Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety; requires the court to appoint an attorney to represent the child when credible allegations of serious risk to the child's safety have been made.
Sen. Shelley Mayer
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Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment and infrastructure; requires public utilities to have infrastructure, capacity, facilities, and transmission and distribution systems needed to supply power for the charging of zero-emission buses and provides a tariff for charging of electric buses.
Provides for joint and survivorship accounts, provides that absent indication to the contrary, funds remaining in such an account upon the death of the depositor shall be deemed part of the depositor's estate.
Requires the deactivation of transportation network company drivers upon a substantiated report of a covered incident; relates to additional safety requirements for vehicles engaged in the transportation of passengers; requires companies that provide digital networks for prearranged transportation services to provide a system of interactive electronic match verification for passengers; establishes the crimes of impersonation of a transportation network company driver in the first and second degrees.
Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost.
Exempts the town of Pound Ridge from the establishment of retail dispensary licenses and on-site consumption licenses for cannabis, provided that the town adopts a local law prohibiting the establishment of such licenses.
Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.
Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.