Legislative Agenda For September 10

SENATE MAJORITY COMMUNICATIONS September 10, 2009 Session Draft Proposed Calendar Agenda Subject to Revision

Nominations (with relevant committee meetings scheduled for September 10th) Jay Walder, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Corporations and Authorities Committee: 9 AM, Room 814 LOB Transportation: 10 AM; Room 124 CAP Finance: 12 PM; Room 124 CAP David Mack, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Transportation: 10 AM; Room 124 CAP Finance: 12 PM, Room 124 CAP James Wrynn, Jr. Insurance Superintendent Insurance: 11 AM; Room 124 CAP Conrad Lower, Workers Compensation Board

Resolutions Bullet Aid: Targeted funding for local school districts, including Special Acts schools. Capital Reallocation: Distribution of capital funding for local capital projects. Public Protection Budget Resolutions: Allocates funding from FY09-10 state budget for civil and criminal legal services, domestic violence and crime prevention and prosecution. Red Book Resolution: Allocates funding for purchase of “Red Book” for Senate and Assembly offices.

Ethics S6064/A9032 (Squadron/Silver): Enacts comprehensive ethics oversight. Passed Assembly. S XXXX-TBD (Sampson): Chapter Amendments to S6064, including expanding the definition of lobbying to include resolutions, outcomes or any actions of either chamber and the outcome of any other official act of the state legislature; creating a program of random reviews of annual statements of financial disclosure by Legislative Office of Ethics Investigations; requiring public officers to report business dealings with lobbyists; increases enforcement authority of State Board of Elections.

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Green Jobs/Green Homes S5888/A9801 (Aubertine/Silver): Establishes a "Green Jobs/Green New York" with a goal of making 1,000,000 homes, businesses, and not-for-profits in New York more energy efficient while creating thousands of new green jobs and training the workers to fill them. Passed Assembly. S6032/A9031 (Aubertine/Cahill): Chapter Amendments to “Green Jobs/Green New York.” Passed Assembly.

Family Court Judges Expansion S5968/A8957 (Sampson/Weinstein): Modifies the existing Family Court Act to create 21 additional family court judgeships outside of NYC, and seven new judgeships for NYC. Has not passed the Assembly.

Powers of Attorney Technical Corrections S5910/A8392A (Onorato/Weinstein): Corrects provisions in establishing powers of attorneys for financial estate planning. Passed Assembly.

Child Protections S6091/A5080 (Diaz/Lentol):Establishes stronger criminal penalties for the cruel and wanton murder of a child by authorizing the courts to sentence a person convicted of such offense to life without the possibility of parole. Passed Assembly.

Aggravated Interference with Health Care S6112/A8924 (Parker/Hoyt): Establishes the crime of aggravated interference with health care services in the first and second degrees in order to protect not only providers of reproductive health care services, but also volunteers who provide or assist others to obtain reproductive health care services. Passed Assembly.

Climate Protection S4315/A7572 (Thompson/Sweeney): The Global Warming Pollution Control Act sets enforceable limits on greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane, and also establishes oversight, monitoring and enforcement mechanisms. Passed Assembly.

Credit/Debit Protections S.2550/A7674-A (Diaz/Kavanaugh): Requires the collection of taxes on credit and debit cards to be paid by card issuers rather than merchants to the State of New York. Has not passed the Assembly.

Tenant Protection S2642A/ A1685A (Squadron/Lopez): Expands tenant protections by limiting a landlord's ability to take possession of units for their own personal use. Passed Assembly.

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S2493/A2002 (Klein/Silver): Establishes civil penalties for the harassment of tenants in order to obtain vacancy of their unit. Passed Assembly.

Election Law Reform S2443B/A1002-C (Stewart-Cousins/Paulin): Requires local boards of elections to include the materials necessary for poll inspectors to direct voters to their proper polling locations in the event they go to the wrong facility. Passed Assembly.

Access to Prenatal Services S3257A/A8397A (Duane/Gottfried): Requires the Commissioner of Health to develop standards for the provision of prenatal care under the Medicaid program, and updates the income eligibility standards for presumptive eligibility of pregnant women under the Medicaid program. Passed Assembly.

Tax Assessment and Revenue Clean-Up S6117/A9028 (Kruger/Farrell): Technical “clean ups” which clarify that certain income was intended to be included as New York source income by nonresident shareholders and relates to the registration of tax return preparers, among other provisions. Passed Assembly. S5861-A/A8865-B (Dilan/Espaillat): Adds livery, as defined by section 6-01 of the rules and regulations of the New York City taxi and limousine commission, to those transportation services to be excluded under paragraph 34 of subdivision (b) of section 1101 of the tax law.

Air Quality Protection S1145A/A8642 (Perkins/Sweeney): Limits the sulfur content in home heating oil. Passed Assembly.

Homeownership Development Program S6150 (Espada): Chapter Amendment that will allow SONYMA to work with Fannie Mae and develop a homeownership program slated to begin in January. No matching bill in Assembly.

Support for Volunteer Firefighters S4982/A2733A (Foley/Sweeney): Establishes the volunteer firefighting and volunteer emergency services recruitment and retention fund and authorizes gifts to such fund through a state income tax check-off. Passed Assembly.

Consumer Protection S3141A/6933A (Monserrate/Pheffer): Makes changes to New York's "Children's Product Safety and Recall Effectiveness Act of 2008" to conform to federal law. Passed Assembly.

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Support for NY Farms S1329/A4277 (Serrano/Cook): Authorizes the Commissioner of Economic Development to develop a program to promote and distribute statewide and regional guides to farms, farmers markets and other agriculturally significant tourist destinations. Passed Assembly.

Bioscience Database S5419/A7229 (Stachowski/Schimminger): Creates a database of research materials in the area of bioscience intended to assist in the development of research and product development with the ultimate goal of increasing economic development. Passed Assembly.

Hospital Closure Planning Act S5802A/A8461C (Huntley/Lancman): Ensures that the Department of Health engages in adequate planning to minimize the health care impact of a hospital closure upon the surrounding community. Passed Assembly.

Off Track Betting Corporation S2595/A6916 (Adams/Pretlow): Revises the hold harmless provisions related to OTB payments to harness tracks, and boosts OTB payments to local governments. Has not passed Assembly.

Interstate Compact S3022/A8183 (Adams/Pretlow): Relates to authorizing the participation in an interstate compact for occupational horse race licenses. Has not passed the Assembly

Life Settlements S3655A/A7131A (Breslin/Morelle): Establishes disclosure requirements, regulation and oversight of life insurance sales transactions, outlaws fraudulent or exploitative practices, and sets enforcement procedures and penalties. Passed Assembly.

Ban on Airport Hustling S5643 (Dilan/Aubry): Provides that unlawful solicitation of ground transportation at an airport shall be a class B misdemeanor. Passed Assembly.

Parking Program in the City of Albany S396/A1039 (Breslin/McEneny): Authorizes the city of Albany to adopt a residential parking permit system. Passed Assembly.

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Humane Destruction of Animals S4962B/A999B (Oppenheimer/Paulin): Provides for the humane destruction or disposition of certain animals. Passed Assembly.

Female Inmate Rehabilitation Programs S5993/A4809A (Hassell-Thompson/Weinstein): Requires that rehabilitation programs for female inmates in state correctional facilities be equivalent to those provided to male inmates of correctional facilities elsewhere in the state. Passed Assembly.

Town Court Mergers S4375/A7782 (Griffo/Scozzafava): Permits the election of one Town Justice for a group of adjacent municipalities. Has not passed the Assembly.

County Clerk Pay S2190/A5643 (Golden/Farrell): Raises County Clerk pay in New York City to match that of Supreme Court judges rather than Civil Court judges. Has not passed Assembly.

OGS sale of land in the town of Lansing S508a/A8971 (Nozzolio/Lifton): Authorizes the Commissioner of the Office of General Services to sell certain lands in the town of Lansing. Passed Assembly.

PTSD (Timothy’s law) S185/A4572 (Morahan/Rivera): Relates to the definition of "biologically based mental illness" and post traumatic stress disorder. Has not passed the Assembly.

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