Sen. Cordell Cleare

Maddy summaryThis bill establishes regional minimum hourly payment rates that Medicaid must reimburse home care providers for services delivered to Medicaid patients. It directly affects home care agencies and providers employing aides covered by minimum wage laws, requiring rates to cover all direct care costs - including base wages, overtime, benefits, taxes, and mandated programs like COVID-19 sick pay. The commissioner must set these rates regionally based on cost factors, adjust them annually for labor law changes, and publish them publicly. Oversight includes comptroller reviews of managed care contracts to ensure rates meet the minimum standards.

Requires businesses that allow automatic renewals, continuous service offers, and automatic subscription renewals to provide notice regarding cancelling such renewals, services, or subscriptions.

Maddy summarySenate Bill S 7656 requires real estate appraisers to complete implicit bias training as part of their continuing education for license renewal. The bill mandates that, out of the 28 hours of instruction required every two years for recertification or license renewal, at least four hours must be dedicated to implicit bias awareness and understanding. It defines "implicit bias" as unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual's understanding, actions, and decisions. This training requirement directly affects all licensed real estate appraisers.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires exterior cages for air conditioners installed in apartment buildings and other multiple-dwelling properties. It directly affects building owners and managers who install AC units on exterior walls, mandating protective cages unless the unit is fully inside a dwelling unit or already secured by a window sleeve. The law exempts existing installations meeting those criteria and takes effect 90 days after enactment. It focuses solely on physical installation standards, with no mention of enforcement details or cost impacts.

Establishes that areas containing lead-contaminated soil shall have the levels of lead contamination decreased to 300 ppm for residential areas and 1,000 ppm for commercial areas.

Relates to tax on sales of motor fuel and petroleum products and makes conforming changes; repeals provisions relating to manufacturing gallonage for purposes of the imposition of certain taxes; repeals provisions relating to reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to a utility credit or reimbursement; repeals provisions relating to an aviation fuel business which services four or more cities; repeals provisions relating to services rendered with respect to certain property; repeals provisions relating to fuel sold to an airline for use in its airplanes.

Requires the New York city housing authority, in reviewing applicants, to grant domestic violence victims the same preference as granted to any other class of applicants.

Establishes school based health centers to be organized through school, community, and health provider relationships and provide services in keeping with state and local laws and regulations, as well as established medical standards, and best practices.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires school districts to create detailed site maps for emergency response as part of school safety plans. The maps must include floor plans, school grounds layouts, road maps of surrounding areas, and specific labels like hazardous materials locations, with features like true north orientation, grid coordinates, and compatibility with existing law enforcement software. Districts must verify map accuracy through initial and annual building walkthroughs. The bill also establishes funding eligibility through school building aid for approved mapping costs, ensuring schools don't need to purchase new software to share these maps with emergency responders.

Requires all public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program as provided in the national child nutrition act to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the student.