Exempts computer hardware and software equipment and school supplies from sales tax during the seven day period commencing on the Tuesday immediately preceding the first Monday in September, known as Labor Day, and ending on Labor Day.
Enacts the "Save our New York state restaurants act" authorizing a sales tax exemption for the sale of food and drink at restaurants and taverns during a specific one week period and grants certain municipalities the option to grant such limited exemption.
Provides that no incarcerated individual in any state or local prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory shall be compelled or induced to provide labor against their will.
Provides tax credits for upstate reinvestment zones, for qualified purchases of buildings and qualified rehabilitation expenditures of buildings in such zones; sets credit at 20%.
Increases the real property tax circuit breaker credit income limits to $100,000; removes real property tax rebates from real property taxes that qualify under such credit.
Enacts the "emergency school relief act"; makes changes in the percentages for disposition of revenue from lottery prize account to increase the percentage directed to state aid for education funding.
Directs the president of the civil service commission to collect health care claims data relating to the price and utilization of hospital benefits by active employees, retired employees and their dependents and to publish a New York State health benefit plan hospital pricing report.
Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment and complex rehabilitation technology fee schedule for the same service or item.
Requires certain joint tax returns pertaining to residential real estate cash purchases by limited liability companies to be accompanied by a document which identifies the source or sources of funds used for the purchase, including the type of funding used, the bank account information of any funds used in the purchase and the amount used by each source of funds.