Enacts "Melanie's law"; relates to orders of protection; allows courts to issue orders of protection for immediate family members or household members of the named victims, regardless of age.
Maddy summaryThis bill authorizes local election boards to set up secure drop boxes where voters can return their completed absentee ballots in person. The law requires these boards to post the locations of the drop boxes on their websites and gives the state board the power to create rules ensuring the boxes are secure and properly managed. Additionally, the bill clarifies that ballots deposited in these boxes before the close of polls on election day are considered timely, even if they lack a postal service postmark. This change aims to provide another convenient method for voters to submit their ballots while maintaining specific security and timing standards.
Directs the commissioner to publicly publish an annual report on the environmental radiation surveillance program and analyze such report showing trends and cumulative impact, as well as notify other relevant agencies if contamination has exceeded EPA standards for maximum amounts of contamination allowed in drinking water or food.
Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge the demographic and cultural differences in rural communities; makes related provisions.
Enacts the "New York wildlife crossing act"; directs the department of transportation and the New York state thruway authority to identify sites along all highways, thruways and parkways in the state where wildlife crossings are most needed to increase public safety and improve habitat connectivity and create a priority list of wildlife opportunity areas where federal grant monies may be available to implement the top five projects identified.
Ensures that color vision requirements for appointment of police officers are tailored to only eliminate individuals with extreme color vision deficiencies from eligibility; provides methods under which an individual can meet such requirements after failing to meet an initial color vision standard.
Maddy summaryThis bill creates a new Alzheimer's disease outreach and education program within the state's public health system. It directs health officials to identify dementia cases in hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities while expanding community support services like caregiver groups and respite care. The program will also provide resources and information on dementia-related matters to the public. The legislation becomes effective approximately six months after the governor signs it into law.
Maddy summaryThis bill creates a new stakeholder group in the Oswego River Basin to help coordinate how water is released during high-flow events. The group would include entities that control floodwater discharges, community representatives, environmental officials, and experts to review current flood management strategies. Within six months of forming, the group must recommend a regulatory approach to improve communication and water release coordination, such as expanding the stakeholder group, mandating legislative coordination, or creating a new water regulating district. The legislation directly affects organizations and agencies responsible for managing floodwaters in the basin and their tributaries.
Allows the city of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, to impose a two percent hotel and motel tax upon persons occupying hotel or motel rooms in such city.
Maddy summaryThis bill updates the rules for how physician assistants practice medicine in New York, specifically changing limits on how many they can work under one doctor and clarifying their ability to write medical orders in hospitals. It increases the maximum number of physician assistants a private practice physician can supervise from four to six and raises the limit for those working with the Department of Corrections from six to eight. The legislation also expands the specific medical tests and treatments physician assistants can prescribe and order, such as tests for HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19, while maintaining the requirement that they work under a supervising physician. Additionally, it requires hospital-based physician assistants to be able to write inpatient medical orders immediately without needing a countersignature before the order takes effect. Finally, the bill mandates that records of all prescriptions filled by physician assistants be kept for at least five years.
