Establishes a statewide database to maintain and track coded ammunition; establishes penalties for individuals who violate such provisions; also establishes the ammunition coding system database fund. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Provides that gift certificates and store credits shall not contain expiration dates, except in limited circumstances where they are issued for promotional purposes without value being given by the consumer; makes certificates or credit with an expiration date redeemable in cash or replaceable by a certificate or credit without an expiration date. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Defines the term "necessary court appearance" for purposes of the determination of a crime victim's award to include any part of a proceeding from arraignment through sentencing, pre and post trial hearings and hearings before the parole board. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Establishes a veteran fee waiver program within the State University of New York system; provides for eligibility, applicability and amounts of such waivers. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Enacts a voluntary program for public financing of statewide elections, and elections for state senator, assembly person and district attorney; provides that each candidate who collects a specified amount of five dollar contributions and agrees to limit campaign spending receives a fixed amount of public financing; requires qualified candidate must agree to fixed number of debates; bans "soft money" political advertising; increases campaign contribution reporting; recreates state board of elections. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Establishes the violation of unlawful downloading of intellectual property. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Provides for required instruction in physical education in elementary schools; requires that the regents shall include in its rules that students in elementary schools shall participate in physical education for a minimum of one hundred fifty minutes during each school week. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Establishes a class E felony for the sale to a minor of an alcoholic beverage containing a stimulant when such sale is made by a licensee of the state liquor authority. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Imposes additional tax on certain food and drink items, and imposes a tax on video games, commercials, and movies. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Directs the commissioner of education, in cooperation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets, to establish voluntary guidelines to provide for the donation of excess, unused, edible food from school, university or other educational institutions meal programs to voluntary food assistance programs. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Creates the World Trade Center Relief Fund; authorizes taxpayers to make a contribution to such fund by checking off the appropriate space on their income tax return. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Allows veterans who performed military service during a period of war to ride public transportation free of charge for the year immediately after his or her return to this state. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Establishes the crime of criminal sale of an internet domain name to a terrorist group or organization listed by the office of homeland security as posing a terrorist threat, a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Relates to prohibiting certain restaurants and food establishments from serving foods containing artificial trans fat / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Relates to reporting of crimes at mental hygiene facilities. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Requires that prior to the issuance of taxicab, limousine, commuter van, paratransit or for-hire vehicle licenses, the applicant shall be fingerprinted by the authority authorized to issue such licenses for the purpose of securing criminal history records from both the state division of criminal justice services and the federal bureau of investigation. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Relates to the sale and use of gift certificates; requires that gift certificates last for at least seven years; requires that the date of issuance and the date of expiration of a gift certificate be either printed on the gift certificate, printed on a customer's receipt, or available through an internet and toll-free telephone service. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Authorizes boards of education or trustees of school districts to allow certain pupils diagnosed with asthma or other potentially life-threatening respiratory illnesses to carry and use a prescribed inhaler; provides for establishment of asthma action plans for such pupils. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations authorizing school curriculums to include programs designed to educate students on the immediate and consequential dangers associated with the use of alcohol. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Prohibits certain restaurants and food establishments from serving foods containing artificial trans fat; repeals certain provisions. / Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee: