Creates a tax credit for small businesses that sell a certain percentage of products produced in New York state; provides such small businesses include independently or privately-owned cafes, restaurants, eateries, bars, pubs, breweries, distilleries, orchards, food trucks, retail stores, farm stands, hotels, or motels.
Sen. Dean Murray
Sponsored bills
Elevates promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child and promoting a sexual performance by a child to be class B felonies; prohibits pleading to a lesser offense after indictment for either such offense.
Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.
Expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include serious physical injuries or the use of a weapon.
Exempts institutions of higher education from the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax.
Relates to penalties for intent to cause injury to an animal.
Enacts "Lindsey's law" criminalizing the disclosure of confidential government records by a public employer as retaliation for a victim making a sexual harassment complaint or claim.
Provides that rape in the first degree shall be a class A-I felony and shall be punishable by life imprisonment without parole.
Relates to teen dating violence education programs; requires school districts to create policies, procedures and guidelines to implement education programs for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to prevent, deter and address incidents of teen dating violence; defines teen dating violence.
Enhances penalties for committing multiple animal cruelty offenses.