Creates a private right of action for improper debt collection procedures; allows plaintiffs to recover punitive damages and reasonable attorneys' fees.
Asm. Jo Anne Simon
Sponsored bills
Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.
Requires boards of elections to provide Haitian Creole language voting materials.
Establishes the aging in place task force, and provides for its powers and duties.
Relates to imposing a school impact tax on developers of non-senior housing developments to be used for the construction of new public kindergarten through twelfth grade schools.
Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the causation of serious physical injury to another person while in the course of committing hazing in the first degree.
Relates to the creation of home stability support supplement programs.
Establishes a right of first refusal in the state for federal public land to be transferred to private parties; prohibits the recording of any deeds for lands that have been transferred out of federal ownership to private ownership without giving the state the right of first refusal.
Amends the Long Island Rail Road weekend reduced fare program to include the East New York station.
Enacts the "tax returns uniformly made public act".