Sen. George Borrello

Maddy summaryS 1436 requires employers to provide paid sick leave based on business size: employers with 5-99 full-time equivalent employees must offer 40 hours of paid sick leave annually per worker, while those with 100+ employees must provide 56 hours. Smaller employers (4 or fewer full-time equivalents) generally provide unpaid sick leave unless they earned over $1 million net income last year, in which case it becomes paid. Employees accrue sick leave at a rate of one hour for every 30 regular work hours, starting from hire or the bill's effective date. The law takes effect immediately and applies to all covered employers in New York.

Enacts "Lindsey's law" criminalizing the disclosure of confidential government records by a public employer as retaliation for a victim making a sexual harassment complaint or claim.

Ensures privacy protections for all emergency personnel present at a crime scene including ambulance services or advanced life support first response services, certified first responders, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians, who are employed by or enrolled members of any such service.

Restores the legislative checks and balances to any emergency declaration that exceeds forty-five days; ensures judicial due process rights for any action that impairs fundamental constitutional rights by limiting the powers of the governor to suspend laws during a state disaster emergency; requires a specification and explanation of which municipalities are affected by such suspension of laws.

Maddy summaryS 7299 creates a new class E felony offense for tampering with electronic monitoring equipment, such as ankle monitors used as a condition of pretrial release. The bill defines this as intentionally damaging, altering, or interfering with such devices without legal authority, directly affecting individuals under court-ordered electronic monitoring. It amends multiple sections of the criminal procedure law to include "tampering with electronic monitoring equipment" as a qualifying offense that may prevent release on recognizance or require bail. This policy change specifically targets interference with monitoring devices used to track defendants' compliance with release conditions. The law takes effect immediately upon enactment.

Establishes the New York healthy incentive program (Part A); automates SNAP and the New York healthy incentive program (Part B); establishes the New York healthy incentive program outreach program (Part C).

Relates to creating a school resource officer program to permit the employment of retired law enforcement officers and provide grants to school districts and non-public schools for such purpose.

Requires health practitioners to discuss with patients the risks associated with certain pain medications before prescribing such medications; requires that for the first opioid analgesic prescription of a calendar year the prescribing physician shall counsel the patient on the risks of overdose.

Grants free access and parking at state parks for active-duty military members and veterans upon showing an active-duty military or veteran's ID card.

Increases the number of members on the farm laborers wage board from three to five; adds as members the commissioner of agriculture and markets and a member appointed by the Dean of the Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.