Clarifies that guide dogs, hearing dogs, and service dogs are allowed in public places during their training and socialization process; provides that such dog must wear an identifying item stating that it is in training, and that the trainer must have paperwork available for inspection that such dog is being trained or socialized.
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Creates the division of regulatory review and economic growth to review regulatory processes and permit requirements in order to facilitate economic growth.
Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to study and report on the effect the enhanced tuition award has on the growth rate and overall cost of tuition at New York's private institutions of higher learning over the next five years.
Authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish a stream maintenance and flood control program; allows for the local governing body of a county to elect to pass a local law providing for a local option into such program; provides for the county to be responsible for performing the work outlined in an approved stream maintenance and flood control plan.
Authorizes the commissioner of taxation and finance to study feasibility of reducing the number of assessing units and equalization rates; such study shall include, but not be limited to, a review and the impact of eliminating all villages as assessing units, realignment of school district boundaries, use of current assessment roll as the base year roll, and that periodic assessment updates be completed every six years.
Provides that public officers convicted of a felony related to the abuse of his or her office shall forfeit their state pension.
Directs state aid to be payable to any municipal corporation or special district that contains land in the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne comprising the northern Montezuma wildlife management area.
Relates to requiring state agencies, public authorities and public benefit corporations to provide annual reports including information on outstanding total debt for each entity, total annual debt service for each entity, annual debt issuance for each entity, and annual debt to be retired for each entity.
Relates to the assessment of real property; provides that the assessed valuation of real property used for residential rental purposes may be determined using the actual net income; makes related provisions.