Expands which individuals qualify to be an individual's personal assistant for the purposes of consumer directed personal assistance programs to include an eligible individual's attorney-in-fact, health care proxy, or legal guardian.
Enacts the "safer weapons, safer homes act"; requires the division of criminal justice services to certify the technological viability of personalized handguns and to establish requirements related to the sale of personalized handguns; defines personalized handgun; requires the division to establish and maintain a roster of all personalized handguns approved for retail sale to the public; requires the division to report to the legislature on the technological viability of personalized handguns.
Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly; makes such crime an unclassified misdemeanor.
Requires that food services at transportation facilities and rest areas owned and operated by certain public authorities remain open seven days a week.
Establishes authority for early childcare savings accounts to provide tax benefits for savings for qualified childcare services; provides for the functions and powers of the comptroller; provides for the program requirements and limitations.
Requires a report on individuals who are the primary caregiver for an older adult, including the number of individuals who are primary caregivers for an older adult, the average age of a primary caregiver, the cost to an individual to provide care to an older adult, and the economic value and savings to the state of such individual's services.
Provides for the suspension of a commercial driver's license if a driver has been convicted of a violation of local laws relating to a designated system of truck routes.
Authorizes a fee waiver for applications to SUNY and CUNY if a prospective student, either a high school senior, or a person completing a gap year, submits and completes the FAFSA form.
Authorizes and directs the office of children and family services to conduct a study on the family assessment response program; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.