Significant Higher Education Legislation
2010 Session
All bills are under consideration in their original committee
unless status otherwise noted
-- Status as of March 24, 2010 --
Academics
Board of Trustees
CUNY
Community Colleges
Construction & Property Management
Crime & Personal Safety
Financial Aid
Health & Hospitals
Management & Operations
Personal & Retirement
Private Colleges
Professions
Research
Students
Tuition & Fees
Workforce
Textbook Review
A.564 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Authorizes the trustees of the state university of New York to create an academic review board for the review of textbooks sold, purchased or used for academic purposes on all state university of New York campuses and provides that such board shall consist of twelve members to implement cost-control policies.
Religious Observance
A.1012-A Dinowitz
S.3925 Stavisky
Provides that no class or any other course of instruction shall be held in any institution within the state university on those days of religious observance known as Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur provided, however, that the chancellor, in his discretion, may exempt any institution from such observance.
Terrorism Endowed Chair
A.1107 Destito
S.4714 Leibell
Establishes an endowed academic chair within the state university of New York for the study of terrorism and homeland security and directs such chair to organize conferences and seminars, develop training programs for law enforcement officers, publish its proceedings and maintain a library.
Admissions Test Scores
A.1290 Wright
No Senate Companion
Prohibits the use of a minimum standardized test cut-off score for student admission to or rejection by the state university of New York and city university of New York but permits overall assessment of student qualifications for admission, including consideration of such scores together with academic course grades, classroom performance, community service, and extracurricular activities, provided that the effect of doing so does not result in establishing a minimum standardized test score for admission or rejection.
Text Book Lists
A.1367 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Requires institutions of higher education to publish a list of all courses offered to include the instructor, instructional materials needed or recommended, and expected number of students to be enrolled and requires such institutions to provide information on instructional materials to bookstores, other than those operated by the institution and provide equal access to students.
Police Training
A.1457 Wright
No Senate Companion
Provides for the establishment of police training high schools in certain city school districts and provides for further education and employment and establishes preferential admissions criteria for the state and city universities.
Nursing Baccalaureate
A.2079-B Morelle
S.4051-A Stavisky
Requires registered professional nurses to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure and provides exemptions for those currently licensed or enrolled in nursing programs.
Non-Traditional Students
A.2083 Peoples
No Senate Companion
Establishes a program for overage, under-credited high school students to be transferred into continuing education, vocational or post secondary education programs.
African American Institute
A.2225 Peoples
No Senate Companion
Establishes the university at Buffalo institute for African American studies and appropriates $100,000.
EOC Codification
A.3093 Benjamin
S.2662 Volker
Codifies state university of New York educational opportunity centers which provide an integrated system of education, vocational training and student support services targeted to higher education access and the development of a quality workforce which supports the economic development of New York's distressed communities.
Library Expansion
A.3246 Pretlow
No Senate Companion
Enacts the "New Century Libraries act" which increases the apportionment of state aid to libraries and library services throughout the state.
Textbook List Availability
A.3280 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Requires institution, faculty and staff of state and city universities to provide all textbook retailers, upon request, with information on textbooks to be used in courses of study when any one retailer is provided with such information.
Senior Learning Centers
A.3612 Englebright
S.2024 Golden
Provides for the establishment of life long learning centers within the state university of New York to provide courses in community colleges and colleges and universities in the state university system for persons 40 years old or older who are seeking to explore life options, remain civically engaged, continue their education and acquire skills for or begin to plan for a second career.
Graduate ABD Fee Option
A.5014 Parment
S.1550 Stavisky
Provides a program fee option to allow graduate students who have taken at least 30 credits towards the completion of a degree to maintain access to certain facilities within the state university in order to continue a research project or to pursue other academic requirements.
Psychology Majors
A.5245-A Colton
S.3289 Hassell-Thompson
Requires SUNY or CUNY students enrolled in undergraduate psychology program to complete 12 hours volunteer service.
Yonkers Campus
A.5361 Spano
S.3501 Stewart-Cousins
Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.
Financial Literacy Courses
A.5506 Boyland
S.6345 Klein
Provides that juniors and seniors at secondary schools and students at the state and city universities of New York must take a financial literacy course.
Psychology Majors Service
A.5609 Colton
No Senate Companion
Requires students enrolled in the undergraduate psychology program within the SUNY and CUNY systems to complete 12 hours of documented volunteer service with certain places or programs.
Distance Learning Grants
A.5898 Miller
No Senate Companion
Directs the establishment of grant programs on SUNY and CUNY campuses for on-line and distant learning programs to develop and implement new programs or to expand current on-line and distant learning classes and assist with course conversion, hardware and software and to develop networking with campuses that have similar programs.
Textbook Review Boards
A.5991 Peralta
S.5991 Diaz
Authorizes the trustees of the state university of New York and city university of New York to create academic review boards for the review of textbooks sold, purchased or used for academic purposes at all institutions of higher education.
Gerontological Sciences Chair
A.6280 Dinowitz
S.2006 Golden
Establishes distinguished chairs in gerontological sciences to conduct research, engage in educational and training activities and provide clinical services at educational, medical and research facilities in this state.
F/T Faculty Ratios
A.6445 Glick
No Senate Companion
Relates to full-time and part-time faculty ratios for SUNY, CUNY and community colleges.
Museum Property
A.6959-A Brodsky
S.4584-A Serrano
Relates to the accessioning and deaccessioning of museum property.
Degree Awarding
A.7890 Towns
No Senate Companion
Relates to authorizing the issuance of college degrees in religion by certain religious organizations and provides that such degrees may be issued without registration or approval by the board of regents or the commissioner of education, provided that the titles of such degrees shall not duplicate the titles of any earned degree under the rules of the regents.
On-Line Instruction
A.8029 Englebright
S.4510 Stavisky
Relates to telecommunication and correspondence courses creating qualifications for state aid apportionments for institutions of higher education that offer or enroll more than 50% of the institutions total number of courses by telecommunications or correspondence.
Corrections Programs
A.8582 Camara
S.2785 Adams
Establishes a general education equivalency and higher education program in state correctional facilities.
Military College
A.8870 Ball
No Senate Companion
Directs the board of trustees of the state university of New York to establish and operate a college of military and applied sciences at Putnam.
Alcoholic Beverages
A.8892 Alessi
No Senate Companion
Relates to the issuance of permits authorizing institutions of higher education to deliver or cause to be delivered alcoholic beverages to a person who is at least twenty-one years of age enrolled in a course or courses approved by the institution of higher education and conducted by an instructor or instructors engaged by the institution of higher education.
Education Reform Act
A.9219-A Hoyt
S.6251-A Klein
Enacts the "education reform act of 2010" which would ensure more rigorous accountability, strengthen teacher quality, provide school financial incentives, and expand charter schools will improve the quality of
public education in New York by raising student academic achievement.
Internet College
A.9397 Lentol
S.6707 DeFrancisco
Authorizes establishment of a SUNY internet-based college.
Dissertation Sales
A.9564 Schimminger
S.2730 LaValle
Prohibits the sale of academic dissertations, theses and term papers whether written or provided through electronic media.
Status: S.2730 – Reported to Senate Codes
Textbook Advisory Board
A.9893 Kellner
No Senate Companion
Authorizes the trustees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York to create a joint advisory board on the issues of textbooks' cost, bulk electronic purchasing, open-access textbooks, and utilization of library resources.
Textbook Pilot
A.9894 Kellner
No Senate Companion
Creates a pilot program for bulk purchase electronic textbook delivery in the State University of New York and the City University of New York library systems.
Electronic Library Materials
A.9897 Kellner
No Senate Companion
Relates to the access and use of electronic materials acquired by certain libraries; provides that electronic materials acquired by libraries of public institutions of higher education be available through interlibrary loan networks and that such electronic materials shall not be restricted more than required by copyright laws.
Equine Drug Testing
A.9954 Pretlow
S.6352-A Adams
Authorizes state colleges with an approved equine science program to conduct equine drug testing at race meetings.
Status: Delivered to Governor - March 3, 2010
Technology Law Center
A.9991 Magnarelli
S.6964 Valesky
Establishes the science and technology law center and the technology commercialization clinic program.
Status: A.9991 – Assembly Calendar 729
Study Abroad Disclosure
S.803 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Provides for disclosure of relationships between institutions of higher education and study abroad programs.
Home Instruction Admissions
S.944 Robach
No Assembly Companion
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.
Teaching Degrees
S.1920 Morahan
No Assembly Companion
Directs the commissioner of education, in consultation and cooperation with the commissioner of mental health, to establish and implement rules and regulations requiring institutions granting degrees in education to require completion of a curriculum in the social and emotional development and learning of children as a condition of awarding any such degree.
Summer Programs
S.2060 Huntley
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs.
Course Duplication
S.2731 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Requires the state university trustees to report to the governor and the legislature concerning the steps taken to establish a process by which decisions are made to eliminate or reduce duplication of academic degree programs within the state university system.
Textbook Transparency
S.6721 Parker
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the textbook transparency act, requiring college textbook publishers to make available the price, and revisions between the last two editions, copyright dates and the variety of formats for a text.
Trustee Selection
A.565 Cahill
S.5540 Savino
Creates independent commissions to interview and recommend trustee candidates to the state university, CUNY and the community colleges.
Trustee Employment
A.1249-C Lancman
S.1736-B Stavisky
Relates to qualifications for certain appointed positions with the board of trustees for the state university in that employees of the appointing authority are prohibited from serving as trustees.
Status: S.1736-B – Senate Calendar 177
Trustee Selection & Training
A.2050 Lifton
No Senate Companion
Establishes the committee on university boards of trustees nominations to recommend candidates who must be considered for appointment to fill vacancies on the board of trustees of SUNY, CUNY and the college of environmental science and forestry of SUNY and establishes qualifications for such candidates, orientation education program and continuing education program for members of such boards of trustees, and establishes conflict of interest provisions relating to such members.
Chancellor Salaries
A.2930 Koon
S.4842 Aubertine
Provides for a salary/benefits package cap on the chancellor of the state or city university of New York to $250,000 of public funds and no state officer's salary shall equal or exceed the governor's salary.
Faculty Trustee
A.4422 Canestrari
S.1656 LaValle
Increases the membership of the board of trustees of the state university of New York from seventeen to eighteen members to include the president of the faculty council of community colleges.
Status: S.1656 – Reported to Senate Finance
Web Postings
A.9844 Glick
S.5585-B Stavisky
Relates to requiring the board of trustees of SUNY, CUNY and HESC to make publicly available agendas and subsequent meeting records on their websites.
Alumni Trustee
S.1043 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Requires four appointees as state university trustees to be alumni of an educational unit in the state university.
Meeting Records
S.2565-A DeFrancisco
No Assembly Companion
Requires records, including a proposed resolution, law, rule, regulation, policy or amendment thereto, scheduled to be presented and discussed by a public body at an open meeting be made available for review to the public upon request therefore, at least 72 hours prior to such meeting or as soon as practicable.
Over 60 Credit Courses
A.1737 Englebright
S.2019 Golden
Authorizes the board of trustees of the city university of New York to permit persons sixty years of age or over to take courses given without tuition, either for credit, or without examination, grading or credit therefore upon a space available basis, as determined by the president of each institution of the city university, provided that such attendance does not deny course attendance at the city university of New York by an individual who is otherwise qualified.
Over 60 Course Audit
A.2995 Robinson
No Senate Companion
Requires the board of higher education of the city of NY to formulate and promulgate a program whereby residents of NYC who are 60 years of age or older may audit or enroll in courses for examination, grading and credit at the City University of NY in credit or non-credit courses without payment of tuition and other fees.
Medgar Evers Capital
A.3299 Camara
S.711-A Adams
Requires the state to pay the entire capital costs of the Medgar Evers college of the city university of New York.
International Studies Chair
A.3554 Perry
No Senate Companion
Provides for the establishment of the Marcus Garvey chair in international studies in the Africana studies department at Brooklyn College of the city university of New York.
Urban Education
A.3620 Clark
S.4877 Parker
Creates City University of New York center for excellence in urban education to enhance the quality of teaching in public schools in NYC and establishes the regents teachers loan forgiveness program to allocate awards annually to teachers who agree to teach public school in an area of New York state designated by the board of regents as having a shortage of public school teachers.
MLK Institute
A.4848 Jeffries
S.1798 Adams
Relates to the siting of the New York state Martin Luther King, Jr. institute for nonviolence at Medgar Evers college.
Police Cadet Corps
A.4899 Cook
No Senate Companion
Authorizes and directs the city university of New York to allocate two million dollars for recruiting new cadets into its police cadet corps program for the 2009-2010 school year which is designed to prepare candidates for the complexities of modern police work in an ethnically diverse community.
Training Center
A.9159 Perry
S.6107 Huntley
Establishes a parent and student training center within the City University of New York
Internet College
A.9396 Lentol
S.6708 DeFrancisco
Authorizes establishment of a CUNY internet-based college.
Percy Sutton Program
A.9512 Wright
No Senate Companion
Renames the Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge Program (SEEK) instituted by Percy Ellis Sutton in the City University of New York in 1966, as the Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge Program.
Police Cadet Corps
S.3113 Huntley
No Assembly Companion
Creates within the division of criminal justice services a police cadet corps program to be administered by the commissioner in conjunction with the chancellor of the city university of New York and the commissioner of the police department of the city of New York to be located at John Jay College.
Training Centers
S.6107 Huntley
No Assembly Companion
High Tech Grants
A.354 Magnarelli
S.2294 Stavisky
Creates community college high-technology investment program (C-CHIP) to award grants of up to $100,000 to community colleges to upgrade their educational, occupational, and training services including their facilities, labs, and high technology equipment.
High Tech Centers
A.356 Magnarelli
S.2293-A Stavisky
Creates the technology employment community hub (TECH) centers program to award grants of up to $100,000 to community colleges to upgrade their educational, occupational, and training services including their facilities, labs, and high technology equipment.
Status: A.356 – Passed Assembly; A.2293-A – Reported to Senate Finance
High School Incentive
A.2221 Peoples
No Senate Companion
Establishes the New York accelerated graduation option act which provides New York high school students who choose to graduate within three years free community college tuition.
BOCES Partnerships
A.2701 Fitzpatrick
No Senate Companion
Creates the community college and board of cooperative educational services partnership act to facilitate high technology job training to assist students in meeting qualifications for employment in the high technology sector.
Skills Training Programs
A.3136 Christensen
No Senate Companion
Appropriates funds for a new state skills compact course program through community colleges funding to community colleges to assist workers affected by the downsizing, closure or relocation of regional employers.
Contract Course Expansion
A.3268 Christensen
No Senate Companion
Appropriates $2,000,000 for state assistance to community college contract courses and workforce development.
Labor Agreements
A.4294 Abbate
S.3165 Savino
Makes it an improper employer practice for a county legislature which has allocated funds to reject an agreement negotiated by an employee organization which has been certified to represent employees of a community college when such agreement can be implemented within available funds.
Status: A.4294 – Passed Assembly
Senior Citizen Auditing
A.4776 Englebright
S.1822 Morahan
Includes senior citizen students auditing community college classes in the full time equivalent state aid formula.
Trustee Removal
A.4906 Morelle
No Senate Companion
Authorizes the SUNY chancellor to remove the trustees of community colleges and establishes removal procedure.
BOCES High Tech Partnerships
A.5636 Conte
No Senate Companion
Enacts the community college and BOCES partnership act to create a high technology manufacturing training program; provides grants for job training.
Propane Council
A.7797 Magee
No Senate Companion
Implements the empire propane education and research act and authorizes the creation of certain propane education programs coordinated with industry trade associations, Hudson Valley community college, and other community colleges.
Peace Officer Training
A.7957-A Lentol
S.6102-A Adams
Relates to peace officer training consolidating and streamlining the police officer and peace officer registries, and upgrades and clarifies minimum training requirements for peace officers.
Status: A.7957-A – Passed Assembly
Capital Financing
A.8079 Parment
S.4075 Winner
Enacts the "community college region capital financing act of 2009" to permit Jamestown and Corning Community Colleges to finance capital improvements through the facilities of the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York.
Regional Community Colleges
S.2921 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes community colleges, college sponsors, and eligible local governments to establish community college regions to sponsor an existing community college operating under the program of SUNY, to transfer sponsorship from the existing sponsor to the community college region, and to protect the employment and collective bargaining rights of all employees of a community college.
Rockland Tuition
A.10114 Jaffee
S.5312 Morahan
Authorizes Rockland community college to establish a tuition reduction program for active members in good standing of the volunteer fire companies and ambulance service corps in Rockland county.
Status: S.5312 – Reported to Senate Finance
Trustee Conflicts
S. 6334 Aubertine
No Assembly Companion
Relates to gift limitations as they apply to members of a board of trustees of a community college pursuant to the public officers law.
Status: S.6334 – Senate Calendar 25
Establishes a parent and student training center within the City University of New York.
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Wage Rate Postings
A.215 Latimer
S.2904 Stewart-Cousins
Provides that the failure of a contractor or sub-contractor on a public works project to post a statement of wage rates and supplements shall be subject to prosecution as a misdemeanor and subject to a civil penalty of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
Status: A.215 – Assembly Calendar 8
Work Rules
A.393 John
S.2248-A Onorato
Requires that a contractor or sub-contractor may not engage another person to do work on a public works project unless it is pursuant to a written agreement.
Status: A.393 – Assembly Calendar 24 11
Prevailing Wage Penalties
A.400 John
No Senate Companion
Provides for additional penalties for failure to pay prevailing wages or supplements and encourages private actions for recovery of wrongfully withheld wages or supplements by persons employed on a public work contract.
Employee Information
A.401 John
No Senate Companion
Requires contractors and subcontractors which perform public work contracts to file with the department of labor a sworn affidavit for the previous reporting period detailing number of persons employed, wages paid, employee job classification and daily and weekly hours worked.
Independent Contractors
A.403 John
No Senate Companion
Requires any person, corporation or other business entity contracting with the state to submit to the commissioner of labor a list of independent contractors hired by such person, corporation or other business entity and requires that a fee of ten dollars per independent contractor be paid upon the submission of such list.
Employee Records Access
A.405 John
No Senate Companion
Provides for public access (public inspection and copying) to certain records of public entities regarding certain public work and building service employees to include records or portions thereof pertaining to the employee classifications of, rate of wages and supplements paid to, and number of hours worked by the employees of contractors classified as apprentices.
Tropical Hardwoods
A.478 Kavanagh
S.999 Marcellino
Includes additional definitions for procedures relating to state purchasing of tropical hardwoods and requires state to maximize the use of environmentally preferable building materials; requires use of information provided by forest certifiers.
Dorm Sprinklers
A.578 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Requires SUNY and CUNY authorities, the board of trustees, to adopt rules to require the installing and retrofitting of dormitory buildings with sprinkler systems on or before March 1, 2012.
Prevailing Wage Payment
A.612 John
S.2814 Onorato
Requires the payment of prevailing wages on construction projects involving the state university of New York, the dormitory authority or the state university construction fund and any third party.
Urban Incentives
A.640 Hoyt
S.5683 Stewart-Cousins
Establishes a policy that state facilities and state uses of space in urban areas shall serve to strengthen the state's cities and establishes criteria and procedures to carry out such policy.
SUNYIT Lease
A.1106 Destito
S.3534 Griffo
Authorizes the state university of New York institute of technology to lease certain lands to Upstate Cerebral Palsy, Inc.
OGS Property Inventory
A.1203 Destito
S.3563 Johnson C
Requires the commissioner of general services to maintain an inventory and audit of every state-owned real property or unappropriated state land that has been sold, transferred, conveyed or exchanged and contain a reverter clause pursuant to the public lands law or the unconsolidated laws.
Status: A.1203 – Assembly Calendar 108
NYS Bidder Preference
A.1301 Wright
S.1549 Stavisky
Provides that for public works contracts involving an expenditure of $20,000 or more and purchase contracts for $10,000 or more a responsible bidder who is a New York state resident, firm or corporation and who is within two percent of the bid of the lowest responsible bidder may be awarded the contract.
Construction Waste Recycling
A.1576 Colton
No Senate Companion
Requires state agencies and contractors to recycle 50% of the waste generated on public works construction and demolition sites.
IDA Reform
A.1647 Brodsky
No Senate
Makes various provisions to reform local development corporations and industrial development agencies: conflicts of interest, standard tax exemption policies, municipal input, more information to be made public, economic impact statements, public hearings, and payment of prevailing wages.
Hospital HVAC
A.1670 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Requires every hospital engaging in the construction of, addition to or remodeling of a building to submit to the commissioner of health the plans and specifications of such building relating to heating, ventilation and air conditioning, air intake, pest prevention, radon levels, lighting, sanitation and drainage.
NYC Planning Board Notice
A.1679 Wright
S.4541 Squadron
Enacts the "community notification and empowerment act" which requires state agencies proposing an opening, expansion or reduction of a state facility in a city with a population of one million or more to submit a written proposal of such to the community planning board, the city planning commission, the city council member representing the area, the state senator and assemblyperson representing the area and the borough president.
IDA Borrowing
A.1874 Brodsky
No Senate Companion
Relates to borrowing by public authorities, not-for-profit corporations, and industrial development agencies.
Indoor Air Quality
A.2076 Lupardo
S.5623 Oppenheimer
Relates to protecting indoor air quality in state owned, leased or operated buildings.
Status: A.2076 – Assembly Calendar 182
Bidding & Prevailing Wages
A.2121 John
S.4937 Stachowski
Promotes fairness in competitive bidding by providing for enforcement of prevailing wage provisions applicable to public work construction projects; permits any person to bring a civil action for the recovery of damages against the winning bidder if the winning bidder has violated the labor law by failing to pay the prevailing wage on a construction project.
Prevailing Wage Guarantee
A.2127 John
S.5195 Savino
Requires the low bidder on state contracts to provide proof to the satisfaction of the contracting entity that the prevailing wage shall be paid on such contract when such bid is lower than the next lowest bid by ten percent or more or ten percent less than the contracting entity's estimate of the project's cost.
Prevailing Wage Enforcement
A.2129 John
S.5254 Hassell-Thompson
Enacts the "Omnibus Prevailing Wage Enforcement Act" which creates the office of the prevailing wage fraud inspector general for increased vigilance in the effort to achieve prevailing wage enforcement and allows public authorities to require that successful bidders for public works jobs participate in a state-sponsored apprenticeship program.
Employee Rights
A.2130 John
S.5197 Savino
Authorizes an employee organization to have the same standing to enforce the provisions of public work contracts against a contractor or any sub-contractor as the officer, department, board or commission in charge of such public work contract if any of the organization's members were employed on such public work project.
Day Care Funding
A.2218 Clark
No Senate Companion
Expands financing authority of the dormitory authority to include construction of facilities for day care providers where the total estimated cost of such facilities exceeds ten thousand dollars.
Certified Payroll Records
A.2248 Schroeder
No Senate Companion
Requires state agencies to provide labor organizations with certified payroll records of the contractors hired to perform public work by such agency.
Off-Site Prevailing Wage
A.3101 John
S.588 Marcellino
Relates to the inclusion of certain off-site custom fabrication as public work for the purposes of payment of prevailing wage.
Wicks Repeal
A.3249 Thiele
No Senate Companion
Relates to separate specifications for public work and repeals section one hundred one of the general municipal law relating to the Wicks law.
Bidder Review
A.3805 Brennan
No Senate Companion
Requires state agencies and public authorities to give due consideration to credible evidence or reliable information related to the responsibility, reliability or character of a public contract bidder.
Eminent Domain Reform
A.4500 Brodsky
S.795 Alesi
Creates a temporary commission on eminent domain reform to examine, evaluate and make recommendations concerning the scope and effectiveness of eminent domain procedure laws and the use of such power by public entities.
Homeless Hiring
A.5607 Boyland
No Senate Companion
Provides that state contracts shall require hiring of homeless persons and state agencies shall monitor and enforce provisions of said contracts.
IDA Clarification
A.6147 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Establishes a definition of "civic facilities" for purposes of financing by industrial development agencies.
Prevailing Wage Expansion
A.7072 John
No Senate Companion
Includes state and local agency and public authority work contracts within prevailing wage requirements and expands upon arrangements and contracts subject to the public work hours, wages and supplements requirements and defines public works to include all construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovation or alteration of a building or improvement to property performed pursuant to a contract or other agreement entered into by the state or other public entity involving the employment of laborers.
Zoning Requirements
A.8350 Koon
S.291 Little
Requires a governmental unit which proposes to sponsor a public project within the boundaries of one or more other municipalities with zoning requirements, to consider a variety of factors to determine whether the project is immune from such zoning requirements.
SUCF Flexibility
S.1046 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Relates to administrative flexibility of the state university construction fund and the development of university-related economic development facilities.
Purchase Lease
A.9935 Paulin
S.4134 Oppenheimer
Authorizes the lease of lands located at the state university of New York at Purchase for a senior learning community.
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Handgun Purchase
A.651 Kavanagh
S.4081 Schneiderman
Requires state agencies and certain covered authorities to purchase handguns from responsible suppliers.
Basic Training Certificates
A.1019 DelMonte
S.309 Maziarz
Relates to the period of validity of certificates attesting to the satisfactory completion of an approved police basic training program awarded by the executive director of the municipal police training council.
Police Training
A.1209 Destito
S.3018 Valesky
Establishes a victims' assistance education program within the crime victims board to enhance and augment services to victims of crime and further develops education programs for police, sheriffs, administrative law judges, district attorneys and providers of victims assistance services.
Status: A.1209 – Assembly Calendar 109
Military Paid Leave
A.1216 Destito
S.4299 Johnson, C.
Authorizes paid leave for certain police and peace officers who are absent on military duty for a specified period of time.
Emergency Notification
A.1251 Lancman
No Senate Companion
Enacts the University Emergency Alert Act and provides that on or before July first, two thousand ten, each institution of higher education shall, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the board of regents, implement an emergency alert system in order to notify and advise students, faculty, staff, elected representatives and neighboring residents within a suitable geographic area of the institution of incidents or occurrences at the institution which, in the judgment of the institution, pose a threat to the health or safety of students, faculty, staff or neighboring residents.
Sex Offender Reports
A.1394 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Requires law enforcement agencies to generate a monthly report on community notification procedures for each sex offender.
Bias Crime Reporting
A.1871 Wright
S.3994 Stavisky
Provides for reporting of bias-related incidents on state university campuses by university police officers to college and university personnel.
Credit Waiver
A.3406 Perry
S.2277 Parker
Waives the 60 credits required for New York City Auxiliary Police Officers to become members of the regular NYC police force for up to a period of 5 years, provided they are enrolled in college, otherwise meet the eligibility requirements and pass the entrance examination.
Safety Task Force
A.3517 Perry
No Senate Companion
Establishes the state task force on campus safety.
Mental Health Intervention
A.3562 Perry
No Senate Companion
Provides for intervention by certain campus security personnel in relation to reportedly mentally ill students and notification to person to be contacted in case of such mental health emergency.
Hazing Penalty
A.4028 Thiele
No Senate Companion
Increases severity of hazing in the second degree from a violation to an E felony where injury or death occurs, and of hazing in the first degree from a class A misdemeanor to a D felony where injury or death is caused by deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
Background Checks
A.4690 Morelle
S.3390 Nozzolio
Requires background checks for peace officers and police officers and requires an employer to disclose employment information relating to a current or former employee, upon request from a law enforcement agency.
Police Jurisdiction
A.4940-A Lentol
S.4302-A Valesky
Expands the geographical area of employment of university police officers.
Local Police Notification
A.6592 Barra
No Senate Companion
Requires colleges to report crimes occurring on their campuses or other property to local police and this information must also be reported monthly to the division of criminal justice services for compilation in an annual report thereon, which report is to include findings and recommendations.
Suzanne’s Law
A.6650 Tedisco
No Senate Companion
Enacts “Suzanne’s Law” and provides that crimes committed against a person on school grounds shall be deemed to be one category higher than the specified crime the person committed.
Security Plans
A.7184 Gabryszak
S.876 LaValle
Provides for the development of a comprehensive campus security plan for the state university of New York, the city university of New York and community colleges.
College Council Duties
A.8464 Rivera, P.
S.3982 Oppenheimer
Enhances the powers of SUNY campus councils and makes them responsible for specific campus safety issues including training, support services, victims assistance, prevention programs, and orientation and educational materials.
Knife Possession
S.379 Breslin
No Assembly Companion
Makes it unlawful for any person age 16 or older to knowingly possess a knife on grounds used for educational purposes.
Crime Information
S.977 Kruger
No Assembly Sponsor
Requires state university security officers to provide students and employees with information on security policies and incidents of crime and negligence committed upon any student or person on the campus or other college property and requires publication on an annual basis a report including statistics reflecting incidents of actual and alleged crime on campus for the most recent three year period.
Safety Plans
S.1222-A Thompson
No Assembly Companion
Mandates university and building level educational institution safety plans for possible acts of violence occurring at educational institutions within the state.
Stun Guns
S.1680 Flanagan
No Assembly Companion
Creates the stun gun grant program under which police departments may be eligible for grants to purchase taser stun guns.
Police Centralization
S.6928 Klein
No Assembly Companion
Directs the trustees of the state university to appoint a commissioner of state university police, who shall be the supervisory and administrative head of all university police forces and prohibits any further appointments of police chiefs of campus police forces.
Merit Public Scholarship
A.361 Peralta
S.2081 Parker
Provides an annual scholarship of $1,000 for students with a minimum 3.0 high school GPA who attend a New York state public postsecondary institution.
TAP & Fee Coverage
A.567 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Provides for the determination of tuition assistance program awards which may cover mandatory educational fees, excluding fees voted by student body
International Study
A.568 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Establishes the New York International Scholarship program and creates a program to supplement individuals receiving grants under the Benjamin A. Gilman International scholarship provided for under the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000 (PL 106-309) therefore allowing recipients to defray their international travel costs and extending the time spent studying abroad in a non-English speaking country for up to a full academic year
Five Year TAP
A.647 Kavanagh
S.2701 Aubertine
Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.
Dentist Loan Forgiveness
A.905 Gunther
No Senate Companion
Expands the regents physician loan forgiveness program to include dentists.
Nurse Loan Forgiveness
A.1035 McEneny
S.388 Breslin
Provides for the award of regents scholarships and loan forgiveness for nurses on the same terms as physicians
Firefighter Scholarship Expansion
A.1156 Sayward
No Senate Companion
Relates to volunteer recruitment service scholarships and expands benefits of the recruitment scholarship program.
Scholarship Availability
A.1602 Wright
No Senate Companion
Provides that a scholarship for academic excellence that is declined by a student or is revoked for any reason shall be granted to the next most qualified student.
TAP & Military Income
A.1713 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Provides that in determining income for the purposes of the tuition assistance program, tuition benefits and scholarships awarded based on service in the armed forces shall not be considered as income.
IDA Scholarships
A.1921 Englebright
S.3421 Foley
Authorizes industrial development agencies created for the benefit of a town to provide scholarships and/or intern support to certain students in a business related field of study leading to an associate's, bachelor's or master's degree.
Military Awards
A.2134 John
S.1417-A Maziarz
Changes the eligibility dates for a military enhanced recognition, incentive and tribute ("MERIT") scholarship to include the Lebanon conflict.
First Responder Scholarships
A.2204 Morelle
S.2944 Nozzolio
Provides tuition awards to children of firefighters, police officers, volunteer firefighters, and EMTs with permanent and total disabilities, to be applied to any college or university in the state university system or the city university of New York and provides that the award is for tuition, less other aid, and is limited to 4 or 5 academic years.
TAP Eligibility Adjustments
A.2712 Glick
S.3605 Stavisky
Provides that for purposes of the amount of an award under the tuition assistance program, any student who received an award for not more than two semesters prior to the 1989-1990 academic year and who returns to full-time undergraduate study shall be deemed to have received his or her first award in the academic year in which he or she returns to full-time study.
TAP Income Adjustments
A.2713 Glick
S.2295 Stavisky
Enacts provisions relating to tuition assistance program awards for certain students who have been granted an exclusion of parental income.
Status: A.2713 – Passed Assembly
Dentist Loan Forgiveness
A.2721 Pretlow
No Senate Companion
Provides for the award of regents scholarships and loan forgiveness for dentists and podiatrists on the same terms as physicians and dentists.
Nursing Scholarships
A.2722 Pretlow
No Senate Companion
Establishes the empire state professional nursing scholarship program to provide financial support to applicants to enter or continue in a registered nurse educational program and who agree to deliver nursing care in a specialty, setting or designated region of New York state having a shortage of nurses or to teach nursing students
HESC Determination
A.2723 Pretlow
No Senate Companion
Requires the higher education services corporation to make a determination of financial eligibility of a student for financial aid, awards and loans within 60 days from the day of the receipt of the financial aid application and when the higher education services corporation fails to make a timely determination the applicant shall be deemed eligible for such aid for the semester for which the application was made
Status: A.2723 – Assembly Calendar 228
Child Care Loan Forgiveness
A.3265 Christensen
No Senate Companion
Creates the child care professionals loan forgiveness incentive program for applicants who agree to engage in employment in the child care field.
Graduate Student TAP
A.3376 Perry
No Senate Companion
Raises the minimum tuition assistance program award an eligible graduate student may receive per year to five hundred dollars and the maximum tuition assistance award an eligible graduate student may receive per year to eight hundred dollars.
Police & Firefighter Loan Forgiveness
A.3481 Peoples
S.1192 Thompson
Establishes the police officer and firefighter loan forgiveness program for eligible police officers and firefighters who attend certain colleges and reside in a city with a population between 250,000 and one million.
TAP Income Adjustment
A.3637 Glick
No Senate Companion
Relates to a change in circumstance of income.
Scholarship Redistribution
A.3721 Pretlow
No Senate Companion
Transfers any unspent funds from the regents health care professional opportunity scholarship program to the regents physician loan forgiveness program and provides direction to distribute these funds to meet the same purposes as originally intended.
Teaching Loan Program
A.3931 Raia
S.4175 Flanagan
Establishes loan program to encourage undergraduates to enter teaching field in academic areas of critical teacher shortage in New York state and provides for selection of candidates based on academic study in critical areas as determined by the regents; sets duration of loan and amounts available.
Geriatric Loan Forgiveness
A.4775 Englebright
No Senate Comparison
Establishes a physician loan forgiveness program for geriatric medicine; provides for loan forgiveness awards of up to fifteen thousand dollars per year for up to five years.
Aid Disclosure
A.4914 Pheffer
S.877 LaValle
Requires institutions of higher education to disclose the average dollar amount of institutional aid awarded to students.
Veteran Child Awards
A.5127 Lentol
No Senate Companion
Provides tuition awards to children of veterans who served in armed conflict; amends the current law which provides regents awards to children of certain veterans of wars and disabled veterans in order to provide a free college education to children of any veteran who served in armed conflict regardless of disability status.
Illegal Alien Scholarships
A.5234 Espaillat
No Senate Companion
Authorizes the trustees of SUNY & CUNY to provide state-aided programs, scholarships or other financial assistance to students who are without lawful immigration status or who are undocumented persons if such student attended an approved NY high school for two or more years, attended an approved NY state program for general equivalency diploma exam preparation, or was enrolled in an institution or educational unit of the state university during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Librarian Loan Forgiveness
A.5318 Koon
No Senate Companion
Creates a loan forgiveness program for certain librarians who work in high need districts or shortage areas to be determined by the commissioner of education and provides for up to 20 individual awards from the cultural education account equaling up to $10,000 over two years for outstanding graduate school student loans.
TAP & IRA Income
A.5395 McKevitt
No Senate Companion
Relates to determining income for tuition assistance program awards; provides that transfers from individual retirement accounts to Roth individual retirement accounts not be included in determining income for such TAP awards.
TAP Expansion
A.5486-A Hikind
No Senate Companion
Authorizes tuition assistance to be paid to students attending educational institutions for which Pell grants may be awarded.
High-Tech Loan Forgiveness
A.5827 McKevitt
No Senate Companion
Establishes the regents high-tech graduate loan forgiveness program to provide annual loan payments of up to $10,000 a year to high-tech college graduates who are residents of the state, attended a college or university in the state, received a degree in a high-tech field and agree to work in a high-tech field in the state for 5 years
Selective Service Registration
A.5932 Towns
No Senate Companion
Makes registration with the selective service system by persons required to do so by federal law a precondition for the award of state-sponsored financial aid for higher education
Veterinarian Loan Forgiveness
A.5957 Magee
S.2884 Bonacic
Creates a regents large animal veterinarian loan forgiveness program awarded annually to veterinarians who agree to practice in large animal veterinarian medicine.
Foster Care Scholarship
A.6002 Scarborough
No Senate Companion
Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship program; grants awards for the purpose of enhancing opportunities for higher education for children and young adults receiving foster care services in New York.
Nursing Loans
A.6215 Barra
No Senate Companion
Creates a baccalaureate and associate nursing assistance program within the department of health to provide loans to persons in pursuit of a nursing degree at a college or university in the state and provides that nurses receiving loans will be obligated for one year of service as a nurse in New York for each year assistance was received.
Nursing Loan Forgiveness
A.6247 Barra
No Senate Companion
Establishes the regents nursing professional's loan forgiveness program for applicants who agree to engage in employment as a nurse in hospitals, nursing homes and hospice centers.
HESC Report
A.6391 Glick
S.3603-B Stavisky
Requires a report by the higher education services corporation to be submitted on February 15th of each year and repeals on the date of submission in 2012.
Status: A.6391 – Assembly Calendar 438
Nursing Faculty Scholarships
A.7102 Gunther
S.1513 DeFrancisco
Establishes the New York state nursing faculty scholarship incentive program for advanced degrees in nursing with such incentives awarded annually, on a competitive basis, to registered professional nurses and certified nurse practitioners who are in a masters or doctoral program and agree to teach nursing for one year for each year such incentive is awarded.
NYS Employee Loan Forgiveness
A.7243 Jeffries
S.1225 Thompson
Establishes the NYS employee loan forgiveness program; individuals employed by a state employer, for 5 years or more of qualified service, and with outstanding loan debt are eligible to receive $5,000 per year.
Active Duty Protection
A.7346 Englebright
S.2128 Golden
No Assembly Companion
Protects six month "grace period" for borrowers of student loans called to active duty who resume education program.
Loan Monitoring
A.7730 Mayersohn
S.1753 Stavisky
No Assembly Companion
Enhances enforcement of primary care physician loan and scholarship programs by authorizing the commissioner of health to initiate proceedings to suspend the license of a loan repayment award or scholarship recipient who has failed to provide the required primary care service in an underserved area; also authorizes the commissioner to report the amount of such award or scholarship to the department of taxation and finance as income of the recipient.
TAP Deferrals
A.8848 Crespo
S.3130 Diaz
Prohibits the deferral of awards granted under the Tuition Assistance Program and ensures that a TAP award will be paid on time so that the student may pay his or her tuition bill on time.
Firefighter TAP
A.9370 Gabryszak
No Senate Companion
Establishes a tuition assistance program for volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical service personnel and provides for up to 100% coverage for eligible volunteer firefighter and volunteer emergency medical service personnel after enactment of a local law in any county within the state.
Incarcerated TAP
S.1288 Montgomery
No Senate Companion
Authorizes academic performance awards for incarcerated persons making such persons eligible to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
Aid Policy Disclosure
S.2050 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Enacts the "financial aid disclosure act" which requires institutions of higher education to disclose financial aid policies relating to contributions to be made by such institution, any changes which may result to such financial aid and the reasons therefore
Reserved Armed Forces Aid
S.2154 Maziarz
No Assembly Companion
Establishes tuition awards for members of the reserved armed forces of the United States; eligibility for such tuition benefit shall be determined by the education services offices of the division of military and naval affairs
TAP Adjustments
S.2378 Padavan
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes tuition assistance program financial aid officers to make income adjustments in special circumstances in determining a student's applicable income for an award including catastrophic illness or disability of the applicant or his or her spouse or parent, call to active duty or divorce.
TAP Gifting
S.2456 Parker
No Assembly Companion
Allows taxpayers to contribute to the tuition assistance program fund on personal income tax forms and establishes the gifts to the tuition assistance program fund.
Project STRIVE
S.2551 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Provides student tuition relief initiative for valued education awards - STRIVE.
TAP Expansion
S.2845 Savino
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes tuition assistance to be paid to students attending educational institutions for which Pell grants may be awarded.
Medical Loan Forgiveness
S.2879 Bonacic
No Assembly Companion
Provides for educational loan forgiveness for physicians who return to medical specialty shortage areas of origin
Nursing Scholarships
S.2920 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the empire state professional nursing scholarship program to provide financial support to applicants to enter or continue in a registered nurse educational program and who agree to deliver nursing care in a specialty, setting or designated region of New York state having a shortage of nurses or to teach nursing students
TAP Adjustments
S.4198 Stavisky
No Assembly Companion
Permits changes to a TAP applicant's income, or to the income of persons responsible for the applicant's support, occurring after the beginning of any semester, for the purposes of adjusting the applicant's award.
Cadaver Usage
A.386 John
S.545 Alesi
Provides that tissue or non-transplant organs from cadaver donors shall be procured only in a hospital, morgue or other facility licensed for the purpose of tissue or organ procurement.
Organ Donations
A.388 John
S.793 Alesi
Creates a state-wide database of all donations of tissue or non-transplant organs procured by an organ procurement organization or a procurement organization.
Unlawful Dissection
A.432 Kavanagh
S.2087 Parker
Provides increased penalties for unlawful dissection, procurement and sale of human body tissue, organs and body parts.
Body Part Procurement
A.433 Kavanagh
S.2187 Golden
Prohibits the procurement of human body parts for use in human transplantation except as provided by law and requires that procurement of body parts be performed only at registered facilities and requires reporting to the county medical examiner or coroner.
Patient Observation
A.571 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Provides that it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any physician, hospital or other health care provider to subject a patient with a disability to visual observation during the course of any physical examination by any person not necessary to the diagnosis or treatment of such patient or to any exhibition for medical education purposes without the patient (if competent) or the parent, guardian, committee or conservator being informed of the name, purpose or function of those in attendance and the right to refuse that examination and/or observation by the unnecessary personnel.
Emergency Contraception
A.627 Paulin
S.1410 Schneiderman
Provides for the dispensing of emergency contraception under certain circumstances and conditions.
Dental Instruction
A.1130-A Dinowitz
S.1928 Espada
Provides for limited dental instruction for dentists licensed in another state or country at accredited schools or residency programs approved by the department of education.
Status: A.1130-A – Passed Assembly
Optometric Clinic
A.1138 Gottfried
S.4529 Krueger
Authorizes the provision of optometric services, which are provided by certain diagnostic and treatment centers licensed under article twenty-eight of the public health law and affiliated with the college of optometry of the state university of New York, to recipients of medical assistance for the needy; provides for annual reports by diagnostic and treatment centers providing optometric services under these provisions to the governor and legislature containing certain specified elements.
Status: A.1138 – Passed Assembly; S.4529 – Senate Calendar 224
Children’s Vision Screening
A.1382 Wright
S.1126 Perkins
Establishes the save our sight program and the save our sight fund to promote vision health and safety for children and targets children with amblyopia for support regarding such children's vision.
Children’s Vision Donation
A.1491 Wright
No Senate Companion
Establishes the save our sight fund to provide monies for educational vision care programs and authorizes agents of the department of motor vehicles to inquire whether persons applying for or renewing a motor vehicle registration, or applying for or renewing a license to operate a motor vehicle wish to voluntarily contribute $1 to such fund.
Dental Exams
A.1503 Wright
No Senate Companion
Prohibits the use of live human subjects as surgical subjects as part of state dental professional licensing examination.
Physician Assistants
A.1726-B Gottfried
S.4998-A Duane
Clarifies the scope of practice of physician assistants to authorize such physician assistants, while under the supervision of a physician, to perform the medical services that the physician could perform if such physician assistant has the proper training therefore.
Status: A.1726-B – Assembly Calendar 154
Telemedicine Task Force
A.1766-A Morelle
S.3198-A Valesky
Establishes a statewide telemedicine/telehealth task force to make recommendations to the governor and legislature on the development of telemedicine and telehealth systems, standards in the applications of such systems, changes in licensure and certification verification necessary to effectuate such systems, and the methodology for determining payments due for health care service provided by means of such systems.
Status: A.1766-A – Assembly Calendar 160
Nursing Shortage
A.2027 John
S.1416 Maziarz
Enacts the New York state nursing shortage correction act and creates statewide nursing recruitment incentive and retention pilot initiatives.
Nursing/Patient Ratios
A.2264 Gottfried
S.3843 Duane
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units and sets minimum staffing requirements.
Cord Blood Bank
A.2702 Fitzpatrick
No Senate Companion
Creates a public umbilical cord blood banking program within the department of health to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of public cord banking, to promote research into the uses of cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for public banking of cord blood donations.
OB/GYN Training
A.2715 Glick
No Senate Companion
Provides that hospitals which offer medical residency training in obstetrics, gynecology, internal medicine, women's health and osteopathy shall provide training which follows the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association special requirements for obstetrics-gynecology and provides for experience with induced abortions and complications thereto except where residency program has a religious, moral or legal restriction which prohibits residents from performing abortions within the institution.
Home Health Aid Scholarships
A.2906 Koon
No Senate Companion
Provides a scholarship/stipend for home health care aides to get licensed practical nursing license while working as a home health aide providing a scholarship for in-state resident LPN program and stipend equal to 16 hours of work in addition to 24 hours of home health aide work required for program.
Nurse Recruitment
A.3575 Perry
S.2542 Parker
Enacts the "Nurse of Tomorrow Act" to provide for grants from the state commissioner of education to public and not-for-profit hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, schools and other entities for nurse recruitment, education and retention costs and activities as described herein.
Dentistry Skills
A.4656-A Morelle
S.2937 Klein
Relates to the scope of practice of dentistry to authorize dentists who are adequately trained to perform any procedure in the oral and maxillofacial area.
Geriatric Training
A.4779 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Enacts provisions relating to the practice of geriatric medicine and related training in such field of medicine and requires physicians, physician assistants and specialist assistants to receive training in geriatric medicine pursuant to a curriculum developed by the commissioner of health in consultation with the commissioner of education and the director of the office for the aging.
Ophthalmic Dispensing
A.4831 Morelle
No Senate Companion
Relates to the practice of ophthalmic dispensing by ophthalmic dispensers pursuant to a visual assessment and provides that the commissioner of education shall establish educational and examination requirements to certify ophthalmic dispensers to practice visual assessment.
Environmental Health Tracking
A.5343-A Koon
S.5298-A Squardon
Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from the departments of environmental conservation and labor; provides that the purpose is to gather various environmental data to correlate with disease data and requires the cooperation of the state university of New York school of public health at Albany and Buffalo.
Status: A.5343 – Passed Assembly
Hospital Staffing
A.5370 Camara
S.1780 Parker
Establishes the "Safe Staffing for Hospital Care Act" which establishes minimum staffing levels for various health care workers in different health care facilities and requires submission of staffing plans and prohibits most mandatory overtime.
Service Corporations
A.5879 Cahill
S.3101 Stachowski
Authorizes physicians, optometrists and ophthalmic dispensers to join together to establish professional service corporations, limited liability companies and registered limited liability partnerships.
Nursing Work Limits
A.6492 Gunther
S.5016 Stachowski
Relates to the hours worked by nurses to restrict consecutive hours of required work by nurses in the home care setting except in emergencies but does not prohibit a nurse from voluntarily working overtime.
Elder Abuse
A.7233 Carrozza
S.1851 Klein
No Assembly Companion
Requires physicians, chiropractors, dentists, registered nurses, podiatrists, optometrists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and dental hygienists to have completed two hours of coursework or training regarding the identification and reporting of elderly abuse prior to the renewal of a license, registration or limited permit; provides procedures and provides for exemptions when no need therefore.
Upstate Medical Study
A.8173 Destito
S.5454 Aubertine
Directs the president of the SUNY Upstate Medical University to conduct a study to explore the viability and compelling need for branch campuses of the SUNY Upstate Medical University in the Fort Drum/Watertown and Mohawk Valley Regions of New York State.
Medical Database
A.9074 McKevitt
No Senate Companion
Establishes a state-wide database providing the location and availability of medical procedures within New York state, specifying which hospitals are equipped to perform each procedure.
Cultural Competency
S.123 Sampson
No Assembly Companion
Provides that the state board of medicine shall promulgate regulations requiring cultural competency courses in all colleges of medicine and requires all medical students and all physicians to complete cultural competency training.
Hospital Flexibility
S.1044 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Provides for increased SUNY hospital flexibility and that health care employees at state university health care services and facilities be provided with wage rate and pay differentials and expands the contracting authority of such state university health care services and facilities.
Veteran’s Home Support
S.1821 Morahan
No Assembly Companion
Permits taxpayers who are entitled to an income tax refund to voluntarily contribute any dollar amount to the support of the New York state veterans' homes thereby reducing the amount owed to such individual.
Stony Brook QARB
S.1995 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Relates to the Stony Brook University Hospital establishing a local Quality Assessment Aid Review Board.
Public Health Study
S.5626 Parker
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the interagency task force on health literacy, to study health literacy and developing recommendations for improving health literacy in this state with UAlbany School of Public Health providing the staff for the task force.
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Energy Star Appliances
A.207 Hevesi
No Senate Companion
Requires any state agency, the judiciary or legislature receiving state funding for or providing money to other groups for capital improvements, to purchase Energy Star equipment and appliances.
Confidential Information
A.307 Peralta
S.2517-A Thompson
Establishes a process for regulating the collecting, recording, and disclosing of confidential information by state employees.
SSN Usage
A.308 Peralta
S.2180 Diaz
Prohibits the use of social security numbers by an organization or governmental agency for identification purposes of individuals, including: publicly posting or displaying an individual's social security number; printing the social security number on any card required to access products or services.
Language Service
A.309 Peralta
S.2574 Monserrate
Ensures language assistance services by state agencies and requires state agencies to maintain records of the primary language spoken by any individual seeking such assistance.
Certified Wood
A.410 Kavanagh
S.851 Marcellino
Establishes a certified wood program; defines "certified wood" and further establishes, based on the results of the program for certified wood, a pilot project for certified paper procurement.
Polystyrene Use
A.428-A Kavanagh
S.2832-A Krueger
Relates to food service waste reduction and prohibits the use of polystyrene foam by contractors and lessees who deal with the state through state and municipal contracts.
Status: A.428-A – Assembly Calendar 25
Foreign Labor
A.470 John
No Senate Companion
Provides that every contract entered into by a state agency for the procurement of equipment, materials or supplies shall contain a statement in which the contractor attests that no foreign made equipment, materials or supplies furnished to the state pursuant to the contract have been produced in whole or in part by forced labor, convict labor or indentured servitude.
Status: A.470 – Passed Assembly
Fuel Conservation
A.476 Kavanagh
S.2273 Parker
Provides for a state workforce fuel reduction & conservation program which will develop and assist in implementing strategies to reduce fuel consumption by the state's motor vehicle fleet and to reduce solo trips between work and home by state employees.
Emergency Procurement
A.530 Destito
No Senate Companion
Redefines the term "emergency" for purposes of state procurement policy and specifies that an agency's failure to plan in advance, which results in a situation in which normal practices cannot be followed does not constitute an emergency.
Smart Growth
A.543 Hoyt
S.992 Marcellino
Directs state agencies and public authorities to adopt and utilize smart growth principles.
Purchasing Training
A.554 Kavanagh
S.471 Breslin
Provides for the certification and training of state agency purchasing personnel and requires the department of economic development to establish and administer a system of training, continuing education and certification of state agency purchasing personnel.
Remediation Plan
A.561-A Kavanagh
S.3595-A Krueger
Imposes penalties upon a state agency, public authority or public benefit corporation, which fails to complete an environmental audit and remediation plan within the projected time schedule for such plan.
Status: A.561-A – Assembly Calendar 43
Procurement Impact
A.572 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Includes net economic impact as a factor to consider in awarding state procurement contracts.
Smoking Limitations
A.577 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Prohibits smoking within fifty feet of all entrances to state office buildings and restricts smoking outside buildings with indoor smoking restrictions.
Agency Reports
A.650 Kavanagh
S.1491 DeFrancisco
Requires agency reports to be posted on line and provides for a letter or notice to be sent to members of the legislature indicating the website address and the name of the person at such state agency to whom a legislator may request a printed copy of such report.
Status: A.650 – Assembly Calendar 55
Lobbyist Disclosure
A.655-A Kavanagh
S.744-B Krueger
Requires additional disclosures from lobbyists including: campaign contributions to elected officials, existing business relationships or associations with public officials and the names of family members of a public official to whom the lobbyist, or his or her employer, paid compensation of over $500 in the preceding calendar year and the amount of compensation paid.
Technology Sites
A.977 Gunther
No Senate Companion
Creates rural New York smart sites within the rural revitalization program of the New York state urban development corporation; such sites shall be technology based service facilities located in rural areas of the state that employ trained workers who use computers and the internet to perform business tasks for the global business community.
Dedicated Fees
A.989 Hawley
S.3207 Maziarz
Prohibits the transfer of unexpended moneys from funds receiving moneys from a dedicated fee into any other fund.
Meeting Access
A.1045 Destito
S.1490 DeFrancisco
Allows open meetings to be photographed, broadcast and recorded by audio or video means subject to reasonable rules governing the location of equipment and personnel.
Status: A.1045 – Assembly Calendar 92
Records Access
A.1050 Destito
No Senate Companion
Creates the "Electronic Access to Records Act" that requires all state public records to be accessible on the Internet; prohibits provision of personal identifying information, unless explicitly required by law.
Alcohol Sales
A.1131 Dinowitz
S.3609 LaValle
Authorizes the commissioner of education to restrict the sale and advertisement of alcoholic beverages at sporting events participated in by any state university of New York, city university of New York or community college.
Teleworking
A.1248 Lancman
S.2995 Kruger
Enacts the "teleworking expansion act" which provides that each agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance.
Background Checks
A.1284 Reilly
S.1765 Farley
Authorizes background checks of the employees of contractors performing services for state agencies who have access to confidential data or who perform certain types of services where background checks would be required for state employees performing similar work.
RF Oversight
A.1314 Brodsky
No Senate Companion
Requires higher education research foundations to submit reports of budget information to the governor and legislature and provides for additional oversight of higher education research foundations.
Status: Reported to Assembly Ways & Means
Rule Making Notice
A.1419 Wright
No Senate Companion
Provides for the dissemination by state agencies of rule making information through electronic media such as computer bulletin boards, e-mail and other new information technologies.
Facility Liability
A.1795 Calhoun
No Senate Companion
Provides that causes of action against public entities for injuries sustained on or in public recreational facilities shall be allowed only if such injuries arose from wanton, willful or gross negligence on the part of the public entities or operators.
Property Tax Payments
A.1887 Lifton
No Senate Companion
Provides for the payment of state aid by the state board of real property services to any city, county, town or village in which more than 15% of the total assessed value of real property therein is held by the state university, including the statutory or contract colleges thereof.
Building Naming
A.1897 Morelle
S.3081 Valesky
Prohibits the naming of a building after a public official because such public official was responsible for securing public funds for the person or entity naming the building.
Status: S.3081 – Reported to Senate Finance
Land Disposal
A.1978 Lupardo
S.860 Marcellino
Establishes prior to the disposition of land by state agencies and authorities the state land acquisition advisory council shall review such land.
UB 2020
A.2020-B Schimminger
S.2020-C Stachowski
Relates to tuition increases, leasing, contracting, and the overall daily operation at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Sign Language Interpreters
A.2102 Wright
No Senate Companion
Requires public officers and public bodies to make reasonable efforts to provide qualified interpreters at no charge for the hearing impaired at public meetings and hearings upon written request to the public officer responsible for the siting of such hearing and also requires installation and use of assistive listening devices.
Status: A.2102 – Assembly Calendar 183
African American Task Force
A.2223 Peoples
No Senate Companion
Establishes a task force on the condition of African American men in New York; such task force shall consist of 17 members; task force shall report its findings no later than December 31, 2010.
Foreign Gifts
A.2745 O'Donnell
No Senate Companion
Relates to establishing penalties for institutions of higher education that fail to comply with certain disclosure requirements relating to gifts made by foreign governments, persons and entities.
Public-Private Partnerships
A.2877 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Enacts the "public-private partnership disclosure act;" requires state agencies entering into public-private partnerships to promulgate rules and regulations regarding review and disclosure relating to such relationships and requires public notice and a report to the legislature.
ASC Contract Approvals
A.2925 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Establishes contract approval control boards at state operated institutions of the state university to approve non-academic service contracts.
Records Access
A.3584 Brennan
S.3433 Squadron
Creates the "Electronic Access to Records Act"; requires all state public records to be accessible on the Internet
IDA Reform
A.3659 Hoyt
S.1241 Thompson
Relates to the function of industrial development agencies and to the application and community impact report, financial assistance agreements, wages and standards, displaced worker protection, complaints and appeals, and reports by recipients.
Agency Reports
A.4056 Kavanagh
S.983 Kruger
Consolidates and reduces the frequency of reporting requirements by various departments, agencies and public authorities and also provides for copies of public documents to be sent to the legislative library
MWBE Contracts
A.4094 Millman
No Senate Companion
Relates to increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women owned business enterprises and creates a target growth revolving fund.
4 Day Workweek
A.4127-A Gianaris
No Senate Companion
Directs the governor to establish a 2 year pilot program providing a 4 day work week for certain state employees and requires the department of civil service to report on the cost saving derived from the implementation of such program.
