Relates to prohibiting a lender from blocking access to funds issued under a credit line mortgage. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Relates to font size for advertisements. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Prohibits smoking in private passenger cars, vans and trucks where a minor less than 14 years of age is a passenger in such vehicles; provides for rebuttable presumption; provides that violations of such provisions shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Provides alternative pricing methods in the sale and offering of funeral merchandise and services; provides for repeal after one year; mandates a report by the consumer protection division on the effectiveness of alternative pricing methods. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Relates to requirements for lead agency, specifically in circumstances when actions involve the religious exercise of a person. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Relates to the reimbursement of out-of-network providers of clinical laboratory services by organizations providing or offering comprehensive health services plans. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Extends the free look period for senior citizens purchasing individual health insurance policies or contracts. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Requires insurers to provide certificate holders with at least thirty days prior written notice of termination of group health insurance coverage. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Authorizes a public retirement system, as defined in section 501 of the retirement and social security law, mutual fund, or other institutional investor to bring actions for damages sustained due to the commission of certain prohibited and criminal acts in violation of the Martin Act (Fraudulent Practice in Respect to Stocks, Bonds and other Securities). / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Relates to appointments to the water board of the city of New York. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Increases the threshold for liability for contributions for unemployment insurance from $300 per calendar quarter to $2000 per calendar quarter. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Directs state insurance fund to offer title insurance and authorizes superintendent of insurance to implement such program. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Provides for the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles, vessels and aircraft used in counterfeit goods. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Relates to classifying certain property held in cooperative form as class one properties for assessment purposes. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Authorizes an experimental program in which presiding trial judges, in their discretion, may permit audio-visual coverage of civil and criminal court proceedings, including trials. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Increases the fine that may be imposed for violations of real estate licensing laws and provides for procedures in connection with violations involving nonsolicitation orders and cease and desist zones; provides for publication of violations; directs the secretary of state to hold public hearings within cease and desist zones prior to their expiration and report to the legislature on the decision of whether or not to readopt the rule and reasons for such decision. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Prohibits the sale of jewelry that includes a small magnet which is meant to mimic a tongue piercing and requires a warning printed on the packaging of any other products containing a small magnet. / Sponsor: Weprin (MS) Committee:

Modifies the existing exemption from requiring a determination of what constitutes prima facie evidence of neglect where a parent or guardian engages in substance abuse or substantial manifestation of irrationality but is voluntarily and regularly participating in a recognized rehabilitative program so as to require the parent or guardian to have voluntarily participated in and to have successfully completed such a program and to have been verifiably rehabilitated for an uninterrupted period of one year immediately prior to the hearing date, before such exemption applies. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Authorizes superintendent of financial services to conduct study and make recommendations on title insurance premium rates in NYS. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee:

Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system. / Sponsor: Weprin Committee: