Provides voting membership to existing non-voting rider representatives on the MTA Board, provides for enhanced representation of MTA riders with disabilities.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires New York's Commissioner of Health to establish regional minimum hourly reimbursement rates for home care providers serving Medicaid patients. It directly affects home care agencies and providers who employ home care aides, mandating rates that cover all necessary costs - including base wages, benefits, payroll taxes, operational expenses, and compliance costs. The rates must be set regionally based on actual service costs, adjusted annually to reflect labor law changes, and published publicly. Providers must justify any contract rates below these minimums, and the comptroller can audit contracts to ensure adequacy. The goal is to ensure reimbursement rates support fair wages and operational needs for home care workers under Medicaid.
Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires prescribers of certain pain medications to complete updated training focused on safe prescribing practices. The training must cover pain management, addiction prevention, overdose reduction techniques, and buprenorphine prescribing, with new requirements applying to license renewals after July 1, 2026. The Health Department must establish and publish standards for approved training courses in consultation with education and addiction services agencies. These changes aim to integrate addiction treatment knowledge into routine pain management training for prescribers.
Increases certain penalties for violating the prohibition of animal fighting and for aggravated cruelty to animals; requires a psychiatric evaluation for defendants convicted of aggravated cruelty to animals.
Maddy summaryThis bill modifies rules for mutual companies seeking voluntary dissolution. It allows mutual companies that received loans after May 1, 1959, to dissolve without agency approval only after their municipal tax exemption (and any extension) expires. The bill requires full payment of outstanding mortgage principal, interest, and dissolution costs before dissolution can proceed. This directly affects mutual companies holding such loans, changing their timeline for voluntary dissolution compared to non-mutual companies under existing law.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires the Office of Cannabis Management to create and maintain a public directory of businesses closed due to regulatory violations. The directory must include business names, addresses, owners, closure dates, penalty details, and the most recent enforcement actions, updated weekly. It provides transparent information about cannabis businesses subject to enforcement actions, without changing licensing or operational rules. The measure focuses on public record-keeping, not policy changes affecting consumers or businesses.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires New York driver's license and identification card applications to include clear, conspicuous questions about health care proxies and living wills. Specifically, applicants must see prompts like "Have you completed a health care proxy? Check 'yes' or 'skip'." and space to list a health care agent's name. It also mandates space for questions about life-sustaining treatment preferences. The bill affects all applicants for driver's licenses or ID cards in New York, adding these health care directives to standard application forms without changing healthcare law or requiring new actions from applicants.
Provides that restaurants and third-party food delivery services may provide single-use food service items to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits certain plastic single-use items.
Criminalizes knowingly causing a minor to attend a place where exhibition of animal fighting is being conducted, establishes such offense is considered a misdemeanor.
