Enacts the "MTA safety data reporting act"; requires the MTA to submit annual reports on assaults, including sexual assaults, attacks, injuries or deaths reported to or otherwise known to it in connection with its facilities and premises; requires a report relating to assaults, including sexual assaults, and attacks on employees and non-employees, and a report relating to physical infrastructure, safety, condition, security and other health hazards; requires separate tabulations for employees and other persons; requires recommendations to reduce such incidents. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Restricts operation of diesel powered electrical generation systems in areas identified as not meeting certain federal air quality standards for ozone; provides limited exceptions for use. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Enacts the metropolitan transportation authority rider's bill of rights. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Enacts the metropolitan transportation authority rider's bill of rights. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Provides that the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha shall be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: EDUCATION

Enacts the Housing New York Program Act for the twenty-first century to assure that funds from public sources for the provision of dwelling accommodations are used to benefit persons of low and moderate income. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Relates to reports on certain criminal offenses on public transportation. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes what is and what is not blighted property and blighted areas. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Relates to the credit for servicing certain mortgages. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to the purchase of security services. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: FINANCE

Establishes a clean air account and makes an appropriation therefor; specifies the manner in which such appropriation is to be utilized. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: FINANCE

Creates the niche market assistance projects for small businesses to identify and develop niche markets for their products in competitive environments. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Creates the New York Stem Cell Research Institute; provides for the appointment of the New York state stem cell board, to be composed of nineteen members, to run the institute; establishes the powers, duties, procedures, and functions of the institute. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: HEALTH

Establishes an urban and community development program in the urban development corporation; defines relevant terms; provides for procedures to be followed in implementing the program; provides for preference to be given to economic assistance for projects in distressed areas. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Enacts the "public authorities teleworking expansion act"; provides that each public authority with twenty-five or more employees shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term "telework" to mean to perform normal and regular work functions at home that ordinarily would be performed at the authority's location or facility, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such authority's principal location; requires that prior to establishing a teleworking program, each authority shall determine whether or not such program is cost effective; further provides that each participating authority shall then define who is eligible to participate in such program, including but limited to the certain conditions and criteria. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Authorizes the NYS urban development corporation to form a limited liability company for the purpose of certification as a community development entity under the New Markets tax credit program. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Relates to the small business regional revolving loan program. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Allows tenants in multiple dwellings and multiple residences to offset against rent the cost of repairing habitability-impairing conditions in such dwelling or residence; establishes conditions and procedures therefor. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Requires all interrogations to be videotaped. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CODES

Authorizes and directs the Port Authority to conduct cumulative impact analysis of environmental hazards at Port Authority facilities and identifies the data to be included in such analysis. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS