Requires the state office for the aging to report on the delivery of services to and needs of traditionally underserved populations in their annual report to the governor and legislature. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee:

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Provides for the use of an official state of New York quality trademark for milk and milk products; sets forth requirements and procedures. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to animal control and licensing of animals; relates to the better protection of lost and strayed animals and to securing the rights of owners thereof; relates to licensing of dogs in certain cities; establishes an animal population control fund. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires ATMs to use both audio and visual system of relaying messages to its customers; provides that this provision would enable those individuals that are visually impaired to access ATMs without the assistance of another person; requires the audio system to convey substantially the same information as the visual; provides for rules and regulations to be promulgated by the superintendent of banks. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: BANKS

Repeals chapter 5 of the laws 1999 and authorizes a city having a population of one million or more to impose the city earnings tax on nonresidents. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CITIES

Limits commercial vehicles from stopping or standing in New York city unless engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers; provides an exception for state, local municipal and public utility companies; provides further for punishment in accordance with the point system pursuant to part 131 of subchapter J of chapter 1 of title 15 of the NYCRR which adds two points to the license of the violator of this section. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CITIES

Requires police identification line-ups to be conducted sequentially, with defendants appearing one at a time. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CODES

Expands the exemption provided to professional journalists and newscasters from contempt to include employment or association with a web log; defines web log as a website or webpage that contains an online journal containing news, comments and offers hyperlinks provided by the writer. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CODES

Regulates the use of informants by the prosecuting attorney and law enforcement personnel; requires law enforcement personnel to submit an annual report to the department of state with statistical information relating to their use of informants. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CODES

Establishes the period of limitation for the prosecution of a sex offense defined in article 130 of the penal law, incest or use of a child in a sexual performance committed against a person less than eighteen years of age shall not begin to run until the person has reached the age of twenty-three or the offense is reported to law enforcement or the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment, whichever occurs earlier; allows civil claims or causes of action brought by any person for physical, psychological or other injury or condition suffered as a result of conduct that is a sex offense as defined in article 130 of the penal law, incest or use of a child in a sexual performance committed against a child who was less than eighteen years of age at the time shall be allowed to be commenced five years after the child reaches the age of twenty-three; revives for 1 year, any such civil claim or cause of action which was barred because the applicable statute of limitations expired. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CODES

Waives the state's sovereign immunity to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; also waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CODES

Removes from admissibility evidence that proves or tends to prove that a victim has been convicted of a prostitution offense within three years prior to the sex offense which is the subject of the prosecution. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CODES

Relates to the humane treatment of animals by students in schools, in connection with school sponsored events or activities and experimental studies in laboratories. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: EDUCATION

Makes certain provisions applicable to public schools relating to instruction in civility, citizenship and character education. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes Haley's Act which prohibits direct contact between a big cat and a member of the public. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to the regulation of the drilling of natural gas resources. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for the drilling of wells and prohibits drilling within five miles of the New York city water supply infrastructure. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Prevents a judge from considering a parent's option to undergo gender reassignment when making a determination in a child custody case, and provides that the judge may not require the parent to refrain from undergoing such gender reassignment as a condition of custody. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Enacts provisions relating to the reporting of child abuse; delineates what persons are required to report cases of suspected child abuse to law enforcement agencies; any person required to report or any clergy required to review records who willfully fails to do so shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor for the first offense, a class E felony for the second offense and a class D felony for the third offense or any subsequent offense; provides immunity for certain persons who in good faith made such reports to the wrong recipient. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES