Provides for the creation of a uniform system for the issuance of identification cards for retired members of the state police. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: FINANCE

Eliminates the requirement that hunters wear back tags during hunting season in the state. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Requires the department of environmental conservation to issue documentation of hunter safety course completion. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Designates certain persons appointed by a county sheriff's office, outside of the city of New York, when acting pursuant to their special duties serving as uniformed deputies working in a specialized function including but not limited to mounted patrol, marine patrol, snowmobile patrol, ATV patrol, forensic, scientific, or aviation as peace officers. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: CODES

Regulates hunting and trapping of elk or moose in the same manner as deer hunting and trapping are currently regulated; takes effect on the first day of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Provides that a candidate who files a certificate of acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than the seventh day after the primary election. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee:

Relates to ambulance registration fees. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Grants those assigned or employed for three continuous years as investigators and senior investigators in the bureau of criminal investigation or as a station commander, corporal, zone commander, zone sergeant, first sergeant, staff sergeant, captain or major within the division of state police protection from removal or other disciplinary action without a hearing. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee:

Directs the commissioner of motor vehicles to provide motorcycle owners with a notice informing such applicant of the laws regarding unidentifiable motorcycle parts. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee:

Relates to the submission of evidence at fair hearings. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Exempts emergency vehicles from obedience to traffic laws when involved in emergency operations. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires the inspector to require that the voter produce a driver's license or department of motor vehicles non-driver photo ID card or other current and valid photo identification before permitting the voter to cast his or her vote on the voting machine. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: ELECTIONS

Directs the division of criminal justice services to accept electronic submission of reports or other information from local law enforcement agencies. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: FINANCE

Establishes the crimes of exploitation of an elderly person, vulnerable elderly person or incompetent or physically disabled person in the first, second, and third degree. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: CODES

Reduces personal income tax rates for the middle class. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Recodifies the small business innovation research program within the New York state urban development corporation act; alters provisions under the small business innovation research program particularly as they affect Phase I award winners; prohibits arbitrary exclusion of technologies and companies; provides for matching of federal funds, to a certain extent. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Relates to the registration of certain motor vehicles. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Lifts mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state and municipal police. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to the duration of rights of benefits. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: LABOR

Provides that the court in such a proceeding shall assess, against such agency involved, reasonable attorney's fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred by such person in any case under the provisions of this article when such person has substantially prevailed and the court finds that the agency had no reasonable basis for denying access to freedom of information requests. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS