Enacts the "NY Cares Act".
Sen. Kevin Parker
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Relates to college admissions for persons previously convicted of one or more criminal offenses.
Provides that the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha shall be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York.
Provides information on where to seek help regarding sexual trauma in the military.
Creates the office of insurance consumer advocate within the department of financial services; provides that the office shall consist of five members; describes powers and duties; provides that such office be funded by an assessment upon domestic insurers and licensed U.S. branches of alien insurers domiciled in NYS.
Provides that residential buildings shall be deemed eligible buildings for the green building tax credit.
Relates to prohibiting bias-based profiling by state and local law enforcement officers.
Extends the workers' compensation board's authority to resolve medical bill disputes and simplify the process.
Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects.
Relates to a public awareness educational program on heroin; and makes an appropriation therefor.