Enacts the "MTA board member attendance act"; requires members of the metropolitan transportation authority to attend the majority of public hearings on fare hikes in order to cast a vote.
Sponsored bills
Enacts the New York State Iran divestment act.
Enacts the "credit creation pilot program act of New York"; directs the superintendent of financial services to create and implement such act; defines terms; provides that a program licensee may not offer or make a program loan or impose any charges or fees without prior approval from the superintendent of financial services to participate in the program; provides for disclosures, statements and receipts, referral partners, permitted services and prohibited activities.
Requires hotels and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the premises; requires the development and administration of training on methods and procedures for the eradication of bedbugs upon hiring and each year thereafter.
Relates to insurer recovery from health care providers; provides that except where there is a reasonable belief of fraud or intentional misconduct, a health plan shall not determine an overpayment amount through the use of extrapolation except with the consent of the health care provider.
Requires sugar-sweetened beverages to be labeled with a safety warning.
Requires skiers to wear protective helmets and requires that ski area operators make educational literature regarding injury prevention and such helmets available to the public and require their use; provides for penalties for violations by ski area operators.
Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections and to model poll worker training programs; entitles state agency employees to leave for election administration and training; requires the state board of elections to develop and provide to each county materials for a model poll worker training program which the counties may use to train individuals to serve as poll workers in state and county elections.
Requires the sanitation department of the city of New York to provide owners, lessees or persons in charge of a premises at which a violation of the city solid waste disposal law is alleged to have occurred with a photograph of the materials, condition or situation constituting the violation.
Requires all state departments and agencies to issue an analysis of the feasibility of implementing alternative work schedules within their department or agency.