Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Adds two members who should be appointed by the commissioner of labor to the New York state rural ambulance services task force.
Eliminates additional application fees and annual fees for special license plates issued to veterans of the armed forces of the United States.
Relates to direct marketing activities for New York beverages; authorizes the sale of beer and wine at movie theaters.
Relates to disability retirement for members of the department of environmental conservation, forest rangers, university police officers and the regional state park police.
Requires nursing homes to spend at least the resident care amount necessary to achieve a required resident care percentage and a sufficient direct care service amount so it does not have a direct care service deficit.
Establishes the veterans' services law and the department of veterans' services; replaces all instances of the term "division of veterans' services" with the term "department of veterans' services".
Relates to utilization review program standards; requires use of evidence-based and peer reviewed clinical review criteria; relates to prescription drug formulary changes and pre-authorization for certain health care services.
Requires public officers and public bodies to make reasonable efforts to provide qualified interpreters at no charge for the hearing impaired at public meetings and hearings upon written request to the public officer responsible for the siting of such hearing; requires installation and use of assistive listening devices.
