Establishes a temporary state commission to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate and make recommendations concerning the formation and control of a state public bank; provides if such study finds that the state bank is feasible, the commission may recommend legislation to create a state public bank for New York.
Relates to establishing the state of New York public bank to use the state's depository assets to generate additional benefit for the people and the economy of the state.
Requires contracting agencies to contact minority and women-owned business enterprises when such enterprise is listed on a utilization plan and when a contract is awarded; mandates that the prime contractor use such enterprise identified on the utilization plan, unless such enterprise cannot perform or is no longer state certified.
Relates to certain discriminatory practices; relates to the qualification of professionals in education; provides for the tolling of certain statutes of limitations; provides a private cause of action for a person who is qualified for a public contract who has been deprived of equal opportunity to such public contract.
Requires qualification-based criteria for awarding certain contracts for services to an entity that submits a statement of qualifications in response to a request for qualifications when an authorized entity utilizes a one-step method.
Requires every parole officer and employee of the department of corrections and community supervision to wear body cameras with video and audio whenever he or she is interacting with a parolee; implements the use of cameras in every official office and room in the department.
Prohibits police and other governmental entities from creating fake electronic communication service accounts, or from collecting or using an individual's account information; establishes a private right of action for a violation of such provisions.
Provides that the determination of legal regulated base date rent at the four-year lookback shall be determined by either the survey sampling method or the default method if there is fraud.
Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal to require housing quality standards inspections of Section 8 housing when a tenant moves out or vacates.
Relates to RFPs for gun violence reduction; provides that any state agency that issues an RFP relating to gun violence reduction shall establish a coordination plan including all awardees; requires that such coordination plans shall be in a form as prescribed by the department of state; requires that at a minimum, such coordination plan shall help ensure complete coverage of the area for which such RFP is issued and minimize competition between awardees.
Requires a separate section in the annual report of the director of the division of minority and women's business development detailing every instance of an entity fraudulently representing itself as a minority and women-owned business enterprise when it was not.
Requires telemarketers to add a customer's telephone number to all do-not-call lists maintained by such telemarketer when a customer requests to add his or her number to any do-not-call list maintained by such telemarketer.