Relates to authorizing the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding computer science curriculum within the state at all public and private schools offering instruction to kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Requires access to new homes by persons with disabilities.
Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.
Relates to developing and implementing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools.
Authorizes the city of New York to provide for a residential parking permit system.
Creates city university of New York center for excellence in urban education to enhance the quality of teaching in public schools in NYC; establishes the regents teacher loan forgiveness program to allocate awards annually to teachers who agree to teach public school in an area of New York state designated by the board of regents as having a shortage of public school teachers.
Establishes an oyster shell recycling tax credit and directs DEC to promulgate necessary regulations.
Relates to monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee.
Relates to the creation of the long term unemployment work and training program.
Directs the commissioner of health to evaluate existing needs assessment tools and develop additional professionally and statistically valid assessment tools to be used to assist in determining the amount, nature and manner of services and care needs of individuals receiving medical assistance and care.
