Relates to primary elections and amends certain deadlines to facilitate the timely transmission of ballots to military voters stationed overseas; relates to filling vacancies in elective offices; relates to the date of primary elections.
Sen. James Skoufis
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Establishes a commission to study the European Union's general protection data regulation and the current state of cyber security in the state.
Provides that medical marihuana made be used for a condition, or symptom or complication of the condition or its treatment, for which, in the practitioner's professional opinion and review of past treatments, the patient is likely to receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from primary or adjunctive treatment.
Enacts the "construction insurance transparency act" to require insurers providing coverage for liability under the scaffold law to report, on an annual basis, to the superintendent of financial services relating to its finances and claims paid thereunder.
Relates to certified public accountants.
Provides that the attorney - client privilege shall apply to communications between a lawyer referral service and a client.
Proposes the removal of pension and retirement benefits from persons convicted of certain felonies.
Relates to the operating permit program from sources subject to the federal Clean Air Act; provides that permits shall not authorize the start up of a facility with any fuel other than the primary fuel.
Classifies emergency medical services as essential services for the purposes of state aid.
Relates to certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero emissions vehicles; authorizes 20 certificates with at least five to be located in certain upstate regions.