the various times during the year; directs such commissioner to report to the governor and the legislature on the implementation of such provisions.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to prohibiting the sale of crib bumper pads and to restricting the use of such pads in certain settings.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Provides that the period of licensure or certification for child care providers shall be for four years; relates to required inspections and background clearances; directs the office of children and family services to promulgate necessary rules and regulations setting forth training requirements.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Designates Oceola lake and lake Mohegan as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Kevin Byrne
Establishes the crime of aggravated resisting arrest; makes it a class E felony.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Authorizes Chabad of Great Neck to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land in the village of Great Neck, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Anthony D'Urso
Allows a board of election to design an alternative poll site staffing plan to conduct an election.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Repeals provisions relating to the duties of the state director of the division of veterans' affairs; repeals provisions relating to reports on certain children of Vietnam veterans.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Exempts the metropolitan transportation authority from bond issuance charges otherwise required to be paid to the state.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes and directs the boards of trustees of SUNY and CUNY to report on the extent of fire detection and suppression systems within residential facilities within the state and city university provided or maintained in response to the New York State Governor's Task Force on Campus Fire Safety issued in July 2000.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Establishes a comprehensive centralized system to coordinate procurement of books and non-print library materials and related ancillary services.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to music licensing agreements; provides requirements regarding conduct and contracts related to music licensing agreements; requires music licensing rights to be listed electronically and filed with the department of state.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to the equalization of retirement benefits for police officers across New York state.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to permitting the Tonawanda city school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Establishes the "Fallen Skywalkers Memorial Bridge" in the city of Buffalo in Erie county.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Provides that the United States department of defense may appoint an eighth ad hoc member to the New York state board on electric generation siting and the environment, if a proposed electric generating facility is within seventy-five miles of an in-state military base.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to notification requirements for school districts located in cities with a population of one million or more when a school district chooses to acquire a site for a new school.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Grants retroactive tier IV membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Scott Goodfellow.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Relates to permitting reasonable automobile tire inflation machine fees when such machine is either coin-operated or credit card device-operated.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Increases the age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years old to 21 years old.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to tax exemptions for community land trusts and income-restricted homeownership property.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Exempts manure deposited incidentally from noisome or unwholesome substances.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to the insurance reserve funds of the Niskayuna central school district.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Establishes that no corporation shall have a membership comprised of fewer than three persons, except for a corporation that has no members; may have a corporation, joint-stock association, unincorporated association or partnership as a sole member, if it is owned or controlled by no fewer than three persons.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the sealing and expungement of records in persons in need of supervision cases in family court.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires water works corporations and municipal water systems to annually calculate and submit to the public service commission their water cost index.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to state aid adjustments for prior years; provides extensions for late filings of transportation contracts in extenuating circumstances; and capital outlays for school construction projects of less than 250,000 dollars.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to authorizing the town of Smithtown, county of Suffolk, to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parklands to facilitate the placement and operation of a sewer pump station.
Sponsor: Michael Fitzpatrick
Authorizes nursing home medication aides to administer medication in residential health care facilities in St. Lawrence county.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Authorizes the alienation of certain parklands located in the village of Penn Yan, county of Yates, for the continued operation of the Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance information center.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Provides for immediate notification to a complainant, in the manner specified by the complainant, of the service of an ex parte order of protection.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Sets nutrition standards for restaurants distributing incentive items aimed at children.
Sponsor: Gustavo Rivera
Relates to a half fare rate program in the MTA for veterans.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Enacts Lulu and Leo's law establishing the crime of misrepresentation by, or on behalf of, a caregiver for children when a person knowingly makes a misrepresentation about a caregiver's background; class A misdemeanor.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Removes the three-year exemption of mandatory continuing education for newly licensed certified public accountants and public accountants.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Provides that any funds paid to a support collection unit which have not been disbursed after two years after diligent efforts to locate the person entitled to such funds, and funds which the remitter of such funds has not provided sufficient identifying information to associate the funds with an existing account shall be paid to the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Relates to annual professional performance review of classroom teachers and building principals; increases the number of charters issued; makes permanent provisions relating to standardized tests not being included on a student's permanent record; expands the scope of unlawful discriminatory practices; reduces the probationary period for assistants, superintendents, teachers and other school employees; repeals provisions of the education law.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Enacts Brianna's Law; requires that operators of mechanically propelled vessels complete a boating safety course.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes retired firefighters to be employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers without reduction of their retirement benefits.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Allows the use of spears or spearguns in commercial and recreational bass fishing.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the redemption of real property subject to a delinquent tax lien.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Relates to Buffalo sewer authority bonds, increasing the total amount of bonds which may be issued and outstanding at one time.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
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
Authorizes the assessor of the town of Haverstraw, county of Rockland, to accept an application for exemption from real property taxes from Iglesia Pentecostal 3RA Nueva Jerusalem, Inc.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Relates to the attendance of minors upon full day instruction and the conditions under which districts are entitled to an apportionment of state aid.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to authorizing certain school personnel to wear personal safety alarms, a wearable device that once activated, by the pressing of an emergency button, alerts first responders of an emergency.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to real property tax exemptions for certain property owners who are required to participate in the federal flood insurance program because his or her real property is located in a special flood hazard area.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Provides that the New York city health and hospital corporation spend a minimum of 10% of its budget on acute care and emergency room facilities in each borough and requires a representative from each borough on its board of directors.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Continues NYS Smart Scholars early college high school program and the NYS pathways in technology early college high school program.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Requires state agencies to submit proposed rules and regulations intended to implement legislation to the appropriate committee of the legislature for approval; provides that no such rule or regulation shall take effect unless it has been approved by a majority vote of such legislative committee.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Directs the attorney general to bring legal actions against the National Marine Fisheries Services or any other federal or state agency challenging existing inequitable fishing quotas that discriminate against New York state commercial fishermen.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Amends chapter 348 of 2012 relating to a property conveyance by the city of Poughkeepsie to add legal descriptions of such property.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Establishes recreational vehicle dealer agreements; defines terms; provides that a manufacturer or distributor may not sell a recreational vehicle in this state to or through a dealer without having first entered into a manufacturer/dealer agreement with a dealer which has been signed by both parties; further provides that a manufacturer or distributor, directly or through any authorized officer, agent or employee, may not terminate, cancel or fail to renew a manufacturer/dealer agreement without good cause; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Relates to the utilization of a capital acquisition fund by an off-track betting corporation to offset expenses related to salaries and benefits for the corporation's employees and other expenses.
Sponsor: George Amedore
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
Enacts the consumer litigation funding act to promote consumer protections related to consumer litigation funding transactions; provides for contract requirements, including that the contract contain a no penalty provision for the pre-payment of the funded amount prior to the settlement of his or her case; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to establish gift cards for distinctive and special number license plates.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Provides that when the state central register of child abuse and maltreatment receives a report by means of a telephone call from a physician, registered nurse or registered physician's assistant or from a social worker or psychologist, or by a law enforcement official, such telephone calls shall not be screened by the hotline but shall be immediately transmitted to the appropriate child protective service for investigation; provides for the child protective service of each county to establish procedures for communication and cooperation with local hospitals and law enforcement to better protect the interests of at risk children and to better provide essential services to their families.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to instituting a twelve month limitation on compliance audits and examinations by the department of financial services; requires a preliminary and final report during any compliance audit or examination.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Relates to authority of certain municipalities to levy an excise tax on the sale of tobacco products other than cigarettes; relates to warrants issued pursuant to the administrative code of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Creates a twenty-five year retirement plan for New York city probation officers.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the county of Suffolk to transfer and convey a portion of county parkland to the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk for continued park and recreational purposes and as a commercial fishing dock.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to enacting the biomass fired exception program providing an exception for certain biomass fired electric generation facilities to the definition of a fossil fuel-fired facility for purposes of a CO2 budget trading program.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Requires school districts, upon notification from law enforcement agencies, to notify persons in parental relation to its students, of level two and three sex offenders living in the district; apportions money to school districts for certain sex offender expenses.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the timeliness of disclosure of a breach of the security of a system which contains private information.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to substances containing chorionic gonadotropin expressly intended for administration through implants or injection to cattle or other nonhuman species.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Ensures that sexual assault survivors are not billed for sexual assault forensic exams and are notified orally and in writing of the option to decline to provide private health insurance information and have the office of victim services reimburse the hospital for the exam; also provides that if such exam is covered by insurance, such coverage shall not be subject to annual deductibles or coinsurance.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Roger J. Mazal Memorial Bridge" on state route two-hundred three.
Sponsor: Jacob Ashby
Relates to the definition and licensing fees for dealer-controlled electronic table games.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Corrects various laws to ensure that the office for people with developmental disabilities is no longer referred to as the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides for mandatory training for treasurers of political committees once every three years; 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: David Carlucci
Designates state route 20 in the village of Fredonia, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Andrew Goodell
Prohibits the superintendent from establishing fees for ancillary or discretionary non-insurance services provided by title insurance agents.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the city school district of the city of Salamanca to establish a reserve fund for federal impact aid in the event such aid is reduced.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Requires reporting by the workers' compensation board and appointments to the advisory board.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Grants eligibility for the tax abatement for industrial and commercial construction work in cities having a population of one million or more, to certain electric generating facilities the operation of which commenced in 2012.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to liability and related penalties for illegal conversion.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Includes an advisory committee within the definition of a public body for purposes of the open meetings law.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Makes care and services provided by licensed mental health practitioners eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Relates to the issuance of distinctive plates for retired members of the New York state legislature.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Amends the definitions of concentrated cannabis and marihuana.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Requires the Civil Service Commission to immediately announce and schedule an examination for any position that provides child protection services upon the written request of a municipal civil service commission or personnel officer due to an inability to fill such position from existing lists.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to promote education in hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Expands orders of protection to cover child protective services workers.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to interests or rights acquired in real property for the preservation of agricultural lands.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Establishes that electric generating facilities that use biomass for more than 50% of its annual heat input shall not be required to obtain carbon dioxide allowances for carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the burning of biomass under the carbon dioxide budget trading program.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment at summer day camps; includes college coaches, athletic directors, professors, graduate assistants and college presidents among those required to report such suspected abuse or maltreatment.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Educators' Highway" on state route one hundred fifty-one.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Authorizes agreements for county, city and town social services departments to access death certificates maintained by the department of public health.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to establishing a real property tax exemption for disabled veterans who have a one hundred percent service connected disability.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Grants retroactive eligibility to apply for enhanced Tier 3 status to former New York City police officer Mark Rivera.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Requires school crossing guards to be on each and every corner of every city block that contains a public or private high school during arrival and dismissal.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medication using syringes or needles to inmates.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act to ensure compliance of insurers and health plans with state and federal requirements for the provision of mental health and substance use disorder treatment and claims.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes Frank Pallett to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of State University of New York police officer, notwithstanding the age restrictions of section 58 of the civil service law.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to the use of restraints on children appearing before family court.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to the disposal of property upon a judgment or order of forfeiture; requires a percentage of money from such disposal of property to be deposited into a subaccount of the general fund to be used for law enforcement diversion purposes.
Sponsor: George Amedore
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: Peter Abbate
Relates to the removal of all police markings and affixed lights from a vehicle prior to decommissioning and auction.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to accessing records under the freedom of information law including notification procedures and the release of names of natural persons and residential addresses.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Defines "electric assisted bicycles" and implements additional requirements for operating such bicycles.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to duration of orders of protection in cases involving domestic violence.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Authorizes licensed authorized organizations to conduct certain poker tournaments as licensed games of chance fundraisers.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Instructs the office of temporary and disability assistance to apply for a waiver from the federal government to allow for the purchase of multivitamin-mineral dietary supplements with benefits through SNAP.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Provides state assistance to the counties of Cayuga and Seneca in which an Indian nation is located.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Prohibits smoking at all times in facilities that provide child care services in a private home provided that such private home is required to be licensed or registered for child care services, regardless of whether or not children receiving such services are present.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Prohibits auto lenders from remotely disabling a vehicle without first giving notice of the disabling to the debtor.
Sponsor: Stacey Pheffer Amato
Relates to conducting a study on the access of state public libraries and library systems to capital funding; the department of education, in consultation with the dormitory authority, the office of the state comptroller, and the public library systems of the state, shall assess and report on the capital needs of such public library systems, including public libraries and association libraries.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Relates to applications for the approval and construction of energy-related projects of the New York Power Authority by the public authorities control board.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Directs the police commissioner of the city of New York to assign a police officer at least one hour prior to the commencement of instructional hours at every school, public and/or private, within the city of New York (Part A); and establishes active shooter drills at public and private educational institutions (Part B); relates to photo speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones in the city of New York; makes technical corrections relating to photo speed violation monitoring systems in school speed zones in the city of New York; and relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to establishing in a city with a population of one million or more a school speed zones by means of photo devices (Part C); relates to establishing a temporary high-occupancy vehicle program on the Williamsburg bridge by means of mobile or stationary photo devices (Part D).
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Permits a minor over twelve years of age to work as a referee for athletic games or competitions under certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides cost-of-living adjustments, including an adjusted benefit in monthly installments that is equal to the percentage of the change in consumer price index according to the included schedule.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Creates the crimes of dangerous driving in the fifth, fourth, third, second and first degrees; imposes criminal liability on drivers who continue to operate motor vehicles in violation of the vehicle and traffic law and cause injury as a result.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Grants retroactive membership in Tier IV of the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Shawn Coveny.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to allowing a person having a lawful order of custody of a child to make medical decisions for such child.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Adds tracks located in Westchester county to the tracks excepted from being considered regional tracks.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Commemorates constitution day on the third Friday in September.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to a stay of issuance of a warrant for eviction for certain holdover tenants.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes the lease of lands located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Relates to the duration of orders of protection in child abuse and neglect proceedings and in permanency planning hearings in family court; extends to two years and for certain cases to five years.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to insurance coverage for enteral formula; includes additional diseases and disorders for which enteral formula has been proven effective.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes retroactive tier III membership in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Steven R. Grice.
Sponsor: Stephen Hawley
Provides that expenditures for school safety and security shall be eligible for building aid.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Limits the amount of a property tax shift from one class of property to another for 2018-2019 in the county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Allows a plaintiff to have a small claims court hearing in the municipality in which the claim arose.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Relates to dog licensing in the village of St. Johnsville.
Sponsor: Angelo Santabarbara
Requires charter buses to use commercial global positioning system technology which takes into account the minimum clearance of the motor vehicle.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides a pension benefit parity payment to certain retirees from a state management/confidential position.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Enacts the "toll payer protection act" to establish a New York toll payers' bill of rights; provides that any person, firm, corporation, or other entity who is charged with the payment of a cashless toll fee in the state of New York shall have the option to be notified by text message or electronic mail that such fee has been so charged, the entity to which such fee must be paid, and the date by when such fee must be paid; further provides for the establishment of a payment plan for the payment of a toll fee and any related penalties; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to pension forfeiture for public officers under section 7 of article 5 of the state constitution.
Sponsor: Thomas Croci
Relates to the gaming inspector general.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Requires an order of protection that has been issued to a victim of domestic violence to include a provision that the order shall not expire or be vacated unless the party against whom such order is issued is in compliance with any court order directing him or her to pay child support and requires an automatic income deduction order for such order of support.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
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: Richard Gottfried
Requires investigating officers to field test and test blood alcohol levels of all drivers involved in auto accidents where serious physical injury or death occur; imposes rebuttable presumption of guilt for refusals; requires hospital to conduct such test where trauma/injury is considered too severe.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Authorizes the receipt of electronic reports by the state central register of child abuse and maltreatment; requires the office of children and family services to develop and implement a web intake incident form for the receipt of electronic communications alleging child abuse or maltreatment.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Provides that upon the establishment of a joint deposit account, a banking organization shall offer a convenience account.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Requires food allergy signage around parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers that are not located on one, two and three-family residential real property.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to temporarily waive fuel and fuel additive requirements in extreme and unusual circumstances; requires such circumstances to be unforeseeable or as the result of a natural disaster.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to instant run-off elections in the city of New York.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to harness racing.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Validates certain acts of the North Syracuse central school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects; such projects shall be eligible for state aid.
Sponsor: Albert Stirpe
Prohibits parole officers from assisting parolees to register to vote.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to mandatory acceptance of empty beverage containers.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Directs the commissioner of DEC to remove peregrine falcons from the endangered species list and to promulgate regulations for their use in falconry.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to a parent's right to know if an employee, volunteer or an administrator of a school district is reprimanded for inappropriate conduct towards his or her child; enacts "parent's right to know" act.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Authorizes certain premises in the town of Rushford and county of Allegany to sell wine and/or liquor within 200 feet of a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Provides for the automatic enrollment of employees of the city of New York eligible to join the New York city board of education retirement system.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Designates Cortlandt, Dickiebusch, Furnace Brook and Meahagh lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the social services department to terminate the subsidies that may be provided to a parent who adopts a disabled or hard to place child under certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to providing transportation for children with handicapping conditions; removes the requirement that a child attends the school the district is providing transportation to for the purpose of receiving services or programs similar to special educational programs recommended for such child by the local committee on special education.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Provides for the delivery of a notice of enforcement of a lien upon a self-storage facility.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Prohibits the operation of a motor vehicle on a public road, street or highway which is equipped with a display device within the view of the operator; defines the term "display device" as equipment designed and used for the purpose of receiving and displaying a broadcast image.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes the class D felony of criminal street gang recruitment on school grounds which occurs when an individual on school grounds coerces, solicits, recruits or induces another person to join or remain a member of a criminal street gang, or conspires to do so.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "T Sgt Henry "Hank" Dylong Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: David DiPietro
Relates to supplemental military retirement allowances for members of public retirement systems of the state.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Relates to the composition of the local advisory board for the Belmont racetrack facility; 15 members designated by the temporary president of the senate; speaker of the assembly and the franchised corporation.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Relates to exempting possession of tension pneumothorax decompression needles by paramedics and EMTs from criminal possession of a hypodermic instrument.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Regulates taking of moose in the same manner as deer hunting and trapping are currently regulated.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to taxi and limousine services equipped with wheelchair accessible vehicles.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the handling of appeals regarding recommendations for children with handicapping conditions; extends certain provisions of law relating thereto.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Relates to prohibiting the use of ballast water to increase a wake within six hundred feet from shore on lakes within the state.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Provides for confidentiality of records in proceedings to vacate convictions for offenses resulting from sex trafficking, labor trafficking and compelling prostitution.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Requires the state board of parole to provide notification to victims upon the conditional release of an inmate convicted of a crime against a member of the same family or household.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Increases the bonding authority of the New York city housing corporation.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to commercial fishing licenses extending the time period such licenses may be issued and setting limits on the number of licenses to be issued.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to the duties of the division of veterans' affairs concerning information about veterans received from nursing homes and residential health care facilities, including assisted living facilities and assisted living residences and adult care facilities.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Relates to a leave of absence for military spouses; removes the requirement that leave be used when a person's spouse is on leave while deployed to a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route one hundred four in the town of Lewiston, county of Niagara as the "General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Angelo Morinello
Relates to the calculation of past service credit for members in the title of deputy sheriff transferring between the New York state and local employees' retirement system to the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Provides that persons employed in the labor class for a minimum of five years shall not be removed or otherwise subjected to any disciplinary penalty provided in this section except for incompetency or misconduct.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Enacts the New York emergency responder act limiting the liability of certain emergency responders.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to trust accounting income and principal; allows a trustee to allocate to income gains from the sale or exchange or other disposition of specified principal assets.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Establishes a kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facility program within the urban development corporation; provides grant funding to local development corporations, municipalities, educational institutions and not-for-profit entities for the development or expansion of kitchen incubator/shared-use kitchen facilities which make available services such as food production, technical assistance, business management and marketing, distribution, storage and retailing assistance, particularly in economically distressed areas.
Sponsor: Liz Krueger
Relates to the production and sale of mead and braggot.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Establishes the open data law requiring the office of information technology services to establish an open data website and requiring covered state entities to publish certain data on such website.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to legalizing, validating, ratifying and confirming certain transportation contracts of the Corning city school district.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Extends the city of New Rochelle occupancy tax for three years; extends the city of Rye occupancy tax for three years; extends the city of Yonkers occupancy tax for three years; extends the expiration of the authority of the county of Essex to impose an additional mortgage recording tax; extends the expiration of the authority of the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax; extends Warren county's additional mortgage recording tax authorization; extends the authorization for the county of Greene to impose an additional mortgage recording tax; extends provisions of law relating to authorizing the county of Cattaraugus to impose an additional mortgage recording tax; 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 adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls; relates to the determination of adjusted base proportions in special assessing units which are cities for the fiscal year two thousand nineteen; allows certain special assessing units other than cities to adjust their current base proportions, adjusted base proportions for assessment rolls, and the base proportion in approved assessing units in Nassau county; relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo; relates to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.
Sponsor: Rules
Increases the various fixed fees for the provision of certain services by the sheriff.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Waives the residency requirements for the persons performing the functions of building inspector/code enforcement officer or assistant/deputy building inspector/code enforcement officer for Putnam Valley, Putnam County.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Establishes a training program to foster awareness of laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the farming industry; provides for funding of such program from fines collected pursuant to certain violations.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Limits, in cities having a population of one million or more, the annual increase in real property taxes.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Repeals a provision of law relating to the control of a steering mechanism.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to the taxation of property owned by a cooperative corporation.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Permits Mercy Haven Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Doug Smith
Relates to retail sales on funds of the Industrial Development Agency.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms a transportation contract of the Fulton city school district.
Sponsor: William Barclay
Provides that, for purposes of veterans seeking to qualify for public housing, "probable aggregate annual income" shall not include disability benefits paid by federal government to veterans for service-connected disabilities; provides that such disability benefits shall not be included in computing any surcharge against such veterans.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Includes in the health care and wellness education and outreach program certain chronic illnesses which primarily affect women and for which there are no diagnostic tests or cures including, but not limited to, myalgic encphalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia; requires the establishment of an advisory council for such illnesses.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to meetings and proceedings of the joint commission on public ethics.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Authorizes retail licensees to purchase beer, wine and liquor by means of a business credit card.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Increases the membership of the board of the Niagara frontier authority to include a representative of the transit dependent community.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a method by which alternative identification can be presented at a point of sale when a recipient under the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children does not have his or her WIC's identification in his or her possession.
Sponsor: Jose Peralta
Relates to aggravated vehicular homicide where a person commits the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the second degree and has previously been convicted three times of violating any provisions of section 1192 of the vehicle and traffic law within the preceding ten years.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to the board of trustees of the New York state higher education services corporation.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Extends an occupancy tax in the village of Mount Kisco.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Relates to mandatory greenhouse gas emissions and clean energy standard reporting; requires the public service commission and the New York state energy research and development authority to submit annual reports to the governor and the legislature regarding state's progress toward meeting the goals of the clean energy standard.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to maintaining the continued viability of the state's existing large-scale, renewable energy resources.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Requires facilities offering dialysis services to have an alternate generated power source for use during a general power outage or disaster emergency; exemptions.
Sponsor: Luis Sepulveda
Relates to the moratorium on the processing and approval of applications for licensure of licensed home care services agencies; permits the commissioner of health to grant exemptions from such moratorium.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to clarifying alcoholic beverage tastings sales tax exemptions; establishes requirements for such tastings including number of samples offered.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides that a controlled substance analogue shall be deemed to be the controlled substance to which it is substantially similar or mimics.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Enacts "Harper's Law" requiring tip restraint devices on certain furniture.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Relates to the floor area ratio of certain dwellings in New York city.
Sponsor: Rules
Relates to licensing of independent insurance adjusters by waiving requirements regarding character references and a written examination if the applicant holds a claim certification from a national or state-based claims association.
Sponsor: James Seward
Requires electronic cigarette packaging to include a warning that the product may pose an explosion hazard.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to designating the month of May "Korean American Family Month".
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Requires that prepaid cellular telephone cards have the expiration date of the minutes purchased printed on the card in conspicuous print.
Sponsor: Erik Dilan
Establishes protocols for assisted outpatient treatment for substance abuse; provides criteria for assisted outpatient treatment for substance abuse; provides for service, right to counsel, hearings, appeals and applications for additional periods of treatment; makes related changes.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Relates to the classification of historical lands and buildings located within the forest preserve.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
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
Allows municipalities to lease naming rights of government-owned property.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to the deferral of vacation days for certain members of the retirement systems.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Provides that the disposition of net revenues of regional off-track betting corporations to participating counties may be divided on an annual, bi-annual or quarterly basis as determined by such corporations.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to penalties and enforcement in the Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve; authorizes a police officer or peace officer to impound any all-terrain vehicle provided that such seizure is conducted pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to food banks; establishes the gifts to food banks fund; authorizes and directs the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to distribute grants to local not-for-profit corporations for the distribution of food to persons in need.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Amends the definition of the term "mail" with respect to allowing electronic delivery of notices of premium finance agencies with insured consent.
Sponsor: James Seward
Authorizes the discontinuance of park land of a portion of subsurface real property in the city of New York and grants easements to the metropolitan transportation authority to enable the New York city transit authority to use such lands for the construction of a new subsurface electrical substation adjacent to the existing tunnel of the A, C, E subway lines to provide power to enable additional subway trains to be operated.
Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Designates criminal investigators employed by the United States transportation security administration's investigations division as peace officers.
Sponsor: Jesse Hamilton
Includes the use of farmer-purchased farmland protection agreements in the commissioner's evaluation of applications for funding for agricultural protection plans.
Sponsor: Patricia Ritchie
Designates state route 23 as a state arterial highway in the city of Norwich, county of Chenango.
Sponsor: Fred Akshar
Directs the city of New York to conduct an analysis of stormwater and groundwater issues in southeast Queens.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Relates to the registration of real estate appraisal management companies or an individual or business entity that provides appraisal management services to creditors or to secondary mortgage market participants including affiliates by the department of state.
Sponsor: Kenneth Zebrowski
Provides for the removal of persons from campgrounds by the owner or operator thereof, or his or her agent; establishes the grounds for removal of persons from a campground; provides for the disposition of abandoned property at a campground.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to adoption by a petitioner where such petitioner's parentage is legally-recognized.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Relates to the promotion of civil service exams and requires the state civil service department to make efforts to utilize state university of New York educational opportunity centers when selecting testing sites.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Amends the definition of interim multiple dwelling units; authorizes claims originating in the loft board to be brought in civil court; amends how rents in interim dwelling units are controlled; subjects cooperative and condominium units to certain rent regulations.
Sponsor: Martin Dilan
Establishes the "Dominic Murray sudden cardiac arrest prevention act"; directs the commissioners of education and health to establish rules and regulations for the treatment and monitoring of students of school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools who exhibit signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to certain examinations taken by funeral directors.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
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 McDonald
Establishes a tax exemption for improvements to the property of severely injured members of the armed forces of the United States; authorizes localities to adopt a local law or resolution granting an exemption from taxation and special ad valorem levies for real property altered or improved for the purposes of removing architectural barriers that challenge the mobility of a severely injured member of the armed forces of the United States.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Relates to admissibility of an opposing party's statement.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Relates to immunity from civil liability for emergency removal of a child from a motor vehicle.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Directs the state energy planning board to conduct a study of natural gas reliability and to prepare a report on the study's findings and legislative recommendations.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Grants Danielle Galasso a retroactive membership date in the New York state and local employees' retirement system for service starting in 2003.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to establishing a court-appointed special advocates program to aid the family court.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Provides exemptions from certain requirements for electronic prescriptions for oral prescriptions issued to patients in health care facilities.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides for the licensing of genetic counselors; creates the state board for genetic counseling.
Sponsor: Kenneth LaValle
Extends, from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2023, the expiration of the provisions of the public authorities law authorizing the dormitory authority to construct and finance facilities for the not-for-profit members of the New York State Rehabilitation Association and the New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Establishes the Adirondack Park forest preserve study commission to examine land-management practices for certain classifications of state forest preserve lands.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to correcting the spelling of the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Authorizes family courts to order the local commissioner of social services to advise the employer of a respondent upon the disposition of a child protective proceeding where the respondent has contact with children in the course of his or her employment if there is a finding that the child was abused.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to the implementation of a valuation manual and directs the department of financial services to study the impact of such implementation.
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to reimbursement methodologies for tuition.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the city of Albany to alienate certain lands used as parkland and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Provides that the official state hymn of remembrance in honor of all American veterans shall be "Here Rests in Honored Glory".
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Provides that no person, corporation, partnership or limited liability company shall knowingly sell any food product advertised or labeled as "local" unless such food product originated in New York or meets other guidelines established for retail food products.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Establishes that any income included pursuant to section 512(a)(7) of the internal revenue code shall be subtracted from federal unrelated business taxable income.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Authorizes Maranatha Grace Church to file, with the county of Nassau, an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Earlene Hooper
Authorizes the assessor of the county of Nassau to accept from Yeshiva Nishmas HaTorah, Inc. an application for exemption from real property taxes.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Designates Katonah lake, Kitchawan lake, Oscaleta lake, Rippowam lake, Truesdale lake and Waccabuc lake as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Directs the office of general services to conduct a study relating to the feasibility and advisability of establishing an office of risk assessment and management, and/or expanding the duties of the chief risk officer.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Provides a definition for electric energy storage equipment; further provides a tax abatement for electric energy storage equipment placed in service from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2021.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Prohibits lobbyists, political action committees and labor unions and certain persons registered with the state board of elections from making loans to candidates or political committees.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Korean Presbyterian Church of Bayside for the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: David McDonough
Relates to the powers of the Terence Cardinal Cooke health care center, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to permitted deductions from wages; extends the effectiveness of such provisions.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the North Bellmore Fire District to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: David McDonough
Establishes requirements for registered and certified pharmacy technicians; requires persons working in a pharmacy who directly assist licensed pharmacists to dispense prescriptions or have authority to add or to modify prescription records maintained in the pharmacy computer system to be registered or certified as a pharmacy technician.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Provides for the establishment of a sexual assault victim bill of rights by the department of health, in consultation with the division of criminal justice services and the office of victim services; establishes a victim's right to notice.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Establishes a pilot program related to making the gluten content of food available at certain state owned, operated, or leased cafeterias.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain acts and proceedings of the town board of the town of Thurman, Warren county, in relation to the issuance of obligations for the financing of alternate water supply systems for five homes as required by a consent order of the department of environmental conservation and also for a municipal building.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
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: Carrie Woerner
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
Authorizes funds to municipalities from the UDC in the case of certain tax certiorari challenges or agreed upon settlements resulting in loss of tax revenues or increased tax levies of over twenty percent or in regards to a settlement agreement, a reduction in real property taxes or a payment in lieu of taxes of at least twenty percent in the aggregate over the term of such settlement agreement; and permits the establishment of tax certiorari stabilization reserve funds.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to small business savings accounts; provides tax incentives for contributions and distributions.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Authorizes the town of Yorktown, in the county of Westchester, to alienate certain parklands.
Sponsor: Kevin Byrne
Establishes a postconsumer paint collection program; requires producers of architectural paint sold at retail in the state or a representative organization to submit a plan to the commissioner of environmental conservation for the establishment of a postconsumer paint collection program; prohibits a producer or retailer from selling architectural paint in the state unless the producer or producer's representative organization is implementing an approved program plan.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Establishes the Peconic Bay region septic system replacement loan program; defines terms; authorizes any town in the Peconic Bay region to establish a septic system replacement loan program using water quality improvement monies from the Peconic Bay region community preservation funds; makes related provisions.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Allows public libraries, urban renewal agencies and other quasi-governmental organizations created by and receiving fifty percent or more of their funding from a local government, to participate in municipal cooperative health benefit plans.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.
Sponsor: Thomas Abinanti
Relates to outreach, status and time limits relating to the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes all municipalities, with the consent of the county and the governing body of such municipality, to join a county self-funded or self-insured health plan; requires certification.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Creates the people's history project within the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation to foster the recognition of heretofore overlooked personages, sites, and events of historical significance; provides for the establishment of a committee to pass on nominations made by the citizens of this state for the inclusion of personages, sites, and events in the project; provides for suitable commemorative markers, a map and website listings of such.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Requires disclosure by principal creditors and debt collection agencies of the legal obligations of a deceased debtor's family.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Authorizes the Grand Island central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.
Sponsor: Angelo Morinello
Requires regulations to notify vendors of WIC reimbursement discrepancies and the reason for such discrepancy; prohibits fees for rejected or bounced checks; relates to a method for collecting the difference between the total submitted for reimbursement and the authorized value of the WIC check.
Sponsor: Marcos Crespo
Creates the digital currency task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on the potential effects of the widespread implementation of digital currencies on financial markets in the state.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school crossing guards.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Requires domestic violence and sexual assault awareness education for persons engaged in the practice of nail specialty, waxing, natural hair styling, esthetics and cosmetology and establishes such education programs.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Requires health care facilities to respect each patient's religious beliefs with regard to the provision of health care.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Adds the New York Racing Association, Inc. to the list of dormitories under the public authorities law.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Relates to authorizing the city of Buffalo and the village of Angola to correct a property line between certain properties lying within the town of Evans which was formerly parkland.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Establishes that the board of regents and the state education department shall study and evaluate the feasibility of mandating kindergarten in all school districts.
Sponsor: James Seward
Requires that notice be given to the community boards when there is a change in service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the New York city transit authority.
Sponsor: Leroy Comrie
Requires certain persons and officials to report child abuse or suspected child abuse to law enforcement authorities.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Permits state lottery winners to remain anonymous to the general public.
Sponsor: Kathleen Marchione
Relates to a provisional permit for clinical laboratory technology.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Preserves the ability of firefighters and police officers to negotiate disciplinary procedures.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes catastrophic business disruption insurance as a non-basic type of insurance.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to the Jaam'e Masjid Bellmore LI Inc. for the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Sponsor: David McDonough
Relates to rate schedules for net energy metering and to directing the Long Island power authority to adopt a methodology for the establishment of a value of distributed energy resources crediting mechanism.
Sponsor: Steven Englebright
Relates to additional member contributions for certain members under the age fifty-seven retirement program; provides that members holding certain titles who due to their age at the time of enrollment in the age fifty-seven retirement program will not obtain twenty-five years of service credit and therefore will not be eligible for a refund of their additional member contributions shall not be required to make additional member contributions.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to payment in construction contracts; specifies the meaning of "substantial completion" for the purposes of requisition payments in construction contracts.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Establishes reimbursement mechanisms for access to hospice services for residents of assisted living programs.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires the commissioner to establish domestic violence awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; age appropriate.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Relates to a referee's compensation; increases a referee's compensation generally to three hundred fifty dollars and upon a sale of real property pursuant to a judgment to seven hundred fifty dollars.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to the description of certain lands to be excepted as necessary for above-ground appurtenances in the village of Mamaroneck.
Sponsor: Steven Otis
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to conduct a study on food waste initiatives and to provide recommendations based on the study's findings.
Sponsor: Latoya Joyner
Extends authorization for contracts for the provision of special education and related services for certain patients hospitalized in hospitals operated by the office of mental health.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to distiller licenses.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Requires certain disclosures by sperm and ovum storage facilities to inform clients relating to the inheritance rights of a posthumously conceived child from the utilization of such sperm or ovum.
Sponsor: Diane Savino
Relates to authorizing cull permits to certified nuisance wildlife specialists; authorizes the department of environmental conservation, after a review of the site-specific wildlife management plan, and upon a finding that wildlife has become a nuisance, destructive to public or private property or a threat to public health or welfare, to issue a certified nuisance wildlife specialist a cull permit; defines terms.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Relates to authorizing the Wayne 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 Wayne.
Sponsor: Robert Oaks
Relates to authorizing the issuance of a license to certain motion picture theatres; authorizes the issuance of a license to three parcels located in Brooklyn.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Establishes the office for diversity and educational equity within the state university of New York administration.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Validates certain acts by the Roscoe central school district in connection with final building cost reports required to be filed with the education department.
Sponsor: Aileen Gunther
Relates to the exemption of certain parcels of land.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Enacts the residential structure fire prevention act of 2018; provides a tax credit to homeowners who remove cock loft fire hazards in their homes; provides an insurance discount for the installation of smoke detecting alarm devices in cock lofts; provides that the repair of cock lofts for the purpose of fire prevention and safety shall be qualifying expenditures under state housing programs.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services".
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Provides that policies and contracts covering diagnostic screening for prostate cancer shall not be subject to cost sharing; requires notice of availability of such coverage without cost sharing to be provided in the notice to persons at risk of or having prostate cancer.
Sponsor: Richard Gottfried
Relates to the insurance reserve funds of the Niskayuna central school district.
Sponsor: Phillip Steck
Authorizes and directs the department of health to conduct a study on physicians and other licensed healthcare professionals reporting medical conditions that may impair the ability of a motorist to drive a motor vehicle.
Sponsor: Robert Carroll
Relates to notification of a security breach; includes credit and debit cards; increases civil penalties.
Sponsor: Matthew Titone
Relates to the total amount of bonds the Upper Mohawk Valley memorial authority may issue; authorizes, for certain public works undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements, use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts; increases the members of the governing body to nine.
Sponsor: Anthony Brindisi
Establishes entrepreneurship assistance centers to provide assistance to primarily minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and dislocated workers and veterans; requires the department of economic development to establish criteria and designation of such centers; sets forth requirements for each center.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Permits the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Great South Bay Sayville to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Establishes the commission on prosecutorial conduct.
Sponsor: Nick Perry
Amends certain time frames for action by insurers relating to requests for unclaimed life insurance through the lost policy finder.
Sponsor: Pamela Hunter
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Anthony Palumbo
Authorizes the commissioner of motor vehicles to impose higher civil penalties upon motor carriers who knowingly and negligently fail to report to the commissioner of motor vehicles certain disqualifying violations by bus drivers employed by such carrier.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Permits The Advocare Foundation, Ltd. to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Dean Murray
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Extends provisions of law relating to a health savings account pilot program.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Authorizes Patrick Humiston to receive certain service credit under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence; and repeals such commission one year after this act takes effect.
Sponsor: Clyde Vanel
Relates to directing the board of regents and the state education department to conduct a study and make recommendations on the readiness of children to start kindergarten and adjusting the age of mandatory attendance from minors who become five years of age after the first of December to minors who become five years of age after the first of September.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to non-marital fathers in adoption, surrender and termination of parental rights proceedings and consents to adoptions in family and surrogate's courts.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Relates to the definitions of the terms "CFC income" and "entire net income"; provides that exempt CFC income shall include income required to be included in a taxpayer's federal gross income pursuant to subsection (a) of section 951A of the internal revenue code; excludes the amount of any federal deduction allowed pursuant to section 250(a)(1)(B)(i) of the IRC from being included in the calculation of entire net income.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Authorizes the county of Yates to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Megan Morehouse, a deputy sheriff employed by such county.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Authorizes the commissioner of DMV to require examination of a person involved in an accident caused by a loss of consciousness or awareness; directs DMV, in consultation with the New York state department of health and the New York state division of state police, to undertake a review of the department's medical review program regarding the department's reexamination of drivers who may suffer from a chronic, ongoing condition that may cause loss of consciousness, loss of awareness or loss of body control.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Prohibits the sale of electric assisted bicycles unless the packaging contains a notice stating that the operation of such electric assisted bicycle on any public highway, road or sidewalk is unlawful.
Sponsor: Rebecca Seawright
Relates to the New York state business incubator and innovation hot spot support act.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to additional exclusions for entire net income; includes deductions pursuant to IRC section 163.
Sponsor: Thomas O'Mara
Relates to the presence of a companion animal when executing a warrant for eviction or dispossession of property and directs the executing officer to make arrangements for the safe removal of such animal.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Provides an exemption for tangible personal property and services sold by a cemetery; establishes an amnesty program for cemetery corporations.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Limits the amount of a property tax shift from one class of property to another for 2018-2019 in the county of Suffolk.
Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Includes the construction of public water mains and connections to provide a pure and wholesome source of drinking water to inhabitants whose drinking water supply has been contaminated by toxic or hazardous substances within the definition of water quality improvement project.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Directs the department of environmental conservation to adopt rules and regulations requiring permittees to place air monitoring equipment at an appropriate distance from permitted waste transfer stations to measure data for ozone, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, meteorological data, PM 1.0 and PM 2.5.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Requires a resolution by the board of trustees of a school district to authorize the installation, administration, operation, notice processing and maintenance of and use of photo monitoring devices on school buses to detect and record vehicles illegally passing or overtaking a school bus; provides for owner liability of a motor vehicle detected by a camera to have illegally passed or overtaken a school bus; provides that liability shall be a monetary penalty in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars.
Sponsor: Catharine Young
Authorizes the county of Nassau to accept an application for retroactive real property tax exemption from the First Reformed Church of Jamaica for a certain parcel in Hempstead.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Increases the number of judges in the county of Tompkins from two to three judgeships.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Establishes identification cards for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: Pamela Helming
Permits the Patchogue Fire District to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Andrew Garbarino
Establishes the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image and creates a private right of action for such crime.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Extends the empire state commercial production tax credit.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Relates to Gio's Law; requires members of all emergency service providers to be trained in the administration of emergency anaphylaxis treatment and to carry emergency anaphylaxis treatment in their vehicles.
Sponsor: Melissa Miller
Relates to payments for home and community based long term care services; provides that funds appropriated to compensate for minimum wage requirements, shall not be subject to managed care risk adjustment on insurers.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Allows out of state health care professionals to perform services at the Ironman Lake Placid and the Ironman 70.3.
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Convenes an office-based surgery workgroup to make recommendations regarding appropriate reforms or policy changes necessary and in the best interest of the public.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Prohibits the construction of any mausoleum or columbarium in a cemetery where such mausoleum or columbarium is the only form of interment offered in a cemetery, except in limited circumstances to assure the perpetual care of remains already in a mausoleum or columbarium.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Requires restaurants that offer online delivery services to post their most recent sanitary inspection grade on their website and/or any internet-based food delivery service websites where consumers can order from such food service establishment.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Relates to the issuance of a distinctive license plate for members of the New York state Elks association of the benevolent and protective order of the Elks.
Sponsor: George Amedore
Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation; removes the five years of service residency issue.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Relates to five-year capital plans for the state university of New York and the city university of New York.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Relates to providing that a deputy sheriff of the county of Chenango need not be a resident of such county.
Sponsor: Clifford Crouch
Clarifies that the SUNY health science centers are included in the maintenance of effort provision pursuant to chapter 260 of the laws of 2011.
Sponsor: Deborah Glick
Relates to the definition of overtime ceiling for members who first become members of a public retirement system of the state on or after April first, two thousand twelve.
Sponsor: Peter Abbate
Provides that any funds paid to a support collection unit which have not been disbursed after two years after diligent efforts to locate the person entitled to such funds, and funds which the remitter of such funds has not provided sufficient identifying information to associate the funds with an existing account shall be paid to the state comptroller.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Authorizes the city of Newburgh, in the county of Orange, to offer police officer Samuel Kenan Jr. an optional 20 year retirement plan.
Sponsor: William Larkin
Ensures that temporary protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid benefits if the federal government ends the program.
Sponsor: Michaelle Solages
Provides for the establishment of the "Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Whitehall, New York".
Sponsor: Daniel Stec
Relates to the minimum requirements for a quorum; there shall be no less than a majority of the total number of members of the commission in order to transact any business, perform any duty or exercise any power.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Relates to authority of certain municipalities to levy an excise tax on the sale of tobacco products other than cigarettes; relates to warrants issued pursuant to the administrative code of the city of New York.
Sponsor: Helene Weinstein
Designates Sauquoit Creek as an inland waterway for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Sponsor: Joseph Griffo
Relates to instituting internet service neutrality; provides the public service commission with jurisdiction over monitoring broadband internet service providers; requires a certification for internet service neutrality in certain state contracts.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Grants the village of Farmingdale retroactive real property tax exempt status for lots located at 254 Main Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Requires the department of agriculture and markets to post the results of its graded inspections of retail food stores on their website.
Sponsor: Roxanne Persaud
Relates to the timing of risk level determination hearings for certain convicted sex offenders who are expected to be, upon sentencing, released on probation or discharged upon payment of a fine, conditional discharge or unconditional discharge.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Directs a city with a population of one million or more to reduce its real property tax levy for the 2019 fiscal year by an amount not less than the real property tax increase authorized pursuant to local law 40 of the city of New York for the year 2002.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Establishes a committee on safety within the metropolitan transportation authority.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Creates the "Finger Lakes community act of 2018"; prohibits the siting of newly constructed incineration facilities in the Finger Lakes region.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Provides that a corporation shall be allowed a deduction in computing entire net income for any FDIC premium paid by the corporation that is disallowed under the internal revenue code.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Grants a preference to New York state businesses in the state contract award process where the New York state business' bid is within five percent of the winning bid.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Relates to enacting Jacobe's Law in relation to requiring school administrators to contact the parents or guardians of students when bullying or harassment has occurred.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Requires information on possible complications from pregnancy that can lead to death; requires screenings and referrals for serious threats to life after pregnancy.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Relates to requiring the Long Island Power Authority to provide public notice prior to the construction of utility transmission facilities.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
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
Authorizes the payment of rewards in connection with the enforcement of the cigarette tax.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Creates a disabled person retrofit tax credit.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Empowers the commissioner to enter into mutual aid and assistance agreements with other states, executive agencies, and political subdivisions of such states in public emergencies.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for health related services for certain employees not employed by the state who served in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to increasing the revised rule public comment period from thirty days to forty-five days.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Permits consecutive sentencing for homicide convictions where there are multiple victims and the defendant was on parole or probation at the time of the crime.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Establishes a commission to be known as the "New York seawall study commission" which will study the feasibility, costs, impacts, and best locations for construction of a seawall or sea gate being created to protect the city of New York from sea level rise and storm surge along the entire coastline.
Sponsor: Joseph Addabbo
Requires that websites providing inmate information be searchable by the inmate's name, former name or alias.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Directs OCFS and the office for the aging to prepare a report regarding calls received during extended hours of the Adult Protective Services line.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to prohibiting the exclusion of coverage for losses or damages caused by exposure to lead-based paint; provides that no insurer licensed or permitted by the superintendent to provide liability coverage to rental property owners shall exclude coverage for losses or damages caused by exposure to lead-based paint.
Sponsor: Sean Ryan
Directs the department of agriculture and markets to increase the number of regional farmers' markets for the direct marketing of foods and produce produced in the state.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Klein
Relates to reimbursement criteria for child care absences.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Relates to authorizing the village of Farmingdale to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for lots located at 387 Conklin Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Relates to repossession of a motor vehicle or motorcycle; extends the time frame in which the repossessor of a motor vehicle must submit the license plates to the department of motor vehicles from 24 hours to 10 days.
Sponsor: Carrie Woerner
Authorizes Anthony A. Fede Tier I status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: John Brooks
Establishes an emergency evacuation plan for individuals with disabilities; establishes $500 fine for failure to comply with such plan within one year of the effective date.
Sponsor: Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Relates to expanding the persons responsible for reporting cases of suspected child abuse to include employees, volunteers, or agents of any corporate entity having an agreement with a municipality as a tier II facility or any other shelter providing temporary housing to persons under the age of 18.
Sponsor: Latrice Walker
Relates to identity theft and unlawful possession of personal identification by means of voice recording.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to permitting the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Includes electronic cigarettes and liquid nicotine within the tobacco use and prevention program and requires the registration of vendors of electronic cigarettes.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes emergency medical care personnel to provide basic first aid to dogs and cats.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Establishes the domestic violence accountability program; requires mandatory domestic violence counseling.
Sponsor: Michael Ranzenhofer
Requires dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency testing prior to fluoropyrmidine or other antimetabolite treatment; requires policies and contracts of insurance to include coverage for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency testing; provides for dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency testing under the medical assistance program.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to the calculation of the brownfield site preparation credit for certain taxpayers.
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Relates to sex offender's notice of residency requirements; provides that no sex offender shall reside in a residence within 1000 feet of any school building regularly used for instructional purposes, a building in which child day care is provided or a park.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Allows qualified persons residing in the county of Orange or Westchester to be appointed as a peace officer in the county of Rockland at the instance of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for the county of Rockland.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Requires immediate notification by law enforcement of the filing of an accusatory instrument alleging a sex offense by an employee; provides that no cause of action against law enforcement or school district shall exist for damages related to the dissemination of criminal history or arrest records.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Relates to the determination of a quorum for the transaction of business of the New York convention center operating corporation.
Sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal
Permits the filing and paying of otherwise-valid medical assistance claims that are not timely filed due to the implementation of a new or upgraded electronic medical record system.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides for the autism detection, education and mapping program.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Enacts Brianna's Law; requires that operators of mechanically propelled vessels complete a boating safety course.
Sponsor: Kimberly Jean-Pierre
Relates to decoupling from federal transition tax for partnerships for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to emergency medical technician certification requirements, permitting an individual under the age of eighteen to be certified as an EMT if such individual is a member of the armed forces of the United States.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Authorizes the department of health take certain actions for the purpose of supporting home care and community based sepsis prevention, screening, intervention and education.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires supermarkets to make surplus food available to qualifying charities.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Authorizes the town of New Castle, in the county of Westchester, to lease space on the sport field fences in 3 of its parks.
Sponsor: David Buchwald
Increases to the ability of the New York state medical care facilities finance agency to issue certain bonds and notes.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Relates to payment in construction contracts; specifies the meaning of "substantial completion" for the purposes of requisition payments in construction contracts.
Sponsor: Michael Cusick
Designates state route 256 in the town of Conesus, county of Livingston, as the "Conesus Veterans Memorial Highway".
Sponsor: Joseph Errigo
Requires certain lodging facilities to make available information concerning services for human trafficking victims.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Mandates NYC Transit Authority to produce annual reports concerning actions to reduce noise.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Extends provisions of law relating to catastrophic or reinsurance coverage issued to certain small groups.
Sponsor: James Seward
Relates to mitigating the closure of the L subway line in the city of New York; directs the MTA in consultation with other relevant entities to develop a plan to mitigate the individual and economic hardships due to the L subway line closure; establishes a temporary high-occupancy vehicle program on the Williamsburg bridge by means of mobile or stationary photo devices.
Sponsor: Joseph Lentol
Relates to authorizing the Tioga 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 Tioga.
Sponsor: Christopher Friend
Relates to transfer of retirement membership for certain employees of SUNY within the professional, scientific and technical bargaining unit.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to substance use disorder coverage.
Sponsor: Robert Ortt
Authorizes Clifford Swezey to receive a refund from the New York state teachers' retirement system due to overpayment.
Sponsor: Todd Kaminsky
Establishes "Brendan's law"; requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities installing new or replacement window coverings to install cordless window coverings; requires child day care centers, public institutions for children and certain other facilities that have window coverings in place before the effective date of this section to meet safety standards established in ANSI/WCMA A 100.1-2012 or any successor standard.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Establishes state and New York City maternal mortality review boards and the maternal mortality and morbidity advisory council for the purpose of reviewing maternal deaths and maternal morbidity and developing and disseminating findings, recommendations, and best practices to contribute to the prevention of maternal mortality and morbidity.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes William L. Herman Tier II status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.
Sponsor: Robin Schimminger
Relates to damages to contracts occasioned by delay.
Sponsor: Ron Kim
Enacts Lulu and Leo's law establishing the crime of misrepresentation by, or on behalf of, a caregiver for children when a person knowingly makes a misrepresentation about a caregiver's background.
Sponsor: Andrew Lanza
Provides for the disqualification of a surviving spouse if the marriage is annulled or voided after the death of the spouse.
Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Relates to the provision of services and assistance to respondent parents during the pendency of child protective proceedings.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Provides that component school districts cannot impose a tax levy for their share of the board of cooperative educational services capital expenditures.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Authorizes the village of Spring Valley justices to live in the towns of Ramapo or Clarkstown, county of Rockland.
Sponsor: David Carlucci
Requires facilities offering dialysis services to have an alternate generated power source for use during a general power outage or disaster emergency; exemptions.
Sponsor: Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Provides for the conduct of lead case management by the department of health and local departments of health based on the blood level of a child; establishes protocol for blood levels based on various micrograms.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to place incarcerated parents at correctional institutions and facilities closest to their children's home.
Sponsor: Nily Rozic
Subjects certain lands in the towns of Blooming Grove and Chester, Orange county, acquired for a public use by the commissioners of the Palisades Interstate park, exclusive of improvements erected thereon by the state, to real property taxation; applies to assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after the date on which this act becomes law.
Sponsor: James Skoufis
Establishes the town of Southampton community development agency.
Sponsor: Fred Thiele
Relates to establishing an electronic automated system for applications and waiting lists and to developing a written procedure for applicant selection and rejection.
Sponsor: Michael Blake
Relates to authorizing custom liquor production for a non-licensed individual by farm distilleries; establishes conditions for such production including that such custom liquor shall not be offered for sale.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to authorizing Konbit Neg Lakay Inc. of Spring Valley to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Sponsor: Ellen Jaffee
Designates the bridge on state route 213 over Rondout creek in the town of Marbletown, county of Ulster, as the "Kathy Cairo Davis Memorial Bridge".
Sponsor: Kevin Cahill
Relates to the distribution of lymphedema information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema and lists which patients are considered high risk.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
Establishes the interagency task force on health literacy, to study health literacy and develop recommendations for improving health literacy in this state.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Grants William J. Cooley additional service credit within the New York state and local police and fire retirement system.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Provides that persons employed by the Monroe county sheriff's office serving as court security deputies at Monroe court facilities be designated as peace officers.
Sponsor: Patrick Gallivan
Relates to language development for deaf and hard of hearing children; requires the department to select language development milestones for existing standardized norms for purposes of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard of hearing children's expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy.
Sponsor: Joseph Robach
Provides that the department of transportation shall conduct a study to evaluate the weight limitations of fire vehicles with pneumatic tires.
Sponsor: Philip Boyle
Relates to granting Tier I status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to Thomas Amodeo.
Sponsor: Christopher Jacobs
Establishes a Columbia/Dutchess carbon farming pilot project to study the carbon sequestration potential of a range of farming practices in Columbia and Dutchess counties, including, but not limited to, those practices already promoted by the state; and provides for the repeal of such program upon expiration thereof.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to disaster preparedness.
Sponsor: Jeffrey Dinowitz
Provides for service of subpoena and delivery of records.
Sponsor: John Bonacic
Directs the department of environmental conservation to adopt rules and regulations requiring permittees to place air monitoring equipment at an appropriate distance from permitted waste transfer stations to measure data for ozone, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, meteorological data, PM 1.0 and PM 2.5.
Sponsor: Rebecca Seawright
Relates to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings; extends effectiveness.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to authorizing the town of Brookhaven, in the county of Suffolk, to lease parklands to the Patchogue-Medford Library.
Sponsor: John Flanagan
Relates to the disposition of cats; allows shelters to put cats, whose owners cannot be identified by any collar, tags or microchip, up for adoption after three days and after an examination by a veterinarian.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
Directs the department of state and the public service commission to study and report upon the prevalence of the disclosure by public utilities, cable television companies and cellular telephone service providers to credit reporting agencies of late payments and defaults in payment of fees and charges by consumers.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Extends the enforcement of the collection of delinquent real property taxes and the collection of taxes by banks and enforces the collection of taxes in certain villages.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Authorizes New York Kali Mandir, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Sponsor: Brian Curran
Requires the smart schools review board to meet at minimum once every three months and to further announce the date for a subsequent meeting.
Sponsor: Susan Serino
Enacts the local food, farms, and jobs act; relates to the procurement of locally grown farm and food products; sets goals for levels of procurement by state agencies; creates the New York state council on food policy.
Sponsor: James Sanders
Enacts Carlos' law; relates to crimes involving the death or injury of a worker; establishes higher fines for corporations who commit such crimes; establishes the crimes of endangering the welfare of a worker in the third, second and first degrees.
Sponsor: Rafael Espinal
Adds tracks located in Westchester county to the tracks excepted from being considered regional tracks.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Prohibits the disclosure of personally identifiable information by an internet service provider without the express written approval of the consumer.
Sponsor: Monica Wallace
Relates to motorcycle insurance policies and requires owners' policies of liability to inform the insured that motor vehicle no-fault insurance does not apply to motorcycles and that state uninsured motorist coverage is available in the alternative.
Sponsor: John DeFrancisco
Relates to requiring a two-thirds vote of the board in certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Approves land transactions relating to the implementation of the land exchange for the forest preserve health and safety land account and public utility improvements.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Provides for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents.
Sponsor: John McDonald
Relates to authorizing the village of Farmingdale to receive retroactive real property tax exemptions for lots located at 137 and 145 Main Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Sponsor: Michael Montesano
Designates certain lakes as inland waterways.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
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: Andrew Goodell
Relates to the establishment of a wage data clearinghouse.
Sponsor: Harry Bronson
Regulates the sale of methamphetamine precursor drugs.
Sponsor: David Valesky
Relates to authorized absences by healthcare professionals who volunteer to fight the Ebola virus overseas; extends effectiveness.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Provides three options for the designation of sex by applicants for driver's licenses and learner's permits.
Sponsor: Felix Ortiz
Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Requires each clinical laboratory to have one or more supervisors upon the premises during business hours; provides for such supervisors' qualifications and duties.
Sponsor: Kemp Hannon
Relates to changes in assessment for businesses that make payments in lieu of taxes; establishes that any reduction in school taxes shall not take effect until the following taxable status year.
Sponsor: Amy Paulin
Requires the placement of the recycling receptacle/collection bin near the entrance of the store, if practicable; makes related provisions; mandates a sign be posted above the receptacle/collection bin indicating that this is the location to recycle plastic bags, including grocery store bags, dry cleaning bags, and newspaper bags.
Sponsor: Tony Avella
Provides for a state workforce fuel reduction & conservation program which will develop and assist in implementing strategies to reduce fuel consumption by the state's motor vehicle fleet and to reduce solo trips between work and home by state employees; requires reporting to the governor and legislature.
Sponsor: Kevin Parker
Relates to the administration of real property tax refunds and credits in Nassau county on class four property.
Sponsor: Rules
Permits the Steuben County sheriff and correctional facility to hold detained persons between arrest and arraignment.
Sponsor: Philip Palmesano
Relates to automobile tire inflation machines; vests jurisdiction over automobile tire inflation machines with the state.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Authorizes lactation counseling services without a referral from a physician, registered physician assistant, registered nurse practitioner, or licensed midwife.
Sponsor: Michaelle Solages
Relates to establishing a crisis intervention demonstration program.
Sponsor: Latrice Walker
Relates to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically and making recommendations regarding cultural and linguistic competency and best practices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations.
Sponsor: Marisol Alcantara
Authorizes the village of Massena, town of Massena, county of St. Lawrence to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland.
Sponsor: Addie Jenne
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
Provides that state aid may be provided for up to 90% of the total project approved costs for buildings of public libraries that are located in an economically distressed community; extends certain provisions of the public library construction grant program authorizing grants for the purchase of property for library construction and increased aid for economically disadvantaged communities, until 2025.
Sponsor: Didi Barrett
Relates to requiring certain public school facilities to retain on premises at least one functional cardiac automated external defibrillator, in relation to naming such act the "Louis Acompora AED's in schools act".
Sponsor: Carl Marcellino
Defines a hotel license.
Sponsor: Terrence Murphy
Relates to the taxation of property owned by a cooperative corporation.
Sponsor: Sandra Galef
Relates to the assault of physicians providing direct patient care; provides that assault of physicians shall be assault in the second degree, a class D felony.
Sponsor: Rich Funke
Relates to regulation of sports betting and mobile sports wagering; implements a tax equivalent to eight and one-half percent of sports wagering gross revenue; requires reporting; provides for civil penalties for violations.
Sponsor: Gary Pretlow
Relates to therapy dogs for persons with a disability.
Sponsor: Timothy Kennedy
Authorizes the city of Cohoes, in the county of Albany, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Jeffrey Bressette.
Sponsor: Neil Breslin
Relates to authorizing private special education schools to seek department approval to offer alternative high school equivalency preparation programs.
Sponsor: Catherine Nolan
Relates to the additional parcel in township 40, in the town of Long Lake.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Provides that the commission of certain specified crimes which are committed against a member of the same family or household shall be punishable as domestic violence crimes and carry enhanced penalties.
Sponsor: Elaine Phillips
Implements the effective background check act of 2018; requires background checks for employees who would be authorized to possess or transfer firearms.
Sponsor: Patricia Fahy
Establishes a career and technical high school diploma (CTE) for students completing a course of study for a career or trade.
Sponsor: Simcha Felder
Requires that there shall be a rebuttable presumption that any pregnant woman should be released on her own recognizance without posting of bail.
Sponsor: Nathalia Fernandez
Authorizes the towns of Inlet and Webb to establish and operate a joint police district.
Sponsor: James Tedisco
Relates to penalties for owners of property who fail to file a proper or timely rent registration statement.
Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain acts and proceedings of the town board of the town of Thurman, Warren county, in relation to the issuance of obligations for the financing of alternate water supply systems for five homes as required by a consent order of the department of environmental conservation and also for a municipal building.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Little
Relates to permitting employment of retired police, firefighters and EMTs without diminution of retirement allowance for periods in excess of two years.
Sponsor: Martin Golden
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Passed (500)
Provides that farm machinery, implements of husbandry and other machinery including road construction and maintenance machinery which are designed to operate at a speed greater than twenty-five mph but less than forty mph shall display a slow-moving vehicle emblem as well as a speed identification symbol.
Designates certain lakes as inland waterways.
Allows judicial notice of an image, map, location, distance, calculation, or other information taken from a web mapping service, a global satellite imaging site, or an internet mapping tool, when requested by a party to the action, subject to a rebuttable presumption.
Relates to the issuance of deer management permits for certain service-connected disabled veterans.
Exempts Nedrow Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
Relates to repossession of a motor vehicle or motorcycle; extends the time frame in which the repossessor of a motor vehicle must submit the license plates to the department of motor vehicles from 24 hours to 10 days.
Requires disclosure by principal creditors and debt collection agencies of the legal obligations of a deceased debtor's family.
Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention.
Adds lake Neatahwanta and the Oswego river to the definition of inland waterways.
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Relates to the removal of all police markings and affixed lights from a vehicle prior to decommissioning and auction.
Relates to the granting of a permanent vested easement for the Hudson river rail tunnel.
Authorizes the village of Clayton, county of Jefferson to transfer and convey certain parklands to Dean Hyde in exchange for certain lands owned by Dean Hyde which shall be used as parkland and as part of the village of Clayton's riverwalk project.
Relates to authorizing the Broome 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 Broome.
Relates to a prohibition on diversion of funds dedicated to public transportation systems.
Establishes the Peconic Bay region septic system replacement loan program; defines terms; authorizes any town in the Peconic Bay region to establish a septic system replacement loan program using water quality improvement monies from the Peconic Bay region community preservation funds; makes related provisions.
Relates to the duties of the division of veterans' affairs concerning information about veterans received from nursing homes and residential health care facilities, including assisted living facilities and assisted living residences and adult care facilities.
Authorizes the North Bellmore Fire District to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Relates to the registration of real estate appraisal management companies or an individual or business entity that provides appraisal management services to creditors or to secondary mortgage market participants including affiliates by the department of state.
Authorizes the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland, to discontinue the use of the municipally owned park land, and dedicate certain other lands as park lands.
Authorizes the assessor of the county of Nassau to accept from Yeshiva Nishmas HaTorah, Inc. an application for exemption from real property taxes.
Increases from 25 to 35, the number of land banks that are authorized statewide.
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Relates to real property tax exemptions for certain property owners who are required to participate in the federal flood insurance program because his or her real property is located in a special flood hazard area.
Includes the construction of public water mains and connections to provide a pure and wholesome source of drinking water to inhabitants whose drinking water supply has been contaminated by toxic or hazardous substances within the definition of water quality improvement project.
Relates to providing Long Island residents water usage information with their bill.
Relates to the management of migratory game birds; extends effectiveness.
Requires that every publisher of a magazine sold by subscription shall disclose by a notice on the billing statement or billing invoice of each magazine mailed pursuant to subscription, a customer service telephone number; such notice shall be printed or written in a clear and conspicuous form.
Authorizes Chabad of Great Neck to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcel of land in the village of Great Neck, county of Nassau.
Authorizes the port authority of New York and New Jersey to offer a certain retirement option to port authority police officers Eddy Stelter, Scarlet M. Cooper, William A. Mudry, John F. Fitzpatrick and Hugh A. Johnson.
Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.
Authorizes Stride, Inc. to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Increases the monetary exclusion on the requirement of plain language in consumer contracts.
Authorizes the county of Yates to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Megan Morehouse, a deputy sheriff employed by such county.
Relates to authorizing the Tioga 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 Tioga.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to adopt regulations for hunting in the northern zone.
Relates to insurance coverage for enteral formula; includes additional diseases and disorders for which enteral formula has been proven effective.
Extends an occupancy tax in the village of Mount Kisco.
Authorizes the assessor of the town of Haverstraw, county of Rockland, to accept an application for exemption from real property taxes from Iglesia Pentecostal 3RA Nueva Jerusalem, Inc.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law establishing an excess line advisory organization until 2024.
Relates to requiring the Long Island Power Authority to provide public notice prior to the construction of utility transmission facilities.
Authorizes the state university of New York to enter into a lease and otherwise contract to make grounds available and facilities of the state university of New York at Stony Brook to the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, to ensure quality pediatric health care services to the surrounding community; makes related provisions.
Authorizes county clerks to establish a system to receive and retain maps utilizing electronic means.
Extends the empire state commercial production tax credit.
Establishes that directors of controlled corporations may serve on the designated audit committee of the board of such controlling corporation.
Adds the Nanticoke Creek to the definition of inland waterways as a major creek.
Provides that the official state hymn of remembrance in honor of all American veterans shall be "Here Rests in Honored Glory".
Permits physicians who are licensed in another state or territory to provide medical services to athletes and team personnel at team sporting events in New York, provided such services are provided only to those athletes and team personnel at the team sporting event.
Relates to the certification of a deputy sheriff as a police officer by the police department of the city of New York.
Relates to the effective date for the tax exempt status of the real property of a land bank.
Relates to outreach, status and time limits relating to the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities.
Provides for the establishment of the "Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Whitehall, New York".
Relates to prohibiting consumer credit reporting agencies from charging a fee for the placement, removal, or temporary lift of a security freeze following consumer credit reporting agency data breaches.
Relates to replacing all instances of the words or variations of the words fireman or policeman with the words firefighter or police officer or variation thereof.
Authorizes the town of Camillus, in the county of Onondaga, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Erik Sauer.
Exempts the Pleasant Square Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.
Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to issue "Jamaican bobsled team" distinctive plates.
Relates to the award of burial expenses by the office of victim services; permits emergency awards for burial expenses in cases of undue hardship.
Relates to the production and sale of mead and braggot.
Relates to authorizing the town of Tonawanda, county of Erie, to alienate certain parcels of land used as parklands for the placement and operation of a cellular tower facility.
Increases the population limit of certain cities for purposes of requiring training of assessors of such cities.
Directs the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision to undertake a study of the surveillance, prevention, treatment and prevalence of hepatitis C among the inmate population.
Authorizes the dormitory authority to provide financing to the New York Academy of Medicine.
Removes the three-year exemption of mandatory continuing education for newly licensed certified public accountants and public accountants.
Authorizes the village of Lynbrook to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Police Officer Ronald J. Fleury who is employed by such village.
Relates to authorizing Konbit Neg Lakay Inc. of Spring Valley to file an application for certain real property tax exemptions.
Relates to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the emergency medical service.
Relates to notice of determination of eligibility for medical assistance; provides for written notice and additional electronic information.
Relates to extending certain provisions relating to the taking of sharks; extends provisions for two years.
Relates to substances containing chorionic gonadotropin expressly intended for administration through implants or injection to cattle or other nonhuman species.
Relates to establishing the mental health and substance use disorder parity report act to ensure compliance of insurers and health plans with state and federal requirements for the provision of mental health and substance use disorder treatment and claims.
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage lobster.
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Spectrum Designs Foundation Ltd. for portions of the 2016-2017 school and general taxes and all of the 2017-2018 school and 2018 general taxes.
Directs the commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in consultation with New York state fire service organizations, to develop a plan to increase the number of skills required as part of the Firefighter certification, or the Firefighter Recruit I and II certifications, which can be completed at a trainee's home department or online.
Relates to penalties and enforcement in the Long Island Pine Barrens maritime reserve; authorizes a police officer or peace officer to impound any all-terrain vehicle provided that such seizure is conducted pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law.
Authorizes the county of Erie to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to Christopher J. Lysy, Kristin M. Rozycki, Marc J. Bristow, Daniel E. Walczak, Thomas Van Wie and Donald Hoelscher who are deputy sheriffs employed by such county.
Provides for the establishment of a sexual assault victim bill of rights by the department of health, in consultation with the division of criminal justice services and the office of victim services; establishes a victim's right to notice.
Relates to requiring the department of health to review the safety of ultraviolet nail dryers and authorizes the department of state to promulgate any regulations deemed appropriate for governing the use of such devices by any appearance enhancement business conducting the practice of nail specialty.
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage striped bass.
Authorizes the Albany Pine Bush commission to acquire real property as may be necessary for the purposes and functions of the commission.
Directs the superintendent to develop a public information campaign regarding establishment of joint deposit and convenience accounts.
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.
Extends provisions of law relating to catastrophic or reinsurance coverage issued to certain small groups.
Creates the digital currency task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on the potential effects of the widespread implementation of digital currencies on financial markets in the state.
Relates to the qualifications of fire chiefs in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs fewer than five paid firefighters.
Establishes the military family relief fund and provides taxpayers a method by which they may contribute to the fund.
Grants the village of Farmingdale retroactive real property tax exempt status for lots located at 254 Main Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Creates the people's history project within the department of parks, recreation and historic preservation to foster the recognition of heretofore overlooked personages, sites, and events of historical significance; provides for the establishment of a committee to pass on nominations made by the citizens of this state for the inclusion of personages, sites, and events in the project; provides for suitable commemorative markers, a map and website listings of such.
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to the Jaam'e Masjid Bellmore LI Inc. for the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Relates to state contracts for landscape architecture.
Authorizes members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system to repay the loan balance at any time.
Relates to electronic payment of fees of brand label registration and to changing the time required for an application to be deemed approved.
Allows an individual in any taxable year to elect to contribute to the City University of New York (CUNY); all revenues collected shall be credited to the City University Construction Fund; the trustees of such fund shall report before the first of February each year on how such monies were utilized.
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.
