Directs revenues from tolls collected on the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge to be applied to expansion of bus rapid transit and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in the borough of Staten Island.
Includes within the health care and wellness education and outreach program offered by the department of health resources for individuals who have suffered a pregnancy loss or infant loss.
Creates an identification card program for incarcerated individuals in local correctional facilities; requires such identification cards to be identical to non-driver identification cards issued to the general public; waives fees for such identification cards.
Requires the promulgation of regulations relating to the commercial trade of human reproductive processes involving semen donation; limits the number of live births from a single semen donor.
Provides for annual adjustment of the maximum income threshold for eligibility for the senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE), disability rent increase exemption (DRIE), senior citizen homeowners' exemption (SCHE), and disabled homeowners' exemption (DHE) by any increase in the consumer price index (CPI).
Waives the residency requirement for the commissioner of planning, development, and public transportation for Putnam county, provided that such person resides in Putnam county or an adjoining county within the state of New York.
Directs the department of veterans' services to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 4 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.
Provides that a fire company may elect to include call firefighters within its membership who shall receive a stipend for each call that he or she responds to.