Requires hospitals to inform emergency care patients whether the attending physician participates in the insured's insurance policy; requires insurance companies to cover the cost of out-of-network care for patients who are unconscious or otherwise unable to provide informed consent.
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Requires healthcare workers who are reasonably expected to practice in close proximity to children less than twelve months of age to be vaccinated against pertussis.
Relates to the definition of freshwater wetlands; repeals section relating to the applicability of the freshwater wetlands article; provides authority of DEC over wetlands which are one acre or more; amends permitting requirements for subdivision of land.
Establishes an intergenerational educational and mentoring service program in the state office for the aging to provide assistance by persons age 55 or older to students in elementary schools; details grant funding, based on appropriations; describes reporting requirements.
Enacts the clean air and clean water environmental bond act of 2021 (Part A); implements the clean air and clean water environmental bond act of 2021 (Part B).
Directs the commissioner of education to establish minimum standards for the maintenance and repair of school buildings; eliminates the tax levy cap for expenditures related to school building maintenance and repair.
Provides for a program of asthma disease management and control within the department of health; such program shall provide various services to health care providers, patients, and others; authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants; provides for a study of asthma incidence and prevalence; provides for an annual report on the program; establishes an advisory panel.
Establishes the Ashley Schiff state park preserve.
Prohibits imposing surcharges on automated teller machines located on state university of New York or city university of New York property.
Prohibits non-disclosure clauses in leases of real property to be used for hydraulic fracturing.