Requires the state, by and through the secretary of state, to make good faith efforts to notify a non-custodial parent when a minor is the victim of a crime of violence and/or sexual abuse; requires the court upon the arraignment of a criminal defendant to investigate whether the defendant is the parent of a minor child and if so, to instruct the defendant to make an appropriate plan for the child; requires the court to notify a non-custodial parent of the custodial parent's arrest for the commission of a felony; and requires family courts to require parties to a custody and/or visitation proceeding, one of which who was previously arrested on a felony charge, to immediately notify the other parent of such arrest.
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Relates to van accessible handicapped parking.
Establishes the animal abuser registration act.
Enacts Carlos' law; relates to crimes involving the death or injury of a worker; establishes higher fines for corporations who commit such crimes; establishes the crimes of endangering the welfare of a worker in the third, second and first degrees.
Relates to the compulsory age for full time instruction from six to five years of age and certain exceptions for minor children.
Relates to driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or combined use of drugs and alcohol and defines the term "inhalant".
Relates to qualifying offenses for pre-trial detention; removes the exception for controlled substances offenses for class A felonies and adds class B felonies under article two hundred twenty of the penal law as qualifying offenses.
Establishes in the city of New York a bicycle lane safety program to enforce certain restrictions on the use of protected bicycle lanes by means of bicycle lane photo devices.
Eliminates sporting license fees for honorably discharged, disabled veterans.
Provides for the transfer of the regional state park police to the division of state police; and repeals certain provisions related thereto.