Details the procedure that certain school districts must follow when dealing with disciplinary actions for bus drivers and bus drivers' assistants.
Relates to enacting the Justice for Nursing Home Victims act; creates a nursing home resident COVID-19 compensation program to provide full compensation to any nursing home resident or their statutory beneficiary when COVID-19 caused or contributed to such resident's death; provides the responsibilities of a nursing home during a pandemic; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Relates to providing reforms to employee pension contributions; provides that members of Tier 6 shall contribute three percent of annual wages to their retirement system.
Relates to calculating the final average salary for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system; provides that final average salary shall be equal to one-third of the highest total wages earned during any continuous period of employment for which the member was credited with three years of service credit.
Establishes March 13 as a day of commemoration to be known as "K9 Veterans Day".
Includes intentionally selecting a victim based on certain actual or perceived traits in the crime of murder in the first degree; provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
Requires lifetime post-release supervision for offenders convicted of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree, course of sexual conduct against a child in the first and second degrees or sexual abuse in the first degree when the other person is less than eleven years old; prohibits good behavior allowances against a determinate sentence for a person convicted of any such crimes.
Includes offenses involving the possession, display or discharge of a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machine-gun, or disguised gun as qualifying offenses for the purpose of allowing a principal to be eligible to be held on bail.
Requires health care facilities to report incidents of a sexual offense to the departments of health and education.
