Relates to driving while using a portable electronic device; removes the requirement that there be reasonable cause a person using the device has committed a violation to issue a summons. / Sponsor: Weisenberg (MS) Committee:

Includes military or veteran status in the descriptions of hate crimes. / Sponsor: Castelli Committee:

Establishes the "power NY act of 2011." / Sponsor: Cahill (MS) Committee:

Relates to designating certain employees of the Seneca county sheriff's office serving as uniformed marine patrol officers and uniformed court security officers as peace officers. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Extends the expiration of the authorization of county of Chautauqua to impose an additional 1/2% sales and use taxes until November 30, 2013. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to continue providing half fare transportation for the commuter rail for persons sixty-five years of age or older and handicapped persons. / Sponsor: Raia (MS) Committee:

Establishes the New York business incubator network. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Relates to real property tax exemptions for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers in certain counties; eliminates renewal application requirement under certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Sweeney (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the town of Hempstead to apply for a real property tax exemption for a certain parcel in the county of Nassau. / Sponsor: SKELOS Committee:

Requires all state agencies and departments to accept credit cards, debit cards, money orders, and personal and business checks as a method of payment for any fee or other charge collecting by such state agency or department. / Sponsor: DenDekker Committee:

Sponsor: Weisenberg Committee:

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 recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord; limits a landlord's ability to take possession of units for their own primary residence, permit recovery of only one unit, and restrict such ability if the tenant has occupied the apartment for twenty or more years. / Sponsor: Lopez V (MS) Committee:

Provides that physical assault of a process server is assault in the second degree. / Sponsor: Lavine Committee:

Eliminates term limits for members on regional fish and wildlife management boards. / Sponsor: SEWARD Committee:

Provides that every written contract for the collection and transportation of commercial waste from a place at which such waste is generated shall specify the recyclable, reusable or other components of such waste that are required to be separated in accordance with local law or ordinance; provides for up to a $1000 civil fine for violations. / Sponsor: Kavanagh (MS) Committee:

Designates a portion of the Northern State Parkway beginning at the Nassau county line in the village of Lake Success, town of North Hempstead, county of Nassau and terminating in the hamlet of Hauppauge in the towns of Islip and Smithtown, county of Suffolk, as the "Purple Heart Way". / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee:

Requires that persons less than eighteen years of age wear a helmet when riding a horse; imposes a $250 fine for any violation. / Sponsor: Thiele Committee:

Permits certain eligible vested members of the NYS teachers' retirement system in tiers 3 and 4 who have ceased teaching to withdraw from such system and to transfer such credits to another state's retirement system; requires return of accumulated member contributions. / Sponsor: Abbate Committee:

Relates to outreach, status and time limits relating to the tax abatement program for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities. / Sponsor: Millman Committee: