Relates to providing only plastic or composite eating utensils at state correctional facilities for use in cafeterias, mess halls, canteens, commissaries, or any other dining facility located within.
Relates to eye and tissue donation; requires coroners to develop a protocol for making referrals of deaths that fall under their jurisdiction and occur outside of a hospital including calling the federally designated organ procurement organization for donor registry verification and a donor suitability determination.
Grants Sean O'Brien additional service credit with the New York state and local employees' retirement system for the period beginning January 16, 2003 and ending on May 23, 2003, for his enrollment in the Basic Course for Police Officers at the State University of New York College of Technology at Canton.
Exempts compensation for active military service from inclusion in a resident's adjusted gross income under certain circumstances.
Relates to creating the medical professionals across rural New York state student loan repayment fund pilot program for certain participating professionals that make a two year commitment to practice in a tract or county defined by the health resources and services administration as being rural or eligible for a rural health grant.
Relates to authorizing the use of electronic benefit transfer technology at community supported agriculture markets.
Relates to enacting the biomass fired exception program providing an exception for certain biomass fired electric generation facilities to the definition of a fossil fuel-fired facility for purposes of a CO2 budget trading program.
Amends the definition of all terrain vehicles to include certain vehicles of up to seventy inches long and 2400 pounds.
Allows registration of all terrain vehicles with a weight of no more than one thousand five hundred pounds, operated upon public highways connecting portions of a farm or farms, fields and agriculture buildings, and up to one-half mile from the vehicle owner's farm.
Requires that all comments and testimony made by a third party either in support or opposition in a parole hearing shall be considered when coming to a decision; adds provisions relating to confidentiality of victim statements.
