Establishes the Asian Lunar New Year day as a school holiday for all city school districts of cities of one million inhabitants or more, with an Asian population of seven and one-half percent or more; uses the year 2000 federal decennial census as the basis for calculation of the Asian population. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to the procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of state senator or in the office of member of assembly; allows for independent nominating petitions to be presented and provides for a special election to be held forty-five days from the date of the governor making a proclamation for a special election. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to an action for willful neglect of residential real property and treble damages. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Authorizes the New York city school construction authority to obtain certain demographic data and utilize such data in connection with the authority's five-year educational facilities capital plan; requires consideration of student demographic data in connection with approval of five-year educational facilities capital plans; and requires the publication of findings and commentary on such plan. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Provides for trichloroethylene (TCE) exposure prevention; directs the department of health to prescribe a maximum indoor air contaminant level for trichloroethylene, for such standard, the targeted risk of residual contamination shall be based on the most protective underlying assumptions and cancer potency factor and shall not exceed an excess cancer risk of one in one-million for carcinogenic end points and a hazard index of one for non-cancer end points, in order to minimize health risks associated to exposure to trichloroethylene. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: HEALTH

Permits special proceedings against certain designated state officials to be commenced in a supreme court in the judicial district of the petitioner's residence or principal place of business; provides that a proceeding against the public service commission shall only be commenced in the supreme court, Albany county. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to political contributions by limited liability companies. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that a social services official may not recover assistance properly paid as permitted where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was required to participate in a work experience program without first crediting against such recovery the number of hours that such person actually participated in a work experience program multiplied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Provides for the prevention of unlawful discriminatory practices in housing based on lawful source of income, including section eight, and provides for punitive damages of not less than $2500 and not more than $5000. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to the procedure to fill vacancies for representatives in Congress; provides for a special popular election; sets procedures for independent nominating petitions. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Lowers the annual candidate contribution limit from $150,000 to $75,000. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to requiring the state board of elections to utilize computer programs for certain online filings which are compatible with widely used programs. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires notification to be given to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation in the event that construction on a project for which an application for a certain tax exemption has been made ceases for a period exceeding one hundred twenty days. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Provides a maximum $200 tax credit for taxpayer expenses associated with the development of open source and free software license programs. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Reduces campaign contributions limits for candidates for election to public office or party position. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires no budget bill shall be passed or become a law unless it shall have been printed and upon the desks of the members, in its final form, for at least ten calendar legislative days prior to its final passage; requires the finance committees of the senate and assembly to hold meetings on such budget bill during such ten day period. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the state legislature be subject to the same freedom of information laws as other state agencies. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Enacts the "corporate political activity accountability to shareholders act"; establishes the corporate political activity accountability to shareholders act which requires that corporate contributions to a political candidate or party committee or in support or opposition to a candidate or ballot referendum be approved by a majority of shareholders; applies to cooperative corporations, not-for-profit corporations, railroad and transportation corporations. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Relates to political contributions made by limited liability companies. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides for payment of bonuses to veterans of the Korean war. /
Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: JUDICIARY