Enacts the public officers accountability act of 2017.
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Relates to the instilling of mydriatic or cycloplegic eye drops by persons qualified and supervised by a licensed optometrist or ophthalmologist.
Relates to excluding tax levies necessary for expenditures increasing school safety or security from the school district tax levy limit.
Requires the division of criminal justice services to check the wanted felon status and probation or parole violator status of people applying for public assistance.
Relates to a ten-year state takeover of the local share of Medicaid outside of New York city; provides a twenty-year state takeover of fifty percent of the local share of Medicaid in New York city; creates a commission to reform public assistance benefits; expands the state earned income tax credit from thirty percent to forty-five percent of the federal credit amount; offers the option for individuals to receive the state earned income tax credit in monthly installments; expands the child and dependent care tax credit; allows those receiving unemployment insurance to work part-time while still receiving a partial unemployment benefit; provides for state assumption of the growth in property taxes for school districts and local governments that remain under the real property tax cap; creates a real property tax redesign team required to produce recurring savings; and subjects New York city to the property tax cap.
Requires the implementation of an electronic death registration system; all deaths occurring in the state must be registered using the electronic registration system.
Repeals the Empire state film production credit and the Empire state film post production credit.
Requires the legislature to provide funding to reimburse localities for the costs associated with expenditures made as a requirement of any law which mandates the undertaking of a new program or increases the level of service of an existing program by a locality; requires the legislature to establish procedures for the allocation of funds among the local governments.
Authorizes the issuance of "I Support Music Education" distinctive plates and establishes the "I support music education" fund.