Makes technical changes relating to the Deposit fire district in the county of Delaware. /
Sponsor: Crouch

Relates to allowing a physically disabled surviving spouse who was married to an enhanced STAR qualifying individual to continue to receive the exemption even if the surviving spouse is not sixty-two years of age. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Provides that farmers shall receive an exemption from tolls when transporting product to NYC for consumption in the city. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Establishes a second office of judge of the county court in the county of Chenango; provides for such judgeship to be filled at the general election to be held on November 5, 2013. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: JUDICIARY

Prohibits a court from granting custody of a minor to anyone who has been convicted of any of the enumerated sex crimes except where court finds there is no significant risk to the child. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires the department of labor to notify all employers of certain requirements for hiring persons receiving unemployment benefits. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: LABOR

Provides that local assessing units shall determine the amount of the tax abatement granted to freshwater wetlands, subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner of taxation and finance; provides such commissioner shall establish a standard application form for such tax abatement; provides that the tax savings provided by real property taxing authorities to freshwater wetlands shall be a state charge. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to bids for oil and gas production leases on state lands and requires such bids to include lease payment amounts and royalty payment amounts. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to the frequency of games of bingo; provides that nursing homes and residential health care facilities may offer bingo without limitations. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: RACING AND WAGERING

Provides for the repeal of the second-injury disability fund which provides for compensation for injury or death which is caused by certain enumerated diseases and which is attributable to the nature of corresponding employment. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: LABOR

Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish a stream maintenance and flood control program; allows for the local governing body of a county to elect to pass a local law providing for a local option into such program; provides for the county to be responsible for performing the work outlined in an approved stream maintenance and flood control plan. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Directs the commissioner of education to apportion monies for students with disabilities, and for such funds to follow students from one school district to another. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: EDUCATION

Creates the crime of agri-bioterrorism to protect the agricultural industry and preserve the integrity of the state's food production industry and food supply chain; establishes when a person is guilty of the crime of agri-bioterrorism; makes agri-bioterrorism a class B felony. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: CODES

Exempts public use easements from the real estate transfer tax and provides that the grantor of such easement shall be immune from civil liability and action with respect to any act or omission relating to such easement; defines "public use" for the purposes of this subparagraph. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Prohibits registered sex offenders from using or being within five hundred feet of any state or municipal-owned park. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: CORRECTION

Provides that an individual may be excused from jury duty if such service would cause a financial hardship to a self-employed individual. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes the crime of unlawful surveillance in the third degree; provides that no person shall videotape a child under the age of twelve in a day care, group family day care, or family day care without proper consent. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: CODES

Institutes mandatory jail time of a minimum of sixty days if a person is found to have been in willful violation of a support order at least three times. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for a three year suspension of drivers already convicted of driving while intoxicated. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Provides that before a person may receive public assistance benefits, he or she must submit to and pass a drug test. /
Sponsor: Crouch Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES