Investigations and Government Operations / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON

Crime Victims, Crime and Correction / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON

Requires police officers to receive training instruction for crimes involving sexual assaults; requires training for child protective services workers in certain instances. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: FINANCE

Provides that prior to a dispositional hearing the judge shall order a probation investigation and a diagnostic assessment of a juvenile delinquent whom the court reasonably finds, on the record, to have a demonstrable need for a remediation of a discernible handicapping condition; allows judges to refer custody through various state agencies for placement into programs under protocol and funding provisions currently in existence. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides for accelerated payments to the city school district of the city of Mount Vernon. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: FINANCE

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of an application, having a license as a registered professional nurse, having the appropriate educational requirements and paying the fifty dollar initial certification fee and the triennial thirty dollar registration fee. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Prohibits public officials from releasing sealed juvenile police records; makes such official misconduct a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides for the application for sealing a record of conviction; establishes waiting periods for various convictions where such application may be made; authorizes certain agencies to maintain records; may be unsealed at the time of an arrest; prohibits the publication of sealed records; prohibits the waiver of this section at plea. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CODES

Requires disclosure by principal creditors and debt collection agencies of the legal obligations of a deceased debtor's family; requires such disclosure be both verbal and written. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Relates to the definition of serious offense. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CODES

Establishes the commission on post-secondary correctional education to examine, evalute, and make recommendations concerning the availability effectiveness and need for expansion of post-secondary education in the NYS prison system. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: FINANCE

Provides additional tax exemptions on qualifying residential real property where two or more qualified veterans live in the same household. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires landlords to check state sex offender registry when leasing to a new tenant, subtenant or adult occupant, and to notify tenants with children under age sixteen of any listing of such tenant, subtenant or adult occupant as a level three sex offender; exempts landlord from any civil or criminal liability for damages for any discretionary decision to release relevant information pursuant to this section or for failing to release such information, unless it is shown the landlord acted with gross negligence or in bad faith. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Establishes the minimum period of time that forensic samples should be retained by investigating authorities; creates the state commission for the integrity of the criminal justice system, as an independent agency, and provides for such commission's powers and duties; relates to special fictitious name indictments; relates to requests for certain DNA test comparisons; relates to forensic DNA testing; relates to claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment; relates to DNA testing, data collection and record keeping; and relates to DNA testing in felony cases. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: FINANCE

Provides for the appointment of three alternates on rent guideline boards; one alternate shall represent tenants, one shall represent owners of property and one shall be a public representative; alternates shall be permitted to participate in all proceedings of the board as non-voting members; an alternate shall only participate as a voting member of the board and be paid when a member, representing the same interest as the alternate, is unable to fulfill his or her duties on the board; applies to the city of New York, counties outside the city, towns and villages. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Directs the state university trustees to promulgate and enforce a sweat-free code of conduct for the licensing and purchase of apparel at colleges and universities of the state university; requires provision in contracts with apparel manufacturers providing for the termination thereof if the manufacturer uses a sweatshop; requires that at least one member of the special task force on the apparel industry be a representative of the state university of New York. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Establishes certain rights for shareholders in limited-profit housing companies. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Establishes it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any prospective employer to make an inquiry about, or to act upon adversely to the individual involved based upon, any criminal conviction of such individual unless such employer first makes a conditional offer of employment to such individual. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Authorizes payment of state aid by the commissioner of education for special education services for students with handicapping conditions for costs directly related to such services; provides that the results from savings should be given to school districts to be used to reduce school taxes. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes a temporary commission to examine and review the degree and effect of segregation in primary and secondary schools and any correlation with school funding and the long-term impact of inadequate education on segregated students; expires 2016. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: FINANCE