Enacts the "Higher Education Employment Protection Act"; provides that an offer of employment or assignment made to a part-time faculty employee by a higher education institution which is contingent on enrollment, funding, or programmatic changes shall not constitute reasonable assurance of continued employment. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: LABOR

Provides that the photograph used on a driver's license shall not be more than 8 years old. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to pre-need funeral services and provides that the department of financial services will conduct a study of pre-arranged funeral services and goods. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Creates a retired military personnel license plate; such distinctive plate would include the words "U.S. armed forces retired" and the person's branch insignia. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes a notification of death hotline in the department of social services for purposes of timely ceasing public assistance payments upon the death of a recipient of such assistance. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: HEALTH

Creates the crime of environmental damage of property. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CODES

Relates to conferring a state seal of biliteracy for students who achieve certain criteria in the language arts. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Clarifies the state's obligation to make payments with respect to certain lands acquired by the department of environmental conservation. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Allows individuals to register their telefacsimile telephone numbers with the consumer protection board as part of the "do not call" statewide registry. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Provides for an angel investor income tax credit for investments in qualified businesses that exceed $25,000. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates computer sex crimes against children and makes it a violent felony offense when a person is convicted of a computer sex crime and the underlying crime is against a child. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CODES

Requires thirty-six hours of mandatory continuing education for mental health practitioners during each triennial registration period; makes related provisions. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Allows body piercing with parental or guardian consent for persons under the age of 18. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Relates to the cost effectiveness of consultant contracts by state agencies; defines "consultant services". / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Provides that certain camps may make inquiries of and be provided with information from the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment to determine if any person who may have contact with children is on file on such register. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Extends the provisions of chapter 831 of the laws of 1981, amending the labor law relating to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Provides for the establishment of a home purchase account; enables first time house, condominium or unit in a cooperative housing corporation purchasers to deposit monies into an account established at a banking institution and be able to take a tax deduction for the amount deposited, not exceeding $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a couple; withdrawal of the monies in the fund will not make an individual liable to income tax if such monies are applied toward the purchase of a house, condominium or unit in a cooperative housing corporation or the construction of a house, condominium or unit in a cooperative housing corporation; inappropriate application of fund monies shall cause the individual to be liable for income tax and be penalized. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for aidable reimbursement for universal prekindergarten pupils in certain circumstances. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes the Rochester city school district to require kindergarten attendance. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Requires that the district attorney inform the victim of a crime of such victim's right to personally or by representative appear, where the crime victim is deceased or is mentally or physically incapacitated, and be heard at the defendant's parole hearing; establishes qualifications to be a crime victim's representative. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CODES