Directs the commissioner of health to establish and implement a uniform letter grading system to classify health inspection results for any place engaged in the preparation, sale or service of food for and to the general public in cities with a population of one million or more; directs the commissioner, upon establishment and implementation of such system, to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system. / Sponsor: Cymbrowitz (MS) Committee:

Regulates the provision of appliance warranties and requires disclosure of transportation charges for the repair of warranted appliances outside the home. / Sponsor: Gabryszak (MS) Committee:

Establishes "rural freshwater improvement and protection program" which provides for upgrading, repairing and replacing septic systems; directs DEC to prepare model ordinances for towns and villages; sets up revolving loan fund for homeowners to conform; also provides tax credit to homeowner. / Sponsor: Jacobs (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the town of North Hempstead, county of Nassau, to convey to Carle Place Water District certain parklands. / Sponsor: Schimel (MS) Committee:

Provides that election inspectors may vote through the use of an absentee ballot rather than through the use of a special ballot. / Sponsor: Galef (MS) Committee:

Includes the New York State Capitol's hall of governors as part of the visual and performing arts on the Empire State Plaza. / Sponsor: Schroeder (MS) Committee:

Allows persons 65 years and older and persons with disabilities to hunt with a long bow and to take wildlife with a cross bow; authorizes department to adopt regulations. / Sponsor: Gabryszak (MS) Committee:

Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: FINANCE

Grants credit for prior public service rendered in this state under the federal Emergency Jobs Appropriation Act to certain retirement system members. / Sponsor: Gabryszak (MS) Committee:

Provides for screening of prospective employees, including fingerprinting, at group facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of children and family services; fingerprints to be processed by the division of criminal justice services. / Sponsor: Spano (MS) Committee:

Requires electric corporations to submit electric utility emergency plans to the public service commission for review and approval; provides such plans shall set forth training and planning for power outages, procedures to determine the extent of outages, procedures to determine the length of time the outages will continue, load relief policies, decision making plans, and any other information such commission requires; annually requires electric corporations file emergency plans and verification of the ability to implement such plan; requires electric corporations to report to the public service commission within 60 days of an outage which lasts more than 48 hours. / Sponsor: Bing (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the use of surplus funds from the greater Catskills flood remediation program by Ulster county. / Sponsor: Cahill (MS) Committee:

Prohibits the disclosure of highway, bridge, tunnel and other thoroughfare toll records, and commuter railroad and transit records to protect privacy, unless necessary to perform law enforcement functions of certain public officials and bodies or to further another public entities official functions. / Sponsor: Bing (MS) Committee:

Provides for time frames within which certain actions must be taken relating to elections, special elections and military ballots. / Sponsor: Millman (MS) Committee:

Permits the designation of low volume roads and minimum maintenance roads by town boards and enacts provisions relating to the maintenance, improvement and repair of such roads. / Sponsor: Destito (MS) Committee:

Establishes the urban homeowners assistance program to assist first time, low or moderate income, or minority homeowners avoid foreclosure by authorizing and directing the commissioner of the state division of housing and community renewal to enter into contracts with neighborhood preservation companies to provide for such assistance to residents in certain urban communities; makes an appropriation therefor. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to provide for the payment by the department of taxation and finance of tax refunds within 30 days of the receipt of a taxpayer's tax return, unless there is a discrepancy in such return, in which case the department shall provide written notice to the taxpayer of such discrepancy and a date when the discrepancy will be resolved; failure to comply with such refund and notice requirement shall make the department of taxation and finance liable for interest on the refund due at a rate of 6% per annum. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Adds powers and duties to the canal corporation; directs the canal corporation to cause the design, preparation of plans, estimates and specifications and the supervision of the erection, construction, repair and removal of all structures referred to be performed by a licensed professional engineer; directs preparation of a flood response plan; makes related provisions. / Sponsor: Destito (MS) Committee:

Creates the niche market assistance projects for small businesses to identify and develop niche markets for their products in competitive environments. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Memorializes Robert F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos by naming spans of the Triborough bridge after them. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee: