Designates certain offenses against emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers as hate crimes; includes the definition of emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers.
Authorizes imposition of life imprisonment without parole sentence for persistent violent felony offenders upon conviction of a violent felony offense when such person has previously been subjected to two or more predicate violent felony convictions.
Permits award of crime victim assistance funds to victims of overdoses, where such overdoses cause death and were the result of deception, surreptitious delivery, or third-party administration of a controlled substance.
Designates offenses against law enforcement officers as hate crimes; designates making graffiti as a specified offense.
Establishes the sector partnership enhancement and reinforcement program to assist in the identification of target industry clusters and employers for creation of new local sector partnerships and to provide grants to emerging and existing local sector partnerships and to community colleges seeking to establish local sector partnerships for recruitment activities; makes an appropriation therefor.
Reduces the total amount that can be charged from one percent to one-third of one percent.
Enacts the Health Care Tax Reform Act; eliminates certain taxes and assessments on health insurance.
Caps the amount of taxes a senior has to pay on his or her real property at the amount such individual paid in the year in which he or she turned 65; provides that the individual claiming the limitation must be the owner of the property and must reside in the property for at least seventy-five percent of the year.
Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
Relates to the environmental assessment of a historic preservation plan; addresses environmental impact statements, dates for filing drafts of such statewide comprehensive historic preservation plan, funds available for historic preservation purposes, and the New York state archaeological survey assistance fund.
