Updates certain death benefit provisions of the New York city employees' retirement system, the New York city teachers' retirement system, and the board of education retirement system of New York city to ensure continued compliance with the federal older workers' benefit protection act.
Increases the number of judges in the second, ninth and eleventh districts; provides for additional family court judges in the city of New York and certain counties; provides for additional city and civil court judges in New York city.
Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activity assignment.
Relates to construction and mentoring programs; provides that an agency may establish a mentoring program for small businesses in construction trades; directs the New York city housing authority to establish and implement reasonable procedures to secure meaningful participation of minority and women owned enterprises and small businesses in its procurement process; provides the New York city health and hospitals corporation to use the same measures to enhance mentoring opportunities for small businesses as are available to the city of New York.
Authorizes the City of White Plains to alienate property owned by the City of White Plains and operated as the former Galleria of White Plains public parking garage.
Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to limiting the check cashing exemption for national banks and other regulated entities to August 1, 2025.
Provides for employment opportunities for economically disadvantaged candidates and economically disadvantaged region candidates and apprenticeship utilization on public transactions; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Includes thyroid cancer in the list of cancers presumed to be incurred in the performance of duty for purposes of disability retirement for firefighters in a city with a population of one million or more.
Relates to allowing certain members of the New York city fire department pension fund to receive a membership date in such fund attributable to service in the titles of police cadet program and police cadet program II in the New York city police department cadet program.
Relates to ordering a study and report on improvements of State Route 9A in the Hudson River Greenway portion of State Route 9A; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.