Asm. Alicia Hyndman

Maddy summaryThis bill allows licensed estheticians and cosmetologists in New York to perform microneedling - a skin treatment using small needles to improve texture - after completing a 40-hour state-approved training course. The course covers skin anatomy, safety protocols, infection control, and client assessment, and requires proof of prior bloodborne pathogen safety certification. It directly affects licensed professionals seeking to expand their services, requiring them to meet these new training standards before offering microneedling. The policy change updates licensing rules to permit this specific procedure under defined safety and educational requirements.

Establishes a housing court for actions and proceedings involving the enforcement of state and local laws for the establishment and maintenance of housing standards; requires such court to establish an escrow account; provides that any landlord that owns twenty units or less shall be entitled to free legal services if such landlord can prove a loss of at least twenty percent of rent payments in a calendar year; makes related provisions.

Provides that the amount of a STAR real property tax savings may not be less than the amount of the STAR real property tax savings from the previous year.

Maddy summaryThis bill amends payment rules for public construction projects, directly affecting state agencies, contractors, and subcontractors. It requires public owners (like state departments or public corporations) to pay contractors on schedule and mandates that contractors pay subcontractors within seven days of receiving public funds, with interest for delays. The bill also limits how much public owners can retain from payments (max 5%, up to 10% without required bonds) and prohibits contractors from withholding subcontractor payments pending public owner payments. These changes aim to streamline payments and protect subcontractors from payment delays in public works projects.

Provides an annual scholarship of $1,000 for students with a minimum 3.0 high school GPA who attend a New York state public postsecondary institution.

Provides for real property tax exemptions for last mile broadband infrastructure constructed, altered, installed or improved in an area designated a broadband opportunity area.

Relates to the indemnification of directors, officers and key persons; ensures the survival of indemnification in case of a merger or consolidation of a corporation; provides that once a right to indemnification arises, it continues to benefit a former director, officer or key person's and their heirs and estate; makes related provisions.

Requires the New York city department of education to create more gifted and talented programs and classes in all school districts with elementary kindergarten through fifth grade and intermediate sixth through eighth grade with four or more classes per grade for students who shall gain entry through academic merit rather than through an admissions examination; authorizes automatic admission to a gifted and talented program in intermediate sixth through eighth grade for those students in elementary grades kindergarten through fifth grade who are currently enrolled in such program; makes related provisions.

Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to public works and certain construction projects performed under private contract and paid for with public funds.

Relates to the Incarcerated Individuals Responsibility and Fair Wages Act; establishes a minimum wage for incarcerated individuals of five dollars per hour; establishes a prison incarcerated individual fund where up to forty percent of an incarcerated individual's wages can be sent to their family to help pay for certain expenses.