Allows a professional service corporation, in good standing, to convert to a design professional service corporation if it meets all stated requirements to become a design professional service corporation. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee:

Provides for an increase in federal itemized deduction for certain home improvements; a fifty percent tax exemption is provided to a residential property owner of a one, two or three family home for improvements that will promote environmental quality; limits the deduction to $1,000 in any one tax year. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to water pollution control linked loans. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to the innovation and commercialization functions of the state university. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to special surface water protection areas. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: RULES

Relates to granting George William Husing credit for prior service in the NYS and local employees' retirement system. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Establishes a tax credit for the removal or permanent enclosure of a residential fuel oil storage tank. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: FINANCE

Relates to pre and post test reporting requirements, test site registration and sign in, and establishes crimes related to educational testing fraud. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: RULES

Provides that real property assessment challenges shall be served upon a fire district by serving the chair of the board of fire commissioners of the fire district. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Requires school districts to develop a policy regulating the use of school-owned cell phones to include, but not be limited to, requiring that they be used only for school related purposes. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: EDUCATION

Sets forth the manner by which an owner of real property in the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, which is bisected by a school district boundary shall pay real property school taxes. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides motor fuel tax exemption for sales of diesel motor fuel used in vessels used directly in a business providing sport fishing opportunities for hire to the general public from the tax on petroleum businesses and from sales and compensating use taxes. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: FINANCE

Deems goods to be on sale or return as to creditor claims when goods delivered to person dealing in goods of the kind involved. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires liability insurance rate reductions of 10% upon completion of a boating safety course or 15% upon completion of an advanced boating safety course. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: RULES

Establishes the "rebuild and renew public higher education facilities fund". / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: FINANCE

Reinstates the Middle Class STAR rebate for the 2013-2014 school year and thereafter; sets out amounts per year; commissioner of taxation is authorized to develop procedures for the implementation of such program. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Parkway". / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: RULES

Relates to the profession of occupational therapy. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee:

Relates to pre and post test reporting requirements, test site registration and sign in. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Prohibits method of payment pricing of gasoline, wherein the price per gallon of motor fuel of like grade or quality that is offered for sale or sold by a retail outlet using a credit or debit card varies by more than three percent of the cash price. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION