Enacts the HIRE NY act to provide zero interest loans through the urban development corporation for hiring by micro-businesses.
Provides that employers shall notify employees of potential state and federal earned income tax credits and delineates the contents, timing and manner of providing notice as well as options available to the employer.
Requires utility corporations and entities to submit an annual report to the public service commission, legislature, the executive, and the chairman of the state energy planning board detailing energy metering production, including the number of customer-generators, the type of power producing the energy and the amount of output from each customer-generator.
Relates to increasing the exemption from sales and use taxes for food and drink sold through any vending machine; increases the exemption to two dollars.
Establishes a mentor for youth program for middle school and high school students at high risk to engage in violent acts or drop out of school.
Requires hotel, motel and inn keepers to offer, in the registration office, condoms or similar prophylactic devices for sale to registered guests of such hotel, motel or inn.
Requires that all special education students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change.
Permits licensed clinical social workers, licensed creative arts therapists, licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed mental health counselors and licensed psychoanalysts to form a single corporate structure as a means to promote inter-professional practice and improved mental health care for patients, families and communities, both rural and urban.
Relates to prohibiting the investment of common retirement funds in stocks, securities or other obligations of any institution, company, or subsidiary that owns or invests in a for-profit institution that owns or contracts with a government to manage or run a prison.
Relates to additional guidelines and procedures to the designation process for a landmark, interior landmark, scenic landmark and historic district.
