Relates to the duty to inform maternity patients about the risks associated with cesarean section for patients undergoing a primary cesarean section and to inform maternity patients about the reason for performing primary cesarean section delivery.
Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
Relates to creating funding for post-employment benefit reserve funds.
Establishes and authorizes telepharmacy in this state; defines terms; creates telepharmacy satellite consultation sites and telepharmacy in hospitals; authorizes the filling of prescriptions at remote sites connected to central pharmacies via computer link, videolink and audiolink; makes exceptions.
Relates to creating the college savings incentive program, which provides up to a 10% matching grant from the general fund to the beneficiary of a family tuition account.
Entitles members to bring one statewide piece of legislation of his or her choosing to the floor for a vote without a home rule message and committee review during each two-year term.
Relates to requiring mandatory dissemination of information when a child under the age of eighteen is believed to be abducted or an autistic child is missing, and such children are believed to be in danger of serious bodily harm or death.
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.
Provides for unlisted telephone directory numbers without charge, for victims of domestic violence for whose benefit an order of protection has been issued by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Relates to requiring businesses to meet certain green requirements to be eligible for the START-UP NY program; businesses operating in newly constructed buildings shall be powered by at least thirty-five percent alternative energy; businesses operating in already existing buildings shall utilize at least forty-five percent less electricity than neighboring businesses of similar size and business type.