Prohibits smoking within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or association library.
Creates the radon task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the prevention of human exposure to radon and make recommendations to reduce and minimize exposure to New York state residents; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Extends the authority of the New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. to maintain bonds until 2023.
Extends authorization for certain exemptions from filing requirements.
Establishes a committee on safety within the metropolitan transportation authority.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study on the effects of trauma on child development and learning and report the findings of such study and any recommendations to the governor and legislature.
Provides a definition for electric energy storage equipment; further provides a tax abatement for electric energy storage equipment placed in service from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2021.
Relates to solicitation used by or on behalf of any charitable organization.
Requires a minimum of 36 hours of mandatory continuing education for psychologists to be completed every 3 years.
Extends the enforcement of the collection of delinquent real property taxes and the collection of taxes by banks and enforces the collection of taxes in certain villages.
Gives members of the New York state legislature the ability to solemnize marriages, provided that they shall not charge a fee.
Authorizes the town justice court of the town of Canandaigua to hold justice court in the city of Canandaigua.
Relates to the disposition of cats; allows shelters to put cats, whose owners cannot be identified by any collar, tags or microchip, up for adoption after three days and after an examination by a veterinarian.
Authorizes the division of minority and women's business development to accept the DD Form 214 issued by the United States department of defense upon retirement, separation, or discharge from active duty in the armed forces of the United States as proof of the race or ethnicity of an applicant and of certain personal information for purposes of certification of the applicant's business as a minority-owned business.
Requires the secretary of state to compile, make public and keep current certain information on persons subjected to section 73-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making positions; further requires the secretary of state to post such information on the department of state website.
Adds the New York Racing Association, Inc. to the list of dormitories under the public authorities law.
Authorizes the city of Albany to alienate certain lands used as parkland and to dedicate certain other lands as parklands.
Relates to civil service provisional employees in New York city; extends certain provisions relating thereto.
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage monkfish.
Relates to the energy storage deployment policy.
Authorizes the state commissioner of transportation to convey certain real property to the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk.
Establishes that no corporation shall have a membership comprised of fewer than three persons, except for a corporation that has no members; may have a corporation, joint-stock association, unincorporated association or partnership as a sole member, if it is owned or controlled by no fewer than three persons.
Relates to increasing the revised rule public comment period from thirty days to forty-five days.
Relates to a referee's compensation; increases a referee's compensation generally to three hundred fifty dollars and upon a sale of real property pursuant to a judgment to seven hundred fifty dollars.
Authorizes New York Kali Mandir, Inc. to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status.
Relates to the definition of eligible securities in relation to obligations of domestic corporations.
Authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to food banks; establishes the gifts to food banks fund; authorizes and directs the commissioner of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to distribute grants to local not-for-profit corporations for the distribution of food to persons in need.
Relates to amending the contribution provisions applicable to certain special plans to allow using any excess basic or additional member contributions to offset any deficits in such other contribution account prior to the date of retirement.
Authorizes the lease of certain lands located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; authorizes the state university trustees to lease and otherwise contract to make available to The Southampton Hospital Association a portion of the lands of the university on its Southampton campus.
Relates to the description of certain lands to be excepted as necessary for above-ground appurtenances in the village of Mamaroneck.
Authorizes hospitals to establish standing orders for the care of newborns in the hospital until the discharge of the newborn from the hospital following the birth, which may authorize an attending nurse to provide services and care to healthy newborns.
Directs the president of the civil service commission to study and publish a report evaluating public employers' wage disparities related to the job titles segregated by the gender, race and/or national origin of the employees in the title.
Extends eligibility for tuition assistance program awards for certain undergraduates who must transfer to another institution as a result of a permanent college closure by two semesters.
Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials on effective discharge planning of individuals with a mental health disorder who are discharged from a hospital and provide such materials to general hospitals across the state.
Relates to the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage deer and bear; extends effectiveness.
Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to develop guidelines for vegetation management plans to be used by persons or corporations that make claims that they provide pollinator protection.
Requires the New York state department of transportation to conduct a study to evaluate the configuration and signage of entrance and exit ramps 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.
Requires that a county's purchase of certain goods shall be administered pursuant to policies and procedures adopted by the county governing board and developed in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets.
Relates to authorizing the Wayne 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 Wayne.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to authorizing sweepstakes with respect to subscriptions to "The Conservationist" from August 1, 2018 to August 1, 2021.
Requires applicants for all-night liquor licenses to notify local community boards of their intent to apply for such licenses.
Relates to the services provided for the care demonstration program established by the office for people with developmental disabilities, the monitoring of such program and the effectiveness thereof.
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Korean Presbyterian Church of Bayside for the 2015-2016 and the 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Relates to child abuse in an educational setting; requires the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations for training of, at a minimum, information regarding the physical and behavioral indicators of child abuse and maltreatment and certain statutory reporting requirements; and extends such provisions to private schools and such employees and volunteers within.
Changes the dates of business entity license renewal dates for insurance brokers to June thirtieth of odd numbered years.
Relates to the implementation of a valuation manual and directs the department of financial services to study the impact of such implementation.
Relates to leasing and licensing of property at Sampson state park and at Seneca Lake state park.
Establishes that any income included pursuant to section 512(a)(7) of the internal revenue code shall be subtracted from federal unrelated business taxable income.
Amends the effective date of a chapter of 2017 relating to rehabilitation programs for female inmates to require that female inmates are provided an array of programs comparable to those provided to male inmates.
Relates to truancy allegations in persons in need of supervision and child protective proceedings in family court.
Requires residential health care facilities to provide notices to patients when a temporary operator has been appointed.
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parklands and to dedicate other lands as parklands.
Relates to the establishment of the adolescent suicide prevention advisory council.
Designates the Peconic Bay region as a heritage area.
Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office of children and family services.
Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission; authorizes the department to issue a temporary educational exemption; requires the commission to make recommendations on the impact of requirements for achievement of a baccalaureate degree in any lesser period of time than required by law as condition to maintaining employment.
Relates to allowing Wyoming county to make application to the Foreign Trade Zones Board for a grant to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone or zones and foreign trade sub-zone or sub-zones within such county.
Amends chapter 348 of 2012 relating to a property conveyance by the city of Poughkeepsie to add legal descriptions of such property.
Repeals certain provisions related to the New York state first home savings program added by chapter 472 of the laws of 2017 and studies the impacts of a first home savings program.
Permits Mercy Haven Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption.
Authorizes the empire state development corporation to administer several revolving loan fund (RLF) programs in a manner consistent with how the small business revolving loan fund is administered.
Relates to authorizing pharmacy interns to administer immunizations.
Relates to impact studies on tick-borne diseases; requires the department to issue a report examining the mental health impacts of tick-borne diseases and blood-borne pathogens on mental illness rates in endemic areas of the state.
Relates to the collection of data regarding ninth grade students attending career education courses in trade/industrial education, technical education, agricultural education, health occupations education, business and marketing education, family and consumer science education and technology education programs.
Directs the department of financial services to study the issue of ATMs that accept EVM-enabled chip cards to determine which measures may be necessary and proper to ensure that the cards and corresponding personal data and information of consumers is protected from falling into the hands of others.
Allows an individual to substitute correspondence work for classroom work when applying for an insurance agent license.
Places requirements on honoring warranties of fire vehicles and ambulances; establishes the new emergency vehicle lemon law bill of rights; regulates arbitration proceedings.
Relates to permitted deductions from wages; extends the effectiveness of such provisions.
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.
Establishes entrepreneurship assistance centers to provide assistance to primarily minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and dislocated workers and veterans; requires the department of economic development to establish criteria and designation of such centers; sets forth requirements for each center.
Relates to providing feminine hygiene products at no cost to individuals in correctional facilities and to any other individual in a punitive custodial setting.
Makes certain tax abatement forms more readily available to seniors and authorizes certain entities to assist in the completion of such forms.
Provides for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents.
Authorizes a patient's attending nurse practitioner to witness the patient's execution of a health care proxy; authorizes a nurse practitioner to act as a person's health care agent; authorizes an attending nurse practitioner to determine that a patient lacks capacity.
Authorizes the town of New Castle, in the county of Westchester, to lease space on the sport field fences in 3 of its parks.
Relates to authorizing the village of Farmingdale to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status for lots located at 387 Conklin Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Relates to authorizing the village of Farmingdale to receive retroactive real property tax exemptions for lots located at 137 and 145 Main Street, village of Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, county of Nassau.
Establishes the "New York State Silver Rose Veterans Service Certificate" for veterans exposed to dioxin or phenoxy herbicides during military service.
Extends the effectiveness for two years authorizing the county of Albany to impose a county mortgage recording tax.
Provides that policies and contracts covering diagnostic screening for prostate cancer shall not be subject to cost sharing; requires notice of availability of such coverage without cost sharing to be provided in the notice to persons at risk of or having prostate cancer.
Extends the real property tax exemption for structures and buildings essential to agricultural and horticultural use to buildings built prior to January 1, 2029.
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey certain unused state lands to MCB-Eagle New Paltz, LLC upon the consent of the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation, in consideration of fair market value and upon such other terms and conditions.
Relates to authorized absences by healthcare professionals who volunteer to fight the Ebola virus overseas; extends effectiveness.
Relates to the one-call notification system.
Extends until January 1, 2021, the deadline to apply for the solar electric generating system real property tax abatement.
Establishes a Lyme and tick-borne disease working group to review current best practices for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
Relates to standardized test administration; increases penalty for violations to one thousand dollars.
Validates certain acts of the Hendrick Hudson central school district with regard to two capital improvement projects and provides for payment of state aid for such projects.
Provides that the court clerk and deputy clerk/treasurer of the village of Mount Morris, in the county of Livingston, need not be a resident of such town, so long as he or she is a resident of Livingston county or an adjoining county within the state.
Relates to installing Lyme and tick-borne disease warning signs at all state-managed parks including trail entryways and campgrounds due to the increased presence of such diseases within the state.
Modifies requirements for eligibility for the state science, technology, engineering and mathematics program to include students who enroll in a public or private institute of higher education.
Enacts the "living donor protection act of 2018"; prohibits discrimination in the provision of life, accident, and health 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.
Extends the licensure of private proprietary schools.
Establishes the energy storage deployment policy.
Relates to clean air taxicabs; provides for the issuance of one thousand three hundred fifty clean air taxicab medallions; repeals certain provisions.
Relates to providing that a deputy sheriff of the county of Chenango need not be a resident of such county.
Authorizes Maranatha Grace Church to file, with the county of Nassau, an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption.
Provides that all increased payments for salary adjustments according to plan and step-ups or increments during a wage freeze be suspended; makes such provisions applicable to county employees and employees of covered organizations, whether or not they are covered by a collectively negotiated agreement; makes related provisions.
Authorizes the village of St. Johnsville to hire a village clerk/treasurer and code enforcement officer who is not a resident of such village.
Relates to use of personal confidential information received from veterans or family members of veterans receiving services from the state and political subdivisions thereof.
Amends the Nassau county civil divisions act relating to the purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Fireman's Benevolent Association of East Meadow.
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.
Relates to the calculation of nonpublic schools' eligibility to receive aid.
Relates to dog licensing in the village of St. Johnsville.
Authorizes a tax exemption for certain energy systems; includes fuel-flexible linear generator among other energy systems which are exempt from taxation.
Relates to extending the provisions relating to the New York state thoroughbred breeding and development fund until five years after the commencement of the operation of a video lottery terminal facility at Aqueduct racetrack.
Permits the Steuben County sheriff and correctional facility to hold detained persons between arrest and arraignment.
Designates state route 256 in the town of Conesus, county of Livingston, as the "Conesus Veterans Memorial Highway".
Designates the bridge on state route 213 over Rondout creek in the town of Marbletown, county of Ulster, as the "Kathy Cairo Davis Memorial Bridge".
Directs the department of health to post on its website information relating to emerging contaminant notification levels and educational materials relating thereto.
Relates to the affordable residential green building program; adds additional aspects to such program and requires the state authority to furnish a report determining the benefits of providing new financial incentives for the construction of affordable residential green buildings.
Relates to body imaging scanning equipment including proper registration, limitations and reporting of use.
Requires the provision of guides containing best practices for retaining employees who are informal caregivers; provides that such guide shall be available on the websites of the state office for the aging, the department of labor and the department of state.
Prohibits auto lenders from remotely disabling a vehicle without first giving notice of the disabling to the debtor.
Allows Educational Housing Services Inc. to finance new housing utilizing the Dormitory Authority of New York State.
Relates to the qualifications of members of the gaming commission.
Repeals provisions amending the real property tax law relating to establishing an energy-related public utility mass real property central assessment pilot program; directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to submit a report relating to public utility mass real property.
Designates the "Bear Mountain bridge" as the "Purple Heart Veterans Memorial Bridge".
Requires urine polymerase chain reaction testing for cytomegalovirus of newborns with hearing impairments; and directs the department of health to establish an education program for women who may become pregnant, expectant parents and parents of infants relating to various aspects of cytomegalovirus.
Designates the Thomas C. Rotondo, Jr. Bridge as the Thomas C. Rotondo, Jr. Memorial Bridge.
Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Newburgh as the "Gold Star Families Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Sullivan county as "The Woodstock Way".
Designates state route 20 in the village of Fredonia, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant Jonathan Gollnitz Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Erie county as the "SGT Brian K. Baker Memorial Bridge".
Clarifies the duty of the state board of parole in reporting parole statistics; specifies necessary information.
Creates a personal income tax check-off box for donations to the school-based health centers fund; creates the school-based health centers fund; specifies the use for which moneys of the fund may be expended.
Provides for taxpayer gifts for lupus education and prevention, and establishes the lupus education and prevention fund and outreach program.
Authorizes a permit for a vehicle owned by a municipality to not expire until such municipality removes such permitted vehicle from operation.
Prohibits the construction of any mausoleum or columbarium in a cemetery where such mausoleum or columbarium is the only form of interment offered in a cemetery, except in limited circumstances to assure the perpetual care of remains already in a mausoleum or columbarium.
Authorizes the geriatric service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration within the program.
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Wyoming county as the "PFC David P. Coveny Memorial Highway".
Relates to the distribution of lymphedema information to patients at high risk of developing lymphedema and lists which patients are considered high risk.
