Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer advocates and requires the office of mental health to establish peer service qualification programs.
Maddy summaryThis bill mandates that all public colleges and universities in the state provide menstrual products free of charge in their restrooms. The law requires schools to stock these items in school buildings without charging students for them. It applies immediately to every public institution of higher education within the jurisdiction.
Maddy summaryThis bill strengthens penalties for employers who intentionally lie to avoid paying unemployment benefits. It requires these employers to refund all overpaid money and pay a civil fine equal to the greater of $100 or 15% of the benefits they avoided paying. The law also clarifies that these financial penalties are separate from any criminal charges and cannot be deducted from future unemployment payments. Additionally, the bill outlines specific procedures for the state to recover these funds by filing a civil judgment against the employer, which can impact their credit and ability to access assets.
Eliminates court surcharges and fees and probation and parole surcharges and fees; eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, supplemental sex offender victim fees, or probation or parole supervision fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part G).
Makes provisions relating to the joint nomination of candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor; provides candidates be designated jointly either by the state committee or by petition; provides said petition will be valid only if it jointly designates both candidates.
Clarifies that the New York state health insurance program remains subject to certain provisions of the financial services law and coverage for usual and customary costs for out-of-network health care service.
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2024; 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.
Maddy summaryThis bill changes the maximum age for homeless youth to receive transitional independent living shelter services from twenty-one to twenty-four. Under the new rules, young people who entered these programs before turning twenty-four can stay in them until they turn twenty-four, provided the local municipality has notified the state office of children and family services. The change applies immediately to eligible youth currently in or seeking these specific support programs.
Establishes the climate change adaptation cost recovery program to require companies that have contributed significantly to the buildup of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to bear a share of the costs of needed infrastructure investments to adapt to climate change; mandates that projects funded by the program require compliance with prevailing wage requirements; requires that contracts for funded projects contain a provision that the structural iron and structural steel used or supplied in the performance of the contract or any subcontract thereto shall be produced or made in whole or substantial part in the United States, its territories or possessions; makes additional provisions; establishes the climate change adaptation fund.
Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.
