AB-6439: Enacts the "Volunteer Firefighter and Ambulance Worker Protection and Incentive Act of 2015"; increases the volunteer firefighters' and volunteer ambulance workers' credit in the amount of five hundred dollars; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; establishes priority access to wireless telephone and text messaging services for emergency service; provides safety for employees who are late or miss work because they have responded to an emergency; eliminates the expiration on benefits for volunteer firefighters for disease and malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Montesano
Held For Consideration In Ways And Means on 06/15/2016
You have voted AB-6439: Enacts the "Volunteer Firefighter and Ambulance Worker Protection and Incentive Act of 2015"; increases the volunteer firefighters' and volunteer ambulance workers' credit in the amount of five hundred dollars; exempts motor vehicles used in the performance of such volunteers' duties from registration fees, use taxes and special fees for volunteer license plates; establishes priority access to wireless telephone and text messaging services for emergency service; provides safety for employees who are late or miss work because they have responded to an emergency; eliminates the expiration on benefits for volunteer firefighters for disease and malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries..
AB-6472: Relates to special apportionments and grants-in-aid to school districts; adds the purchase and installation of carbon monoxide detectors to the definition of school safety and security technology project and requires the costs of the project be included in the smart schools investment plan submitted by a school district.
Sponsored by: Rep. Carmen Arroyo
Referred To Education on 01/06/2016
You have voted AB-6472: Relates to special apportionments and grants-in-aid to school districts; adds the purchase and installation of carbon monoxide detectors to the definition of school safety and security technology project and requires the costs of the project be included in the smart schools investment plan submitted by a school district..
AB-6483: Provides resident individuals a deduction of an amount equal to one hundred percent of the cost of health insurance premiums expended by the taxpayer during the taxable year.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Montesano
Held For Consideration In Ways And Means on 06/15/2016
You have voted AB-6483: Provides resident individuals a deduction of an amount equal to one hundred percent of the cost of health insurance premiums expended by the taxpayer during the taxable year..
AB-6505: Enacts comprehensive provisions to curtail the incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases; requires teachers in public and non-public school systems to be trained in identifying and responding to asthma emergencies in accordance with standards to be prescribed by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of health; provides for a program of asthma disease management and control within the department of health; program shall provide various services to health care providers, patients, and others; authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants; provides for a study of asthma incidence and prevalence; provides for an annual report on the program; requires health care providers to provide pregnant women with information on in-utero exposure to tobacco smoke; requires residential leases to include information on the smoking restrictions for the leased premises and in common areas; prohibits idling of motor vehicle engines upon school grounds; authorizes school boards to allow certain students to use inhalers or nebulizers; requires the school that authorizes the use of an inhaler to prepare an asthma treatment plan for the student; ensures safety of all students who suffer from respiratory illnesses in New York; requires reporting of cases of asthma; provides for the curtailing of the use of chemicals which may trigger asthma episodes; provides for the use of the least toxic pesticides which effectively eradicate the targeted organism; includes certain respiratory diseases within the disease management demonstration program; provides for the reduction of emphysema, chronic bronchitis and other chronic respiratory diseases in children; relates to smoking restrictions in certain outdoor areas.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Cook
Amend (t) And Recommit To Health on 01/12/2016
You have voted AB-6505: Enacts comprehensive provisions to curtail the incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases; requires teachers in public and non-public school systems to be trained in identifying and responding to asthma emergencies in accordance with standards to be prescribed by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of health; provides for a program of asthma disease management and control within the department of health; program shall provide various services to health care providers, patients, and others; authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants; provides for a study of asthma incidence and prevalence; provides for an annual report on the program; requires health care providers to provide pregnant women with information on in-utero exposure to tobacco smoke; requires residential leases to include information on the smoking restrictions for the leased premises and in common areas; prohibits idling of motor vehicle engines upon school grounds; authorizes school boards to allow certain students to use inhalers or nebulizers; requires the school that authorizes the use of an inhaler to prepare an asthma treatment plan for the student; ensures safety of all students who suffer from respiratory illnesses in New York; requires reporting of cases of asthma; provides for the curtailing of the use of chemicals which may trigger asthma episodes; provides for the use of the least toxic pesticides which effectively eradicate the targeted organism; includes certain respiratory diseases within the disease management demonstration program; provides for the reduction of emphysema, chronic bronchitis and other chronic respiratory diseases in children; relates to smoking restrictions in certain outdoor areas..
AB-6506: Relates to combating the incidence of adult and childhood obesity and respiratory diseases; enacts provisions to reduce the incidence of certain respiratory diseases; expands the collection and reporting of data on obesity in the state; expands ease of breastfeeding in child day care centers and at work.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Cook
Substituted By S1528a on 06/16/2015
You have voted AB-6506: Relates to combating the incidence of adult and childhood obesity and respiratory diseases; enacts provisions to reduce the incidence of certain respiratory diseases; expands the collection and reporting of data on obesity in the state; expands ease of breastfeeding in child day care centers and at work..
AB-6515: Establishes the amateur martial arts advisory commission; requires the advisory commission to promulgate rules and regulations for amateur martial arts instructors, schools and training and competitions and prohibits the employment of sex offenders.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Kearns
Held For Consideration In Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development on 05/24/2016
You have voted AB-6515: Establishes the amateur martial arts advisory commission; requires the advisory commission to promulgate rules and regulations for amateur martial arts instructors, schools and training and competitions and prohibits the employment of sex offenders..
AB-6517: Creates computer sex crimes against children and makes it a violent felony offense when a person is convicted of a computer sex crime and the underlying crime is against a child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aileen Gunther
Referred To Codes on 01/06/2016
You have voted AB-6517: Creates computer sex crimes against children and makes it a violent felony offense when a person is convicted of a computer sex crime and the underlying crime is against a child..