Relates to the appointment process for state board positions; provides for a 60 day time period to conduct a background check on potential nominees to state board positions before they can officially be appointed.
Enacts the voter registration integrity act; requires a birth certificate, passport, certificate of naturalization or citizenship, evidence of New York state residency, or any other documentation that the board of elections determines establishes United States citizenship.
Provides for the payment of state aid to the town of New Hudson and special districts therein for state land operated by the department of environmental conservation.
Establishes a first permanent payroll employee tax credit which allows a business to receive a tax credit for the three years following the employment of such business' first permanent payroll employee where such credit equals a portion of the amount it costs to employ such permanent payroll employee.
Designates, as peace officers, public safety officers of the Chautauqua Institution within the grounds of and properties owned by the Chautauqua Institution.
Makes it a class B violent felony to fire a gun into a crowded space with the intent to harm or absent the intent to harm when such an act creates a great risk of death to one or more people within the crowded space; establishes the crime of criminal use of weapons; firing into a crowded space.
Establishes the school mental health services program coordinator to provide qualifying public and nonpublic schools with mental health services professionals.