Requires not-for-profit corporations have a board of directors which reflects the ethnic demographics of the communities that they serve to be able to receive state funds.
Sen. Kevin Parker
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Relates to the creation of an annual report on the race and ethnic data of individuals who have taken a civil service examination.
Allows a person acting as de facto parent to apply to the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus to have a minor child brought before the court.
Creates the anti-SLAPP act.
Changes the name of the walkway over the Hudson bridge to the Eleanor Roosevelt Walkway.
Authorizes the commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
Relates to requiring a digital equity officer be appointed by the director of the office of information technology services to develop, oversee and assist in providing statewide broadband access.
Relates to the siting of the New York state Martin Luther King, Jr. institute for nonviolence at Medgar Evers college.
Establishes a peer support program for veterans.
Includes rape in the third degree, rape in the second degree and rape in the first degree as family offenses.