Authorizes distinctive license plates for Korean Defense veterans who were awarded the Korean Defense Service Medal, provides that an additional one time service charge of ten dollars shall be charged for such plate. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Provides that the personal liability of obstetricians and gynecologists for non-economic and actual economic loss be limited in certain cases to 250,000 dollars; establishes impaired infant compensation fund to pay for loss above 250,000 dollars in some cases; provides for payment of medical and other expenses of an "impaired infant". /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: JUDICIARY

Relates to assessment exemptions for living quarters for a parent or grandparent. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

Establishes a reverse mortgage loan program for low income seniors; provides for the state of NY mortgage agency to establish many of the parameters for the implementation of the program; defines terms; requires a care needs assessment of each applicant; further provides that area agencies on aging shall provide counseling and assistance to applicants; directs the state of New York mortgage agency to issue an annual report to the governor and the legislature. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Enacts the livery and taxi safety act; provides for black box credit. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Enhances the criminal penalties for assaulting employees of a local social services district or a juvenile detention agency while in the performance of their duties; elevates it to assault in the second degree, a class D felony. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Enhances the criminal penalties for assaulting employees of a local social services district or a juvenile detention agency while in the performance of their duties; elevates it to assault in the second degree, a class D felony. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Enhances the criminal penalties for assaulting employees of a local social services district or a juvenile detention agency while in the performance of their duties; elevates it to assault in the second degree, a class D felony. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred foot radius of a daycare or school; penalty for offender is E felony; prohibition remains as long as offender is level three. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Establishes crime of aggravated criminal conduct to provide more severe penalties for persons who have committed 3 or more qualifying misdemeanors or felonies within ten years of the present class A misdemeanor offense. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Establishes crime of aggravated criminal conduct to provide more severe penalties for persons who have committed 3 or more qualifying misdemeanors or felonies within ten years of the present class A misdemeanor offense. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Makes promoting prostitution in the first degree and certain provisions of promoting prostitution in the second and third degrees violent felony offenses; increases the severity of the penalties for patronizing a prostitute and permitting prostitution; redesignates permitting prostitution as permitting prostitution in the second degree and establishes the class E felony of permitting prostitution when a child under 17 is being prostituted on the premises; designates permitting prostitution in the first degree as a sex offense for purposes of registration under the sex offender registration act. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Provides that the sentence for committing murder in the first degree when the victim is a police officer, peace officer or correction officer shall be either death or life imprisonment without parole. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Authorizes Triborough bridge and tunnel peace officers the right to temporarily stop and question persons and conduct frisk for weapons. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: CODES

Creates adult day services respite demonstration programs; authorizes the commissioner of health in conjunction with the director of the state office for the aging to establish the respite day demonstration programs, based upon adult day health care and social adult day services, which extends the period a caregiver can remain active in the care of elderly or disabled individuals; sets forth definitions; further sets forth reporting requirements. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: HEALTH

Provides that after a public hearing a school district may adopt a resolution providing a school tax exemption on residential property owned by a veteran with at least a forty percent disability; provides that in order to qualify for such an exemption, an individual shall submit to the assessor a certified statement from the bureau of veterans' affairs stating that he has a permanent service related physical impairment which limits such individual's major life activities by at least forty percent. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Provides that after a public hearing a school district may adopt a resolution providing a school tax exemption on residential property owned by a veteran with at least a forty percent disability; provides that in order to qualify for such an exemption, an individual shall submit to the assessor a certified statement from the bureau of veterans' affairs stating that he has a permanent service related physical impairment which limits such individual's major life activities by at least forty percent. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Creates the New York state independent budget office to provide objective, non-partisan and timely analyses of state revenue, expenditures and management practices to members of the legislature for any legislation with fiscal impact or at the request of a leader or a committee. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates the New York state independent budget office to provide objective, non-partisan and timely analyses of state revenue, expenditures and management practices to members of the legislature for any legislation with fiscal impact or at the request of a leader or a committee. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Authorizes additional tax credits for certain costs incurred in film and television productions in a city having a population of one million or more. /
Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS