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BILL S11-2013: Relates to making the cost of incarceration for non-violent felons available to the public
Relates to making the cost of incarceration for non-violent felons available to the public.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: CODES
BILL S12-2013: Prohibits secondary schools and colleges from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition
Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: EDUCATION
BILL S13-2013: Relates to prohibiting retained asset accounts
Prohibits insurers from using retained asset accounts to hold proceeds from death benefits.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: INSURANCE
BILL S14-2013: Defines "criminal street gang" and prohibits criminal street gang recruitment of a minor
Defines "criminal street gang" and prohibits criminal street gang recruitment of a minor.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: CODES
BILL S15-2013: Makes victims of certain dog attacks eligible for awards by the crime victims board
Makes victims of certain dog attacks eligible for awards by the crime victims board; requires dog control officers to give victims a card with notice thereof.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
BILL S16A-2013: Relates to requiring renewal notices for applications under the SCRIE program
Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency or supervising agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 30 days prior to the application renewal date.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S16-2013: Relates to requiring renewal notices for applications under the SCRIE program
Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency or supervising agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 30 days prior to the application renewal date.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S17-2013: Provides additional rent protection for senior citizens where their rent is more than one-half of their income
Provides additional rent protection for senior citizens whose household income does not exceed $70,000 in cases where their rent is more than one-half of their income.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: AGING
BILL S17A-2013: Provides additional rent protection for senior citizens whose household income does not exceed $70,000 in cases where their rent is more than one half of their income
Provides additional rent protection for senior citizens whose household income does not exceed $70,000 in cases where their rent is more than one-half of their income.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: AGING
BILL S18-2013: Includes in definition of income all sources after deduction of all medical and prescription drugs not reimbursed or paid by insurance
Excludes expenditures for medical care not covered by insurance from the definition of "income" for the purpose of a real property tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens.
Sponsor: DIAZ
BILL S19-2013: Enacts the Home Equity Fraud Act to control improper activities by home improvement contractors and finance companies
Enacts the "Home Equity Fraud Act" to control improper activities by home improvement contractors and finance companies; prohibits mortgage brokers or agents from acting as home improvement contractors; provides additional protections for mortgagors and home owners.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: BANKS
BILL S20-2013: Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facilities within the definitition of a school zone
Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and includes daycare facilities within the definition of a school zone.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: CODES
BILL S21-2013: Relates to requiring safety enclosures for motor buses used in mass transportation
Relates to requiring safety enclosures for motor buses used in mass transportation.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: TRANSPORTATION
BILL S22-2013: Relates to the abatement of lead poisoning conditions
Increases the penalty for the failure to comply with a notice and demand for the discontinuance of a paint condition conducive to lead poisoning from two thousand five hundred to five thousand dollars.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S23-2013: Changes fine for violations by employment agencies to up to $500 a day and a class A misdemeanor for 3 or more violations in 5 years
Changes fine for violations by employment agencies to up to $500 a day and a class A misdemeanor for 3 or more violations in 5 years.
Sponsor: DIAZ
Committee: CODES
BILL S24-2013: Relates to the regulation of the drilling of natural gas resources
Relates to the regulation of the drilling of natural gas resources.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
BILL S25-2013: Regulates the use of informants by the prosecuting attorney and law enforcement personnel
Regulates the use of informants by the prosecuting attorney and law enforcement personnel; requires law enforcement personnel to submit an annual report to the department of state with statistical information relating to their use of informants.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: CODES
BILL S26-2013: Provides for court-ordered rent abatement where the landlord fails to make repairs
Permits court to order rent abatement in proceedings or actions to recover rent where the court finds conditions exist to constructively evict the tenant; rent may be abated for each day such condition exists; if court finds a condition which reduces habitability it may reduce rent owed by an amount between 10 and 50 percent of any amount owed.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BILL S27-2013: Requires tenants in housing court to be given certain information in bold print at the end of any petition for eviction
Requires tenants in housing court proceedings be given information pertaining to their rights including that only a judge may issue a warrant to evict them; requires that they should assert any defense or counterclaim in their answer and that they have a right to have the premises inspected to confirm any claim of dangerous or unhealthy conditions and that they may have a right to withhold rent for failure to make repairs and that OCA sells information to residential tenant screening companies.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: JUDICIARY
BILL S28-2013: Provides that a two-thirds majority of all outstanding shares is necessary to dissolve a mutual limited profit housing company
Provides that a two-thirds majority of all outstanding shares is necessary to dissolve a mutual limited profit housing company; disallows proxy voting except for illness or disability.
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT