Enacts provisions to provide minimum wages for home care aides; requires at least 150% of minimum wage or other set minimum; directs the commissioner of health to set regional minimum rates of reimbursement for home care aides under medicaid and managed care plans.
Relates to preventing certain elected officials from being a member of an agency.
Provides tax credit to certain volunteer firefighters, volunteer ambulance workers and volunteer emergency medical personnel under certain circumstances.
Authorizes the court the discretion to release persons charged with certain crimes involving possession of a firearm on their own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or commit the person to the custody of the sheriff.
Creates a state-wide literacy education advocacy program modelled after the Newburgh Armory Unity Center Literacy Education Advocacy Partnership to study the viability of the Newburgh Armory Unity Center Literacy Education Advocacy Partnership.
Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment and complex rehabilitation technology fee schedule for the same service or item.
Relates to the practice of applied behavior analysis.
Directs the public service commission to study the feasibility and the costs of burying all or most of the electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines in New York state and to publish and deliver a report of its findings to the governor and the legislature, and requires new electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines to be buried underground.
Relates to the provision of records upon the receipt of a complaint of an incident of abuse or neglect of an individual with a disability.
Adds wildlife management units 3H and 3K to the yearling buck protection program.
