Relates to providing hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency; provides that certain employers shall make hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency provided no hazard payment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any year for any essential worker earning less than two hundred thousand dollars per year or five thousand dollars for any essential worker earning more than two hundred thousand dollars.
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Provides grants to address food insecurity among students at public institutions for higher education.
Provides that the department of transportation shall not require a survey as part of an agreement with any fiber optic utility for use and occupancy of a state right of way for the purposes of installing, modifying, relocating, repairing, operating, or maintaining fiber optic facilities as part of the department's consolidated application, when such use and occupancy of the state right of way is utilizing existing infrastructure, including but not limited to aerial pole attachments and underground conduits.
Relates to publishing records of public interest by agencies and the legislature on their websites.
Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services from 65 to 75 percent.
Authorizes the fingerprinting of employees of informal child care providers; defines terms; provides that an informal child care provider means a program in a facility, other than a residence, in which child care is provided on a regular basis and is not required to be licensed by or registered with the office or licensed by the city of New York.
Requires that for hire vehicles with a chassis which was manufactured and then altered for the purpose of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver, be equipped with an operable carbon monoxide detector.
Provides for a minimum 10 foot buffer from the water table for all mining plans for mining on Long Island.
Authorizes certain school districts to establish excess tuition reserve funds; applies only to school districts with an enrollment of fifteen hundred students or less where the total cost of tuition payments to other school districts is one million dollars or more.
Establishes the "pollution justice act"; implements a plan to replace peaker plant electric generating facilities with renewable energy systems.