Establishes the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology ("FIRST") robotics competition; creates a grant program to fund high school participation in the competition and to encourage study in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Adds additional offenses where there is concurrent jurisdiction of criminal and family courts; defines "unreciprocated offensive contact".
Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.
Establishes the "New York public banking act"; authorizes municipal and other local governments to form and control public banks through the ownership of capital stock or other ownership interests, and to loan or grant public funds or lend public credit to such public banks for the public purposes of achieving cost savings, strengthening local economies, supporting community economic development, and addressing infrastructure and housing needs for localities.
Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.
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.
Relates to the definition of floor area and what is excluded in the measurement of floor area.
Directs the chancellor of the New York city school district to establish, in consultation with the metropolitan transportation authority, a student fare program to provide three free fares each weekday to New York city students who live a half mile or more from the school they attend.
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.
Requires the state comptroller to prepare and release an annual report grading each state agency on its spending with minority- and women-owned business.
