Sen. Patrick Gallivan

Maddy summaryThis bill requires school districts to create detailed site maps for emergency response as part of school safety plans. The maps must include floor plans, school grounds layouts, road maps of surrounding areas, and specific labels like hazardous materials locations, with features like true north orientation, grid coordinates, and compatibility with existing law enforcement software. Districts must verify map accuracy through initial and annual building walkthroughs. The bill also establishes funding eligibility through school building aid for approved mapping costs, ensuring schools don't need to purchase new software to share these maps with emergency responders.

Provides for a phased decrease of excise taxes and sales taxes and petroleum business taxes on diesel motor fuel and motor fuel when the average price of motor fuel in the state exceeds $2.25 per gallon; authorizes cities having a population of one million or more and counties to adopt local laws limiting taxes on diesel motor fuel and motor fuel.

Relates to adding additional objects which a person would be guilty of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree if such person knowingly possesses or sells such objects.

Maddy summaryS 23 expands an existing tax credit for farmers to include the cost of constructing housing for farm workers. This change directly affects farmers who build residential housing for their employees, allowing them to claim the credit for construction materials and labor. The bill amends tax law to explicitly add "construction of residential housing occupied by farm workers" to the list of eligible expenses under the credit, which previously covered farm-related equipment and property. Farmers must still meet other requirements, such as property situs in the state and use in farming operations.

Maddy summaryS 1150 makes it a class D felony to assault a registered security guard while they are working in a hospital or health care facility. This bill directly affects security guards employed in these settings by increasing penalties for attacks against them. The key mechanism is amending New York's penal law to specifically include "registered security guards in a hospital or health care facility" in the list of protected professionals, similar to nurses, firefighters, and emergency medical personnel. Previously, such assaults might have been classified as lower-level offenses, but this change elevates them to a felony.

Requires proportionally equivalent appointees of both the majority and minority houses of the legislature in all legislatively enacted workgroups, task forces, commissions, councils, advisory boards, committees and any other legislatively enacted and appointed groups or workgroups; requires that the number of appointees by the legislature shall be proportionally equivalent to the number of appointees by the governor.

Maddy summaryThis bill allows retail licensees (like liquor stores) that sell alcohol for off-premises consumption to offer credit sales to individual customers, but only for orders totaling at least $200. It modifies existing alcohol control law by creating a new exception to standard credit sale rules. The key provision requires that any credit sale must meet the $200 minimum order value, and the retailer must retain the alcohol for the customer until payment is made. This directly affects businesses seeking to expand credit options for larger alcohol purchases while maintaining a financial threshold to limit small-credit transactions.

Relates to claim settlement practices when an insurer refuses to pay or is delaying payment of a settlement; provides a policyholder a private right of action against such insurer doing business in the state who has refused or delayed payment of an insurance claim.

Establishes a person is guilty of assault in the second degree when such person intends to cause physical injury to an employee of New York state or any of its political subdivisions or of a public authority or a public benefit corporation while such employee is performing such employee's duties.

Provides representation to veterans that are at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines for matters involving children, sustenance and real property proceedings.