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

Includes library systems within the definition of entities that are eligible to apply for local government efficiency grants. /
Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: FINANCE

Requires each county board of elections to distribute registration application forms to the public through distribution to public buildings, banks and various other facilities that the public may frequent. /
Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ELECTIONS

Directs the president of the state civil service commission to publish reports annually relating to diversity within state government. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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

Enacts the "Parental Involvement Leave Act" requiring employers to grant employees up to 16 hours leave during any school year to attend school conferences or classroom activities related to the employee's child if the conference or activity cannot be scheduled during nonwork hours; defines "employer" as "a state agency, officer, or department, a unit of local government, a school district, an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, or a nonprofit organization which employs 50 or more employees in NYS; provides that such leave may not be taken unless the employee has exhausted all accrued leave and any leave that may be granted (except sick leave and disability leave); provides that these provisions do not require that an employee receive compensation for such leave; related provisions. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: LABOR

Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap; street signs, funeral markers, government entity, utility, cemetery or railroad items; preempts local laws. /
Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Prohibits the sale or purchase of certain items as scrap; street signs, funeral markers, government entity, utility, cemetery or railroad items; preempts local laws. /
Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Requires the establishment of a citizens' committee on cable television prior to granting or renewing a cable television franchise by a municipality; such committee shall study and make recommendations on the requirement of the municipality for public education and local government programming; all such recommendations shall be included in the franchise agreement; eliminates the authority of counties to enter into franchise agreements with cable television systems; requires every municipality having a population of less than one million, which charges cable television fees to annually put aside not less than $250,000 to be spent exclusively for the creation, operation and maintenance of a public access television station; requires cable television systems to post municipal franchise agreement on their internet websites. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Provides that municipalities made coterminous may qualify for the citizen empowerment tax credit and the local government citizens re-organization empowerment grant program. /
Sponsor: BONACIC

Provides that municipalities made coterminous may qualify for the citizen empowerment tax credit and the local government citizens re-organization empowerment grant program. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Cahill

Provides authorized leave for volunteer fire department members or volunteer ambulance squad members for states of emergency; leave is deemed excused when a state of emergency is declared by the federal or state government and such person is engaged in the actual performance of his or her duties as an emergency responder; such period of leave shall not be charged against any other leave to which the employee is entitled; the employer may request a statement from the department or service stating the period of time the employee responded to the state of emergency. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LABOR

Enacts the taxpayer protection and mandate relief act; enacts various reforms relating to government spending including a spending growth cap, employee contributions to health insurance, limiting unfunded mandates, labor law reforms relating to public works projects, repeal of the WICKS law and reductions in reporting requirements under the education law. /
Sponsor: Kolb Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Relates to local government borrowing practices and mandate relief. /
Sponsor: MARTINS

Prohibits the sale of forged instruments; includes the sale and manufacture of government issued documents in the class C felony of forgery in the first degree. /
Sponsor: PERALTA

Prohibits the sale of forged instruments; includes the sale and manufacture of government issued documents in the class C felony of forgery in the first degree. /
Sponsor: PERALTA

Relates to local government borrowing practices and mandate relief. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Magnarelli

Allows municipalities to lease naming rights of government-owned property. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: RULES

Authorizes and directs the committee on open government to study proactive disclosure as a means of increasing transparency and access to government information. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: RULES

Provides that towers, including communications towers, etc., may not be erected on special parkway lands (Westchester county) without the consent of the local government in which located and must comply with all local laws, regulations, etc. /
Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: RULES