Representative • Republican

Michael Norris

New York • District HD-144

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

88% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 2083

Other: 27

Yea: 8183

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Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought.

Enacts the "NY broadband resiliency, public safety and quality act" to provide for oversight of the resiliency, public safety and quality of broadband and voice over internet protocol service.

Permits the Clarence central school district to establish an insurance reserve fund.

Limits recordkeeping and reporting duties of public notaries to electronic notarization acts.

Provides for availability of ambulance services and advanced life support first response service to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer blood transfusions, by expanding current provisions for air transport to apply additionally to motor vehicle based ambulance services.

Requires motor vehicle dealer franchisors to fully compensate franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty service agreements.

Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Increases the jurisdictional limit from $3,000 to $5,000 for justice courts; increases filing fees.

Creates other post-employment benefit reserve funds; defines terms.

Establishes the offenses of reckless endangerment of an emergency service person in the first and second degrees.

Relates to repair reserve funds for municipal corporations, school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, district corporations and improvement districts.

Increases the applicable percentage of the child tax credit allowed in the empire state child tax credit from thirty-three percent to forty-five percent; prescribes how such payment or refund should be made based on amount.

Authorizes hunting big game by rifle in the county of Niagara except within the city of Niagara Falls, the city of Lockport and the city of North Tonawanda.

Deems an application filed with the New York state and local police and fire retirement system by the widow of Paul C. Adam as timely filed.

Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.

Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.

Establishes a spending cap; increases the maximum capacity of the rainy day fund.

Authorizes the direct intrastate and interstate shipment of liquor, cider, mead, and braggot; relates to direct shipments of wine.

Establishes a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of veterans with a 100 percent service connected disability.

Exempts veterans eighty-five years of age and older from the obligation to pay New York state income tax.

Provides that the inspector shall at least annually inspect any vessel operated on privately or publicly owned underground non-navigable waterways with no navigable inlet or outlet that carry passengers for compensation; makes technical corrections; makes related provisions.

Authorizes municipalities to offer a real property tax exemption to certain volunteers who live in that municipality but who serve in neighboring municipalities.

Requires bi-monthly reporting on deceased voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to vote in order to accurately maintain the statewide voter registration list.

Requires a government photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot; provides for a method to receive a government photo identification card at no charge.

Relates to the availability and purchase of zero-emission school buses.

Relates to utilization review program standards; requires use of evidence-based and peer reviewed clinical review criteria; relates to prescription drug formulary changes and pre-authorization for certain health care services.

Prohibits the governor from preventing or inhibiting state agency cooperation with the federal government for the purposes of immigration enforcement; prohibits state agencies from preventing or inhibiting collaboration with federal agencies for the purposes of federal immigration enforcement.

Relates to purchasing restrictions and persons boycotting American allies.

Extends the time period for tenancy rights from 30 days to 45 days of possession; adds squatting to the definition of criminal trespass in the third degree.

Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.

Provides that the thruway authority shall issue permits for ambulances and fire vehicles exempting such vehicles from paying tolls on the thruway when engaged in an emergency operation.

Repeals certain provisions establishing a fee for background checks on certain firearm and ammunition purchases; removes such fees as a source of funds for the background check fund.

Permits those licensed to carry or possess a pistol or revolver or to purchase or take possession of a semi-automatic rifle or licensed to hunt wildlife to purchase or take possession of ammunition without requiring contacting the statewide license and record database.

Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.

Requires certain child day care centers to have video surveillance in certain areas occupied by children who are three years of age or younger.

Relates to providing state correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.

Requires the department of health to conduct 40% of its inspections on nursing homes outside of business hours; requires department of health inspections of nursing homes to be conducted without prior notice to a nursing home; requires an annual nursing home inspection report.

Relates to creating a school resource officer program to permit the employment of retired law enforcement officers and provide grants to school districts and non-public schools for such purpose.

Requires that any rules or regulations promulgated by the department of environmental conservation pursuant to the climate action fund are subject to a vote of the legislature and must be approved by a majority vote prior to implementation.

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