Prohibits certain practices by businesses making an automatic renewal or continuous service offer to consumers in the state; provides exemptions.
Relates to tenant responses to applications for a major capital improvement rent increase; allows tenants to respond within one hundred twenty days from the date of mailing of a notice of a proceeding; requires the state division of housing and community renewal to provide any responding tenant with the reasons for the division's approval or denial of such application.
Requires contractors to recycle a certain percentage of the waste generated on construction and demolition sites.
Increases penalty for leaving scene of an accident without reporting to class E felony.
Requires any school district in the state shall provide, to pupils in grades nine through twelve, one full unit of instruction designed to promote consumer awareness and financial education.
Requires persons or entities providing benefits in the event of disability to not impose "onerous or unreasonable conditions" for the payment or continued payment of benefits thereunder, and provides for the enforcement thereof including actual damages, interest and penalties, reasonable costs and attorney's fees, and in the court's discretion, exemplary damages; exempts worker's compensation and NYS disability insurance.
Reduces certain sentences of imprisonment for misdemeanors to three hundred sixty-four days.
Establishes the crimes of cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the second degree and cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the first degree when in the presence of a minor child.
Requires newly certified teachers to be trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-injector; requires such teachers to be certified within 3 months of date of hire.
Relates to increasing fines for individuals who fail to comply with a stop work order; increases fines from $5,000 to $10,000 for initial violation and $10,000 to $20,000 for subsequent violations.
