New York Bills

Relates to criminal background checks for navigators.

Prohibits an employer from terminating an employee who is also a volunteer firefighter or an enrolled member of a volunteer ambulance service when such employee misses or is late to work because of an emergency to which the employee was dispatched.

Relates to creating the "I love NY outdoors" program.

Requires homeless shelters housing adults to restrict the number of clients housed to 100 and to be located no nearer than a three mile radius from another such facility; phases in requirements over one year; requires report by the department of family assistance regarding implementation of such standards; shelters must meet the requirements of these provisions by a specified date.

Establishes the manufacturing preservation and enhancement act to foster economic growth and job creation; provides manufacturing enhancement incentive wage tax credits and energy tax credits and increases the real property tax credit for manufacturers.

Relates to unemployment benefits for part-time workers; provides for a system of benefits based on the number of effective weeks a part-time employee accrues.

Relates to reimbursement by insurers for ambulatory services.

Exempts licensed wineries from requirement to obtain a temporary sales permit.

Identifies persons to be mandatory reporters of senior abuse or maltreatment; describes the procedures and steps to be taken to report senior abuse to adult protective services.

Creates a thirteen member health benefit and cost commission to conduct a comprehensive review of all current mandated benefits and an accurate cost analysis of proposed benefits.

Relates to the issuance of a temporary carnival license; authorizes the liquor authority to issue temporary permits for a period not to exceed eighteen days to authorize the sale of beer and wine at festivals, carnivals, events, functions, gatherings or occasions within the hours fixed by or pursuant to subdivision five of section one hundred six of the alcoholic beverage control law, during which alcoholic beverages may lawfully be sold or served upon premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail for on-premises consumption in the community in which is located the premises in which such festival, carnival, event, function, gathering or occasion is held; provides that the fee for such permit shall be one hundred dollars.

Relates to the frequency of games of bingo; provides that nursing homes and residential health care facilities may offer bingo without limitations.