Requires schools report certain threats and acts of violence to the federal bureau of investigation, the state police, and the office of mental health.
Maddy summaryThis bill extends the payment deadline for cigarette tax stamps from 30 to 45 days for licensed agents who buy and affix these stamps. It directly affects businesses licensed as agents under New York's tax law, including distributors, importers, and manufacturers handling cigarette tax compliance. The key change modifies the payment period in the tax law, while maintaining existing rules on agent fees (up to $1,500), commissions (capped at 5%), and bonding requirements. The bill does not alter tax rates or introduce new fees, only adjusting the timeframe for agents to settle stamp payments.
Provides voting membership to existing non-voting rider representatives on the MTA Board, provides for enhanced representation of MTA riders with disabilities.
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
Maddy summaryThis bill creates a New York state tax credit for small businesses hiring disabled workers. Small businesses with 100 or fewer employees can claim a $5,000 credit per disabled employee (up to $25,000 per business annually), provided the employee works 35+ hours weekly for six months and the employer verifies the employee meets the statutory disability definition. The credit is capped at $5 million total per year, with unused credits carried forward for up to three years. It directly affects small business employers in New York who hire eligible disabled residents, aiming to incentivize their employment through tax relief.
Maddy summaryThis bill (A 5326, "Criminal Street Gang Related Crimes Act") creates enhanced penalties for specific violent crimes committed in connection with criminal street gangs. It directly affects individuals convicted of listed offenses - such as assault, robbery, kidnapping, or arson - when linked to gang membership or activity. Key provisions define "criminal street gang" and "gang-related crime," then increase penalties: violent felonies become higher-level felonies, while non-violent offenses are upgraded by one category (e.g., an E felony becomes a D felony). The law applies only to crimes meeting strict gang activity criteria, mirroring similar laws in other states.
Establishes domestic violence crimes when an individual commits or intends to commit a specified offense against a member of the same family or household; defines specified offenses; defines members of the same family; sets forth criteria for the authorized disposition of individuals convicted of a domestic violence crime.
Provides that no facility fee shall be charged for services when a hospital-based facility is a distant site for health care services delivered by telehealth unless the service is provided by a health care provider not authorized to bill a professional fee separately for the service.
Creates the crime of stalking a police officer or peace officer when a person intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific police officer, peace officer or a person who they know or reasonably should know is a member of such officer's immediate family, and knows or reasonably should know that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable fear of material harm to the physical health, safety or property of such officer or member of such officer's immediate family; makes stalking a police officer or peace officer a class E felony; requires the posting of bail; makes related provisions.
Exempts adolescent offenders who displayed a shotgun, rifle or deadly weapon in furtherance of the underlying offense, or who were illegally in possession of a loaded firearm, from those authorized to be removed to family court.