Authorizes the crime victims board to accept other official documents in lieu of police reports for documentation of eligibility for compensation for rape, sexual assault and child abuse and domestic violence.
Relates to the incorporation of certain businesses for the purpose of practicing professional geology.
Authorizes domestic companion animals be permitted to board any public transportation or public transportation service in the event of a state of emergency and evacuation.
Extends the expiration of provisions relating to a restricted dental faculty license.
Relates to patronage capital contributions, allocations and retirements.
Authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to study significantly improving high-performance efficiency in commercial office buildings.
Relates to the early intervention coordinating council and the maternal child health services block grant advisory council.
Relates to the proper venue for an impounding organization to file a petition for a security to be paid by the owner of a seized animal currently in the care of such organization.
Relates to correcting the spelling of the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge.
Extends effectiveness of provisions relating to the operation of personal watercraft and specialty prop-craft from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2021.
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.
Relates to ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) research and education; creates the New York ALS research and education fund.
Relates to establishing a court-appointed special advocates program to aid the family court.
Relates to the determination of adjusted base proportions in special assessing units which are cities for the fiscal year two thousand nineteen; provides that the current base proportion of any class shall not exceed the adjusted base proportion of the immediately preceding year by more than one-half of one percent.
Designates state route 394 in the town of Ellicott, county of Chautauqua, as the "Sergeant James C. Matteson Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the village of Philadelphia, county of Jefferson as the "New York State Trooper Joel R. Davis Memorial Bridge".
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Roger J. Mazal Memorial Bridge" on state route two-hundred three.
Designates certain portions of the state highway system as the "Lt. Christopher J. Raguso FDNY-CFD Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Erie county as the "S Sgt Michael F. Kaczmarek Memorial Bridge".
Relates to theft of services from barbershops, salons or beauty salons and makes such offense a violation.
Designates a portion of the state highway system constituting state route one hundred four in the town of Lewiston, county of Niagara as the "General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan Memorial Highway".
Designates a portion of the state highway system in the county of Suffolk as the "Jolly 51 Memorial Bridge".
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "T Sgt Henry "Hank" Dylong Memorial Bridge".
Relates to allowing for the use of medical marihuana as an alternative to opioids for pain management and substance use disorder.
Prohibits the leasing of companion animals; prohibits using companion animals as security for a contract.
Relates to participants in the World Trade Center rescue.
Provides that persons employed in the labor class for a minimum of five years shall not be removed or otherwise subjected to any disciplinary penalty provided in this section except for incompetency or misconduct.
Extends provisions of law relating to a health savings account pilot program.
Relates to certain examinations taken by funeral directors.
Relates to reducing the number of overnight rooms and suites from 120 to 75 at a certain premises in the city of Canandaigua, county of Ontario, for purposes of an exemption on restrictions on manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license.
Authorizes the village of Massena, town of Massena, county of St. Lawrence to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland.
Designates Katonah lake, Kitchawan lake, Oscaleta lake, Rippowam lake, Truesdale lake and Waccabuc lake as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Designates Oceola lake and lake Mohegan as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Mandates autism screening, that is in compliance with guidelines established by the American Academy of Pediatrics for children three years of age and under.
Allows for service by mail to a nominated executor's domicile when exercising the right of election by a surviving spouse.
Prohibits a commercial landlord from interfering with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon his or her property or premises.
Provides for service of subpoena and delivery of records.
Directs the autism spectrum disorders advisory board to improve outreach to minority group members relating to children with such disorders.
Relates to the discontinuation of utility service to residential customers.
Requires notice to adjoining owners of construction or demolition work at the time such application for approval is submitted.
Defines a hotel license.
Relates to justices presiding in an off-hours arraignment part.
Authorizes cities having a population of between 250,000 and 300,000 to establish a senior citizen longtime resident real property tax exemption.
Relates to a real property tax exemption for Kehillas B'nai HaYeshivos.
Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school crossing guards.
Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes the World Trade Center memorial scholarship fund.
Relates to the authenticating effect of a party's production of material authored or otherwise created by the party.
Extends provisions relating to water pollution control revolving fund agreements.
Changes references in law from "hearing impaired" to "deaf or hard of hearing".
Designates Great Valley creek and its tributaries as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Directs the department of taxation and finance to study and report on the impact on localities in the counties of Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess of state-owned lands, and the methods of compensating such localities for the real property taxes lost as a result of such state-owned lands.
Extends the effectiveness of the city of Albany pilot residential parking permit system.
Prohibits certain practices concerning or consideration for referrals by providers of substance use disorder services.
Includes persons appointed as Indian police officers within the definition of the term "law enforcement agency" for the purposes of the law enforcement accreditation council.
Relates to Buffalo sewer authority bonds, increasing the total amount of bonds which may be issued and outstanding at one time.
Relates to limitations on powers and immunities of executors and testamentary trustees.
Makes permanent certain provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law authorizing the sale of gift bags and wrapping, and manufacturers to transport alcoholic beverages to their retail establishments.
Provides for community service as one of the punishments for the violation of a local law in a municipality.
Provides a tax check off box on personal income tax return forms for gifts for the life pass it on trust fund for gifts for organ and tissue donation outreach and research and provides for certain reporting requirements for such fund.
Relates to the New York state business incubator and innovation hot spot support act.
Implements an agreement between the state and an employee organization which provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain incumbents in the professional service in the state university; provides for the adjustment of salaries of certain employees of the state university of New York who are excluded from collective bargaining and certain employees of the contract colleges of Cornell and Alfred universities; makes an appropriation for the purpose of effectuating certain provisions thereof.
Designates Chazy lake as an inland waterway for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Relates to remedying the inconsistent definitions for local correctional facility and municipal official and fixes other technical errors.
Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation; removes the five years of service residency issue.
Relates to extending the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage scallops to two thousand twenty-one.
Exempts certain property from the prohibition of alcohol sales within a certain distance from a church.
Authorizes fire districts to expend from revenues amounts appropriated for cost of insurance to provide firefighters with an enhanced cancer disability benefit insurance program.
Relates to transportation of individuals; provides that within staffing limitations and upon request, an individual who is being transported to or from a facility may be accompanied by same gender staff.
Relates to membership in the New York state dental association.
Relates to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings; extends effectiveness.
Extends certain provisions of the general municipal law, relating to granting localities greater contract flexibility and cost savings by permitting certain shared purchasing among political subdivisions.
Relates to the inspection and sale of seeds, agricultural liming materials and commercial fertilizer.
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Relates to the issuance of a distinctive license plate for members of the New York state Elks association of the benevolent and protective order of the Elks.
Establishes identification cards for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Authorizes the village of Spring Valley justices to live in the towns of Ramapo or Clarkstown, county of Rockland.
Relates to the local administration of empire zones; provides an exception for the requirement to provide a certified annual report to the local zone administration board for certified businesses whose benefit period as a QEZE business enterprise has expired.
Provides that the attorney - client privilege shall apply to communications between a lawyer referral service and a client.
Relates to requiring certain public school facilities to retain on premises at least one functional cardiac automated external defibrillator, in relation to naming such act the "Louis Acompora AED's in schools act".
Relates to the long-term care ombudsman program.
Provides for the establishment of the "Cold Spring Harbor Volunteer and Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association".
Relates to the disposal of property upon a judgment or order of forfeiture; requires a percentage of money from such disposal of property to be deposited into a subaccount of the general fund to be used for law enforcement diversion purposes.
Provides for pre-employment and 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.
Requires immediate notification by law enforcement of the filing of an accusatory instrument alleging a sex offense by an employee; provides that no cause of action against law enforcement or school district shall exist for damages related to the dissemination of criminal history or arrest records.
Relates to the elections of members to the board of education of the city school district of the city of Albany.
Relates to making certain technical corrections relating to the UCC revisions.
Relates to services for victims of human trafficking including short-term and long-term safe housing.
Allows water works corporations to provide water usage data to municipalities.
Allows for payment in lieu of taxes imposed on real property with respect to property located at 1800 Motor Parkway, Islandia, New York, with respect to a lessee that is a qualified empire zone enterprise.
Authorizes the towns of Fayette and Varick in the county of Seneca to adopt, amend and enforce local laws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state or the United States, with respect to the restriction and regulation of the manner of construction and location of boathouses, moorings and docks in any waters within or bounding the respective municipality to a distance of fifteen hundred feet from the shoreline.
Increases the bonding authority of the New York city housing corporation.
Relates to the presence of a companion animal when executing a warrant for eviction or dispossession of property and directs the executing officer to make arrangements for the safe removal of such animal.
Relates to the reimbursement of shelter costs and crime scene cleanup for certain, non-injured victims including battered spouses and children.
Prohibits the use of placement agents or intermediaries by investment managers doing business with the common retirement fund.
Establishes the commission on prosecutorial conduct.
Prohibits smoking at all times in facilities that provide child care services in a private home provided that such private home is required to be licensed or registered for child care services, regardless of whether or not children receiving such services are present.
Authorizes the Family Service League to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption.
Authorizes the village of Phoenix to alienate and sell parklands at fair market value to the Phoenix Central School District with the understanding that such village shall dedicate an amount equal to or greater than the fair market value of such parklands being alienated to the acquisition of new parklands and/or improvements to existing parklands.
Authorizes the town of Yorktown, in the county of Westchester, to alienate certain parklands.
Validates certain acts of the North Syracuse central school district with regard to certain capital improvement projects; such projects shall be eligible for state aid.
Makes certain state lands in the town of Argyle, Ft. Edward and Kingsbury, in the county of Washington, subject to taxation for all purposes.
Enacts Lulu and Leo's law establishing the crime of misrepresentation by, or on behalf of, a caregiver for children when a person knowingly makes a misrepresentation about a caregiver's background.
Relates to tanning facilities.
Relates to authorizing custom liquor production for a non-licensed individual by farm distilleries; establishes conditions for such production including that such custom liquor shall not be offered for sale.
Includes certain lands used in the single operation for the production of hopyards in the definition of agricultural land and provides a real property tax abatement for the owners of certain hopyards.
Relates to human trafficking courts; authorizes transfer of cases after arraignment, by order or with consent of the DA, to another local criminal court or a designated human trafficking court.
Establishes the crime of sex trafficking of a child; intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of another where such person is a child less than eighteen years old.
Requires certain lodging facilities to make available information concerning services for human trafficking victims.
Prohibits physical contact or activity in any organization's initiating ceremony.
Extends provisions authorizing the county of Wyoming to impose a county recording tax on obligations secured by a mortgage on real property until December 1, 2021.
Extends Herkimer county's mortgage recording tax authorization until 2020.
Authorizes Family Service League, Inc. to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption for the 2015 assessment roll.
Relates to residency requirements for certain peace officers in Albany county.
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain unappropriated state land to the town of Bedford to be used exclusively for the purposes of operating and maintaining a wastewater treatment plant and appurtenant facilities and operations.
Extends the city of Rye occupancy tax for three years.
Extends, from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2019, 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 Johel E. Dongo, Carl Cacace Jr., Douglas Parrish and Christopher Saya, firefighters in the Arlington fire district, in the county of Dutchess, to elect to participate in an optional 20 year retirement program.
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive "West Indian-American Day Carnival" license plates; provides an additional annual service charge for such plates shall support such parade.
Extends limitations on the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Clarkstown, county of Rockland.
Relates to a provisional permit for clinical laboratory technology.
Limits the amount of a property tax shift from one class of property to another for 2018-2019 in the county of Suffolk.
Relates to the residential parking permit system in the village of Tarrytown.
Relates to the New York Wine and Culinary Center; authorization to hold through its wholly owned subsidiary a branch office permit at the Finger Lakes Welcome Center; authorizes the sale of NYS produced cider.
Authorizes The Reboli Center for Art and History to file an application for retroactive real property tax exemption.
Relates to the residency requirement for the court clerk for the town of Sodus in the county of Wayne; permits such court clerk to not be an elector of such town.
Authorizes the city of Buffalo to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Chief George Bell Memorial Highway" on state route twenty-two.
Provides that in the event that certain lands cease to be used exclusively by the International Boxing Hall of Fame for the purposes of developing, expanding and operating a boxing hall of fame and museum and are not developed by July 31, 2023, title to such lands and any improvements thereon shall revert to the state of New York.
Authorizes Chabad at Stony Brook, Inc. to submit a retroactive application for a real property tax exemption to the assessor of town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, for a parcel at 3 Galloway Court.
Relates to the issuance of distinctive Down's syndrome awareness license plates and the creation of the "Down's syndrome research fund".
Extends provisions of law relating to the use of electronic means for the commencement and filing of papers in certain actions or proceedings until September 1, 2019.
Extends, from December 31, 2018 to December 31, 2023, the expiration of the provisions of the public authorities law authorizing the dormitory authority to construct and finance facilities for the not-for-profit members of the New York State Rehabilitation Association and the New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation.
Authorizes Chabad at Stony Brook, Inc. to submit a retroactive application for a real property tax exemption to the assessor of town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk, for a parcel at 22 Sturrock Way.
Authorizes the United Veterans Beacon House to file an application for a retroactive real property tax exemption for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 assessment rolls.
Extends the deadline for tax exemption applications for certain improved properties affected by Superstorm Sandy from March 1, 2018 until March 1, 2020.
Relates to the determination of a quorum for the transaction of business of the New York convention center operating corporation.
Relates to the total amount of bonds the Upper Mohawk Valley memorial authority may issue; authorizes, for certain public works undertaken pursuant to project labor agreements, use of the alternative delivery method known as design-build contracts; increases the members of the governing body to nine.
Relates to the ability of the New York state medical care facilities finance agency to issue certain bonds and notes.
Permits the construction of an art installation within the historic footprint of pier 52 consisting of a life-size skeletal replica of pier 52.
Requires that the certification of the final state equalization rate, class ratios, and class equalization rates, if required, shall occur no later than thirty days prior to the last date set by law for levy of taxes of any municipal corporation to which such equalization rate, class ratios, and class equalization rates are applicable.
Designates Minerva Lake as an inland waterway for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Increases the special accidental death benefit paid to a widow or widower or the deceased member's children under the age of eighteen, or if a student, under the age of twenty-three.
Authorizes Yaphank Presbyterian Church to file an application for exemption for real property taxation.
Authorizes the county of Suffolk to transfer and convey a portion of county parkland to the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk for continued park and recreational purposes and as a commercial fishing dock.
