Establishes the New York road salt reduction council and the New York road salt reduction advisory committee to provide a mechanism for interagency cooperation and coordination to implement the recommendations of the report of the Adirondack road salt reduction task force.
Continues the New York State Pathways in Technology Early College High School Program in this state; requires the commissioner to allocate funds for new P-TECH programs for the purposes of preparing eligible academically at-risk and/or economically disadvantaged students for high-skill jobs.
Authorizes the department of motor vehicles to establish a program encouraging persons to scrap such person's petroleum or diesel motor vehicle in favor of a zero emission or electric motor vehicle by providing a five hundred dollar rebate for the purchase of such new zero emission or electric motor vehicle.
Increases the penalties for sexual performances by a child; increases age from 16 to 18 for application of existing sexual performance crimes; creates crimes of use of a child in a sexual performance in the first degree, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in the first degree, and promoting a sexual performance by a child in the first degree; provides for consecutive sentencing upon certain multiple convictions.
Directs the New York state thruway authority to discontinue the collection of tolls at the Grand Island bridges in the Niagara section of the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway.
Extends the authorization granted to the county of St. Lawrence to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes until November 30th, 2027.
Requires new teachers applying for certification or a license including childhood education teachers, early education teachers, special education teachers, or reading specialists to have completed training for evidence-based reading instruction.
Establishes the disaster-related latent damage recovery grant program to repair latent damage to public infrastructure, including publicly-owned roads, bridges, drainage and flood mitigation systems, electrical and mechanical systems and communication systems, and any ancillary infrastructure necessary for the safe operation of the components thereof, where such damage was the result of a natural disaster.
Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances.