Asm. Angelo Santabarbara

Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires transit authorities and their subsidiaries to ensure accessible buses (wheelchair-friendly) are available within a three-mile service area of any bus line. It mandates that 65% of all regularly operated buses must be accessible, achieved by requiring all newly purchased, leased, or brought-into-service buses (except those for temporary shortages) to be accessible until the 65% threshold is met. The law directly affects public transit agencies like the MTA, ensuring better access for transportation-disabled riders, including wheelchair users, on fixed-route bus services. Key provisions include the 65% accessibility target and the 3-mile service area requirement for accessible buses.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires New York's motor vehicle commissioner to add "failure to move over" for emergency vehicles as a five-point traffic violation in state regulations. It directly affects drivers who do not move over when approaching parked, stopped, or standing emergency vehicles, hazard vehicles, or vehicles displaying blue/green lights. The key mechanism updates 15 NYCRR 15 NYCRR 131.3 to include this specific violation, increasing penalties for non-compliance. This change makes the offense carry the same point value as other serious traffic violations under state law.

Establishes a tax credit for individuals who serve or are employed as a direct support professional, or direct care worker, up to five thousand dollars for taxpayers who make less than fifty thousand dollars and phased out for individuals who make over one hundred thousand dollars.

Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.

Expands eligibility for minority-owned business enterprise participation for state contracts to include businesses with employee stock ownership plans.

Requires operators of motor vehicles to reduce their speed when approaching and passing mobile ice cream vendor vehicles when such vendor vehicle is parked and in active operation.

Maddy summaryThis bill establishes a maximum caseload of twelve families per full-time preventative case planning services caseworker per month for local social services districts in New York. It directly affects districts providing preventative services to eligible children and families, requiring them to maintain caseloads at or below this limit while continuing to fund such services at prior-year levels. The law modifies state reimbursement rules, ensuring districts receive 100% state funding for preventative services if they meet the new caseload standard and maintain spending. These changes aim to standardize caseload management for preventative child welfare services under the Office of Children and Family Services.

Maddy summaryThis bill, A 8716 ("autism data privacy protection act"), requires New York state agencies, contractors, and service providers to obtain written consent before collecting or sharing personal details about a person’s autism diagnosis or related information. It allows exceptions for court orders, service delivery needs, or legal mandates if data is anonymized. The Attorney General can enforce the law by seeking court orders or imposing $2,500 penalties per violation (with each unauthorized disclosure counted as a separate violation). The law takes effect immediately upon enactment.

Requires a certified copy or certified transcript of a birth record, death record, certificate of marriage, or certificate of dissolution of marriage to be issued to the child, grandchild, or great-grandchild of a deceased person upon request; removes requirement for such individuals to obtain a court order for issuance of such records.