Relates to the liability of the state to any person who suffers damage as a result of a defect in a state highway.
Asm. Angelo Santabarbara
Sponsored bills
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.
Enacts "Kirby and Quigley's Law"; establishes a cause of action against a person who has intentionally caused injury or death of a companion animal.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens; provides for taxpayer gifts for tick borne illness research, detection and education; establishes the tick borne illness research, detection and education fund.
Develops comprehensive assessment centers for autism spectrum disorders; provides grants for their development and lays out reporting and research requirements.
Establishes the emergency water infrastructure repairs fund; provides funding to municipalities for the emergency repair of any municipal water infrastructure.
Relates to directing the commissioner of education to establish rules and regulations for a sepsis awareness and prevention program for school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools.
Relates to truth and fairness in asbestos litigation; requires documentation for the purpose of demonstrating asbestos exposure, the health effects of exposure to asbestos and/or the validity of a claim.
Prohibits financial institutions from charging a fee in excess of five dollars to a customer based on account inactivity.
Provides that an individual shall not become ineligible under the EPIC program due to an increase in social security benefits or a public or private pension where such increase does not exceed the consumer price index.