Asm. Jessica González-Rojas

Provides assistance to incarcerated individuals being released from correctional facilities for enrollment in safety net assistance, public assistance, supplemental assistance program (SNAP), special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC), the home energy assistance program (HEAP), supplemental security income, and state supplemental payments.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires New York's motor vehicle commissioner to add "failure to move over" for emergency vehicles as a five-point traffic violation in state regulations. It directly affects drivers who do not move over when approaching parked, stopped, or standing emergency vehicles, hazard vehicles, or vehicles displaying blue/green lights. The key mechanism updates 15 NYCRR 15 NYCRR 131.3 to include this specific violation, increasing penalties for non-compliance. This change makes the offense carry the same point value as other serious traffic violations under state law.

Requires public corporations and agencies to provide written notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.

Establishes the "education equity act" which provides language assistance to parents or guardians who have children enrolled in public school and whose primary language is not English; defines terms; creates an annual language assistance plan to assess language needs in the district; requires the department of education to establish web pages detailing the rights of parents to translation services in each covered language; requires annual reports by each school district to the local board of education.

Directs payment of certain internet sales and use taxes into the central business district tolling capital lockbox fund partially dedicated for the MTA to be made without appropriation.

Enacts the "state and local clean energy partnership", directing the public service commission to establish a standard New York state community choice aggregation program for all utility service territories.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires Queens County's election board to provide written language assistance in Bengali, Punjabi, and Hindi for all election materials. It directly affects Queens County voters who speak these languages by making ballots, signs, voter mailings, training materials, and website content available in these languages. Key provisions include creating a multilingual voter booklet with registration forms, absentee ballot instructions, and general information in all three languages. The requirement aligns with federal voting rights law and applies to all election-related materials countywide.

Maddy summaryThis bill modifies New York's enhanced STAR property tax exemption by adding distributions from thrift savings plans (established before 1984) to the list of income types excluded from the eligibility calculation. It affects homeowners applying for the enhanced STAR exemption, who must now exclude these distributions when determining their income for tax purposes. The bill also requires applicants who didn’t file tax returns to submit a detailed statement to the state department outlining their unreported income sources and amounts. These changes apply to exemption applications for tax years beginning in 2019 and later.

Provides that every policy which provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care or provides reimbursement for laboratory tests or diagnostic X-rays shall provide coverage for testing of familial dysautonomia, Canavan's disease and Tay-Sachs; provides that in order to maintain the confidentiality of persons tested, receipt of acknowledgement from the testing facility shall be deemed sufficient evidence of testing.

Maddy summaryThis bill repeals a requirement that applicants must pass an exam to become a licensed master social worker in New York. It directly affects individuals seeking this specific license by removing the examination step from the qualification process. The key provision eliminates Section 7704(d) of the Education Law, which previously mandated the exam. As a result, applicants will no longer need to pass a test to qualify for the license, simplifying the licensing pathway. The change takes effect immediately upon enactment.