Allows for the removal of members of the state board of parole by a majority vote in the senate and the assembly; requires three or more members of such board personally interview potential parolees; requires that the determination to parole an incarcerated individual be unanimous.
Asm. Misha Novakhov
Sponsored bills
Establishes credits against income tax for a teacher's unreimbursed expenditures for qualified supplies.
Relates to hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Establishes a 14 member doula Medicaid reimbursement work group within the department of health to set reimbursement rates for doulas in the state Medicaid program and address other criteria related to their practice; requires the work group to conduct a study and evaluate the costs, benefits and issues that may be associated with Medicaid reimbursement for doulas and for providing doula care to Medicaid recipients; makes related provisions.
Elevates an assault of a retail worker to the class D felony of assault in the second degree.
Establishes the New York small business relief fund consisting of monetary penalties imposed by the state liquor authority to provide grants to small businesses which have suffered economic hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires enhanced federal medical assistance percentage funds be directly shared with the counties and the city of New York; requires the comptroller examine and audit all funds received from the enhanced federal medical assistance percentage and the distributions made to counties and the city of New York.
Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.
Relates to the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits by pet dealers in the state and those that sell such animals through an online platform.
Designates March twenty-first as a day of commemoration to be known as "Down Syndrome Awareness Day".