Relates to prohibiting school districts, school principals, administrators, or teachers from requiring, permitting, or conducting a lesson or experimental study using an animal in a hatching project.
Prohibits the operation of establishments where animals and/or fowls are slaughtered or butchered for food; establishes a task force on public health risks and animal welfare concerns of slaughterhouses.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires all public secondary schools in the state to include humane education about animal treatment, protection, and ecological roles in their curriculum. It specifically mandates instruction on kindness toward animals, respect for animal welfare laws, and managing animal overpopulation. Schools must verify compliance with these requirements, and the state education commissioner will maintain public records of this verification. Schools failing to provide this instruction risk losing public funding for those grades.
Requires fashion sellers to carry out environmental due diligence for the portions of their business related to wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags, including wearing apparel, footwear or fashion bags produced as a private label; establishes a fashion remediation fund.
Discontinues the real property tax exemption for certain real property that is used for home games for certain professional sports teams in New York city beginning with the 2026 assessment roll.
Maddy summaryThis bill allows A Beautiful Noise, LLC (a specific New York City theater production company) to apply for a 2022 tax credit they missed due to a filing deadline. It specifically permits them to file for the New York City musical and theatrical production tax credit for their 2022 production, overriding standard application rules for this single entity. The bill applies retroactively to tax year 2022 and remains in effect through 2025.
Enacts the "crash victims bill of rights"; requires accident reports to be delivered to victims of accidents or their next of kin; requires victim impact statements to be delivered at traffic infraction hearings by injured parties or their next of kin; requires employers to grant leave of absence to employees delivering a victim impact statement at a traffic infraction hearing; directs the superintendent of financial services to conduct a study and complete a report on certain automobile crash information.
Maddy summaryThis bill limits local governments' ability to set zoning rules for residential development. It prohibits cities, villages, and towns from requiring minimum lot sizes larger than 1,200 square feet (or 5,000/20,000 sq ft for towns with infrastructure), banning off-street parking requirements (except for freight), and restricting multi-family housing. Specifically, it allows up to four families in single-lot dwellings anywhere residentially permitted, and up to six families near transit stops (within 1/4 mile of subway/rail stations). These changes directly affect developers, homeowners, and local planning decisions by restricting how communities can regulate housing density and lot design.
Provides for apportionment for charter school tuition payments for any school district that is required to pay tuition to charter schools in the two thousand twenty-five-two thousand twenty-six school year and thereafter.
Establishes understanding artificial intelligence responsibility act requiring developers of covered models to be strictly liable for certain injuries.
