Promotes understanding, awareness and enforcement of animal crimes laws.
Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports, in consultation with the director of the state office for the aging, to develop comprehensive substance use disorder prevention, education and treatment demonstration programs for senior citizens.
Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law.
Prohibits certain devices which enhance a vehicle's capacity to emit soot, smoke or other particulate emissions.
Regulates the sale of plastic trash bags; requires plastic trash bags be made of 30% post-consumer materials.
Requires forest management plans, subject to the approval of the department of environmental conservation, for certain lands subject to a conservation easement purchased by the state; forbids clearcutting on such lands without such forest management plan; increases the jurisdiction of the Adirondack park agency over clearcutting.
Provides that for settlements that require a court order, the order, or the judgment in a special proceeding, shall provide for the payment of interest on the settlement amount at the statutory interest rate on judgments.
Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Adds to the crime of aggravated harassment in the first degree when a person throws, tosses, spits, wipes, expels or transfers onto the person of another individual, without such person's consent, human or animal bodily fluids or matter, such as, but not limited to urine, blood, saliva, phlegm, feces, or any other substance defined as a bodily fluid or matter.
Establishes a recycling program for containers of adult-use cannabis sold in New York; requires such containers to be made of at least fifty percent recycled materials.
