Creates the crime of environmental damage of property. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Relates to pre-disposition and pre-sentence investigations in family offense cases; makes provisions relating to probation access to the family protection registry. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Expands the crime of robbery in the first and second degrees to include attempts made with a device appearing to be a bomb, destructive device or explosive or hazardous substance. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CODES

Provides for deposits for refillable beverage containers; excludes refund values received for refillable beverage containers from being deposited into refund value accounts. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Prohibits level three sex offenders from living in college housing. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CORRECTION

Creates a waiver for the hearing requirement of the physical examination set forth in federal regulations for deaf persons who are holders of a commercial driver's license or permit who will operate intrastate exclusively. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: FINANCE

Adds provisions relating to computer file-sharing applications. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Relates to the sale of non-food wine or liquor supplies, accessories and/or barware. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Provides for the establishment of kinship guardianships for kinship foster parent; establishes the guardianship after a hearing and determination upon a petition filed by the kinship foster parent; provides that establishment of such guardianship does not affect or impair the natural parents visitation rights. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Authorizes certain military personnel who are scheduled to be deployed within thirty days to get married within twenty-four hours of receiving a marriage license. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Relates to prescription prices and pharmacies for injured employees. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee:

Requires certain school districts, New York City, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester, to employ a minimum of one school nurse per school building; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate additional staffing requirements. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: EDUCATION

Provides a program to promote leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research education and treatment and establishes the leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research education and treatment fund; authorizes the commissioner of taxation and finance to create a check-off gift an individual income tax returns for contributions to leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: HEALTH

Provides that certain camps may make inquiries of and be provided with information from the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment to determine if any person who may have contact with children is on file on such register. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Includes active duty military and certain veterans going to college under the new GI bill in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Prohibits certain discriminatory practices against victims of domestic violence relating to housing, including but not limited to, the purchase, rent, lease or housing accommodation; defines domestic violence victim to include victims of domestic violence pursuant to the social services law and victims of stalking offenses. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides that persons with hemophilia and other clotting protein deficiencies who are otherwise eligible for the Child Health Plus or Family Health Plus program shall have access to reimbursement for outpatient blood clotting factor concentrates and other necessary treatments and services. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: HEALTH

Provides for aidable reimbursement for universal prekindergarten pupils in certain circumstances. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to admission of institutions of higher education for pupils receiving home instruction; prohibits the commissioner from requiring pupils who have completed the requirements of a home school education or a non-public school program to obtain or submit proof of having obtained a general education development certificate or any accredited diploma. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes a person is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree when he or she recklessly causes the death of another person by means of a deadly weapon or deadly instrument; establishes a person is guilty of murder in the second degree when he or she under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to the life of another person, intentionally engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes the death of another person; establishes two of the situations where a person is guilty of murder in the second degree, which are not mutually exclusive. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: CODES