Enacts the "health care consumer and provider protection act" to provide for collective negotiations by health care providers with health care plans in the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.
Enacts the "utility ratepayer protection act"; requires legislative approval of increases in utility charges.
Relates to authorizing the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding computer science curriculum within the state at all public and private schools offering instruction to kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Requires access to new homes by persons with disabilities.
Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.
Provides that the department of health shall establish a program, or enhance existing programs, for the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of cases of tuberculosis in areas of the state where the incidence of tuberculosis prevails at epidemic levels; provides that such program shall provide a standardized level of care for the systematic, routine and periodic examination of men, women and children residing in such areas; appropriates $8,000,000 therefor.
Authorizes the city of New York to provide for a residential parking permit system.
Requires that every subcontracted transportation center service worker shall be compensated at a rate that is no less than the applicable standard rate for subcontracted transportation center service workers.
Establishes a special fee on firearms, rifles and shotguns; establishes the gun violence research fund.
Establishes an oyster shell recycling tax credit and directs DEC to promulgate necessary regulations.