Open Meetings
A.4634 Thiele
S.1720 LaValle
Relates to the definition of a public body pursuant to the open meetings law and includes any advisory committee to a public body, whether created by such public body or created pursuant to federal, state or local law.
Personal Service Contracts
A.4716-B John
No Senate Companion
Provides for awarding of public works contracts and establishes various criteria to ensure that public contracts are awarded on a cost effective basis and provides for a review of contracts to ensure cost effectiveness.
Status: A.4716-A – Passed Assembly
Biodiesel Fuel
A.4794 Alessi
No Senate Companion
Requires the use of biodiesel fuel in state diesel operated vehicles.
MWBE Agency Goals
A.4810 Brodsky
S.1799-A Hassell-Thompson
Establishes state agency goal submission procedure and defines goal as the aim of ensuring that certified minority-owned and woman-owned business enterprises are given meaningful participation in employment; further provides for state agency compliance reporting.
Status: A.4810 – Assembly Calendar 350
Regulation Filings
A.4943 Lopez V
No Senate Companion
Reduces the cost to state agencies of complying with current requirements of multiple filings of material incorporated by reference into regulations by permitting incorporation by reference when materials are available to the public at facilities located within the judicial district where such filing would be required and where such information is precisely identified.
Appropriation Levels
A.5000 Glick
S.365 Robach
Provides for minimum levels of appropriations for operating expenses to the state university of New York, city university of New York and community colleges to be based on appropriations in past fiscal years.
ID Cards
A.5054 Meng
No Senate Companion
Requires the use of identification numbers other than social security numbers on identification cards issued by the state or educational institutions.
Regulations Impact
A.5091 Lopez V
No Senate Companion
Exempts agencies from requirements for preparation of a regulatory impact statement and a regulatory flexibility analysis for minor rules which merely conforms a rule to state or federal law and relates to ministerial matters, simplifies a procedure, does not pose a great burden for compliance and is not expected to be opposed.
Disability Services
A.5112 Destito
S.3265 Griffo
Promotes the most-integrated services available for individuals, especially those with disabilities and requires a plan to be developed by each state agency to promote integrated, community-based services.
Office of Diversity
A.5189 Rivera P
S.3379 Diaz
Establishes the office for diversity and educational equality within the state university of New York administration.
Building Lighting
A.5280 Gianaris
No Senate Companion
Requires general purpose lights used in all public buildings to meet certain energy efficiency standards.
Language Translating
A.5333 Espaillat
S.2274 Parker
Enacts the "Access to Public Services for Non-English Speakers Act" and requires state agencies to take reasonable steps to provide equal access to services through oral language services or translating documents for persons with limited English proficiency.
IDA Expansion
A.5700-A Morelle
S.2898-A Stachowski
Eliminates the twenty million dollar cap on civic facilities authorized to be financed by industrial development agencies and authorities and eliminates the expiration and repeal of certain provisions of the general municipal law and the public authorities relating to the financing of certain projects and civic facilities by industrial development agencies and authorities
OSC Audit Follow-Up
A.5717 Brennan
No Senate Companion
Provides for follow-up reviews by the state comptroller to examine the implementation status of recommendations of previously conducted audits and requires audited agencies to continue to provide 90 days updates to all recipients of the initial 90 day report until all recommendations to which it concurs have been implemented.
Financial Disclosure
A.5727 Galef
No Senate Companion
Establishes no officer or employee of a state agency or legislative employee required to file an annual statement of financial disclosure shall solicit or receive contributions for a campaign for state or federal office.
Pesticide Use
A.5848 Brodsky
S.4043 Squadron
Provides for the phase-out on varying time schedules of state use of various categories of pesticides on state property; does not apply to certain antimicrobial pesticides and requires the department of environmental conservation to adopt a pest management plan for every state department, agency, and public benefit corporation; provides for waivers and exemptions.
Status: A.5848 – Assembly Calendar 408
Public Meeting Location
A.5873 Pretlow
S.4284 Valesky
Directs public bodies to make or cause to be made all reasonable efforts to ensure that meetings are held in an appropriate facility which can adequately accommodate members of the public who wish to attend.
Status: A.5873 – Assembly Calendar 410
NFP Boards
A.5927 Titone
S.1102 Lanza
Requires certificates of incorporation of not-for-profit corporations to include certifications that the initial directors of the corporation shall commit to the inclusion in the corporation bylaws of a conflict of interest policy and a requirement that the directors and officers of the corporation comply with education requirements regarding their fiduciary obligations to the corporation.
Rule Making Procedures
A.5933 Towns
No Senate Companion
Encourages state agencies to become more accountable for their rule making process so that the rules adopted are cost effective and changes the definition of "substantial revision" to permit the office for regulatory reform, or the appropriate agency, to make a determination as to whether or not a specific revision qualifies as substantial.
State Vehicle Usage
A.6305 Gordon
No Senate Companion
Relates to the use of state-owned or state-leased motor vehicles, aircrafts or watercrafts; provides for reimbursement to the state for the private use of such state-owned or state-leased motor vehicles, aircrafts or watercrafts and; further provides for a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for any individual who knowingly and intentionally violates such provisions.
FOIL Postage Charges
A.6371 Hyer-Spencer
S.3555 Serrano
Allows agencies to charge for postage when records are mailed through a FOIL request and allows agencies to waive fees for the reproduction of records.
Status: A.6371 – Assembly Calendar 437
CBVH Vending
A.6420 Weisenberg
S.3430 Breslin
Relates to the commission for the blind and the operation of vending facilities to expand state facility locations.
Food Donations
A.6453 Ortiz
S.6196 Schneiderman
Directs the commissioner of education, in cooperation with the commissioner of health, to facilitate a program to coordinate the donation of excess, unused, edible food from school, university or other educational institutions meal programs to voluntary food assistance programs.
Status: A.6453 – Assembly Calendar 440
Sweatshop Apparel
A.7376-A Rivera, P.
S.5609 Hassell-Thompson
Directs the state university trustees to promulgate and enforce a sweat-free code of conduct for the licensing and purchase of apparel at colleges and universities of the state university.
Stony Brook Flexibility
A.7841 Englebright
S.4863 LaValle
Enacts the "Stony Brook university quality higher education and economic development act" expanding autonomy and flexibility.
Investment Fund Management
A.7907-C Bing
S.4778-B Krueger
Relates to prudent management of institutional funds standards and requires consideration of certain factors relating to restrictions in gift instruments and charitable purposes.
Lobbyist Expansion
A.8239 Kavanagh
S.4137-A Kruger
Includes state officials and officials of colleges designated to engage in lobbying activity within the definition of "lobbyist" under the lobbying act.
Investment Management Chapter
A.8918 Bing
No Senate Companion
Relates to adopting a prudent management of institutional funds standard, as proposed in legislative bill numbers A.7907-A and S.4778-A.
Ethics Commission
A.9032 Silver
S.6064 Squadron
Creates an executive ethics and compliance commission and a new legislative ethics and compliance commission.
Status: A.9032 – Assembly Calendar 641
Fee Notice
A.9072-A Peralta
S.6665 Savino
Requires every state and local agency to post, on its internet website, a list of the amount or range of amounts of every fee imposed or collected by such agency and the purpose of such fee and also requires such agencies to conspicuously post or provide a written copy of such list at each office that imposes the fees.
Consulting Services
A.9934 John
S.7011 Klein
Relates to contracts by state agencies for consultant services and provides that no state agency shall enter into a contract for consultant services which is anticipated to cost more than five hundred thousand dollars in a twelve month period unless such state agency has first conducted a review to determine whether state employees can practicably meet the same need by providing services of the same or better quality for equivalent or lower costs.
Status: A.9934 – Reported to Ways & Means
Ancestry Data
A.9973 Meng
No Senate Companion
Requires state and municipal agencies, authorities, boards and commissions that collect demographic data as to the ancestry or origins of state residents to utilize a separate collection and tabulation category entitled "Asian or Pacific Islander" for the purpose of identifying persons having origins in any of the Far East countries, South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent or the Pacific Islands.
MWBE Bidding
S.201 Kruger
No Assembly Companion
Establishes detailed procedure for awards following public bidding for purchases and contracts by all public benefit corporations and public authorities not otherwise exempted and establishes an equal employment opportunity program, the minority and women-owned business enterprise program.
Child Care Training
S.607 Marcellino
No Assembly Companion
Requires at least one employee of any child care facility to be trained and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Disability Discrimination
S.735-A Lanza
No Assembly Companion
Clarifies the scope of protections against discrimination on the basis of disability in services provided by public entities including exclusion from participation or denial of benefits, services, programs or activities of a public entity and refusal of a public entity to make reasonable accommodations unless such entity can establish undue hardship; defines terms.
OGS Contracting
S.873 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Relates to commodities and services contracts by non-profit corporations organized in furtherance of the objects and purposes of the state university of New York.
Recycled Paper
S.961 Kruger
No Assembly Companion
Requires the use of chlorine free recycled paper by state agencies, the judiciary and the legislature and directs changes in procurement specifications and practices to eliminate exclusion of use of recycled paper and to remove barriers to excluding purchases which minimize emissions of dioxin.
Terror Contracts
S.988 Kruger
No Assembly Companion
Prohibits the state and agencies, etc. from entering into a contract with or otherwise funding, directly or indirectly, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic Jihad or their representatives.
Recycling Programs
S.1113 Marcellino
No Assembly Companion
Requires the commissioner to implement a recycling program for all state-owned and state-leased properties; requires incentives for adherence and annual reporting to the governor and legislature.
IFR Fund Protections
S.1114 Marcellino
No Assembly Companion
Provides that special revenue funds shall not be transferred or loaned temporarily without specific statutory authority.
MWBE Study
S.1130 Perkins
No Assembly Companion
Directs a study to be commissioned regarding the disparity of available minority and women-owned business enterprises and those actually used for state contracts and requires the study to be performed by an entity independent from the state; requires that the award of the study be performed through a request for proposal process.
Recycling Program
S.1299 Johnson C
No Assembly Companion
Requires the commissioner to implement a recycling program for all state-owned and state-leased properties; requires incentives for adherence and annual reporting to the governor and legislature.
DASNY Financing
S.1315 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes the dormitory authority to finance projects by certain not-for-profit corporations organized by officers, employees, alumni or students of the state university of New York to further the purposes of the state university of New York.
Alternative Fuel Vehicles
S.1360 Johnson C
No Assembly Companion
Provides that on and after January 1, 2010, one hundred percent of all new light-duty vehicles purchased by state agencies shall be alternative fuel motor vehicles with the exception of specialty, police or emergency vehicles as designated by the division of the budget and requires the governor's clean vehicle council to prepare a report detailing how such agencies shall purchase, allocate, distribute and utilize bio-diesel in state vehicles.
College Council Attendance
S.1445 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Mandates attendance by members appointed by the governor at meetings of councils of state-operated institutions.
Foreign Gifts
S.2047 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Requires disclosure of gifts made to certain foundations by foreign governments, persons and entities.
Foreign Student Enrollment
S.2523 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Provides that institutions of higher education shall compile reports regarding foreign students enrolled in such institutions and delineates the statistical information that each approved school must maintain for all foreign students attending with a student visa.
Regulation Fiscal Note
S.2922 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Requires the inclusion of a fiscal note with the adoption of a resolution or change in the rules and regulations governing educational institutions which have a fiscal impact.
U-Center & AMC Flexibility
S.5836 Stavisky
No Assembly Companion
Relates to tuition increases, leasing, contracting, and the overall daily operation at the four University Centers of the State University of New York at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
Force Labor Equipment
S.6180 Montgomery
No Assembly Companion
Provides that every contract entered into by a state agency for the procurement of equipment, materials or supplies shall contain a statement in which the contractor attests that no foreign made equipment, materials or supplies furnished to the state pursuant to the contract have been produced in whole or in part by forced labor, convict labor or indentured servitude; provides sanctions for violations.
Local Farm Products
S.6203 Klein
No Assembly Companion
Finances the transportation and distribution of New York state farm grown products to food service markets, including restaurants, schools, colleges, and others, especially in underserved urban and other communities.
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Voting Opportunity
A.466 Jeffries
S.4996 Parker
Establishes the "time off for democracy act" which requires employers to permit up to two hours off with pay to vote and permits employees to take a full day off, without pay, to serve as an election official.
Fundraising Prohibition
A.553 Kavanagh
No Senate Companion
Prohibits officials and employees of public authorities, public benefit corporations, and empire zone corporations from participating in political fundraising and enhances conflicts of interest provisions relating to industrial development agency members and employees to require industrial development officers and employees to disclose any interest in a project.
Unemployment Benefits
A.613-A John
S.4123-A Onorato
Provides that an offer of employment or assignment made to a part-time faculty employee by a higher education institution which is contingent on enrollment, funding, or programmatic changes shall not constitute reasonable assurance of continued employment.
Status: A.613-A – Reported to Assembly Ways & Means; S.4123-A – Reported to Senate Finance
Equal Compensation
A.1119 Destito
S.5480 Savino
Makes it a discriminatory practice for public employers to compensate employees of different sexes differently for work that is of comparable worth however makes exception for seniority system.
Status: A.1119 – Assembly Calendar 101
Diversity Reports
A.1473 Wright
S.2163 Parker
Directs the president of the state civil service commission to publish reports annually relating to diversity within state government.
Investment Prohibitions
A.1548 Wright
No Senate Companion
Prohibits the investment of public employee retirement funds in companies doing business with the Republic of Sudan or its instrumentalities and requires divestiture of currently invested funds.
Blood Donation
A.1838 Dinowitz
S.1711 Savino
Permits state employees to be excused from work without loss of compensation for up to four hours to donate blood; permits supervisor to require proof of such donation.
Confidential Information
A.1899 Peralta
S.1327 Serrano
Establishes a process for regulating the collecting, recording, and disclosing of confidential information by state employees.
Union Activity
A.2123 John
No Senate Companion
Designates as an unfair labor practice and prohibits the use of public funds appropriated for any purpose to engage in activity intended to influence the outcome of a union representation election and other concerted employment-related activity undertaken pursuant to rights granted under federal or state law.
Prevailing Wages
A.2140 John
No Senate Companion
Provides for the payment of the prevailing wage for employees; provides that if an employee, client, inmate or student of any political subdivision performs any work for a public entity of which such person is not employed, such person shall be paid the prevailing wage.
M/C Organization
A.2339 McEneny
No Senate Companion
Creates management/confidential organizational act to promote the efficient and effective administration of employer designated state programs and enacts provisions relating to the recognition of designated employee organizations.
Retroactive Membership
A.2342 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Revives causes of action for denial of retroactive membership by public retirement systems for members who took all steps necessary to qualify for and would have qualified for such relief under section 803 of the retirement and social security law but for expiration of the time to bring a lawsuit, if suit is commenced on or before June 30, 2011.
Police Retirement
A.2344-A McEneny
S.5097 Savino
Allows state university police officers to transfer to the NYSLPFRS and to be covered by the provisions of a new 25 year half pay retirement plan, with additional one-sixtieths of final average salary for each year of service in excess of twenty-five years, but not exceeding fifteen such years; provides that for tier 2 members, the additional one-sixtieths can not exceed seven such years.
30 Year Enhancement
A.2437-A Abbate
No Senate Companion
Provides that retirement system members who retire after completion of more than 30 years of service would receive an allowance based on 2% of final average salary for each year of service.
35 Year Option
A.2645 Abbate
S.2340 Savino
Allows Tier II, III and IV members of the New York state and local employees' retirement system to retire without a benefit reduction upon completion of 35 years of service without regard to age.
30 Year Enhancement
A.2786 Abbate
No Senate Companion
Provides that retirement system members who retire after completion of more than 30 years of service would receive an allowance based on 2% of final average salary for each year of service.
3% Contribution
A.2820 Abbate
No Senate Companion
Prospectively eliminates the required three percent tier III and tier IV retirement system contributions for members joining a NYS public retirement system on or after July 27, 1976.
Retroactive Membership
A.2827 Abbate
S.2310 Savino
Allows certain members of public retirement systems to file for retroactive membership in such system by filing on or before December 31, 2010 and excludes persons who were not members of a public retirement system as of December 31, 1995.
Taylor Law Review
A.2847-A Schimminger
S.4504 Kruger
Creates the public employees' fair employment act study commission to review the existing Taylor law addressing labor relations between public employers and employees.
Fingerprinting
A.3436 Clark
No Senate Companion
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to require the fingerprinting of the employees of any contractor doing work on a state job or any facility at which official state business is conducted on a regular basis.
Non-Competitive Positions
A.3572 Perry
No Senate Companion
Requires persons assuming exempt non-competitive class civil service positions to demonstrate their competence for such position through education, substantive experience or professional training or examination as deemed appropriate by the civil service commission.
Unemployment Benefits
A.3703-B John
S.1098 Lanza
Repeals provision of law relating to limiting the unemployment insurance benefits which a non-professional employee of an educational institution may receive during vacation periods and amends provisions relating to professional employees at educational institutions so as to eliminate references to repealed provisions of law.
Investment Prohibitions
A.3806 Camara
S.2951 Adams
Prohibits the investment of public pension funds in entities doing business in Sudan.
Police Transfers
A.4395 Canestrari
No Senate Companion
Includes state university of New York police in provisions permitting transfer of police officers to certain police employers.
Status: A.4395 – Passed Assembly
AA Officers
A.4574 Rivera P
S.3347 Perkins
Provides that all affirmative action officers and administrators employed by the state shall be in competitive classified positions and directs the department of civil service to establish qualifications and examinations for employment and promotion in the affirmative action classification.
Unemployment Benefits
A.4920-A John
S.4053-A Monserrate
Increases unemployment insurance benefits; provides for unemployment insurance for domestic violence survivors.
TRS Transfer
A.5313 Abbate
S.3510 Savino
Permits certain eligible vested members of the NYS teachers' in tiers 3 and 4 who have ceased teaching to withdraw from such system and to transfer such credits to another state's retirement system and requires return of accumulated member contributions.
Status: A.5313 – Assembly Calendar 371
Retirement Income
A.6957 Sweeney
S.4563 Savino
Increases the amount of money a retiree may earn in a position of public service in the year 2008 and thereafter to $32,500.
Additional Credit
A.7074 McEneny
No Senate Companion
Allows certain tier 3 and 4 retirement system members who have contributed for a period of 10 years or more in the NYSERS, NYSTRS, NYCTRS, NYCBERS or the NYCERS to receive an additional month of service credit for each year of service in excess of 10 years of service for which such member has contributed.
H1N1 Workplace Notice
A.9156 Lancman
S.6202 Adams
Enacts the H1N1 in the workplace prevention act requiring employers to post a sign on prevention of the H1N1 flu in the workplace and authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations related to prevention of the H1N1 flu virus in the workplace.
NYSUT Early Retirement
A.10065 Abbate
S.6972 Savino
Provides a temporary early retirement incentive of 55/25 for employees in who are members of TRS and ERS and who are in bargaining units represented by NYSUT, which was included as part of Chapter 504 of the laws of 2009 which will provide budgetary flexibility to school districts, SUNY and community colleges while averting layoffs at the same time.
Cancer Screening
A.10066 Abbate
S.7077 Savino
Relates to leave for cancer screening; broadens section to include all types of cancer screening for a period of eight hours.
Retirement Transfers
A.10068 Abbate
S.7078 Savino
Relates to transfer of retirement membership for SUNY employees within the professional, scientific and technical bargaining unit into the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Matching Capital Grants
A.402 John
No Senate Companion
Whenever a recipient of a higher education capital matching grant enters into any contract, subcontract, lease, grant, bond, covenant or other agreement for or in connection with certain projects it shall be deemed a public works project.
Aid Calculations
A.454 Jacobs
No Senate Companion
Grants credit in licensed trade or registered business schools based on a student's progress for the purposes of federal aid.
Part-Time TAP
A.3266 Christensen
No Senate Companion
Amends the education law, in relation to tuition assistance awards to part-time students at for-profit colleges having degree-granting authority.
Union Tax Exemption
A.3336 Tedisco
S.1172 Farley
Authorizes the city of Schenectady to accept an application for real property tax exemption from Union Graduate College.
Medical Grants
A.5240 Espaillat
S.5035 Hassell-Thompson
Authorizes enrollment grants for medical education programs of non-public institutions for minorities, as a plan to increase the number of minority students entering and completing educational programs leading to professional licensure in medicine
Proprietary School Licensure
A.8773 Glick
S.6043 Schneiderman
Relates to licensure of private proprietary schools and provides for the repeal of certain provisions of the education law upon expiration thereof
BUNDY Study
A.9071 Peoples
No Senate Companion
Establishes a legislative task force for the purposes of analyzing the sustainability of supporting independent postsecondary institutions with Bundy aid.
Proprietary Inspections
S.1042 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes on-site inspections of degree granting proprietary institutions by the commissioner of education for compliance with applicable laws and regulations and establishes an advisory council for degree-granting proprietary institutions.
Cornell MOU
S.5969 Valesky
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes Cornell University to enter into memoranda of understanding with state agencies to provide services and technical assistance.
School Psychologist
A.418 Latimer
No Senate Companion
Provides for the licensure of school psychologists and authorizes the use of the title "school psychologist" to licensed or exempt individuals.
Dietetics
A.569 Cahill
No Senate Companion
Includes the alternative and complementary integration and application of scientific principles in the scope of the practice of dietetics and nutrition and provides that the primary function of a certified dietician or nutritionist shall include using nutrition for healing.
Nurse Practitioner
A.765 Gottfried
S.2948 Montgomery
Allows the practice of registered professional nursing by a certified nurse practitioner to include diagnosis and performance without collaboration of a licensed physician and further provides for insurance policies providing coverage for physician services in a physician's office to provide the same coverage for services performed by a nurse practitioner.
Child Abuse Pediatrics
A.805 Paulin
No Senate Companion
Establishes a forensic fellowship program for education and training in child abuse pediatrics and requires the preparation of a report to evaluate the effectiveness of the program.
Polysomnographic Technology
A.1010 Bing
No Senate Companion
Relates to licensing the practice of polysomnographic technology and establishes requirements and procedures for professional licensure and registration.
Rehabilitation Counselors
A.1011 Kellner
S.3476 Morahan
Provides for the licensure of rehabilitation counselors who treat emotional, cognitive and other disorders, by the department of education and provides for the establishment of a state board.
Naturopathic Medicine
A.1370 Hoyt
S.1930 LaValle
Regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine, establishes a state board for naturopathic medicine and establishes requirements to receive a limited permit in naturopathic medicine.
Nurse Anesthesia
A.1727 Gottfried
S.3288 Hassell-Thompson
Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia an provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of an application, having a license as a registered professional nurse, having the appropriate educational requirements and paying the fifty dollar initial certification fee and the triennial thirty dollar registration fee.
Neuro-Psychology Technicians
A.1751 Gottfried
No Senate Companion
Relates to neuro-psychology technicians employed by psychologists providing supportive services relating to neuro-psychological testing and sets forth education requirements for such technicians.
Occupational Safety & Hygiene
A.2198 Morelle
No Senate Companion
Provides for licensing of occupational safety and hygiene professionals, creates state board for industrial hygiene and safety and specifies requirements for a license and authorizes limited permits.
Biofeedback Therapy
A.2480 Pretlow
No Senate Companion
Provides for the licensing and regulation of the practice of biofeedback therapy and establishes state board of biofeedback therapy and the requirements to qualify for a license as a biofeedback therapist.
Nursing Study
A.3190 Pheffer
S.4119 Montgomery
Authorizes and directs the board of regents and the state education department to conduct a comprehensive study of nursing education programs across the state and develop a model for improved articulation of the education program for career mobility from one classification to another in the field of nursing.
Behavioral Health
A.3263 Christensen
No Senate Companion
Requires providers of behavioral health services to obtain a license to engage in such practice and creates the New York state advisory board for behavioral health services which mandates certain requirements for licensure as a behavioral health practitioner.
Naturopathic Medicine
A.3457 Perry
No Senate Companion
Provides for the regulation of the practice of naturopathic medicine, the licensure of naturopathic physicians and establishes a state board for naturopathic medicine.
Acupuncture
A.3717 Meng
S.5512 Oppenheimer
Relates to the licensing of acupuncturists and the practice of the profession of acupuncture and further establishes acupuncturists as mandatory reporters of suspected cases of child abuse and maltreatment.
Optometrist Pharmaceuticals
A.3718 Paulin
S.2667 Valesky
Authorizes optometrists certified to use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents for the treatment or prevention of ocular disease, to also use specified oral pharmaceutical agents in their practices; requires completion of a 25 hour phase three therapeutic pharmaceutical agent certification course of didactic education.
Domestic Violence Training
A.3808 Gabryszak
S.3981 Oppenheimer
Requires registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, physicians, physicians assistants and specialist assistants to complete approved domestic violence training or course work and provides training every four years.
Nurse Anesthetists
A.4509-A Morelle
S.5403 Klein
Relates to the certification of registered nurse anesthetists and provides that for such certification an applicant shall file an application, be licensed as a registered professional nurse, have satisfactorily completed educational preparation for the administration of anesthesia by an accredited entity and pay a fee.
Geology
A.4774-C Englebright
S.2784-B Thompson
Establishes the profession of geology; defines the practice of geology, establishes requirements for a license as a professional geologist and regulates the practice of such profession.
Pain Management
A.5235 Meng
No Senate Companion
Includes education and training in pain management and end-of-life care, including acupuncture treatment, under the requirements of physician education.
Orientation Specialists
A.5581-A Bing
S.1262-A Johnson, C.
Provides for the licensing of licensed orientation and mobility specialists and vision rehabilitation therapists.
Dental Anesthesia
A.5704-A Pheffer
S.4086-A Onorato
Allows dental hygienists to perform anesthesia and requires a dental hygienist to be certified and supervised before performing anesthesia.
Genetic Counselors
A.5766 Sweeney
S.2757 LaValle
Provides for the licensing of genetic counselors and creates the state board for genetic counseling.
Denturology
A.5816 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Establishes the profession of denturology, and provides for the licensing and regulation thereof.
Cultural Awareness
A.5936-B Towns
S.1328-B Serrano
Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals.
Tick-Borne Diseases
A.5988 Miller
No Senate Companion
Requires course work and training in tick-borne diseases by every physician, nurse, lab technologist and pharmacist.
Veteran Mental Health
A.5993-A Rivera P
S.1195-A Fuschillo
Creates a course of instruction to train mental health providers in veteran specific mental health issues.
Veterinarian Continuing Education
A.7203-B Abbate
S.285-B Little
Requires veterinarians and veterinary technicians to complete continuing education during each triennial registration period.
Status: A.7203-B – Assembly Calendar 482
Occupational Therapy Assistant
A.7790 Canestrari
S.4538 LaValle
Defines occupational therapy assistant and provides requirements for a license as an occupational therapy assistant.
Clinical Lab Practitioner
A.7913-A Jaffee
S. 5972-A Johnson, C.
Relates to the definition of the term "clinical laboratory practitioner"; requires certain permits to be issued for out-of-state laboratories accepting New York state specimens.
Recreation Specialist
A.8073-A Lancman
S.6252 Lanza
Relates to the licensure of therapeutic recreation specialists and provides that "therapeutic therapy" or "therapeutic recreation" means a treatment service designed to restore, remediate, and rehabilitate a person's level of functioning and independence in life activities, to promote health and wellness as well as reduce or eliminate the activity limitations and restrictions to participate in life situations caused by an illness or disabling condition; outlines methods for revocation of license.
Midwifery
A.8117 Gottfried
S.5007 DUANE
Relates to the definition of the practice of midwifery.
Impaired Professionals
A.8301 Lupardo
S.5753 Klein
Relates to accessing the professional assistance program for impaired professionals.
Massage Therapists
A.8340 Morelle
S.5431 Stachowski
Requires massage therapists to complete thirty-six hours of continuing education each registration period.
Child Abuse Reporting
A.8675 Jaffee
S.5258 Hassell-Thompson
Requires the education commissioner to establish standards requiring that the 2 hours of coursework or training required of certain specified health care professionals regarding the identification and reporting of child abuse and maltreatment include information regarding the relationship between child abuse and domestic violence and the identification of behavioral and physical indicators of domestic violence.
Cultural Awareness
A.8843 Crespo
S.3129 Diaz
Requires cultural awareness and competence training for all medical professionals as part of their licensing requirements.
CPR Teacher Training
S.344 Kruger
No Assembly Companion
Requires adequate training in the Heimlich maneuver and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), by an institution or provider approved by the state education department, as a condition of certification as a school teacher.
Medical Competency
S.981 Kruger
No Assembly Companion
Requires a physician, upon the renewal of his or her professional license, to submit to the board of regents that he or she has attended and completed a course of continuing education in professional medical competency approved by such board.
Dental Hygienist
S.1041 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Establishes a state board for dentistry and a state board for dental hygiene and relates to the use of the title "registered dental hygienist"
Geology
S.1116 Marcellino
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the profession of geology and establishes requirements for a license as a professional geologist.
Nurse Anesthetists
S.1515 DeFrancisco
No Assembly Companion
Provides for the registration of professional nurse anesthetists.
Orthotics
S.1674 Flanagan
No Assembly Companion
Relates to creating the profession of orthotics, prosthetic and pedorthic practice and provides licensing requirements
Nurse Continuing Education
S.1769 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Requires 45 hours of mandatory continuing education in a three year period for registered professional nurses but permits exemptions for illness, military duty and nurses who are not engaged in the practice.
Land Surveying
S.1776 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Relates to the practice of land surveying and revises the definition of land surveying as practicing that branch of the engineering profession and applied mathematics which includes the application of rules and regulations in accordance with certain local requirements; stipulates education requirements for licensing.
Social Workers
S.2545 Parker
No Assembly Companion
Allows a person with a master's of social worker degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year of the effective date of this act.
Clinical Lab Practitioners
S.3460 Johnson, C.
No Assembly Companion
Relates to the definition of the term "clinical laboratory practitioner" to require clinical laboratory practitioners who practice in a licensed clinical laboratory whether located within the state or outside the state to obtain a license.
Truth In Testing
S.3565 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Provides that any question appearing on an examination prepared or administered by the education department for the purpose of licensing professionals under their jurisdiction, on the test for licensing of real estate professionals, and on tests for licensing by the insurance and other state departments shall be made available for review pursuant to the state's Truth in Testing Law.
Magnetic Imaging Techs
S.5139 Fuschillo
No Assembly Companion
Establishes requirements for certification as a magnetic resonance imaging technician and establishes no person shall act as a magnetic resonance imaging technician unless registered by the department of education.
CPA Master’s Degree
S.5835 Stavisky
No Assembly Companion
Requires persons seeking licensure as a certified public accountant to receive a master's degree within five years.
Brain Donation
A.195 Cusick
No Senate Companion
Establishes the NYS brain donor registry for an anatomical gift made for the purpose of medical research regarding developmental disabilities, including but not limited to autism spectrum disorders or cerebral palsy.
Intellectual Property
A.247 Magnarelli
No Senate Companion
Relates to the maintenance of a database on intellectual property generated by state employees or developed through state-funded research which shall include, at a minimum, a brief description of the intellectual property and up-to-date contact information for each item.
Status: Passed Assembly
Greenhouse Gas Research
A.249 Magnarelli
S.4917 Thompson
Establishes the New York state greenhouse gases management research and development program to promote new technologies and processes which shall avoid, abate, mitigate, capture or sequester carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Status: Delivered to Governor – March 11, 2010
Bioscience Research
A.252 Magnarelli
S.1147 LaValle
Relates to the economic development fund and provides assistance to biosciences research institutions and organizations based on a competitive basis to develop curriculum and administer bioscience specific training programs for current and prospective industry employees.
Bioscience Commercialization
A.253 Magnarelli
S.2290 Stachowski
Establishes the biosciences commercialization fund within the foundation for science, technology and innovation.
Environmental Tech Institute
A.527 Destito
No Senate Companion
Creates the New York state environmental technology institute within the science and technology foundation, which shall contract with a certain local development corporation to establish such institute and the institute shall be operated collaboratively by a consortium of universities and private sector industrial partners.
Autism Research
A.562 Duprey
S.325 Little
Establishes a gift for the autism awareness and research fund on the personal income tax form.
Small Business Technology
A.1111-A DelMonte
No Senate Companion
Creates the small business technology investment program and requires reporting by regional investment funds receiving investments and requires the foundation to report to the governor and legislature a summary of the program and an evaluation of reports submitted by the funds.
Status: A.1111-A – Assembly Calendar 99
Strategic Partnerships
A.2852 Schimminger
S.4103 Aubertine
Establishes the strategic network partnerships program to organize, integrate and coordinate state programs designed to assist manufacturing industries to become more competitive and productive
Status: A.2852 – Assembly Calendar 236
Stem Cell Limits
A.3017 Benjamin
S.1512 DeFrancisco
Provides a limitation on the use of state funds for stem cell projects or research to those projects of research having the greatest potential for near-term clinical benefit in human patients.
Leukemia Research
A.3075 Cusick
S.1197 Robach
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 and 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.
Status: A.3075 – Assembly Calendar 252
Disease Tracking
A.3092 Benjamin
No Senate Companion
Creates the statewide commission on chronic disease tracking.
Small Business Research
A.4198 Schimminger
S.4434 Stachowski
Recodifies the small business innovation research program within the New York state office of science, technology and academic research.
Cloning Prohibition
A.4311 Fitzpatrick
S.2186 Golden
Creates the human cloning prohibition act which makes it unlawful for any person or entity, public or private, to intentionally or knowingly perform or attempt to perform human cloning.
Intellectual Property Office
A.4729 Morelle
S.6333 Klein
Creates the office of intellectual property asset management which authorizes an appointed commissioner to head an advisory council to establish policy.
Status: A.4729 – Reported to Assembly Ways & Means
Intellectual Property Management
A.4878 Morelle
S.6330 Klein
Establishes principles governing the management of state-owned intellectual property and provides for the review, evaluation and alteration of current principles and policies.
Bioscience Facilities
A.5255 Espaillat
No Senate Companion
Creates the bioscience facilities development program and provides grants to local economic development corporations for the purpose of creating a revolving fund for loans to bioscience facilities to assist commercial bioscience companies to remain in New York state.
Status: A.5255 – Assembly Calendar 368
Academic Districts
A.5291 Morelle
No Senate Companion
Enacts the New York state academic collaborative district act and establishes criteria for academic collaborative designation and the application for academic collaborative district designation.
Lymphedema Research
A.5321 Maisel
S.2585 Golden
Creates the lymphedema and lymphatic diseases research grants program with grants, not to exceed $50,000, awarded on a competitive basis to biomedical research institutions conducting direct research related to lymphedema and lymphatic disease.
Status: A.5321 – Assembly Calendar 374
Nitric Acid Storage
A.5405 Ramos
S.2228 LaValle
Requires each retail sale of nitric acid to be recorded by the seller thereof; such record shall include the photographic identification number, telephone number and address of the purchaser and provides for the secure storage of nitric acid by retailers, schools and institutions of higher education.
R&D Centers
A.5407 Butler
No Senate Companion
Establishes the creation of research and development centers and provides tax credits and benefits for research and development enterprises and qualified research production facilities with centers modeled after the Empire Zone program.
Medical Matrix Program
A.5642 Espaillat
No Senate Companion
Creates the metro medical matrix program to promote academic and commercial bioscience research and development in the New York metropolitan area.
Copyright Protection
A.5726-A Galef
S.3659-A Oppenheimer
Waives the ability of government agencies in New York to claim copyright protection except where the record reflects artistic creation, or scientific or academic research.
Status: A.5726 – Assembly Calendar 400
Parkinson’s Fund
A.6136 Alessi
S.2692 LaValle
Authorizes the issuance of "Cure Parkinson's Disease" license plates and establishes the cure Parkinson's disease trust fund.
Epidemiology Lab
A.6555 Towns
S.90 Sampson
Enables the dormitory authority to finance and provide facilities for a research laboratory for epidemiology in Brooklyn.
Energy Research
A.6845 Englebright
S.3279 LaValle
Includes the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the center for excellence program.
Climate Research
A.6945 Ortiz
S.1121 Marcellino
Establishes the New York state climate change task force and establishes the membership of the task force.
Genetics Council
A.8511 Cahill
S.3731 LaValle
Establishes an eleven member genetics advisory council and provides for a preliminary report to the governor and legislature before March 1, 2010 and a final report by December 1, 2010 on issues relating to genetic counseling, genetic testing and public education.
Status: A.8511 – Assembly Calendar 599
Technology Centers
A.9810 Gabryszak
S.6854 Stachowski
Would require the centers to accelerate technology development and commercialization, to facilitate new company formation, to conduct outreach to companies, and to provide evidence of partnerships with entities that aid in the economic development growth of the State.
Research Libraries
A.9824 Schimminger
S.6855 Stachowski
Enacts the academic research information access act under the department of economic development to provide public and private academic and research libraries of New York access to information resources at institutions of higher education and within the entrepreneurial community.
Status: A.9824 – Reported to Assembly Ways & Means
Centers of Excellence
A.10009 Lupardo
No Senate Companion
Relates to the establishment of the centers of excellence program for the purpose of fostering
collaboration between academic research community and the business sector to develop and commercialize new products and technologies, to promote critical private sector investment in emerging high technology fields in New York state, and to create and expand technology-related businesses and employment.
Lake Erie Research
S.78 Volker
No Assembly Companion
Provides for the construction and maintenance of a Lake Erie research center and warm water fish species hatchery.
Stem Cell Institute
S.1133 Perkins
No Assembly Companion
Creates the New York Stem Cell Research Institute and provides for the appointment of the New York state stem cell board, to be composed of nineteen members, to run the institute.
Phytophthora Research
S.2422 Young
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the Phytophthora research program at the New York state college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell university and provides that such research shall include, but not be limited to, identification of disease-resistant cultivars and control strategies found to be effective in New York state.
Genome Institute
S.2735 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the New York state genome institute within the office of science, technology and academic research to review research activity that is being done across the state related to genetics, and make reports and recommendations regarding federal grants and efforts to apply such research.
Lupus Research
S.3663 Savino
No Assembly Companion
Creates the lupus research enhancement program and fund.
Stem Cell Research
S.4525 Krueger
No Assembly Companion
Authorizes stem cell research, requires informed consent and requires the provision of information regarding embryos in connection with fertility treatment and informed consent for donation of embryos for research.
Virtual Incubator
S.4674 Young
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the empire virtual incubator program within the New York state office of science, technology and academic research.
Incubator Networks
S.7048 Stachowski
No Assembly Companion
Creates the New York Incubator Network, allowing NYSTAR to designate a university, university-affiliated research institute or a consortium of such institutions as an incubator and allows the foundation to provide financial assistance for operating purposes.
Credit Card Solicitation
A.173 Jeffries
S.1932 Parker
Provides that there shall be no solicitation for credit card holders through state or city university of NY unless credit education courses are provided.
Public Assistance Credit
A.368 Peralta
S.2162 Parker
Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.
Credit Card Solicitation
A.489 Dinowitz
S.991 LaValle
Prohibits the mailing of credit card applications to persons under twenty-one years of age except when requested.
Health Insurance Extension
A.703 Jeffries
No Senate Companion
Defines "dependent children" as including any dependents up to the age of 25 for health insurance purposes.
Voter Participation
A.811-B Bing
S.1872-B Klein
Provides measures to improve voter registration among young people by adding
prepaid postage and expanding distribution requirements to all colleges, universities and state agencies.
Voter Registration
A.837 Dinowitz
No Senate Companion
Designates state and city universities of New York as participating agencies for voter registration form distribution and assistance and requires SUNY and CUNY to offer each applicant an application for an absentee ballot.
Immunization Exemption
A.880 Gottfried
S.2339 Padavan
Extends the protections of the medical exemption from mandatory immunizations for students to ensure deference to the professional assessments of physicians and nurse practitioners in the care of their individual patients.
Alcohol Possession
A.949 McDonough
No Senate Companion
Increases the penalties for possession of alcohol by minors and authorizes issuance of an appearance ticket to such persons by a police or peace officer and completion of an alcohol awareness program and/or a victim's impact program.
MTA Discount
A.1257 Colton
S.804 Kruger
Establishes a discount fare rate of no less than 25% for full-time undergraduate students attending an accredited college who utilize the New York city transit system, including railroad, subway and/or omnibus services.
SSN Protection
A.1303 Wright
S.700 Johnson, C
Restricts the availability and use of the entirety of a person's social security number.
Student Athletes
A.1428 Wright
No Senate Companion
Enacts the student athlete free enterprise act to permit student athletes to engage in free enterprise activities and provides that associations and organizations regulating student athletics in this state shall not prohibit student athletes from engaging in free enterprise activities.
Textbook Deduction
A.1610 Zebrowski
No Senate Companion
Provides a deduction in determining personal income tax for the cost of textbooks at New York private or public college or university by a taxpayer or such taxpayer's eligible dependent.
Volunteer Service
A.1697-A Englebright
S.4847-A Stavisky
Enacts the higher education community service act to promote volunteer service by higher education students and creates a council for higher education community service to regulate and recognize persons and programs associated therewith.
Status: S.4847-A – Reported to Senate Finance
Emergency Contraception
A.1702 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Enacts the "public university emergency contraception act" which requires SUNY and CUNY to provide emergency contraception to any student requesting it and requires the widespread provision of information at such colleges and universities on the safety and availability of emergency contraception on campus.
Public Assistance Work Participation
A.1827-A Wright
S.5846-B Montgomery
Allows for baccalaureate and advanced degree programs to count towards the work participation rate and further provides for certain educational and training activity (homework expected or required by the educational institution) to count towards the satisfaction of the participant's work activity requirement.
Status: A.1827-A – Assembly Calendar 166
Campus Tabling
A.2146 Englebright
S.4473 Stavisky
Defines the term "tabling" as dissemination of information and allows organizations to do tabling outside buildings on campus so long as they don't block access to the academic use of campus buildings.
ATM Surcharges
A.2147 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Prohibits imposing surcharges on automated teller machines located on state university of New York or city university of New York property.
Campus Signs
A.2547 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Protects and regulates the posting of signs on college campuses by student organizations.
Supplies Tax Credit
A.2794 Fitzpatrick
No Senate Companion
Establishes a college student expense personal income tax credit for a taxpayer or his or her dependents who are enrolled full-time in an undergraduate college, equal to the amount paid for new and used required textbooks and laptop computers not to exceed one thousand dollars.
Suicide Prevention
A.2994-A Robinson
S.4217 Nozzolio
Establishes the collegiate suicide prevention program.
Supplies Tax Deduction
A.3045 Kolb
No Senate Companion
Provides an itemized deduction for expenses for course-mandated supplies for eligible college students paid by taxpayers.
Admissions Prohibition
A.3260 Benjamin
S.1294 Montgomery
Relates to prohibiting colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration.
Credit Card Merchandising
A.3279 Englebright
No Senate Companion
Prohibits the direct merchandising of credit cards through SUNY and CUNY to any enrolled student.
Admissions Discrimination
A.3578 Aubry
No Senate Companion
Establishes it shall be an unfair educational practice to exclude or discriminate against any person seeking admission to an educational institution by reason of his or her having been convicted of one or more criminal offenses or by reason of a finding of a lack of "good moral character"
Inmate Instruction
A.3766 Aubry
S.4793 Montgomery
Provides inmates the opportunity to obtain a general equivalency diploma and instructs the department of corrections to ensure that academic education programs provide the appropriate curriculum and certified academic staff for GED instruction.
Status: A.3766 – Assembly Calendar 286
Illegal Alien Enrollment
A.3991 Crouch
No Senate Companion
Excludes illegal aliens from attending public post-secondary educational institutions and requires such educational institutions to verify the legal citizenship status of all students while providing information regarding the attendance of suspected illegal aliens to the commissioner of education, the New York state attorney general and the United States immigration and naturalization service.
Athletic Drug Use
A.4340 Perry
S.2468 LaValle
Establishes the "honesty in sports act"; requires amateur and professional athletes who perform where spectators pay an admission fee to certify by signed affidavit that he or she has not used performance enhancing substances (defined as the NCAA'a current list of banned drugs) in the preceding six months.
Hazing Penalties
A.4396 Canestrari
S.298 Little
Increases severity of hazing in the second degree from a violation to an E felony where injury or death occurs, and of hazing in the first degree from a class A misdemeanor to a D felony where injury or death is caused by deadly weapon or dangerous instrument and creates new class A misdemeanor of hazing in the third degree which mirrors former hazing in the second degree.
Student Indemnification
A.4423 Canestrari
S.1657 LaValle
Relates to indemnification of students of the state university of New York who participate in required course activity at sites of affiliates.
Tuition Credit Expansion
A.4427 Canestrari
No Senate Companion
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.
Credit Card Debt
A.4575 Rivera P
No Senate Companion
Requires every institution of higher education in the state to interview students who withdraw to determine whether such withdrawal is the result of credit card debt incurred by the student and requires that course of instruction on the implications of establishing a bad credit rating be given to newly entering students.
Campus Conduct
A.4785 Morelle
S.2527 LaValle
Requires colleges to educate the campus community on bias-related crime, hazing, underage drinking and illegal drug use and expands authority of colleges to regulate conduct by college and student government organizations and clubs, athletic teams and clubs, alumni organizations, fraternities, sororities, and any other organization that has access to and use of the college facilities.
Student Information
A.5471 Boyland
No Senate Companion
Provides that information as to a student shall not be released by the state or city university of New York or an alumni association thereof without the student's written consent.
Public Assistance Opportunities
A.5562 Lopez V
No Senate Companion
Allows persons participating in an approved program of vocational training or rehabilitation, including attendance at a 4-year university to receive public assistance benefits pursuant to a federal waiver to be obtained by the department of labor.
Summer Employment
A.5764 Scarborough
S.2236 Perkins
Establishes the summer employment program for youths between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one to be administered by the labor department with local community-based organizations and government entities eligible to receive funds under this program job positions to be from the public and non-profit sectors.
Citizenship Requirement
A.7052 Ball
No Senate Companion
Requires any person who is admitted or accepted to SUNY or CUNY be a citizen or legally admitted to the U.S.
Health Insurance
A.7113 Morelle
S.3046 Seward
Provides for short term health insurance policies, not to exceed two years, for persons who have recently lost coverage under a parent's policy due to graduation from college and are otherwise not eligible for employer sponsored coverage.
Textbook Sales Tax
A.7584 Ortiz
No Senate Companion
Exempts textbooks required or recommended by college professors for use in a particular course from sales and compensating use taxes and also requires that students provide a course syllabus or form which identifies course materials as a requirement for such exemption.
Veterans’ Coordinator
A.8295 Espaillat
No Senate Companion
Establishes a university coordinator for veterans' services and requires coordination by the office of veteran's affairs and the state university regarding services to veterans.
In-State Incentives
A.8453 Tedisco
No Senate Companion
Enacts the graduate outreach assistance law to exempt from state income taxation the first two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a fifty thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a four-year college graduate and the first one hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a twenty-five thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a two-year college graduate
Prison Education
A.8552 Aubry
S.5685 Hassell-Thompson
Establishes the commission on post-secondary correctional education and make recommendations to the legislature and the governor regarding the availability and effectiveness of post-secondary correctional education programs in prison.
Status: A.8552 – Reported to Assembly Ways & Means
Polling Places
A.9386 Kavanagh
S.2003 Oppenheimer
Provides that whenever the majority of voters eligible to vote in an election district reside on a college or university campus, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such campus.
EZ Pass Discount
A.8986 Hyer-Spencer
S.6684 Stavisky
Amends the public authorities law relating to discounted EZ pass privileges for SUNY and CUNY students.
Health Insurance Notice
S.382 Breslin
No Assembly Companion
Provides for notice provisions relating to options and termination of coverage under blanket health and accident policies issued to a college, school or other institution of learning within 45 days of termination.
Alcohol Purchasing
S.453 Kruger
No Assembly Companion
Increases the penalties imposed on a person under the age of twenty-one years to purchase or attempt to purchase an alcoholic beverage through the use of fake ID's.
Grade Notification
S.655 Larkin
No Assembly Companion
Requires colleges chartered by the regents or incorporated by a special act of the legislature to notify parents and legal guardians of a dependent student of such student's course grades and semester average, upon request, prior to the commencement of the next academic semester.
False Identification
S.778 Alesi
No Assembly Companion
Removes requirement that person be informed of the consequences of such act to be guilty of the crime of false personation and raises penalty for false personation from a class B to a class A misdemeanor.
Under 21 Alcohol Sales
S.783 Alesi
No Assembly Companion
Prohibits licensees for on-premises consumption which are bars and clubs and which advertise, promote or hold any event which is targeted to persons under the age of 21, from serving alcohol while a person under the age of 21 is present.
Sports Funding Equity
S.1348 Duane
No Assembly Companion
Provides that for any appropriation of state moneys made to an athletic sports team or sports organization in the state of New York, the state shall make an equal appropriation of state money matching such appropriation to a comparable sports team of the opposite sex.
Election Inspectors
S.1837 Klein
No Assembly Companion
Permits the New York city and the several county boards of elections to hire college and university students as election inspectors without compliance with certain requirements pertaining to local residence and political party affiliation; authorizes alternative training.
Community Service
S.2525 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Enacts the "higher education community service opportunity act" to encourage and promote a program whereby students who have benefited from society's assistance with their post secondary education return their talents to society to assist with pressing human, educational, environmental and public safety concerns.
National Guard & Athletics
S.2685 Nozzolio
No Assembly Companion
Provides that any student who participates in athletic programs at any school and who is a member of the National Guard, Reserve Officers' Training Camps (ROTC) or any other military training during the time period in which other students practice such athletic programs, shall be exempt from ten days of practice and shall be permitted to participate in such athletic programs and sporting events.
Textbook Taxes
S.5852 Stavisky
No Assembly Companion
Removes college textbooks from the imposed tax on certain internet providers that use websites for the sale of tangible personal property.
Textbook Posting
S.5941 Rules
No Assembly Companion
Requires institutions of higher education to post full course listings with required textbooks on their websites at least six weeks prior to the start of classes.
Say YES
A.290 Magnarelli
S.2578 Valesky
Establishes a demonstration program in the city school district of the city of Syracuse and in up to five other cities with a population of less than one million with the Say Yes to Education foundation to provide free tuition at any SUNY or CUNY university.
529 Accounts
A.312-A Peralta
S.2575 Monserrate
Increases to $10,000 the contribution that a resident taxpayer may make to family tuition accounts for each beneficiary thereof during a taxable year.
Fixed Tuition Rates
A.638 Hoyt
S.3730 LaValle
Provides for four year fixed tuitions at the state university of New York and the city university of New York for all entering undergraduate freshmen, or five years in the case of an individual accepted into a five year degree program.
National Guard Graduate Tuition
A.1034 McEneny
S.400 Breslin
Enables certain members of the New York guard to be eligible to receive graduate tuition benefits under the recruitment incentive and retention program.
Veterans Tuition Waiver
A.1142 McDonough
No Senate Sponsor
Provides for a waiver of tuition and fees for eligible New York State veterans for up to 8 full-time semester or 128 credits at any State University of New York or City University of New York institution at which the veteran is qualified to attend.
Tuition Reimbursement
A.1368 Englebright
No Assembly Companion
Establishes the invest in New York and New York invests in you tuition reimbursement program to provide individuals whom have graduated from SUNY or CUNY and remain living and working in the State of New York post-graduation and income tax deduction towards tuition reimbursement/repayment of student loans.
Course Auditing
A.1615 Zebrowski
S.386 Morahan
Permits certain persons with disabilities to audit courses given without tuition, examination, grading or credit therefore upon a space available basis.
Senior Tuition Waiver
A.2718 Markey
No Senate Companion
Authorizes the trustees of the state university and community colleges to offer courses to persons 60 years of age or over without tuition and either with or without credit on a space available basis.
Volunteer Firefighter Tuition
A.2986 Cusick
S.409 Robach
Grants volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians academic credit at state operated institutions of the state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city university of New York to the extent of six credits per year, and 60 credits in the aggregate without the payment of tuition, fees or other charges.
Fee Limitations
A.3098 Glick
S.3604 Stavisky
Caps total of mandatory non-tuition fees per semester or quarter (not including the mandatory student activity fee) imposed upon students of the state university of New York to no more than fifteen percent of total tuition fee.
Over 60 Tuition Waivers
A.3951 McEneny
S.1388 Farley
Authorizes the trustees of the state university to permit persons sixty years of age or over to take courses on a space available basis given therein for credit without tuition, as well as auditing such courses.
Immigrant In-State Tuition
A.3955 Camara
S.1392 Parker
Provides in-state tuition rates at New York universities and colleges to qualified immigrant students if such students attended high school in the state for 2 years or more and graduated from high school in the state or attained a state general equivalency diploma and registered as an entering student at, or is currently enrolled in a public institution of higher education within the state.
Military Tuition Benefit
A.4005 Hawley
S.5128 McDonald
Provides free tuition expenses for SUNY or CUNY to surviving dependent family members of NYS military personnel who have died while performing official military duties.
Child of Veteran Tuition Benefit
A.5557 Lopez V
No Senate Companion
Makes available tuition-free courses at state and city universities and community colleges for children of deceased or permanently or severely disabled veterans of the Vietnam conflict and gives some preference to such students for admissions.
Social Work Waiver
A.5558 Lopez V
No Senate Companion
Establishes a three year full tuition abatement program for up to 40 eligible Hispanic and Black students for under-graduate study in the field of social work at the schools of social welfare at Stony Brook and at Albany.
Film Intern Tuition
A.5784 Englebright
S.4943 Serrano
Establishes an Empire state film post production tax credit against personal and corporate franchise taxes for a portion of qualified post production costs attributable to the use of tangible property or services within the state with monies from such fund shall be disbursed for the payment of tuition for post production interns.
Tuition Revenue Usage
A.5845 Ball
No Senate Companion
Provides that tuition paid to public institutions of high education shall be maintained in a separate account to be used only for higher education purposes.
Volunteer Firefighter Tuition
A.6029 Koon
S.2697 Aubertine
Establishes the volunteer firefighters and emergency medical service volunteer tuition assistance grant program and provides that counties shall have the option to establish such program by the enactment of a local law and provides for state reimbursement to counties for fifty percent of tuition assistance costs.
Veteran Tuition Waiver
A.6406 Ortiz
No Senate Companion
Establishes a veteran tuition waiver program within the State University of New York system and provides for eligibility, applicability and amounts of such waivers.
Police Tuition
A.7021 Lentol
S.3770 Padavan
Authorizes SUNY and CUNY to offer up to two free courses per semester to police officers.
Prepaid Tuition
A.7071 Lupardo
No Senate Companion
Creates the New York state prepaid tuition plan study.
Veterans’ Tuition
A.8089 Cusick
S.1516 DeFrancisco
Provides that Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans shall receive up to four years of undergraduate or three years graduate education at SUNY or CUNY tuition free.
Veteran Course Audits
A.8549 Townsend
S.3171 Griffo
Allow those with military service and an honorable discharge to attend classes at SUNY and CUNY on a tuition-free audit basis.
Distance Learning Tuition
S.2159 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Provides that the trustees of the state university of New York may authorize the establishment of a new category of tuition for non-resident students enrolled in distance learning courses.
Tuition Prepaid Plans
S.5359 LaValle
No Assembly Companion
Enacts the "New York state family tuition investment program act" to provide for the advance purchase of tuition to colleges in the state.
High Tech Loans
A.1979 Morelle
S.3080 Valesky
Creates a program within the New York state urban development corporation to provide high-technology working capital loan guarantees to eligible high-technology businesses developing or offering a product or services using leading technology or research
Public/Private Partnership Grants
A.2141 John
No Senate Companion
Relates to funds for innovation grants for programs to create public/private partnerships to develop and implement innovative, technology-based learning strategies to serve high-need pupils and pupils who are at risk of not meeting the New York state learning standards.
Strategic Training Alliance
A.2853 Schimminger
No Senate Companion
Removes the department of labor from the management of the strategic training alliance program operated by the state urban development corporation and authorizes the provision of assistance under such program to eligible training providers.
College to Work
A.3983 Crouch
No Senate Companion
Creates a tax credit for businesses that develop a "college to work" program, paying the tuition of individuals in exchange for the individual committing to work for the business after the individuals graduation from an institution of higher learning.
Pubic Assistance Programs
A.4096-A Millman
S.2098-A Montgomery
Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs.
Emerging Technology Credits
A.4825 Morelle
S.3073 Valesky
Establishes a tax credit for training expenses for emerging technology employees and requires that training must be for full-time employees involved in the development, modification or improvement of equipment and systems that involve advanced computer software and hardware.
Workplace Internships
A.5306 Morelle
No Senate Companion
Creates the empire state internship program for secondary students who may be interested in specific careers which includes a workplace experience, final project and certificate of completion.
Health Care Workers
A.5864 Lifton
S.5455 Oppenheimer
Authorizes the director of the office for the aging to establish a long term care worker training pilot program for the purpose of expanding access to enhanced education and training for health care and social service practitioners who provide services to elderly persons across the state.
Status: A.5864 – Assembly Calendar 409
High Tech Training
A5897 Miller
No Senate Companion
Creates the high technology manufacturing workforce development act which directs SUNY to create a high technology manufacturing job training program at community colleges to explore the feasibility and benefits of retraining displaced manufacturing workers.
College to Work Programs
A.6547 Reilich
No Senate Companion
Enacts the small business relief act which establishes the credit for college to work program, authorizes certain counties to impose taxes at a lower rate than the uniform local rate and relates to research and development commercialization enterprises.
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