Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
Sponsored bills
Increases the sale price threshold for food and drink sold in vending machines to be exempt from certain taxation.
Provides an exemption for the sale of the first $35,000 for a battery, electric, or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle from state sales and compensating use taxes; authorizes local governments to elect such incentives; repeals the hybrid exemption after ten years.
Establishes safety measures for hoisting; requires the commissioner of labor to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to safety every ten years.
Prohibits an employer from requesting or requiring that an employee or applicant for employment disclose any user name, password, or other means for accessing a personal account or service through specified electronic communications devices.
Expands the New York bottle bill by including more types of eligible beverages and increasing the minimum refund value to ten cents.
Relates to gender balance on boards of state and local public authorities.
Requires that provision be made for pregnancy termination procedures insurance coverage in every individual or group hospital, surgical or medical policy, or hospital service or medical expense indemnity contract of a service corporation, only where any such policy or contract offers maternity care coverage.
Enacts the student suicide prevention act; requires the governing board or body of every local educational agency serving students in grades seven to twelve, to adopt policies, procedures and guidelines on student suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for students in such grades.
Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York city.