| S02659 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes the intentional killing of a child eleven years of age or less as murder in the first degree; changes definition of torture to ease burden of proof; shall be known and may be cited as "Nixzmary Brown's Law".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Codes Committee |
| S02654 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides preferences in certain public housing projects for certain service in the armed forces; provides recipients of expeditionary medals in Vietnam, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama and Persian Gulf conflict same preference to public housing as Vietnam v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee |
| S02657 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires a person on parole, conditional release, or temporary release who has been convicted of a felony committed while on such release, to be recommitted to serve the maximum term imposed by the court for the initial felony in addition to the mini...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Codes Committee |
| S02656 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prior written notice upon hiring and once annually to all employees, informing them of the types of electronic monitoring which may occur; provides that, when an employer has reasonable grounds to believe that employees are engaged in conduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S02660 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that the failure of any person required to collect sales tax to clearly state, charge and show such tax on any sales slip, invoice, receipt or other statement or memorandum of the price shall be punishable by a fine of five thousand dollars ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee |
| S02661 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows certain retired federal employees who paid state income taxes on their federal pension to apply for a tax refund for tax years 1985-1988 if they do so by December 31, 2011.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee |
| S02624 | Intro
Sine Die | Designates the first Tuesday in June to be known as a day of commemoration as "Senior Citizens' Day".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S02658 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes creation of urban commercial redevelopment action areas by municipalities to promote expanded retail operations in urban commercial districts; sets forth criteria for such urban commercial redevelopment action area; subjects such designati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| S02655 | Intro
Sine Die | Grants the right to strike by public employees after the exhaustion of collective bargaining negotiations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee |
| S02626 | Intro
Sine Die | Makes the conviction of a husband or wife of a class A felony, class B or C violent felony or a felony sex offense a ground for divorce.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S02620 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the criminal history check of applicants for a license or registration to provide child day care and for similar mandatory screening for child day care personnel; outlines the procedure and elements of mandatory screening and gives circu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Children and Families Committee |
| S02621 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the concept of a "provable claim" and enables most creditors of an assignor for the benefit of creditors to participate in the distribution of the assignor's estate; amends the limitation on the right of a lessor of real property to partic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S02627 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the court to require a non-custodial parent, when the court reasonably determines that there is a risk of flight, to post a bond to ensure return of a child in custody and visitation orders; provides that the amount of the bond shall be de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Children and Families Committee |
| S02652 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires employers to provide safety ropes and system components to firefighters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S02653 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits any motor vehicle rental agency in this state from charging more than ten percent above the average price of gasoline charged at gas stations located within a five mile radius of such agency's location, for the cost of refueling a rental ve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee |
| S02623 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes a limited profit housing company aggrieved by a decision regarding the maximum rentals permitted to be charged by such company, made by the commissioner of housing and community renewal or by the supervising agency which sets maximum renta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee |
| S02619 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits a bank or trust company from charging a service charge or requiring a minimum balance for attorney trust or IOLA accounts that are non-interest bearing in nature; defines attorney trust account.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-27
To Senate Banks Committee |
| S02588 | Intro
Sine Die | Imposes criminal sanctions for preventing the disclosure of information available to state agencies pursuant to provisions of article 37 of the environmental conservation law regarding the release of toxic substances; violation shall be a class E fel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee |
| S02589 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulates the sale of ammunition; requires imprinting of a serial number on each bullet jacket and bullet lead; requires sellers of ammunition to maintain records of all sales; makes a violation a class A misdemeanor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee |
| S02572 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the commissioner of motor vehicles, upon request, to issue special license plates for members of the New York city auxiliary police; provides that such distinctive license plates shall bear the letters "NYCAP"; sets fees for the issuance of su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| S02602 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes standard of substantial compliance with election law provisions relating to nomination and designation of candidates for public office; so as to avoid the disqualification of candidates to the maximum extent feasible where there is no fra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Elections Committee |
| S02604 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the legislative bill drafting commission from striking the enacting clause of a bill or resolution without express authorization of the primary sponsor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee |
| S02605 | Intro
Sine Die | Specifies public lands shall include any public street or sidewalk within any city with a population of one million or more with regard to prohibiting the operation of all terrain vehicles upon such streets or sidewalks; and prohibits the storage of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| S02607 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes governing body of the city of New York to pass local law allowing a credit against real property tax for owner-occupied one, two, three or four family residence for expenses incurred in making improvements to prevent sewer and drainage bac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| S02608 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that no person shall manufacture, pack, sell, offer for sale and/or expose for sale any food commodity in package form unless it is labelled with certain information relating to the approximate amount of sodium or sodium compound, in milligr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee |
