Sen. Rob Rolison

Maddy summaryThis Senate Resolution commemorates the 100th birthday of Dorothy Bolden, honoring her lifelong advocacy for domestic workers. The bill recognizes her role in founding the National Domestic Workers Union of America and her influence on the creation of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. It formally acknowledges her legacy by pausing legislative proceedings to celebrate her contributions and sending a copy of the resolution to the New York chapter of the organization.

Maddy summaryThis bill is a Senate resolution that formally acknowledges the death of Judge Langston McKinney, a Syracuse City Court judge and U.S. veteran. The text honors his life by detailing his career as a lawyer, his military service, and his judicial work, which included establishing a community treatment court for nonviolent defendants. It also notes his legacy through the naming of McKinney Manor in his honor. The resolution concludes by directing a copy of the document to McKinney's family.

Maddy summaryThis bill requires local public housing authorities to give domestic violence survivors the same priority on waiting lists as other vulnerable groups, such as the disabled, elderly, and homeless. To qualify for this priority, a survivor must either still be living in a home where violence continues or have left their home due to violence and not yet moved into standard permanent replacement housing. Once a survivor qualifies, the bill mandates that if multiple applicants share the same priority status, they will be selected strictly based on the date and time their applications were received. The law applies immediately to any housing authority as soon as a new person is added to their waiting list.

Maddy summaryThis bill ensures that individuals with a history of ovarian cancer cannot be denied access to specific genetic and tumor profiling tests. It directly affects current and past ovarian cancer patients by guaranteeing their right to undergo these screenings without restrictions on how often they can be performed. The law mandates that health care providers cover testing for mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, Lynch syndrome, and other relevant genetic markers deemed medically necessary. By removing frequency caps and other limitations, the legislation aims to facilitate comprehensive health monitoring for this specific patient group.

Maddy summaryThis bill eliminates the fees for lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for New York residents who are honorably discharged disabled veterans. Specifically, it waives the cost for eligible veterans with a service-connected disability of 40 percent or more, provided they received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable. The law also extends this fee waiver to discharged LGBTQ veterans who meet the same disability and discharge criteria. By removing these financial barriers, the legislation directly affects disabled veterans and their families, allowing them to access outdoor recreational privileges without paying the standard lifetime license fees.

Relates to emergency medical services; establishes a special district for the financing and operation of general ambulance services; provides for a statewide comprehensive emergency medical system plan.

Establishes a uniform ambulance assessment fee on the annual revenues of certain ambulance services to be expended for increasing medical assistance payment rates for ambulance services.

Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses; removes the time limit to bring subsequent sexual offenses.

Authorizes one or more individuals who are under a shared contract to opt-out of such contract without a fee, penalty or charge due to status as a domestic violence victim; prohibits the company from transferring any contractual or billing responsibility of such shared contract to any other account holders on such shared contract; prevents companies from prohibiting a person who has opted-out due to domestic violence status to enter into a new contract.

Provides that for taxable years beginning on and after January first, two thousand twenty-four, a resident taxpayer who serves as an active volunteer firefighter or as a volunteer ambulance worker shall be allowed a credit against the tax imposed equal to eight hundred dollars; provides for a real property tax exemption under certain circumstances to an enrolled member of an incorporated volunteer fire company, fire department or incorporated voluntary ambulance service residing in such city, village, town, school district, special district, fire district or county.