Relates to the expiration and repeal of regulations limiting the engines of school vehicles to remain idling while parked or standing on school grounds.
Requires a court to award reasonable attorneys' fees and costs incurred for meritless actions and abusive lawsuits when it has granted a motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action.
Relates to establishing the Barbara Clark leaders of tomorrow scholarship; provides funds be distributed from the New York state lottery and given to one eligible senior from every participating public and private high school in New York state.
Relates to suicide prevention; provides that the office of mental health and the education department shall identify or develop materials for educators regarding suicide prevention measures and signs of depression among school-aged students; provides that related information shall be available on the Internet and may be included in schools.
Relates to instruction on the Garifuna people.
Authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate drug disposal sites for unused controlled substances; defines "chain pharmacy".
Establishes a program for adults over fifty who are under community supervision or who will be released from a state correctional facility.
Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.
Creates a board to review officer-involved deaths and near deaths.
Prohibits a sex offender whose victim was a child and level 3 sex offenders from knowingly being within 1,000 feet of a facility where pre-kindergarten or kindergarten instruction is provided.
