Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins
Sponsored bills
Establishes the community schools act; authorizes the commissioner to award grants for community schools programming; appropriates funds therefor.
Requires landlords to furnish each tenant either renewing or entering into a lease with a rider describing the rights and duties of landlords and tenants; further requires the rider to conform to the intent of section 5-702 of the general obligations law.
Aids in the transition to adulthood for children with medical fragility living in pediatric nursing homes and other settings.
Provides for inclusion of the school district's regional cost index in calculating the supplemental education improvement plan grant amount for Yonkers city school district.
Prohibits the termination of tenancy in housing occupied by substantially all persons over sixty-five years of age and/or persons with disabilities without cause; prohibits increasing rent more than one percent above the percentage change.
Provides for the trustees of the state university of New York to establish a four-year college of engineering and applied sciences in the city of Yonkers within the state university system.
Requires schools to provide instruction on the history of the Ukrainian Genocide-Holodomor of 1932 to 1933.