Allows a professional service corporation, in good standing, to convert to a design professional service corporation if it meets all stated requirements to become a design professional service corporation. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee:

Relates to assessments on workers' compensation policies and removes the mandatory aggregate trust fund deposit requirements for non-scheduled permanent partial disability cases. / Sponsor: SEWARD Committee: RULES

Designates the tenth day of March of each year as a public holiday, to be known as Harriet Tubman day. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: RULES

Relates to annual professional performance review plans submitted by the highest performing ten percent of school districts. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: EDUCATION

Requires all accident and health insurance policies to provide coverage of medical nutrition therapy; defines medical nutrition therapy to mean the nutritional diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services for the purpose of disease management which are furnished by a dietician or nutrition professional. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: INSURANCE

Directs the superintendent of insurance to study the feasibility of developing and implementing a liability reform plan to protect private landowners who permit public recreational uses of their land. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INSURANCE

Relates to limits on certain supplementary insurance; permits insured to refuse supplementary insurance; requires certain disclaimer. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: RULES

Allows "Safe-Teen-NY Driver" stickers to be placed on license plates of motor vehicles driven by individuals who are under 18 years old or placed on their parents' or legal guardians' motor vehicle license plates. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes provisions of law, as authorized by a proposed constitutional amendment, providing for the settlement of land disputes between the state and private parties with regard to parcels in township 40, Totten and Crossfield Purchase, in the town of Long Lake, county of Hamilton. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Authorizes 15-17 year olds to register to donate organs and tissue upon their death; provides that parents or a legal guardian shall be notified and can rescind such decision to donate organs or tissue at the time of death; requires that the parent or legal guardian sign the registration along with the 15-17 year old and that such registration may be submitted by mail, in person, or electronically. / Sponsor: BONACIC Committee: RULES

Provides that vehicles with permits for handicapped parking issued anywhere in the state may use all spaces for handicapped parking in the city of New York. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

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

Directs the department of environmental conservation to expedite cleanup efforts at the former Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation facility in Bethpage, NY. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Includes moderate rehabilitation within the definition of project for the purposes of the low income housing trust fund program; defines moderate rehabilitation project as any occupied residential property or portion thereof which if vacant or underoccupied would qualify as a cooperative project, condominium project, homesteading project or rental project. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Legalizes the possession, acquisition, use, delivery, transfer, transport or administration of marihuana by a certified patient or designated caregiver for a certified medical use; prescribes procedures for such possession, acquisition, etc. including certification of patients by their practitioner, and that, in the practitioner's professional judgment, the serious condition should be treated with the medical use of marihuana; provides that possession or acquisition of marihuana shall be lawful under these provisions provided that the marihuana possessed does not exceed a total aggregate weight of two and a half ounces; directs the department of health to monitor such use and promulgate rules and regulations for registry identification cards; provides for reports by the department of health to the governor and legislature on the medical use of marihuana. / Sponsor: SAVINO Committee: HEALTH

Extends the authority of the city of White Plains to impose an occupancy tax through December 31, 2015. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee:

Designates that portion of New York state route 7 which constitutes the causeway over the Tomhannock Reservoir in the town of Pittstown in Rensselaer county, state of New York as the "Brigadier General James Kenney Memorial Highway". / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee:

Requires the renewal of firearms' licenses after five years and the taking of a safety course outside the city of New York; sets a date for expiration and provides for a schedule for recertification to be developed by the commissioner of criminal justice services. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: RULES

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

Prohibits cancellation, non-renewal or conditioning renewal of automobile insurance of a policyholder solely as a result of a dispute or a complaint pending against the insurer. / Sponsor: ALESI Committee: INSURANCE