Sponsor: SERRANO

Establishes a twelve percent surcharge on the sale of animals by pet dealers and an account to be administered by an animal protection organization to be chosen by the comptroller and the commissioner of agriculture and markets. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Clarifies the appropriation and qualification of member items; authorizes the legislative ethics commission to review violations of the qualification of member items, and requires that all member items be fully itemized. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Authorizes the attorney general to commence a special proceeding in a court hearing jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of the environmental conservation law and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto in the name of the people of the state. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Requires rent reduction in cases of submetered utility service; directs the division of housing and community renewal to develop a standard reduction and an appeals process. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to preserve and maintain state historic sites that are closed for more than a month. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Exempts certain properties on Roosevelt Island in New York City from certain reporting requirements regarding the disposal of property by a public authority. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: FINANCE

Clarifies the appropriation and qualification of member items; authorizes the legislative ethics commission to review violations of the qualification of member items, and requires that all member items be fully itemized. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to providing a sales and compensating use tax exemption in certain areas of New York city. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires public disclosure of certain state agency materials, and authorizes the office for technology to publish a technical standards manual for the publishing of records on the Internet by state agencies. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Reconstitutes the Roosevelt Island operating corporation board of directors; provides that the corporation shall be governed by an elected rather than appointed board; makes numerous related provisions, including provisions for additional duties. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Enacts the New York State bicycle tourism promotion act; authorizes the issuance of grants for the purchase of equipment and operation of a bicycle tourism kiosk; authorizes the establishment of up to fifteen such kiosks. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: EDUCATION

Prohibits persons, firms or corporations engaged in the retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms; defines "child operated firearm" to mean a pistol or revolver manufactured 1 year after the effective date of these provisions which does not contain a childproofing device or mechanism incorporated into the design of such pistol or revolver to effectively preclude an average 5 year old from firing same; makes violations a class A misdemeanor. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CODES

Provides for a review process of proposals to alienate municipal parkland. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Relates to oil and gas drilling in Allegany State Park. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Establishes an arts fund to receive contributions for the support of the New York state council on the arts through a personal income tax return check-off; provides that for tax years after January 1, 2012, any individual may elect to contribute to the arts fund by indicating such intent on a tax form. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires the conducting of public hearings and reports thereon prior to the closure to public access of any real property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION