Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS - Relates to increasing income tax rates on incomes over one million dollars and five million dollars. Relates to increasing income tax rates on incomes over one million dollars and five million dollars.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: JUDICIARY - Provides for the appointment of a permanent replacement lieutenant-governor by the governor, subject to the approval of the state senate, during permanent vacancy of the office.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: FINANCE - Provides that the Thruway Authority may award contracts under one hundred thousand dollars to minority and women owned businesses without competitive bidding. Provides that the Thruway Authority may award contracts under one hundred thousand dollars to minority and women owned businesses without competitive bidding.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH - Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that transactions of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary language; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Relates to arbitration organizations; requires private arbitration organizations involved in fifty or more consumer arbitrations per year to collect, publish at least quarterly, and make available to the public in a computer-searchable database certain information relating to such arbitrations; prohibits financial conflicts of interest.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INSURANCE - Requires notification to insureds that an out-of-network physician may be used in their procedure, test or surgery and such physician's services shall not be covered by their insurance policy; such services must be covered if the insured person does not receive notification prior to such services or procedure. Requires notification to insureds that an out-of-network physician may be used in their procedure, test or surgery and such physician's services shall not be covered by their insurance policy; such services must be covered if the insured person does not receive notification prior to such services or procedure.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES - Includes pupils from school districts within a city having a population of one million or more within the definition of child for the purposes of their protection from abuse and maltreatment in educational settings.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: TRANSPORTATION - Requires five hour pre-licensing course to include a motorcycle awareness and safety component, and the driver's license examination to include two questions concerning motorcycle awareness and safety Requires five hour pre-licensing course to include a motorcycle awareness and safety component, and the driver's license examination to include two questions concerning motorcycle awareness and safety.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HOUSING - Provides for the use of common areas in housing authority projects by tenant groups, committees or organizations without the imposition of a fee providing that the meeting is peacefully conducted, during reasonable hours, does not obstruct any access, and the meetings space is reserved three days in advance.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - Provides for the use of common areas in housing authority projects by tenant groups, committees or organizations without the imposition of a fee providing that the meeting is peacefully conducted, during reasonable hours, does not obstruct any access, and the meetings space is reserved three days in advance.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION - Relates to the protection of victims of domestic violence act, which requires defendants to wear global positioning systems monitoring the location of the defendant.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INSURANCE - Requires coverage under the healthy New York program for mental illness.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Provides for the expiration of the temporary state energy and utility service conservation assessment at end of each state fiscal year unless the governor requests a continuance of such assessement from the legislature. Provides for the expiration of the temporary state energy and utility service conservation assessment at end of each state fiscal year unless the governor requests a continuance of such assessement from the legislature. Provides for the expiration of the temporary state energy and utility service conservation assessment at end of each state fiscal year unless the governor requests a continuance of such assessment from the legislature.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS - Establishes the veterans' cremains act, allowing funeral directors to grant qualified veterans' organizations the right to receive the cremains of a veteran which has not been claimed by a relative or friend of the deceased within one year after cremation.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: EDUCATION - Requires the commissioner of education to require all schools to obtain permission from parents to collect a pupil's biometric information at least thirty days prior to collecting such information.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CODES - Establishes the inmate fraud act, which creates the crime of inmate fraud, allows inmates' accounts to be frozen and establishes the victims of inmate fraud fund.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: FINANCE - Prohibits the state from entering into certain contracts with companies requiring employees to stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes unless it excludes disputes involving sexual assault.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Establishes New York state renewable electric generation pilot programs to authorize the development of up to three hundred megawatts renewable electric capacity statewide, in order to stimulate the growth of clean, affordable and reliable sources of energy and to foster new partnerships between electric corporations, energy producers and energy customers in this state.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: RULES - Establishes the crime of aggravated interference with health care services in the first and second degrees.

Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CODES - Criminalizes assault on a sanitation enforcement agent.