Relates to school climate and codes of conduct on school property and disciplinary action following violation of such codes of conduct; makes conforming amendments.
Permits the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district up to one justice for every thirty thousand people in the district.
Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires the state Department of Transportation to create a toll-free hotline and a website where drivers can report potholes and other defects on state highways and bridges. The online system will allow users to submit reports with or without providing their contact information, view a map of reported issues, and track the status of repairs. The department must update the list of defects and repairs at least once every five days and keep records for a minimum of 365 days. Additionally, the law mandates that the department share defect reports with local officials for county and town roads and coordinate with the Thruway Authority to include those roads in the reporting system.
Maddy summaryThis New York bill requires state public buildings that are open to the public to provide free menstrual products, such as pads and tampons, in all female-designated and gender-neutral restrooms. It specifically excludes state universities, the City University of New York, and school district buildings from these requirements. The law also mandates that the state report on the number of facilities affected, implementation costs, and the total number of products purchased two years after the bill takes effect.
Maddy summaryThis bill bans the sale, offering for sale, and distribution of docks, buoys, and floating structures made from specific types of polystyrene foam within the state. The law defines the prohibited materials as expanded, extruded, and rigid polystyrene and covers various water-based structures such as swimming platforms, mooring buoys, and floating homes. Effective January 1, 2026, businesses and individuals will no longer be able to sell or distribute these foam-based products, while the act itself takes effect immediately upon passage.
Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
Prohibits the use of restraints on incarcerated individuals during labor, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant persons during a custodial interrogation.
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to all mothers who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such mothers, but not beyond the date such child reaches twenty-four months of age except in limited circumstances related to parole; allows children to remain with their mothers in a correctional institution until twenty-four months of age, or longer in certain cases related to parole; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated mothers.
Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.
