Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.
Establishes standards for the reuse of deconstructed building materials; requires the uniform building code to set standards for the use of solid-sawn lumber in construction and for the grading of used solid-sawn lumber; requires the secretary of state to develop a program for grading reclaimed wood for structural purposes.
Expands the ethical duties of public officers and employees to include compliance with the state human rights law and any policies or procedures implemented by their employer related thereto.
Establishes requirements for the reporting of GRAS (generally recognized as safe) substances.
Relates to establishing speed limits in cities with populations in excess of one million people by easing restrictions so cities can establish speed limits below twenty miles per hour.
Prohibits certain food additives and food color additives; provides that in an action to enforce compliance, the recognition by the federal food and drug administration of any of these substances as safe may not be alleged as a defense.
Ensures that staff in libraries are able to curate collections, services, and programming that reflect the interests of all people of the community that the library serves.
Relates to providing cost-of-living adjustments; increases benefits from fifty to one hundred percent.
Permits a school food authority to attribute moneys spent on purchases of food products from New York state farmers, growers, producers or processors made for its school breakfast program to the thirty percent of costs for school breakfast and lunch service programs.
Establishes a civil remedy for the protection of animals denied proper care by creating a special proceeding in the supreme court that will hold owners and caretakers liable if such animals under their care are mistreated.
