Relates to creating a private right of action for unconsented removal or tampering with a sexually protective device.
Permits a retired member to change his or her option election or designate a new beneficiary where the beneficiary has been convicted of a family offense.
Expands the health department's review of correctional health services by including a biennial study of health care staffing at facilities operated by the department of corrections and community supervision.
Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for market value; provides that money placed into an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account or fund shall only be used for purchasing items or goods.
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated people based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated people in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from the person's assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated people shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost; requires agencies charged with the operation and management of state and local correctional facilities and juvenile detention facilities to provide persons in their custody with voice communication service at a minimum of 90 minutes per day.
Relates to furnishing money or entertainment to induce attendance at polls.
Authorizes the widow of Peter Sistrom to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband.
Expands eligibility for the medicare savings program by disregarding certain countable income for certain medicare beneficiaries.
Creates the New York state private not-for-profit special education schools revolving loan fund to provide zero interest loans to private not-for-profit special education schools in NYC to cover a portion of tuition costs for up to two years; appropriates two hundred million dollars.
