Authorizes use of closed-circuit television for the testimony of domestic violence victim witnesses in a criminal proceeding subject to the same restrictions as are applicable to child witnesses. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Requires the judge in a criminal proceeding or in a family court proceeding, upon issuance of an order of protection, to inquire as to the ownership of a firearm by the defendant or respondent. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Requires employees of dealers in firearms to submit to state and national criminal background checks and sets forth procedures for employment certificates. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: LABOR

Establishes business franchise and personal income tax credits for a portion of the consideration paid under a contract with a minority or women-owned business. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires travel agents to be registered with the department of state, and provides for the regulation thereof. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of an entertainment food service establishment; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A". /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Expands the definition of "criminal act", for purposes of enterprise corruption, to include computer offenses, identity theft, criminal use of an access device and unlawful possession of personal identification information or a skimmer. /
Sponsor: PERALTA

Requires the creation and imposition of restrictive commercial practices and stringent recordkeeping and reporting to prevent gun sales to criminals; provides that such measures shall be promulgated by the superintendent of state police; restricts premises of sales; requires employee training; prohibits straw purchases; imposes additional license conditions. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Permits the court to grant post-conviction motions to vacate a judgment when the issue raised upon such motion is ineffective assistance of counsel in certain cases in which the court would otherwise be required to deny the motion. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of a mobile public food service establishment or pushcart in cities with a population of two million or more; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A". /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Requires a recording officer not to record or accept a transfer or assignment of interest in a mortgage unless accompanied with a mortgage ownership assignment document. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides for annual school lead-copper tap water testing; requires the publishing of reports of contamination and abatement of such contamination; requires school districts to provide potable water to school children attending affected schools; exempts those schools built without use of lead piping and those schools where a finding of no contamination has been made for three consecutive years. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: HEALTH

Requires the board of elections to provide a registered voter with a sample ballot not less than ten days nor more than twenty days before an election via mail. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to the dedicated occupational safety and health training and education and occupational health clinic programs fund. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: FINANCE

Establishes penalties for failure to provide a DNA sample and failure to register or verify as a sex offender; establishes the crimes of failure to provide a DNA sample in the first and second degree and failure to register or verify as a sex offender in the first and second degree. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Establishes the actual innocence justice act of 2013; clarifies that convicted persons who can demonstrate a reasonable probability that they are innocent will have the right to challenge their convictions under the law, notwithstanding any other procedural or technical provisions of law that would have prevented them from doing so. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Requires the renewal of firearms licenses after five years and the taking of a safety course outside the city of New York; sets a date for expiration and provides for a schedule for recertification to be developed by the commissioner of criminal justice services. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Requires the disposal of firearms, rifles and shotguns owned by any department, board, bureau, commission or agency of the state of New York and local governments by either selling or transferring to a law enforcement agency for destruction; prohibits the sale of any such weapon to any other person or entity. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their initial debt collection correspondence; such notice would contain information such as who and when a principal creditor may contact a debtor about the debt owed as well as the fact that a principal creditor cannot disclose information affecting a consumer debtor's reputation for creditworthiness if the principal creditor knows or has reason to know such information is false; applies to consumer rather than commercial debts. /
Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION