Provides for the licensing of individuals and companies engaged in the business of residential realty management; imposes a one hundred fifty dollar annual registration fee; further imposes on every residential real property owner a fiduciary responsibility for all funds received or collected on behalf of the owner and tenants of multiple dwellings; grants secretary of state authority to revoke or suspend a license of a residential real property manager; provides for judicial review under an article 78 proceeding for denial, revocation or suspension of such license; directs attorney general to prosecute any criminal actions for violations; sets forth license requirements, fees, penalties for violations and related matters. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a public policy that no antenuptial agreement shall become binding for 30 days during which period either party thereto may unilaterally withdraw therefrom upon written notice served personally upon the other person; also requires that such agreements be in writing, subscribed by the parties, and acknowledged or proven in the manner required to entitle a deed to be recorded, and contain the addresses of the parties at which notice of withdrawal may be served. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires the clerk of court to accept a notice of pendency in equitable distribution matrimonial actions. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Designates certain nonjudicial employees of the unified court system employed as training academy officers as sergeants to correct an inadvertent omission occasioned by a chapter of the laws of 1988. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Grants people the right to temporarily or seasonally display symbols of religion or heritage on their property; declares void as against public policy any promise, covenant or restriction in a contract, mortgage, lease, deed, conveyance or other agreement affecting real property, which limits, restrains or prohibits the temporary or seasonal display of symbols with religious significance by the owner, lessee or occupant of the real property. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that damages in wrongful death actions shall include recovery for emotional loss and mental anguish, compensation for expected pecuniary loss and services, care and affection, expenses for medical treatment and reasonable funeral expenses; further provides that court or jury shall specify the amount and for whose benefit damages are awarded. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Specifically includes income executions in equitable distribution actions. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the amount of damages sought in a negligence cause of action shall not be stated in the complaint, cross claim, interpleader complaint and third-party complaint; provides that the party against whom such action is brought may, at any time, request a supplemental demand which states the total damages sought by the pleader. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the imposition of monetary sanctions in any civil action or proceeding upon a written finding of the court that a party or attorney has brought a claim or employed procedures entirely without merit and in bad faith; authorizes an additional interest at 150% of the legal rate in cases where frivolous delaying tactics had been interposed to avoid entry of a money judgment; requires notice be given of the courts view that sanctions may be called for prior to imposition of sanctions; provides for appellate review of order granting sanctions; provides that an action shall not be deemed frivolous solely because a novel or unusual argument or principle of law was advanced. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that where the legislature has not passed a budget by the start of the fiscal year the budget bills for the previous year shall remain in effect with a five percent reduction in all appropriations except entitlement programs required by law and appropriations for debt service; such budget shall remain in effect until a balanced budget is passed. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to gaming in New York state and applying certain proceeds from such gaming to the community development in the locality or region in which such gaming occurs. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: JUDICIARY

Sponsor: Kolb Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes the health care courts pilot program. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: JUDICIARY

Increases the value of homesteads which are exempt from civil judgements from fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand dollars. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: JUDICIARY

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

Prohibits contracts that relate or refer to hydraulic fracturing from containing provisions that prohibit the disclosure of the chemicals used by such processes; defines hydraulic fracturing. / Sponsor: BONACIC 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

Provides for distance learning for continuing education of home inspectors and hearing aid dispensers. / Sponsor: O'MARA 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

Creates a special subpart of the housing part within the NYC civil court to handle cases involving condominiums and cooperative buildings. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: JUDICIARY