Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
Enacts the "Shepherd Patterson law"; requires a physician who treats a minor patient with a medical condition that may cause a disability to provide certain educational information to such patient's parents or guardians indicating such minor is entitled to a free and appropriate public education as defined under section five hundred four of the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen hundred seventy-three; makes related provisions.
Adds the definition of consent to the terms of general use; defines it as a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agreement.
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
Adds wage theft to the types of activities included in the crime of larceny.
Relates to the practice of applied behavior analysis.
Relates to adding additional chemicals to the list of emerging contaminants; directs the commissioner of health to establish the first list within 90 days and to update the list every three years.
Establishes the "New York state two hundred fiftieth commemoration act" which creates the New York state two hundred fiftieth commemoration commission to develop a plan to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution; establishes the New York state two hundred fiftieth commemoration commission fund.
Facilitates access to telephone providers to deliver fiber-based services; permits telephone corporations to replace or supplement a telephone line or portion of a line with fiber optic facilities for purposes of providing any telephone, broadband, cable or other video service that the telephone corporation or its affiliate may lawfully provide.
Suspends state support for the local enforcement of past-due property taxes until after the end of the COVID-19 state disaster emergency by allowing past-due property owners to continue to receive STAR credits or STAR exemptions.
