Prohibits a state party from using the word "Independent" or "Independence" in its name.
Prohibits certain provisions in health plan contracts including most-favored-nation provisions and restrictions on disclosure of actual claim costs, prices or quality in certain situations.
Allows physician assistants to serve as primary care practitioners for purposes of Medicaid managed care plans.
Directs the department of public service to prepare written reports on the effect the COVID-19 state of emergency has on certain utilities of electric, gas, water, wastewater, and telephone service to commercial and residential customers in the state and on the affordability of services.
Provides that the owner, lessor, proprietor or manager of any hotel, motel, steamboat, tourist cabins, camp, resort, tavern, inn, boarding or lodging house shall attempt to contact a guest if copies of identification documents are left after the guest has departed their stay; permits destruction of such documents if contact cannot be made.
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants; sets requirements for license and practice.
Relates to preferred source status for entities that provide employment to certain persons; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Authorizes the village of Highland Falls, in Orange county to adopt and amend local laws imposing a tax on persons occupying a room for hire in any hotel in an amount not to exceed 5% of the per diem rental rate for each room; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions on December 31, 2025.
Extends the hotel and motel tax in the town of Woodbury an additional three years.
Exempts applications for an extreme risk protection order from requiring an index number fee.
