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. Michelle Hinchey
Sponsored bills
Enacts the "public university emergency contraception education act" requiring public universities to develop, produce and distribute informational materials related to emergency contraception.
Enacts the safer consumption services pilot program act which provides for the establishment of a pilot program to provide overdose prevention center pilot programs.
Provides access to menstrual products in toilet facilities in public buildings determined to be opened to the public; requires reporting.
Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband services; provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
Provides for a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars for each offense committed, or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment for a class A misdemeanor where a stretch limousine has failed an inspection but an operator still operates such vehicle; provides for the seizure and redemption of unlawfully operated and unsafe commercial motor vehicles by an officer; requires such vehicle information to be entered into the New York statewide police information network as an impounded vehicle; makes related provisions.
Requires stretch limousines to be equipped with roll-over protection devices such as cages or pillars and anti-intrusion bars for the purpose of protecting rear compartment passengers.
Extends the excelsior jobs program and certain incentives for medical equipment projects within such program.
Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.