Establishes the New York state business contract database containing names of persons who have contracts with the state for the procurement of goods, services or construction that are not awarded through a competitive bid process; prohibits candidates or political committees from receiving certain contributions.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires all New York municipalities to create online programs allowing ordinary citizens ("bystanders") to report suspected stolen, false, or fraudulent license plates. Municipalities must provide clear guidelines for submitting reports, including vehicle details (make, model, color, plate number) and expected investigation timelines. Bystanders who provide new evidence leading to a conviction receive 25% of the resulting fine. The law applies to all cities, towns, villages, and counties outside New York City, directing them to establish these programs by a specific deadline.
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.
Establishes clean energy goals of reducing the annual total of vehicle miles traveled within the state by 20% by the year 2050; requires state and local highway projects to comply with reductions to vehicle miles traveled targets.
Maddy summaryS 1439 (New York) imposes a new tax on investment income from long-term capital gains, dividends, and other low-taxed federal income types. It directly affects high-income New York residents with significant investment earnings, targeting individuals and estates with taxable income above specific thresholds. The bill adds a 7.5% tax on long-term capital gains above $400,000-$500,000 (depending on filing status), gradually increasing to 15% above $800,000-$1 million. This tax phases in over defined income ranges and is administered like existing state income tax. The bill is currently referred to the Budget and Revenue committee.
Aligns utility regulation with state climate justice and emission reduction targets; provides for a statewide affordable gas transition plan and utility home energy affordable transition programs; repeals provisions relating to continuation of gas service; repeals provisions relating to the sale of indigenous natural gas for generation of electricity.
Establishes the Brooklyn-Queens expressway authority for the purposes of the continuance, further development and improvement of transportation along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and other services related thereto.
Maddy summaryBill S 7498 establishes a legal process for proving the existence and contents of a lifetime trust that has been lost or destroyed. This directly affects individuals who have created trusts, their beneficiaries, and trustees, by providing a mechanism to validate the trust's terms even without the original document. To do so, the trust's execution must be proven, it must not have been revoked, and its provisions must be established either through a copy or by identifying the designated trustee, beneficiaries, dispositive provisions, and transferred assets. The bill also sets out presumptions regarding execution and revocation, assigns burdens of proof, and specifies who must be notified during such a proceeding.
Requires merchants to accept cash as payment for goods and services; permits the superintendent of financial services to provide exemptions based on certain criteria.