Authorizes the city of Cohoes, in the county of Albany, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Jeffrey Bressette.
Relates to certain water charges for hospitals and charities in New York city; extends expiration until September 1, 2020.
Authorizes a person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Oswego to reside in an adjoining county within the state.
Provides for the financing and construction of facilities by the dormitory authority for North Country School.
Relates to the New York seafood marketing task force and relates to state agencies having seafood marketing roundtable meetings with relevant stakeholders.
Includes the use of farmer-purchased farmland protection agreements in the commissioner's evaluation of applications for funding for agricultural protection plans.
Extends provisions of law relating to authorizing a pilot residential parking permit system in the city of Buffalo.
Extends the chief administrator of the courts' authority to allow referees to determine certain applications to a family court for an order of protection; removes the expiration of 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.
Waives the residency requirements for the persons performing the functions of building inspector/code enforcement officer or assistant/deputy building inspector/code enforcement officer for Putnam Valley, Putnam County.
Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance regional juvenile detention facilities.
Extends certain provisions of law authorizing the hunting of big game in the county of Albany with rifles.
Designates Ley Creek and Butternut Creek as inland waterways.
Relates to real property tax exemption for Congregation Gates of Prayer of Far Rockaway in the county of Nassau.
Relates to the powers of the Terence Cardinal Cooke health care center, in relation to extending the effectiveness thereof.
Allows out of state health care professionals to perform services at the Ironman Lake Placid and the Ironman 70.3.
Allows qualified persons residing in the county of Orange or Westchester to be appointed as a peace officer in the county of Rockland at the instance of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for the county of Rockland.
Extends the authority of the city of New Rochelle to impose an occupancy tax.
Authorizes the city of Syracuse to add unpaid housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to the city's annual tax levy.
Authorizes the dormitory authority to construct and finance certain facilities of the New York Military Academy.
Includes Round lake in the list of inland waterways eligible for the local waterfront revitalization program.
Relates to authorizing the reclassification of controlled substances by regulation; authorizes the commissioner of health to reclassify controlled substances by regulation or emergency regulation if the substance is redesignated or rescheduled.
Designates Cortlandt, Dickiebusch, Furnace Brook and Meahagh lakes as inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Relates to authorizing the building inspector in the town of Wilson, county of Niagara, to reside outside of such town.
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 certain payments to the horsemen's organization.
Relates to the residence of the part-time judge of the city court of Lackawanna; authorizes the part-time judge of the Lackawanna city court to reside anywhere in Erie county provided his or her term of office commenced during the two thousand eighteen calendar year.
Relates to residency requirements for stenographers in the county of Broome; authorizes the district attorney of Broome county to appoint a stenographer residing in the county of Onondaga or in any county of the sixth judicial district.
Extends certain provisions of law relating to limiting the check cashing exemption for national banks and other regulated entities from August 1, 2018 to August 1, 2023.
Limits the shift between classes of taxable property in the town of Orangetown, county of Rockland.
Includes Cazenovia Lake and Chittenango Creek in the definition of inland waterways for purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Authorizes Sean Ralston, a part-time village of Altamont police officer in the county of Albany, to take the civil service examination for full-time police officer, and to be placed on the eligible list for appointment if his score on the examination is high enough.
Authorizes Edward P. Ackley to take the competitive civil service examination and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as a full-time police officer for the village of Hudson Falls.
Extends the expiration of certain powers of the state liquor authority for an additional 3 years.
Relates to requiring the commissioner of the department of taxation and finance to establish segment special equalization rates for certain school districts in the town of Guilderland; specifically the Rotterdam-Mohonasen School District, Schalmont School District and Voorheesville School District.
Relates to requiring notice where the tentative equalization rate varies more than five percentage points from the locally stated level of assessment within ten days of reciept of such rate or filing of the tentative assessment roll.
Relates to local government borrowing practices and mandate relief.
Relates to the administration of real property tax refunds and credits in Nassau county on class four property.
Enacts the drug take back act requiring certain manufacturers to operate a drug take back program to accept and dispose of covered drugs; provides that for any city with a population of one hundred twenty-five thousand or more as of the last decennial census, the commissioner of health shall establish by regulation a distribution plan that ensures that on-site collection receptacle or dropbox placement shall be reasonably accessible to all residents.
Relates to extending workers' compensation coverage to certain TNC drivers including a TNC driver that is logged onto a TNC digital network and is not engaged in a TNC prearranged trip but is engaged in an activity reasonably related to driving as a TNC driver.
Permits the manufacture and sale of ice cream or other frozen desserts made with wine, beer or cider or any combination thereof; requires notice.
Extends the city of Yonkers occupancy tax.
Relates to extending certain provisions relating to the repair of damaged pesticide containers; extends provisions for two years.
Extends expiration of authority granted to the department of housing preservation and development of city of New York to restructure rents of dwelling units in buildings foreclosed upon by the federal government.
Extends provisions relating to the establishment of initial rents in housing accommodations rehabilitated with loans to housing development companies.
Expands protections afforded to renters of motor vehicles and makes certain provisions relating to rental vehicle protections permanent.
Relates to the effectiveness of chapter 375 of the laws of 1999 relating to the management of buildings for which administrators have been appointed.
Extends expiration of authority granted to the city of New York to restructure the rents of units in buildings receiving municipally financed rehabilitation loans.
Amends provisions relating to buildings that are part of urban development action area projects and are rehabilitated with municipal loans, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Extends the expiration of authority granted to the city of New York to restructure rent for units in multiple dwellings getting small loans to remove substandard or insanitary conditions.
Relates to federal bond volume allocations, the unified state bond ceiling and the private activity bond allocation act of 2018.
Relates to elections and elective officers of new towns.
Relates to the sale of tickets to places of entertainment; establishes notice and disclosure requirements for the sale or resale of tickets.
Relates to excess medical malpractice insurance and extending the effectiveness thereof.
Relates to the sale of bonds and notes of the city of Buffalo.
Extends from June 30, 2018 to June 30, 2020, the expiration of certain provisions of the Nassau county administrative code relating to assessments and the review of assessments.
Amends the education law relating to the licensure of pathologists' assistants, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Relates to extending certain provisions of the public health law and the social services law.
Extends until July 30, 2023, the expiration of payments in lieu of taxes for certain real property in the town of Hempstead.
Relates to the rate of interest used in the actuarial valuation of liabilities for the purpose of calculating contributions to the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system, the police pension fund, the fire department pension fund and the board of education retirement system of such city by public employers and other obligors required to make employer contributions to such retirement systems, the crediting of special interest and additional interest to members of such retirement systems, and the allowance of supplementary interest on the funds of such retirement systems.
Relates to the effectiveness of provisions of law pertaining to the residential care off-site facility demonstration project.
Permits an assessing unit within the town of Neversink, county of Sullivan, to file their tentative assessment roll for 2018 no later than June 30, 2018.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to physical therapy assistants.
Extends provisions relating to period of probable usefulness of certain judgments, compromised claims or settled claims.
Extends provisions of law relating to urban development action areas from June 30, 2018 until June 30, 2021.
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 bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.
Extends time limitations for certain actions relating to phenoxy herbicide exposure.
Extends provisions relating to rental vehicle protections.
Extends provisions of law implementing the federal individuals with disabilities education improvement act of 2004.
Extends the provisions of chapter 563 of the laws of 2001 relating to providing for an emergency technician 5 year re-certification demonstration program.
Extends provisions of law relating to the sale of municipal notes and bonds of the county of Erie.
Extends authorization for contracts for the provision of special education and related services for certain patients hospitalized in hospitals operated by the office of mental health.
Relates to the appointment of a standby guardian due to administrative separation; defines administrative separation and the process for such appointment.
Provides that a parent of a minor or incapacitated person may designate another person as a person in parental relation to such minor or incapacitated person pursuant to sections twenty-one hundred sixty-four and twenty-five hundred four of the public health law and sections two and thirty-two hundred twelve of the education law for a period not exceeding twelve months; provides that a designation may not be more than twelve months.
Relates to making an appropriation to pay Debra Gordon, widow of the late William R. Nojay, member of the assembly from the one hundred thirty-third assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2016.
Relates to making an appropriation to pay Thomas M. Clark Jr., widower of the late Barbara M. Clark, member of the assembly from the thirty-third assembly district, the balance due of her unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2016.
Relates to making an appropriation to pay Jennifer Simanowitz, widow of the late Michael A. Simanowitz, member of the assembly from the twenty-seventh assembly district, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for a portion of the year 2017.
Relates to compensation, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers and employees; makes an appropriation therefor.
Makes an appropriation to the Frank K. Skartados Living Trust, the balance due of his unpaid annual compensation for the portion of the year 2018.
Authorizes an airport mass transit project at LaGuardia airport.
Relates to the terms and conditions of certain nonjudiciary officers and employees in the unified court system; appropriates money therefor.
Extends provisions of law relating to certified school psychologists and special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to June 30, 2020.
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.
Relates to amendments to the granting of certain service awards.
Relates to directing the department of financial services to study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning online lending institutions.
Extends certain provisions of the general municipal law and the local finance law relating to electronic bidding.
Relates to maternal depression treatment; requires the department of health and office of mental health to provide information on their website regarding how to locate available providers who treat or provide support for maternal depression.
Amends the public authorities law relating to the appointment of members of the Battery Park city authority, in relation to the qualifications of members of the Battery Park city authority.
Relates to requiring the president of the civil service commission, with the assistance of information technology services as needed, to prepare and deliver a triennial report relating to current programs within each state agency that allow for alternative work schedules or flexible work hours beginning September two thousand eighteen.
Changes the requirements for reporting deaths and felony crimes in certain adult care facilities.
Relates to terms and conditions of employment of certain nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system; appropriates funds therefor.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions of law relating to temporary retail permits issued by the state liquor authority; extends provisions from 2018 to 2019.
Extends occupancy tax in the city of White Plains to 2021.
Relates to tuition waivers for police officer students of CUNY.
Relates to permitting a retroactive property tax exemption to Ohr Heameth the American Society for Torah Education in Latin America for the 2015-2016 assessment roll for the 2016 general taxes and the 2016-2017 assessment roll for the 2016-2017 school taxes and 2017 general taxes.
Relates to prohibiting the distribution without charge of electronic cigarettes to minors; requires such distribution be made only to an individual who demonstrates, through a driver's license or other photographic identification card issued by a government entity or educational institution indicating that the individual is at least eighteen years of age.
Expands property tax credits for farmers to include a trustee or a trust established by the taxpayer and rented to a member of the taxpayer's immediate family where, under the terms of the trust, the title to the property shall pass to such family member upon the death of the taxpayer.
Changes the department of environmental conservation's requirements from cooperating with municipalities to consulting with municipalities regarding harvest closure of crabs.
Relates to the Lt. Cameron N. Hall Memorial Bridge; corrects the New York state bridge number.
Removes the cardiopulmonary resuscitation report requirement for the division of state police.
Clarifies the types of condominiums and cooperative housing corporations that shall submit annual reports for certain transactions.
Relates to paid leave for certain employees; amends a chapter of the laws of the laws of 2017, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Grants tenants with a physically disabling condition that affects their mobility a preference in occupying a vacant dwelling unit on a lower floor in the same or in a different project operated by the New York city housing authority, based on the tenant's choice.
Establishes a temporary state taskforce to examine, evaluate and make recommendations concerning child abuse and neglect prevention efforts in the state with the goal of preventing child removals, lowering foster care placements and increasing family reunification.
Relates to the composition of an advisory panel on employee-owned enterprises within the division of small business services; changes the composition of the panel by adding one member to be appointed by the governor; moves report date to June thirtieth, 2019.
Relates to allowing all students to participate in a high school graduation ceremony; requires any school board of education to develop policies and procedures to allow all students to participate in a high school graduation ceremony.
Allows the commissioner of health to act when areas of lead poisoning are designated as they deem appropriate.
Requires the transmission of reports of missing persons to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System within thirty days when such person may be at immediate risk of death or injury or a match to a record maintained in the NamUs database or within one hundred eighty days in any other case.
Relates to the rights of the first named insured on a commercial risk insurance policy.
Relates to designating a portion of the state highway system in the town of Hancock, county of Delaware as the "SSG Justin R. Whiting Memorial Bridge"; updates the New York state bridge number.
Relates to a sepsis awareness, prevention and education program and requires that such program shall include information on infections that could lead to sepsis.
Relates to general powers and duties of the commissioner of labor, in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Amends a chapter of 2017 amending the general business law and the arts and cultural affairs law relating to certain contracts, in relation to certain theatre and entertainment contracts.
Relates to the frequency of inspections of articles of bedding.
Mandates testing in the event of a motor vehicle collision resulting in injury or death.
Directs the director of classification and compensation of the department of civil service to study and publish a report on nurse practitioners.
Establishes a child care availability taskforce to evaluate the need for and availability of child care throughout the state.
Requires the director's guidelines not contravene any provision of the state finance law and the directors report be submitted every January first beginning in twenty nineteen.
Requires that an inmate who has appeared before the board of parole prior to having completed any program required by the department of corrections and community supervision, and has been denied release, shall be placed into the required program.
Relates to establishing an internet mapping resource of child care providers and afterschool programs; relates to administration of afterschool programs.
Relates to lead paint remediation reporting for the metropolitan transportation authority's and the New York city transit authority's aboveground transit infrastructure.
Provides a definition for the terms veteran and armed forces; amends the effectiveness thereof.
Relates to the appointment of members of the rural health council by the governor and requires the health council to make certain recommendations to the department of health.
Relates to the effectiveness of an amendment to an effective date.
Relates to the administration of a senior tourism attractions program; defines senior as persons sixty years of age or older.
Relates to opportunities in the city of New York for minority and women-owned business enterprises.
Relates to providing information on the prevention of common regulatory violations in small business regulation guides, and to the effectiveness of provisions relating thereto.
Relates to establishing microchipping standards, registration of microchips and the examination of seized animals; provides for the expiration of an advisory committee on microchipping.
Relates to directing the department of financial services to submit a report concerning licensure, limits on fees and interest and disclosure practices of businesses engaged in pension loan advancements on or before January 1, 2019.
Relates to conditional renewal notices to policyholders; provides that a contract of insurance shall remain in full force and effect subject to the same rates as the expiring contract of insurance rates; makes related provisions.