Gun Grabbing | Punishing Druggies | Inhibiting Enterprise | Election Tampering | Puritanical Blue Laws | Stealing from the Poor | Prohibiting Common Activities Stealing from the Poor and conversely, the good bills that give it back...

Bill AO8702 and SO4892 "Eliminate the local share of additional program enhancements under the medical assistance program" retroactive to April 1, 2001 and bill AO8647 "directs the state department of health to propose legislation to improve the system of payment for and administration of the medical assistance program".	GOOD Al - Both bills are supported by my county Board of Supervisors because they would help curb unfunded mandates that raise your county property taxes. In Livingsaton County, unfunded state mandates account for 75% of property taxes.
AO1752 "Provides an additional personal income tax exemption for each dependent parent or grandparent residing in the taxpayer's household who is at least 62 years of age and who resides with the taxpapeyer at least 180 days per year." AO5151 "Provides a tax credit to individuals caring for elderly dependents over the age of 62 who reside with such individuals and who are entitled to an exemption for federal income tax purposes and requires the office for the aging to report to the governor and the legislature regarding the effects of such tax credit, its use or non-use and the extent to which such credit aids families."	GOOD Al - These bills recognize a burden that many families face and does not involve dependence on a government program, or extra spending by the state. A05151 is being considered by the Aging Committee in the State Assembly, making it more likely to pass than A01752.
Bill AO4577 "Requires that the state legislature appropriate such funds to local governments as may be sufficient to hold such local governments harmless from any part of the fiscal burden arising from a state mandated expenditure placed upon such local governments."	GOOD Al - A good bill with many supporters, but it is a Republican bill in the Assembly, so it will probably not pass.