Enacts the accessible electronic information act for blind and disabled persons; creates a new fund in the state finance law; authorizes a not-for-profit entity to administer the program.
Provides for notification to hospital patients upon intake of reports of hospital-acquired infections.
Provides for the application of veterans' real property tax exemptions in cities having a population of one million or more.
Exempts pet food from sales and compensating use taxes.
Prohibits a mandatory immunization against the novel coronavirus/COVID-19 for children, incapacitated persons, or students or staff of employment institutions or day care facilities; prohibits requiring people to carry or present evidence of having received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Authorizes certain organizations in a city of one million or more to be known as "fire patrols" under the not-for-profit corporation law; includes fire patrol vehicles as emergency vehicles under the vehicle and traffic law.
Expands the definition of aggravated harassment in the second degree to include harassing any MTA worker while performing their job duties.
Grants George Jensen an earlier starting date with the New York City Department of Sanitation of August 1, 2021 as his current start date is November 1, 2021 due to a clerical error.
Makes a crime while in or upon metropolitan transportation authority property an A-1 felony; provides sentencing guidelines for such crime.
Establishes an alternatively assessed student program in the New York City school district which allows one student, per school, per year, to be hired as a school aid in any public school within such district.
