Asm. Karl Brabenec

Maddy summaryThis bill (A 5198) requires individuals arrested for specific felony offenses - including assault, homicide, sex offenses, kidnapping, burglary, robbery, and firearms violations - to provide a DNA sample at the time of arrest. It directly affects people charged with these crimes, unless they already have a DNA profile in the state database. Key provisions mandate DNA collection upon arrest, allow courts to order samples if refused, and establish procedures for expunging DNA records if a case is dismissed, results in an acquittal, or a conviction is overturned. The law also includes safeguards for correcting errors in the DNA index and specifies when records must be removed.

Directs the department of environmental conservation, in conjunction with the department of health and the department of labor, to establish the municipal asbestos abatement grant program to provide financial assistance to municipalities for the abatement of asbestos in vacant and/or abandoned commercial properties; makes a $15,000,000 appropriation therefor.

Includes aggravated threat of mass harm, making a threat of mass harm, aggravated harassment in the second degree, harassment in the first degree, menacing in the third degree, menacing in the second degree, menacing in the first degree, and aggravated harassment in the first degree in being eligible for bail; makes aggravated threat of mass harm and making a threat of mass harm eligible to be considered hate crimes; increases the penalties for aggravated threat of mass harm and making a threat of mass harm.

Maddy summaryThis bill clarifies that certain previously tax-exempt properties (like nonprofits, religious organizations, and hospitals) must now pay "service charges" for specific municipal services - including police, fire, street maintenance, sanitation, and water supply. It defines "service charge" as a fee distinct from taxes or special assessments, requiring these properties to contribute to costs for the listed services. The bill also specifies that municipal properties within their own boundaries remain exempt from these charges. This change applies to properties that were previously exempt under tax law but not used for charitable, hospital, educational, or cemetery purposes.

Relates to enacting the biomass fired exception program providing an exception for certain biomass fired electric generation facilities to the definition of a fossil fuel-fired facility for purposes of a CO2 budget trading program.

Establishes a clinical preceptorship personal income tax credit for certain health care professionals who provide preceptor instruction to students studying to be a health care professional.

Maddy summaryThis bill prohibits offering or providing payment beyond reimbursement of actual expenses for donating human eggs used in scientific research. It specifically bans "valuable consideration" (like cash payments) while allowing reimbursement for documented costs such as travel, housing, lost wages, and direct medical expenses from donation-related illness. Institutions accepting egg donations must maintain records of reimbursed expenses and obtain donor certifications confirming no prohibited payments were made. The law excludes infertility treatments and classifies violations as a class E felony.

Directs the secretary of state to develop and implement an adopt-a-rural-cemetery program for the purposes of improving, repairing, and maintaining cemeteries in rural communities which are registered with and overseen by the division of cemeteries; allows municipalities to opt in to the program.

Provides for the designation by a general hospital of persons to identify infectious disease processes, conduct surveillance and epidemiologic investigations, and develop plans to prevent and control the transmission of infectious agents within general hospitals.

Maddy summaryThis bill establishes a new annual spending growth cap for state operating funds, directly affecting the governor and legislature when creating budgets. The cap limits yearly increases in state spending to the average inflation rate from the prior three years (calculated using the Consumer Price Index). It requires the governor to certify budget compliance and gives the comptroller authority to verify limits, with exceptions only for emergencies declared by the governor and approved by a two-thirds legislative vote. The bill does not change the rainy day fund's capacity, as the title's mention of that detail isn't elaborated in the actual provisions.