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.
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.
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.
Maddy summaryThis bill prohibits child care assistance programs from requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to qualify for support. By removing this earnings threshold, the legislation allows eligible families to receive child care aid regardless of their specific income level. The change applies immediately to parents and caretakers who meet other standard eligibility criteria for assistance.
Maddy summaryThis bill protects libraries in New York by prohibiting restrictive clauses in contracts between publishers and libraries regarding electronic books and audiobooks. It directly affects public, school, academic, and research libraries by ensuring they can license digital materials without limitations on core functions like lending, setting loan periods, or using technological protection measures. The legislation declares contracts containing these prohibited provisions unenforceable and allows libraries or the attorney general to seek legal remedies, including fines, against publishers who violate the rules.
Relates to establishing discount programs for low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; provides that utilities, waterworks corporations, telephone corporations and cable television companies shall create discount programs that provide a 10 percent discount to low-income senior citizens and individuals with a disability; defines terms.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires that medical services offered at school-based health centers be provided directly to eligible students rather than through managed care programs. It mandates that these specific services continue to operate outside of the standard managed care system used for medical assistance recipients. The change ensures that care delivered in schools bypasses the usual managed care structure, though the bill has been substituted by another version and remains under consideration.
Requires the commissioner of health to promulgate regulations requiring that the addition of, decertification of, or changes in the method of delivery of perinatal services by a general hospital be subject to an application under article 28 of the public health law that requires review and approval by the council.
