Makes it an unlawful discriminatory practice for any employer, labor organization or employment agency who or which requires employees to perform their duties wearing a specified work uniform to prohibit employees from wearing any article of religious headgear unless such prohibition is reasonably related to the health or safety of employees while on the job. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Limits the tax imposed on refinanced mortgages to the difference between the total indebtedness secured by the new mortgage and the remaining indebtedness, which had been secured on the former mortgage. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Exempts receipts from the retail sale of personal property by a religious organization for use exclusively for religious purposes from the tax on retail sales and the compensating use tax. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Prohibits any person, firm or corporation located in a city with a population of one million or more from selling, offering for sale or giving away of beer or wine coolers after ten o'clock post meridian. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires a separate cost/benefit analysis prepared by the superintendent of insurance to accompany each mandated health insurance benefit bill considered by the legislature; provides that such cost/benefit analysis shall include the extent to which the medical care addressed in such bill is available to and utilized by the general population, whether insurance coverage for such medical care is currently available, whether a lack of insurance coverage may result in an individual not receiving necessary medical care or cause financial hardship upon the receipt of such care, whether such bill's implementation may have an impact on expensive medical care, whether such coverage might affect the future number and types of providers of such medical care, and whether such coverage might impact the cost of insurance premiums or administrative expenses to insurers and employers. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires that a copy of the statutorily required fiscal note on retirement bills, signed by the appropriate actuary, be filed with the journal clerks of the Senate and Assembly. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Increases the child and dependent care credit in computing personal income tax liability from 20% to 50% of the allowable federal child and dependent care tax credit. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires police agencies to report offenses to the division of criminal justice services which appear to such agency to be motivated by the race, national origin, religion or sexual orientation of the victim or of the owner, resident, lessee or occupant where the offense is committed against property. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for refund of or credit to petroleum vendors for petroleum business taxes paid by the vendors who are then unable to recoup the taxes from the consumer because the account becomes uncollectible. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires records, including a proposed resolution, law, rule, regulation, policy or amendment thereto, scheduled to be presented and discussed by a public body at an open meeting be made available for review to the public; requires such records be made available on the agency's website if it is regularly updated and they utilize a high speed internet connection. /
Sponsor: SALAND Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Prohibits the sale of tickets to theaters or places of amusement or entertainment where such tickets are available to the public at no charge; violations shall be punishable by $100 fine. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Exempts self-employed persons, localities, school districts and not-for-profit corporations from the MTA mobility tax. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Directs the municipal police training council to establish policies and procedures for police officers, relating to the investigation of and intervention into sex offenses; provides for recommendations to the governor relating to rules and regulations therefor; directs the office of court administration to provide training to judges and justices with respect to crimes involving sexual assault. /
Sponsor: Weinstein Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires the commissioner of general services to maintain an inventory and audit of every state-owned real property or unappropriated state land that has been sold, transferred, conveyed or exchanged and contain a reverter clause pursuant to the public lands law or the unconsolidated laws. /
Sponsor: Destito Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides that in any action commenced under the state's anti-trust law, the court may direct that all or any part of a criminal fine or civil penalty imposed upon a violator may, in the court's discretion, be ordered to be deposited with the office of victim services. /
Sponsor: Destito Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Prevents housing discrimination against victims of domestic violence. /
Sponsor: Destito Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Extends certain provisions of law relating to the resale of tickets to places of entertainment. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Adds land in the Town of Hopewell on which the Friends of the Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, Inc. operates, to the list of premises which are exempt from the provisions of law which generally restrict manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from sharing an interest in a liquor license. /
Sponsor: Kolb Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides that requirements for certain positions do not apply to persons employed by a city with a population of over one million so long as he or she is a resident of New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, Richmond, Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland or Putnam county. /
Sponsor: SALAND Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Expands the state investment tax credits to include tangible property used for providing investment advisory services or management of investment portfolios with investment objectives of over one million dollars. /
Sponsor: HANNON Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS