Relates to establishing the housing access voucher program; provides that the commissioner of the division of housing and community renewal shall implement a program of rental assistance in the form of housing vouchers for eligible individuals and families who are homeless or who face an imminent loss of housing; provides that the commissioner shall designate public housing agencies in the state to administer the program.
Sen. Andrew Gounardes
Sponsored bills
Establishes standards for caseloads for child protective services workers; requires the state to pay for one hundred percent of the costs associated with compliance of such caseload standard; makes related provisions.
Establishes the "Dominic Murray sudden cardiac arrest prevention act"; directs the commissioners of education and health to establish rules and regulations for the treatment and monitoring of students of school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools who exhibit signs or symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest.
Relates to increasing membership on the board of the metropolitan transportation authority, including members representative of commuters' advisory councils.
Relates to allowing for students in certain postsecondary education experience or transition programs to receive awards from the tuition assistance program.
Authorizes the beneficiaries of a member of the state and local employees' retirement system who died after filing a retirement application to choose pension benefits rather than a death benefit.
Relates to providing death benefits for correction officers employed by Nassau county.
Relates to death benefits for correction officers employed by Suffolk county.
Relates to disability retirement for members of the department of environmental conservation, forest rangers, university police officers and the regional state park police.
Provides accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs in Nassau county; provides that the annual retirement allowance payable upon accidental disability retirement shall be a pension of three-quarters of final average salary.