Establishes a health care proxy registry within the department of health to maintain the health care proxies of persons electing to submit proxies to such registry and to provide access thereto by attending health care providers and the principal of the health care proxy.
Provides the counsel for a department of social services or his/her designee the authority to subpoena records for use in any investigation of any report received from the state central register or proceeding relating to abuse or neglect.
Provides for additional veteran real property owner exemption where veteran is otherwise eligible but not yet discharged from a current combat duty status.
Requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish standards for and a program of inspection and certification of green roofs prior to and after installation, including standards for environmentally acceptable chemical fertilizers and the testing of runoff water for evidence of such fertilizers; further establishes a green roof installation tax credit in the amount of fifty-five percent of qualified expenditures with a credit maximum of five thousand dollars.
Provides for increasing the applicability of brand name and generic prescription drugs and other medical services, except diagnostic services, co-payments for medicaid recipients.
Reduces the number of new jobs which must be created by an applicant for eligibility under the excelsior jobs program.
Provides that making graffiti in a manner to promote or encourage gang related activities is a class E felony.
Establishes a five percent investment tax credit against the franchise tax imposed upon corporations for a portion of training or retraining expenses incurred by them in an eligible business facility, pursuant to rules and regulations of the department of taxation and finance promulgated in consultation with the department of labor.
Establishes the crime of failing to make a required report.
Enacts the "unfunded mandate reform act"; authorizes the governor to submit an unfunded mandate reform plan to the legislature when it is in the public interest.
