Establishes a small business tax credit for certain efforts taken to improve such small business's facility in an effort to reduce the spread of infectious diseases.
Maddy summaryS 583 establishes New York's "Farmland for a New Generation" program to support farmland access and transfer. It creates a statewide resource center (with American Farmland Trust) and regional navigators (through Cornell Cooperative Extension) to help new farmers find affordable land, assist existing farmers in succession planning, and aid landowners in connecting with farmers. The program also provides financial assistance for conservation easements and farm transitions. Funding for these services is allocated from state appropriations to the Department of Agriculture and Markets.
Relates to protecting witnesses in criminal prosecutions from intimidation and threats by permitting the court to withhold disclosure of names and other information if the court finds on the record that such witness is subject to potential intimidation, violence or threats.
Allows school districts to opt out of observing any state-designated cultural or religious holiday when less than ten percent of the school population observes such state-designated cultural or religious holiday.
Maddy summaryThis bill (S 3454) creates new criminal offenses specifically targeting abuse of elderly and disabled individuals in New York. It defines "vulnerable elderly" (60+ with age-related functional limitations) and "disabled" (with substantial life activity impairments), and establishes two key offenses: abandonment (a class E felony) and endangerment of welfare (a class A misdemeanor) when caregivers fail to prevent harm. The bill also includes a legal presumption that offenders intentionally targeted victims due to their age or disability. These provisions directly affect caregivers, family members, and others legally responsible for the care of vulnerable seniors and disabled adults.
Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that refusal to submit to such field tests is specified to be a traffic infraction; makes related provisions.
Enacts the "credit for rural broadband act"; provides for a refundable tax credit for costs paid for new construction of new broadband networks to residences and small businesses located in rural, unserved areas.
Establishes the disaster-related latent damage recovery grant program to repair latent damage to public infrastructure, including publicly-owned roads, bridges, drainage and flood mitigation systems, electrical and mechanical systems and communication systems, and any ancillary infrastructure necessary for the safe operation of the components thereof, where such damage was the result of a natural disaster.
Maddy summaryThis bill (S 3467) amends a state law to clarify that the welfare inspector general may conduct investigations "at the direction of" the office, rather than only on the office's own initiative. It specifically authorizes investigations into state social services departments, local social services districts, health departments, mental hygiene programs, and compliance with welfare administration laws - including proper spending of welfare funds, welfare system violations, fraud enforcement, and employment rules for welfare recipients. The bill does not create new programs but defines the scope of existing oversight authority. It became effective immediately upon enactment.
Provides that on request of the sheriff, county legislature, county board of supervisors, mayor of any city or village, or supervisor of a town, the governor may order into active service of the state, all or any part of the organized militia, in accordance with the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River flood prevention, response and recovery program; establishes such program; relates to the financing of the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River flood prevention, response and recovery program.
