Requires the New York State Office of Mental Health to study the effects that awareness of or exposure to police shootings or killings of unarmed African Americans has on the mental health of African Americans in New York state and to deliver a finding of the results of such study to the governor and the legislative leaders.
Asm. Karines Reyes
Sponsored bills
Establishes the interagency task force on health literacy, to study health literacy and develop recommendations for improving health literacy in this state.
Relates to establishing the "health care information management act"; requires an annual report by the commissioner to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.
Establishes the student loan borrower bill of rights to protect borrowers and ensure that student loan servicers act more as loan counselors than debt collectors.
Establishes the New York state higher education debt consolidation and refinancing program.
Relates to an increase in punishment for certain actions against on-duty auxiliary police officers such as criminally negligent homicide, assault or menacing of such officer.
Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for epi-pens for individuals 18 years old and younger.
Adjusts the calculation of the empire state child credit to provide for a one thousand dollar credit per qualifying child who is less than four years of age and a five hundred dollar credit per qualifying child who is four years of age or older for certain qualifying taxpayers.
Requires the installation of vaping detectors in certain schools.
Relates to requiring instruction in Asian American and Pacific Islander history for grades K through 12.