Defines "severely and permanently disabled" for purposes of state scholarships and education loans. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee:

Authorizes licensed roadside farm markets to sell wine from up to two farm or special wineries or micro-wineries located within 20 miles of such licensed roadside farm market. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: CODES

Increases the maximum mileage limitation for the transportation of children by school districts to and from school from 15 to 25 miles, the cost thereof is to be treated as an ordinary contingent expense; provides for transportation of pupils to nonpublic schools from such students' homes, applies to transportation whether such nonpublic school is within or without the school district. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: EDUCATION

Provides that combat medics may obtain distinctive license plates. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires facilities to perform pulse oximetry screening on newborns. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: FINANCE

Removes that portion of the town of Chester in the service area of the Albert Wisner memorial public library from such library service area to end the double taxation of certain town residents. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: LIBRARIES AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

Requires coverage for anesthesia and hospital charges for dental care. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: INSURANCE

Provides for an exemption from sales and use taxes on the sale of general aviation aircraft. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee:

Authorizes retired firefighters to be employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers without reduction of their retirement benefits. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee:

Allows a property owned by at least one owner who is at least 65 years old or older to be eligible for an enhanced STAR exemption. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: FINANCE

Makes the provisions relating to leave for organ or bone marrow donation granted to state employees retroactive to August 29, 2001. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: LABOR

Requires motorcycles to be operated on public highways with both wheels on the ground at all times. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires department of transportation to defer to town board requests for speed limit, signage and signal changes on state highway, county road and town highways where public safety nexus exists. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Grants public officers and employees up to 60 total days or 44 working days of paid leave for military ordered duty. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Authorizes veteran's and disabled veteran's credits to be added to an individual's civil service examination after the establishment of the appropriate eligible list. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES

Provides for a corporate franchise tax check-off and a personal income tax check-off for taxpayer gifts for lung cancer education and prevention; establishes the lung cancer education and prevention fund; provides for such education and prevention programs by the department of health. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: HEALTH

Requires youth holding operator's licenses or permits to maintain good school attendance. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Creates crimes of cemetery desecration of a veteran as a class E felony; makes corresponding changes in cemetery desecration crimes in the first and second degrees and aggravated cemetery desecration in the first degree; makes additional penal provisions. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: CODES

Prohibits the unauthorized sale, purchase, sale or transfer of any cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that is over 75 years old that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans, including but not limited to a military unit, company, battalion or division, if such cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans has been placed in any cemetery; makes violations a class B misdemeanor; permits cemeteries to make such sales upon application to the state cemetery board and upon certain conditions. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Designates as peace officers, protective officers of the United States mint police. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: