Maddy summaryThis bill establishes minimum cash wage requirements for "miscellaneous industry workers" who receive tips, including car wash attendants, nail salon workers, tow truck drivers, dog groomers, tour guides, valet attendants, and similar roles. It sets specific hourly cash wage floors that must be paid in addition to tips, with rates increasing annually through 2029 (e.g., $12.77/hour in NYC starting 2026, $11.50/hour outside NYC starting 2026). The bill ensures that when tips are added to the cash wage, the total equals the full minimum wage for their region, preventing employers from relying solely on tips to meet wage requirements. It directly affects these tipped workers by guaranteeing a minimum cash payment regardless of tip amounts received.
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Establishes a gender-affirming care access program to provide support and increase access to gender-affirming care including certain medical and surgical care.
Maddy summaryThis bill updates how New York State calculates payment rates for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), which provide primary care in underserved communities. It changes the rate calculation method: through 2025, rates use the Medicare Economic Index, and after 2025, they use a federal cost adjustment formula (FQHC Market Basket inflator) adjusted for service scope. The state health department must analyze actual FQHC costs every three years starting in 2025 to set updated rates, ensuring payments reflect real costs while guaranteeing no facility receives a rate lower than the 2025 level. This directly affects FQHCs by potentially increasing their state-funded payments based on verified operational expenses.
Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
Requires the state office for the aging to maintain a public facing state master plan on aging dashboard on the public website of the office, which includes real-time information and updates on each proposal in such master plan including legislative and budgetary progress.
Enacts the "NY broadband resiliency, public safety and quality act" to provide for oversight of the resiliency, public safety and quality of broadband and voice over internet protocol service.
Authorizes the public service commission to implement performance-based regulation of electric or gas corporations; requires that any such regulation shall provide performance standards and metrics by which such performance shall be measured.
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
Requires that notice be given to the borough president or presidents, the council member or members, the senator or senators, the member or members of assembly and the district managers of the affected community board or boards when there is a change in service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the New York city transit authority.
Expands the eligibility of the brownfield redevelopment tax credit; reduces the population numbers to make more qualified sites eligible for such tax credit.