Provides for an annual increase in the aggregate annual amount of empire state film production credits taken, based upon inflation. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Relates to the discontinuation of utility service to residential customers. / Sponsor: RULES COM Simotas Committee:

Provides for a personal income tax deduction for student loan payments. / Sponsor: RULES COM Simotas Committee:

Requires a party to file notice of ex parte communications in proceedings involving the validity or application of rates, facilities, or practices of public utilities or carriers. / Sponsor: RULES COM Simotas Committee:

Relates to the rule-making power of the court of appeals as to admission of attorneys and counsellors. / Sponsor: RULES COM Simotas Committee:

Authorizes eligibility for admission for certain applicants for the excelsior jobs program. / Sponsor: Rules (Simotas) Committee:

Increases the permitted foreign investments by life insurance companies from sixteen to twenty percent of the insurer's assets. / Sponsor: RULES COM Simotas Committee:

Authorizes pupils and camp attendees to carry and use topical sunscreen products with the written permission of their parents or guardians; requires a record of such permission be maintained in the child's school office and/or camp office. / Sponsor: RULES COM Simotas Committee:

Completely bars the recovery of damages from the victim or a person acting on behalf of the victim for personal injury sustained by a person convicted of a crime when such injury occurred during the commission of such crime or while fleeing therefrom. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires a prohibition on students leaving campus in a motor vehicle during the lunch period to be included in school codes of conduct. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires charges for telephone calls based on duration, whether over lines or by cellular, to be charged and prorated by the second; applies to all service providers; authorizes the public service commission to promulgate rules and regulations. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Includes unsolicited telemarketing facsimile transmissions in the no telemarketing sales calls statewide and national "do-not-call" registry. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony punishable by a term of imprisonment of 25 years to life; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses against a child; designates such sex offenses against a child as sexually violent offenses for the purposes of sex offender registration; requires every sex offender convicted of such an offense to be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring by the division of criminal justice services upon release from prison. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Expands the definition of dangerous contraband to include telecommunications and electronic recording devices. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Increases to 15% the amount of the empire state film production credit that can be taken against taxes administered by cities of one million or more; increases the aggregate of the credits which may be taken against such taxes. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Establishes the offense of obstruction of governmental duties by means of a bomb, destructive device, explosive, or hazardous substance, a class D felony. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Extends the time period in which a voluntary discontinuance of a civil action may be obtained without the need for a court order or stipulation of settlement; gives flexibility to parties who may want to settle claims early in the litigation process or before the lawsuit actually begins. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Establishes the commission on the infrastructure of New York state to ensure that the infrastructure of the state meets current and future demand and facilitates economic growth, is maintained in a manner that ensure public safety, and is developed or modified in a sustainable manner. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Establishes a penalty of not less than $1,000 for each intentional destruction, mutilation or significant alteration of a medical record by a party to a medical malpractice action, or by any officer, director, member, employee or agent of such party; also establishes a cause of action on behalf of any person injured as the result of such destruction, mutilation or significant alteration. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Expands the statement of notice of a registration determination hearing to be given to a sex offender to include notice of the right to counsel and that the failure to appear shall be a violation of the sex offender registration act; removes the proof of residence exception for failure to mail the signed verification form; makes all violations of the sex offender registration act class D felonies. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee: