Allows "Safe-Teen-NY Driver" stickers to be placed on license plates of motor vehicles driven by individuals who are under 18 years old or placed on their parents' or legal guardians' motor vehicle license plates. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires a course of instruction on the provisions of the federalist papers and the United States constitution to be provided to high school students. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: FINANCE

Authorizes a tax check-off for gifts to the explore the cosmos New York fund and authorizes the issuance of distinctive "Explore the Cosmos New York" license plates. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Authorizes the city of New York to establish a demonstration program imposing liability on owners of motor vehicles found to be in violation of the maximum speed limit or the maximum school speed limit of the city through the use of a speed limit photo device which combines speed sensing technology which determines the speed of a vehicle and captures/records that date by photographic, microphotographic, video tape or other recording system and produces an image of a motor vehicle at the moment that it exceeds the speed limit; provides for the expiration of this demonstration program five years after the effective date. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Relates to the criminal use of a dangerous instrument on school grounds during the commission of a felony. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CODES

Relates to the conditions affecting the refunding of bonds. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Enacts the "New York City Panel for Education Policy Members Public Responsibility Act" requiring a quorum of the members of the city board to attend any hearing scheduled for purposes of allowing public comment on changes to educational plans for the school district of the city of New York. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Provides for the establishment of express bus service to the south shore of Staten Island. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Exempts certain officers of the department of correction and the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Relates to requiring notice to neighboring landowners within one thousand feet of intention to develop in wetland areas; requires a public hearing on a wetland application. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes the crime of larceny of a controlled substance making it an A-II felony to steal a schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance from a pharmacy. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CODES

Requires elementary schools to report the results of English/language arts and mathematics assessments to the parents of pupils by the last day of classes for the school year. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Enacts the "public employee whistleblower protection act"; repeals certain provisions of the civil service law related to early disclosure for certain alleged violations of certain public employees. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Expands the application of provisions for a reduced retirement age for certain Triborough bridge and tunnel authority employees to January 1, 2012. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to appointments to the water board of the city of New York. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Ensures port authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who become ill or injured in the performance of their duties as to necessitate medical or other remedial treatment shall receive full wages until the disability arising therefrom has ceased. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Enacts Bill of Adoptee Rights clarifying language and procedures for obtaining birth certificates and medical histories of adoptees; permits an adopted adult to access certain records when they reach the age of 18; creates a contact preference to be filed by birth parents. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: HEALTH

Relates to assault on a district attorney, an assistant district attorney or an assistant attorney general while in performance of assigned duties. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Provides that the failure to report a release of hazardous substances is a class A misdemeanor and any such subsequent violation shall be a class E felony. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: RULES

Relates to the timeliness of prosecution or commencing certain civil actions related to certain sex offenses; makes the period of limitations begin to run at age 23 instead of age 18 for certain sex offenses against a child less than eighteen years of age. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: CODES