Provides funds for day care services for the children of persons 24 and under to enable such persons to continue secondary and post-secondary education; provides criteria to be governed by standards established for economically and educationally disadvantaged students under special opportunity programs for state and city universities; appropriates $5,600,000 to the office of children and family services therefor. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Enacts the criminal street gang related crimes act; provides for enhanced criminal sanctions where crimes are related to criminal street gangs. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: CODES

Requires palmprints, fingerprints and photographs of juveniles convicted of a felony to be made available by the division of criminal justice services to law enforcement agencies upon demand. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: CODES

Relates to establishing a gang assessment, intervention, prevention and suppression program within the division of criminal justice services. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: CODES

Authorizes Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk, Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2010-2011 assessment roll. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Authorizes Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk, Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2010-2011 assessment roll. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Authorizes Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk, Inc. to file an application for a real property tax exemption for the 2010-2011 assessment roll. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Provides that every insurance policy which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall insure that there is continuous coverage of a single source drug that is part of a prescribed therapy until such prescribed therapy is no longer medically necessary for the enrollee of such policy; defines "single source drug". /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: INSURANCE

Requires the commissioner of labor to adopt regulations prescribing the methodology for establishing an annual employment statistics index which shows unemployment rates of hamlets and unincorporated villages of the state; and directs such commissioner shall prepare and submit an annual report on such index. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: LABOR

Requires school districts and boards of cooperative educational services to immediately report bias related offenses to law enforcement agencies. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: EDUCATION

Directs the commissioner of education to provide for the proportionate availability of adequate school supplies for use by left-handed students where adequate supplies are available for use by right-handed students; and applies to any school supplies and equipment purchased by the department or schools on or after the effective date of rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: EDUCATION

Requires each retail sale of nitric acid to be recorded by the seller thereof; such record shall include the photographic identification number, telephone number and address of the purchaser; provides for the secure storage of nitric acid by retailers, schools and institutions of higher education; makes the violation of such provisions a class A misdemeanor; establishes the class D felony of disseminating material on the manufacture of an explosive for using a computer network to disseminate information on how to make an explosive out of nitric acid. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Requires the written notices, signs and markers required for pesticides for commercial and residential lawn application to be printed in the Spanish language in areas of the state with a significant number of Spanish speaking residents. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to establishing gang courts pilot program. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that in toxic tort cases where the specific toxic etiological cause of injury is not known for up to ten years (instead of five years) after the injury itself is discovered a plaintiff shall have three years to file a claim from the time such specific cause is discovered. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the county of Suffolk to discontinue use as parkland, and to sell certain lands to the First Baptist Church of Bay Shore. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Authorizes the county of Suffolk to discontinue use as parkland, and to sell certain lands to the First Baptist Church of Bay Shore. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Relates to certain veterans and entitles them to 10 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are disabled and entitles them to 5 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are non-disabled and if they received certain medals or ribbons. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Relates to the alternative veterans property tax exemption and authorizes active members of the military to apply for such exemption. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Provides for an increased personal income tax deduction for medical expenses incurred by a New York taxpayer to include medical insurance premiums and long term care premiums. /
Sponsor: Ramos Committee: WAYS AND MEANS