Permits mentoring programs to conduct background clearances of prospective employees and volunteers to determine whether any such person has been reported for child abuse or maltreatment or is on the sex offender registry.
Relates to providing county correction officers with a special optional twenty year retirement plan.
Establishes March twenty-fifth as "We Care Remembrance Day".
Provides that the tax on cigars shall be at the rate of seventy-five percent of the wholesale price or fifty cents, whichever is less, and is intended to be imposed only once upon the sale of any premium cigars; defines "premium cigar".
Enacts the "donor-conceived person protection act" to ensure that reproductive tissue banks, licensed by the department of health, collect and verify medical information from any donor it procures reproductive tissue from and to disseminate such information to a recipient before a recipient purchases or otherwise receives such tissue, and to donor-conceived persons, if any, when such persons turn eighteen years of age or earlier upon consent of the recipient parent or guardian; defines terms; makes related provisions.
Prohibits the legislature from transferring funds from the power authority of the state of New York into the general fund.
Relates to the right to hunt, trap and fish; provides for regulation by the state.
Provides a tax exemption on real property owned by members of volunteer fire companies or voluntary ambulance services in counties with a population of more than 208,000 but less than 220,000.
Establishes a task force on veteran employment opportunities; provides for the membership of such task force including increasing membership from eleven to thirteen members.
