Establishes a spending cap and increases the maximum capacity of the rainy day fund. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Authorizes financial assistance for civic facilities by industrial development agencies; defines civic facility. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Provides that any: (i) melanoma; or (ii) condition of cancer affecting lymphatic, digestive, hematological, urinary, prostate, neurological, breast and reproductive systems, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into firefighter service, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such a melanoma or condition, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Provides that an employer's account for unemployment insurance coverage shall not be charged when an employee quits without good cause, regardless of whether the former employee has filed and been disqualified for benefits and later files and qualifies for unemployment insurance based on subsequent employment. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Establishes the "Family and medical leave independent savings account act"; provides a tax credit for employee compensation deferred to such accounts. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Authorizes employers to apply to commissioner of labor for exemption from requirement of paying workers weekly if such employers satisfy certain criteria; removes language which would require employers to pay workers weekly if the employer has employed less than one thousand persons in this state. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Enacts the "scaffold reform act"; grants counties a local option to require contractors working on projects within their respective jurisdictions to comply with the regulations and standards set forth by the United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Organization and applicable state regulations; sets forth a contributory negligence standard for employees. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Establishes an initiative and referendum process so that voters are able to bring issues to the state legislature for consideration; defines the term "initiative" as the power of the electors to propose amendments to the constitution and to propose laws; defines the term "referendum" as the power of the electors to approve or reject laws or parts of laws passed by the legislature. / Sponsor: Kolb (MS) Committee:

Provides for the submission to the people of a proposition or question to convene a constitutional convention. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Requires that annual department reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Changes the fiscal year to begin on the first of May; requires the use of generally accepted accounting principles in the state fiscal plan. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Establishes corporate business and personal income tax credits for taxpayers (employers of 100 or fewer) who provide employees with on-the-job training in an amount up to $300 per employee. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Relates to ambulance registration fees. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Relates to the definition of a business startup and funds reserved for business startups. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Provides an itemized deduction for expenses for course-mandated supplies for eligible college students paid by taxpayers. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Relates to making the first one hundred thousand dollars of an individual's private pension non-taxable. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Relates to the clarification of the applicability of certain exemptions to periodic distributions from a nonqualified pension plan. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Establishes the GrowNY pilot program, an economic gardening pilot program within the department of economic development to stimulate investment in the state economy by providing technical assistance for expanding businesses in the state. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Requires operators of bowling centers to give certain notices to bowlers and grants immunity from civil liability to operators of bowling centers from certain actions. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee:

Removes the mandatory aggregate trust fund deposit requirements for non-scheduled permanent partial disability cases. / Sponsor: Kolb Committee: