Requires any person or entity operating telephone numbers, the use of which causes the caller to be billed a fee on his or her telephone bill, to provide the caller with notice of the fee to be imposed for such call and advise the caller to hang up if he or she does not want to pay the fee. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Directs the commissioner of health to develop a standard prior prescription drug authorization request form for managed care providers. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Sets nutrition standards for restaurants distributing incentive items aimed at children. / Sponsor: RIVERA Committee: RULES

Prohibits smoking within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or private educational institution; exempts smoking in or around a private residence. / Sponsor: RIVERA Committee:

Requires the establishment of a citizens' committee on cable television prior to granting or renewing a cable television franchise by a municipality; such committee shall study and make recommendations on the requirement of the municipality for public education and local government programming; all such recommendations shall be included in the franchise agreement; eliminates the authority of counties to enter into franchise agreements with cable television systems; requires every municipality having a population of less than one million, which charges cable television fees to annually put aside not less than $250,000 to be spent exclusively for the creation, operation and maintenance of a public access television station; requires cable television systems to post municipal franchise agreement on their internet websites. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Authorizes gas stations to purchase motor fuel from alternative suppliers. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Requires the department of labor to allow persons with learning disabilities to enlist the assistance of a parent, guardian or authorized person when claiming unemployment insurance benefits. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Limits the undertaking required of tobacco manufacturers and affiliates during appeals of the tobacco master settlement agreement to $100,000,000 for all appellants collectively, unless the appellee proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the appellant is dissipating assets outside the course of normal business. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Authorizes municipalities and districts thereof to contract for goods or services jointly with the state or other municipalities. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Includes writer's salaries and fees within production costs eligible for the empire state film production credit. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Requires institutions of higher education to disclose the average dollar amount of institutional aid awarded to students. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Establishes a family health plus sponsor buy-in demonstration program for qualified aliens in not more than 6 social services districts and which shall have no more than 5,000 participants. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Creates the crime of engaging in criminal street gang activity; establishes such crime shall be a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the department of health and the department of environmental conservation to commission a study on the effects of long-term, low radiation emissions from cellular phone antennas on human beings, specifically on the physical and mental development of adolescents. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Relates to the membership of the state apprenticeship and training council. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Enacts the "wireless telephone right to know law" to require wireless telephone retailers to provide consumers with information on radiofrequency emittance risks and precautions. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Requires hotels and motels with wireless communication facilities to provide guests with health warnings related to such facilities. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Makes the inability to pay child support an affirmative defense to non-support of child offenses, rather than an element of such offenses. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Requires each municipality or licensing authority to provide written notification to local residents, of the terms of any agreement providing for the construction and/or installation of a wireless communication facility upon public housing, senior citizen housing or nursing home property, and the potential health risk posed by the operation of such a facility. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee:

Expands the application of provisions relating to minority and women-owned business enterprises to subcontractors. / Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: