2015 and 2016 Legislative Memoranda - New York State Bar Association

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)
A 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)

Committee on Children and the Law

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

Committee on Civil Practice Law and Rules

CPLR Memo 1
C PLR Memo 2

Committee on Civil Rights

Civil Rights Memo #1

Committee on Media Law

Media Memo 1
M edia Memo 2

Committee on the Tort System

Tort System Memo 1

Commercial and Federal Litigation Section

Com Fed Memo 1

Criminal Justice Section

Criminal Justice Section Memo 1-GOV

Elder Law Section

Elder 1 – Oppose – Budget Spousal Refusal (PDF)
Elder 2 – Oppose – Budget Immediate Need (PDF)
Elder 3 – Oppose – Witnesses to a HCP (PDF)
E lder 4 – Comments re S.2007/A.3007 Part B (PDF)
E lder 5 – Comments re Immediate Needs for Personal Care Services (PDF)
E lder 6 – Comments re Clarification of Spousal Impoverishment Budgeting with Post-Eligibility Rules under the Affordable Care Act (PDF)
E lder 7 – Comments re Immediate Needs for Personal Care Services (PDF)
E 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)
E lder 12 – Support – Enactment of the Special Needs Trust Fairness Act (PDF)
E 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)
E lder 14 – Comments re Immediate Need for Personal Care Services and Consumer Directed Personal Assistance (PDF)
E 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)
E lder 23 – Support – H.R. 670/ S. 349 – Special Needs Trust Fairness Act of 2015 (PDF)
E lder 24 – Comments on Proposed Amendments to Part 36 of the Rules of the Chief Judge (PDF)

Environmental Law Section

Environmental Memo 1
E nvironmental Memo 2
E nvironmental Memo 3

Family Law Section

FLS Memo 1
FLS Memo 1A
FLS Memo 2-GOV
FLS Memo 3
F LS Memo 4
FLS Memo 5
FLS Memo 6
F LS Memo 7-GOV
F LS Memo 8

Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law Section

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

Health Law Section

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

NYSBA Memos

NYSBA Memo 1
NYSBA Memo 2
N YSBA Memo 3
NYSBA Memo 4
NYSBA Memo 5
NYSBA Memo 6
N YSBA Memo 7-GOV
N YSBA Memo 8
NYSBA Memo 9
N YSBA Memo 10
NYSBA Memo 11
NYSBA Memo 12
NYSBA Memo 12-GOV
NYSBA Memo 13
N YSBA Memo 14
N YSBA Memo 14-GOV
N YSBA Memo 15-GOV
NYSBA Memo 16
NYSBA Memo 17
NYSBA Memo 18
NYSBA Memo 19
NYSBA Memo 20
NYSBA Memo 21
NYSBA Memo 22
NYSBA Memo 23
NYSBA Memo 24
N YSBA Memo 24-A
NYSBA Memo 24-C
NYSBA Memo 24-C-GOV
NYSBA Memo 24-C-Supplemental-GOV
NYSBA Memo 25
NYSBA Memo 26
N YSBA Memo 27
N YSBA Memo 28
NYSBA Memo 28-GOV
NYSBA Memo 29
N YSBA Memo 31
NYSBA Memo 32
NYSBA Memo 32-GOV
NYSBA Memo 33
N YSBA Memo 34-GOV
N YSBA Memo 35-GOV

NYSBA Federal Memos

NYSBA Federal Memo 1
NYSBA Federal Memo 1-A
NYSBA Federal Memo 2
NYSBA Federal Memo 3
N YSBA Federal Memo 4
NYSBA Federal Memo 5
NYSBA Federal Memo 6

Tax Section Memos

Tax Memo 1
T ax Memo 2

Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section

TICL Memo 1

Trusts and Estates Law Section

T&E Memo 1 – GOV
T&E Memo 4 – GOV
T &E Memo 5
T&E Memo 6
T&E Memo 7
T &E Memo 8
T &E Memo 8 – GOV