Provides that health insurance contracts and policies for long term care shall be renewable each year at the option of the insured unless there is nonpayment of premiums.
Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from voting on matters before the board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member who is either employed by the board of education or school district or who would be financially impacted by such vote.
Requires a retail licensee for on-premises consumption to maintain and make available to customers, at no charge, a device which measures blood alcohol content.
Enumerates sanctions; imposes increasingly higher jail terms and civil penalties against persons who sell alcoholic beverages to minors.
Provides that a person is guilty of loitering when such person remains in a transportation facility, within twenty-five feet of the token booth or similar location, for more than twenty-five minutes unless authorized to do so or unless the facility's design would make it impossible to maintain a greater distance.
Relates to creating the "modernized voter registration act of New York"; modernizes voter registration; promotes access to voting for individuals with disabilities; protects the ability of individuals to exercise the right to vote in elections for local and state office and makes an appropriation therefor.
Establishes a program to provide information to consumers concerning household hazardous products; provides such information be available at the point of retail sale by labels and pamphlets; provides such information should disclose hazards and inform people of environmentally safer alternatives; provides for the establishment of a hazardous product list by the department of environmental conservation.
Provides that a great-grandparent may apply to the supreme court for visitation rights with respect to certain minor great-grandchildren where either or both of the parents of such child is or are deceased.
Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports, in consultation with the director of the state office for the aging, to develop comprehensive substance use disorder prevention, education and treatment demonstration programs for senior citizens.
Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.
