Requires the MTA to hold hearings in each county affected by proposed fair increases, major reductions of transportation and/or major service changes; does not apply to standard seasonal or holiday adjustments, temporary changes due to routine maintenance and/or temporary changes in response to emergency situations; requires the authority to hold a hearing in each county of a service area that is affected by the proposed change(s) in fares or services, provided that such hearings be limited to one hearing per calendar day. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Directs the department of environmental conservation to promulgate standards for emission of regulated air contaminants from small electric generating sources (defined within); specifies criteria therefor; provides for a permitting requirement and an alternative permitting mechanism involving a registration process. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Requires builders to include, on any building permit application, the name of the community school district in which the proposed dwelling or dwelling units will be located, the number of families that will occupy the dwelling or dwelling units, and an estimate of the number of child occupants of compulsory school age. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: EDUCATION

Requires the audit of schools in the state to determine compliance in the instruction of humane treatment of animals; provides for an annual report to the governor and legislature. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: EDUCATION

Prohibits the sale of expired goods; unless such goods are clearly marked and segregated from the rest. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION

Prohibits debt collectors from collecting or attempting to collect a debt owed by a deceased debtor that is known by such debt collector to be deceased. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: CODES

Sets out the procedures and requirements for special elections; implements a timetable for the special primary and special election, including the number of signatures required for the petition. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: ELECTION LAW

Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: CODES

Relates to the creation of an animal cruelty and animal fighting database; researches purposes; makes such database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: CODES

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to promulgate forms which a landlord of a rent regulated unit in a building with four or more such units shall be required to use when requesting additional information from a tenant who has made a request to sublet. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Relates to monetary penalties that a parking violations bureau may impose for illegally idling the engine of a motor vehicle. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires office of temporary and disability assistance to simplify the application process for public assistance benefits. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Requires a Mitchell-Lama cooperative seeking to dissolve to offer cooperators who may not be able to afford the increased carrying charges the opportunity to sell. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: HOUSING

Requires written notification to patients where a pharmacist is substituting a generic version of a drug product by one manufacturer for a generic version of a drug product by another manufacturer. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Provides a private right of action for nail specialist's aggrieved by their employer in the case of a health and safety violation, unlawful retaliatory action, or general labor issues such as hours and breaks. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires epinephrine auto-injector devices at children's overnight, summer day and traveling summer day camps. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: HEALTH

Provides for authority of the department of health to engage in or support research on the health effects of artificial night light. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Requires the regents to prescribe courses of instruction in state and local government in elementary and middle schools in the state; boards of education and trustees of the several cities and school districts of the state shall require instruction to be given in such courses by the teachers; requires similar instruction in private schools. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: EDUCATION

Requires that school anti-harassment policies are enforced in compliance with the regulations of the chancellor of the New York city department of education. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: EDUCATION

Provides that no tenant of housing accommodations which are subject to rent control shall be subject to a fuel adjustment or pass-along increase in rent; provides that any such increase to such tenant shall be null and void. /
Sponsor: Rosenthal Committee: HOUSING