Increases penalties for all offenses involving the possession, use, sale or purchase of firearms. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CODES

Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with an event sanctioned by Remote Area Medical. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: HEALTH

Directs New York city housing authority to first offer vacant apartments to mobility impaired tenants living on a higher floor. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Enacts the New York state clean election and campaign finance enforcement reform act. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to providing a tax credit to businesses for qualified expenses relating to occupational wellness; provides such credit shall equal, up to one hundred dollars per employee and shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars per employer, the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified expenses relating to occupational wellness. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates the "September eleventh, two thousand one remembrance" distinctive license plate program; establishes monies collected from the creation of such plates shall go to the World Trade Center Memorial scholarships. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to the school governance of the New York city school system and establishes a city-wide council on the arts, the commission on public safety in the city school district of the city of New York and the parent and student training center within the department of education; appropriates $3,200,000 therefor. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: FINANCE

Fixes the date of cancellation of financed insurance and provides for a mechanism for cancellation by electronic means; provides that the date of cancellation shall be in the cancellation notice. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: BANKS

Establishes the summer employment program for youths between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one to be administered by the labor department; provides local community-based organizations and government entities shall be eligible to receive funds under this program; provides such employment positions to be from the public and non-profit sectors. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: LABOR

Relates to refinancing of an existing mortgage loan; provides for a separate disclosure which compares monthly payments under the previous mortgage with the combined monthly payments for the new mortgage loan, property tax and insurance. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: BANKS

Provides a definition of the word "timely" for purposes of real property insurance escrow accounts. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: BANKS

Relates to unauthorized entities, unregistered mortgage brokers and mortgage fraud; establishes additional penalties against unlicensed or unregistered persons or entities engaging in activities after receiving a cease and desist notice; relates to the crime of mortgage fraud. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CODES

Relates to the duties of the state police when there is an offense by a police officer that results in serious physical injuries to another person. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: FINANCE

Relates to the imposition of fees for investigations and applications for banking institutions. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: BANKS

Relates to the housing of grades at charter schools. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to the rape of a child; defines sexual assault of a child five years of age or less and increases penalties for such offense. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CODES

Permits certain out-of-court statements by a child less than twelve years old to be admissible in court in cases of sex offenses and where the child is unavailable or unwilling to testify, among other criteria. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CODES

Relates to the purchasing of bullets for firearms; requires the purchaser of bullets for any firearm to fill out an application providing information regarding the purchaser's name, date of birth, address, and also the calibre, make, model, manufacturer's name and serial number of the firearm for which the applicant is purchasing the bullets; copies of the application to be forwarded to all law enforcement agencies of the state; provides that any violation of this section is a class A misdemeanor. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: CODES

Allows veterans who performed military service during a period of war to ride public transportation free of charge for the year immediately after his or her return to this state. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Includes the tuition required for enrollment or attendance in a course of study leading to the granting of a post baccalaureate or other graduate degree within the definition of "qualified college tuition expenses" for the purposes of qualifying for the college tuition credit. /
Sponsor: SMITH Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS