Sen. Sue Serino

Directs the superintendent of financial services, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to study the relationship between patient access to care and treatment of Lyme disease and health insurance coverage.

Directs the public service commission in consultation with NYSERDA to conduct a full cost benefit analysis of the technical and economic feasibility of renewable energy systems in the state of New York and to compare such directly with other methods of electricity generation within nine months after the effective date and every four years thereafter.

Establishes the veterans' services law and the department of veterans' services; replaces all instances of the term "division of veterans' services" with the term "department of veterans' services".

Establishes a joint commission on public transparency and sexual harassment to adopt, amend and rescind rules and regulations defining sexual harassment for state agencies, offices, and branches of government and develop recommendations for the uniform distribution of such definitions and policies, and to receive complaints and referrals alleging violations by certain state officials.

Excludes from state income tax up to $10,200 of unemployment compensation benefits earned by a resident of the state.

Designates public lewdness as public lewdness in the fourth degree and establishes the class A misdemeanor of public lewdness in the third degree and the class E felony of public lewdness in the second degree for committing public lewdness in the third degree after having been previously convicted of such offense within the preceding ten years; establishes the class D felony of public lewdness in the first degree for committing public lewdness in the third degree and such crime is committed at a time or place where a child under the age of 14 is likely to be present; provides for a permanent disqualification from being a school bus driver upon conviction of public lewdness in the first, second or third degree; designates public lewdness in the first degree as a sex offense for purposes of sex offender registration.

Directs the commissioner of labor and the commissioner of health to conduct a labor market study of the home care and hospice workforce; establishes a temporary labor task force for home care and hospice services and occupations to examine and make recommendations regarding competitive labor market factors, reimbursement, programs and other state policy actions necessary to support recruitment and retention of the home care and hospice workforce in the broader, competitive health labor market.

Relates to the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Relates to adding the Saw Kill and the Fall Kill located in Dutchess county to the definition of inland waterways as a major creek in order to make such waterway eligible for funding through the waterfront revitalization program.

Relates to the practice of applied behavior analysis.