Relates to state aid to libraries and library systems; provides for automatic waiver of local maintenance of effort requirements in the event that state aid for public library systems is reduced by more than 15%; provides the commissioner with authority to waive provisions of certain categorical aid programs in the event that state aid programs are reduced by more than 15%. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Authorizes the city of Gloversville to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to certain firefighters employed by such city. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee:

Authorizes Calvary Baptist Church to file application for a real property tax exemption with the city of Schenectady. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to public benefit corporations and the maintenance of a public health facility. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: RULES

Relates to the liability of health care practitioner volunteers. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: HEALTH

Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE

Regulates the distribution of telephone directories and requires distributors to collect and recycle them. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to including members of the fire investigation unit in the city of Schenectady as peace officers. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee:

Removes financial disincentives for voluntary public library system and reference and research library resources system mergers. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee:

Authorizes temporary loans from the rainy day fund to the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE

Authorizes Brothers of St. Paul Lodge 282, Inc. to file application for a real property tax exemption with the city of Schenectady. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Relates to the classification of certain dredged sediment. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Provides that requirements relating to the preservation of certain banking records may be satisfied by maintenance of original papers or other records, photographic reproductions, or records stored in electronic storage media. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: BANKS

Relates to permitting foreclosure of real property improved by a non-residential building or certain multi-family buildings by the power of sale; establishes an effective non-judicial proceeding for uncontested commercial mortgage foreclosure. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to state aid to libraries and library systems; provides that no library shall receive less aid than they received in 2011; provides that public library systems may use the formula funding for coordinated outreach and youth services; eliminates the competitive adult and family literacy grant programs; eliminates the competitive coordinated conservation/preservation grant program and increases the statutory amount available to each of the eligible Big Eleven research libraries; provides that NYS research library's statutory formula conservation/preservation program is funded at the same level in the state operations budget as are the programs of the other Big Eleven research libraries; provides that no library or system will receive less funding than they received under statute in 2011 as a result of the use of the 2010 census. / Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: FARLEY Committee: FINANCE