• S.5893/A.9349, which boosts to $27,500 the maximum retired public employees who return to public service can earn without reducing their pensions, effective this year.
• S.6300A/A.10221, which expands the rights of retired public employees to authorize automatic pension deductions of voluntary contributions to union-sponsored political committees;
• S.7719/A.11801, which would implement pay raises and other terms of the new PS&T contract, subject to its ratification by PEF members;
• S.978/A.5921, which would allow retired public employees to authorize regular contributions to federated community campaigns to be deducted from their pension checks; and
• S.6503A/A.10887, which would allow members of the NYS and Local Employees Retirement System to change their retirement-benefit option for up to 30 days after their first pension pay date.

Five of the bills PEF backed have been vetoed:
• S.6729/A.10289, which would have required the state to give 12-months advance notice before closing or reducing state services to children and families;
• S.6398/A.9878, which would have required the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to give at least 12-months advance notice before closing or reducing its services; 
• S.6213/A10290, which would have both prohibited private operation or management of secure state facilities for youths, and required state employees to provide the security services at such facilities; and
• S.6366/A.5921, which would have strengthened the Public Employment Relations Board’s power to impose punitive damages for severe or repeated violations of the state Taylor Law.
The governor also vetoed S.7682.A/A.11760A, which would have gradually raised the minimum wage in New York by $2 over three years, from the current hourly rate of $5.15 to $7.15. The Assembly has voted to override this veto, but, so far, the Senate has not taken up such a motion.

Five more bills that PEF supported and the Legislature passed have been sent to the governor, but his decision on them has not been announced. These include:
• S.3948/A.5983, which would allow arbitrators and attorneys in public-sector-labor arbitrations to issue subpoenas;
• S.2027B/A.4421B, which would require state institutions and buildings to be equipped with automated external defibrillators for emergency treatment of heart attacks;
• S.973A/A.4962A, which would establish clear legislative policy to protect public retirees’ health insurance from May 1, 2004, through May 15, 2005; and
• S2101/A.6927 which would give state employees up to four hours off work per year to undergo screening for prostate cancer, without charging their accrued leave.
Although the time has expired for the governor to sign or veto the latter two bills, his office has not reported his decisions on them.