Requires settlement monies from the Navy Grumman groundwater plume are used for the purchase of certain point-of-use filtration systems for certain homes located on the plume.
Allows members of the Nassau County auxiliary police force to possess a police baton when authorized by the police commissioner of such county.
Directs the public service commission in consultation with NYSERDA to conduct a full cost benefit analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of renewable energy systems in the state of New York and to compare such directly with other methods of electricity generation within nine months after the effective date and every four years thereafter.
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
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.
Establishes a commission to be known as the "New York State Temporary Commission on the Threat of Rising Oceans".
Requires the department of financial services to fulfill certain requirements to implement homeowner natural disaster preparedness, home safety and loss prevention courses, by issuing a request for proposal and acting on such requirements of part BB of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016.
Designates a portion of the state highway system in Nassau county as the "Trooper James M. MacLarnon Memorial Bridge".
Exempts pet food from sales and compensating use taxes.
Creates the New York state school resource officer program for school districts outside of New York City; requires retired police officers be certified by the department of education to become school resource officers; allows retired police officers employed as school resource officers to carry a firearm on school grounds given an appropriate license; relates to the earnings limitations for retired police officers employed as a school resource officer.
