Enacts the "renewable energy bill of rights"; declares that each natural person who is a resident of this state has the right to generate, consume and export renewable energy.
Enacts the safe schools by design act; directs the use of design principles and strategies, pursuant to guidance issued by the commissioner of education, as part of a comprehensive approach to provide a safe, secure and healthy school environment.
Relates to establishing an urban deer management pilot program; authorizes the department of environmental conservation, after a review of the site-specific deer management plan, and upon a finding that deer have become a nuisance, destructive to public or private property or a threat to public health or welfare, to issue a certified nuisance wildlife specialist a deer cull permit; defines terms.
Requires the chief administrator of the office of court administration to establish a searchable public database providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state; directs the chief administrator to adopt rules directing village, town or other local courts to report their eviction proceeding data to the office of court administration.
Provides for the extension of NYSLRS service credit for any service credit lost due to either furlough or layoff of a member from the period beginning when executive order 202 of 2020 was issued through December 31, 2020.
Creates a disabled person retrofit tax credit; provides a tax credit that is equal to thirty percent of the cost expenditures, up to $5,000 for making qualified improvements.
Establishes the student loan borrower bill of rights to protect borrowers and ensure that student loan servicers act more as loan counselors than debt collectors.
Establishes an office of the transit riders advocate to receive and resolve complaints affecting mass transit users of facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority.