Relates to a tuition tax credit; increases the amount of an allowable deduction (Part A); reduces income by the amount of interest paid for student loans (Part B).
Relates to consolidated local highway assistance payments; increases the amount of the current cost threshold to $750,000 over which local highway and bridge construction work under the CHIPS program must be contracted through a competitive bid.
Enacts the New York state nursing shortage correction act; establishes the New York state nursing recruitment incentive and retention program; defines terms; provides for tuition benefits and the reimbursement of student loans if a person is a registered and licensed nurse; provides that SUNY and CUNY shall pay for a person's education if such person signs a contract stating that he or she shall work in New York state as a registered nurse; makes related provisions; establishes the New York state nursing recruitment incentive and retention account.
Allows for the removal of members of the state board of parole by a majority vote in the senate and the assembly; requires three or more members of such board personally interview potential parolees; requires that the determination to parole an incarcerated individual be unanimous.
Amends the definition of all terrain vehicles to include certain vehicles of up to seventy inches long and 1500 pounds.
Requires legislative approval of minimum wage increases promulgated through wage orders.
Requires insurance companies to provide at least ninety days of rehabilitation services to an insured upon a doctor's prescription.
Relates to funds used for the physician loan repayment program and the regents physicians loan forgiveness program for physicians practicing in designated physician shortage areas and creates the medical malpractice rate relief program within the regents physician loan forgiveness program in designated physician shortage areas.
Relates to allowing claimants collecting unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their unemployment benefits.
Establishes a training wage equal to eighty-five percent of the state minimum wage or one hundred percent of the federal minimum wage, whichever is greater, that may be paid to a youth who has no prior job experience; provides that no youth may be paid a training wage for more than one hundred eighty days.
