Extends tax benefits for the rehabilitation of single room occupancy housing (SROs). / Sponsor: Linares (MS) Committee:

Requires the court to advise a defendant that if he or she is an alien and he or she is convicted of a crime, whether by plea or trial, such conviction may result in his or her deportation; allows a withdrawal of a plea of guilty by an alien if such alien is threatened with deportation and such alien is not so advised of such threat of deportation. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

Establishes the New York dream act, providing certain people with access to state-, city-, town-, and/or village-funded financial aid programs. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

Requires reporting by the public service commission on consumer protections adopted by electric corporations and municipalities; the adequacy of the public service commissions assistance to customers facing disconnection of utility service. / Sponsor: Linares (MS) Committee:

Provides that a civil immigration detainer shall not be honored under certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

Prohibits advertising for tobacco products and herbal cigarettes on school grounds or within 1000 feet of the boundary line of the real property of any public or private school; provides for a civil penalty of between $250 and $1000 for a first violation, $500 to $2000 for a second violation, and at least $1000 for any subsequent violation. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

Requires agencies of the the city of New York to establish and meet limited-English proficiency requirements; requires every state agency that provides direct public services in cities with a population of one million or more shall ensure meaningful access to such services by taking reasonable steps to develop and implement agency-specific language assistance plans regarding limited-English proficient persons. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

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Requires non-attorney notaries public advertising services in a language other than English to prominently display a statement in other languages that they are not authorized to practice law and have no authority to give advice on immigration law or other legal matters. / Sponsor: Linares (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the sale of cigarettes, cigars, bidis, chewing tobacco, powdered tobacco, nicotine water or any other tobacco products or herbal cigarettes to individuals twenty-one years of age or older. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

a person is convicted of an offense committed against an elderly person which is a class C, D or E felony or class A, B or unclassified misdemeanor, the offense shall be deemed to be one category higher than the offense the person committed, or attempted or conspired to commit; increases sentence where person commits a class B felony. / Sponsor: Linares Committee:

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