Creates the crime of unlawful defilement of a water supply; provides that a person is guilty of such crime when he introduces, places, or causes to be introduced or placed a defiling agent into a water supply; makes definitions; establishes such crime as a class B felony. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: RULES

Provides residency requirements for sex offenders including criminal sanctions for violations; prohibits sex offenders from residing in a residence that is within one thousand feet from any school building regularly used for instructional purposes. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Authorizes the state to acquire from the federal government the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campus of the department of veterans affairs Hudson Valley health care system at Montrose. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: HEALTH

Designates state route 119 in the county of Westchester as the "Detective Michael Perry Memorial highway". /
Sponsor: BALL

Designates state route 119 in the county of Westchester as the "Detective Michael Perry Memorial highway". /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Exempts from disclosure, under the freedom of information law, the issuance of pistol permits to active and retired police officers, peace officers and correction officers. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Exempts from disclosure on the freedom of information law, the issuance of pistol permits to any person. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for the regulation of the conducting of hydraulic fracturing; requires producers to disclose the composition of hydraulic fracturing fluids to the department of environmental conservation; provides that producers using hydraulic fracturing are strictly liable for any and all damages arising from such practice; requires all such producers to concede liability; provides for damages. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Exempts owners of farms and the owners of multiple dwellings from complying with the scaffold law in certain instances. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: LABOR

Establishes a cause of action for damages against a person who attempts or performs a sex selective abortion. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: HEALTH

Enacts "Hannah's law"; requires that every health insurance policy or contract which provides coverage for prescription drugs include coverage for the cost of enteral formulas for which a physician has issued a written order and which are medically necessary for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis and related eosinophilic disorders. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: INSURANCE

Directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rule and regulations that prohibit harassment, intimidation and bullying of students; school districts shall be responsible for making copies of such policies available to parents, guardians, students, volunteers and school employees. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: EDUCATION

Expands the definitions of sexual contact, foreign object and aggravated sexual contact and further broadens the crimes of sexual abuse in the second degree and all degrees of aggravated sexual abuse to include the act of forced touching. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: CODES

Authorizes retired police officers to apply for a firearms license that is valid throughout the state. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: CODES

Enacts a bill of rights for owners of residential condominium units to provide fair and equitable treatment of all unit owners; directs the attorney general to promulgate a handbook summary of the rights of unit owners vis-a-vis condominium associations and the procedures and processes available to unit owners to enforce such rights. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Provides for crime of non-support of a child where a parent voluntarily reduces or terminates employment or fails to seek employment to circumvent the order of child support. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: CODES

Provides that in an agricultural district with a working family farm, any producer, as defined in subdivision three of section two hundred eighty-two of this chapter, shall have the authority to build a home on such family farm property. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: AGRICULTURE

Extends eligibility for the agricultural property tax credit to farmers having a leasehold interest of not fewer than five continuous years in qualified agricultural property; provides for retroactive application in certain cases. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates the crime of unlawful defilement of a water supply; provides that a person is guilty of such crime when he introduces, places, or causes to be introduced or placed a defiling agent into a water supply; makes definitions; establishes such crime as a class B felony. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: CODES

Provides for distinctive license plates for gold star family members; eliminates the registration fee for gold star mother and gold star family member distinctive license plates. /
Sponsor: BALL Committee: TRANSPORTATION