Relates to driving while using a portable electronic device; removes the requirement that there be reasonable cause a person using the device has committed a violation to issue a summons. / Sponsor: Weisenberg (MS) Committee:

Establishes the "power NY act of 2011." / Sponsor: Cahill (MS) Committee:

Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to continue providing half fare transportation for the commuter rail for persons sixty-five years of age or older and handicapped persons. / Sponsor: Raia (MS) Committee:

Relates to real property tax exemptions for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers in certain counties; eliminates renewal application requirement under certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Sweeney (MS) Committee:

Relates to recovery of certain housing accommodations by a landlord; limits a landlord's ability to take possession of units for their own primary residence, permit recovery of only one unit, and restrict such ability if the tenant has occupied the apartment for twenty or more years. / Sponsor: Lopez V (MS) Committee:

Provides that every written contract for the collection and transportation of commercial waste from a place at which such waste is generated shall specify the recyclable, reusable or other components of such waste that are required to be separated in accordance with local law or ordinance; provides for up to a $1000 civil fine for violations. / Sponsor: Kavanagh (MS) Committee:

Prohibits the possession, sale, barter, offer, purchase, transportation, delivery, or receipt of bear gallbladder, bile, or any product, item, or substance containing, or labeled or advertised as containing, bear gallbladders or bile; exempts federal and state government. / Sponsor: Rosenthal (MS) Committee:

Establishes a residential fuel oil storage tank credit for the removal or permanent closure and installation of below or above ground fuel oil tank used to provide heating fuel for single to four family residence. / Sponsor: Saladino (MS) Committee:

Provides for monitoring of persons who are pedophiles and both level 3 sex offenders and sexual predators or predicate sex offenders with global positioning system; period to be determined by court; right to appeal; right to modify or terminate order; right to counsel. / Sponsor: Perry (MS) Committee:

Changes default option to a fifty percent joint and survivor option and requires a retiring married member, who last joined the NYS&LERS or the NYS&LP&FRS on or after 01/01/13 to choose the joint allowance-half option with a spouse as beneficiary unless the member's spouse consents to the selection of a different option. / Sponsor: McEneny (MS) Committee:

Requires certain food establishments to provide nutritional information to their customers. / Sponsor: Morelle (MS) Committee:

Increases the tax credit allowable to volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers and volunteer emergency medical personnel. / Sponsor: Tedisco (MS) Committee:

Provides that an insurer may not hold nor acquire interest in a motor vehicle repair shop; insurers that before owned an interest in a motor vehicle repair shop must disclose to each insured that the insured has the right to use any motor vehicle repair shop selected by the insured. / Sponsor: Destito (MS) Committee:

Requires the commissioner of general services to set aside space in the capitol for use as quarters of the Vietnam Veterans of America. / Sponsor: Castelli (MS) Committee:

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain actions taken by the village of Black Water, Jefferson County with respect to refunding its low interest loans through the United States department of agriculture and the New York state environmental facilities corporation. / Sponsor: Russell (MS) Committee:

Relates to the information required by the sex offender registry; requires the type of assigned supervision and the length of time of such supervision. / Sponsor: Colton (MS) Committee:

Requires any passenger-type motor vehicle, other than motorcycles, manufactured for sale, on or after January first in the year next succeeding the effective date of this new provision, to be equipped with an outside unit magnification mirror or a convex mirror on the passenger's side; sets forth definitions. / Sponsor: Perry (MS) Committee:

Provides for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference; relates to electing delegates to a national party convention or conference. / Sponsor: Silver (MS) Committee:

Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"; provides for the establishment of a behavioral health and long-term care plan. / Sponsor: Rivera P (MS) Committee:

Exempts refinancing of certain mortgages from tax on mortgages. / Sponsor: Raia (MS) Committee: