Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
Provides that immediate injunctive relief, restraining orders, or cease and desist orders may be sought in certain cases involving voter intimidation, deception or obstruction that affects the right of voters to access the elective franchise.
Maddy summaryS 8904 extends the maximum lease term for BOCES (Boards of Cooperative Educational Services) properties from 10 to 20 years when leasing to non-public entities, while keeping a 10-year limit for public entities. Key provisions require commissioner approval for leases exceeding 10 years, mandate fair market value pricing, and demand conflict of interest disclosures. The bill also allows lease renewals up to 10 years with commissioner consent. These changes apply specifically to BOCES agreements for educational facilities and administrative offices.
Provides that beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, certain graduate students shall be required to pay 25% of all current and future mandatory university fees; provides that in the 2027-2028 academic year and thereafter, no mandatory university fees shall be charged to certain graduate students and adjunct staff, with the exclusion of the graduate student association student activity fee.
Maddy summaryThis bill changes election law to require that election commissioners serving on boards outside New York City must be full-time employees of those boards. It sets a minimum of two full-time commissioners per board, with counties having over 120,000 residents allowed to increase this to four via local law. Political parties must be eligible to recommend an equal number of commissioners for appointment. The bill directly affects election boards in upstate counties and the commissioners who serve on them. It takes effect immediately upon passage.
Maddy summaryThis bill would expand family leave protections to include employees who are recovering from a stillbirth. It directly affects workers who experience pregnancy loss by adding stillbirth recovery to the list of qualifying reasons for taking unpaid leave under the state's workers' compensation law. The key provision amends existing definitions to allow employees to take leave during the first twelve months after a stillbirth, treating it similarly to leave taken to bond with a newborn child. The bill would take effect 90 days after becoming law if it were to pass both legislative chambers.
Establishes the native/pollinator planting fund and the pollinator highway program; creates a distinctive native plant and pollinator license plate with the goal of promoting the cultivation and maintenance of native flowering plants, grasses and shrubs on land bordering state highways and on other public lands.
Prohibits a property owner from enforcing or adopting a restriction that prohibits one or more religious items from being displayed or affixed on any entry door or entry doorframe of a dwelling.
Maddy summaryThis bill requires adult care facilities to include an independent review of their financial statements, ensuring the documents accurately reflect the facility's financial operations and position. The requirement applies to facilities with more than nine residents, while smaller facilities with nine or fewer beds are exempt from this rule. Although the bill initially proposed a full "opinion" from an accountant, a substitute version now specifies a "review" performed according to established accounting standards. The legislation also allows the state department to request a full opinion from any facility if they determine it is necessary for oversight purposes.
Relates to notifying an insured of a rate filing increase or decrease for long term care; provides such notification shall include instructions on how to submit comments on such rate filing.
