Creates the lupus research enhancement program; creates the lupus research enhancement fund.
Authorizes certain counties and cities to impose up to a four percent rate of sales and compensating use taxes; preserves the authority of certain municipalities to impose such taxes at rates in excess of four percent.
Establishes the community schools act; authorizes the commissioner to award grants for community schools programming; appropriates funds therefor.
Prohibits the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, any state legislator, any elected county, city, town or village official, or any person who currently holds elective office from serving as a delegate to the constitutional convention.
Relates to the regulation of short-term rental units; authorizes short-term rental units and requires short-term rental hosts to register each unit with the division of housing and community renewal; establishes that occupancies of a short-term rental unit shall be subject to taxes and fees pursuant to articles twenty-eight and twenty-nine of the tax law and applicable local laws.
Establishes the Thomas A. Constantine institute for the study of transnational organized crime within the state university of New York; makes an appropriation therefor.
Exempts certain BOCES capital expenditures from limitations upon local school district tax levies.
Clarifies that enhanced tuition awards are for attendance at private degree granting institutions of higher education.
Relates to the creation of the strategic investment in workforce development program.
Relates to authorizing chief executives to designate any vehicle as an emergency vehicle during a state of emergency.
