Requires kindergarten instruction for Rockland and Westchester counties for minors who are five years of age on or before December first.
Asm. Steve Otis
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Relates to employee notification of contraceptive coverage.
Sets the rate of taxation on estates.
Relates to sex offender residence limitation; restricts level two and three sex offenders from residing within 1,500 feet of their victims.
Includes individuals with a mental disease or defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree.
Prohibits the sale and use of pavement products containing coal tar.
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; empowers that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, and to monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.
Requires the superintendent to promulgate regulations which provide standardized definitions for commonly used terms and phrases in certain insurance policies.
Relates to the creation of a crime database of all convictions in New York state of animal cruelty, fighting, neglect, abandonment and mistreatment; makes such crime database available to all law enforcement entities, district attorneys, duly incorporated humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations and animal control officers.
Establishes the crime of unlawful propulsion of a missile at railroad trains in the first degree where the commission of such crime causes a significant disruption to the safe travel of the railroad train.