Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Authorizes the Hebrew Academy of Nassau county in the town of Hempstead to file an application for a real property tax exemption. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Relates to the demonstration program authorized within Nassau county and the disposition of fines in such county; establishes the Nassau county youth services fund; provides that the collecting authority shall pay twenty-five percent of such amount collected to the state comptroller to be deposited to the Nassau county youth services fund. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Appropriates $44,500,000 for and establishes a street level narcotics enforcement program in the division of criminal justice services for counties not wholly contained within a city and having a population in excess of one million and to villages; directs the division of state police to provide centralized narcotics enforcement training for police officers employed by or under contract with eligible counties or incorporated villages. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Creates the Long Island workforce housing incentive program; requires a local government that approves a subdivision plat or site plan for five or more residential units to require the set aside of at least ten percent of such units for affordable workforce housing, the payment of a fee to be used to provide affordable workforce housing or the provision of other lands for such purpose. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Requires motor vehicle repair shops to give fair and legal estimates; provides a civil penalty of not more than three hundred dollars. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Requires the payment of regular wages to bay constables employed by the town of Hempstead, Nassau county, who have sustained injuries or illnesses in the line of duty. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Prohibits any municipality from using taxpayer funds to fiscally support private, local and free publications. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Relates to special proceedings to convey title to abandoned dwellings to individuals whose income level is below the EPIC income level; provides that such individual shall pay the taxes and restore such abandoned building and live there for a period of at least five years. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Provides that except in a city with a population of one million or more, any municipality shall have the authority to permit owners of a one family house to obtain a variance to legally establish codified second living quarters or rental spaces in such owners' homes; further provides that such newly created rental space shall meet local codes and taxes shall be fairly assessed on the property. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Defines the term engineered sterile seeds and directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to study the implications of the development, sale and use of such seeds; prohibits the production of such seeds during the time of such study; prohibits such engineered sterile seeds to be used in the production of food within educational institutions. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Prohibits passengers under the age of eighteen in a car with a driver having a class DJ or MJ learner's permit or license unless the passengers are related, increases the suspension period for drivers having a class DJ or MJ learner's permit or license from sixty to one hundred eighty days and institutes fines against parents who knowingly let their children operate a vehicle outside the prescribed limitations for the class DJ or MJ learner's permit or license. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Relates to charter schools; provides for local approval of charter schools, annual charter school budget votes and annual reporting to local boards of education; provides for collective bargaining for certain charter school employees; relates to financing of such schools; further relates to including information concerning charter school payments on real property tax statements; establishes the charter schools transition fund and the distressed school district grant fund; makes related provisions. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Increases the penalty for unlawfully dealing with a minor in the first degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Extends the authority of the county of Nassau to impose hotel and motel taxes. / Sponsor: Hooper Committee:

Requires any person engaged in a trade or business who, in the course of such trade or business, receives more than $10,000 in cash in a single transaction or in two or more related transactions to file a return with the commissioner of taxation and finance. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Establishes a 1 year demonstration program requiring the local social services district of the county of Nassau to provide electronic monitoring devices to victims of domestic violence who are likely to come into contact with the perpetrator of such violence; such devices shall, when activated, notify the appropriate local authorities that the person is in danger; requires such county to report to the office of children and family services on a quarterly basis; directs the office of children and family services to report to the governor and legislature on such program. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Permits a state income tax deduction for home security devices, including but not limited to exterior lighting, burglar and fire alarms, installed by the owner occupant of a one, two or three family home for an amount not to exceed $500. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee:

Relates to the taxation of agricultural and horticultural lands in the town of Hempstead, Nassau county. / Sponsor: Hooper (MS) Committee: