Requires the board of elections to send an absentee ballot application to all voters who filed an absentee ballot application for the prior election; provides for a permanent absentee ballot application list.
Relates to requiring third party oversight over the state's contracting agency's procurement procedure specific to the use of minority- and women-owned businesses.
Relates to establishing the commission on African American history and achievement to develop and recommend school curriculum that incorporates the contributions and achievements made by African Americans.
Enacts the protect main street act to require a settlement conference prior to any further proceedings in a commercial eviction matter commenced on or after March 17, 2020 to address subjects related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Facilitates conversion of commercial buildings to residential uses in New York city (Part A); authorizes exemptions from real property taxation of certain multiple dwellings converted from commercial use in New York city that include affordable housing (Part B); relates to exemptions of eligible newly constructed rental multiple dwellings or conversions to rental multiple dwellings in villages, towns, and cities other than New York city (Part C).
Establishes the warehouse worker injury reduction program; requires employers to establish an injury reduction program designed to identify and minimize the risks of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders among workers involved in performing manual materials handling tasks.
Allows cadets enrolled at SUNY Maritime college to use tuition scholarship money on any educational cost associated with attendance in addition to tuition.
Directs the metropolitan transit authority to establish and implement a no fare pilot program for transportation on all authority buses, excluding express buses, for all individuals.
Establishes that guardians ad litem in Westchester county are considered employees for the purposes of representation and indemnification in civil actions resulting from actions taken during the scope of their employment.
Requires justices of the supreme court, judges of the county court and judges of the court of claims, regularly sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well as civil jurisdiction to visit the correctional facility with the highest population of incarcerated individuals in the county in which he or she is appointed or elected within two years of such appointment or election and every two years thereafter; requires a report on the conditions of such correctional facility.