Adds red cross vehicles to the definition of authorized emergency vehicles.
Allows a person with a federal basic permit to apply to the liquor authority for a brand owner's license; establishes a fee therefor.
Increases the minimum wage outside of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; repeals certain provisions of law relating to exceptions to minimum wage increases.
Provides for eligible incarcerated individuals to receive a monthly stipend upon release from a state correctional facility.
Includes making graffiti within the list of offenses eligible to be charged as a hate crime.
Requires the state Medicaid director to establish a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees under increased reimbursement rates.
Requires subsidiaries of certain transportation authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.
Establishes procedures regarding orders of post-termination visitation and/or contact between a child and such child's parent and for modification of such orders.
Permits on-premises retail licensees to purchase up to twelve bottles of wine and liquor per week from off-premises retail licensees.
