Enacts the "Housing Our Neighbors with Dignity act" in order to provide a mechanism for the state to finance the acquisition of distressed hotels and commercial office properties by the appropriate nonprofit organizations for the purpose of maintaining or increasing affordable housing.
Asm. Andrew Hevesi
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Relates to the dangers to the safety and health of the public caused by the sale, manufacturing, importing and marketing of firearms and whether such activity constitutes a public nuisance.
Enacts the "Gender Recognition Act"; repeals certain provisions relating to driver's licenses.
Establishes the child poverty reduction advisory council to effectuate a fifty percent reduction of child poverty in the state within ten years.
Expands the definition of the offense of coercion in the third degree to include the production or dissemination of nude images.
Enacts the "Scott J. Beigel unfinished receiver act"; relates to unfinished frames or receivers; establishes the crimes of criminal sale of an unfinished frame or receiver in the first and second degrees as class D and E felonies, respectively.
Relates to the composition and obligations of the child care availability taskforce and the focus of such taskforce.
Relates to a civil cause of action for human trafficking; allows for actions relating to human trafficking to be commenced within fifteen years after the victimization has occurred.
Relates to enacting the "community financial services access and modernization act"; modernizes existing statute to reflect the full scope of financial services available at neighborhood "check cashing" establishments; provides for a comprehensive regulatory framework for the delivery of the expanded financial services currently being offered.
Requires a health equity assessment to be filed with an application for construction, or substantial reduction of, a hospital or health related service; includes a demonstration of whether and how a project will improve or affect access to hospital services and health care with particular reference to members of medically underserved groups in the applicant's service area.