Clarifies the extension of uniform land use review procedures to any not-for-profit organization or corporation proposing to provide shelters to the homeless irrespective of any declaration of an emergency or a finding of need for immediate action.
Sen. Andrew Lanza
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Establishes the class E felony of dissemination of false missing child information.
Establishes a claim for strict liability against the state for any injury caused by the administration of an immunization which is mandated by a state law; gives the court of claims the power and jurisdiction to hear such a claim.
Enacts "Cesar's law" to require the retaking of parolees who abscond from the supervision of the state board of parole.
Requires websites providing sex offender registry information to be searchable by the zip code of a registrant's employment.
Establishes distinctive "POW-MIA" license plates; establishes the "POW-MIA awareness fund" to fund POW-MIA public education and awareness campaigns and veteran services by Rolling Thunder New York chapters and upon approval by the state director of veterans' services.
Requires a mental health medical professional to examine incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement when such incarcerated individual is in such confinement for a period in excess of twenty-four hours.
Provides certain requirements for health care proxies and death certificates.
Removes the state sales tax on wireless telephone services; provides for a local option of imposing such taxes.
Establishes the crime of larceny of a controlled substance making it an A-II felony to steal more than 25 dosage units of a schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance from a pharmacy.