Expands the exemption provided to professional journalists and newscasters from contempt to include employment or association with a web log; defines web log as a website or webpage that contains an online journal containing news, comments and offers hyperlinks provided by the writer. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: CODES

Waives the state's sovereign immunity to liability for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; also waives the immunity of all instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the state. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: CODES

Prohibits participation in torture and improper treatment of prisoners by health care professionals; prohibits a health care professional from engaging, assisting, planning the torture or improper treatment of a prisoner; requires health care professionals to report torture and improper treatment. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: HEALTH

Provides certain coverage for diagnosis and treatment of chemical abuse and chemical dependence. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: INSURANCE

Provides for including uncles, aunts, nephews, and nieces in the definition of "family member" in relation to regulations pertaining to rights of family members to succeed in certain cases to the rights of certain tenants. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Eliminates the prohibition on surrogate parenting contracts. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes a certified psychologist or a certified nurse practitioner, in addition to other authorized individuals, to make a recommendation of the type of residence in which a patient is to live upon release into the community. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Eliminates the mandatory retirement for judges. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the judge shall not prohibit a parent from undergoing gender reassignment as a condition of custody. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires the authorization of certain political expenditures by the shareholders and the board of directors of public corporations; requires the comptroller to annually conduct a study on the compliance with the requirements of this act by public corporations and their management. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Provides that persons living with clinical/symptomatic HIV or AIDS, and who are receiving shelter assistance or an emergency shelter allowance, shall not be required to pay more than 30% of the household's monthly unearned and/or earned income towards shelter costs, including rent and utilities. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Provides that the state liquor authority may, with the consent of the applicant, include certain terms and conditions as part of various licenses for on-premises consumption of beer and liquor for the purpose of assuring that the licensed premises are operated in accordance with law and consistent with the public interest; provides that prior to including terms and conditions in a license, the authority shall consult with the applicant and any party entitled to receive notice of the application; and provides that the terms and conditions shall be legally enforceable in the same manner as applicable provisions of this chapter or regulations of the authority. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Expands the definition of major utility transmission facility to include a facility in which electric current is transformed from the transmission system to the distribution system or a facility within the distribution system that is larger than five hundred square feet and in which electric current is transformed. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Requires the state liquor authority to make available on its automated public license query website and database information pertaining to any conditions it imposes on a licensed premises. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee:

Establishes the Clean and Green Energy Corps. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Prohibits certain practices by businesses making an automatic renewal or continuous service offer to consumers in the state. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study of the effectiveness and safety of urgent care centers and to deliver a report of the study results to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly, the temporary president of the senate and the minority leader of the senate. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: HEALTH

Provides for additional remedies for patients' private right of actions in residential health care facilities; allows class actions by patients, patient's legal representative, or such patient's estate. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: HEALTH

Requires public elementary or secondary schools in cities having a population of one million or more persons to provide breakfast for students qualifying for free breakfast in the school classrooms or in a location directly adjacent to the classrooms of such schools and to allow each student at the school to eat breakfast in his or her homeroom classroom during the homeroom period. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: CITIES

Restricts the distribution of students' personally identifying information; directs the commissioner of the department of education to develop appropriate regulations regarding permitted disclosure of such information. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: EDUCATION