Provides free use of state parks and campsites for volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance service.
Expands tuition assistance program awards for students experiencing homelessness.
Requires the court to provide a range of at least three different dates and times for a person pleading not guilty to a traffic infraction to appear.
Relates to classroom safety mechanisms, emergency medical equipment, and evidence-based best practices for school safety planning and training.
Requires a call-blocking service to be provided in state contracts that include procurement of a voice service; provides that a voice service provider shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability for failure of a call-blocking service to block a call, or mistakenly blocking a call that should not have been blocked.
Requires county medical examiners or coroners to give the state police forensic laboratory DNA samples of deceased persons or unidentified body parts for the purpose of classification and for the state police to forward the samples to the state division of criminal justice services for the purpose of comparison to attempt to determine identity and for the purpose of filing; provides for the forwarding of records to the National Crime Information Center upon such center adopting a policy to accept such records.
Provides for loan forgiveness for mental health nurses that make a commitment to practice in a "rural" tract or county.
Establishes an affordable independent senior housing assistance program which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing properties to establish and operate resident assistance programs.
Preserves ecological integrity, wildlife and open space in the Adirondack park; strengthens land use and development provisions in the Adirondack park so as to curtail rural sprawl.
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).
