Enacts the New York city department of buildings community accountability act.
Asm. Robert Carroll
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Requires 45 hours of mandatory continuing education in a three year period for registered professional nurses; permits exemptions for illness, military duty and nurses who are not engaged in the practice.
Relates to the rights of parties involved in foreclosure actions; relates to the effect of discontinuance of actions based upon certain instruments related to real property.
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration.
Extends and expands the scope of the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot to include an additional 1,200 users.
Requires every assessing unit to conduct a revaluation of assessment at least every eight years.
Clarifies that individuals have the ability to vote by absentee ballot in certain elections where their maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired.
Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"; provides that each agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term "telework" to mean to perform normal and regular work functions on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the agency's principal location at a different location, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such agency's principal location.
Prohibits consumer reporting agencies and lenders from using an individual's late payment of cashless tolls to determine their credit worthiness.