Establishes tiers of essential employees during a state of emergency and designates categories of employees in each tier.
Sen. Andrew Gounardes
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Provides for the pension benefits for first grade police officers of the city of New York who have served for 25 or 30 years.
Requires hate crime awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts.
Establishes a COVID-19 emergency rental assistance program; implements a program of rental assistance in the form of emergency vouchers for eligible individuals or families; defines terms.
Enacts the New York City truth in budgeting act to require notice and a public hearing prior to an increase in the real property tax levy greater than two percent over the prior year.
Relates to providing cost-of-living adjustments; increases benefits from fifty to one hundred percent.
Relates to allowing certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund to receive a membership date in such fund attributable to service in the titles of police cadet program or police cadet program II in the New York city police department cadet program.
Establishes an educational program related to the prevention of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia bias and discrimination based on religion, race, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
Provides that school districts, including the city school district of the city of New York, are entited to an apportionment of state aid for the closure of schools due in response to the novel coronavirus.
Establishes the "protect our privacy (POP) act" to impose limitations on the use of drones for law enforcement purposes; prohibits the use of drones by law enforcement at concerts, protests, demonstrations, or other actions protected by the first amendment and requires a search warrant prior to using a drone for law enforcement purposes.