Relates to leave for cancer screening; broadens section to include all types of cancer screening for a period of eight hours.
Sen. Joe Addabbo
Sponsored bills
Prohibits the use of pesticides at children's overnight or summer day camps; provides an exception where emergency application is approved by local or state officials.
Provides that persons in parental relation to a child refusing to immunize such child for religious reasons, shall file with the school an affidavit signed by a physician, stating that such physician has explained to the parent, parents or guardian the risks to the child and to other individuals of failure to immunize the child.
Prohibits tethering, restraining, caging or penning of dogs or animals between the hours of 7 p.m. to 6 a.m; may be tethered to a stationary object or a pen or cage in a sized pen or cage four times the height and length of said dog or animal.
Prohibits the aerial and ground application of malathion and certain pyrethroid-based insecticides.
Enacts the "natural gas roadway excavation safety act" relating to workers on excavations.
Requires the installation and testing of fire protection systems at pet stores.
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.
Relates to providing broadband and fiber optic services; requires the public service commission to determine the status of broadband and fiber optic services in New York state; provides that the commission shall require construction or installation of broadband and fiber optic services by an internet service provider in communities in which broadband and fiber optic services are determined to be absent, insufficient, or inadequate.
Directs the superintendent of financial services to promulgate rules and regulations limiting the use of credit scores to determine automobile insurance premiums.