Dissolves the New York state thruway authority; transfers all functions, employees, records, authority, debts and obligations of such authority to the department of transportation.
Allows any qualified person to apply for voter registration and enrollment by application made with an application for any hunting or fishing license.
Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
Maddy summaryThis bill establishes New York as a participating state in the Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact (Part A) and the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact (Part B). It creates "multistate licenses" that allow registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPNs) licensed in New York to practice in other participating states without obtaining separate licenses, while maintaining accountability under the state where the patient is located. Key provisions include uniform licensing requirements, mutual recognition of licenses across states, and processes for sharing disciplinary information between states. The compact aims to reduce licensing barriers for nurses working across state lines while ensuring consistent public safety standards.
Eliminates bail for all offenses; provides for imposition of restrictions and conditions and remand for certain offenses; directs consideration of a defendant's character, reputation, habits, mental condition, activities and history, and whether they pose a danger to themselves, another person or the community, when determining a securing order; creates the commission on public safety reform to issue a determination on which offenses should be eligible for pretrial detention.
Creates the crime of unlawful dissemination or publication of discovery material; defines the circumstances under which a person is guilty of such crime; establishes that such crime is a class E felony.
Maddy summaryBill S 8022 authorizes the town of Dekalb in St. Lawrence County to reduce the maximum speed limit on a specific portion of United States Route 11. The town board of Dekalb may, by local law, establish new speed limits on this section, provided they are not less than 45 miles per hour. This authorization applies to the segment of US Route 11 beginning a quarter-mile north of the East Dekalb Road intersection and ending a quarter-mile south of the Hermon-DeKalb Central school athletic fields entrance. This allows the local government to adjust speed limits in that particular area.
Removes certain provisions relating to preclearance by the civil rights bureau of certain qualifications, prerequisites to voting, laws, ordinances, standards, practices, procedures, regulations, or policies relating to voting.
Establishes the professional practice of community midwifery; defines as the management in the home, birth center, or community setting, of normal pregnancies, child birth, and postpartum care, including newborn evaluation, resuscitation and referral for infants; sets requirements for license and practice.
Maddy summaryS 2099 proposes to remove current prohibitions on firearm silencers. The bill amends the environmental conservation law to allow individuals, excluding law enforcement, to possess and use silencers for hunting purposes. It also modifies the penal law by removing firearm silencers from the list of items that constitute criminal possession of a weapon. Additionally, the legislation revises the definition of an "assault weapon" by removing characteristics like threaded barrels, which are designed to accommodate silencers or other muzzle devices, from the criteria for classifying certain semiautomatic rifles and pistols.
