Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, or open a street is required to be issued.
Asm. Steve Stern
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Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands for local governments that have implemented a freshwater wetlands protection law; provides that any local law or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall take effect on the first day of January after it shall have been adopted.
Establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing; provides for the repeal of such task force upon expiration thereof.
Creates the office of older adult workforce development within the office for the aging to address the needs of older adults regarding the workplace.
Establishes a task force on veterans employment opportunities in the department of veterans' services.
Relates to certified public accountants; requires that a majority of the ownership of a professional service corporation formed to lawfully engage in the practice of public accountancy as a firm are individuals licensed to practice public accountancy in some state; enacts similar provisions for partnerships and LLCs.
Designates a portion of state route 111 in the towns of Islip and Smithtown as the "Port Authority Police Officer Steven J. Tursellino Memorial Highway".
Requires the disclosure of insurance information, including the name of the insurance company, the amount of coverage and what is covered under their plan, on permit applications for the construction of pipelines upon any freshwater wetlands.
Enacts the lead pipe right to know act requiring public water systems to take service line inventories and make such information available to the public.
Establishes a retirement service credit for volunteer fire or emergency service.