Relates to a state transportation plan; requires such plan include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, assessing long-range needs spanning such period, including a forecast of highway pavement and bridge conditions.
Requires the department of health to develop and maternal health care providers to distribute written information about episiotomy to maternity patients.
Relates to the offenses of rape in the first, second and third degrees.
Requires each high school senior to complete the FAFSA, an application for TAP, or a waiver form; requires schools to report data on the rates of submission of FAFSA and TAP applications.
Enacts the "New York small contractor relief act"; defines terms; authorizes a small contractor captive insurance company to purchase, and the New York state insurance fund shall be authorized and directed to provide, reinsurance and retrocession reinsurance for such captive insurance company, on either a quota share arrangement or facultative arrangement at a rate to be determined by the board of the fund; provides that a small contractor captive insurance company organized pursuant to this article shall not refuse to issue, renew or cancel a policy of any qualified small construction contractor based upon geographic location or line of business engaged in by such contractor; makes related provisions.
Authorizes the use of approved programs at foreign dental schools to satisfy the experience requirement for licensure as a dentist.
Provides that the voting age in New York be 16 years old.
Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for private institutions of higher education.
Establishes a license to sell liquor at retail for consumption on premises in a cigar lounge; defines "cigar lounge"; requires cigar lounges to provide written notification warning employees of the dangers of exposure to tobacco smoke.
Provides that the sale of a non-indemnity legal service plan shall not constitute doing an insurance business in this state; makes related provisions.
