Enacts the safe patient handling act to establish a statewide safe patient handling policy for health care facilities in the state; creates the New York state safe patient handling task force. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Creates new classification of "persistent misdemeanor offender" for the purposes of sentencing a person convicted of a misdemeanor after having been convicted of five or more crimes within the last five years, and prescribes that the sentence therefor shall include a mandatory definite sentence of imprisonment of no less than thirty days and no more than one year. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the "taxi driver protection act"; requires a sign in every for-hire vehicle that states "ATTENTION: Assaulting A Taxi Driver Is Punishable By Up To Twenty-Five Years In Prison". / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the "institutional investor recovery act"; relates to an action by certain public retirement systems or multi-employer health and welfare plans organized under the Taft-Hartley act. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Relates to the licensure of therapeutic recreation specialists; defines terms; provides that "therapeutic therapy" or "therapeutic recreation" means a treatment service designed to restore, remediate, and rehabilitate a person's level of functioning and independence in life activities, to promote health and wellness as well as reduce or eliminate the activity limitations and restrictions to participate in life situations caused by an illness or disabling condition; outlines methods for revocation of license; authorizes reciprocity with other states. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the "public employee whistleblower protection act"; repeals certain provisions of the civil service law related to early disclosure for certain alleged violations of certain public employees. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the "prevailing wage protection and restoration act". / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Establishes the "New York city construction safety task force" to advise the city on issues related to safety in the construction industry in New York city and to propose changes in rules and regulations, licensing requirements, enforcement, training and any other issue concerning safety in the construction industry; provides for not less than thirty-eight members; requires that a report be issued annually to the mayor of the city of New York, the New York city council, governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly; requires such report to include, but not be limited to, statistics on accidents and injuries occurring on construction sites. / Sponsor: Lancman (MS) Committee:

Requires notification to certain federal and state agencies when certain persons with diplomatic immunity violate the law; requires a report by law enforcement or police agencies to include, but not be limited to, the name of the person protected by diplomatic immunity; the person's title, position and/or assignment in the United States; and the date, time, location and nature of the incident, including the potential penal law violations prompting such person having been arrested or who would have been arrested but for their diplomatic immunity. / Sponsor: Lancman (MS) Committee:

Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the domestic violence escalation prevention act including certain offenses against members of the same family or household within the definition of serious offense. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Establishes the safe homes act authorizing law enforcement to remove firearms found on the premises where there has been a report of domestic violence. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the "state workforce injury reduction act"; requires state agencies to submit a written action plan for reducting occurrences of injuries in the coming year to the governor and the legislature. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Enacts the health care workplace violence prevention act; provides that health care employers develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Creates a one chamber legislature with one hundred one members that would commence with the regular session of the legislature in January 2015. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Authorizes retired judges and justices to serve as justice of supreme court until age 80. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Relates to qualifications for certain appointed positions with the board of trustees for the state university and CUNY; prohibits trustees from being employees of the appointing authority. / Sponsor: Lancman (MS) Committee:

Enacts the "personal healthcare information privacy act"; prohibits interviews of other party's treating physicians or health care providers in personal injury, medical, dental, or podiatric malpractice or wrongful death actions. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Grants the state inspector general jurisdiction over all state agencies and public authorities; eliminates welfare inspector general and medicaid inspector general and transfers the powers, duties and functions thereof to the deputy attorney general for medicaid fraud control; eliminates the metropolitan transportation authority inspector general and establishes the office of the metropolitan transportation authority chief investigator; establishes a metropolitan transportation authority oversight unit within the office of the state inspector general. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee:

Relates to crimes against a delivery person; increases the category one higher than the specific offense when committed against a delivery person. / Sponsor: Lancman Committee: