Asm. Jen Lunsford

Provides an exemption for the sale of the first $35,000 for a battery, electric, or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle from state sales and compensating use taxes; authorizes local governments to elect such incentives; repeals the hybrid exemption after ten years.

Requires at least one full-time guidance counselor to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior and senior high school throughout the state; sets duties of guidance counselors.

Requires instruction in arts and music education to be incorporated into curriculums for all public school students; requires school districts to ensure that appropriately certified teachers are providing such education; authorizes rules and regulations consistent with such provisions.

Prohibits any cannabis related advertisements in establishments within a certain distance from schools; increases penalties for prohibited advertisement of tobacco and cannabis products; requires enforcement inspections.

Enacts the "sustainable affordable housing and sprawl prevention act"; exempts or limits environmental review under SEQR for the construction of certain new residential units to avoid creating unnecessary housing sprawl; limits certain rights to action under SEQR; makes related provisions.

Maddy summaryThis bill modifies how school districts receive state funding for charter school tuition. It requires districts to be paid annually based on charter school tuition costs from specific past years (2014-2017 and later), with smaller districts (under 1 million population) getting immediate payments for 2025-2026 expenses. Large city districts (over 1 million population) face a $35 million annual reduction in funding for 2020-2021 and 2023-2024 if they received corresponding American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) emergency relief funds. A new section creates a system where districts get funding equal to their current year charter tuition payments minus those from 2025-2026.

Requires disclosure, in such form as the superintendent shall require, of non-confidential information regarding step therapy override requests and determinations on a website that is readily accessible to the public.

Designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree as a class E felony; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second degree as a class D violent felony offense; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree as a class B violent felony offense.

Authorizes the empire state development corporation to retain an independent MWBE consultant firm for the purpose of helping reduce contractor violations of the provisions of article 15-A of the executive law; requires contractors in violation of the provisions of article 15-A of the executive law to retain independent monitors to oversee compliance.

Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.