Permits mentoring programs to conduct background clearances of prospective employees and volunteers to determine whether any such person has been reported for child abuse or maltreatment or is on the sex offender registry.
Designates the "Honor and Remember Flag" as the official state flag for recognizing armed service members who have died as a result of serving the United States in any war or conflict the nation has been involved in since its inception.
Enacts "The Domestic Violence Protection Act - Helen's Law" requiring registration of violent felony offenders; sets forth duties of the division of criminal justice services; establishes a special telephone number; requires the division to maintain a subdirectory of violent predators.
Allows county correctional facilities to use the profits from commissaries or canteens within the facilities for the general purposes of the institution.
Imposes a moratorium on increasing gas and electric prices, rates and charges.
Enacts the "emergency school relief act"; makes changes in the percentages for disposition of revenue from lottery prize account to increase the percentage directed to state aid for education funding.
Raises the jurisdictional amount for small claims cases from $3,000 to $10,000 in justice court.
Establishes a temporary fuel tax holiday for one year; requires the comptroller and the director of the budget to transfer from the general fund to the special obligation reserve and payment account an amount equal to the amount that would have otherwise been deposited if the fuel tax holiday had not been authorized.
Enacts the "Save our New York state restaurants act" authorizing a sales tax exemption for the sale of food and drink at restaurants and taverns during a specific one week period and grants certain municipalities the option to grant such limited exemption.
Authorizes a personal income tax deduction for expenses paid during the taxable year by a qualified taxpayer attributable to the cost of residential heating, including, but not limited to amounts paid for fuel oil, coal, wood, propane, natural gas, electricity, steam, kerosene and any other fuel used to heat such taxpayer's primary residence.
