Enacts the "equine activity safety code act"; provides that an equine activity sponsor, an equine professional, or any other person, which shall include a corporation or partnership, shall not be liable for an injury to or the death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of equine activities, except under certain circumstances. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: JUDICIARY

Extends dram shop liability to cover persons who sell forms of false identification to persons under 21 years of age who cause injury or damages while intoxicated or whose ability is impaired. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: JUDICIARY

Creates a fund for the compensation of unpaid or underpaid employees; requires the division of labor standards to provide instruction and assistance pertaining to tax filing and reporting requirements to persons who claim unpaid wages; directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to provide for the collection of income taxes from judgments for unpaid wages. / Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for the payment of interest on prejudgment arrears child support and combined child and spousal support pursuant to a court order. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides a constitutional guarantee that the legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free public libraries, wherein all the residents of this state may be provided with public library services. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: JUDICIARY

Directs the department of environmental conservation, and any successor agency thereto, to establish a reasonable number of forest preserve management areas upon state lands, acquired on or after the effective date of this amendment to the constitution, which are made a part of the state forest preserve; authorizes the cutting, sale and removal of timber on such lands, and the use of motorized equipment for such purposes. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Defines blighted properties and areas. / Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that tenants of residential real property shall be provided with voter registration forms. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that purchasers and sellers of real property shall be provided with voter registration forms at closing. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides procedures for the care and custody of infants determined to be abandoned; creates process to facilitate freeing abandoned infants for adoption if a parent does not claim custody within statutory period. / Sponsor: SKELOS Committee: JUDICIARY

Removes limitations on voting by absentee ballot that are required by the constitution. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires legislative approval of any contract between a corporation and New York state that would require the relocation of 75 or more employees across county lines. / Sponsor: BRESLIN Committee: JUDICIARY

Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"; establishes a 3 year statute of limitations for commencement of a cause of action arising out of a consumer credit transaction where the defendant is a purchaser, borrower or debtor; establishes a notice of lawsuit which must be mailed to the defendant in such a cause of action; establishes certain requirements for the complaint in such an action; provides for arbitration of such actions; requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their initial debt collection correspondence; such notice would contain information such as who and when a principal creditor may contact a debtor about the debt owed as well as the fact that a principal creditor cannot disclose information affecting a consumer debtor's reputation for creditworthiness if the principal creditor knows or has reason to know such information is false; applies to consumer rather than commercial debts. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: JUDICIARY

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

Alters the statute of limitations for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice to two years and six months from the time when a person knows or reasonably should have known of the alleged negligent act or omission and knows or reasonably should have known that such negligent act or omission has caused an injury. / Sponsor: FUSCHILLO Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes a lottery game for a community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: JUDICIARY

Limits the undertaking required of tobacco manufacturers and affiliates during appeals of the tobacco master settlement agreement to $100,000,000 for all appellants collectively, unless the appellee proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the appellant is dissipating assets outside the course of normal business. / Sponsor: JOHNSON Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the authorization of debt in times of public emergency; limits the total amount of state debt; establishes a debt management board; relates to the refunding of state debts. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the legislature to require a state or municipal entity to enact a period of residency requirement for persons applying for certain social services. / Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the comptroller to pay the proceeds of the estate of Howard J. Geyer to any person who can trace a familial relationship through common great-grandparents with the decedent; provides a kinship hearing in the surrogate's court of the county of Suffolk to determine persons entitled to such proceeds. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY