Requires all hospitals to establish, utilize and complete a checklist for each intensive care medical procedure performed in the hospital. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires notice of any ex parte communications or visits before the public service commission by a party to a hearing or investigation be given in writing to any affected party and to give such affected parties an opportunity to respond. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

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

Relates to tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens or persons with disabilities; relates to providing notice to those eligible of the need for reapplication. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

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Directs state agencies reviewing existing rules to conduct outreach to small businesses, localities, and rural interests under certain circumstances; requires the governor's office of regulatory reform to monitor state agencies relating to their review of existing rules and their outreach to small businesses, local governments, and public and private interests in rural areas. / 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:

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

Establishes the New York family leave act providing for leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires that at least one commissioner of the public service commission have experience in utility consumer advocacy. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Excludes any time during which a person was incarcerated from the ten year period relevant to the definition of the crime of persistent sexual abuse. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Establishes the detective Peter Figoski act of 2012 including the risk to public safety as a factor in bail determinations. / 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:

Expands the amount of information available to police and the public, by means of the internet, on registered sex offenders; authorizes any person to register with the division of criminal justice services to receive e-mail notification of all sex offenders residing within their zip code. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

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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:

Increases the powers and duties of division of homeland security and emergency services by giving it the power to decide if the sale, lease or operation of any critical infrastructure owned by the state or public authority or an electric generating facility would threaten public security; established a critical infrastructure advisory council. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee: