Waives the state's sovereign immunity to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; also waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state. /
Sponsor: Lifton

Establishes a private right of action for owners and tenants of residential premises against person video taping recreational activities upon such premises from the adjoining property. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Establishes a process for regulating the collecting, recording, and disclosing of confidential information by state employees; defines "confidential information". /
Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CODES

Prohibits discrimination against religious attire and appurtenances thereto, including facial hair. /
Sponsor: Weprin Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Limits the scope of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Expands the exemption provided to professional journalists and newscasters from contempt to include employment or association with a web log; defines web log as a website or webpage that contains an online journal containing news, comments and offers hyperlinks provided by the writer. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Increases the monetary penalties for the crimes of aggravated harassment in the first or second degrees or for discrimination; provides that such penalty shall be not less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for the first violation and not less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation. /
Sponsor: Curran Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Waives the state's sovereign immunity to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Age Discrimination Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act; also waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state. /
Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CODES

Limits the scope of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name. /
Sponsor: Weinstein Committee: CODES

Requires government agencies to provide notice to any applicant which has been denied employment due to review of a background check of the reasons for such denial. /
Sponsor: Moya Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Requires prior written notice upon hiring and once annually to all employees, informing them of the types of electronic monitoring which may occur. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal

Requires prior written notice upon hiring and once annually to all employees, informing them of the types of electronic monitoring which may occur. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal

Permits the audio and/or televising, broadcasting or taking of motion pictures of certain court proceedings; authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules and regulations permitting audio-visual coverage of civil and criminal court proceedings. /
Sponsor: Weinstein Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to prohibiting discrimination against New York state residents by places of public accommodation. /
Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: CODES

Provides civilian review boards with the option to petition the court for an order that would permit the disclosure of all personnel records if those records relate to an officer who was involved in a police shooting or police misconduct. /
Sponsor: Gantt Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Protects the right of privacy of victims of sex offenses or offenses involving the transmission of the HIV virus, who are under the age of 18; provides that the gender and address of victims under the age of eighteen be kept confidential. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness. /
Sponsor: Simotas Committee: CODES

Increases the monetary penalties for the crimes of aggravated harassment in the first or second degrees or for discrimination; provides that the penalty shall be not less than one thousand dollars nor more than ten thousand dollars for the first violation and not less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation. /
Sponsor: Jacobs Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Requires cooperative housing corporations provide a prospective purchaser with a written statement of reasons when withholding consent to a purchase; voids any agreement inconsistent with such requirement. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES