Requires a school bus attendant or school bus monitor on all school buses transporting students in kindergarten through sixth grade to or from school or to or from any school related activity.
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2022; provides such standard is intended to reduce carbon intensity from the on-road transportation sector by 20% by 2030, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
Provides for the licensing of professional and clinical music therapists encompassing the assessment, evaluation, and the therapeutic intervention and treatment of mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral disorders through the use of music.
Creates the empire state digital gaming media production credit for a taxpayer which is a digital gaming media production entity engaged in qualified digital gaming media production, or who is a sole proprietor of or a member of a partnership, which is a digital gaming media production entity engaged in qualified digital gaming media production; creates the empire state digital gaming diversity job training development fund; requires the empire state development corporation to file a biannual report with the director of the division of the budget and the chairpersons of the assembly ways and means committee and the senate finance committee; makes related provisions.
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated people based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated people in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from the person's assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated people shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
Establishes the offense of unsolicited disclosure of an intimate image as a violation; requires sexual harassment prevention training for individuals convicted of such offense.
Establishes the nail salon minimum standards council act; establishes the nail salon minimum standards council which shall investigate wages and standards within the nail salon industry and submit recommendations on minimum wages, regulations and standards for nail salon workers.
Provides for alternative penalties for a first time violation of certain provisions of the alcoholic beverage control law; includes a definition for "for cause" in relation to such violations.
Requires written applications for attorney's fees in workers' compensation claims over $1,000; requires a description of the services claimed and the calculation used to determine the fees; amends effective date to take effect January 1, 2023.
