Provides that every policy which provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical care or provides reimbursement for laboratory tests or diagnostic X-rays shall provide coverage for testing of familial dysautonomia, Canavan's disease and Tay-Sachs; provides that in order to maintain the confidentiality of persons tested, receipt of acknowledgement from the testing facility shall be deemed sufficient evidence of testing.
Asm. Chris Burdick
Sponsored bills
Requires commuter bicyclists to complete a bicycle safety course; directs the commissioner to initiate and put into effect curriculum for such course.
Requires contractors in cities having a population of one million or more to recycle 50% of the waste generated on construction and demolition sites.
Creates the district long-term care ombudsman council program to coordinate volunteer ombudsmen in each assembly district.
Prohibits the unauthorized sale, purchase or transfer of any cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that is over 75 years old that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans, including but not limited to a military unit, company, battalion or division, if such cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans has been placed in any cemetery; makes violations a class B misdemeanor; permits cemeteries to make such sales upon application to the state cemetery board and upon certain conditions.
Relates to creating NYCHA-based health centers to provide basic health services for residents living on NYCHA campuses, specifically specialty care and testing for lead poisoning and mold exposure and specifically respiratory related illnesses.
Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.
Suspends all unnecessary travel to states that have enacted a law that voids or repeals, or has the effect of voiding or repealing, existing state or local protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression or have enacted a law that authorizes or requires discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, including any law that creates an exemption to antidiscrimination laws in order to permit discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Requires local governments to prepare and adopt an affordable housing plan no later than December 31, 2024; defines local government as a city, town or village; requires plan to identify the regional need for affordable housing, as well as such need within the local government; makes related requirements; directs such local governments to hold at least one public hearing on the draft plan and one public hearing on the final plan; makes related provisions.
Creates the state office of the utility consumer advocate to represent interests of residential utility customers.