Expands the definition of mental health care provider to include licensed mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists, for purposes of certain sex offenses committed during a treatment session, consultation, interview, or examination.
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
Establishes a captive insurance program for commuter vans, black cars, ambulettes and paratransit vehicles, small school buses, and charter buses that are engaged in the business of carrying or transporting eight to twenty-four passengers for hire; pre-arranged for-hire vehicles and accessible vehicles; defines terms.
Directs the commission of corrections and community supervision to establish an annual heat mitigation plan; directs the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons.
Requires the development of a "what mortgage applicants need to know" pamphlet on residential mortgages; provides such pamphlet shall be posted and printed in the 6 most common non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in New York state.
Maddy summaryThis bill prohibits the harvesting of horseshoe crabs in New York State for both commercial and biomedical uses, with limited exceptions for bona fide scientific or educational purposes. It achieves this by amending existing environmental laws to explicitly exclude horseshoe crabs from the regulations that allow other crab species to be taken under specific permits. The legislation also prevents the state department from creating any new management rules that would permit the harvest of these crabs. While the bill passed the Senate and was delivered to the Governor, it was ultimately vetoed and tabled.
Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.
Maddy summaryThis bill, known as "Detective Brian Simonsen's Law," requires wireless service providers to stop services for stolen mobile phones. It mandates that carriers maintain programs to block devices identified as stolen on the GSMA block list, which is a shared industry database. Additionally, the law obligates carriers to report the unique identification numbers of newly stolen phones to this database and to suspend service immediately upon receiving a verified report from a customer. These measures aim to prevent the use of stolen phones on networks while ensuring stolen devices are tracked across the industry.
Maddy summaryThis bill removes a specific requirement from New York City's rent regulations that mandated public hearings on biennial maximum base rent adjustments. By repealing this section of the administrative code, the legislation eliminates the procedural step where rent control boards must hold these specific hearings before approving rent increases. The change directly affects the administrative process for setting rent limits, allowing the city to adjust base rents without convening these particular public meetings. The law takes effect immediately upon signing and alters how rent control decisions are formally reviewed by city officials.
Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million inhabitants.
