Relates to making the cost of incarceration for non-violent felons available to the public. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CODES

Prohibits secondary schools and higher education institutions from withholding student transcripts for failure to pay tuition. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: EDUCATION

Prohibits insurers from using retained asset accounts to hold proceeds from death benefits. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: INSURANCE

Defines "criminal street gang" and prohibits criminal street gang recruitment of a minor. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CODES

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

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

Provides additional rent protection for senior citizens where their rent is more than one-half of their income; additional protection, not a substitute for rent protection. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: AGING

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 Committee: AGING

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

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

Relates to requiring safety enclosures for motor buses used in mass transportation. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: TRANSPORTATION

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

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

Relates to the regulation of the drilling of natural gas resources. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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

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

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

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

Provides that housing judges of the New York city civil court shall be elected for terms of ten years and provides for increased compensation. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires the city of New York or county within the district to make maintenance of escalators, elevators and other facilities in passenger stations a priority; requires daily inspections, reports to MTA inspector general and the management advisory board, emergency repair order after two consecutive daily reports of inoperable facilities, and annual reports by the management advisory board. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: TRANSPORTATION