Provides for the reimbursement of the ticket price of unused one-way, round trip or multi-trip tickets purchased for use on the Long Island Rail Road or the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company if returned within one year.
Restricts the use of advanced metering infrastructure devices by electric, gas and water-works corporations; requires utilities to provide notice to customers before installation of a two-way smart meter; makes related provisions.
Relates to the indemnification of directors, officers and key persons; ensures the survival of indemnification in case of a merger or consolidation of a corporation; provides that once a right to indemnification arises, it continues to benefit a former director, officer or key person's and her or his heirs and estate; makes related provisions.
Establishes a "yellow alert system" for law enforcement to publicize vehicle information in instances of hit-and-run accidents in which a person has been killed.
Requires insurers which issue contracts providing long term care benefits to maintain records of policies cancelled during each year and requires that such records indicate which policies were cancelled due to, or within thirty days after, an increase in policy premiums.
Enacts the "fairness for accident victims act"; provides that with respect to a serious personal injury action still permissible under the no-fault insurance system, the award or decision of an arbitrator or master arbitrator rendered in a no-fault arbitration will not constitute a collateral estoppel of the issues arbitrated.
Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a written request from an insured for his or her health plan documents, including copies of most recent group or individual contracts.
Requires the notification of a public utility company's or municipality's customers when the supply rate increases by at least one hundred percent by posting on the utility company's website.
Requires the development of a "what mortgage applicants need to know" pamphlet on residential mortgages; provides such pamphlet shall be posted and printed in the 6 most common non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited English proficiency in New York state.
Requires that curricula and educational programs provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to earn educational or vocational credits which shall be transferable to an educational institution upon the release of the incarcerated individual.