Sponsor: Pheffer

Tracks federal privacy act of 1974 with respect to the obligation of a person to disclose their social security number to another person, partnership, association or corporation; provides where there is no legal basis for request that a person may refuse to provide his or her social security number; provides for enforcement by attorney general. /
Sponsor: Pheffer

Provides for annual adjustment by the commissioner of housing and community renewal of the maximum income threshold for eligibility for the senior citizens' rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and for the municipal property tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens by any increase in the consumer price index (CPI); raises eligibility of income level from $24,000 to $30,000; excludes from the definition of "income" the out of pocket expenses for all medical and prescription drugs not reimbursed or paid for by insurance in determining eligibility for the real property tax exemption relating to the senior citizen rent increase exemption; the additional exclusions from income and the indexing are at local option. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: AGING

Requires stores that sell meat, poultry or seafood to place a conspicuous sign informing consumers of their right to know when the food was cut and packaged. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: AGRICULTURE

Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CALENDAR

Enacts the discount buying club consumer protection act. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Creates a private right to action for unlawful price gouging for injunctive relief and recovery of actual damages or $1000 whichever is greater, or both, in addition to right of action granted to attorney general; permits the court to award a prevailing plaintiff an additional penalty of up to $5,000 for a willful or knowing violation and reasonable attorney's fees. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Prohibits the retail sale, distribution or offer to sell at retail to any person in the state, novelty lighters; provides definition of novelty lighters; establishes civil penalties; makes exception to those not intending the sale of novelty lighters in New York state; provides no person is subject to a civil penalty for any violation occurring before the 31st day of enactment. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Prohibits the sale or offer for sale at retail of bottled water for human consumption, food preparation or culinary purposes in this state in a beverage container unless such container includes on its label certain information; requires an annual bottled water report to be prepared annually by the purveyors of bottled water. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Adds medical and health insurance information within the definitions of identity theft. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Imposes criminal responsibility on juvenile offenders for felony murders resulting from the attempt to commit juvenile offenses. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Establishes a person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree when he or she steals property and is in possession of an anti-security item; makes criminal possession of an anti-security item a class A misdemeanor. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Enacts the "anti-organized retail theft act"; criminalizes organized retail theft and establishes the crime of leader of an organized retail theft enterprise; relates to the authorization of jurisdiction and venue and authorized sentences for a pattern of criminal offenses; relates to the aggregated value of stolen merchandise; relates to the use of an emergency exit in the theft of property; relates to the possession of anti-security items; relates to retail sales receipt and universal product code label fraud; relates to itinerant vendors; and relates to theft with intent to resell on an online marketplace. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Provides for community service as one of the punishments for the violation of a local law in a municipality. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Establishes that if financial loss has been made and a registrant or unregistered repair shop fails to comply with an order to pay restitution, the commissioner shall, by order, increase the amount of the penalty assessed. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CODES

Limits the civil liability of directors, officers and trustees of corporations described in �501 (c) (4) of the internal revenue code (charitable organizations) under provisions that limit their civil liability in certain cases. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Prohibits provision in bonds or notes issued by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority or Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority limiting discounts or requiring a minimum toll on the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge; applies only prospectively to resolutions passed or bonds or notes issued on or after the effective date. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Increases the membership of the metropolitan transportation authority from 16 to 21 members; 5 members appointed by recommendation of the borough presidents of the city of New York, one from each borough; provides counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland with two collective votes; increases votes of counties of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester from one to two each. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Directs the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority to issue short distance commuter passes (permitting travel at no charge between intersections and barriers in the permit area) on the Marine Parkway Bridge; permits a discounted charge if significant revenue loss results. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Provides for the discontinuance by the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority of the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge toll plaza in the county of Queens for the collection of tolls. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS