Relates to interest rates on judgments.
Asm. John McDonald
Sponsored bills
Provides for the repeal of existing boating while intoxicated laws and replaces them with laws related to operation of a boat while under the influence of alcohol or drugs which closer resemble the existing DWI laws.
Requires the implementation of an electronic death registration system; all deaths occurring in the state must be registered using the electronic registration system.
Relates to requiring nonpublic schools to follow the same rules and regulations as public schools regarding a pupil who suffers a concussion, regarding training to recognize the symptoms of a concussion, information to be provided to the parent or guardian of such pupil and the amount of time such pupil shall wait before resuming an athletic activity.
Relates to directing the public service commission and the department of public service to study and report upon the potential to pass the tax savings incurred by public utility companies to ratepayers; requires two public hearings on such topic; repealer.
Defines a serious condition regarding the medical use of marihuana as a severe debilitating or life-threatening condition, or symptom or complication of the condition or its treatment, for which, in the practitioner's professional opinion and review of past treatments, the patient is likely to receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from primary or adjunctive treatment with medical use of medical marihuana.
Relates to the approval or authorization of school bonds, school taxes, and school budgets for city school districts in cities having a population of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants.
Expands the health department's review of correctional health services.
Relates to health facilities and services in correctional facilities.
Relates to public safety communications surcharges on prepaid wireless telecommunications services; relates to wireless surcharges in Hamilton, Jefferson, Lewis, Niagara, Oneida, Oswego, Schoharie, and St. Lawrence counties.