Establishes mental health parity in public health insurance plans. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Requires police identification line-ups to be conducted sequentially, with defendants appearing one at a time. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CODES

Relates to the commercial display of human remains; requires the department of health to implement a permit process for anyone displaying human remains for payment or other consideration; exempts remains more than 100 years old, consisting solely of human hair or teeth, part of the ordinary display at a funeral establishment or memorial, an object of religious veneration, consisting solely of bodies transported into and remaining in the state for display prior to the effective date of this section, or in the possession of a museum facility. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Establishes the temporary state commission on intimate partner violence, within the office for the prevention of domestic violence, to study, report on and make recommendations on the prevalence, causes, effects, risks and costs of such violence. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: FINANCE

Prohibits a charitable organization from using any charitable donations that the charitable organization receives to make any sort of payment that arises as a term of a confidentiality agreement or closed settlement agreement. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: FINANCE

Makes provisions regarding environmental benefit projects in lieu of civil penalties including establishing conditions for their acceptance and criteria for such projects; authorizes the attorney general to review and approve the settlement or administrative order. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes integrated pest management requirements for hospitals including a requirement that all hospitals have pest management plans for pest control activities; makes related provisions. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Relates to hypodermic syringes. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Requires mandatory jail time of no less than thirty days for repeat violators of orders of protection. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to hazardous toys and other articles intended for use by children. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Requires schools to provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes the empire state baseball trails program. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Limits options for plea bargaining for repeat driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol offenders by precluding the plea to a lesser offense where the offender has been convicted of a driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol offense within the previous 10 years. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes a wind siting designation board consisting of the department of environmental conservation's nine regional planning bodies each of which will consider applications on an individual basis and may consider designating areas within a region where it shall be impermissible to site a wind farm; outlines the nine regions. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Directs the public service commission to require all telephone corporations to provide free directory information or assistance to blind persons meeting specified visual acuity standards and also to certain other physically handicapped persons who are certified as meeting certain specified criteria; requires that the public service commission establish procedures by which free access to directory information and assistance is automatically registered as exempt from all charges; makes related provisions. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Relates to restraint of individuals in facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health; provides that such division shall be responsible for assuring that mental health programs and services are culturally and linguistically appropriate to meet the needs of racial and ethnic minorities. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides for a public health study by the department of health on the installation of crumb rubber in synthetic turf. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Regulates cadmium in substrate in children's jewelry; provides that no children's jewelry shall be sold or distributed in this state that contains cadmium in accessible metal or plastic substrate components exceeding certain levels. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: HEALTH

Relates to zone pricing of gasoline. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION