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

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

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

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 Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

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

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

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

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: JUDICIARY

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 Committee: LABOR

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

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

Prohibits the placement and operation of wireless communication facilities on public housing, senior citizen housing and nursing home property. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Requires persons registering to vote to designate their race and/or ethnicity. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: ELECTION LAW

Requires each school district and board of cooperative educational services to provide written notification to persons in parental relation to its students, of the terms of any agreement providing for the construction and/or installation of a wireless communication facility upon school property, and the potential health risks posed by the operation of such a facility. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: EDUCATION

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for all medical professionals as part of their licensing requirements; requires biennial training in the non-discriminatory provision of medical services for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, registered and licensed practical nurses, podiatrists, and optometrists; authorizes the department of education to develop the training in consultation with the department of health and other experts; provides for documentation and exemption from the requirements; provides for a public education program on minority health; appropriates $100,000 therefor. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides that expired cable television franchises shall be deemed extended with an increase in the fees to be paid by cable television company which shall not exceed 5% of the company's gross annual receipts, until such time as a municipality and the cable television company enter into a renewal of the franchise. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Requires the guardian of a deceased incapacitated person to notify the local department of social services within 20 days of such death. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: MENTAL HEALTH

Provides that state agency affirmative action officers and administrators shall be subject to the exclusive supervision of the agency head; establishes the powers and duties of such officers and administrators; provides that the officer or employee responsible for a state agency's awarding of minority and women-owned business enterprise contracts shall report directly to the agency head. /
Sponsor: Rivera P Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

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: HEALTH