Provides that farmers shall receive an exemption from tolls when transporting product to NYC for consumption in the city. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Provides that farmers shall receive an exemption from tolls when transporting product to NYC for consumption in the city. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Includes in class A misdemeanor of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree, the dissemination of an image of a person to a computer network internet website that is obscene, without the consent or knowledge of the person in the image. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Includes in class A misdemeanor of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree, the dissemination of an image of a person to a computer network internet website that is obscene, without the consent or knowledge of the person in the image. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Authorizes the employment of state and local work release inmates by not-for-profit organizations and public service projects. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Authorizes the employment of state and local work release inmates by not-for-profit organizations and public service projects; provides that inmates and prisoners may refuse to participate in employment by a not-for-profit organization when such employment is contrary to his or her religious or ideological beliefs. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Creates crimes of reckless endangerment of public health with respect to HIV/AIDS transmission; creates crime of filing false instrument with respect to HIV/AIDS; provides for HIV/AIDS testing for alleged sex offenders and public health offenders; provides for contagious disease testing for persons in the custody of the department of corrections; provides that if an inmate tests positive notice shall be given to all employees that will have contact with such inmate. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Establishes the class B felony of promoting a sex offense against a child for producing, directing or promoting any visual or audio representation of the commission of a sex offense against a person under the age of 16 years; establishes the class C felony of possessing a sex offense against a child for knowingly possessing any such representation; designates both such felonies as violent felony offenses. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Establishes the class B felony of promoting a sex offense against a child for producing, directing or promoting any visual or audio representation of the commission of a sex offense against a person under the age of 16 years; establishes the class C felony of possessing a sex offense against a child for knowingly possessing any such representation; designates both such felonies as violent felony offenses. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Establishes the class B felony of promoting a sex offense against a child for producing, directing or promoting any visual or audio representation of the commission of a sex offense against a person under the age of 16 years; establishes the class C felony of possessing a sex offense against a child for knowingly possessing any such representation; designates both such felonies as violent felony offenses. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Expands the definition of "drug", for the purposes of the vehicle and traffic law, to include inhalants and glues containing a solvent which releases toxic vapors and fumes; provides that the expansion of such definition expands the substances upon which a charge of the misdemeanor of driving while impaired by drugs may be based. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to asbestos project notification and associated fee. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels and authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Extends the cancellation period for a gas or oil lease from 3 days to 5 days. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: JUDICIARY

Permits at the discretion of the court certain members of the deceased victim's family to read statements in court during the sentencing of a defendant, rather than allowing only a single member of the victim's family to read a statement in court, upon consultation with counsel for the defendant and the people. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Expands juvenile offender status to include rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree and aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree if committed by persons thirteen, fourteen or fifteen years of age. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Increases the penalties for the violent sex offenses of rape, criminal sexual act and aggravated sexual abuse when committed in a forcible manner where an actor or accomplice is armed with or displays a deadly weapon, uses or threatens the use of a dangerous instrument or inflicts physical injury upon the victim. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Authorizes use of closed-circuit television for the testimony of domestic violence victim witnesses in a criminal proceeding subject to the same restrictions as are applicable to child witnesses. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Includes mixed residential and commercial property within the provisions of the affordable home ownership development program thus authorizing the affordable housing corporation to fund the construction or rehabilitation of housing that also contains a commercial retailing business. / Sponsor: YOUNG

Permits boards of elections to allow election inspectors and poll clerks to work split shifts, their compensation shall be prorated accordingly. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: ELECTIONS