Provides a tax exemption on certain non-commercial energy star appliances; applies exemption on the first Saturday and Sunday of May and September on Energy Star appliances which cost less than twenty five hundred dollars; permits local legislation for exemptions on county/city level. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Requires the development of a generation attribute certification and tracking system by the New York State energy research and development authority; defines generation attribute certificate. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Provides that an insurer may offer valuable consideration, including merchandise or periodical subscriptions of a value of $25 or less to an insured. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Extends the application of the clean heating fuel credit until January 1, 2017. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

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Requires organizations that receive funds for capital improvements by the New York state dormitory authority and the upstate empire state development corporation to use such funds for the purchase of energy star equipment and appliances where available; defines energy star. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Requires inspection and regulation of all electric and gas meters that measure usage of any end use customer of electricity or gas services by the public service commission. / Sponsor: Hevesi (MS) Committee:

Requires notification by the superintendent of a school district to a transfer school/school district where an employee or volunteer has a report of child abuse in an educational setting; establishes a civil penalty not to exceed $5000; establishes that failure to notify the transfer school of such employee or volunteer is a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Requires immediate termination of employees or volunteers convicted of any crime involving child abuse in an educational setting. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Provides a tax credit for farmers who use qualified biodiesel fuel for the sole operation of their farm equipment. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Requires a blend of biodiesel fuel in retail heating oil: 5% in 2013; 10% in 2014 and 20% in 2015 and thereafter; describes the term biodiesel blend as renewable, biodegradable, mono alkyl ester combustible liquid fuel derived from agricultural plant oils, animal fats or waste oils and greases; provides that retail heating oil means residential, commercial and industrial. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Establishes the taxpayer access to publicly funded research act requiring any executive branch agency, commission or authority that funds direct research to establish a public access policy that would provide access to certain published works that were funded by the state. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Requires all rebates to be provided by the retailer to a purchaser at the time of the purchase of the good or service to which the rebate applies; authorizes the retailer to determine and disclose in advertisements the method in which the rebate shall be provided; provides for a civil penalty of one hundred dollars for each violation. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Authorizes the use of cool roofs on new construction or substantially renovated state-owned buildings; relates to establishing the state green building construction act. / Sponsor: Hevesi (MS) Committee:

Relates to the facilitation of certain prostitution crimes; increases the maximum term of the indeterminate sentence by one year for certain prostitution crimes where a commercial social networking website, online community or other website is used to facilitate such crime. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Places certain restrictions on internet use by individuals who are convicted of promoting prostitution or sex trafficking where the internet was used to facilitate the commission of such crime; imposes mandatory conditions that the defendant be prohibited from using the internet to access a commercial social networking website, access an online community, and communicate on the web with other individuals or groups for the purpose of promoting prostitution or sex trafficking; provides that the court may place other reasonable limitations on a person's use of the internet where the court deems necessary or appropriate. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Authorizes tenants to request the installation of smart or advanced meters where the building they occupy is being converted to an electric or gas meter that measures usage of any end-use customer of electricity or gas services. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Allows state, local government, school district and other political subdivision employees to utilize sick and personal leave when authorized to take leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993; doesn't supercede valid collective bargaining agreements. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Relates to requirements for eligibility of colleges under the New York state higher education loan program; requires a physical location in the state but not the main headquarters of the institution. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee:

Increases the penalties imposed upon gas and electric utilities for failure to file or correct an annual report with the public service commission; such penalties shall not be more than one-tenth of 1% of the utilities' annual net revenue for each day of violation, but not to exceed $25,000 nor be less than $100. / Sponsor: Hevesi Committee: