2004 PRIORITY ISSUES STATUS REPORT

Contact: Ken Pokalsky

Click below for the latest information on key business issues for the remainder of the 2004 legislative session. We urge you to contact your local legislators on those issues of greatest importance to your business operations.

Workers' Compensation

Workers' Compensation Reform (8/12/04)
Workers' Compensation Proposed Rate Increase (8/12/04)

Health-Care Costs
- Medicaid Reform (8/12/04)
- Mental Health Mandate (8/12/04)
- Freedom Health Insurance Plans (8/12/04)
- Heal NY (8/12/04)
Labor/Human Resources

Minimum Wage (8/12/04)
Religious Accommodation (8/12/04)
Replacement Employees (8/12/04)
Unemployment Insurance Waiting Period for Strikers (8/12/04)
Workplace Violence Prevention Mandate (8/12/04)

Tort Reform

Safe Place to work (8/12/04)
Wrongful Death (8/12/04)
Vicarious Liability (8/12/04)

Energy
- Power for Jobs (8/12/04)
- Renewable Portfolio Standard (8/11/04)
- Article X (Power Plant Siting) (8/11/04)
Outsourcing (8/12/04)
Single Sales Factor Allocations (8/11/04)
Technology

Spyware (8/12/04)
Use of Social Security Numbers (8/12/04)
Breach of Security (8/12/04)

Empire Zone Reform (8/12/04)
Real Property Taxation

Real Property Tax Tribunal (8/11/04)
Retroactive Real Property Tax Rates for Certiorari Parties (8/11/04)

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