Requires that bridges over the canal system be maintained in a manner to not impede commercial motor vehicles.
Sen. Rob Ortt
Sponsored bills
Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act"; restricts prison privileges for certain individuals.
Criminalizes the sale, use and possession of synthetic drugs; provides various definitions for types of synthetic drugs.
Establishes no polling place shall be located on the premises of any public or private elementary or secondary school or a school for preschool children.
Provides that $1,600,000 of any funds from gaming devices located within the county of Niagara shall be transferred to the Niagara county industrial development agency for use to fund downtown economic development initiatives within the city of Niagara Falls.
Relates to the protection of the health, safety and employment rights of employees suffering employment loss as the result of the sale or closure of a coal electric generation facility.
Expands the residential-commercial exemption program to include any municipality regardless of the population of the county in which it is located.
Provides a right of reemployment for persons who reside in another state who are ordered to military service within New York state, if the state of residence provides a like protection.
Imposes a nursing home purchase moratorium on those who own or have owned failing facilities for twenty-four months since their last violation.
Provides free use of state parks and campsites for volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance service.