Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan.
Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment and complex rehabilitation technology fee schedule for the same service or item.
Maddy summaryThis bill simplifies enrollment and recertification processes for Medicaid recipients in New York, particularly those requiring long-term care. It mandates that eligible individuals who have not chosen a managed care plan after 120 days of need be automatically assigned to one based on factors like quality and location. Additionally, the law allows people to confirm their financial resources without submitting new documentation if their situation has not changed, and it establishes automatic recertification for specific groups, such as those receiving fixed Social Security income or Medicare savings. While these changes aim to reduce administrative burdens, recipients must still report significant changes in their income or circumstances, and the bill includes provisions for hearings if eligibility is later denied.
Maddy summaryThis bill extends the deadline for a special death benefit for public employees who died from COVID-19 until July 31, 2025. It directly affects the families of public sector workers, including teachers and police officers, who passed away due to the virus. Under the law, if a public employee dies from COVID-19 within this extended timeframe, their family can choose to receive a higher accidental death benefit instead of the standard death benefit. The bill allows medical professionals to certify the cause of death based on reasonable medical certainty, and it applies to various retirement and education systems across the state.
Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants upon a youth; provides for the police officer to make a reasonable effort to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth or with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth; amends provisions relating to sexually exploited children to include persons under the age of nineteen.
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2024; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
Relates to owner liability for failure of an operator to comply with street cleaning parking rules; relates to access to records prepared pursuant to street cleaning parking rules.
Relates to responsibility for cable bills after a disconnection or downgrade in service; provides that customers requesting a disconnection or downgrade in service shall only be liable for services incurred up to the date the disconnection or downgrade is effective.
Requires that any penalties for violations of housing standards or building and fire codes be assessed and imposed within fourteen days; increases certain fine amounts for violations of housing standards.
Authorizes the commissioner of labor and the workers' compensation board to issue stop-work orders; establishes procedure for the issuance of such orders; establishes penalties for failure to comply with such orders.
