Enacts the "New York state living donor support act" to provide state reimbursement to living organ donors, who are state residents, for medical and associated expenses incurred as a result of the organ donation, when the organ donation is made to another resident of the state; requires the provision of information on transplantation to patients with severe kidney disease.
Asm. Rebecca Seawright
Sponsored bills
Relates to the metropolitan transportation authority providing signs that would give the public immediate instruction on how to react to a fall onto the transit facility tracks.
Relates to requiring the court to consider the best interest of a companion animal when awarding possession in a divorce or separation proceeding.
Relates to contracts in small print, procedural reciprocity for arbitration agreements in consumer transactions and consumer arbitration; relates to the prohibition of certain and wrongful death claims; relates to powers and duties of the consumer protection division and contracts of adhesion; relates to protecting against certain contracts of adhesion in the provision of health care.
Relates to flexible working arrangements; provides that employees may submit a request for flexible working arrangements in good faith; requires the employer to notify the employee of the decision; prohibits employers from retaliating against employees for exercising rights under the section.
Relates to contractual relationships with minority-owned and women-owned businesses.
Provides for mandatory training for treasurers of political committees; requires treasurers to complete such training within forty-five days after first being appointed; requires the state board of elections to provide such training in any method it determines, as well as a web-based format; makes related provisions.
Relates to requiring landlords of certain properties to furnish New York division of housing and community renewal with data pertaining to succession rights.
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.
Relates to subsequent exemptions for enhanced STAR based on age.