Requires capital program plans of the MTA to include specific, detailed steps to be taken to increase station accessibility until such time as one hundred percent accessibility of stations is achieved; sets out certain goals and targets for improvements.
Sen. Andrew Gounardes
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Requires the joint commission on public ethics to update complainants on the status of investigations.
Enacts the New York State Iran divestment act; provides for sanctions against the financial and energy sectors of Iran unless a duly executed treaty is approved by two-thirds of the United States Senate.
Relates to granting salary protection for provisional and temporary employees.
Relates to state agency websites; mobile friendly websites.
Prohibits sexual harassment by employers.
Requires state police to carry and offer use of jumper cables to disabled vehicles.
Includes hate crimes as a qualifying offense for the purposes of a court's determination to release the principal pending trial on the principal's own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or, where the defendant is charged with a qualifying offense which is a felony, the court may commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff.
Relates to accidental disability retirement for deputy sheriffs; provides that deputy sheriffs shall receive a pension of three-quarters of their final average salary.
Eliminates the Manhattan resident parking tax exemption and increases the car registration fee for cars registered to residents of Manhattan.