Allows schools to pay tax judgements over a period of three years. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Requires hospitals to inform emergency care patients whether the attending physician participates in the insured's insurance policy; requires insurance companies to cover the cost of out-of-network care for patients who are unconscious or otherwise unable to provide informed consent. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: HEALTH

Creates a local produce tax credit; provides that restaurants may claim the local produce tax credit in the amount of $100 for every $1,000 of local produce purchased for the restaurant; defines local produce as produce grown by a producer with the pride of NY symbol of the business claiming the local produce tax credit within NYS; requires the business to submit a report with tax returns stating the nature of the business, the name and location of the producer and the amount paid for the produce. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides authorization to grant certain exemptions from real property tax for school districts to eligible veterans where such exemption is adopted by the governing body of the school district. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Expands provisions providing for consolidation of local governments to include counties and cities having a population of less than one million. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Suspends hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of natural gas or oil; suspends the issuance of new permits for such drilling. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Increases local government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: INSURANCE

Enacts "Sammy's law"; requires every person, firm, corporation or limited liability company engaged in the business of furnishing public lodging accommodations in hotels, motels or motor courts who are not in compliance with current New York state uniform fire prevention and building code requirements for open guards (balcony railings) to notify purchasers of rooms of certain safety issues. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Clarifies the scope of protections against discrimination on the basis of disability under the New York state human rights law in the areas of employment, public accommodations and government services to be consistent with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act and the current policies and practices of the division of human rights. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Authorizes certain taxing jurisdictions to permit individual's to have real property taxes automatically deducted from such individual's bank accounts. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Elevates the offense of endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: CODES

Prohibits the appointment of a health care agent or surrogate who is the subject of an order of protection protecting the principal. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: HEALTH

Requires that each motor fuel terminal facility and each wholesaler which sells motor fuel in the state shall be capable of operating its distribution loading racks using alternate generated power source for a minimum of seventy-two hours; establishes a tax credit for alternate generated storage. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires that each motor fuel terminal facility and each wholesaler which sells motor fuel in the state shall be capable of operating its distribution loading racks using alternate generated power source for a minimum of seventy-two hours; establishes a tax credit for alternate generated storage. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires that websites providing inmate information be searchable by the inmate's name, former name or alias. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: FINANCE

Requires the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision in consultation with the director of the office of victim services to prepare and distribute the notification form for victims of violent felony offenses allowing them to demand to be informed regarding a name change petition by the defendant. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: CODES

Enacts the "hire veterans now act", which establishes a tax credit for employers who hire certain veterans for a period of one year. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires boating safety certificates of all persons operating a mechanically propelled vessel; provides exception in the case of new owners and certain renters. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI

Relates to smoking restrictions on playgrounds and enforcement by park police. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: HEALTH

Relates to boating liability insurance rates; allows for a schedule of rates or rating plan for boat liability insurance submitted to the superintendent to provide for an actuarially appropriate reduction in premium charges for any insured who completed a boat safety course approved by the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation. /
Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: INSURANCE