Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits; makes conforming technical changes.
Requires insurers and health plans to grant automatic preauthorization approvals to eligible health care professionals in certain circumstances.
Preempts local laws from requiring minimum work requirements for volunteer security guards in their communities.
Requires the display of charter bus driver qualifications prominently while they are on duty.
Increases the amount of state subsidies schools may receive for serving lunch meals.
Provides an optional tax exemption for property operating as a child day care that localities can opt into through local law.
Provides for the initiation of treatment for COVID-19, influenza, and pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection by a licensed pharmacist in certain circumstances.
Diversifies the investment authority of the New York state insurance fund.
Provides that statements made by minor defendants as a result of deception by law enforcement during custodial interrogation are inadmissible.
Provides for a disability benefit for employees of the New York city transit authority, and its subsidiary corporations, who are disabled by reason of an assault sustained in the course of employment.
