Relates to providing a sales and compensating use tax exemption in certain areas of New York city. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires state departments, divisions, commissions, agencies and other entities which have a website to provide a link on such website to appropriate non-English information. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: FINANCE

Requires the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to acquire the mineral interests under all land acquired or received by the state for the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, unless the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation finds that the land is of great significance and importance to the state. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Authorizes the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish a resident curator program for the rehabilitation of state park buildings. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Requires rent reduction in cases of submetered utility service; directs the division of housing and community renewal to develop a standard reduction and an appeals process. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Clarifies the appropriation and qualification of member items; authorizes the legislative ethics commission to review violations of the qualification of member items, and requires that all member items be fully itemized. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes an arts fund to receive contributions for the support of the New York state council on the arts through a personal income tax return check-off; provides that for tax years after January 1, 2013, any individual may elect to contribute to the arts fund by indicating such intent on a tax form. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires cities with populations over 45,000 to incrementally reduce emissions in diesel powered motor vehicles owned by city agencies; defines terms. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: EDUCATION

Establishes a process for regulating the collecting, recording, and disclosing of confidential information by state employees. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CODES

Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health, to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Prohibits persons, firms or corporations engaged in the retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms; defines "child operated firearm" to mean a pistol or revolver manufactured 1 year after the effective date of these provisions which does not contain a childproofing device or mechanism incorporated into the design of such pistol or revolver to effectively preclude an average 5 year old from firing same; makes violations a class A misdemeanor. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CODES

Provides for a review process of proposals to alienate municipal parkland. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Requires cities with a population of one million or more to collect discarded recyclable materials at city parks, playgrounds, historic sites and other recreational facilities; requires the posting of signs on facilities without trash receptacles stating that trash must be retained until you reach a trash can; provides state assistance for such programs. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CITIES

Requires the conducting of public hearings and reports thereon prior to the closure to public access of any real property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Identifies the criteria the commissioner of environmental conservation should consider in publishing a list of high local environmental impact zones; provides that high local environmental impact zones are areas most adversely affected by existing environmental hazards. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Exempts certain properties on Roosevelt Island in New York City from certain reporting requirements regarding the disposal of property by a public authority. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Requires public disclosure of certain state agency materials, and authorizes the office for technology to publish a technical standards manual for the publishing of records on the Internet by state agencies. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides additional compensation to certain city employees who possess or make substantial use of foreign languages in the performance of official duties; further creates the "language services program" and a language services director to implement the program. /
Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT