New York Bills

Permits judicial discretion based on dangerousness when issuing a securing order and allows for limited pre-trial detention upon such a determination; extends the time period for discovery from fifteen to forty-five days; permits the immediate issuance of a bench warrant for failure to appear for certain principals charged with hate crimes; places restrictions on when appearance tickets may be issued.

Specifies methods of calculating deposits and reserves for the aggregate trust fund and reserves of the state insurance fund; provides that all computations made or directed by the workers' compensation board shall be on the basis of the survivorship annuitants table of mortality, the remarriage tables of the Dutch Royal Insurance Institution applicable to claims for accidents occurring on or before December 31, 2021, and beginning January 1, 2022 and on January 1 of each tenth year thereafter, the United States life table for the total population published by the department of health and human services and the remarriage table published by the department of health and human services and the remarriage table published by the United States railroad retirement board applicable to claims for accidents occurring on or after January first of the year following the adoption of any revision of such tables; makes related provisions.

Requires the department of transportation to issue a notice of completed application upon receipt and following an initial review of the application and determining that the application is complete or identifying additional information required or to be submitted by the applicant and requires the commissioner of transportation to establish regulations regarding the time within which such application is processed.

Relates to removing an unsupervised or unattended minor from a motor vehicle.

Requires the Long Island power authority to conduct comprehensive management and operations audits every three years instead of every five years.

Allows taxpayers to register to vote upon paying their taxes or changing their address.

Relates to compliance with the open meetings law during a state disaster emergency; provides that during a state disaster emergency, a public body in the affected area may make a determination that, as a direct result of the state disaster emergency, complying with a particular requirement of the open meetings law would unduly threaten the health or safety of members of the public body or the general public.

Permits owners of private property to post such property to prevent trespass by painting purple markings on trees or markers.

Relates to the liability of a municipality or governmental subdivision for the refund of property taxes to the Long Island power authority.

Requires public notice and a ninety-day period for public comment prior to the designation of an access highway by the department of transportation.

Authorizes the town of Oyster Bay to adopt a local law establishing an administrative adjudication hearing procedure for all code and ordinance violations relating to conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.

Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war".