Eliminates statutory authority of social services official to receive and dispose of a deed, mortgage, or lien. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Relates to 911 calls made on cell phones; requires all cell phones sold in the state to be capable of dialing 911 regardless of whether the consumer has entered or maintained a service contract; imposes a surcharge on prepaid wireless communications service. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Directs the NYS energy research and development authority and public and private operators of each nuclear-powered electric generating facility to establish a nuclear whistleblower access and assistance program; makes related provisions as to elements of the program and provides that employees of such plants shall not be subject to retaliation; requires authority to investigate reported safety concerns; provides that whistleblowers shall have standing to litigate and may do so without exhaustion of administration remedies; authorizes the attorney general to bring actions to enforce the labor law provisions. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Prohibits compensation based on home loan terms by mortgage brokers or mortgage lenders. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee:

Establishes a three-hour safety course, developed by the municipal police training council, which shall be completed by an applicant prior to the issuance of a license to possess a pistol, revolver, rifle or shotgun; provides that a license for a firearm shall not be issued until a certificate of participation in such course is submitted to the licensing agency or officer. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Enacts the "children's weapon accident prevention act"; creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely in the first and second degrees, aggravated failure to store a weapon, and criminally negligent storage of a weapon in the first and second degrees; provides affirmative defenses; directs the commissioner of education to develop a weapons safety program. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Relates to distribution of federal bonus awards relative to food stamp programs to local social services districts. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee:

Establishes criteria for approval of rent increases to rent regulated property resulting from major capital improvements to insure that the work performed is an enhancement or upgrade to a housing accommodation or service therein and is not merely repair or replacement to existing services; prohibits approval of a major capital improvement rent increase where any outstanding hazardous violations exist. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Clarifies the status of certain persons exempt from optometrist license requirements. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Increases penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judgments of $5,000 or more with court clerk from $100 to $500. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Enacts the "New York State fair pay act"; provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate between employees on the basis of sex, race and/or national origin by paying different wages. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Prohibits pharmacists from refusing to dispense medication solely for philosophical, moral, or religious reasons. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Provides for the dispensing of emergency contraception under certain circumstances and conditions. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: RULES

Enacts the New York city department of buildings community accountability act. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CITIES

Relates to requiring commercial parking garages to install and operate pedestrian warning devices where vehicles exiting such garage cross a pedestrian sidewalk; requires both visual and audible warning signals. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: FINANCE

Requires certain corporations to permit shareholders to attend meetings via remote communication and to be deemed present for voting purposes. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Requires air quality monitoring of certain major mass transportation projects that involve an excavation operation within a city having a population of one million or more. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to sex offender assessment instruments. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Requires the licensing of persons engaged in the design, construction, operation, inspection, maintenance, alteration and repair of elevators and other automatic people moving devices and creates the New York state elevator safety and standards board. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: LABOR