Provides for the licensing of professional and clinical music therapists encompassing the assessment, evaluation, and the therapeutic intervention and treatment of mental, emotional, developmental and behavioral disorders through the use of music.
Provides that sentence for commission of certain provisions of murder in the first degree is death or life without parole.
Modifies the amount of credit for cider, wine, and liquor produced in NYS under the alcoholic beverage production credit; provides parity with beer credit based on the taxes for cider, wine, and liquor.
Establishes the large projects historic rehabilitation tax credit and the "white elephant" housing historic rehabilitation projects tax credit program for qualified rehabilitation expenditures totaling fifty million dollars or more with respect to a certified historic structure that has been vacant, as determined by local code enforcement or other reasonable means, for at least ten of fifteen consecutive years preceding the date of the taxpayer's application for the rehabilitation credit.
Creates a small business electric energy tax credit; specifies that the amount of credit shall be equal to the product of $0.02 per kilowatt hour; sets limit of no more than 19 full-time employees in New York state; determines that if the business is located at the primary residence of a sole proprietor, the business is not eligible for the tax credit.
Provides a real property tax exemption to agricultural lands that are used for certain purposes.
Requires a parent, guardian or person in a parental relation to a child under the age of eighteen to be physically present when any immunization is administered to such child.
Directs the commissioner of education, in conjunction with the superintendent of state police and the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services, to establish standards for the security and safety of school grounds.
Increases foundation aid for school districts that meet five variables impacting academic success: free or reduced lunch, English language learners, wealth ratio, enrollment, special education, and being located in a high wealth ratio county.
Relates to the distribution of fire insurance premium taxes; provides that a percentage of fire insurance premium taxes be paid to the treasurer of the NYS Professional Firefighters Association to promote, support and maintain the well-being of paid professional firefighters employed in the state.
