Relates to establishing a product stewardship program for primary batteries.
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment.
Declares a policy of equal treatment of people of all races, cultures, religions, incomes, education levels and sexual preference in the development and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.
Prohibits the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape.
Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship pilot program; grants awards for the purpose of enhancing opportunities for higher education for children and young adults receiving foster care services in New York.
Requires animal shelters that receive state funding to annually report on intake and disposition of animals; such reports shall be available to the public.
Creates the non-partisan legislative budget office; directs such office shall provide information to legislative committees of the senate and assembly with respect to the state budget, appropriation bills and other bills providing budget authority or tax expenditures; requires such office to report to the temporary president of the senate, the senate minority leader, the speaker of the assembly and the assembly minority leader.
Requires school district superintendents to give notice of the termination of special therapy services sixty days prior to such termination.
Restricts the use of segregated confinement and creates alternative therapeutic and rehabilitative confinement options; limits the length of time a person may be in segregated confinement and excludes certain persons from being placed in segregated confinement.
Requires the commissioner to conduct a cost/benefit analysis of pharmaceutical advertising and promotional activities associated with the provision of prescription drugs to citizens in this state.
