Requires gas and electric utilities to make available to landlords or lessors, upon request of prospective tenants or lessees, information concerning gas and electric charges incurred for residential rental premises; provides that such information shall be furnished without any charge or fee. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Relates to rent regulation; relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord; relates to the declaration of emergencies for certain rental housing accommodations; extends certain provisions of law relating to rent regulation; relates to the adjustment of maximum allowable rent; relates to vacancy decontrol; relates to extending the length of time over which major capital improvement expenses may be recovered. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Requires non-attorney notaries public advertising services in a language other than English to prominently display a statement in other languages that they are not authorized to practice law and have no authority to give advice on immigration law or other legal matters. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: FINANCE

Enacts the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act; creates offenses of illegal gun trafficking, criminal possession of a weapon by a minor, criminal use of a weapon by a minor, and lost or stolen firearm to be reported; also amends penalties and eligibility for tuition awards by students on probation or parole for weapons convictions. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Relates to establishing the L3C act regarding low-profit limited liability companies. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Alters tax exemption programs for the development of new and affordable housing; defines "initial construction period" and "extended construction period"; makes related changes. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Relates to rent regulation; relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord; relates to the declaration of emergencies for certain rental housing accommodations; extends certain provisions of law relating to rent regulation; relates to the adjustment of maximum allowable rent; relates to vacancy decontrol; relates to extending the length of time over which major capital improvement expenses may be recovered. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Enacts the immigration provider enforced disclosure information and registration (IMPEDIR) act of 2011. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Establishes additional causes of action under harassment of a rent regulated tenant; creates harassment of a rent regulated tenant in the second degree; creates quality affordable housing preservation fund; makes certain provisions of the rent regulation reform act of 1997 permanent. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Creates a special subpart of the housing part within the NYC civil court to handle cases involving condominiums and cooperative buildings. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: JUDICIARY

Prohibits retaliation by landlords against tenants and other legal occupants who operate group family day care homes and family day care homes pursuant to section 390 of the social services law. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a central registry of child day care complaint investigations in New York City. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CITIES

Relates to expiration and renewal provisions of certain firearms licenses; shortens length of certification in NYC from three years to two; Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk from five to two and all other places in the state from six to two years. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Requires monitoring by DEC of water contamination throughout the state and notification to residents of the state of such contamination by the department of health and the public health and health planning council; provides that the department of health shall disseminate special alerts to the public through television, radio and social media outlets where DEC determines unacceptable levels of water contamination. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes penalties for licensed barbers who sell alcohol to persons under the age of twenty-one years, including the loss of barbering license. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT

Requires orders of protection and temporary orders of protection issued in family court or in cases of family offenses in criminal court or in matrimonial actions to be translated by an interpreter into the native language of the parties. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the Farmworkers' Fair Labor Practices Act, including farm laborers within provisions pertaining to overtime compensation and unemployment insurance, granting collective bargaining rights to certain farm laborers; regulates the farm employment of certain employees; relates to the application of the sanitary code to farm and food processing labor camps for migrant workers; relates to the eligibility of farm laborers for disability benefits. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: LABOR

Enacts the "language barrier elimination act" to provide translations to the limited English proficient individuals in connection with services provided through the department of labor, department of family assistance or department of health. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: FINANCE

Requires school districts to establish and maintain peace/conflict resolution centers. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: EDUCATION

Extends the applicability of a certain provision in the Patriot Plan relating to the suspension of public retirement system loan repayment obligations. /
Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS