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S02110Intro

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Creates the conflict resolution and school violence reduction program; establishes a program of grants for developing and implementing effective techniques and activities to combat crime and violence in schools; appropriates $5,000,000 for grants and...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee
S02294Intro

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Directs the establishment of gun court calendars in criminal courts to hear cases involving unlawful gun possession and use and requires the expeditious scheduling of trials conducted therein; makes various provisions for the establishment of such ca...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02111Intro

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Provides that banking institutions in New York State may release customer information in the following manner; (a) to the actual customer or authorized agent, or (b) unless a customer affirmatively and in writing prohibits the release, to a subsidiar...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Banks Committee
S02300Intro

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Provides that no application or motion for an increase in the maximum rental per room for limited-profit housing company projects shall be entertained or acted upon for a period of two years from the date of any previous order of the commissioner or ...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
S02112Intro

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Requires the state comptroller to adopt comprehensive investment guidelines which detail the department of audit and control's advisory policy and instructions to the chief executive and chief fiscal officers and the finance board, as may be appropri...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee
S02301Intro

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Establishes a separate bureau within the executive department to receive, consider and determine appeals from determinations of hearing officers of the department of motor vehicles traffic violations bureaus; provides for award of expenses to appella...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee
S02120Intro

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Prohibits the release on parole for persons convicted for the second time of a class B violent felony offense.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02113Intro

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Requires limited-profit and limited-dividend housing companies to include information on tax abatement and exemption in their annual reports.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
S02302Intro

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Enacts school technology planning act requiring regional or district-wide technology planning by school districts; also assigns a role for the state education department to provide technical assistance to schools, review and approve district plans an...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Education Committee
S02317Intro

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Authorizes the commissioner of taxation and finance to operate a toll free twenty-four hour hotline for the public to use to report information concerning the failure of any person to collect the tax on retail sales and the compensating use tax; prov...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee
S02114Intro

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Requires merchants and manufacturers of consumer commodities sold in New York state to disclose on the label of the package of such commodities the post-consumer recycled content of the package; defines the term consumer commodities to mean food or b...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
S02304Intro

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Provides for a corporate franchise tax check-off and a personal income tax check-off for taxpayer gifts for lung cancer education and prevention; establishes the lung cancer education and prevention fund; provides for such education and prevention pr...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Health Committee
S02115Intro

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Seeks to open accessibility for academically qualified students who are bona fide residents of the state of New York to obtain reserved seats at minority institutions of higher learning; authorizes commissioner of education to contract with the Unive...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Higher Education Committee
S02305Intro

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Limits the proximity of newly located community residential facilities for the disabled to within a one mile radius of an existing facility.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Committee
S02117Intro

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Relates to identity theft prevention; requires business organizations to develop and implement information security plans to safeguard personal information collected and retained for the purposes of employment or the provision of goods or services.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
S02306Intro

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Requires campaign statements filed with the state or local boards of elections to be transmitted to the public campaign finance board having jurisdiction over the election.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Elections Committee
S02118Intro

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Relates to establishing the crime of sexual abuse of authority, pertaining to sexual conduct between a teacher and a student.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02308Intro

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Enacts provisions to deter gang assaults by including within felony assault provisions, gang assaults involving two or more persons causing serious physical injury to another.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02119Intro

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Requires that all telephone corporations doing business in the state and providing pay telephones shall conspicuously post the name and telephone number of the local police precinct, agency or department on all telephones located in the state; direct...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
S02309Intro

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Creates the offense of aggravated rape when a person engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion and such intercourse results in serious physical injury or is committed by a person who agrees with another to cau...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02121Intro

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Authorizes the certificate of incorporation of a not-for-profit corporation to eliminate or limit the personal liability of directors to the corporation or its members provided that liability for acts or omissions which were in bad faith, intentional...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
S02310Intro

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Requires all banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations and other financial institutions that provide electronic banking services to replace moisture-activated adhesive deposit envelopes with self-adhesive deposit envelopes.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Banks Committee
S02123Intro

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Establishes a mentoring program within the office of children and family services to assist juveniles released from juvenile facilities in the development of life skills in the city of New York; provides that mentors shall be students from the city u...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Children and Families Committee
S02311Intro

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Provides that every policy which provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care or provides reimbursement for laboratory tests or diagnostic X-rays shall provide coverage for Tay-Sachs testing; provides that in order to maintain the confide...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Insurance Committee
S02293Intro

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Provides for regulation, supervision and inspection of certain motels which provide shelter to the homeless for-profit in cities of one million or more persons by including them within the definition of "adult care facility" and subjecting them to ce...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Social Services Committee
S02124Intro

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Enacts a "Computer Lemon Law" to protect purchasers of defective computer equipment; makes definitions; provides for notice to purchaser, coverage and coverage period, records, and civil actions for enforcement; preserves the rights of such computer ...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
S02313Intro

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Establishes a separate bureau within the executive department to receive, consider and determine appeals from determinations of hearing officers of the department of motor vehicles traffic violations bureaus; provides for award of expenses to appella...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee
S02125Intro

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Prohibits restaurants in cities with a population of one million or more from serving drinking water from a tap to patrons, except upon request of patrons; defines relevant terms; excludes catering and banquet facilities.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
S02314Intro

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Exempts individual or group policies of medicare supplemental insurance from certain provisions regarding increase or decrease of premiums without a public hearing.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Insurance Committee
A02434Intro

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Requires schools to provide instruction on the history of the Ukrainian genocide holodomor from 1932 through 1933.
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2011-01-18
To Assembly Education Committee
S02126Intro

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Establishes the offenses of gang assault; imposes additional criminal penalties for assaults committed by gangs as opposed to assaults committed by individuals.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02315Intro

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Directs the New York City transit authority to conspicuously post in stations where noise levels exceed 90 db, in a manner visible to passengers exposed to such noise levels, a notice warning passengers of the harm to their health that may result fro...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Transportation Committee
S02094Intro

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Prohibits the repackaging of meat offered for sale once the first sale date or last sell-by date is stamped or labeled on the packaging; also prohibits the changing of such date; treats such meat as unwholesome; provides that the period between the f...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Agriculture Committee
S02128Intro

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Requires Russian-English language translators at polls in New York city in districts where more than 5 percent of the citizens of voting age of such political subdivision are members of the Russian language minority.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Elections Committee
S02318Intro

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Requires a physician, upon the renewal of his or her professional license, to submit to the board of regents that he or she has attended and completed a course of continuing education in professional medical competency approved by such board; establi...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Finance Committee
S02319Intro

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Prohibits public authorities and public benefit corporations from issuing bonds and notes for a work or purpose which extends beyond the probable life of the work project.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Corporations, Authorities and Commissions Committee
S02035Intro

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Provides that physician fee reimbursement under the Medicaid program for office visits be no less than the amount reimbursed for physician treatment in hospital out-patient settings.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Health Committee
S02320Intro

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Excludes payment of shelter rent taxes from the definition of shelter rent for purposes of computing the tax exemption allowed limited-profit (Mitchell-Lama) housing companies.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
S02321Intro

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Provides that the maximum surcharge imposed on income of residents of limited-profit housing company rental units shall not be greater than the amount of the tax exemption and interest subsidy granted by the municipality to such resident as determine...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Housing, Construction, and Community Development Committee
S02088Intro

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Requires school districts in a city with one million or more to investigate and report on the status of PCB's in school buildings; provides for report to be submitted to the commissioner by January 1, next succeeding the close of the school year in w...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Education Committee
S02108Intro

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Prohibits any person, firm, or corporation from selling, offering for sale, renting, offering to rent, or displaying indecent material within two hundred feet of any public or private primary or secondary school, church, synagogue, or other place of ...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee
S02122Intro

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Provides that a bank upon which a negotiable instrument is drawn shall make payment on such negotiable instrument at the time of presentment, provided proper photo identification is submitted by the payee named in such instrument, irrespective of whe...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Banks Committee
S02096Intro

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Requires that a regulatory impact statement containing projected costs for a proposed regulation be accompanied with proof of legislative approval prior to filing the regulation with the secretary of state.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Commerce, Economic Development and Small Business Committee
S02307Intro

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Requires ski area operators to provide helmets on-site for optional rental by skiers and snowboarders.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Judiciary Committee
S02254Intro

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Proscribes conduct by a custodian of a child wherein he or she threatens to injure or injures a member of a child's family.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02041Intro

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Requires the state to deny the application for a driver's license or permit of any person convicted of any violation resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle in another state where such violation, if committed within the state, would have resu...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Transportation Committee
S02252Intro

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Authorizes Triborough bridge and tunnel authority officers to administer alco-sensor screening tests to determine if a person has consumed alcohol when an accident has occurred on authority property; operator will be transported to intoxicated driver...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Transportation Committee
S02282Intro

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Increases penalties for offenses involving the criminal possession of a firearm, rifle, shotgun or machine gun; restricts the ability to plea bargain to lesser offenses and provides for mandatory minimum sentences of imprisonment for violations apper...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
S02239Intro

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Adds chronic pain disorder as a justifiable ailment for which one may receive compensatory payments under the workers' compensation law; defines chronic pain disorder as any process which causes pain in patients suffering from diseases known to be ch...
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2011-01-18
To Senate Labor Committee
S02264Intro

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Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement.
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2011-01-18
To Senate Codes Committee
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