Provides for disability benefits for pregnancy loss.
Sponsored bills
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an aggrieved employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.
Provides that the court shall not reduce jury awards as excessive in employment discrimination actions unless the court finds exceptional circumstances which compel the conclusion that the jury was influenced by partiality, prejudice, mistake or corruption.
Imposes restrictions on non-therapeutic use of antimicrobial agents in animals in the absence of any clinical sign of disease in the animals.
Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to rename the Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd station the Lefferts Blvd-Little Guyana station.
Increases the discretionary purchasing threshold for certified minority and women-owned business enterprises in New York city to $1.5 million.
Creates the 3D printed housing task force to promote large scale construction of 3D printed homes with respect to legislation, regulatory environment, government initiatives and inducements.
Prohibits municipal corporations from refusing resettlement of asylum seekers from other municipal corporations in the state, provided that the resettling municipal corporation covers the costs of such resettlement, and no property of the municipal corporation receiving such asylum seekers is used without such municipal corporation's consent.
Directs the MTA to establish a reduced or free fare program for disabled veterans.
Implements the "New York State Build Public Renewables Act"; requires the New York power authority to provide only renewable energy and power to customers; requires such authority to be the sole provider of energy to all state owned and municipal properties; requires certain New York power authority projects and programs pay a prevailing wage and utilize project labor agreements.