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S03078Intro

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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...
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2011-02-08
To Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee
S03014Intro

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20 21 (A) "AUTHORITY" SHALL MEAN THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND 22 DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1851 OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORI- 23 TIES LAW. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law t...
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2011-02-07
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
S02543Intro

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Establishes an apportionment commission to create apportionment plans for congressional and state legislative districts based on decennial federal census, which shall be considered by and voted upon by the state legislature; eliminates the legislativ...
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2011-01-25
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S01910Intro

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Relates to the recovery of governmental costs from industrial development agencies.
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2011-01-14
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
S01595Intro

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Provides for draft and final environmental impact statements.
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2011-01-10
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
S00802Intro

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Creates and provides for a tax increment financing program as a method of reducing the cost of affordable housing in NYS; authorizes issuance of general and special obligation bonds and temporary anticipation notes; authorizes division of housing and...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
S00799Intro

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Provides that the lease or conveyance of oil and gas rights shall not, without other evidence of value, such as actual land sale prices, constitute grounds for increasing assessments.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Local Government Committee
S00790Intro

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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.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Agriculture Committee
S00788Intro

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Relates to excluding the value of trees on privately owned forest land for the purposes of real property tax assessments.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Local Government Committee
S00787Intro

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Prohibits assessors from increasing the assessments of forestland based on the stumpage value of the trees thereon; establishes the forestland taxation task force to study and make recommendations on the assessment and taxation of privately owned for...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Local Government Committee
S00784Intro

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Provides that excess investment tax credit amounts may be refundable to operators of a farm operation.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S00782Intro

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Allows livestock owners to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such pro...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Agriculture Committee
S00780Intro

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Establishes the AgJobs NY program to provide low interest loans to finance certain costs of agribusinesses; appropriates $50,000,000.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee
S00778Intro

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Includes land used for processing or retail merchandising of agricultural products within the real property tax exemption for land used in agricultural production.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Agriculture Committee
S00776Intro

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Establishes a personal income tax credit for taxpayers whose federal gross income from farming is at least two-thirds of excess federal gross income, for the cost of replacing concord grapevines by such farmers.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S00773Intro

Sine Die
Prohibits the filling, emptying or use of any liquefied petroleum gas cylinder, container or receptacle, except by the owner thereof or by a person authorized in writing by such owner.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Agriculture Committee
S00772Intro

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Provides sales tax exemption for wood pellet fuel sold for residential heating purposes in a wood pellet stove.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee
S00763Intro

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Authorizes the establishment of the home equity protection insurance program directing the agency to issue a commitment to insure and insure the full value of certain residences which are owner-occupied by persons who meet certain income qualificatio...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
S00760Intro

Sine Die
Establishes a historic preservation revolving loan program, within the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, to provide interest free loans to municipalities for historic preservation projects.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee
S00749Intro

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Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels and authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee
S00729Intro

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Establishes the actual innocence justice act of 2011; clarifies that convicted persons who can demonstrate a reasonable probability that they are innocent will have the right to challenge their convictions under the law, notwithstanding any other pro...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00727Intro

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Provides that an offer of employment or assignment made to a part-time faculty employee by a higher education institution which is contingent on enrollment, funding, or programmatic changes shall not constitute reasonable assurance of continued emplo...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Labor Committee
S00709Intro

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Provides for initiative and referendum in New York State for the People as electors to propose or reject laws and submit amendments to the state constitution.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee
S00706Intro

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Clarifies the state's obligation to make payments with respect to certain lands acquired by the department of environmental conservation.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
S00699Intro

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Provides an exemption for school districts from requirements for separate specifications for public works; permits school district to assign contract to a single responsible person, firm or corporation; permits school district to require a general co...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Education Committee
S00688Intro

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Provides for the issuance of distinctive license plates for African-American veterans; provides that such distinctive license plates shall bear the words "African-American Veteran"; provides for a one-time service charge of $10 for each such plate.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Transportation Committee
S00683Intro

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Establishes the uniform mediation act; establishes that a mediation communication is privileged and is not subject to discovery or admissible in evidence unless waived or precluded; prohibits certain reports to be made by mediators; establishes that ...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00681Intro

