Requires reports by state agencies relating to certain grants and expenditures made to community based organizations; requires listing by zip code of such grants. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Mandates comprehensive, medically accurate and age appropriate sex education be taught in all public schools, grades one through twelve; provides that the commissioner of education will create and establish a curriculum to accomplish such goal within one year of the effective date of this legislation. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Allows savings banks, savings and loan associations and credit unions to accept deposits from municipal corporations and authorizes the deposit of certain public funds of political subdivisions and school districts in savings banks, savings and loan associations and credit unions. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Permits persons with a criminal record to volunteer and provide counseling and programming services within the prison system in certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Allows retail mercantile establishments to sell postage stamps only if such postage stamp is sold for its actual face value or the current postal rate as determined by the US post office; makes an exemption for philatelic activities; and further provides for a civil penalty not to exceed $150 for each violation. / Sponsor: Barron 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: Barron Committee:

Relates to authorizing the issuance of college degrees in religion by certain religious organizations and provides that such degrees may be issued without registration or approval by the board of regents or the commissioner of education, provided that the titles of such degrees shall not duplicate the titles of any earned degree under the rules of the regents. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

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

Relates to procedures at mandatory settlement conferences in residential foreclosure actions and requires good faith settlement discussions in connection with such foreclosure actions. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

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

Requires all-way stop signs erected at all intersections immediately surrounding a public or private school in a city with a population of 1 million or more. / Sponsor: Barron (MS) Committee:

Relates to reporting of drivers who pass stopped school buses; provides for a procedure and form for school bus drivers and individuals to report to local law enforcement any driver of a motor vehicle that has passed a stopped school bus; such report may be filed by the driver of a school bus or any individual who observes such violation; makes provisions for false reporting and provides for sanctions, including suspension of driver's license, for failure to respond to a summons issued pursuant to a report. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Establishes May fourteenth of each year as a day of commemoration known as "Henry Lincoln Johnson Day". / Sponsor: Barron 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: Barron Committee:

Reduces rebate of the stock transfer tax to 80% and provides for appropriation of the balance of such tax: 25% to the city of New York and 75% to the state. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

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

Relates to the calculation of the rates of payment for adult day health care services provided by residential health care facilities. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Authorizes inmates serving indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for offenses involving controlled substances and marihuana to receive good time allowances against the minimum terms of their sentences not to exceed one-third of the minimum term imposed; provides that drug offenders can receive good behavior allowances for progress in assigned treatment programs and willing performance of duties. / Sponsor: Barron Committee:

Prohibits the use of handcuffs on students with a documented mental, physical or developmental disability in a public school located in a city with a population of a million or more. / Sponsor: Barron Committee: