Updates certain requirements regarding billing for electric services, such as when corporations shall use an approved demand measuring device, mandating that classifications of service, the account and/or meter number, and the quantity billed be indicated on customers' bills.
Requires a multi-agency study of the issues impacting the continuum of caregiving in the state; requires the submission of a report of the findings, conclusions and recommendations from such study to the governor and the legislature.
Establishes the office of hospice and palliative care access and quality to provide expertise and input on hospice and palliative care policy development and regulation.
Provides for automatic sealing of certain convictions after a certain passage of time from either imposition of sentence, release from parole or probation, and if the defendant does not have a current charge pending; excludes certain offenses; permits access by certain persons.
Authorizes the county of Cortland to impose a tax of one dollar per five hundred dollars on real estate transfers.
Requires hospitals to adopt, implement and periodically update standard protocols for the management of fetal demise.
Clarifies the status of certain persons exempt from optometrist license requirements.
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment, as defined by the commissioner of education, in schools.
Establishes venue in actions to recover student debt; provides that in actions to recover student debt owed to the state of New York, the place of trial shall be the residence of the defendant, if one resides in the state.
Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.
