Provides for the imposition of a mandatory fine upon certain public officials convicted of a designated felony offense related to his or her official duties. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Authorizes additional tax credits for certain costs incurred in film and television productions in a city having a population of one million or more. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates adult day services respite demonstration programs; authorizes the commissioner of health in conjunction with the director of the state office for the aging to establish the respite day demonstration programs, based upon adult day health care and social adult day services, which extends the period a caregiver can remain active in the care of elderly or disabled individuals; sets forth definitions; further sets forth reporting requirements. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: HEALTH

Provides for a financial exploitation, outreach, education and training program and fund. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

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

Provides enhanced sentencing for the offenses of criminal possession of a weapon and criminal sale of a firearm where such offenses occur at the residence of a child under age of fourteen. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Increases penalties for all offenses involving the possession, use, sale or purchase of firearms. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Designates police officers of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as peace officers. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Includes sharing, making available, selling, exchanging, giving or disposing of a community gun as an element of certain criminal acts. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: RULES

Requires fire officers in New York City to receive at least forty hours of field training and classroom instruction in the fire code of such city and at least forty hours of field training and classroom instruction in the building and construction codes and local ordinances of such city. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Relates to the definition of an artist and theatrical employment agencies. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Relates to the crime of possessing an obscene sexual performance by a child to include knowingly accessing with intent to view such material. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Relates to a prohibition on diversion of funds dedicated to public transportation systems. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: FINANCE

Creates the New York city transit authority safety advisory panel to study and report on safety from terrorist acts and to provide a moratorium on the closing of token booths and minimum staffing levels on trains operated in passenger service in the NYC transit system. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires at least one parent of a child attending a charter school to be a member of the board of education and the various councils of the city school district of the city of New York. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes a bus passenger service permit system in cities having a population of one million or more; designates locations for the loading and unloading of passengers for intercity buses; excludes tour buses. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Enhances the criminal penalties for assaulting certain employees of a local social services district while in the performance of their duties; elevates it to assault in the second degree, a class D felony. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Relates to extending the tax credit for biotechnology against the general corporation tax, unincorporated business tax, and banking corporation tax in certain cities. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Relates to the right of vested members to withdraw from the New York city teachers' retirement system; allows a member who has permanently ceased teaching in New York to elect to withdraw his/her accumulated contributions to enable the member to obtain credit for the teaching service in another state provided such member has at least five years of service credit in that system, and the withdrawal must be necessary in order for the member to obtain credit in the other system. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee:

Makes permanent certain provisions relating to contracts for public work and building service work. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: