Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Eliminates the state's recourse to public assistance recipients' or their relatives' residences, one, two or three family dwelling and the primary residence, including manufactured homes for reimbursement of expenditures made for their benefit. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus; provides for an advisory council consisting of representatives of people with lupus and their families and health care providers who specialize in treating lupus. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Requires applicants for public assistance to be fully informed, orally and in writing, that they may be liable to reimburse the state for benefits received; requires an informed acknowledgment form to be signed by the applicant and kept in the applicant's file. /
Sponsor: Gibson

Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health, to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Creates an education and outreach program for the autoimmune disease known as lupus; provides for an advisory council consisting of representatives of people with lupus and their families and health care providers who specialize in treating lupus; appropriates funds for the lupus education and outreach program. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund; authorizes an appropriation therefor. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Establishes training and registration requirements for kidney dialysis patient care technicians. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Provides that stalking by technological means, including illegal wiretapping, cell phones, caller ID, Internet, cameras and GPS systems, shall be prohibited and shall be included in the crimes of stalking in the first, second and third degrees. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: CODES

Establishes the Lymphology study, requiring the department of health to study the effects of certain training criteria established by the Lymphology Association of North America. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Requires rent reduction in cases of submetered utility service; directs the division of housing and community renewal to develop a standard reduction and an appeals process. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HOUSING

Provides for a corporate franchise tax check-off and a personal income tax check-off for taxpayer gifts for lung cancer education and prevention; establishes the lung cancer education and prevention fund; provides for such education and prevention programs by the department of health. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Relates to the use of environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products in nursing homes, residential care facilities, senior centers and adult homes; requires commissioner to establish certain guidelines and criteria for the use of such products. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Establishes the "childcare and early education sector on the economy act" to study the economic impact on the state economy of quality childcare and early education programs for children aged 0-4, and afterschool programs for children aged 5-12. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Relates to process servers, relating to licensing and penalties. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Requires notification to insureds that an out-of-network physician may be used in their procedure, test or surgery and such physician's services shall not be covered by their insurance policy; such services must be covered if the insured person does not receive notification prior to such services or procedure. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: INSURANCE

Provides a program fee option to allow graduate students who have taken at least 30 credits towards the completion of a degree to maintain access to certain facilities within the state university in order to continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to prohibiting colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to alerting all public and non-public schools of the state in the event of a general threat of a terroristic nature against a single, multiple or all of the schools of the state; requires the school safety team to designate an individual to notify the education department in the event the school district receives a general threat of harm against any school or schools within the district or anywhere in the state. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: EDUCATION

Provides that the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha shall be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York. /
Sponsor: Gibson Committee: EDUCATION