Gives discretion to the Suffolk County treasurer to exempt penalties on late real property tax payments. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Includes the trustees of the freeholders and commonalty of the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Southold as municipal corporations for the purposes of section 72-h of the general municipal law. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: RULES

Relates to zone pricing of gasoline. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Reinstates the Middle Class STAR rebate for the 2013-2014 school year and thereafter; sets out amounts per year; commissioner of taxation is authorized to develop procedures for the implementation of such program. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Thiele Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Designates a portion of the state highway to be the "Peconic highway". /
Sponsor: Thiele

Requires employers to authorize absence from or lateness to work if such absence or lateness was due to responding to an emergency as a volunteer firefighter or ambulance worker. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LABOR

Authorizes Suffolk county to regulate taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: RULES

Relates to the establishment, extension, powers and expenses of watershed protection improvement districts. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides authorized leave for volunteer fire department members or volunteer ambulance squad members for states of emergency; leave is deemed excused when a state of emergency is declared by the federal or state government and such person is engaged in the actual performance of his or her duties as an emergency responder; such period of leave shall not be charged against any other leave to which the employee is entitled; the employer may request a statement from the department or service stating the period of time the employee responded to the state of emergency. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LABOR

Authorizes the town of East Hampton to alienate and convey its interest in parkland, jointly owned by the towns of East Hampton and Southampton, to the town of Southampton. /
Sponsor: Thiele

Relates to the residency requirements for the position of constable in the village of West Hampton Dunes, county of Suffolk, to allow for the retention of current constables and enhance recruitment efforts for future personnel. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Allows the Village of Southampton to reopen the optional retirement plan offered under section 384-d of the retirement and social security law to police officer Theodore Raffel, Jr. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: RULES

Authorizes a municipal corporation to provide a real property tax exemption for improvements to real property meeting certification standards for green buildings. /
Sponsor: Thiele

Provides for a period of probable usefulness to the payment for a separation incentive program by the town of Southampton. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to authorizing the village of Southampton, in the county of Suffolk, to offer certain retirement options to police officer Theodore Raffel, Jr.; specifies the time frame under which the village of Southampton shall pay the costs for implementing such retirement option. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Raises threshold for estate tax from one million to three million dollars under applicable internal revenue code provisions. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Relates to providing recourse for manufactured homeowners in manufactured home parks confronted with unjustifiable rent increases; creates a local option in counties in New York state to provide such protection. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: RULES

Sponsor: Thiele

Authorizes a no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the towns of Suffolk. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: RULES

Provides authorized leave for volunteer fire department members or volunteer ambulance squad members for states of emergency; leave is deemed excused when a state of emergency is declared by the federal or state government and such person is engaged in the actual performance of his or her duties as an emergency responder; such period of leave shall not be charged against any other leave to which the employee is entitled; the employer may request a statement from the department or service stating the period of time the employee responded to the state of emergency. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: RULES