Grants student loan forgiveness for certain municipal attorneys employed by political subdivisions of the state.
Requires instruction in civic education for grades 5 through 12 including instruction on the NYS constitution; federal, state and local government; civic literacy; methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
Relates to pharmacy services provided by managed care providers; requires pharmacy benefit managers and managed care providers to reimburse retail pharmacies for each outpatient drug, at the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC); repeals related provisions.
Establishes a moratorium on the use of forensic child custody evaluators in family court proceedings by the office of court administration.
Enacts the statewide transportation authority reinvestment (STAR) act; exempts mass transit authorities from bond issuance charges.
Removes the exclusion of part-time employees from certain definitions relating to employment and expanding the definition of employer; removes certain exclusions for employer notice requirements for the closing of a facility; removes the discretionary reduction of penalties for employers for certain acts or omissions concerning notice requirements for mass layoffs, relocations or employment loss; removes the maximum time period for determining back pay and other liabilities for certain employees who experience employment loss; allows the attorney general to take certain action to assist certain employees in receiving back pay and other liabilities; requires employers to pay severance to employees when there is a plant closing, relocation, or mass layoff.
Establishes the office of equity for energy and climate to support local and communally developed climate projects to support disadvantaged communities, including by establishing and administering the community solutions fund and the solutions grants program.
Relates to disqualification from receiving benefits for separation from employment in cases where the claimant's employer maintained or refused to cure a health or safety condition that made the environment unsuitable.
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
Provides that neither the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, nor aiding or abetting of unauthorized or unlicensed practice of massage therapy, shall be deemed as the crime of unauthorized practice.
