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

Provides for the imposition of a mandatory fine upon certain public officials convicted of a designated felony offense related to his or her official duties. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Provides for the imposition of a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses against a child or mentally disabled person. /
Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CODES

Establishes the detective Peter Figoski act of 2012 including the risk to public safety as a factor in bail determinations. /
Sponsor: Simotas Committee: CODES

Creates the Public Corruption Prevention and Enforcement Act; increases penalties for violations relating to scheme to defraud the government, duty to provide faithful public services, bribery; increases penalties for financial disclosure violations by public officials; relates to community project grants; provides for an executive community projects fund; inspection of annual statements; election law provisions. /
Sponsor: Kellner Committee: CODES

Creates the new offenses of criminal sale of a controlled substance resembling candy and criminal sale of marihuana resembling candy, and provides for penalties therefor. /
Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: CODES

Establishes offenses of sexual assault against a child by a person in a position of trust for the subjection of a child to sexual contact by a person in a position of trust; defines "person in position of trust" as a person charged with the duty or responsibility for health, education, welfare or supervision of a child; provides such offenses in the first and second degrees shall be violent felony offenses. /
Sponsor: SKELOS Committee: CODES

Increases penalties for theft of a motor vehicle when a child under 16 is in or on such vehicle. /
Sponsor: SKELOS Committee: CODES

Establishes the offense of aggravated criminal conduct, when a person commits a misdemeanor after having been previously convicted of six or more qualifying misdemeanor or felony crimes within the preceding year, as a class E felony. /
Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: CODES

Authorizes imposition of life imprisonment without parole sentence for persistent violent felony offenders upon conviction of a violent felony offense when such person has previously been subjected to two or more predicate violent felony convictions. /
Sponsor: SKELOS Committee: CODES

Establishes the class A misdemeanor of unlawfully residing or entering upon school grounds for the entry upon school grounds, of any sex offender required to register and verify pursuant to the sex offender registration act; grants an exception for persons attending or employed by the school upon such school grounds, or having a family member attending such school, if the defendant enters the school grounds for the limited purposes authorized by the administrator of the school; establishes the class E felony of unlawfully residing or entering upon school ground for the commission of such offense in the second degree after having had a conviction thereof in the previous 5 years. /
Sponsor: SKELOS Committee: CODES

Enacts the religious freedom restoration act; provides that government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion by any act or failure to act; requires that religious rights may not be burdened by government absent compelling interest and requires that the application of any rule in furtherance of such compelling interest be performed the least restrictive manner. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Requires the department of health to monitor the lead levels in candy and to prohibit the sale or distribution of candy with lead in it; prohibits the manufacture, distribution, sale and offering for sale of soft vinyl lunch boxes and infant and children's bibs containing more than 600 parts per million of lead; imposes a $1,000 fine for each violation relating to soft vinyl lunch boxes and infant and children's bibs; directs the department of health to conduct an extensive public information program on lead in candy, soft vinyl lunch boxes and infant and children's bibs. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: CODES

Relates to the purchasing of bullets for firearms; requires the purchaser of bullets for any firearm to fill out an application providing information regarding the purchaser's name, date of birth, address, and also the calibre, make, model, manufacturer's name and serial number of the firearm for which the applicant is purchasing the bullets; copies of the application to be forwarded to all law enforcement agencies of the state; provides that any violation of this section is a class A misdemeanor. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CODES

Increases the penalties for knowingly possessing a large capacity ammunition feeding device. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Provides enhanced sentencing for the offenses of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal sale of a firearm where such offenses occur at the residence of a child under age of fourteen. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Relates to the criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a firearm while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; increases certain penalties. /
Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: CODES

Relates to the prohibition of illegal gun trafficking; makes the violation of such prohibition a class D felony. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Makes it illegal to sell component parts of a pistol or firearm to any person who does not possess a valid pistol permit; the component part being purchased must be a component part to the pistol or firearm listed on the purchaser's valid pistol permit. /
Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: CODES

Requires the police authority in the locality where an application is made for a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms to conduct a search of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES