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.
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Relates to establishing the paint stewardship program, minimizing the public sector involvement in the management of post-consumer paint, and negotiating agreements to collect, transport, reuse, recycle, and/or burn for energy recovery at an appropriately licensed facility post-consumer paint using environmentally sound management practices.
Relates to the use of oral medications by optometrists.
Relates to establishing a credit for customers of private water utilities equal to the amount of such taxpayer's annual water bill ascribable to property taxes paid by such private water utility.
Authorizes Anthony A. Fede Tier I status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system.
Relates to the minimum retirement allowance for members of the New York state teachers' retirement system who retired prior to July 1, 1980.
Establishes the "public higher education quality initiative endowment" fund.
Requires the establishment of a one hundred percent clean energy system by two thousand thirty-two.
Prohibits the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks or any other state-owned land; requires DEC to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on New York city watershed lands.
Relates to death certificates for persons whose death is caused by an opioid overdose.