Requires foster care records of incarcerated individuals to be sent to the correctional facility.
Sen. Cordell Cleare
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Relates to establishing a private right of action for tenants alleging a failure to keep and maintain self-closing doors; allows for a court to award compensatory damages, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs and issue an order to the owner of the building to remedy any issue with such doors.
Requires a separate section in the annual report of the director of the division of minority and women's business development detailing every instance of an entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned business enterprise when it was not.
Requires notice to unemployment applicants of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children; requires the department of health to create an outreach program for WIC.
Establishes a cause of action for fertility fraud; allows patients who have undergone assisted reproduction procedures to bring a cause of action if human reproductive material other than that which was consented to by the patient is used in such procedure; allows for compensatory and punitive damages.
Relates to commencing a study on the relationship between the corrections system and the child welfare system.
Directs the division of housing and community renewal to conduct a study on alternatives to the affordable New York housing program by investigating new models and partnerships to provide affordable housing to residents of the state.
Relates to net energy metering for fuel-flexible linear generator electric generating equipment.
Establishes the "New York public banking act"; authorizes municipal and other local governments to form and control public banks through the ownership of capital stock or other ownership interests, and to loan or grant public funds or lend public credit to such public banks for the public purposes of achieving cost savings, strengthening local economies, supporting community economic development, and addressing infrastructure and housing needs for localities.