SENATE MAJORITY COMMUNICATIONS

September 10, 2009 Session Draft Proposed Calendar Agenda Subject to Revision

Nominations (

with relevant committee meetings scheduled for September 10

)

Jay Walder

, Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityCorporations and Authorities Committee: 9 AM, Room 814 LOB

Transportation: 10 AM; Room 124 CAPFinance: 12 PM; Room 124 CAP

David Mack

, Port Authority of New York and New JerseyTransportation: 10 AM; Room 124 CAPFinance: 12 PM, Room 124 CAP

James Wrynn

, Jr. Insurance SuperintendentInsurance: 11 AM; Room 124 CAP

Conrad Lower

, Workers Compensation Board

Resolutions

Bullet Aid: Targeted funding for local school districts, including Special Acts schools.Capital Reallocation: Distribution of capital funding for local capital projects.Public Protection Budget Resolutions: Allocates funding from FY09-10 state budget for civil andcriminal legal services, domestic violence and crime prevention and prosecution.Red Book Resolution: Allocates funding for purchase of “Red Book” for Senate and Assemblyoffices.

Ethics

S6064/A9032 (Squadron/Silver): Enacts comprehensive ethics oversight. Passed Assembly.S XXXX-TBD (Sampson): Chapter Amendments to S6064, including expanding the definition oflobbying to include resolutions, outcomes or any actions of either chamber and the outcome of anyother official act of the state legislature; creating a program of random reviews of annualstatements of financial disclosure by Legislative Office of Ethics Investigations; requiring publicofficers to report business dealings with lobbyists; increases enforcement authority of State Boardof Elections.

Green Jobs/Green Homes

S5888/A9801 (Aubertine/Silver): Establishes a "Green Jobs/Green New York" with a goal ofmaking 1,000,000 homes, businesses, and not-for-profits in New York more energy efficient whilecreating thousands of new green jobs and training the workers to fill them. Passed Assembly.S6032/A9031 (Aubertine/Cahill): Chapter Amendments to “Green Jobs/Green New York.” PassedAssembly

Family Court Judges Expansion

S5968/A8957 (Sampson/Weinstein): Modifies the existing Family Court Act to create 21 additionalfamily court judgeships outside of NYC, and seven new judgeships for NYC. Has not passed theAssembly.

Powers of Attorney Technical Corrections

S5910/A8392A (Onorato/Weinstein): Corrects provisions in establishing powers of attorneys forfinancial estate planning. Passed Assembly.

Child Protections

S6091/A5080 (Diaz/Lentol):Establishes stronger criminal penalties for the cruel and wanton murderof a child by authorizing the courts to sentence a person convicted of such offense to life withoutthe possibility of parole. Passed Assembly.

Aggravated Interference with Health Care

S6112/A8924 (Parker/Hoyt): Establishes the crime of aggravated interference with health careservices in the first and second degrees in order to protect not only providers of reproductive healthcare services, but also volunteers who provide or assist others to obtain reproductive health careservices. Passed Assembly.

Climate Protection

S4315/A7572 (Thompson/Sweeney): The Global Warming Pollution Control Act sets enforceablelimits on greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide and methane, and also establishes oversight,monitoring and enforcement mechanisms. Passed Assembly.

Credit/Debit Protections

S.2550/A7674-A (Diaz/Kavanaugh): Requires the collection of taxes on credit and debit cards to bepaid by card issuers rather than merchants to the State of New York. Has not passed theAssembly.

Tenant Protection

S2642A/ A1685A (Squadron/Lopez): Expands tenant protections by limiting a landlord's ability totake possession of units for their own personal use. Passed Assembly.

S2493/A2002(Klein/Silver): Establishes civil penalties for the harassment of tenants in order toobtain vacancy of their unit. Passed Assembly.

Election Law Reform

S2443B/A1002-C (Stewart-Cousins/Paulin): Requires local boards of elections to include thematerials necessary for poll inspectors to direct voters to their proper polling locations in the eventthey go to the wrong facility. Passed Assembly.

Access to Prenatal Services

S3257A/A8397A (Duane/Gottfried): Requires the Commissioner of Health to develop standards forthe provision of prenatal care under the Medicaid program, and updates the income eligibilitystandards for presumptive eligibility of pregnant women under the Medicaid program. PassedAssembly.

Tax Assessment and Revenue Clean-Up

S6117/A9028 (Kruger/Farrell): Technical “clean ups” which clarify that certain income was intendedto be included as New York source income by nonresident shareholders and relates to theregistration of tax return preparers, among other provisions. Passed Assembly.S5861-A/A8865-B (Dilan/Espaillat): Adds livery, as defined by section 6-01 of the rules andregulations of the New York City taxi and limousine commission, to those transportation services tobe excluded under paragraph 34 of subdivision (b) of section1101 of the tax law.

Air Quality Protection

S1145A/A8642 (Perkins/Sweeney): Limits the sulfur content in home heating oil. PassedAssembly.

Homeownership Development Program

S6150 (Espada): Chapter Amendment that will allow SONYMA to work with Fannie Mae anddevelop a homeownership program slated to begin in January. No matching bill in Assembly.

Support for Volunteer Firefighters

S4982/A2733A (Foley/Sweeney): Establishes the volunteer firefighting and volunteer emergencyservices recruitment and retention fund and authorizes gifts to such fund through a state incometax check-off. Passed Assembly.

Consumer Protection

S3141A/6933A (Monserrate/Pheffer): Makes changes to New York's "Children's Product Safetyand Recall Effectiveness Act of 2008" to conform to federal law. Passed Assembly.