Provides for eligibility for medical assistance for personal care services for persons with traumatic brain injury, developmental disability, cognitive impairments, blindness or visual impairment.
Sen. John Liu
Sponsored bills
Provides that the judge shall not prohibit a parent from undergoing gender reassignment.
Provides for increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women-owned business enterprises; relates to certain performance and payment bond requirements.
Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.
Provides for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers.
Repeals the requirement that applicants must pass an examination in order to qualify as a licensed master social worker.
Relates to the requirement that hearings for traffic infractions shall be conducted in person.
Relates to annual professional performance reviews of teachers and principals; establishes an optional system of annual professional performance review plans; repeals provisions relating to streamlined removal procedures for teachers rated ineffective.
Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.
Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: (i) identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; (ii) initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; (iii) identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; (iv) identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; (v) public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and (vi) any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.