Entitles each member of the legislature to bring one statewide piece of legislation of his or her choosing to the floor for a vote without a home rule message and committee review during each two-year term.
Establishes the state all-electric building plan to require the office of general services to transition all buildings owned by the state to be all-electric buildings.
Authorizes the governing body or agency of a public school building to reject a designation as a polling place or an early polling place.
Changes the early voting period for general, primary, run-off primary and special elections for public office or party position; maintains the current early voting period for general elections in a year in which electors of president and vice president of the United States are to be elected.
Provides milk dealers and agricultural food product transporters with electronic toll collection devices free of charge; requires the department of transportation to reimburse the thruway authority and the metropolitan transportation authority for costs incurred in providing such toll collection devices.
Directs the commissioner of health and the president of the New York state energy research and development authority (NYSERDA) to study and make recommendations on the impacts of electric vehicles on personal medical devices.
Allows a police officer or district attorney certain discretion with respect to the obligation to file an application for extreme risk protection order.
Authorizes municipalities to establish a history, arts, and culture levy to support history, arts, and culture; exempts such levy from the real property tax levy limit.
Permits certain schools to provide hemostatic agents for use during emergencies.
Establishes certain statewide literacy education programs including standards for an early education program, statewide parents as teachers program, a reading program to provide direct support for and intervention in intensive reading intervention services, and the district reading intervention program.
