Relates to personnel records of police officers, firefighters and correction officers.
Relates to prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage for individuals that have taken or are currently taking pre-exposure prophylaxis for the prevention of HIV or post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV infection.
Relates to required prior notices; includes reverse mortgage transactions in the definition of home loan.
Establishes guidelines for carryout bag waste reduction.
Relates to directing the public service commission and the department of public service to study and report upon the potential to pass the tax savings incurred by public utility companies to ratepayers; requires two public hearings on such topic; repealer.
Enacts the student journalist free speech act to protect student speech at educational institutions unless such speech is libelous, an invasion of privacy, or incites students to commit an unlawful act, violate school policies, or to materially and substantially disrupt the orderly operation of the school.
Provides that a candidate who files a certificate of acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than the seventh day after the primary election.
Eliminates from the class A misdemeanor of theft of services, the avoidance of payment for railroad, subway, bus or other public transportation services.
Relates to including amateur sports organization personnel as required reporters of suspected child abuse or maltreatment.
Requires forest management plans, subject to the approval of the department of environmental conservation, for certain lands subject to a conservation easement purchased by the state and forbids clearcutting on such lands without such forest management plan; increases the jurisdiction of the Adirondack park agency over clearcutting.
