Directs that teachers be trained in the education of gifted students, and provides start-up funding for such training; authorizes necessary rule and/or regulation changes to properly implement the provisions of this legislation; appropriates $1,000,000 therefor. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: FINANCE

Relates to gifted and talented pupils with special needs. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes a small business tax credit for the employment of disabled persons. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires motor vehicle carriers to be identified in English. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Increases the penalties of vehicular manslaughter to a class A-I felonies. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: CODES

Requires a sticker or label to be affixed to any tire being sold in the state identifying the creation date and manufacturer of such tire. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Increases the penalties for driving with a suspended or revoked license. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Enacts the "early voting act"; provides to any person early voting for a candidate for public office in a general, primary or special election for any public or party office by paper ballot to take place no sooner than fourteen business days and up to and including the day prior to such election; provides that such voting shall take place at such person's county board of elections; requires availability and access to ballots for persons with disabilities. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires entities advertising for or against political candidates, ballot proposals, amendments, or such proceedings to disclose in such advertisements the source thereof; trade associations must disclose top 3 contributors; defines trade association. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to the sale of birds by pet dealers when such birds have not yet been fully weaned. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Prohibits reductions in appropriations for the support of education during the state fiscal year. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: FINANCE

Amends the public service law, in relation to providing for a priority call system for use in connection with emergency disconnections of utilities, service coverage and oversight of response time in connection with the emergency disconnection of utilities. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Extends provisions of the "heart bill" to deputy sheriff members of the New York city employees' retirement system; where a deputy sheriff has a condition of impairment caused by a disease of the heart and such person successfully passed a physical exam on entry into the service of such agency, such condition shall be presumed to have occurred in the performance of their work duties. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Requires the use of a simple and easy to read typeface on paper ballots. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: FINANCE

Directs the commissioner of education to prepare an annual course of study of the history of the American flag to encourage participation therein by students and faculty and indicate that the pledge is taken in recognition of the sacrifices made by the men and women of the armed forces of the United States in defense of our country. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: EDUCATION

Excludes social security payments and supplemental security income from the definition of "income" for the purposes of determining eligibility under the senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE). / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGING

Provides an income tax credit for three years to a taxpayer who purchases a new primary residence for one million dollars or less. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Makes monk (Quaker) parakeets protected birds. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Enacts the "monk parakeet protection act". / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Enacts the "state workforce injury reduction act"; requires state agencies to submit a written action plan for reducting occurrences of injuries in the coming year to the governor and the legislature. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS