Relates to authorizing voting by inmates in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitate inmate voter registration and voting.
Relates to flexible working arrangements; provides that employees may submit a request for flexible working arrangements in good faith; requires the employer to notify the employee of the decision; prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising rights under the section.
Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to review the policies of the department of parks and recreation of the city of New York regarding trees and tree maintenance.
Requires the administration and the instruction in preparation of the TASC examination in the Chinese and Korean languages for pupils who are proficient in these languages and of limited English proficiency.
Authorizes and directs the committee on open government to study proactive disclosure as a means of increasing transparency and access to government information.
Restricts the disclosure of personal information by businesses.
Requires hospitals to provide language assistance services to a patient or a patient's assistant for communication of clinical and other information, including but not limited to health care, billing and making appointments, to ensure effective communication; provides that such interpreter may be a qualified interpreter, volunteer or medical personnel at such hospital; provides for such services to be available at all locations during all times that patient care is available; provides that translations of frequently used forms essential to a patient's care and treatment be available in all of the hospital's primary languages; provides for training of those providing interpretation services; requires the hospital to submit to the commissioner an annual report assessing compliance; defines primary language and patient visits.
Establishes a joint commission on public transparency and sexual harassment to adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations defining sexual harassment for state agencies, offices, and branches of government and develop recommendations for the uniform distribution of such definitions and policies, and to receive complaints and referrals alleging violations by certain state officials.
Relates to establishing a gender balance in the port authority; requires members of the board of commissioners and any officers of the port authority be appointed in a manner which will ensure that women comprise approximately fifty percent of the membership of the board or as officers of the port authority.
Relates to prohibiting contract provisions that waive certain substantive and procedural rights.
