Requires the public service commission hold public hearings on increases in utility rates, fees, rentals, or charges.
Provides an exemption for the purposes of allowing the installation and use of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems where such are installed and used in a building or part of a building that is owned or occupied by a person who holds genuine and sincere religious beliefs and whose health and safety will be jeopardized due to the prohibition of the installation of fossil-fuel equipment and building systems because of such genuine and sincere religious beliefs.
Allows veterans of the armed forces of the United States to fish for free in state parks under the jurisdiction of a state agency.
Provides a payroll tax credit for compensation of journalists; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
Authorizes Kevin Donohue to take the competitive civil service examination for the position of full-time police officer for the town of Goshen.
Requires every employer to provide each employee with the equivalent number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.
Enacts the regional broadband expansion and access program act; relates to the cost of expanding broadband access.
Allows the New York state thruway authority to provide a discounted toll rate to farmers transporting agricultural products.
