Authorizes the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal to prescribe for the translation of legal forms and applications in languages other than English, as long as such language is spoken by at least one percent of the population.
Relates to actions by health care providers against patients; provides that it shall be an affirmative defense to an action by a health care provider against a patient for recovery of payment for an outstanding bill that such health care provider failed to submit such insurance claim to the patient's insurer in a timely manner.
Requires that notice be given to the community boards when there is a change in service furnished upon the rapid transit facilities or the omnibus line facilities of the New York city transit authority.
Allows reservists with twenty years of service to be eligible for 2.5 points on entrance exams and 1 point on promotional exams.
Provides for the reimbursement of costs of the New York environmental protection and spill compensation fund in the department of audit and control.
Creates a temporary state pesticide commission to study the effects of the application of pesticides in cities with a population of one million or more.
Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities.
Creates the New York flood insurance association which will consist of all insurers authorized to write and engaged in writing within this state, on a direct basis, flood coverage insurance.
Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services from 65 to 75 percent.
Establishes a sales and compensating use tax exemption for the receipts from the provision of transportation of used goods that are going to be recycled, reused or remanufactured.
