Relates to requiring local building and planning regulations to accommodate the use of solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy, ocean thermal, and fuel cells.
Asm. Steve Otis
Sponsored bills
Relates to small business savings accounts; provides tax incentives for contributions and distributions.
Prohibits the idling of any passenger vehicle, with certain exceptions, for more than 3 consecutive minutes; first violation is a warning, second violations of such section are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $150.
Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of ambulance services licensed under article 30 of the public health law.
Removes references to STAR in the real property tax law and tax law; repeals provisions relating to the school tax relief credit.
Creates the health insurance guaranty fund.
Relates to reporting requirements for various classifications of gas leaks by utility corporations.
Enacts the "Voter Enfranchisement Modernization Act of 2017"; relates to establishing the electronic personal voter registration process; provides for online voter registration.
Enacts the "K12 student privacy and cloud computing act" to prohibit service providers who offer cloud computing services to primary and secondary educational services from processing student data for commercial purposes.
Enacts the "consumer credit fairness act"; establishes a 3 year statute of limitations for commencement of a cause of action arising out of a consumer credit transaction where the defendant is a purchaser, borrower or debtor; establishes a notice of lawsuit which must be mailed to the defendant in such a cause of action; establishes certain requirements for the complaint in such an action; provides for arbitration of such actions; requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their initial debt collection correspondence; such notice would contain information such as who and when a principal creditor may contact a debtor about the debt owed as well as the fact that a principal creditor cannot disclose information affecting a consumer debtor's reputation for creditworthiness if the principal creditor knows or has reason to know such information is false; applies to consumer rather than commercial debts.