Provides that a false representation of affiliation or approval, or false implication of such affiliation or approval, of any official, state or local agencies or other official source, shall be false advertising.
Sen. Andrew Gounardes
Sponsored bills
Requires at least one full-time guidance counselor to be employed in each elementary, intermediate, middle, junior and senior high school throughout the state; sets duties of guidance counselors.
Provides affordable and accessible dependent care options for working families by including qualified in-home and backup care expenditures paid or incurred with respect to the taxpayer's employees working in the state in the employer provided child care credit criteria; makes technical corrections to make such credit independent of the federal employer-provided child care credit.
Establishes the New York state pre-paid tuition plan by which a person may contribute to an account for the pre-payment of college tuition, tax free.
Prohibits eviction without good cause; sets forth grounds for removal of tenants.
Prohibits governmental entities from entering into agreements to house individuals in immigration detention facilities; requires governmental entities to terminate existing contracts for the detention of individuals in immigration detention facilities.
Requires employers to provide a written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any employee who has not been scheduled or offered work hours in the past seven days or offered work for the next seven day period.
Directs the MTA to establish a fare program which caps the amount of fares charged to riders during an applicable time period at the amount which represents the value of an unlimited fare card for the same time period.
Imposes an excise tax on the sale of ammunition to be deposited into the firearm violence intervention fund to help victims of and witnesses to violence.
Requires merchants to accept cash as payment for goods and services; permits the superintendent of financial services to provide exemptions based on certain criteria.