Sponsor: Raia

Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Charles Varese Memorial Highway." /
Sponsor: Raia

Sponsor: Raia

Sponsor: Raia

Directs the office for the aging, in consultation with the department of health and other entities, to conduct a study of the comprehensiveness and effectiveness of evacuation plans for nursing homes and other facilities housing elderly individuals in the case of an emergency or natural disaster. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: AGING

Establishes the NY state lifespan respite care program in the office for the aging for purposes of fostering development of community respite care programs. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: AGING

Authorizes and directs the office for the aging to study the feasibility of creating a state-wide program to track certain elderly individuals; requires the office for the aging to prepare a report on their findings. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: AGING

Authorizes municipalities in the county of Suffolk to establish programs for providing real property tax exemptions and abatements to landlords of senior citizens for the units occupied by the senior citizen; such abatements shall be passed through to seniors in the form of rent reductions. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: AGING

Authorizes credit unions to conduct savings promotion prize giveaways. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: BANKS

Includes bay constables appointed by a county, city, town or village within the definition of peace officers. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Requires the state to indemnify or reimburse a criminal defendant for loss of time, legal fees and other expenses involved in a defense if the defendant's actions are found, upon legal investigation or court action to determine facts, to be justified. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Increases the criminal penalties for crimes of vehicular assault, vehicular manslaughter and leaving the scene of an incident where death or serious personal injury has resulted. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Entitles the victim of a criminal offense, or his or her representative, to be personally present during the trial of the accused and to be seated at the prosecutors table whether or not he/she is to be called as a witness. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Includes the unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle within the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the second degree. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Expands instances when a person may use physical force to protect his or her dwelling to include areas surrounding such dwelling; includes common areas owned by a cooperative or condo association. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Defines the felonies of victimizing the elderly or physically disabled in the 3rd degree, 2nd degree and 1st degree and provides that a sentence of imprisonment must be imposed upon conviction of certain offenses against the elderly or physically disabled; provides that a juvenile offender shall include a person 14 or 15 years old who is criminally responsible for victimizing the elderly or physically disabled; includes within the category, "eligible youth" for youthful offender treatment, one who has been convicted of victimizing the elderly or the physically disabled in the 1st degree; provides certain plea restrictions and sentencing structure for persons convicted of such crimes. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Creates the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree, a class E felony, wherein a person operates a motor vehicle negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered and by any such operation causes the death of another person. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Defines the crimes that would lead a defendant to be categorized as a "person who must be committed to the custody of the sheriff" and as such would not be eligible for release on recognizance or bail except in line with certain mitigating circumstances; sets out procedures for above. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Provides that harbor masters and bay constables appointed by a county, city, town or village, have the power to arrest on warrants pursuant to their special duties within their geographical area of employment. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES

Provides for the issuance of orders of protection in family offense cases when defendant is found not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect, and the court issues an order of conditions in conjunction with such finding; such order of protection shall run concurrent with the order of conditions and any extensions thereof; also authorizes the issuance of a family offense order of protection in conjunction with an order of observation pursuant to article 730 of the criminal procedure law; such order shall have a term not to exceed three years following the final or temporary order of observation or from the release from the custody of the commissioner of mental health. /
Sponsor: Raia Committee: CODES