Relates to requiring children in twelfth grade to take an annual hearing examination.
Causes the closed-circuit television system of cameras to record certain images in a manner that allows the identification of the license plate as well as the make and model of the motor vehicle.
Requires the state, by and through the secretary of state, to make good faith efforts to notify a non-custodial parent when a minor is the victim of a crime of violence and/or sexual abuse; requires the court upon the arraignment of a criminal defendant to investigate whether the defendant is the parent of a minor child and if so, to instruct the defendant to make an appropriate plan for the child; requires the court to notify a non-custodial parent of the custodial parent's arrest for the commission of a felony; and requires family courts to require parties to a custody and/or visitation proceeding, one of which who was previously arrested on a felony charge, to immediately notify the other parent of such arrest.
Provides that real property owned by private water-works corporations shall be wholly or partially exempt from taxation.
Requires a certificate of merit in actions for damages, contribution or indemnity arising out of alleged negligence of a professional licensed pursuant to the education law; establishes a party in an action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice may not omit the name of certain experts in responding to a request; limits judgments for past and future damages in an action to recover damages for dental, medical or podiatric malpractice; limits compensation for noneconomic damages suffered by an injured plaintiff in any personal injury action to $250,000.
Increases the penalties for moving violations which result in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.
Establishes the crimes of assault on a child in the first degree and second degree and the crime of aggravated assault on a child; makes assaulting a child in the first degree a class B felony, assaulting a child in the second degree a class C felony and aggravated assault on a child an A-II felony.
Requires applicants for a driver's license or non-driver identification card to submit satisfactory proof to the department of motor vehicles that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.
Relates to aggravated harassment in the first degree; includes the display of a swastika by any medium in public view in the crime of aggravated harassment in the first degree.
Creates the class E felony of gang sexual assault, involving touching or removal of clothing with the aid of two or more people without the consent of the person; includes such felony and the class A misdemeanor of forcible touching within the definition of "sex offense" for the purposes of the sex offender registration act.
