Designates certain offenses against emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers as hate crimes; includes the definition of emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.
Relates to a leave of absence for military spouses; removes the requirement that leave be used when a person's spouse is on leave while deployed to a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
Authorizes school districts to purchase manipulatives with money that has otherwise been set aside for the purchase of textbooks.
Establishes the drinking water quality institute to make recommendations to the department of health relating to ensuring the safety of potable water.
Requires schools to accept credits for educational programs at OCFS facilities as transfer credits.
Creates the New York State textbook commission to prepare a list of approved standard editions of textbooks ensuring such textbooks are free of any slanted bias toward pro-Islamic traditions, anti-Semitism and anti-Judeo Christian values and prohibits the use of unapproved books and instructional materials.
Requires municipal approval of and a public hearing on the siting of community residential facilities for mentally disabled persons and removes the property tax exemption for such community residential facilities.
Requires laboratory test results ordered by a qualified health care professional to be reported to such professional or his or her agent, and upon request to the person to whom the test related.
Relates to a private right of action for unwarranted surveillance of a neighbor.
Authorizes the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study pertaining to a proposed expansion of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
