Relates to primary elections and amends certain deadlines to facilitate the timely transmission of ballots to military voters stationed overseas; relates to filling vacancies in elective offices; relates to the date of primary elections.
Asm. John McDonald
Sponsored bills
Relates to state assessments and teacher evaluations; makes certain provisions permanent.
Relates to the New York state masters-in-education teacher incentive scholarship program.
Relates to establishing a legislative committee on racial equity in the New York state assembly to review and prepare a racial equity impact statement for all legislation that is reported favorably to the assembly.
Relates to establishing the Barbara Clark leaders of tomorrow scholarship; provides funds be distributed from the New York state lottery and given to one eligible senior from every participating public and private high school in New York state.
Relates to suicide prevention; provides that the office of mental health and the education department shall identify or develop materials for educators regarding suicide prevention measures and signs of depression among school-aged students; provides that related information shall be available on the Internet and may be included in schools.
Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.
Relates to adding autism as a covered condition for lawful medical use of marihuana.