Excludes a statement of apology or regret, made by a health care provider, as an admission of liability in a malpractice lawsuit. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to waiver of privileged confidential information. / Sponsor: BONACIC Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes an affirmative defense for causes of actions related to violation of a patent, trademark or other intellectual property right on grounds that a party possessed or used seeds or plants that contained genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms without entering into an agreement or paying fees to the manufacturer or licensed distributor of such products. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to special proceedings to convey title to abandoned real property to cities, towns or villages. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the composition of boards of elections. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Enacts the Steven Kovacks law to impose an affirmative duty upon a social host to render assistance to a guest on private premises in the event of a medical emergency. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the adjustment of funds of a trust for the purposes of calculation of commission; provides that the adjustment of funds from principal to interest or interest to principal shall be a re-characterization of the transferred asset for purposes of calculating commission. / Sponsor: BONACIC Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a ten year statute of limitations to enforce violations of rules and regulations of Adirondack park agency committed within the Adirondack park. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires residential real property managers or any firm employing a property manager, contracting with a property manager or contracting to provide a property manager to file a registration statement with the secretary of state and to be certified from an approved certifying organization. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the power of eminent domain shall only be exercised for economic development purposes when the area for economic development is a blighted area. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to venue for certain civil actions arising out of certain violations of the lien law and the vehicle and traffic law. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to a stay of enforcement of a determination involving a permit or approval in connection with the development or construction of residential housing. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: JUDICIARY

Deems goods to be on sale or return as to creditor claims when goods delivered to person dealing in goods of the kind involved. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a third judgeship in the city court of the city of Newburgh, to adjudicate quality of life violations and landlord/tenant disputes. / Sponsor: LARKIN 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

Provides for the admissibility of recordings and logs of inmate calls made by the department of correction of the city of New York, as business records. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to redistricting the senate, assembly and congressional districts of NYS. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to authorization of debt in times of public emergency; relates to a limit on state funded debt and refunding of state debts. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the role and duties of advisors in trust agreements. / Sponsor: BONACIC Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that each county shall establish and maintain a registry of wills and codicils executed in that county for which the surrogate's court has jurisdiction; establishes what information shall be included in such registry. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY