Relates to pendency placements in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.
Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers.
Relates to the employee status of an individual; establishes criteria for determining whether labor or services performed for remuneration qualify as employment.
Provides for enhanced enforcement of the warranty of habitability for housing accommodations; provides the court may award punitive damages to a tenant upon finding the landlord's breach of warranty was intentional and malicious.
Requires manufacturers to meet certain standards with their packaging in New York state to reduce waste; establishes the guidelines and sets a timetable by which manufacturers must comply with these provisions.
Enacts the "COVID-19 injured workers' protection act"; establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presumption for public employee death benefits where a member was required to physically report to work; did in fact physically report to work as of March first, two thousand twenty; contracted COVID-19; and where the applicable head of the member's retirement system or such system's medical board determines COVID-19 to have been a significant contributing factor in the member's death.
Provides that an employee whose position is eliminated for certain reasons and who is subsequently transferred to a different agency be entitled to the same hourly salary; retain all accrued sick leave; retain, cash out or use all accrued vacation time; and be paid relocation expenses.
Changes the designation of incest in the third degree from a class E to a class B felony, and incest in the second degree from a class D to a class B felony.
Establishes the offenses of obstructing governmental administration by means of dousing a police officer in the first degree, obstructing governmental administration by means of dousing a police officer in the second degree and obstructing governmental administration by means of dousing a police officer in the third degree.
Relates to small business savings accounts; provides tax incentives for contributions and distributions.
