Relates to annual professional performance reviews of teachers and principals; establishes an optional system of annual professional performance review plans; repeals provisions relating to streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffective.
Requires that all procedures and other matters related to the receipt or discontinuation of benefits available under section two hundred seven-c of the general municipal law shall be mandatorily negotiable terms and conditions of employment.
Establishes law enforcement officer grant funds and firefighter grant funds to cover expenses related to hiring law enforcement officers and firefighters and equipment and resources for such officers and firefighters.
Provides a payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Increases the period of supervision to five years for real estate brokers applying for a license.
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
Relates to the regulation of live restraint cable devices to take wildlife; authorizes regulations by the department of environmental conservation.
Makes the commission of rape, a criminal sexual act, aggravated sexual abuse or course of sexual conduct against a child less than 12 years of age or against a child less than 14 years of age by a person 21 years old or more a class A-I felony; eliminates references to such offenses in less severe crimes; includes such offenses within murder in the second degree for purposes of sentencing to life imprisonment without parole for murder committed in the course of committing such sex offenses against a child; designates such sex offenses against a child as sexually violent offenses for the purposes of sex offender registration; requires every sex offender convicted of such an offense to be subject to lifetime electronic monitoring by the division of criminal justice services upon release from prison.
Establishes the New York state first home savings program to authorize first time home buyers to establish savings accounts to buy their first home.
Requires the submission of certain information by a dentist as part of such dentist's triennial registration to enable the department of health to evaluate access to needed services in the state.
