Establishes the teachers' fossil fuel divestment act; requires the New York state teachers' retirement system to divest the retirement system of any stocks, securities, equities, assets, or other obligations of corporations or companies included on an exclusion list of coal producers and oil and gas producers.
Sen. Pete Harckham
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Establishes the right to legal counsel in immigration court proceedings; provides for the administration thereof.
Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status.
Relates to funding for emergency management services for certain counties with non-operational nuclear power plants.
Relates to unlawful discriminatory practices by government agencies relating to persons recovering from alcohol and/or substance abuse.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for procedures relating to the diagnosis and treatment of uterine fibroids and related conditions, including pain, discomfort and infertility resulting therefrom.
Provides the Board of Regents with final approval authority over all proposed and renewed charter schools.
Limits robocalls to state residents; requires telephone service providers to offer free call mitigation technology to telephone customers.
Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of an application, having a license as a registered professional nurse, having the appropriate educational requirements and paying the fifty dollar initial certification fee and the triennial thirty dollar registration fee.
Requires the director of information technology services to undertake a detailed study of the comparative qualities of cloud computing services and state data center operations.