Clarifies the appropriation and qualification of member items, authorizes the legislative ethics commission to review violations of the qualification of member items, and requires that all member items be fully itemized. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Relates to the taxation of property owned by a cooperative corporation. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Requires a holder of a class DJ or class MJ learner's permit, while operating a vehicle, to display a sign indicating that such vehicle is being driven by a new driver; further authorizes the commissioner to create the form and distribution for such sign upon the issuance of the learner's permit. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Prohibits the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, any state legislator, any elected county, city, town or village official, or any person who currently holds elective office from serving as a delegate to the constitutional convention. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Restricts transfers of funds by political committees of candidates to committees of other candidates to $500 annually; and to any party committee or constituted committee to $1000 annually; imposes a fine of at least $1000 but not more than $5000 for violations thereof. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle with children under the age of 8 in the front seat in most cases; makes limited exceptions. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Requires paper ballots have a box, oval or other marking area that the voter may intentionally fill in to alert the voting system that any and all undervotes on the ballot have been done so intentionally; allows the system to cast the ballot without returning an "undervote error message" to the voter. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Establishes a petition to start the process to change the elective office of assessors. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Relates to apportionment of staff for members in the senate and assembly; requires generally equal staff for member offices and additional moneys for committee chairs. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Establishes a commission to study the feasibility of establishing a bank owned by the state of New York or an authority constituted by the state of New York and report within 1 year. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Requires sanitation workers to receive certain training; requires the department of labor to establish certain regulations related thereto. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Relates to chief administrative officers, staff and office allocations, introduction of legislation and continuity of legislative sessions. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Permits Universal Life Ministers to solemnize marriages. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Waives the ability of government agencies in New York to claim copyright protection except where the record reflects artistic creation, or scientific or academic research, or if the agency intends to distribute the record or derivative work based on it to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Requires every assessing unit to conduct a revaluation of assessment at least every four years. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Mandates that any article of merchandise advertised, and not available throughout advertised period, must be supplied at advertised price by seller within sixty days from the date the purchaser of such article is notified of its availability; specifies terms of raincheck and limited exceptions. / Sponsor: Galef (MS) Committee:

Allows a taxpayer to elect to contribute a gift to the love your library fund on corporate and personal income tax return forms. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Establishes a personal income tax credit for a portion of a taxpayer's residential real property taxes which exceeds a certain percentage of the taxpayer's household gross income; provides that the taxpayer shall have resided in such residential real property for not less than 5 years; provides that such credit shall not apply to taxpayers who have claimed the real property tax circuit breaker credit during the taxable year. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Creates the New York state independent budget office with a director to be appointed, upon the recommendations of an independent budget office advisory committee, by the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate; such office shall provide objective, non-partisan and timely analyses of state revenue, expenditures and management practices to members of the legislature for any legislation with fiscal impact or at the request of a leader or a committee. / Sponsor: Galef Committee:

Establishes the "Address Confidentiality Act" which allows state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of certain victims of abuse. / Sponsor: Galef Committee: