Creates a wage tax credit for employers who employ New York national guard men and women, reservists, volunteer firefighters and EMS personnel.
Provides a personal income tax credit in the amount of any fishing and/or hunting fees paid by members of the United States armed forces in active service.
Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.
Limits the liability of a farm or "u-pick" operation for injuries incurred while a person was picking and buying agricultural products; expands the limited exemption of a property owner from liability to a property owner who makes their premises available to others for any recreational use and to include owners of underdeveloped and/or land used in agricultural production; enacts the "equine activity safety code act".
Allows for online publication of public notices.
Provides for preferences under the affordable home ownership development program for service related disabled veterans.
Relates to volunteer members of village fire companies.
Designates September 11th Remembrance day as a public holiday.
Establishes the crime of homicide by sale of an opiate controlled substance; makes such crime a class A-1 felony.
Relates to mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse or maltreatment at summer day camps; includes college coaches, athletic directors, professors, graduate assistants and college presidents among those required to report such suspected abuse or maltreatment.
