Enacts the "community needs integrity act" and establishes the community need review commission.
Establishes a giving internships for disabled veterans not fully employed program (G.I.V.E Back NY); awards ten percent of available internships in the assembly youth participation program and the senate student program to eligible honorably discharged veterans with service connected disabilities.
Relates to the weight assigned to state-created or administered testing results for calculating the student performance category of teacher assessments.
Relates to student eligibility for a high school diploma upon passing either a regents competency test or regents examination in certain subjects.
Requires legislative approval of any increased fees, rental or charges for the use of the thruway; provides that any shortfalls in revenue resulting from a denied proposal shall be made whole by the general fund.
Increases the penalties for owners of dangerous dogs and subjects certain dangerous dog owners to further investigation.
Relates to licenses to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms; requires recordkeeping by the division of criminal justice services.
Adds elderly persons to disaster preparedness registries and creates a state emergency assistance database; provides that the disaster preparedness commission shall establish the state emergency assistance database; provides that all records relating to SEAD shall be confidential and the commission shall not be liable for any claim based upon a good faith exercise or performance of duty.
Enacts "Charlotte's Law"; relates to the permanent termination of licenses of persistent vehicle and traffic law violators who have been convicted of certain violations three times in a 25 year period.
Creates the child support work program for county jails for prisoners under a court order to pay child support who have accumulated support arrears equivalent to or greater than the amount of current support due for a period of four months; sheriff shall determine who shall participate in such program; work under such program shall be at the jail and not off-premises.
