Prohibits the performance of virginity examinations.
Sponsored bills
Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use, excavate, or open a street is required to be issued.
Establishes procedures for the termination of parental rights upon the application of a parent or guardian.
Relates to the membership of the women veterans advisory committee to support and assist the Division of Veterans' Services in locating, educating, and advocating for all women veterans in this state.
Relates to direct marketing activities for New York beverages; authorizes the sale of beer and wine at movie theaters.
Creates a tax credit for employers who help reduce the governmental education loans of their employees and said employees who receive such reduction in governmental education loans.
Relates to reporting unmet need, which is the number of eligible individuals seeking participation in a program or service who are not receiving such program or service due to insufficient resources or capacity.
Requires nursing homes to spend at least the resident care amount necessary to achieve a required resident care percentage and a sufficient direct care service amount so it does not have a direct care service deficit.
Establishes the veterans' services law and the department of veterans' services; replaces all instances of the term "division of veterans' services" with the term "department of veterans' services".