Requires local social services districts to offer to pay childcare providers via a direct deposit for any subsidized child care funds owed; requires the local services offices to provide forms to request such payments.
Relates to resource exemptions for applicants for public assistance programs; amends the Welfare Reform Act in relation to the effectiveness thereof.
Changes the time period for extrajudicial consent and lengthens the time period for payments to a birth mother prior to giving birth and expands the types of unlawful denials of prospective applicants in adoption proceedings; repeals provisions relating to an individual's religious faith when determining placement.
Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activity assignment.
Makes a community center physically located within a New York city housing authority facility eligible to apply for and receive funding from the nonprofit infrastructure capital investment program.
Expands customer access to community distributed generation by creating a model tariff to provide for the transfer of bill credits associated with electricity produced by community distributed generation facilities in one electric corporation territory to other territories.
Requires residential health care facilities to document the reason for an individual requesting a voluntary transfer or discharge.
Prevents occupational exposure to an airborne infectious disease by implementing a model infectious disease exposure prevention standard and requiring employers to implement such model or a similar plan; provides that where an action brought by an employee under the provisions of this section, or a defense, counterclaim, or crossclaim brought by an employer in response thereto, is found upon judgment to be completely without merit in law and undertaken primarily to harass or maliciously injure another, the court may in its discretion impose sanctions against the attorney or party who brought such action, defense, counterclaim or crossclaim; makes related provisions.
Requires operators of nursing homes and residential health care facilities to provide notification of certain contracts and agreements to all residents, representatives, staff and the office of the long-term care ombudsman.
