Authorizes pilot program permitting use of electronic means for commencing actions in certain criminal and family court proceedings. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Enacts the Metropolitan Transportation Authority accountability and transparency act of 2012; creates a temporary reorganization board to recommend a statutory plan for the prospective governing structure required to ensure continued transparency, efficiency, and accountability of metropolitan region mass transportation operations. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: RULES

Establishes the "trafficking victims protection and justice act"; makes various provisions relating to prostitution offenses; creates crimes of aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Relates to elections of fire district officers; provides that elections in the Fairview fire district and the Arlington fire district, Dutchess county, shall be held in November; relates to petitioning and meetings for consideration of such officers. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: RULES

Relates to phasing out the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax; reduces the rate of tax imposed on certain counties beginning in 2013 and ends the imposition of all commuter taxes beginning in 2016; reduces additional supplemental fees imposed under the vehicle and traffic law; provides for limiting growth in the MTA operating budget. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes a youth court diversion program to transfer the dispositional phase of proceedings to youth courts. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: RULES

Expands provisions relating to cyber-bullying in schools; provides school districts with tools to address cyber-bullying consistent with the emerging research in the field. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: EDUCATION

Authorizes counties to establish a tax free week in August exempting purchases of clothing and footwear from county sales tax for a 7-day period in August. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: RULES

Relates to the age of criminal responsibility. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Authorizes the comptroller in the town of Hyde Park, county of Dutchess, to reside outside such town. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Relates to sexual offenses by health care or mental health care providers; requires the professional conduct officer designated to investigate a complaint of professional misconduct to report certain sex offenses to the appropriate law enforcement official or authority. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Relates to the authority of district attorneys to hire and retain licensed professionals. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Relates to sentencing. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Establishes a domestic violence fatality review team; adds members to the advisory council on domestic violence (part A); prohibits certain persons from controlling the disposition of a decedent's remains (part B); relates to the confidentiality program of the department of state (part C); relates to the consideration of certain factors when determining the issuance of an order of recognizance or bail and establishes the crime of aggravated domestic violence (part D); relates to a reasonable request to receive communications of health information by alternative means where disclosure could endanger a person (part E). / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to posting notice that state law mandates reporting all forms of abuse to local law enforcement and district attorneys and ensuring that employees are properly trained regarding the reporting of abuse. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Designates public lewdness as public lewdness in the second degree and establishes the class E felony of public lewdness in the first degree for committing public lewdness in the second degree after having been previously convicted of such offense within the preceding ten years; provides for a permanent disqualification from being a school bus driver upon conviction of public lewdness in the first degree; and designates public lewdness in the first degree as a sex offense for purposes of sex offender registration. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Authorizes a judicial hearing officer to accept a guilty plea when assigned to conduct a trial. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Authorizes the city of Poughkeepsie to sell and convey certain waterfront property to a private entity for public benefit. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Relates to criminal contempt in the first degree. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: CODES

Enacts "the foreclosure fraud prevention act of 2012"; creates the crimes of residential mortgage foreclosure fraud in the first and second degrees. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: RULES