Relates to authorization of debt in times of public emergency; relates to a limit on state funded debt and refunding of state debts. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the authorization of debt in times of public emergency; limits the total amount of state debt; establishes a debt management board; relates to the refunding of state debts. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: JUDICIARY

Enacts the "clean campaign finance act"; directs the state board of elections to contract with a certified public accountancy firm to review and audit a randomly selected 3% of the candidates who run for the state legislature during each general election; provides that such review and audit shall analyze each candidate's compliance with the provisions of the election law. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: FINANCE

Increases the value of the assets that the fire department of the village of Owego is authorized to own from $10,000 to $500,000. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Makes the city court judgeships in the city of Norwich full-time positions. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to the attorney general's investigation and commencement of actions relating to fraudulent practices alleged to have damaged a public retirement system. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Enacts the "public assistance integrity act" to prohibit the sale or purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products or lottery tickets with public assistance benefits; prohibits the use of public assistance benefits, by means of an electronic benefit transfer transaction, at a liquor store, casino or adult entertainment facility; establishes the public assistance integrity fund. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Requires a school district superintendent to be a resident of the state. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: EDUCATION

Enacts the "honesty in permit processing act"; requires state agencies to annually report to the public on the time periods for processing applications of each type of permit, license, registration and certification; such report shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature, and made available to the public on the agency internet homepage; requires permit processing information to be printed on the cover page of each permit application; requires all permit applications to be processed within a time period equal to 134% of the average processing time during the previous calendar year; failure to complete processing within such period of time shall require the state agency to refund the application fees to the applicant. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: FINANCE

Waives the $28 fee for any kind of veterans custom plate; does not apply to plates with vanity lettering. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes a gold star father distinctive number plate. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to the conversion of domestic reciprocal medical malpractice insurers and the premium rates and surcharges for medical malpractice insurance. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: INSURANCE

Establishes the natural gas oversight fund to provide funding to the department of environmental conservation for enforcement of well drilling provisions; imposes a $2,000 fee upon the issuance of a well drilling permit in the fault-bounded Treton and/or Black River hydrothermal dolomite gas pools. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: FINANCE

Designates state route 23 as a state arterial highway in the city of Norwich, county of Chenango. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: FINANCE

Authorizes counties to lease county land for natural gas exploration, development and production for five years or as long as gas is produced in paying quantities. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Authorizes optometrists certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the treatment or prevention of ocular disease, to also use specified oral pharmaceutical agents in their practices; requires completion of a 25 hour phase three therapeutic pharmaceutical agent certification course of didactic education; permits the commissioner of health to recommend other categories of drugs that may also be prescribed. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides that the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply to any police officer of any political subdivision maintaining a police department serving a population of three thousand or less if the eligible list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit and fitness set forth in the civil service law. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Requires public contracts to include clauses authorizing contractors to recover damages for delay which are caused by acts or omissions by the public owner, as otherwise permitted by law, and requires the contractor, when submitting a claim, to certify that the supporting data is accurate to the best of his or her knowledge and the amount of the claim he or she believes to be the public owner's liability. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee:

Enacts the "buy from the backyard act"; requires the office of general services and other state agencies to buy 20% of all their food products from producers and/or processors in New York state; provides that the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall determine the New York food products that are available during the various times during the year; directs such commissioner to report to the governor and the legislature on the implementation of such provisions. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: AGRICULTURE

Enacts the "institutional investor recovery act"; relates to an action by certain public retirement systems or multi-employer health and welfare plans organized under the Taft-Hartley act. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION