Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals, including two hours of course work encompassing minority healthcare issues.
Asm. Catalina Cruz
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Requires pharmacies to keep in stock emergency contraception.
Relates to expanding eligibility for the low interest rate program of the state of New York mortgage agency to certain graduates of post secondary programs or comparable apprenticeship and workforce training programs for the purchase of certain property.
Creates "The Commission to Study the Impact of Automation and Artificial Intelligence on the New York Labor Force".
Authorizes cities, villages and towns to reduce the speed limit to less than twenty-five miles per hour but not lower than fifteen miles per hour in designated areas where there are senior citizen centers and senior citizen housing complexes.
Relates to increasing the maximum civil penalty from $500 to $1000 per day per property for each day the mortgagee or agent of the mortgagee has been in violation.
Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program and conduct an annual safety and security assessment for the purpose of protecting health care workers, patients, families and visitors.
Relates to enacting the "community financial services access and modernization act"; modernizes existing statute to reflect the full scope of financial services available at neighborhood "check cashing" establishments; provides for a comprehensive regulatory framework for the delivery of the expanded financial services currently being offered.
Relates to prohibiting retail establishments including food-service establishments from refusing to accept payment in cash; provides a civil penalty will be assessed for such actions.
Establishes a commission to be known as the "New York State Temporary Commission on the Threat of Rising Oceans".