Relates to certain prohibitions in contracts or agreements by health maintenance organizations; prohibits clauses which entitle reimbursement at the lowest price or rate; prohibits contracts which restrict referral of patients based solely upon a health care provider's status with a managed care product; prohibits disclosure of an enrollee's diagnosis on a prescription as a condition for authorizing coverage for payment or dispensing of a prescription; and prohibits contracts which allow for the substitution of a pharmaceutical drug or agent by any person other than the prescribing health care professional.
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Relates to informing maternity patients about the risks associated with cesarean section.
Relates to the rehabilitation of historic properties tax credit; and provides that small projects of five million dollars or less are entitled to 150% of the amount of credit allowed the taxpayer under the internal revenue code.
Prohibits a school district in a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants from changing the transportation accommodation of an older sibling who lives with and goes to either the same school as or a school located at the same place as a younger sibling who shares the same transportation accommodation.
Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration.
Requires the municipal police training council to develop policies and procedures regarding the use of internet technology and the use of such technology to perpetuate harassment or other crimes.
Authorizes the village of Pittsford, town of Pittsford, Monroe county, to lower the speed limit on village roads to not less than twenty-five miles per hour.
Prohibits public display of tobacco advertisements and smoking paraphernalia within five hundred feet of schools; imposes a maximum penalty of five hundred dollars per violation; exempts tobacco businesses from the prohibition.
Prohibits the use of chemical flame retardants on residential upholstered furniture beginning July first, 2020.
Defines a serious condition regarding the medical use of marihuana as a condition, or symptom or complication of the condition or its treatment, for which, in the practitioner's professional opinion and review of past treatments, the patient is likely to receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from primary or adjunctive treatment with medical use of medical marihuana.