Permits special proceedings against certain designated state officials to be commenced in a supreme court in the judicial district of the petitioner's residence or principal place of business; provides that a proceeding against the public service commission shall only be commenced in the supreme court, Albany county. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for payment of bonuses to veterans of the Korean war. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires no budget bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, for at least ten calendar legislative days prior to its final passage; requires the finance committees of the senate and assembly to hold meetings on such budget bill during such ten day period. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the housing part of the civil court of the city of New York on its own motion or on the motion of a party to join the department of social services of the city of New York as a party in any action or proceeding wherein the failure of a recipient of or applicant for public assistance to pay rent is at issue; also permits the court to join the division of adult protective services of the city of New York, where appropriate. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires leases in cities with a population of one million or more to contain a rider describing the rights and duties with regards to the housing part of such city's housing part of civil court; directs the office of court administration to conduct a public information program informing tenants of their rights and of the right to utilize the housing of the civil court. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the incorporation of benefit corporations and provides for the public benefit to be created by benefit corporations, for the election and termination of the status of a benefit corporation, for the standards of conduct for directors and officers of a benefit corporation, and for the preparation and distribution of an annual benefit report by a benefit corporation. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires residential real property managers or any firm employing a property manager, contracting with a property manager or contracting to provide a property manager to file a registration statement with the secretary of state and to be certified from an approved certifying organization. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the composition of boards of elections. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to prostitution offenses; creates the new crimes of unlawful prostitution and sexual exploitation of a child. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to prostitution offenses; creates the new crimes of unlawful prostitution and sexual exploitation of a child. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for filling of vacancies in the office of governor and lieutenant-governor. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Eliminates a landlord's entitlement to one percent of the interest upon the security money of a tenant. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Increases the amount of compensation which a court may pay to a temporary appointed interpreter to not more than two hundred fifty dollars per day. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires a court to advise a defendant that if he or she is an alien and he or she is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in his or her deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by an alien if such alien is threatened with deportation and such alien is not so advised of such threat of deportation. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Allows satisfaction of constitutional requirement that bills be on members desks prior to passage/voting by distribution of bills in electronically written form: provides that a bill shall be deemed to be printed and upon the desks of the members if: it is set forth in a legible electronic format by electronic means, and it is available for review in such format at the desks of the members; provides that "electronic means" means any method of transmission of information between computers or other machines designed for the purpose of sending and receiving such transmissions and which: allows the recipient to reproduce the information transmitted in a tangible medium of expression; and does not permit additions, deletions or other changes to be made without leaving an adequate record thereof. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to destitute children. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: JUDICIARY

Proposes an amendment to article 1 of the constitution relating to equal pay for equal work; provides that all employees shall receive equal pay for equal work of comparable value, skill, effort and responsibility that is performed under similar working conditions. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Increases penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judgments with clerk; $100 to $1000. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Increases penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judgments with clerk: $100 to $500. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for the establishment of a biennial budgeting system for the state of New York replacing the state annual budget process. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY