Provides for the appointment of a standing committee on conference to resolve differences between similar, but not identical bills and resolutions; also provides that such committee may refer bills and resolutions to sub-committees for disposition; further provides for appointment of a non-partisan counsel to make referrals to such standing committee on similar bills and resolutions. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Enacts provisions relating to the execution of written forms, prior to assisted reproductive technology services, for consent and directives for the transfer, use, and disposition of cryopreserved embryos or gametes, and provisions relating to notice prior to the implementation of the terms of such advance directives. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Grants cities authority to review plans for the construction of structures proposed to be made within its boundaries. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CITIES

Establishes the empire state performance commission in the executive department for the purpose of designing and advising the governor and the legislature on the implementation of a performance-management and performance-budgeting system. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: FINANCE

Relates to the regulation of the use of hydraulic fracturing fluids. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Relates to presumption of dismissal of residential mortgage foreclosure actions for repeated plaintiff non-appearance or failure to meet readiness deadlines. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Requires the provisions of reasonable accommodations for pregnant women. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to retaliatory personnel actions by employers. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: LABOR

Enacts the "New York State fair pay act"; provides that it shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate between employees on the basis of sex, race and/or national origin by paying different wages. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: FINANCE

Removes provisions prohibiting N.Y. city from strengthening rent regulation laws to provide more comprehensive coverage than state laws. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Establishes a methodology for determining major capital improvements (MCI) rent surcharges; provides that such MCI shall be calculated as a rent surcharge and shall not become part of the base legal regulated rent by which rent increases are calculated, and requires the amount thereof to be separately designated and billed as such; codifies current practices regarding the annual 6% cap on MCI increases and the methodology for determining MCI surcharges based on the number of rooms; requires that rent surcharges authorized for major capital improvements shall cease when the cost of the improvement has been recovered. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Provides for the dispensing of emergency contraception under certain circumstances and conditions. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Enacts online revenues and expenditures transparency act. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: FINANCE

Relates to unlawful tenancies under the emergency tenant protection act of 1974; prohibits owners from entering or renewing leases where such owner has reason to know that such tenant will not occupy the housing accommodation as his or her primary residence. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Prohibits an owner from adjusting the amount of preferential rent, rent charged and paid by the tenant which is less than the legal regulated rent for the housing accommodation, upon the renewal of a lease; only allows the owner to make such adjustments upon a vacancy which is not the result of the failure of the owner to maintain a habitable residence. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Requires that medicaid and health insurance plans provide coverage for costs of prescription smoking cessation treatment that is ordered by a physician; establishes a coverage limit of $400 for each covered individual. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: INSURANCE

Increases penalties for failure to execute and file satisfied judgments of $5,000 or more with court clerk from $100 to $500. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides treatment for sexually transmissible diseases to minors without a parent's or guardian's consent; provides definition for health care practitioner. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits the sale of over-the-counter weight loss supplements to minors and requires education to minors of the effects of weight loss supplements; requires store owners to post a sign of such prohibition. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CODES

Provides for a uniform allowable resource exemption and disregard for an applicant or recipient with an automobile. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES