Establishes the office for an age-friendly New York; appoints a director of such office to assist and advise New York state agencies in developing age-friendly policies for older New Yorkers.
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.
Enacts the "Consumer and Small business Protection Act"; relates to standing for persons affected by prohibited or unlawful business practices; expands prohibited acts to include unfair, deceptive or abusive acts.
Protects people from civil arrest while within one thousand feet of a sensitive location, unless such civil arrest is supported by a judicial warrant or judicial order authorizing such civil arrest.
Repeals the Columbia University Education Mixed-Use Development Land Use Improvement and Civic Project Modified General Project Plan adopted by the empire state development corporation on December 18, 2008.
Maddy summaryS 7590 establishes an automatic application program for graduating New York high school students applying to State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) institutions. This program creates a centralized online account for each student, preloading their academic and demographic information. Students can review and choose to submit these pre-filled applications, and will receive estimated financial aid information before submission. Students who apply through this program and meet standards set by the department shall be accepted for admission, and can opt out at any time.
Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from the departments of environmental conservation and labor; provides that the purpose is to gather various environmental data to correlate with disease data; requires the cooperation of the state university of New York schools of public health at Albany and Buffalo.
Retroactively adjusts the compensation of formerly incarcerated individuals who were unjustly convicted; exempts such adjusted income from state income taxes.
Maddy summaryS 8498 requires providers of state-funded temporary shelters - including drop-in centers (offering daytime services like meals and showers without overnight stays), intake shelters (where people apply for housing), and emergency congregate housing (shared facilities for over 96 hours) - to provide free menstrual products like pads, tampons, and liners. The bill mandates that facilities supply an adequate number of products based on individual needs at no cost to users. It applies specifically to shelters receiving state or state-administered funding, including domestic violence shelters, homeless youth centers, and refugee safe houses. This policy directly ensures access to essential hygiene products for people using these critical support services.
Directs the department of environmental conservation to develop and implement a tree planting pilot program in the ten zip codes in the state with the highest incidence of asthma.
