Creates the alternative fuel incentive fund; provides that monies allocated from the fund will be used for certain purposes; makes an appropriation therefor; provides that thirty million dollars will be allocated for research and development, twenty seven million dollars for the thruway authority to create alternative fuel stations on the thruway, twenty million dollars for a cellulosic ethanol refinery and five million dollars for administrative costs.
Sen. Jim Tedisco
Sponsored bills
Provides that the maximum speed limit on state highways may be established pursuant to an engineering and/or traffic investigation authorized or performed by the department of transportation or the municipality within which the section of state highway subject to such speed limit is located.
Enacts the "Save our New York state restaurants act" authorizing a sales tax exemption for the sale of food and drink at restaurants and taverns during a specific one week period and grants certain municipalities the option to grant such limited exemption.
Establishes a rental assistance loan-to-grant program to assist landlords of small rental properties who have lost rental income due to the inability of the landlords' tenants to pay rent during the COVID-19 state disaster emergency.
Directs the New York thruway authority to develop and implement a toll discount program waiving additional costs for tolls related to travel on the New York state thruway for certain individuals who do not maintain an E-Z Pass account.
Prohibits the New York Department of State from issuing a certificate of dissolution and filing a judgment or final order of dissolution for the pension fund for employees of the former St. Clare's Hospital in the city of Schenectady, county of Schenectady, until an investigation and/or audit by the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Attorney General or the New York State Comptroller has been conducted to ascertain whether there was any impropriety in the handling and management of funds in such pension plan.
Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired.
Provides that crimes committed against a person on school grounds shall be deemed to be one category higher than the specified crime the person committed; enacts "Suzanne's Law".
Enacts the graduate outreach assistance law to exempt from state income taxation the first two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a fifty thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a four-year college graduate and the first one hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a twenty-five thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a two-year college graduate.
Relates to certain assault crimes wherein a person is aided or encouraged to strike the victim in the head and cause unconsciousness.