Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal

Maddy summaryThis bill requires large group health insurance policies and contracts to cover the costs of pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis medications used to prevent HIV infection. Under the law, insurers may charge annual deductibles, coinsurance, or copayments for these drugs, provided the amounts are reasonable and consistent with costs for other benefits in the same plan. However, if the specific HIV prevention medication has received an 'A' or 'B' rating from the United States Preventive Services Task Force, it must be covered without these cost-sharing requirements. The legislation applies immediately to all insurance policies and contracts that are issued, renewed, or modified on or after the effective date.

Prohibits insurers from restricting or imposing delays in the distribution of antiretroviral prescription drugs prescribed to a person for the treatment or prevention of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Exempts a civil claim or cause of action revived pursuant to section two hundred fourteen-j of the civil practice law and rules from certain filing and notice requirements.

Relates to raising the tax abatement rate and extending certain deadlines for purposes of the green roof tax abatement for certain properties in a city of one million or more persons.

Establishes the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) For Kids Act prohibiting the provision of addictive feeds to minors by addictive social media platforms; establishes remedies and penalties.

Establishes the New York child data protection act to protect minors from having their personal data accessed; provides exceptions in certain circumstances.

Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; directs the department of labor to produce a model workplace violence prevention training program; requires employers to provide training on such programs; requires the installation of panic buttons at certain workplaces or wearable or mobile phone-based panic buttons to be provided.

Maddy summaryThis bill modifies the Court of Claims Act to let claimants fix errors in their legal filings, such as mistakes or missing information, without facing dismissal. It allows individuals to request permission to correct these good faith errors at any stage of a case, provided the other party is not harmed by the change. If the court approves the correction, the filing is treated as if it had been perfect from the start. This change directly affects people who file claims against the state and aims to reduce penalties for unintentional clerical mistakes in legal documents.

Prohibits the admissibility of evidence of a victim's sexual conduct, sexual predisposition, or manner of dress in civil actions or proceedings; provides limited exceptions.

Requires lithium batteries of less than 1 inch in diameter and products containing such batteries to be labeled with warnings that swallowing such batteries has been known to cause death.