Provides an exemption from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax for equipment, with a purchase price of five hundred dollars or greater, purchased by companies located in college incubator facilities or incubator facilities funded by the state. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Redesignates the Niagara Escarpment Wine Trail and the Niagara Wine Trail as the Niagara Wine Trail Ridge and the Niagara Wine Trail Lake and amends the boundaries of such trails. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Authorizes the Erie and Niagara County soil and water conservation districts to study runoff reduction volume when applied to soil profiles and topography within such counties. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Authorizes courts to suspend a driver's license where the holder fails to appear before the court, pay a fine, complete an alcohol awareness program or complete community service within the period of time established by such court. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Establishes no itinerant vendor, except for a manufacturer, an authorized manufacturer's representative, or authorized distributor, shall offer for sale baby food, nonprescription drugs, cosmetics or batteries. / Sponsor: Schimminger (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the legislature to require a state or municipal entity to enact a period of residency requirement for persons applying for certain social services. / Sponsor: Schimminger (MS) Committee:

Imposes a ninety day residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Provides for a ninety day eligibility limitation on medical services not mandated by federal law. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Increases project size for which separate contracts on public work are required. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Recodifies the small business innovation research program within the New York state urban development corporation act; alters provisions under the small business innovation research program particularly as they affect Phase I award winners; prohibits arbitrary exclusion of technologies and companies; provides for matching of federal funds, to a certain extent. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Authorizes local social services to choose which state-required but not federally-required medicaid services to provide to eligible persons and which categories of eligibility to cover; directs the commissioner of health to apply for necessary waivers, promulgate rules and regulations, and establish necessary procedures. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Relates to tax credits for start-up high technology companies to allow such companies in existence for 8 or less taxable years to receive refunds of unused investment tax credit carry forwards. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Requires the public arbitration panel to which a dispute is referred to consider above all other factors the financial ability of the public employer to pay, as defined in this bill. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Makes provisions relating to the joint nomination of candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor; provides candidates be designated jointly either by the state committee or by petition; provides said petition will be valid only if it jointly designates both candidates. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Relates to responsible parties for petroleum contaminated sites and incentives to parties who are willing to remediate such sites; provides that a discharger may present evidence as to third party responsibility for petroleum discharge; provides for apportionment of liability; provides that parties willing to remediate such discharge shall be entitled to liability limitation. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Expands the definition of "prevailing party" for purposes of counsel fees and expenses in certain actions against the state, to include a party whose pursuit of a non-frivolous claim or defense was a catalyst for a voluntary or unilateral change in position by the opposing party that provides any significant part of the relief sought. / Sponsor: Schimminger (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the trading of existing but unused research and development credits and existing but unused net operating loss deductions to existing corporations and partnerships in return for private assistance; enacts the "Small New York Based High-Technology Business Investment Tax Credit Act". / Sponsor: Schimminger (MS) Committee:

Grants sales and use tax exempt for certain tangible personal property and services used in the operation of recreational skiing facilities. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Permits automatic renewal of contracts for electronic and life safety alarm services. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee:

Provides an enhanced real property tax exemption for veterans, regardless of income. / Sponsor: Schimminger Committee: