Relates to clarifying the definitions of vocational educational training and educational activities.
Asm. Andrew Hevesi
Sponsored bills
Creates the incentivizing habitability opportunity program; provides that each local social services district shall provide an incentive to owners who enter into a residential lease or rental agreement with an eligible household for a qualified dwelling unit in order to address homelessness and ensure appropriate habitability standards.
Establishes the crime of endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree; makes technical corrections.
Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses; removes the time limit to bring subsequent sexual offenses.
Provides that applicants for or recipients of food stamps shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the food stamp program.
Relates to eligibility for public assistance; amends provisions relating to exemption of income and resources in calculating benefits; amends work requirements; requires training in fields which provide a living wage.
Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential facility does not meet safety standards; requires full cost to be assumed by the state.
Directs the office of temporary disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
Increases the minimum wage annually; removes the distinction in New York City between large employers and small employers; makes related provisions.
Allows coaches who cannot be certified in CPR to be able to coach high school sports if there is another coach or staff present at the sporting activity who is certified in CPR.