Requires the office of children and family services to utilize a cost estimation model when determining the actual cost providers incur when providing child care; requires the office to prepare a report detailing such.
Relates to the right to unemployment benefits based on employment with certain educational institutions, including the state university of New York, the city university of New York and public community colleges; clarifies the meaning of certain terms relating to such rights to unemployment benefits.
Relates to the regulation of three-dimensional printed firearms; provides that a person who intentionally sells, distributes, or disposes of a three-dimensional printed firearm is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to reimburse pharmacies for prescription drugs at an amount equal to or greater than the pharmacy's actual cost of procuring the drug. It directly affects independent pharmacies and PBMs by preventing PBMs from underpaying pharmacies below their acquisition cost from wholesalers. Key provisions include: (1) requiring PBMs to adjust reimbursement if a requested drug isn't available at the pharmacy's cost, and (2) prohibiting PBMs from paying pharmacies less than what they pay their own affiliated pharmacies for identical drugs. The law ensures pharmacies are compensated fairly for the drugs they dispense, without referencing specific outcomes or political implications.
Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.
Relates to claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment and the availability of certain benefits and entitlements to exonerees; allows for sealing of records, payment of awards and payment of attorney's fees; repeals certain provisions relating thereto.
Establishes through the department of health a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds; requires the department to establish public health surveillance of the unregulated drug supply; provides exemptions for participants in the drug checking program from certain controlled substance offenses.
Requires police departments and agencies to provide district attorneys' offices access to such departments' and agencies' electronic record systems for discovery purposes.
Prohibits insurance companies from discriminating based on genetic predisposition including refusing to issue or renew, charging any increased rate, or restricting any length of coverage; prohibits insurers from requiring genetic testing.
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
