Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to provide for the payment by the department of taxation and finance of tax refunds within 30 days of the receipt of a taxpayer's tax return. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to provide for the payment by the department of taxation and finance of tax refunds within 30 days of the receipt of a taxpayer's tax return, unless there is a discrepancy in such return, in which case the department shall provide written notice to the taxpayer of such discrepancy and a date when the discrepancy will be resolved; failure to comply with such refund and notice requirement shall make the department of taxation and finance liable for interest on the refund due at a rate of 6% per annum. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Relates to approval of demonstration projects for the operation of proton beam therapy services. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

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: Towns (MS) Committee:

Creates the crime of identity theft in the fourth degree; provides that such crime shall be a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Establishes the urban homeowners assistance program to assist first time, low or moderate income, or minority homeowners avoid foreclosure by authorizing and directing the commissioner of the state division of housing and community renewal to enter into contracts with neighborhood preservation companies to provide for such assistance to residents in certain urban communities; makes an appropriation therefor. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Provides that any person who shall abandon in a public place, any controlled substance or dangerous drug as defined in article 220 or 221 of the penal law, shall be guilty of creating a hazard. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Relates to collective bargaining processes for peace officers and special officers for the city of New York; requires negotiations with the certified employee organization representing such employees. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals. / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Creates the niche market assistance projects for small businesses to identify and develop niche markets for their products in competitive environments. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Enacts the "short-term financial services loan act"; authorizes licensed cashers of checks to provide short-term loans under certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Provides that no agreement for preauthorized electronic fund transfers entered into on or after January first, two thousand twelve shall permit or require the transfer of any amount as a penalty or final payment after a stop payment notice has been given. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Provides a tax check-off box on personal income tax return forms for gifts to the after-school activity fund. / Sponsor: Towns (MS) Committee:

Enacts the independent home valuation act which prohibits against false or misleading appraisals, prohibits improperly influencing an appraisal, prohibits an improper appraisal; further requires mandatory reporting and sets forth sanctions. / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Expand the entitlement to civil service exam credit of certain members of the United States armed forces who were disabled during service by eliminating the requirement that the service be wartime service and allowing the credit regardless of dates of service; changes the reference to the veterans administration to the department of veterans affairs; grants entitlement to such credit to such disabled members if they are eligible for disability payments from the department of veterans affairs (currently the disabled members must be actually receiving disability payments). / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Extends certain benefits afforded with respect to judicial proceedings where the minor dependent of a military member is involved as a party; authorizes a stay of proceedings in such situations. / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Provides members of the merchant marine, who due to active duty were deprived the opportunity to compete in a civil service examination, the opportunity to compete in such civil service examination by way of a make-up examination. / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Prohibits compensation based on home loan terms by mortgage brokers or mortgage lenders. / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Relates to fees and charges for distinctive license plates for purple heart recipients. / Sponsor: Towns Committee:

Provides that a student enrolled in an elementary or secondary school in this state, regardless of age, who is engaged in sexual conduct with an employee or volunteer of such school, is deemed incapable of consenting to such conduct. / Sponsor: Towns Committee: