Provides for filling of vacancies in the office of governor and lieutenant-governor. / Sponsor: Hawley (MS) Committee:

Limits the liability of a farm or "u-pick" operation for injuries incurred while a person was picking and buying agricultural products; expands the limited exemption of a property owner from liability to a property owner who makes their premises available to others for any recreational use and to include owners of underdeveloped and/or land used in agricultural production; enacts the "equine activity safety code act". / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Allows for online publication of public notices. / Sponsor: Hawley (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the town of Carlton, county of Orleans, to provide crushed stone to certain residents for the maintenance of certain stone lanes. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Enacts the court order protection act. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Requires a certificate of merit in actions for damages, contribution or indemnity arising out of alleged negligence of a professional licensed pursuant to the education law; establishes a party in an action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice may not omit the name of certain experts in responding to a request; limits judgments for past and future damages in an action to recover damages for dental, medical or podiatric malpractice; limits compensation for noneconomic damages suffered by an injured plaintiff in any personal injury action to $250,000. / Sponsor: Hawley (MS) Committee:

Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits. / Sponsor: Hawley (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the sheriff to charge prisoners fees to support the operations of the facility where they are incarcerated and requires the inmates of the facility to assist in the provision of necessary services provided at the facility; provides that employees of the correctional facility shall not be subject to adverse employment actions as a result of the section. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Provides for the exemption of disabled veterans of the armed forces of the United States from New York State Thruway tolls. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Provides that the issue of military deployment shall not be considered as a factor in the awarding of custody in marital actions where a suitable child care plan is presented. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Provides free tuition expenses for SUNY or CUNY to surviving dependent family members of NYS military personnel who have died while performing official military duties. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Extends eligibility for the agricultural property tax credit to farmers having a leasehold interest of not fewer than five continuous years in qualified agricultural property. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Provides a tax credit in the amount of certain fees charged in connection with loans under the federal home loan guarantee program to national guard and reserve veterans. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Establishes a central registry of medical personnel terminated for cause. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Provides that a person is guilty of harassment in the first degree, a class B misdemeanor, when he or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects a school employee to physical contact or attempts or threatens to do the same while such school employee is engaged in the performance of his or her duties as a school employee. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Provides written notice of premium rate changes not less than sixty days prior to the effective date of such rate changes. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Exempts veterans eighty-five years of age and older from the obligation to pay New York state income tax. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Establishes the agriculture assistance program for financial assistance to agricultural production and services in the state. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Requires the employment address of certain sex offenders to be reported to the division of criminal justice services. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee:

Exempts compensation for active military service from inclusion in a resident's adjusted gross income under certain circumstances. / Sponsor: Hawley Committee: