Waives Unemployment Pandemic Benefits repayments in whole or in part if the payment of such pandemic unemployment assistance was without fault on the part of the claimant and such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.
Requires the boards of elections to provide a secure website or web portal through which voters can track their absentee application or absentee ballot.
Relates to reimbursement for ambulance services; requires insurers to submit payments directly to ambulance providers who are in-network or, for out-of-network ambulance providers, requires the issuance of a joint check to the insured specifying both the insured and the ambulance provider as payees.
Relates to the time period during which absentee ballots shall be mailed or delivered after an application for such ballot is received by the board of elections.
Establishes a billionaire mark-to-market tax taxing residents with one billion dollars or more in net assets.
Creates a public umbilical cord blood banking program within the department of health to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of public cord banking, to promote research into the uses of cord blood, and to facilitate pre-delivery arrangements for public banking of cord blood donations.
Relates to the eligibility of occupants of public housing authorities for rental assistance; authorizes occupants of public housing authorities to receive rental assistance at the same times as all other eligible populations.
Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
Provides the amount of compensation an attorney shall receive from representing a client which was assigned to the attorney through the bar association; increases such amount from seventy-five dollars to one hundred fifty dollars per hour; makes related provisions.
Establishes the "New York public banking act"; authorizes municipal and other local governments to form and control public banks through the ownership of capital stock or other ownership interests, and to loan or grant public funds or lend public credit to such public banks for the public purposes of achieving cost savings, strengthening local economies, supporting community economic development, and addressing infrastructure and housing needs for localities.
