Establishes a temporary relocation assistance for asylum seekers fund to assist certain localities with a significant number of asylum seekers in providing services including healthcare, housing, free and/or subsidized legal services for low-income individuals, education and language services, free and/or subsidized child care programs, and job training and trade certificate programs.
Asm. Amanda Septimo
Sponsored bills
Establishes the office of equity for energy and climate to support local and communally developed climate projects to support disadvantaged communities, including by establishing and administering the community solutions fund and the solutions grants program; provides for funding and standards for climate and community protection projects and programs.
Establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings; provides for the administration thereof.
Implements the "New York State Build Public Renewables Act"; requires the New York power authority to provide only renewable energy and power to customers; requires such authority to be the sole provider of energy to all state owned and municipal properties; requires certain New York power authority projects and programs pay a prevailing wage and utilize project labor agreements.
Imposes additional rules and requirements for the licensing of nail salons.
Adds to the crime of public lewdness the electronic transmission of an image depicting exposed private or intimate parts without the consent of the recipient.
Establishes the reproductive freedom and equity program to ensure access to abortion care in the state by providing funding to abortion providers and non-profit organizations whose primary function is to facilitate access to abortion care.
Establishes the "pollution justice act"; implements a plan to replace peaker plant electric generating facilities with renewable energy systems.
Enacts the "all-electric building act"; provides that the state energy conservation construction code shall prohibit infrastructure, building systems, or equipment used for the combustion of fossil fuels in new construction statewide no later than December 31, 2023 if the building is less than seven stories and July 1, 2027 if the building is seven stories or more.
Relates to the harassment of certain employees of a transit agency or authority whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions.