Provides a preference for New York state contractors for purposes of public works contracts; authorizes the commissioner of economic development and the commissioner of labor to promulgate necessary rules and regulations; requires a report to the legislature; makes related provisions. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Establishes a state-wide database providing the location and availability of medical procedures within New York state, specifying which hospitals are equipped to perform each procedure. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Requires insurers to display certain underwriting information on the declarations page to their homeowners and dwelling fire personal lines policies. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Includes code enforcement personnel in assault in the second degree. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Relates to mandatory dispositions and the commission of a felony offense while in possession of a firearm; provides an additional five years imprisonment. / Sponsor: McKevitt (MS) Committee:

Expands the definition of "second felony offender" to remove the limitation that the second felony conviction be of a felony defined in the penal law. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Requires NYSERDA to establish a program of public awareness of the use and benefits of biofuel. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Requires school buses to display a toll free number for reporting improper operation of such school buses. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Relates to the New York state tobacco settlement cancer research and treatment program; establishes such program within the Roswell Park Cancer Institute; provides for an annual report to the commissioner of health. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Authorizes the enforcement of orders of restitution and reparation by allowing designated collection agencies, with court approval, to institute civil actions, and permits income execution collection of debtor's wages directly from employer; additionally, authorizes enforcement measures identical to those used for support award enforcement; increases up to fifty percent the amount that may be withheld from wages. / Sponsor: McKevitt (MS) Committee:

Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility and requires hearings to include evaluation of alternative sites; gives the municipality additional time to respond; gives municipality sixty rather than forty days after such notice to approve or object to the proposed site. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Requires absentee ballots and nine polling hours for fire commissioner, library board and special district elections. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Adds the offenses of criminal trespass in the third degree and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree to the offenses over which the family court and criminal courts have concurrent jurisdiction. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Relates to written demands for payment; provides that written demands for the payment of dishonored checks may be in either English or Spanish, whichever is the spoken language of the drawer. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Authorizes grants, loans, and loan guarantees from the empire state economic development fund to businesses which are impacted or dislocated by local and state highway and bridge projects funded with public monies. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Establishes a biofuel/biodiesel permit process task force; provides that such task force shall be administered by NYSERDA. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Relates to determining income for tuition assistance program awards; provides that transfers from individual retirement accounts to Roth individual retirement accounts not be included in determining income for such TAP awards. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Requires physicians, chiropractors, dentists, registered nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and dental hygienists to have completed two hours of coursework or training regarding the identification and reporting of elderly abuse prior to the renewal of a license, registration or limited permit; provides procedures and provides for exemptions when no need therefor. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Establishes the regents high-tech graduate loan foregiveness program to provide annual loan payments of up to $10,000 a year to high-tech college graduates who are residents of the state, attended a college or university in the state, received a degree in a high-tech field and agree to work in a high-tech field in the state for 5 years; appropriates twenty-five million dollars therefor. / Sponsor: McKevitt Committee:

Provides that there shall not be a fifty year aggregate maximum term of consecutive sentences imposed for the conviction of three or more violent felony offenses one of which was a class B violent felony offense; applies upon the reversion of present provisions to their prior status. / Sponsor: McKevitt (MS) Committee: