Establishes the New York state youth in agriculture and entrepreneurship summer employment program to provide students with the opportunity to be educated on the agricultural industry and alternative career paths and to provide agricultural work experience and entrepreneurship work experience.
Asm. Angelo Santabarbara
Sponsored bills
Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of certain patient records by the office of mental health.
Relates to the effect and rebuttal of certain medical presumptions relating to heart disease; provides that, for certain members, any condition of impairment of health caused by a disease of the heart, resulting in disability, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty and the natural and proximate result of an accident.
Provides for the employment of mental health professionals by school districts.
Enacts "Jesse's law" to provide that a person subject to involuntary emergency admission for immediate observation, care, and treatment of mental illness shall have the right to select the hospital they are admitted to.
Increases monetary penalties for public health law violations; provides support for the nursing home quality improvement demonstration program.
Elevates an assault of a retail worker to the class D felony of assault in the second degree.
Requires the state comptroller to approve any attempt to privatize a public bus service by a locality.
Relates to zone pricing of gasoline.
Provides that a person may be charged with promoting a suicide or manslaughter if he or she is convicted of endangering the welfare of a vulnerable elderly person, an incompetent or physically disabled person and the conduct was the proximate cause of the victim's suicide.