Reduces a retired or disabled owner's no fault insurance premium by providing appropriate automobile insurance rates to reflect a reduced exposure to loss due to situations where drivers either have no wages to lose or are covered for lost wages by another first payer insurance policy; defines "retired" and "disabled". / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INSURANCE

Provides that a person may be guilty of the crime disorderly conduct when he makes unreasonable noise which is disturbing to one or more persons. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: CODES

Requires a licensee's residential address to be printed on his or her driver's license. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Authorizes certain towns in the Peconic Bay region to establish community housing opportunity funds to provide community housing or low interest loans for first time home buyers; provides that such towns adopt a plan adhering to smart growth principals in conjunction with the creation of such community housing opportunity fund. / Sponsor: LAVALLE

Makes state funding from the environmental protection fund available for national estuary implementation projects which would implement water quality improvement projects pursuant to an approved action or comprehensive conservation and management plan prepared under the national estuary program. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Provides that each county shall establish and maintain a registry of wills and codicils executed in that county for which the surrogate's court has jurisdiction; establishes what information shall be included in such registry. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to a residential housing downpayment credit; provides that such tax credit is in the amount of 10 percent of the purchase price, or twenty-five thousand dollars, whichever is less. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides that real property assessment challenges shall be served upon a fire district by serving the chair of the board of fire commissioners of the fire district. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the definition of a public body pursuant to the open meetings law; includes any advisory committee to a public body, whether created by such public body or created pursuant to federal, state or local law. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires school districts to develop a policy regulating the use of school-owned cell phones to include, but not be limited to, requiring that they be used only for school related purposes. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes an office of education legal services within the department of law which shall provide all legal services to school districts except for school districts in the cities of New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: FINANCE

Establishes an office of education legal services within the department of law which shall provide all legal services to school districts except for school districts in the cities of New York, Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: FINANCE

Provides for an increase in federal itemized deduction for certain home improvements; a fifty percent tax exemption is provided to a residential property owner of a one, two or three family home for improvements that will promote environmental quality; limits the deduction to $1,000 in any one tax year. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for daycare reimbursement by the state within thirty days of an invoice being issued. / Sponsor: LAVALLE

Directs that a certain annual service fee of twenty-five dollars between the custodial and noncustodial parent be evenly distributed. / Sponsor: LAVALLE

Establishes a tax credit for the removal or permanent enclosure of a residential fuel oil storage tank. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: FINANCE

Exempts factory-built home shells delivered to residential real property sites from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Sets forth the manner by which an owner of real property in the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, which is bisected by a school district boundary shall pay real property school taxes. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Extends the powers of municipal corporations to establish, own and operate public utility services by the power of eminent domain; provides that municipal corporations need not make a final decision on the acquisition of assets until the value of such assets has been determined. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Deems goods to be on sale or return as to creditor claims when goods delivered to person dealing in goods of the kind involved. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY