Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare.
Implements a moratorium on the installation of new digital billboards; directs the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the impact of digital billboards on motor vehicle accidents.
Prohibits the discrimination of persons based on their religious attire in recreational water parks, including, but not limited to, beaches, lakes, pools and other water facilities operated on land or water for recreational use.
Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.
Extends the answer time when a major capital improvement rent increase has been filed to ninety days.
Provides a tax credit for certain taxpayers who suffer the birth of a stillborn child.
Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate housing access voucher local administrators in the state to administer the program.
Enacts the "Shepherd Patterson law"; requires a physician who treats a minor patient with a medical condition that may cause a disability to provide certain educational information to such patient's parents or guardians indicating such minor is entitled to a free and appropriate public education as defined under section five hundred four of the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen hundred seventy-three; makes related provisions.
Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act; requires facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize such waste.
Authorizes the study of the number of senior citizens in New York state who have filed for bankruptcy in the past ten years; provides that the director of the office for the aging shall deliver a copy of the findings of the study conducted and any legislative recommendations to the governor and the legislature.
