Enacts the accessible electronic information act for blind and disabled persons; creates a new fund in the state finance law; authorizes a not-for-profit entity to administer the program.
Prohibits the use of hydraulic fracturing in the extraction of oil and gas; prohibits acceptance, disposal and/or processing of any fluid used in a hydraulic fracturing process.
Enacts the "New York state living donor support act" to provide state reimbursement to living organ donors, who are state residents, for medical and associated expenses incurred as a result of the organ donation, when the organ donation is made to another resident of the state; requires the provision of information on transplantation to patients with severe kidney disease.
Relates to assault in the third degree by a person against an operator, driver or passenger on a bus, taxicab, aerial tramway, subway or other motor vehicle.
Enacts the New York state program for older prisoners act authorizing geriatric parole for certain prisoners over 60 years of age.
Relates to contracts in small print, procedural reciprocity for arbitration agreements in consumer transactions and consumer arbitration; relates to the prohibition of certain and wrongful death claims; relates to powers and duties of the consumer protection division and contracts of adhesion; relates to protecting against certain contracts of adhesion in the provision of health care.
Relates to child support for children attending a college ROTC program, a military college, a military preparatory school or one of the United States military academies.
Prohibits the use of pesticides at children's overnight or summer day camps; provides an exception where emergency application is approved by local or state officials.
Relates to pre-arranged for-hire vehicle transportation services and the maximization of energy efficiency, universal design and accessibility by persons with disabilities.
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.