| S02609 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the office of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield inspector general in the department of law to investigate the activities of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield and prosecute any instances of fraud; delineates powers and duties of such inspector...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S02603 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the New York state community service loan board to fund state businesses adversely affected by state agency actions; provides for the organization, powers and duties thereof; provides for bridge loans to certain community organizations; appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S02571 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits unlawful solicitation by persons offering ground transportation services on public roads and within public parking lots; includes transportation by bus, car, limousine or van; provides penalties for violations, including fines and imprisonm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| S02606 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the defacing of any public transportation facility and makes it the crime of unlawful graffiti in a transportation facility, a class B misdemeanor; defines "graffiti" and "transportation facility or conveyance".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| S02586 | Intro
Sine Die | Restricts the right of certain utility corporations to sell or otherwise distribute information concerning residential customers, subscriber names and addresses subjecting the same to regulations by the public service commission; prohibits such utili...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| S02585 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the sponsor of a plan to convert a building or buildings to cooperative or condominium ownership to cure all serious violations of record of any local or state law with respect to its building and grounds which are the subject of such cooper...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee |
| S02570 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals provisions mandating a payroll deduction at twice the daily rate of pay for each day a public employee engages in an illegal strike.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Civil Service and Pensions Committee |
| S02573 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes granting of tax credit for home energy conservation improvement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Cities Committee |
| S02574 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the Honest Use of Refund and Rebate Forms Act; prohibits display of expired manufacturer's refund and rebate forms; requires availability of advertised forms and mandates that appropriate signs be placed in premises indicating the location of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee |
| S02575 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends veterans' exemptions from real property taxation to local school taxes in cities of one million or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Cities Committee |
| S02576 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the recycled content of packaging be disclosed on the package label; requires waste collection and transportation contracts to specify that the recyclable, reusable or other components are required to be separated in accordance with local la...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee |
| S02577 | Intro
Sine Die | Eliminates the requirement of serious financial hardship incurred as the result of a crime as a qualification for an award from the crime victims board for victims who are over 60 years of age.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee |
| S02579 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the telecommunications privacy law containing provisions regulating the collection, use or disclosure of information by telecommunications carriers; requires a telecommunication carrier to notify customers of the information collected and dist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee |
| S02582 | Intro
Sine Die | Creates the natural disaster reinsurance fund financed through voluntary participation by insurers in the state to provide additional protection in the case of catastrophic events; exempts any amounts deposited into the fund from taxation by the stat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Insurance Committee |
| S02583 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the current four year aggregate cap on local agency eligibility for funding under the neighborhood preservation crime prevention act to nine years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S02584 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that 25% of the amount of any rental surcharge paid by a tenant of a limited-profit (Mitchell-Lama) housing company project shall be deemed to have been directly imposed on the tenant by the municipality for real estate taxes and/or mortgage...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee |
| S02587 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the eligibility period for unemployment compensation for workers who were not working due to a disability for a period not to exceed two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-26
To Senate Labor Committee |
| S02555 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizes the commissioner of education to award grants to local school districts for the use of computer technology to teach reading and writing skills to students in kindergarten and grade 1; provides a preference for schools which need assistance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S02560 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the establishment of an organ donor information education component as a prerequisite for obtaining a license to operate a motor vehicle; provides that the commissioner of motor vehicles shall establish the curriculum for such organ donor in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| S02561 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that in any case where a physician institutes a civil proceeding as a result of a disciplinary proceeding brought against such physician or dismissal from a hospital or other health care facility, he shall give an undertaking in an amount fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Health Committee |
| S02562 | Intro
Sine Die | Directs the regents of the university of the state of New York to prescribe courses of instruction relating to sensitivity training regarding diversity of race, ethnicity and religion; and directs the regents to prepare guidelines for such course of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| S02563 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits different standards to be employed for department of environmental conservation approval of solid waste management plans of cities of 1 million or more population submitted to it; ensures that municipalities with a population of one million o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Cities Committee |
| S02564 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows law enforcement officials to obtain a court order which would prevent the release of personal, identifying information kept by the board of elections to anyone except another board of elections or a governmental agency; defines the term "law e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Elections Committee |
| S02566 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the exemption for cooperative housing corporations where there is no change in beneficial ownership.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee |
| S02568 | Intro
Sine Die | Enacts the comprehensive motor vehicle insurance rate reform act; amends provisions applicable to automobile insurance rates including establishing a program for consumer information on insurers and establishing an office of public insurance advocate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
To Senate Finance Committee |
