Relates to criteria for certification by the division of minority and women's business development of MWBE status; replaces the personal net worth limitation with a requirement that a business have been awarded contracts by one or more agencies within the past three years where the total state funding received by the enterprise from the expense and capital budgets for such contracts was equal to or greater than sixty million dollars.
Asm. Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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Includes urban farming within farm operations for purposes of agricultural districts.
Requires the board of elections to provide Russian interpreters at certain polling locations in cities having a population in excess of one million people.
Relates to establishing the Beacon School Pilot Program in New York city schools.
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate sexual misconduct in state correctional facilities among incarcerated individuals and employees; devises a reporting system for notification of such misconduct to appropriate authorities; establishes duties and membership of such commission.
Prohibits eviction without good cause; sets forth grounds for removal of tenants.
Provides that any charges assessed by a credit card company for late payment shall not exceed five percent of the unpaid balance of any bill, including any interest thereon, or twenty dollars, whichever amount is less.
Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students.
Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).
Prohibits participation in torture and improper treatment of incarcerated individuals by health care professionals; prohibits a health care professional from engaging, assisting or planning the torture or improper treatment of an incarcerated individual; requires health care professionals to report torture and improper treatment.