Requires the state emergency management office to undertake a complete review of existing disaster preparedness plans; provides for the development of individual site specific disaster preparedness plans for nuclear power plants operating within the state. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Provides that a municipality which received title to property through escheat, any other involuntary transfer, or through the exercise of eminent domain authority shall not be considered responsible for the contamination and remediation of such property unless the municipality generated, transported, disposed of, arranged for or caused the disposal of hazardous wastes or substances at the subject property. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Provides that lobster permits shall be transferable between persons who each possess a food fish license. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Makes state funding from the environmental protection fund available for national estuary implementation projects which would implement water quality improvement projects pursuant to an approved action or comprehensive conservation and management plan prepared under the national estuary program. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Provides that a person may be guilty of the crime disorderly conduct when he makes unreasonable noise which is disturbing to one or more persons. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: CODES

Exempts factory-built home shells delivered to residential real property sites from the tax on sales and the compensating use tax. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes a mortgage interest credit against personal income tax; amount of credit shall not exceed twenty percent of the interest paid on the mortgage, or five thousand dollars, whichever is less; provides that such credit shall only be available to persons who have not owned a principal residence within the preceding five years. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for an increase in federal itemized deduction for certain home improvements; a fifty percent tax exemption is provided to a residential property owner of a one, two or three family home for improvements that will promote environmental quality; limits the deduction to $1,000 in any one tax year. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to a residential housing downpayment credit; provides that such tax credit is in the amount of 10 percent of the purchase price, or twenty-five thousand dollars, whichever is less. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes a tax credit for the removal or permanent enclosure of a residential fuel oil storage tank. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Removes caps on allowable real property tax exemptions available to several categories of military veterans. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires a licensee's residential address to be printed on his or her driver's license. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Extends the powers of municipal corporations to establish, own and operate public utility services by the power of eminent domain; provides that municipal corporations need not make a final decision on the acquisition of assets until the value of such assets has been determined. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides that each county shall establish and maintain a registry of wills and codicils executed in that county for which the surrogate's court has jurisdiction; establishes what information shall be included in such registry. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides that the maximum deductible allowed in catastrophic windstorms shall not be greater than fifteen hundred dollars and shall be stated in the policy in numerical terms; also provides that deductibles shall only be applicable to losses incurred in windstorms with speeds greater than 125 miles per hour. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INSURANCE

Exempts tuition payments from items used to determine total spending for purposes of implementing a contingency school budget. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: EDUCATION

Grants the electors of villages with the option to make unlawful the sale of alcoholic beverages within such villages if the petition therefor is approved at a general election. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Enacts the "Peconic Bay estuary protection act" to implement a comprehensive conservation and management plan prepared pursuant to the national estuary program; establishes the Peconic Region Maritime Council. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Authorizes and directs the department of education and the state board of real property services to undertake a study with the department of taxation and finance on the fiscal impact and implication of granting local school districts the authority to implement an income tax surcharge as a means of reducing local real property taxes and funding education. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: EDUCATION

Provides that the judgment of sale in a mortgage foreclosure action shall direct that in the event such premises is purchased collectively by more than one individual, the names of each individual purchaser shall be disclosed in writing to the sheriff of the county or referee conducting the sale. /
Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: JUDICIARY