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BILL S1546-2011: Authorizes an attorney to attach a lien to awards and settlement proceeds received by his or her client through alternative dispute resolution or settlement
Authorizes an attorney to attach a lien to awards and settlement proceeds received by his or her client through alternative dispute resolution or settlement negotiations.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
BILL S1547-2011: Requires all-way stop signs erected at all intersections immediately surrounding a public or private school in a city with a population of 1 million or more
Requires all-way stop signs erected at all intersections immediately surrounding a public or private school in a city with a population of 1 million or more.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: TRANSPORTATION
BILL S1548-2011: Enacts the New York state community health care investment fund act
Enacts the New York state community health care investment fund act; creates two new funds in the state finance law to be known as the New York state community health care investment fund and the New York state health care entrepreneurial stimulus fund; establishes the New York state community health care investment fund council consisting of 13 members to oversee the New York state health care community investment funds, establish the RFP process, award grants and issue an annual report.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S1549-2011: Provides for the payment of interest on prejudgment arrears child support and combined child and spousal support pursuant to a court order
Provides for the payment of interest on prejudgment arrears child support and combined child and spousal support pursuant to a court order.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: JUDICIARY
BILL S1550-2011: Authorizes a pilot program for enhanced prior approval of high cost diagnostic radiology services
Authorizes the commissioner of health, within fiscal year 2011-2012, to contract with high bidders to perform pilot projects to assess the feasibility of reducing medically unnecessary high cost radiological procedures and generalizing cost savings to the state through enhanced medical management and prior review of orders for diagnostic imaging.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES
BILL S1551-2011: Establishes the "New York state organ donor awareness and education act"
Enacts the "New York state organ donor awareness and education act"; provides mechanisms to fund the "life pass it on trust fund" through the department of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: TRANSPORTATION
BILL S1552-2011: Establishes state board of elections enforcement counsel and state board of elections enforcement unit; campaign finances; repealer
Establishes state board of elections enforcement counsel and state board of elections enforcement unit; campaign finances.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: ELECTIONS
BILL S1668-2011: Conforms state law with federal law regarding imitation weapons and provides a private right of action for individual consumers
Conforms state law with federal law regarding imitation weapons; empowers the attorney general to enforce federal standards and provides a private right of action against retailers by individual consumers injured due to the sale of a non-conforming toy gun.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION
BILL S1714-2011: Relates to the criminal possession of a weapon; repealer
Relates to the criminal possession of a weapon and possession of a firearm while under the influence of alcohol or drugs; increases certain penalties.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: CODES
BILL S682-2011: Permits the sealing of records of certain nonviolent misdemeanor or nonsexual misdemeanor criminal offenses
Permits the sealing of records of certain nonviolent misdemeanor or non-sexual misdemeanor criminal offenses; defines the term "eligible misdemeanor"; excludes certain misdemeanor offenses as eligible misdemeanors for the purposes of conditional sealing; lists certain eligibility requirements for sealing; provides an order granting sealing under this section shall restore the individual concerned, in the contemplation of the laws, to the status such individual occupied before the arrest or institution of criminal proceedings for the crime that was the subject of the sealing.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: CODES
BILL S7823-2011: Prohibits persons required to maintain registration under the sex offender registration act from entering into a children's section of a public library
Prohibits persons required to maintain registration under the sex offender registration act from entering into a children's section of a public library.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: RULES
BILL S1659-2011: Decreases amounts of payments wrongfully received for health care fraud
Decreases certain amounts of payments wrongfully received that would trigger higher degrees of the crime of health care fraud.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: CODES
BILL S1655-2011: Increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an incident without reporting such incident
Increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident where personal injury is involved without reporting such incident from a class B to a class A misdemeanor; increases the penalty for leaving the scene of an accident where personal injury resulted in death or serious physical injury from a class E to a class C felony; and increases fines therefor.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: RULES
BILL S1551A-2011: Establishes the "New York state organ donor awareness and education act"
Enacts the "New York state organ donor awareness and education act"; provides mechanisms to fund the "life pass it on trust fund" through the department of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: TRANSPORTATION
BILL S7801-2011: Requires certain uses of class B multiple dwelling to undergo a petition and public hearing process with the relevant community board
Requires operation of class B multiple dwelling that rents or leases units for a period of less than twelve hours located on or within two-hundred-fifty feet of a parcel of land zoned for residential to undergo a petition and public hearing process with the relevant community board.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: RULES
RESOLUTION J5395-2011: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim June 2012 as Caribbean American Heritage Month in the State of New York
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S1633-2011: Prohibits police officers from using racial and ethnic profiling
Prohibits police officers from using racial and ethnic profiling; requires that a procedure be established for the taking and review of complaints against police officers for racial and ethnic profiling; allows an action for injunctive relief and/or damages to be brought against a law enforcement agency.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S648-2011: Adds medical and health insurance information within the definitions of identity theft
Adds medical and health insurance information within the definitions of identity theft.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: CODES
BILL S1637A-2011: Authorizes and directs an evaluation of the need for educating barbers on the health and safety aspects of their trade
Directs the secretary of state to conduct an evaluation of the need for educating barbers on the health and safety aspects of their trade including safe use and sterilizion of instruments and disease prevention; provides for report to governor and legislature.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S1701-2011: Increases the penalties for identity theft crimes
Increases the penalties for identity theft crimes.
Sponsor: SAMPSON
Committee: CODES