Provides that businesses of less than two thousand square feet or less than five thousand square feet when licensed under article 20-C of the agriculture and markets law and not located in the city of New York shall be exempt from the mandatory acceptance of empty beverage containers.
Relates to when school personnel may adjust a student's dosage of insulin: under instructions from the prescriber or instructions from the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by the prescriber.
Creates a state trooper highway memorial task force to develop and establish guidelines for recognition of members of the division of state police who have died in the line of duty; provides such recognition shall be by means of dedicating a portion of the state highway system, or the placement of a memorial plaque or marker along a state highway.
Increases reimbursement for certain home health services provided by an individual or shared aide provided by an approved home health agency to include an amount necessary to cover the disparate labor and overtime costs associated with complying with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and to offer incentive pay to retain and recruit workers.
Requires individuals arrested in connection with a felony to submit a DNA sample; makes related provisions and technical corrections.
Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and any employee of the inmate-patient facility as requested by the member of the legislature if the member requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and county sheriffs to visit inmate-patient facilities of the department of mental hygiene.
Creates a private right of action for fertility fraud; adds a health care practitioner using human reproductive material from the practitioner or from a donor knowing or who reasonably should have known that such patient had not expressly consented to such use, to the crime of aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree; relates to the time in which to commence actions relating to fertility fraud; includes fertility fraud in the definition of professional misconduct for physicians, physician's assistants and specialist assistants.
Provides a religious exemption from vaccination requirements for school attendance.
Provides that a candidate who files a certificate of acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than the seventh day after the primary election.
Eliminates the requirement that hunters wear back tags during hunting season in the state.
