Establishes a person is guilty of assault in the second degree when he or she intends to cause physical injury to an employee of New York state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a public benefit corporation while such employee is performing his or her duties. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Provides that tissue or non-transplant organs from cadaveric donors shall be procured only in a hospital, morgue or other facility licensed for the purpose of tissue or organ procurement. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Makes the judicial hearing officer pilot program in the family courts of the seventh and eighth judicial districts for ordering a reference to determine an application for an order of protection or temporary order of protection in certain cases permanent. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to authorize courts to order references for orders of protection to judicial hearing officers or referees at any time; requires training about domestic violence for such judicial hearing officers or referees. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Requires county highway acquisitions to be made pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Authorizes school authorities to close school buildings used as polling places on days of general election, spring primary, and fall primary without loss of state aid. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Requires public notice and hearing prior to any planned substantial change in service; defines "substantial change in service" to mean any change in frequency of service or change in route or complete or partial closing of a passenger stop or route; outlines places where posters shall be placed. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Provides that every contract entered into by a state agency for the procurement of equipment, materials or supplies shall contain a statement in which the contractor attests that no foreign made equipment, materials or supplies furnished to the state pursuant to the contract have been produced in whole or in part by forced labor, convict labor or indentured servitude; provides sanctions for violations; provides waivers for good faith violations. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Prohibits the substitution of opioid analgesic drugs for an opioid analgesic drug incorporating tamper resistance technology; requires pharmacist to verify equivalence or obtain written consent of prescribing physician. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Relates to the employment of persons to function as central service technicians in certain healthcare facilities. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Relates to prorating a veteran's exemption if such veteran moves within the same county, or in the case of a city having a population of one milion or more persons, within the same city. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Relates to benefits which a non-professional employee of an educational institution may receive. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Enacts the "child abuse medical services act" to ensure that actual and suspected cases of child abuse are handled by properly qualified medical and allied personnel. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Relates to funds for innovation grants for programs to create public/private partnerships to develop and implement innovative, technology-based learning strategies to serve high-need pupils and pupils who are at risk of not meeting the New York state learning standards. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Relates to the issuance of family offense appearance tickets for family offenses. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Provides an earned income tax credit to youth workers, increases the standard deduction for individuals eighteen to twenty-four years of age, and provides for the deduction of student loan interest, and provides for the expiration of such provisions. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Increases number of family court judges in Monroe county from six to eight, the additional judges to be elected in November of 2015 and take office January 1, 2016. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Enacts the "occupational safety and health funding act"; relates to the dedicated occupational safety and health training and education and occupational health clinic programs fund. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Authorizes the care and treatment of injured employees by licensed or certified acupuncturists under the workers' compensation program. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee:

Authorizes financing of certain energy related projects by the power authority of New York, including research and development and certain construction projects. / Sponsor: Bronson Committee: