Relates to obligations with respect to contracts with business enterprises which employ individuals with disabilities; defines qualified business enterprise as any business concern which employs a workforce consisting of at least fifteen percent employees with disabilities and has been certified under this section; sets goal of five percent of state contracts going to qualified business enterprises; establishes an office of statewide advocate, certification process, and enforcement mechanism.
Asm. Angelo Santabarbara
Sponsored bills
Relates to the rights of persons with disabilities in public places and places of public accommodation; provides that guide, hearing and service dogs are allowed to accompany a disabled person in all public places and places of public accommodation.
Excludes fundraising from consideration in appropriating state aid and reimbursement for services to volunteer ambulance companies, including regional emergency medical councils.
Relates to imposing a five-day time limit during which to disclose a breach in the security of a system.
Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day".
Establishes a commission to study and report on the potential implementation of staggered work start and end times for a percentage of state workers to alleviate traffic congestion on the New York state thruway and Adirondack northway during peak commuter travel times.
Establishes a moratorium upon the siting of sludge processing facilities in this state, including any facility which converts sewer sludge including but not limited to human waste, farm animal waste, and food waste, such as yogurt by-products, into a bio-solid fertilizer.
Enacts the college textbook affordability act; establishes the New York state open education resources council and the New York state open source digital library; authorizes SUNY campuses and community colleges to adopt open educational resources adoption incentive program campus plans and apply for grants to implement such plans; provides that settlements with the office of the attorney general shall be used to provide assistance to the state university of New York for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Makes a $100,000,000 appropriation to the environmental facilities corporation for emergency municipal drinking water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure grants.
Relates to authorizing the Knox town board to establish certain speed limits; authorizes the Knox town board to establish speed limits within the town provided such roads have been classified by the department of transportation as local roads.