Requires contractors receiving public funds to pay amounts owed to small businesses and minority-owned business enterprises within seven days of receipt of payment from state agencies.
Enacts the "taxpayer access to publicly funded research act"; defines terms; requires each agency that provides funding for direct research shall develop a public access policy.
Creates an advisory board to New York's office of the chief disability officer to review the office of the chief disability officer's operations and make recommendations relating to the office of the chief disability officer's policies and procedures.
Requires agencies and public employers to provide notice and a review period to employees whose personnel records have been provided pursuant to the state's freedom of information law.
Requires standards for the new construction of commercial electric vehicle charging stations to require such stations to have an external cutoff switch.
Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form; requires mobile friendly forms for state agency websites created or modified with changes to form or function after the effective date of this act and prior to January 1, 2027, and for all state agency websites thereafter; defines terms.
Directs the Office of the New York State Comptroller to conduct a study on the feasibility of automatically returning unclaimed funds held by such office to the rightful owners of such funds; requires a report of its findings and legislative recommendations.
Establishes the office of ethnic and community media; provides duties of the executive director; requires each state agency to seek to direct at least fifty percent of its total spending on advertising to ethnic and community media outlets.
Requires state agencies to submit annual reports to the financial committees of the legislature accounting for all fines, fees and surcharges, the purpose of such fine, fee or surcharge, and where such fines, fees, interest and surcharges were deposited; directs unassigned fees to be deposited into the general fund.
Relates to the requirements of the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development; requires the number of new certifications and recertifications including the basis for any denials be included in the annual report from the division of minority and women's business development.
Removes provisions of law relating to sheriffs; includes sheriffs within the term "employee" for the purposes of defense and indemnification in the public officers law.
Directs the division of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a review and analysis of security measures at rail yards and to issue related reports and recommendations.