Amends the education law in relation to empowering school boards to make decisions regarding employment based on performance, qualifications and the best interests of the students. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Relates to aligning Medicaid optional benefits with the requirements of article 43 of the insurance law. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Authorizes the county of Chautauqua to elect to participate in the medical assistance reimbursement option and revenue intercept for Medicaid purposes. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Requires the homestead exemption used in the calculation for the public assistance to be the same as the homestead exemption under the civil practice law and rules. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Relates to the requirements of a public employer when a collective bargaining agreement has expired and a new agreement is not in place. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Relates to rights and obligations of a municipality electing integrated non-participating owner status in gas and oil wells; provides that such municipal owner shall not have obligations for taxes, charges, fees or liability for personal injury or damages. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Relates to the protection of water supplies; requires an oil and gas driller or producer who affects a public or private potable water supply to restore or replace such water supply. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Requires the power authority to conduct an analysis of the economic viability of certain electric generating facilities. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Authorizes the possession and use of a single shot .22 caliber rifle by a person eleven years of age on a rifle range while supervised at an indoor or outdoor shooting range. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Relates to prohibiting illegal drug use; authorizes random drug testing of individuals receiving public assistance. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Empowers school boards to make decisions regarding employment based on performance, qualifications and the best interests of the students. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Authorizes minors who are 14 or older and are active members of a religious community to engage or assist in employment which such minors are otherwise prohibited from performing; requires such minors to be supervised by an adult member of such religious community. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Creates incentives for counties to investigate and prosecute medicaid fraud. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Creates a school board empowerment act which allows local school districts to declare a fiscal emergency under designated conditions and fiscally restructure so as to minimize adverse impacts on student education; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Relates to permitting appeals to the department to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Provides that the lease or conveyance of oil and gas rights shall not, without other evidence of value, such as actual land sale prices, constitute grounds for increasing assessments. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Permits an employer to file an application with the department of labor to be exempted from the provisions of the workers' compensation law with respect to employees whose religious tenets or teachings oppose acceptance of any insurance benefits. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Designates, as peace officers, special deputy sheriffs of the county of Chautauqua within the grounds of the Chautauqua Institution. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Renames the Chautauqua Wine Trail to be the "Lake Erie Wine Country". / Sponsor: Goodell Committee:

Increases the number of family court judges in Chautauqua County. / Sponsor: Goodell Committee: