Establishes the New York state organized retail crime task force to provide the governor and the legislature with information on organized retail crime and various countermeasures to counter losses from such crime in the state.
Requires the department of health to establish and maintain the New York state community doula directory for doulas on such department's website for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients; establishes criteria for admittance into the New York state community doula directory; makes related provisions.
Prohibits the use of corporal punishment, as defined by the commissioner of education, in schools.
Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Nassau county as the "Trooper James R. Gohery Memorial Bridge".
Permits the village justice of the village of Maybrook, Orange county, to reside outside of the Village boundaries but within the town of Montgomery or the town of Hamptonburgh.
Authorizes the village of Goshen to impose a hotel and motel tax of up to five percent.
Requires the commissioner of health to include in annual reports information regarding the cost and increase in cost of the ten prescription drugs on which the state expends the most money and which have had certain costs increased by fifty percent or more over the past five years or by ten percent or more during the previous calendar year.
Requires colleges to post campus crime statistics on their website; requires colleges to implement a plan to provide investigation of hate crimes on campus; requires colleges to inform incoming students about hate crime prevention measures.
Requires that each weigh in motion violation monitoring system undergo a calibration check every six months in accordance with specifications prescribed pursuant to a memorandum of agreement between the New York city department of transportation and the New York state department of agriculture and markets, or in accordance with an applicable reference standard as determined by the New York city department of transportation.
