Sponsor: Paulin (MS) Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Amends requirements for pet dealers for the care and sale of cats and dogs; requires the implementation of an appropriate plan for the exercise of animals in their possession.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Prohibits a mercantile establishment from detaining any person who committed a larceny therein for the purpose of ensuring or requiring the payment of civil damages and penalties to such establishment; limits the period of time for detention of any person by a mercantile establishment to 1 hour; provides that any violation of such provisions shall result in forfeiture of the right to such civil damages and penalties; provides that such damages and penalties shall be based upon the price of the stolen goods at the time of the larceny; requires mercantile establishment to provide the detainee with a copy of any statements or documents signed during the course of such detention; authorizes a defendant, in a civil action brought by a mercantile establishment, to present evidence of mental disease or defect as a mitigating circumstance.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Prohibits pay per call prize schemes from charging more for the call than that charged by a telephone corporation regulated by the Public Service Commission for the same call.

Sponsor: Peralta Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Requires travel agents to be registered with the department of state, and provides for the regulation thereof.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Requires motor vehicle carriers to be identified in English.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Provides that a consumer reporting agency may not consider that a person requested a rate quote when determining that person's credit score.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Provides that a business entity may not provide false caller identification with the intent to defraud or harass any party; provides definition of business entity.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Relates to the illegal use of stolen or misappropriated computer software; definitions and penalties.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Requires disclosures and sets forth requirements and prohibitions relating to automatic renewal and continuous service offers.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Relates to disclosures required for certain solicitations by container.

Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION -

Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION -

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Amends requirements for pet dealers for the care and sale of cats and dogs.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Amends the definitions of pet dealers in the agriculture and markets law and the general business law.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Enacts the "landscape irrigation contractor certification act"; requires that landscape irrigation contractors pass an examination designated by the secretary of state; regulates scope of activities as a landscape irrigation contractor; provides for civil penalties.

Sponsor: Peralta Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION -

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Authorizes the enactment of local laws regarding playground equipment and requires the use of a temperature test on playground equipment installed by municipalities.

Sponsor: ESPADA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Prohibits a producer or refiner from selling, transferring, or assigning interest in a retail outlet leased to a motor fuel dealer unless such producer or refiner makes certain offers to such dealer. Prohibits a producer or refiner from selling, transferring, or assigning interest in a retail outlet leased to a motor fuel dealer unless such producer or refiner makes certain offers to such dealer.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Prohibits service providers from solely relying upon credit reports for the purpose of determining whether to provide or continue to provide service to any consumer or potential consumer; further prohibits the sole reliance upon credit reports by service providers for the purpose of requiring the payment of a deposit, additional fee or higher rate for service.

Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION - Prohibits service providers from solely relying upon credit reports for the purpose of determining whether to provide or continue to provide service to any consumer or potential consumer; further prohibits the sole reliance upon credit reports by service providers for the purpose of requiring the payment of a deposit, additional fee or higher rate for service.