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2015 and 2016 Legislative Memoranda

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Animals Memo 1-GOV – S.1081/A.2778 Approve (PDF)
Animals Memo 2-GOV – S.5320/A.7207 Approve (PDF)
Animals Memo 3-GOV – S.5946/A.8058-B Approve (PDF)
Animals Memo 4-GOV – S.4327-A/A.5956-C Approve (PDF)
Animals Memo 5-GOV – S.5372/A.6626 Approve (PDF)
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nimals Memo 6 – S.1215-B/A.2933-A Approve (PDF)
Animals Memo 7 – S.2935/A.2484 Approve with Amendments (PDF)
Animals Memo 8 – S.3003-B/A.6378-A Approve with Amendments (PDF)
Animals Memo 9 – S.5098-A/A.1451-B Approve (PDF)

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Children Memo #1
Children Memo #1-GOV
Children Memo #3
Children Memo #4
Children Memo #5
Children Memo #5-GOV
Children Memo #6
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hildren Memo #7
Children Memo #7-A
Children Memo #8
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hildren Memo #9
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hildren Memo #10
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hildren Memo #11
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hildren Memo #11-GOV

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CPLR Memo 1
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PLR Memo 2

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Civil Rights Memo #1
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Media Memo 1
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edia Memo 2

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Tort System Memo 1

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Com Fed Memo 1

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Criminal Justice Section Memo 1-GOV

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Elder 1 – Oppose – Budget Spousal Refusal (PDF)
Elder 2 – Oppose – Budget Immediate Need (PDF)
Elder 3 – Oppose – Witnesses to a HCP (PDF)
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lder 4 – Comments re S.2007/A.3007 Part B (PDF)
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lder 5 – Comments re Immediate Needs for Personal Care Services (PDF)
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lder 6 – Comments re Clarification of Spousal Impoverishment Budgeting with Post-Eligibility Rules under the Affordable Care Act (PDF)
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lder 7 – Comments re Immediate Needs for Personal Care Services (PDF)
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lder 8 – Comments re General Information System Message (PDF)
Elder 9 – Comments re Social Services Law Section 366-c Being Violative of the Affordable Care Act (PDF)
Elder 10 – Comments re Treatment of Retirement Accounts and Annuities  in the Medicaid Application and Budgeting Process (PDF)
Elder 11 – Comments re Long Term Care Enrollment Delays (PDF)
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lder 12 – Support – Enactment of the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act (PDF)
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lder 13 – Oppose – Requiring Petitioners for Appointment of a Guardian to Identify Other Person who may be able to  Manage the Affairs of an Incapacitated Person (PDF)
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lder 14 – Comments re Immediate Need for Personal Care Services and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (PDF)
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lder 15 – Comments re Housing Programs and Special Needs Trusts (PDF)
Elder 16 – Oppose – Budget – Opposes the Elimination of Medicaid “Spousal Refusal” (PDF)
Elder 17 – Oppose – Budget – Opposes the Reduction of the Minimum Community Spouse Resource Allowance (CSRA) (PDF)
Elder 18 – Oppose – Budget – Opposes the Proposal to Require a Nursing Home Level of Care as a Condition of Managed Long Term Care Eligibility (PDF)
Elder 19 – Oppose – Budget – Opposes the Proposal to Reduce Benefits for Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB) who Depend on Medicaid to Ensure Affordable Access to Health Care (PDF)
Elder 20 – Opposes Enactment of Peter Falk’s Law Relating to a Guardian’s Duties upon the Death or Hospitalization of a Person Subject to an Article 81 Guardianship (PDF)
Elder 21 – Budget – Support of the Legislature’s rejection of proposals to eliminate Spousal Refusal and reduce the CSRA (PDF)
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lder 23 – Support – H.R. 670/ S. 349 – Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2015 (PDF)
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lder 24 – Comments on Proposed Amendments to Part 36 of the Rules of the Chief Judge (PDF)

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Environmental Memo 1
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nvironmental Memo 3

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FLS Memo 1
FLS Memo 1A
FLS Memo 2-GOV
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LS Memo 4
FLS Memo 5
FLS Memo 6
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LS Memo 7-GOV
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LS Memo 8

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Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law and Health Law Memo 1A
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ood, Drug and Cosmetic Law Memo 3 – Health Law Memo 2
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ood, Drug and Cosmetic Law Memo 5

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Health Law Memo 1A
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ealth Law Memo 2 – Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law Memo 3
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ealth Law Memo 3

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YSBA Memo 15-GOV
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NYSBA Memo 24-C-Supplemental-GOV
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YSBA Memo 34-GOV
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YSBA Memo 35-GOV

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NYSBA Federal Memo 1
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YSBA Federal Memo 4
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NYSBA Federal Memo 6

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Tax Memo 1
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ax Memo 2

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TICL Memo 1

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T&E Memo 1 – GOV
T&E Memo 4 – GOV
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&E Memo 5
T&E Memo 6
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&E Memo 8
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&E Memo 8 – GOV

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