Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes the September eleventh, two thousand one scholarship fund. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office of children and family services. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Establishes a returning heroes tax credit for businesses that hire veterans and wounded veterans returning from war. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Allows for the division for small-business to advise on matters affecting micro-enterprises consisting of fewer than five employees; establishes the main street center grant program to create main street centers in each of the counties in New York state, with the exception of the five boroughs of New York city; and requires the secretary of state to receive all rule-making documents in electronic format and to create an online publication of the state register. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Relates to small business revolving loan funds. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: SMALL BUSINESS

Provides an angel investor credit against the unincorporated business tax and personal income tax in New York city for investments in certain qualified emerging companies and medical technology companies. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: WAYS AND MEANS

Enacts "Laura Cummings Law"; requires investigating officials of the department of social services or the office of children and family services to investigate the homes of adults about whom reports have been filed and requires such officials to apply for a court order allowing access to the home if two or more such reports have been filed regarding such adult and access thereto has been denied; makes failing to allow access to the subject of a report a misdemeanor; allows information sharing between protective services agencies. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides for reimbursement for alternatives to detention and residential placement programs for youth by the office of children and family services. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires the office of children and family services to submit a report on recommendations for manageable workloads for adult protective services workers by December 1, 2014. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with an event sanctioned by Remote Area Medical. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Requires each social services district to maintain a waiting list of eligible families who have applied for child care assistance; further requires the local districts to report such list to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually; further requires the social services districts to collect data regarding the income of families who have applied, were denied and received child care assistance and issue a report to the office of children and family services who shall then compile such reports and issue one report to the legislature annually. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to guidelines and standards for child protective services caseworker workloads. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires certain employees of certain child day cares to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid; such training and certification must be maintained as current according to the standards established by the American National Red Cross or the American Heart Association. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to the office of children and family services and facilitating the use of alternatives to detention programs. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Relates to entrepreneurship assistance centers to provide assistance to primarily minority group members, women, individuals with a disability and dislocated workers; requires the department of economic development to establish criteria and designation of such centers; sets forth requirements for each center. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Relates to program loans to small businesses; authorizes such loans to be used for short term financing for the purpose of performing contracts to provide for construction or professional services for state procurement purposes. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: SMALL BUSINESS

Provides zero and low interest loans or loan interest rate reduction for energy improvement projects to stimulate the growth and development of small businesses and jobs. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: SMALL BUSINESS

Requires certain persons and officials required to report suspected child abuse and maltreatment to complete ongoing training; further all teachers, school superintendents and licensed professionals who are required to report cases of child abuse and maltreatment to complete training in the reporting of suspected cases of child abuse and maltreatment at least once every 2 years. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Establishes the youth in progress advisory board and regional teams for adolescents in foster care to provide mentorship of youths in foster care; requires reporting. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires the governor's office for economic development and the office of empire state development to undertake a review of loan programs and implement measures that improve efficiencies. /
Sponsor: Scarborough Committee: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT