Asm. Tommy John Schiavoni

Maddy summaryThis bill establishes minimum cash wage requirements for "miscellaneous industry workers" who receive tips, including car wash attendants, nail salon workers, tow truck drivers, dog groomers, tour guides, valet attendants, and similar roles. It sets specific hourly cash wage floors that must be paid in addition to tips, with rates increasing annually through 2029 (e.g., $12.77/hour in NYC starting 2026, $11.50/hour outside NYC starting 2026). The bill ensures that when tips are added to the cash wage, the total equals the full minimum wage for their region, preventing employers from relying solely on tips to meet wage requirements. It directly affects these tipped workers by guaranteeing a minimum cash payment regardless of tip amounts received.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires all public elementary schools to include cursive writing instruction in their curriculum, ensuring students can produce legible cursive documents by the end of fifth grade. It directly affects public school students in grades K-5 and their educators, mandating that cursive writing become part of the standard course of study. The key provision specifies that schools must provide this instruction to meet the readability goal by fifth grade, with implementation beginning in the next school year after enactment. The bill focuses solely on adding this requirement to existing education standards, without altering other curriculum elements or funding.

Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.

Maddy summaryThis bill creates a sales tax exemption for commercial energy storage systems. It directly affects businesses installing or using equipment that stores electricity for later use in non-residential buildings (like offices, factories, or warehouses) to provide heating, cooling, hot water, or electricity. The key provision exempts the retail sale and installation costs of this equipment, as well as electricity sales from businesses that own and install such systems on a customer's non-residential property under specific written agreements. The exemption applies to both the equipment itself and the electricity generated by it, aligning with existing tax law definitions for similar energy storage systems.

Maddy summaryBill A 8082 establishes a new retirement service credit for members of public retirement systems who have served as volunteer firefighters or emergency service personnel. Eligible members can receive one year of service credit for every five years of volunteer service, up to a maximum of three years of credit for fifteen years of service. To qualify, members must have at least five years of other credited service and pay a fee equivalent to three percent of their compensation for the twelve months prior to application, for each year of credited volunteer service. This credit can be applied towards special twenty or twenty-five year retirement plans.

Maddy summaryThis bill authorizes the village of Southampton to sell specific parkland to build a new wastewater treatment facility. In exchange, the village must dedicate new land as parkland, ensuring the replacement land is at least equal in value to what is being sold. The legislation includes conditions to protect federal funding requirements and allows for additional park improvements if the new land's value is lower than the land being sold. The affected property is a 2.478-acre parcel, while the replacement land is 1.10 acres, with the difference in value to be used for park improvements.

Enacts the "NY broadband resiliency, public safety and quality act" to provide for oversight of the resiliency, public safety and quality of broadband and voice over internet protocol service.

Relates to the management of PFAS in biosolids in the state by requiring testing and reporting of certain groundwater, biosolids, and soil and establishing a moratorium on the sale and use of biosolids; establishes the PFAS agricultural response program and fund to assist farms found to have levels of PFAS contamination which exceed regulatory standards.

Authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants for purposes of preventing transmission of tick-borne diseases on public lands frequented by humans; requires the commissioner to submit an annual report on the performance of programs funded by such grants.

Maddy summaryThis bill updates references from "division of veterans' services" to "department of veterans' services" in multiple state laws to align with existing legal terminology. It modifies sections of the county law, labor law, mental hygiene law, and military law where the agency name appears, ensuring consistency across statutes. The change affects the agency itself and administrative processes governed by these laws, such as reporting suicide deaths of veterans to the agency and distributing veterans' benefits posters. No new benefits or policy changes are introduced - this is solely a technical correction to agency naming. The bill does not directly impact veterans' access to services or eligibility.