Enacts the "school bus camera safety act" to authorize the installation and use of photo monitoring devices on school buses to detect and record vehicles illegally passing or overtaking a school bus; provides for owner liability of a motor vehicle detected by a camera to have illegally passed or overtaken a school bus; provides that liability shall be a civil fine equal to the traffic infraction fine imposed therefor; authorizes school districts to receive state aid for the purchase of such cameras.
Asm. John McDonald
Sponsored bills
Relates to the creation of a searchable database; requires qualified participants to report annually on projected and actual jobs created and retained in connection with any related economic development benefits; establishes a public database.
Requires contracts with home care service providers to provide sufficient resources to ensure compensation to a qualified workforce providing high quality care; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care facilities to finance health care reform efforts.
Prohibits of the sale of kratom to individuals under the age of eighteen; defines "kratom" as any part of the plant Mitragyna speciosa, whether growing or not, and any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant; imposes a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for the sale or provision of kratom to any person under the age of eighteen.
Establishes a private student loan refinance task force to study and report on ways lending institutions offering private student loans to graduates of institutions of higher education can be encouraged to establish student loan refinancing programs.
Requires contracts between professional design firms and municipal corporations, state and local authorities, or state departments contain language concerning indemnification.
Provides for the certification by the education department of certified registered nurse anesthetists.
Relates to extending the authority of the board to resolve medical bill disputes.
Establishes an electronic registration process integrated within designated agency applications; makes related provisions.
Allows the granting of academic credit at state operated institutions of the state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city university of New York to veterans, members of the military, and reservists.