Relates to criminal justice faculty employed by a community college.
Establishes the GrowNY pilot program, an economic gardening pilot program within the department of economic development to stimulate investment in the state economy by providing technical assistance for expanding businesses in the state.
Reimburses counties who have purchased or will purchase Medicaid fraud detection software.
Removes the income earning limitations for police officers employed as school safety officers.
Establishes crime of vehicular assault in the third degree where a person, with criminal negligence, causes physical injury to another person while unlawfully overtaking and passing a stopped school bus; expands other degrees of crime to include unlawfully passing a stopped school bus.
Grants a waiver of the photo image fee charged for the processing of certain license documents to veterans: exemption of fee where veteran is seeking a replacement of his or her license document where veteran exemption is not designated; does not apply to regular renewals.
Relates to requiring the filing of wills for safekeeping and the reduction of fees for such filing.
Provides that prosecutions of certain violent sex offenses may be commenced within fifteen years after the child subject to such violation has reached the age of eighteen.
Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.
Relates to licenses to purchase, store or use certain compounds; $50 fee.
