Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts.
Designates the county of Queens a cease and desist zone and extending non-solicitation orders to ten year periods; establishes an affirmative defense to violations of nonsolicitation orders and cease and desist zones.
Authorizes a lottery game for a community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services.
Enacts the child custody reform act to provide uniform statewide standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes; provides for an initial planning conference between the judge and all parties to attempt a settlement; provides for mediation unless the court finds mediation is inappropriate; requires the chief administrator of the courts to establish plans for the conduct of administration of the mediation and preparation of evaluation reports.
Prohibits certain noncitizens, foreign governments, and foreign entities from taking any real property that is zoned as industrial, light industrial, heavy industrial, residential agricultural, agricultural or rural agricultural.
Establishes a claim for strict liability against the state for any injury caused by the administration of an immunization which is mandated by a state law; gives the court of claims the power and jurisdiction to hear such a claim.
Relates to prohibiting the acquisition or transfer of agricultural land by foreign adversaries after January 1, 2024; provides that such prohibition will not apply to any interest in agricultural land held by a foreign adversary prior to such date or any federally recognized Indian tribe or its government units and enterprises; defines terms.
Enacts "Melanie's law"; relates to orders of protection; allows courts to issue orders of protection for immediate family members or household members of the named victims, regardless of age.
Decreases the membership and removes judicial compensation from the purview of the commission on legislative, judicial and executive compensation; provides for determination of and a cost of living adjustment for judges and justices of the unified court system.
Declares provisions, in snow removal and de-icing service contracts, requiring the service provider to indemnify the recipient of the services for damages arising out of such recipient's acts or omissions, to be null and void.