José Peralta's Legislation

S33-2013: Authorizes use of closed-circuit television for the testimony of domestic violence victim witnesses in a criminal proceeding sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Authorizes use of closed-circuit television for the testimony of domestic violence victim witnesses in a criminal proceeding subject to the same restrictions as are applicable to child witnesses. Read more...

S35-2013: Requires employees of dealers in firearms and gunsmiths to submit to a criminal background check sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Requires employees of dealers in firearms to submit to state and national criminal background checks and sets forth procedures for employment certificates. Read more...

S36-2013: Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: LABOR | Search
Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance. Read more...

S37-2013: Establishes business franchise and personal income tax credits for a portion of the consideration paid under a contract with a minority or women-owned business sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS | Search
Establishes business franchise and personal income tax credits for a portion of the consideration paid under a contract with a minority or women-owned business. Read more...

S38-2013: Requires travel agents to be registered with the department of state, and provides for the regulation thereof; repealer sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION | Search
Requires travel agents to be registered with the department of state, and provides for the regulation thereof. Read more...

S39-2013: Directs commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify results of inspections of entertainment venue food service establishments sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: HEALTH | Search
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of an entertainment food service establishment; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A". Read more...

S40-2013: Expands the definition of "criminal act", for purposes of enterprise corruption, to include computer offenses, identity theft and other fraud offenses sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: | Search
Expands the definition of "criminal act", for purposes of enterprise corruption, to include computer offenses, identity theft, criminal use of an access device and unlawful possession of personal identification information or a skimmer. Read more...

S41-2013: Requires the creation and imposition of restrictive commercial practices and stringent recordkeeping and reporting to prevent gun sales to criminals sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Requires the creation and imposition of restrictive commercial practices and stringent recordkeeping and reporting to prevent gun sales to criminals; provides that such measures shall be promulgated by the superintendent of state police; restricts premises of sales; requires employee training; prohibits straw purchases; imposes additional license conditions. Read more...

S42-2013: Permits the court to grant post-conviction motions to vacate a judgment when the issue raised upon such motion is ineffective assistance of counsel sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Permits the court to grant post-conviction motions to vacate a judgment when the issue raised upon such motion is ineffective assistance of counsel in certain cases in which the court would otherwise be required to deny the motion. Read more...

S43-2013: Directs commissioner of health to establish a grading system to classify the result of an inspection of pushcarts in cities over 2 million sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: HEALTH | Search
Directs the commissioner of health to establish a uniform letter grading system to classify the result of an inspection of a mobile public food service establishment or pushcart in cities with a population of two million or more; directs such commissioner and local health officers to require the display of any letter grade received pursuant to such system; requires reinspection of establishment receiving a grade of less than "A". Read more...

S44-2013: Requires a recording officer not to record or accept a transfer or assignment of interest in a mortgage unless accompanied with a mortgage ownership assignment sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: JUDICIARY | Search
Requires a recording officer not to record or accept a transfer or assignment of interest in a mortgage unless accompanied with a mortgage ownership assignment document. Read more...

S45-2013: Provides for annual school lead-copper tap water testing; publishing of reports of contamination and abatement of such contamination sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: HEALTH | Search
Provides for annual school lead-copper tap water testing; requires the publishing of reports of contamination and abatement of such contamination; requires school districts to provide potable water to school children attending affected schools; exempts those schools built without use of lead piping and those schools where a finding of no contamination has been made for three consecutive years. Read more...

S46-2013: Requires the board of elections to provide a registered voter with a sample ballot via mail sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: ELECTIONS | Search
Requires the board of elections to provide a registered voter with a sample ballot not less than ten days nor more than twenty days before an election via mail. Read more...

S47-2013: Relates to the dedicated occupational safety and health training and education and occupational health clinic programs fund sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: FINANCE | Search
Relates to the dedicated occupational safety and health training and education and occupational health clinic programs fund. Read more...

S48-2013: Establishes penalties for failure to provide a DNA sample and failure to register or verify as a sex offender sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Establishes penalties for failure to provide a DNA sample and failure to register or verify as a sex offender; establishes the crimes of failure to provide a DNA sample in the first and second degree and failure to register or verify as a sex offender in the first and second degree. Read more...

S49-2013: Establishes the actual innocence justice act 2013 sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Establishes the actual innocence justice act of 2013; clarifies that convicted persons who can demonstrate a reasonable probability that they are innocent will have the right to challenge their convictions under the law, notwithstanding any other procedural or technical provisions of law that would have prevented them from doing so. Read more...

S51-2013: Makes provision for the disposal of firearms, rifles and shotguns owned by the state and local governments sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Requires the disposal of firearms, rifles and shotguns owned by any department, board, bureau, commission or agency of the state of New York and local governments by either selling or transferring to a law enforcement agency for destruction; prohibits the sale of any such weapon to any other person or entity. Read more...

S52-2013: Requires debt collectors to send consumers a written notice of their rights under state law along with their debt collection correspondence sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION | Search
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. Read more...

S53-2013: Requires employees of dealers in firearms and gunsmiths to submit to a criminal background check sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: CODES | Search
Requires employees of dealers in firearms to submit to state and national criminal background checks. Read more...

S54-2013: Relates to voting rights in cooperative apartments sponsored by PERALTA
Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | Search
Provides that the sponsor of a cooperative apartment building or condominium units may not continue to sit on the board or to vote after the transfer to the cooperative corporation or condominium ownership. Read more...