Establishes a teacher preparation program to train and retrain teachers to prepare them for teaching assignments in areas having concentrations of low-income families; provides that the commissioner of education shall administer said program and provides the commissioner with various powers to assist him in carrying out such program such as entering into arrangements through grants or contracts with educational agencies. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Establishes pilot grant program to enable overage, under-credit youth to obtain high school diploma or equivalent. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: EDUCATION

Provides for the provision of temporary emergency educational assistance to school districts which fail to provide a sound basic education to the students in such district; provides such assistance shall be in addition to any other state aid provided to the school district; provides the board of regents shall, upon application of a school district, determine eligibility for such assistance; establishes the temporary emergency educational fund. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes an independent citizens education finance review committee within the education department to monitor and report on the provision of and state assistance provided to public education in this state, so as to ensure that a quality education is provided to all students in the state. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes parent awareness week in all school districts. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: EDUCATION

Makes the establishment of trusts which provide for the suspension, termination or diversion of the trust or beneficial interest in the event that the beneficiary needs medical, hospital or nursing care void as against public policy and allows the commissioner of social services to maintain an action to collect from such trust the beneficial interest and income for payment of certain expenses. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires alternative power sources for motor fuel facilities. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Requires all cellular telecommunications service providers with new cellular antenna towers to secure on-site back-up power. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Provides background investigations of all after-school program personnel employed in school districts; requires fingerprinting and background checks. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: EDUCATION

Provides that possession of a condom may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, promoting prostitution, permitting prostitution, maintaining a premises for prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or maintaining a bawdy house. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: CODES

Requires that local legislative bodies in cities with a population of one million or more shall establish standards for the cleaning and fencing of vacant lots; provides that the owner of property shall bear cost, even if the city does the work; allows civil fines to be imposed in amounts to be determined by the legislative body of such city. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: CITIES

Authorizes the dormitory authority of the state of New York to sell certain land in the county of Queens to the Indian Cultural and Community Center, Inc. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Provides for a personal income tax deduction not to exceed two hundred dollars for monetary gifts to a public library; provides such monetary gifts must be used for the purchase of books or towards acquisition of computers and software by the library; directs library to issue a receipt for such donation. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Requires data collection on homeless persons served by a homeless project including reasons why such person becomes homeless and enters a homeless facility; requires annual report be made to governor and legislature. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Creates the crime of possession of a gambling device in the first degree which prohibits the manufacture, sale, transport, placement or possession of five or more slot machines, other gambling device or a coin operated gambling device; possession of a gambling device in the first degree is a class E felony; also includes within the offense of promoting gambling the receiving of more than $5000 in any one day from unlawful gambling activities. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: CODES

Provides that persons arrested for domestic violence forfeit bail when violating an order of protection. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: CODES

Permits two additional phone calls for an arrested person who is a custodial parent of a minor. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: CODES

Requires that a center for palliative care be established in every borough of New York city. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes franchise tax credit for providers of child care services in certain instances; gives employers 30% tax credit on investments to offer child care services or to purchase child care resource referral services; provides that the amount of credit shall be the lesser of $500 or the amounts of credits imposed by �601 of the tax law for the taxable year, reduced by the credits permitted under �620 (credit for income tax of another state) and �621 (credit to trust beneficiary receiving accumulation distribution), multiplied by a fraction (numerator is net income derived from business attributable to the provision of home day care services and the denominator is NYS adjusted gross income). /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Changes state fiscal year; commencing 2014 the fiscal year will end April 30 and every year thereafter will commence May 1 and end April 30. /
Sponsor: Clark Committee: WAYS AND MEANS