Authorizes a motor vehicle dealer who receives a vehicle for resale and satisfies any security interest in such vehicle, but has not received a release of security interest for such vehicle, to apply to the commissioner of motor vehicles for a certificate of title free of liens upon submission of proof that the security interest in the vehicle has been satisfied. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Requires wireless communications equipment vendors offering insurance on such equipment to disclose whether they pay a commission to the wireless communications equipment retailer. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Exempts food and beverages sold from vending machines for one dollar and fifty cents or less from the sales and use tax. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Expands the definition of the practice of podiatry to include conditions of the ankle and all soft tissue structures of the leg below the knee anatomically affecting the foot and ankle; establishes podiatrists licensed prior to the effective date of this act need to be certified to operate on the ankle; provides for the conducting of office based surgery by podiatrists; directs the department of health to study the feasibility of a podiatrist profiling program; authorizes the calling of a physician as an expert witness in a podiatric medical malpractice cause of action. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Increases the personal expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: HEALTH

Presumes for certain members of the NYS&LP&FRS that the contracting of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was in the discharge or performance of duties as the natural and proximate result of an accident; provides 3/4 pension for such members. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Authorizes the county of Broome to offer an optional twenty year retirement plan to deputy sheriffs Richard Merrell and Frederick Akshar. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Relates to the authorization of debt in times of public emergency; limits the total amount of state debt; establishes a debt management board; relates to the refunding of state debts. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the definition of private transfer fee obligations. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Relates to podiatry and the scope of podiatric practice. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Authorizes Ronald Martin to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position as village patrolman. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Requires non-immigrant alien students, who are granted in-state tuition rates at the state university or community colleges, to have continuously resided in the state during high school or while preparing for the general equivalency diploma examination. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: RULES

Provides that the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply to any police officer of any political subdivision maintaining a police department serving a population of three thousand or less if the eligible list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit and fitness set forth in the civil service law. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: RULES

Prohibits the retention of any amount of payment due and owing for materials delivered and accepted for a public or private construction project. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: RULES

Requires public contracts to include clauses authorizing contractors to recover damages for delay which are caused by acts or omissions by the public owner, as otherwise permitted by law, and requires the contractor, when submitting a claim, to certify that the supporting data is accurate to the best of his or her knowledge and the amount of the claim he or she believes to be the public owner's liability. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: RULES

Enacts provisions relating to limitations on state funded debt. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: RULES

Repeals certain provisions relating to podiatric scope of practice; does not authorize a physician to be called as an expert witness at a podiatric medical malpractice proceeding. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: RULES

Relates to licenses to sell liquor at retail for consumption on certain premises. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Establishes the natural gas production contamination response and compensation program and creates the New York natural gas production contamination damage recovery and remediation fund. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Provides that a retail establishment with a roll-your-own tobacco machine shall be deemed a tobacco product manufacturer and the resulting product shall be deemed a cigarette for purposes of certain provisions of the tax law, the public health law and the executive law. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS