Relates to the timeliness of responses to be served in connection with expert witnesses. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for the protection of parkland by petition and referendum. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Authorizes use of closed-circuit television for the testimony of domestic violence victim witnesses in a criminal proceeding subject to the same restrictions as are applicable to child witnesses. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: CODES

Authorizes the county of Putnam to grant exemption from all county sales and use taxes during the period August 10 - 19, 2012 for certain items. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Galef Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Authorizes the county of Putnam to grant exemption from all county sales and use taxes during the period August 10 - 19, 2012 for certain items. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Galef Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Provides for the issuance of a certificate of ethics course completion by the attorney general to professional fundraisers and charitable organizations who complete a course of instruction in the law and ethics of fundraising and philanthropy. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Galef Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Establishes a residency requirement for certain persons employed by the state or its subdivisions. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Zebrowski isel, Raia, Abinanti, Reilly, Galef, Miller M, Calhoun, McDo Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Relates to the location of presiding judge at arraignment, appearance proceedings and pursuant to a warrant. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Galef Committee: JUDICIARY

Directs the department of health to establish and maintain an internet website to advance women's health initiatives. /
Sponsor: RULES COM Galef Committee: HEALTH

Establishes the "Address Confidentiality Act" which allows state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of certain victims of abuse. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Requires paper ballots have a box, oval or other marking area that the voter may intentionally fill in to alert the voting system that any and all undervotes on the ballot have been done so intentionally; allows the system to cast the ballot without returning an "undervote error message" to the voter. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: ELECTION LAW

Restricts the imposition of additional unfunded mandates on local governments by the state until such time as those mandates are fully funded by the state; provides for certain exceptions; provides that a three-fifths majority in each house shall override this restriction. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Provides for electronic court appearance in a criminal action, anywhere in the state, in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction of the defendant; provides that the defendant must, after consultation with counsel, consent on the record; provides that the chief administrator of the courts must first approve the use of such electronic appearance. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: CODES

Requires entities advertising for or against political candidates, ballot proposals, amendments, or such proceedings to disclose in such advertisements the source thereof; trade associations must disclose top 3 contributors; defines trade association. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: ELECTION LAW

Restricts level three sex offenders from residing within one quarter mile of any school or licensed day care facility; makes a violation of this provision a class E felony. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: CORRECTION

Prohibits the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, any state legislator, any elected county, city, town or village official, or any person who currently holds elective office from serving as a delegate to the constitutional convention. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: ELECTION LAW

Provides that photographs of sex offender registrants shall be contemporaneous with the act of registration. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: CORRECTION

Establishes a board of cooperative educational services school district restructuring committee to study and review the organization and operation of all component and non-component school districts within the area served by the board of cooperative educational services; outlines composition of such committee; requires a report be issued and recommendations be made. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: EDUCATION

Limits the tenure of the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate and minority leader of the assembly to 12 years; limits the tenure of the chairman of any single legislative committee to 8 years. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Authorizes contiguous city, town, and village industrial development agencies to merge and authorizes industrial development agencies within the same county or counties to share services. /
Sponsor: Galef Committee: WAYS AND MEANS