Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.
Provides increases in the rates of payment for certified home health agencies; directs the commissioner of health to establish minimum standards and a minimum benchmark for home care service payments by any Medicaid payor.
Directs the city of New York to conduct an analysis of stormwater and groundwater issues in southeast Queens.
Relates to subway track safety; provides instructions shall be provided on how to react safely, timely, and effectively when a person falls onto the subway tracks as part of its ongoing safety education campaigns.
Relates to storm hardening and system resiliency plans required to be submitted by electric corporations; relates to recovery of certain costs.
Requires public officers and public bodies to make proactive efforts to provide qualified interpreters at no charge for the hearing impaired at public meetings and hearings upon written request to the public officer responsible for the siting of such hearing; requires installation and use of assistive listening devices.
Directs the New York state department of public service to study the feasibility and the costs of relocating underground all or most of the existing, above-ground electrical distribution lines, telephone lines and internet transmission lines.
Relates to the effectiveness of provisions relating to providing an online absentee ballot tracking system.
Establishes the "earned time act" providing for time allowances against the term or maximum term of sentences imposed by the court to be credited on an annual pro rata basis.
Enacts the "Long Island water utility reform act"; relates to the assessment of property owned by water-works corporations; establishes the Nassau county water authority.
