Home/electronic incarceration program; paymentto defray costs. Changes from mandatory to optional the currentrequirement that the director or administrator of a home/electronicincarceration program charge an offender or accused a fee for participatingin the program in order to pay for the cost of home/electronic incarcerationequipment.
Del. Patrick Hope
Sponsored bills
Health insurance; mandated coverage for hearing aids for minors. Requires health insurers, health maintenance organizations, and corporations providing health care coverage subscription contracts to provide coverage for hearing aids and related services for children 18 years of age or younger when a licensed audiologist prescribes such hearing aids and related services. The coverage includes one hearing aid per hearing-impaired ear, up to a cost of $1,500, every 24 months. The measure applies to policies, contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after January 1, 2021.
Commending Asha-Jyothi.
Commending the Stony Brook Junior Volunteers.
Commending Camille Thomasina Schrier.
Commending Anjali Nair.
Commending JK Moving Services.
Commending the Ecumenical Community HelpingOthers.
Commending Branching out for the Homeless.
Commending the Stream Critter Cube Lab.