Prohibits health care practitioners from performing a virginity examination or supervising the performance of a virginity examination on a patient; defines "virginity examination".
Relates to the retention of state records; repeals provisions relating to rules and regulations governing access to state legislative records; repeals provisions relating to executive records; repeals provisions relating to information confidentially disclosed by applicants.
Maddy summaryS 3631 allows New York cities and counties to create their own local anti-discrimination laws and establish human rights commissions to enforce them. These local laws can address discrimination occurring within a city or county, and also cover discrimination by New York residents or businesses operating in the state, even if the discriminatory act happened outside the local area. The bill requires human rights commissions to include diverse members and handle complaints about discrimination based on factors like race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. It also ensures that local anti-discrimination laws can be enforced by anyone, including non-residents, when the discriminatory conduct occurred within the local jurisdiction.
Prohibits the use of unmarked police vehicles, concealed identity police vehicles, including police vehicles which use ghost graphics, and undercover police officers for routine traffic enforcement.
Suspends all unnecessary travel to states that have discriminatory laws for access to women's reproductive health services, including but not limited to, limitations on access to abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
Provides for unpaid leave of absence for victims of domestic violence; permits victims of domestic violence to take an unpaid leave of absence for twenty days from employment to address on-going domestic violence; defines "address on-going domestic violence"; contains provision to protect the individual's job position and benefits.
Prohibits new cannabis dispensaries from opening up within five hundred feet of other licensed cannabis dispensaries; provides an exception if the location of such premises is in the public interest.
Establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment; provides employers shall be vicariously liable for such work environment.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires medical examiners and coroners to indicate on death certificates when alcohol was a factor in a death, including any additional information the health commissioner specifies. It directly affects those who complete death certificates, mandating a specific notation for cases involving alcohol. The change applies to all deaths where alcohol contributed to the cause, without altering existing laws or creating new penalties.
Provides notice of the death of an incarcerated individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision; requires the department to promptly notify the next kin and any other person designated as the representative of any incarcerated individual whose death takes place during custody.
