Establishes centers of workforce achievement to advance the creation of public/private partnerships between the state university of New York's community colleges and private businesses. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Prohibits the diversion of resources from dedicated funds derived from taxes and fees that support the Niagara frontier transportation authority and its subsidiaries. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Relates to signage on a portion of Interstate 90 designating the "Harriet Tubman Home". / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Relates to transfers or appointments of police officers to competitive or non-competitive positions. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Establishes the department of corrections and community supervision shall provide an inmate, upon his or her discharge, with educational information about the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education and counseling resources. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes (MS) Committee:

Establishes the New York state justice reinvestment fund and program to provide not-for-profit and faith based entities with funding to improve communities with a higher than normal criminal offender and ex-offender population; appropriates $10,000,000 therefor. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Relates to notice requirements to families and providers when funding cuts are made. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Relates to the protection of victims of domestic violence act, which requires defendants to wear global positioning systems monitoring the location of the defendant. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Provides for the lawful sale of scrap copper and other metals by junk dealers; restricts sale of certain items; increases existing penalties. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Provides for the corporation to do studies in targeted areas of Buffalo as part of a retail revitalization program; requires final report to legislature no later than January 1, 2015. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Provides for the election of members of the board of education of the Buffalo city school district in November rather than in May; creates a timetable for the electoral proceedings therefor; extends the terms of current members of such board to the last day of December rather than June; provides for future terms to run from January through December; and staggers terms. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Provides to any person early voting for a candidate for public office in a general election to take place no sooner than twenty days and no later than five days prior to election day, and for a special election to take place no sooner than eight days and no later than two days prior to election day; and such voting shall take place at such person's county board of elections. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Establishes the "environmental justice act" to establish governmental procedures to safeguard residents' health and welfare, and achieve environmental justice; definitions; creates the environmental justice task force; makes related provisions. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; provides that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Provides for the establishment of kinship guardianships for kinship foster parent; establishes the guardianship after a hearing and determination upon a petition filed by the kinship foster parent; provides that establishment of such guardianship does not affect or impair the natural parents visitation rights. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Requires the board of education in the city of Buffalo to submit the school district budget to the voters for approval prior to adoption. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Relates to removing the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Authorizes the city of Buffalo to provide by local law for the adjudication of traffic infractions. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes (MS) Committee:

Directs schools to provide information on meningococcal disease immunization to students and parents of students in seventh grade, and requires such schools to maintain record of responses as to whether such students have received such immunization. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee:

Authorizes Janice Middlebrooks, the widow of William James Middlebrooks, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband. / Sponsor: Peoples-Stokes Committee: