Requires SUNY and CUNY schools with at least twenty-five percent of its undergraduate students living on campus to establish substance use recovery housing programs which shall include on-site counseling, mentoring, and peer support.
Sen. Pete Harckham
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Makes the contact details of department-approved education or training programs that offer competency exams to home health aides available on the department of health's website; amends effectiveness to 180 days.
Provides eligibility for services under the basic health program for individuals whose immigration status renders him or her ineligible for federal financial participation and who meet additional requirements.
Enacts provisions to provide minimum wages for home care aides; requires at least 150% of minimum wage or other set minimum; directs the commissioner of health to set regional minimum rates of reimbursement for home care aides under medicaid and managed care plans.
Requires narcan, naloxone or other approved medication to be included in overdose rescue kits on college and university campuses.
Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.
Establishes the previously owned zero emission vehicles rebate program to provide an incentive of an amount up to $2,000 for individuals who purchase used or previously owned zero emission vehicles.
Prohibits the idling of any passenger vehicle, with certain exceptions, for more than 3 consecutive minutes; establishes the first violation is a warning and subsequent violations of such section are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $150.
Exempts at home COVID-19 test kits from sales and compensating use taxes.
Relates to defining supermarket for the purposes of the supermarket excess edible food requirement to include the requirement that they generate an annual average of less than two tons per week of food scraps.