This bill provides emergency funding to cover state government operations from April 1-17, 2025, until the regular budget for the 2025 fiscal year is enacted. It appropriates $986.8 million for payroll and benefits for state employees (including executive branch, legislature, and judiciary), $32 million for non-personal service liabilities, and $537.1 million for employee benefits like health insurance and retirement contributions. The funds are specifically designated to pay salaries and cover operational costs incurred during the specified period, including liabilities from the previous fiscal year. This temporary measure ensures continuity of government services without altering existing budget authority.
Authorizes a public employee's contractual rights be extended for up to six months beyond the expiration date of such employee's agreement for the sole purpose of negotiating a new agreement.
Relates to authorizing geographic pay differentials for certain police officers; authorizes a pay differential for regional state park police, forest ranger, environmental conservation officer, and university police officer titles when wage rates of police officers in a given location are substantially higher than the wage rates paid by the state.
Prohibits third-party food delivery platforms from employing algorithms that promote unsafe operation of e-bikes and scooters to improve safety for third-party food deliveries.
Includes the unaccrued portion of a non-schedule award in the amounts to be payable to and for the benefit of certain persons where a claimant was entitled to death benefits at the time of death.
Establishes the universal child care act to provide for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York; establishes a universal child care taskforce to help implement universal child care in the state and repeals certain provisions of the social services law relating thereto; establishes the permanent child care workforce pay equity fund; establishes a universal child care public option pilot program to provide universal child care in at least twenty locations throughout the state; makes an appropriation therefor.
This bill amends New York's Executive Law to authorize punitive damages specifically for victims of sexual harassment in employment and housing discrimination cases. It directly affects individuals who have experienced sexual harassment by requiring employers or housing providers found liable to pay punitive damages beyond compensatory damages. The key provision adds "punitive damages, in cases of sexual harassment only" to the remedies available under the law, while maintaining a $10,000 cap for punitive damages in housing discrimination cases. This change clarifies that victims can seek punitive damages through court actions after filing administrative complaints, without needing to exhaust all administrative remedies first.
This bill creates a special optional retirement plan for New York State correction officers (and others performing correction duties). It allows eligible members to retire after 20 years of service (or at age 62) and receive a pension equal to 1/40th of their final average salary per year of service (capped at 50% of that salary). Members with over 20 years of service get an additional pension of 1/60th of final salary per extra year (capping total benefits at 75% of final salary). The state will pay additional contributions to cover these enhanced benefits, calculated by the retirement system's actuary. The plan is optional and does not affect existing retirement rules for other state employees.
Relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of troopers in the division of state police and salary schedules for members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit; provides for the payment of overtime pursuant to the terms of any agreement (Part A); relates to the terms and conditions of employment for members of the collective negotiating unit consisting of commissioned and non-commissioned officers in the division of state police and salary schedules for members of such unit; relates to the employee benefit fund for members of such unit (Part B).
Relates to prevailing wage for those involved in hauling of concrete and asphalt in the counties of Nassau, Putnam, Suffolk, and Westchester, and in the city of New York.
