Relates to utility rate requests.
Sponsored bills
Establishes a COVID-19 emergency rental assistance program; implements a program of rental and utility payment assistance to eligible households; defines terms.
Enacts the Telework Act; provides for a task force and demonstration program on teleworking to study the benefits and other impacts thereof; provides that the task force shall consist of departments of environmental conservation, transportation, and civil service, the workers' compensation board, the office of general services, and the office of advocate for persons with disabilities, and legislative liaisons; authorizes the following four state agencies to participate in a demonstration program: the departments of financial services, health, transportation and the division of housing and community renewal; provides that after 18 months, the task force shall report its findings and recommendations on teleworking to the governor and the legislature.
Relates to video lottery gaming; permits Ulster County to allow two existing destination resorts in such county to install video lottery terminals, subject to a local resolution.
Requires the furnishing of programs and services to pupils who attend private or parochial schools or home-instructed pupils upon request of persons in parental relation, except in cities with a population of one million or more; provides that such programs and services shall include participation in all extra-curricular activities, and participation in intraschool, intramural, and extramural athletics.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens; provides for taxpayer gifts for tick borne illness research, detection and education; establishes the tick borne illness research, detection and education fund.
Establishes an elderly dental insurance coverage program; appropriates $20,000,000 therefor.
Provides for the state board of elections to prepare and distribute to each voter a ballot pamphlet for every general election; provides for contents thereof and makes numerous related provisions including the distribution of information relating to each ballot proposal that is submitted to a statewide vote at such general election; permits any person eligible to vote on any ballot proposal to institute a proceeding as to the factual accuracy of statements or constitutional amendments.
Provides for a personal income tax deduction for expenses paid or incurred for services rendered pursuant to an individual plan for employment prepared by the office of vocational rehabilitation or commission for the blind and visually handicapped and certified by a rehabilitation counselor.
Establishes the New York craft beverage council within the department of economic development to develop a marketing strategy to promote the state's fine wines, spirits and craft brews; defines terms.