Requires the state board of elections to participate in the systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) program, administered by the United States citizenship and immigration services agency, to verify that a person who is either registered or registering to vote is a United States citizen.
Designates August thirty-first of each year as a day of commemoration to be known as "Overdose Awareness Day"; requires the flag to be flown at half-staff on such date.
Maddy summaryBill A 160 prohibits registered sex offenders from entering, being within 500 feet of, or being located in any state park or municipal-owned park. This law directly affects individuals required to register under the state’s sex offender registry by restricting their access to public park spaces. The key provision creates a 500-foot buffer zone around all state and locally owned parks, preventing registered sex offenders from being present within that radius. The bill was referred to the Correction committee on January 8, 2025, and is pending further legislative action.
Maddy summaryThis bill (A 5509) allows public school districts, charter schools, and non-public elementary/secondary schools in New York to keep topical hemostatic agents (products that stop severe bleeding) on-site for emergency use. It directly affects schools and their staff, who may administer these agents during bleeding emergencies involving students or employees. The bill requires schools to maintain adequate quantities based on health commissioner guidance and mandates that schools providing these agents also give teachers approved health materials about their use. It does not change existing policies for epinephrine auto-injectors but adds a specific requirement for hemostatic agent training materials. The bill is pending in the Education Committee as of February 14, 2025.
Maddy summaryThis bill designates March 21st each year as "Down Syndrome Awareness Day" in New York State. It adds this date to the state's official calendar of commemorative days, which already includes other observances like Holocaust Remembrance Day and Juneteenth. The bill does not create new policies or funding; it simply establishes a formal recognition day to raise awareness about Down syndrome. This designation affects all New York state entities and residents, encouraging official observances and educational efforts on that date.
Maddy summaryThis bill, the "Veterans' Memorials Preservation Act," requires public entities like cities, towns, and school districts to preserve existing veterans' memorials - such as parks, monuments, plaques, or structures - without altering, moving, or destroying them, except when changes are "reasonably necessary." It mandates that these memorials remain publicly accessible and properly maintained by the groups that own or manage them. The law directly affects local and state government bodies responsible for veterans' memorials across the state. It takes effect immediately upon passage.
Relates to the establishment of a waiver for child care learning pods; provides that unlicensed and unregulated child care learning pods may operate if there are otherwise no violations of laws or codes, rules, and regulations of New York and such child care learning pod is compliant with the local laws, codes, rules, and regulations of such local municipality in which they are located and operated; provides for civil penalty for violations.
Authorizes the issuance of distinctive legion of valor license plates for individuals who have received the army medal of honor, navy medal of honor, air force medal of honor, army distinguished service cross, navy cross, coast guard cross, or air force cross.
Adds xylazine to the depressants designated as controlled substances with the exception of use in cattle or other nonhuman species if approved by the federal food and drug administration.
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
