Provides that an affirmation of a health care practitioner may be served or filed in an action in lieu of and with same force and effect as an affidavit (changes the current reference in existing provisions from "physician, osteopath or dentist" to "health care practitioner"). /
Sponsor: Gottfried Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires disclosure of possible conflicts; provides for the vacating of an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitrator was affiliated in any way with any party, or has a financial interest directly or indirectly in any party or in the outcome of the arbitration. /
Sponsor: Titone Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires every real estate salesperson and real estate broker involved in or present during a real estate transaction to include his or her license number and signature on every document requiring a signature. /
Sponsor: SAVINO Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that a great-grandparent may apply to the supreme court for visitation rights with respect to certain minor great-grandchildren where either or both of the parents of such child is or are deceased. /
Sponsor: Cook Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes state residents to gather fallen timber from the floor of the state forest preserve when such timber is within 50 feet of the center line of a public highway. /
Sponsor: Sayward Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a division of the public administrator within the office of the corporation counsel for the city of New York. /
Sponsor: Brennan Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes certain military personnel to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license. /
Sponsor: Morelle Committee: JUDICIARY

Increases the mileage fees in the city of New York imposed for the services provided by sheriffs. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: JUDICIARY

Makes indemnification agreements, relating to construction contracts void as against public policy. /
Sponsor: Cusick Committee: JUDICIARY

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: Magee Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the state comptroller to distribute certain funds from the indigent legal services fund to Orleans county. /
Sponsor: Hawley Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that in order to qualify to file for no fault divorce, where a marriage is broken down irretrievably and the non-petitioning spouse is a documented victim of domestic violence by the petitioning spouse, the non-petitioning spouse must consent to the divorce in order for it to occur. /
Sponsor: McEneny Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes family court judges to transfer certain child support arrears matters to the criminal courts; amends the jurisdiction of the criminal courts. /
Sponsor: GIANARIS Committee: JUDICIARY

Exempts guardianship motions filed under article 81 of the mental hygiene law by a fiduciary, court evaluator, guardian ad litem, court appointed attorney or by the court examiner from the required filing fee. /
Sponsor: Titus Committee: JUDICIARY

Removes disability benefits as a source of income for purposes of child support calculations. /
Sponsor: Reilly Committee: JUDICIARY

Applies laws of comparative negligence and assumption of risk to employees and certain other persons injured in the use of scaffolding and other devices in certain cases; applies outside cities of one million or more. /
Sponsor: SALAND Committee: JUDICIARY

Specifies courts and types of actions in which pilot programs will be authorized to permit use of electronic means to commence an action or special proceeding; authorizes establishment of advisory committees to implement laws to affect service of papers by electronic means. /
Sponsor: BONACIC Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to noncompliance of an employer or income payor with income execution orders; allows child support unit to count each failure to remit payment as an instance of noncompliance. /
Sponsor: Graf Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to requiring disclosure of results of water testing of private residences at the time of sale or transfer. /
Sponsor: SALAND Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes an experimental program in which presiding trial judges, in their discretion, may permit audio-visual coverage of civil and criminal court proceedings, including trials. /
Sponsor: LANZA Committee: JUDICIARY