Prohibits people from engaging in protests outside a place of religious worship; establishes that protests must be a minimum of twenty-five feet away from a place of religious worship.
Maddy summaryThis bill mandates that high school students complete a total of 36 hours of community service to be eligible for graduation. The requirement breaks down to a minimum of eight service hours per academic year for students in grades nine through twelve. State officials are tasked with creating the specific programs and processes to track and verify these service hours. The law would take effect on July 1st of the year following its enactment.
Maddy summaryThis bill allows Michael Kilbride, a former employee of the Office of Court Administration, to reapply for an accidental disability retirement benefit from the New York State and Local Retirement System. The legislation grants him the right to submit a written request to the State Comptroller within one year of the bill's effective date if he is currently receiving regular service or ordinary disability benefits. It specifically authorizes this individual to seek the benefit despite a previous denial, provided he meets the stated employment and injury criteria. The act takes effect immediately upon passage.
Prohibits the keeping of inventory, storage, warehouse, processing, packaging, shipping or distributing of flavored vapor products near where vapor or tobacco products are sold at retail or wholesale.
Enacts Alexa and Lindsey's law; prohibits disabling safety features in motor vehicles; provides enhanced penalties where it causes an accident that harms or kills another person; provides that if multiple people are harmed or killed as a result of an unsafe vehicle modification a consecutive sentence may be imposed.
Enacts the "New York wildlife crossing act"; directs the department of transportation and the New York state thruway authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and the department of motor vehicles, 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.
Provides five hundred employment slots for first responders who performed their duties in the area of the September eleventh, two thousand one terrorist attacks in the weeks and months thereafter and suffered a service-related disability as a result of being exposed to toxins.
Renames the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge the Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy Tappan Zee Bridge; directs the commissioner of transportation to provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate signage of the state highway system.
Relates to obtaining military credit for members of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system, the New York city police pension fund, and the New York city fire pension fund; provides that the calculation for military credit shall be equal to the product of the number of years of military service being claimed and three percent of such member's compensation earned during the twelve months of credited service.
Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.
