Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to publish certain financial reports, including reports relating to revenue and expenditures of funds on the authority's website.
Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an aggrieved employee, whistleblower or representative organization to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.
Relates to freezing tuition costs at state and city universities for four years; increases TAP awards by $400 each year for four years; and requires a report examining the affordability of such public institutions and potential funding for eliminating the gap between public funding and actual tuition and costs.
Relates to eligibility for classification as permanent total disability; includes inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability.
Relates to investment income and capital gains on investments deferred or excluded under 26 U.S.C. section 1400-z-2.
Extends and expands the scope of the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot to include an additional 1,200 users.
Requires public corporations and agencies to provide notice to each minority- or women-owned business enterprise that unsuccessfully bid on a contract of the reason or reasons why the business enterprise was unsuccessful in obtaining the contract.
Establishes the New York title guaranty program to provide title insurance for real property within the state and establishes the New York title guaranty corporation to implement the New York title guaranty program.
Requires car wash workers in Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties and in a city with a population of one million or more to be paid the minimum wage without allowance for gratuities.