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Creates a fair sharing housing act and a council on affordable housing within the executive department; provides for planning and construction of low and moderate income housing in accordance with regional considerations; provides that no municipalit...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee
S00677Intro

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Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"; establishes a 3 year statute of limitations for commencement of a cause of action arising out of a consumer credit transaction where the defendant is a purchaser, borrower or debtor; establishes a notice of ...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00672Intro

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Requires employers of motor carriers to provide overtime pay to their employees.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Labor Committee
S00666Intro

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Provides for annual school lead-copper tap water testing; requires the publishing of reports of contamination and abatement of such contamination; requires school districts to provide potable water to school children attending affected schools; exemp...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Health Committee
S00662Intro

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Promotes the development, provision and accessibility of telehealth/telemedicine services in New York state; establishes a telehealth/telemedicine development and research grant fund.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Health Committee
S00660Intro

Sine Die
Establishes an apportionment commission to create apportionment plans for congressional and state legislative districts based on decennial federal census, which shall be considered by and voted upon by the state legislature; eliminates the legislativ...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S00658Intro

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Permits senior citizens whose spouses are deceased to substitute a more recent income for purposes of determing eligibility for the enhanced school tax relief (STAR) exemption.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Aging Committee
S00654Intro

Sine Die
Authorizes the possession and use of a single shot .22 caliber rifle by a person eleven years of age on a rifle range while supervised at an indoor or outdoor shooting range.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00644Intro

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Makes promoting prostitution in the first degree and certain provisions of promoting prostitution in the second and third degrees violent felony offenses; increases the severity of the penalties for patronizing a prostitute and permitting prostitutio...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00639Intro

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Establishes a reverse mortgage loan program for low income seniors; provides for the state of NY mortgage agency to establish many of the parameters for the implementation of the program; defines terms; requires a care needs assessment of each applic...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
S00635Intro

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Requires certain persons and officials required to report suspected child abuse and maltreatment to complete ongoing training; further all teachers, school superintendents and licensed professionals who are required to report cases of child abuse and...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Children and Families Committee
S00629Intro

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Expands eligibility for those who receive awards under crime victims' compensation to include a domestic partner; defines domestic partner; further provides for out-of-pocket loss to include the cost of counseling for surviving family members of homi...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee
S00623Intro

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Provides that antitrust laws shall not apply to any joint agreement entered into, in consultation with and approved by the state racing and wagering board, by or among non-profit associations, thoroughbred racing associations or corporations, harness...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee
S00622Intro

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Increases the penalties for sexual performances by a child; increases age from 16 to 18 for application of existing sexual performance crimes; creates crimes of use of a child in a sexual performance in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual p...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00619Intro

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Establishes the crime of promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree; definitions.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00613Intro

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Provides employers with a tax credit for expenditures to provide dependent care to adult dependents of employees of eligible expenditures for adults 60 or over or otherwise eligible; applies to corporate and noncorporate employers; also provides such...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S00609Intro

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Requires the use of a simple and easy to read typeface on paper ballots.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Elections Committee
S00602Intro

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Increases the contribution that a resident taxpayer may make to family tuition accounts for each beneficiary thereof during a taxable year.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S00598Intro

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Allows local tax collectors to send tax statements by electronic mail to an address provided by a homeowner and to opt out of receiving paper statements of taxes.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Local Government Committee
S00595Intro

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Allows boards of education to provide transportation to and from school for a child for a lesser distance than two miles if the parent or guardian of the child has a physically limiting disability which renders him or her unable to accompany the chil...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Education Committee
S00593Intro

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Relates to endangering the welfare of a child; establishes the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree.
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2011-01-05
To Senate Codes Committee
S00590Intro

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Provides that contributions made by any person, firm, association or corporation to a member of the state legislature which are intended to be used by such member or on behalf of such member for the payment of legal services and other charges in conn...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Finance Committee
S00588Intro

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Broadens requirements with respect to campaign disclosure statements to require expenditures of $5,000 or more incurred in the final 10 days of an election to be reported within 24 hours to the Board of Elections and requires such statements to be fi...
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2011-01-05
To Senate Elections Committee
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