New York Assemblymember Vivian Cook [D]

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NYA00465Intro
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Prohibits vivisection at colleges, universities, professional, proprietary or graduate schools in the state where a scientifically and educationally satisfactory method or strategy exists; defines vivisection to mean experimentation through surgery o...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00482Intro
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Relates to state policy regarding the preservation of the unique qualities of the nighttime sky.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA00441Intro
25%
Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state; provides up to five thousand positions may be filled by persons with a physical or mental disability and up to two thousand positions may be filled by disabled veterans and...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
NYA00279Intro
25%
Implements the "New York State Build Public Renewables Act"; requires the New York power authority to provide only renewable energy and power to customers; requires such authority to be the sole provider of energy to all state owned and municipal pro...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA00438Intro
25%
Establishes schools dedicated to teaching dyslexic students in certain school districts.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00467Intro
25%
Provides that in cities with a population of one million or more, the rent following the dissolution date of Mitchell-Lama developments shall be the last rent authorized for the affected dwelling.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA00506Intro
25%
Relates to prohibitions on circus performances; prohibits circuses from conducting shows or other performances in the state for two years where a circus has been found to be in violation or in non-compliance with the Animal Welfare Act of 1966.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry Committee
NYA00453Intro
25%
Relates to providing a rent increase exemption to persons with disabilities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Aging Committee
NYA00407Intro
25%
Relates to requiring the recording of mezzanine debt and preferred equity investments and including mezzanine debt in the mortgage recording tax; defines mezzanine debt.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00492Intro
25%
Relates to designating blighted property and blighted areas; establishes criteria for designation; provides definition of blighted property and blighted areas; amends definition of substandard or insanitary area by removing the words "slum" and "dete...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00399Intro
25%
Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorpo...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Agriculture Committee
NYA00427Intro
25%
Requires the Olympic regional development authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and division of human rights to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training to be completed by employees of such agencies annually.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA00410Intro
25%
Eliminates the Manhattan resident parking tax exemption; increases the car registration fee for cars registered to residents of Manhattan.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00460Intro
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Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00555Intro
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Requires an arresting authority to notify the local social services district when the parent, legal guardian or care-giver of a minor is arrested or taken into custody; requires the local social services district to monitor the placement of such mino...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA00456Intro
25%
Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to asse...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00566Intro
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Requires physicians who are re-registering for their license to complete fifty hours of continuing medical education.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00591Intro
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Requires instruction in anti-gun violence in all schools.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00583Intro
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Requires a Mitchell-Lama cooperative seeking to dissolve to offer cooperators who may not be able to afford the increased carrying charges the opportunity to sell.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA00531Intro
25%
Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
NYA00600Intro
25%
Establishes the residential open green space tax abatement for certain properties in a city of one million or more; provides an abatement for owners who remove an impermeable surface from a residential yard and replace it with soil and vegetation.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Real Property Taxation Committee
NYA00587Intro
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Relates to application and environmental assessment forms and city and village planning commissions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Local Governments Committee
NYA00535Intro
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Requires all health insurance policies to provide insurance coverage for the cost of hearing aids; provides that such coverage shall include coverage of at least $3,000 over a four year period; provides that children under the age of sixteen are allo...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Insurance Committee
NYA00598Intro
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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.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00950Intro
25%
Requires licensed day care facilities to contact a child's parent or guardian if they are absent from day care, with no prior notice given, within thirty minutes after such child is recorded as absent.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Children and Families Committee
NYA00882Intro
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Expands and clarifies when pedestrians shall be entitled to the right of way with respect to all other traffic.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA00674Intro
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Provides that any standardized test or examination shall not be subject to any time limitation when administered by the city district.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00710Intro
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Provides a civil action for deprivation of rights which is caused by any person or public entity.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00834Intro
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Authorizes a lien against personal and real property of the owner of a commercial towing company for illegal and improper practices; creates personal liability for members of an LLC and certain corporate shareholders.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00811Intro
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Provides that the existence of an infestation of pests in a premises occupied for dwelling purposes is a breach of the warranty of habitability, and requires a landlord to keep premises occupied for dwelling purposes free from an infestation of pests...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Housing Committee
NYA00686Intro
25%
Directs the MTA to establish a half fare rate program for veterans.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA00688Intro
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Prohibits agreements between employers that directly restrict the current or future employment of any employee; allows for a cause of action against employers who engage in such agreements.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00757Intro
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Relates to font size for advertisements.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00797Intro
25%
Provides that excess investment tax credit amounts may be refundable to operators of a farm operation.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00779Intro
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Prohibits the use of consumer credit history in hiring, employment and licensing determinations.
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2024-01-03
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NYA00696Intro
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Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00845Intro
25%
Allows veterans of the armed forces of the United States to fish for free in state parks under the jurisdiction of a state agency.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Committee
NYA00680Intro
25%
Relates to price gouging; imposes criminal penalties for price gouging; removes language relating to the declaration of a state of emergency; increases civil penalty; authorizes a district attorney to enforce provisions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00704Intro
25%
Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to create ten-year capital program plans.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
NYA00675Intro
25%
Relates to mandating greater levels of disclosure by non-fiduciaries that provide investment advice; requires signed acknowledgement of disclosure informing clients that the advisor owes no fiduciary duty.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00665Intro
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Relates to flexible working arrangements; provides that employees may submit a request for flexible working arrangements in good faith; requires the employer to notify the employee of the decision; prohibits employers from retaliating against employe...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Labor Committee
NYA00721Intro
25%
Relates to monetary penalties that a parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Transportation Committee
NYA00930Intro
25%
Requires that a business allow a consumer to cancel a contract between the two parties using the same method that was used to enter into the contact.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
NYA00649Intro
25%
Relates to requiring postsecondary institutions that participate in study abroad programs to report crime and harm that occurs to participating students.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Higher Education Committee
NYA00727Intro
25%
Requires the administration and the instruction in preparation of the TASC examination in the Chinese and Korean languages for pupils who are proficient in these languages and of limited English proficiency.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00818Intro
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Relates to claims for unjust conviction.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Judiciary Committee
NYA00718Intro
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Directs the division of housing and community renewal to study non-rental fees charged by landlords and report to the legislature.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Ways and Means Committee
NYA00955Intro
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Relates to amending the universal full-day pre-kindergarten program subscription amount for regions other than New York city.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Education Committee
NYA00857Intro
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Provides for the financing of the design, acquisition, construction, improvement and installation of East River Esplanade.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA00766Intro
25%
Restricts the locations of gunsmiths and dealers in firearms in relation to child day care or educational facilities, and places of worship.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Codes Committee
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