Ensures that step therapy shall not apply to medically necessary prescription drugs in the dermatologic, hematology, ophthalmologic, rheumatic, gastrointestinal, neurology, and oncology therapeutic classes, including non-formulary drugs.
Specifies watershed protection improvement districts may work towards the preservation of development rights.
Requires operators of bicycles, skateboards, inline skates and scooters who are under eighteen years of age to wear protective headgear; increases the age requirement from fourteen years to eighteen years.
Establishes the civil right to counsel in eviction proceedings in New York state; creates the New York state office of civil representation; requires that covered individuals be given notice of such right to counsel.
Allows for unlicensed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and to perform certain nursing tasks during a state disaster emergency.
Makes town assessors an appointed position statewide; ends elections for town assessors.
Relates to the operating permit program from sources subject to the federal Clean Air Act and power plant emissions and performance standards.
Requires disclosure, in such form as the superintendent shall require, of non-confidential information regarding step therapy override requests and determinations on a website that is readily accessible to the public.
Disallows county industrial development agencies from offering incentives in municipalities which have their own industrial development agency.
Provides that a fentanyl analogue shall be deemed to be a schedule I opiate.
