Designates all agents employed by the city of New York police department in the titles of traffic enforcement agent I and traffic enforcement agent II as peace officers.
Establishes the crime of doxing a police officer, peace officer, or state officer when a person knowingly makes restricted personal information about a police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer, publicly available with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; or with the intent and knowledge that the restricted personal information will be used to threaten, intimidate, or facilitate the commission of a crime of violence against the police officer, peace officer, state officer, or a member of the immediate family of such officer; requires the posting of bail.
Directs local law enforcement agencies in municipalities authorizing an auxiliary police force by local law to provide retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers who retire with 10 or more years of service or who are injured in the course of duty and unable to continue duty due to such injury.
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distribution systems needed to supply power for the charging of zero-emission buses and provides a tariff for charging of electric buses.
Maddy summaryThis bill (A 7701) appoints a fiscal monitor for the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to oversee its financial operations. The governor appoints the monitor (who must have public finance expertise and not be an MTA employee or relative of board members) for a five-year term. The monitor reviews the MTA’s budget, debt, procurement, and financial controls, then makes recommendations to improve management and reports findings to the governor, legislature, and public. The position is non-voting on the MTA board and funded through state appropriation.
Maddy summaryThis bill directs New York's Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Electric Transmission (ORES) to create a standardized procedure for processing letters of credit required as financial security for renewable energy project siting permits. It specifically requires ORES to develop this procedure and make it available to any municipality that chooses to use ORES to handle such financial security in their permitting process. The bill does not change the requirement for financial security but establishes a clear, centralized process for its administration. This affects renewable energy developers seeking permits and local governments managing permitting under the state's siting program.
Enacts the manufacturer disclosure and transparency act requiring prescription drug manufacturers to notify the attorney general of arrangements between pharmaceutical manufacturers resulting in the delay of the introduction of generic medications.
Provides that such rates of payment shall be updated to reflect the most current mean price for free-standing residential health care facilities with less than three hundred beds each time that the cost basis of residential health care facility rates is updated.
Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses against a child; designates such sex offenses against a child as sexually violent offenses for the purposes of sex offender registration; requires every sex offender convicted of such an offense to be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring by the division of criminal justice services upon release from prison.
Provides for the use of telematics or usage-based insurance for private passenger or commercial automobile insurance or policies in certain circumstances.
