Relates to a medical assistance information and payment system; directs the department of health to issue a request for proposal for the purpose of providing the system within 90 days. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Directs state agencies which apply for federal medical assistance waivers to post information relating thereto on the agency internet website. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Directs the department of health to post, on its internet website, the state's medical assistance plan and all amendments thereto; provides that no provision of such plan shall take effect until it is posted on the internet website. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits the disclosure and discovery of the testimony of a party to a health care quality assurance or peer review proceeding; further adds the failure to cooperate and participate in the quality assurance, reporting, activities, requirements and procedures covered under such discovery to the definition of professional misconduct. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Provides for the imposition of an additional determinate sentence of imprisonment for the commission of a felony for the benefit of, at the direction of or in association with a street gang; a determinate sentence of between 2 and 5 years shall be served in addition to any other sentence imposed for the conviction of the underlying felony and shall be served consecutively with any other sentence of imprisonment; however, when the underlying felony is a violent felony or a class A felony the determinate sentence shall be 10 years. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: CODES

Authorizes the immunization against hepatitis B of minors capable of consent who are housed in a local or state correctional facility. / Sponsor: HANNON

Grants a real property tax exemption, at the option of the local taxing authority, to nonprofit organizations that purchase real property after the particular municipality's levy of taxes or taxable status date if the organization files an application for exemption with the assessor. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Grants a real property tax exemption, at the option of the local taxing authority, to nonprofit organizations that purchase real property after the particular municipality's levy of taxes or taxable status date if the organization files an application for exemption with the assessor. / Sponsor: HANNON

Allows senior citizens previously approved for the enhanced school tax relief exemption, who have elected not to participate in the income verification program, to file a simplified renewal application annually; directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to prepare such simplified, short form for eligible senior citizens. / Sponsor: HANNON

Authorizes the Hebrew Academy of Nassau county in the town of Hempstead to file an application for a real property tax exemption. / Sponsor: HANNON

Authorizes a court to order an obligor spouse to purchase or maintain disability insurance to ensure continued payment of court ordered support. / Sponsor: HANNON

Establishes the advisory committee on public wellness to assist health insurers and employers in establishing wellness programs for insureds and employees. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Eliminates the requirement that persons 65 years of age or older, who are eligible for a real property tax exemption, annually reapply for such exemption. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: AGING

Relates to the use of expert medical testimony; creates the health care courts pilot program; creates a new element of professional misconduct for providing expert witness testimony that is without reasonable medical foundation. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: JUDICIARY

Directs the distribution of health care proxy blank forms and instructions with mailings of drivers license and registration renewals; provides for cooperation between motor vehicle and health departments. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Enacts the New York birth-related neurological injury compensation act; provides a program whereby families of infants who are neurologically injured at birth would have an option for compensation other than by suing the physician. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Amends the public health law to add a new article in relation to establishing the neurological impairment program providing the exclusive remedy for compensation of neurologically-impaired persons born in New York on or after January 1, 2012. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits a pharmacist from substituting any anti-epileptic drug for the prescribed anti-epileptic drug without notification of and the informed consent of the prescriber and patient or such patient's parent, guardian or spouse. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Requires prescription information to be kept confidential. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of the Garden City school district. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: FINANCE