Relates to eliminating the special taxing jurisdiction's option to apply agricultural assessments regardless of location or time of establishment.
Sen. Pat Fahy
Sponsored bills
Enacts the farmworkers fair labor practices act: grants collective bargaining rights to farm laborers; requires employers of farm laborers to allow at least 24 consecutive hours of rest each week; provides for an 8 hour work day for farm laborers; requires overtime rate at one and one-half times normal rate; makes provisions of unemployment insurance law applicable to farm laborers; provides sanitary code shall apply to all farm and food processing labor camps intended to house migrant workers, regardless of the number of occupants; provides for eligibility of farm laborers for workers' compensation benefits; requires employers of farm laborers to provide such farm laborers with claim forms for workers' compensation claims under certain conditions; requires reporting of injuries to employers of farmworkers.
Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought i.e. grief and anguish; loss of love, society, protection, comfort, companionship and consortium; reasonable funeral expenses; reasonable expenses for medical care, treatment etc. prior to death; pecuniary injuries due to loss of services, support, inheritance; and loss of nurture, guidance or education.
Provides that an employer's unemployment experience rating account shall not be charged for a claimant whose employment was terminated as the result of the return of an employee after family leave.
Authorizes the common council of the city of Albany, as the local legislative body, to establish the fee charged for issuance of birth and death records.
Directs the office of children and family services to study, make recommendations on and report on child day care and the availability of funding therefor.
Relates to the regulation of transportation network company services; establishes the New York State TNC Accessibility Task Force; and establishes the local transit assistance fund.
Relates to enhancing the state's flood mitigation and coastal resiliency activities; establishes a restriction on alienation.
Provides for the certification of psychologists to prescribe drugs.
Relates to the operator of a vehicle overtaking a bicycle from behind; not less than three feet distance.