Requires that at least one commissioner of the public service commission have experience in utility consumer advocacy. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Provides for a personal income tax deduction for student loan payments. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Increases the real property tax exemption a veteran may receive on real property purchased with eligible funds from $5,000 to $7,500 of the assessed value of such property. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Includes unsolicited telemarketing facsimile transmissions in the no telemarketing sales calls statewide and national "do-not-call" registry. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Authorizes pupils and camp attendees to carry and use topical sunscreen products with the written permission of their parents or guardians; requires a record of such permission be maintained in the child's school office and/or camp office. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires a prohibition on students leaving campus in a motor vehicle during the lunch period to be included in school codes of conduct. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Requires all hospitals to establish, utilize and complete a checklist for each intensive care medical procedure performed in the hospital. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Increases the permitted foreign investments by life insurance companies from sixteen to twenty percent of the insurer's assets. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Directs the public service commission to provide notice, in a city having a population of one million or more, to the appropriate local community board prior to such commission's consideration of granting permission to a gas corporation or electric corporation furnishing utility service to acquire or sell land; such community boards shall also be provided with the opportunity to submit comments and recommendations on the proposed sale or acquisition; directs the public service commission to address and respond to such comments and recommendations. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires notice of any ex parte communications or visits before the public service commission by a party to a hearing or investigation be given in writing to any affected party and to give such affected parties an opportunity to respond. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Requires charges for telephone calls based on duration, whether over lines or by cellular, to be charged and prorated by the second; applies to all service providers; authorizes the public service commission to promulgate rules and regulations. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Directs state agencies reviewing existing rules to conduct outreach to small businesses, localities, and rural interests under certain circumstances; requires the governor's office of regulatory reform to monitor state agencies relating to their review of existing rules and their outreach to small businesses, local governments, and public and private interests in rural areas. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony punishable by a term of imprisonment of 25 years to life; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses against a child; designates such sex offenses against a child as sexually violent offenses for the purposes of sex offender registration; requires every sex offender convicted of such an offense to be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring by the division of criminal justice services upon release from prison. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Increases the powers and duties of division of homeland security and emergency services by giving it the power to decide if the sale, lease or operation of any critical infrastructure owned by the state or public authority or an electric generating facility would threaten public security; established a critical infrastructure advisory council. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Establishes the commission on the infrastructure of New York state to ensure that the infrastructure of the state meets current and future demand and facilitates economic growth, is maintained in a manner that ensure public safety, and is developed or modified in a sustainable manner. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Requires general hospital which submits an incident report to the department of health to simultaneously provide a copy of such report to the affected patients and/ or their legal representatives; stays the statute of limitations for medical, dental and podiatric malpractice causes of action until one year after an incident report is submitted. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the people in a criminal proceeding, the presentment agency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding and a governmental agency or public employer in a civil enforcement action to move to protect the identity, address and any other identifying information of any witness who is an undercover public officer or employee when the disclosure of the identity of such officer or employee would endanger the officer's life or employee's life or compromise his or her continued effectiveness. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Authorizes the division of veterans' affairs to provide for the interment of the unclaimed remains of veterans. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee:

Directs the division of criminal justice services to study, review and report, to the governor and the legislature, on the laws, rules and regulation and policies relating to air rifles, air pistols and other non-powder guns; directs such division to make recommendations to ensure that the public interest is served. / Sponsor: Simotas Committee:

Establishes the detective Peter Figoski act of 2013 including the risk to public safety as a factor in bail determinations. / Sponsor: Simotas (MS) Committee: