Requires all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane where electronic toll collection systems are installed.
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 the minimum wage for certain employees who are food service workers or service employees receiving tips and paid in accordance with Part 146 of Title 12 of the NYCRR.
Provides that prescriptions covered by insurance, that would otherwise be required to be filled by mail order, may be filled at a retail pharmacy under certain circumstances.
Increases the exemption of self-employment earnings from the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax from $50,000 to $100,000.
Prohibits the use of waste from oil or natural gas extraction activities or waste from storage of oil or natural gas on any highway.
Establishes rental vouchers for working families; provides definitions; allows for families to make an application for rental vouchers at the appropriate social services district or any facilitated enrollment site authorized by the office of temporary and disability assistance; sets forth eligibility requirements.
Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activity assignment.
Provides an enforcement mechanism for non-public school educational standards.
Relates to requiring liquid petroleum pipeline facilities to accelerate the repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of equipment or pipelines that are leaking or at a high-risk of leaking.
