Provides preferences in contracts under the affordable home ownership program to police officers, teachers and firefighters who live in the municipality or school district in which they work; defines relevant terms.
Enacts the "assuring college campus and educational safety and support (ACCESS) act" relating to harassment of students and applicants at educational institutions; describes the circumstances under which harassment at educational institutions is an unlawful discriminatory practice; describes the circumstances under which an educational institution is deemed to have permitted harassment; describes additional circumstances under which a college or university is deemed to have permitted harassment.
Provides for school district employees who have been provisionally appointed to a position for at least nine months without an exam being offered for such position to receive a permanent appointment in such position.
Provides for a personal income tax deduction for student loan payments not in excess of five thousand dollars; excludes any payment not in excess of five thousand dollars made by an employer, employee, or on behalf of an employee that is directly deducted from the employee's wages through payroll and administered by a third-party platform that facilitates direct payments to educational institutions or related loan servicers on behalf of students such amount from an employee's New York state gross income; further excludes any contribution not to exceed five thousand dollars to a tuition program under section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code made through payroll deduction and facilitated by an employer or a third-party platform that facilitates direct payments to such programs on behalf of employees from the employee's New York state gross income.
This bill requires New York elementary schools to schedule daily recess for all kindergarten through fifth-grade students. Schools must provide either one 30-minute period or two 15-minute periods of unstructured physical activity each school day, held outdoors when reasonable. The recess time cannot overlap with scheduled lunch periods or physical education classes. The law applies to all public elementary schools and takes effect for the school year starting July 1 following its enactment.
This bill increases New York State's subsidy for school lunch meals from $0.1901 to $0.25 per meal served. It directly affects school food authorities statewide, requiring them to certify that at least 30% of their food purchases for lunch programs came from New York farmers or producers in the prior year. The subsidy applies to all free, paid, and reduced-price meals served during the 2022-2023 school year and each subsequent year. The change takes effect immediately upon enactment.
This bill allows foster care case workers to directly apply for federal education and training vouchers on behalf of children in foster care. It amends New York State's social services law and New York City's administrative code to explicitly permit case workers to request these vouchers, which cover costs like tuition, books, and training programs under federal law. The change applies immediately to all children in foster care within New York State and NYC, streamlining access to educational support previously requiring parental application. The bill does not alter the voucher program itself but expands who can initiate the application process.
Exempts books, magazines, pamphlets and other related items sold at a primary or secondary school facility or at a library at a book fair organized, hosted or sponsored by an organization established for educational purposes, including but not limited to a parent-teacher association, booster club, or a similar school-based association which supports school activities, or a friends of the library organization from sales and compensating use taxes.
This bill provides state funding to cities, towns, villages, or fire districts where tax-exempt property (like schools or government buildings) makes up over 35% of total property value, as this reduces local tax revenue. The state will pay eligible areas a sum based on two equal parts: 50% distributed by population proportion and 50% based on each area's share of tax-exempt property value. Payments require annual budget appropriations and apply to property assessments after the bill's effective date. It directly affects local governments struggling with revenue shortfalls due to high concentrations of tax-exempt land.
Renames an office of addiction services and supports scholarship program the "NYS Father Peter Young Memorial Addiction Professionals Scholarship Program"; codifies the purposes of such program as offering financial education assistance to individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in addiction studies or the education requirements for an office of addiction services and supports credential at Alfred State College, Stony Brook University or Empire State University.
