Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to conduct a study regarding ecological literacy and healthy living curriculum in schools, and to provide recommendations in a report.
Creates the toxic information clearinghouse; provides substances hazardous to public health, safety or the environment that have been identified or listed as a hazardous waste in regulations promulgated pursuant to section 27-0903 or 37-0103 of the environmental conservation law; provides chemical hazard traits and environmental and toxicological end-point data.
Creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in New York city.
Relates to when school personnel may adjust a student's dosage of insulin: under instructions from the prescriber or instructions from the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by the prescriber.
Requires comprehensive training at least one time per year for school bus drivers and school bus attendants in the discouragement, prevention and detection of harassment, bullying and discrimination.
Directs the department of taxation and finance to create and implement an online program which will enable each New York state taxpayer to prepare and electronically file his or her federal and state income tax returns free of charge.
Establishes the residential open green space tax abatement for certain properties in a city of one million or more; provides an abatement for owners who remove an impermeable surface from a residential yard and replace it with soil and vegetation.
Relates to assessment of certain land parcels for the purposes of determining payments to eligible school, fire, fire protection, and ambulance districts; removes requirement that such assessments be approved by the commissioner of taxation and finance in the same manner as state lands.
Relates to the percentage responsibility of the state for federally assisted projects; relates to the state share of municipal projects where the municipality funds a complete street design.
Requires notice to members of the legislature and certain local officials relating to certain construction and other projects affecting such members' and officials' districts.
Relates to the transfer and use of certain state land to the city of New Rochelle for the construction of municipal fire services and affordable housing; extends authority to transfer.
Relates to the accessibility of congressional, senatorial, assembly and election district maps in downloadable digital file formats compatible with geographic information (GIS) software.