Sponsor: Markey Committee:

Sponsor: Markey Committee:

Sponsor: Markey Committee:

Sponsor: Markey Committee:

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Sponsor: Markey Committee: CALENDAR

Prohibits a person from operating or riding a motorcycle on a public highway, road or street in this state with a child under the age of twelve on such motorcycle. / Sponsor: Markey Committee:

Increases certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows, widowers or the deceased member's children. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Relates to awards for victims of criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Mandates performance of autopsies for those afflicted with certain neurological symptoms, i.e. all of the following: rapidly progressing dementia, loss of motor control, and involuntary muscle movements, associated neuromuscular disturbances, insomnia, depression, confusion, personality and behavioral changes, loss of memory, loss of coordination and sight, loss of all mental capacity and loss of all physical capabilities within one year of such persons death. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to assign inspectors to perform ongoing oversight of slaughterhouses, rendering plants, and commercial feed plants; they shall enforce all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations pertaining to sanitation and health. / Sponsor: Markey Committee:

Requires school bus attendants on buses transporting students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade in the city school district of the city of New York; further expands the duties of a school bus attendant to assist any child under the age of thirteen or any handicapped student with boarding and leaving the bus and to assist such children and students with crossing the street. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the commissioner to cause appropriate testing by veterinarians for ascertaining the presence or absence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease; provides for the immediate disposal of such animals as the commissioner may prescribe; further entitles the owner of such animal to indemnity if slaughtered. / Sponsor: Markey Committee:

Establishes a tax credit for each child of an at-home parent; provides for appropriation to replace any funds used from education funds. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Provides that commercial feed shall be deemed adulterated if it contains the blood or blood product of any mammalian animal in any form, including but not limited to pure, derived from, or added to. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Prohibits gelatin and gelatin by-products from being used in animal commercial feed; defines "gelatin". / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Directs every banking organization or foreign banking corporation transacting business in this state to cash properly endorsed social security checks presented by the payee, upon sufficient identification, notwithstanding the fact that such payee does not maintain an account with such organization or corporation, upon proof that such payee is sixty-two years of age or older; defines "sufficient identification". / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Permits owners of diseased bovine animals to recover actual costs incurred for engaging the services of a licensed veterinarian for an initial evaluation and examination of such animal and creates a financial incentive of one hundred and fifty percent of the actual value of such animal as determined by the commissioner for owners transporting a diseased bovine animal to Cornell University or the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell for testing for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Makes it a crime to mail a substance which appears to be of a bio-chemical nature and hazardous to person's health which in fact is not; makes such crime a class E felony. / Sponsor: Markey (MS) Committee:

Provides that in a defamation action where the defamation is related to a sexual offense, a counterclaim for the commission of such sexual offense against a minor shall be commenced within 1 year of the commencement of the defamation action. / Sponsor: Markey Committee: