Relates to the village incorporation commission and makes conforming technical changes; amends the effectiveness of legislative bills numbers S. 7537 and A. 7761.
Prohibits the imposition of a charge or deduction from a payment due to a health care provider because such payment is made through electronic or paper means.
Authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to administer a program to provide grants or loans for the costs related to enabling switching residences with propane or fuel-oil heating systems to efficient electric heat pumps.
Permits the use of snowmobiles on the right-of-way of certain portions of state route nine hundred fifty-four-h within the village of Bemus Point in Chautauqua county.
Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit to provide emergency assistance to certain households where such household is threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment.
Relates to utility intervenor reimbursement to a participant for its reasonable costs of participation in any proceeding before the Public Service Commission (PSC).
Relates to a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities; removes provisions regarding a joint labor-management nursing home staffing workgroup to review and assess the impact of such demonstration project.
Establishes the New York state adult cystic fibrosis program which consists of administrative support services for the provision of financial assistance for services such as prescription drug costs, device costs, medical care services, behavioral health services, and insurance premiums for the treatment of cystic fibrosis disease and its conditions.
Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate management of, or ongoing monitoring to guide treatment decisions for, a covered person's disease or condition when the test has recognized efficacy and appropriateness for such purposes.
Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients.
Allows municipalities to adopt a local law or resolution to establish an adjustment percentage to be applied to the exemption percentage schedule for certain exemptions based upon permanent partial disabilities, after a public hearing.
Relates to the tax on gaming revenues in region five of zone two; requires any money realized from the decrease in their slot machine tax rate to only be used by the facility to offer childcare for employees, food and beverage conversion, any other project or use that improves the economic infrastructure of the facility, or for rehiring laid off workers, hiring new workers or retaining current workers at the facility.