Requires that certain contracts let by the office of general services be reserved for small businesses, including minority-owned business enterprises and women-owned business enterprises.
Prohibits discrimination based on a person's arrest record or criminal conviction.
Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts.
Exempts employment benefits received by a taxpayer in 2020 from New York state income tax.
Requires expunction of records resulting from identity theft or mistaken identity.
Requires financial planners working with the elderly to be certified financial planners.
Establishes a career explorations class to integrate academic and vocational education, link secondary and post-secondary education and provide learning activities and mentoring at the work site; provides students with school-based learning and work-based learning.
Authorizes political subdivisions to award public contracts to participants of a minority and women owned business enterprise program at a cost premium not to exceed ten percent of the lowest bid.
Extends to commercial tenants the right to seek a stay of the issuance of a warrant and a stay of any execution to collect the costs of the proceeding in a proceeding to recover the possession of premises in the city of New York.
Clarifies the standard for disparate treatment claims by defining the terms "because of" and "because" for the purposes of disparate treatment cases.
