Requires the commissioner of education to develop and implement an expanded curriculum or instruction on the history of the labor movement in the United States.
Adds employees of the office of children and family services to the list of public employees for which prevention of duties constitutes assault in the second degree.
Provides a patient of a residential health care facility essential caregiver visitation during COVID-19 to provide essential care to such patient.
Establishes the upstate New York assessment relief act.
Authorizes municipalities to purchase private residential real property located in a floodplain.
Exempts an employer that is required by contract to provide services to another entity by means of having one or more of its employees work at the facilities of the other entity for the entire daily work period and that must pay an additional employee to provide substitute services in the absence of the original contracted-for employee from the requirement to provide paid sick leave.
Authorizes an exemption for class one capital improvements to residential buildings and certain new construction in a special assessing unit that is not a city.
Effectuates a Medicaid rate enhancement for Valley Health Services of the Bassett Healthcare Network.
Expands eligibility for the New York state excelsior scholarship award to certain applicants enrolled on a part-time basis or in a BOCES or other approved vocational program; provides criteria for eligibility, and limits on amounts and durations for any such awards.
Establishes a farm-to-school task force; directs the commissioner of education to develop a program to require all public schools to provide fresh foods to students in a manner that supports local agriculture and increases market opportunities for farmers from under-represented communities.
