Authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules authorizing an electronic filing program for commencement of civil actions and proceedings and filing and service of papers in town and village courts.
Requires the state athletic commission to promulgate regulations for authorized combined professional and amateur mixed martial arts events no later than June 30, 2023.
Enacts the college textbook affordability act; establishes the New York state open education resources council and the New York state open source digital library; authorizes SUNY campuses and community colleges to adopt open educational resources adoption incentive program campus plans and apply for grants to implement such plans; provides that settlements with the office of the attorney general shall be used to provide assistance to the state university of New York for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Relates to providing for multi-formatted services menus for the cognitively impaired on websites operated by certain state agencies; includes the department of health, office for people with developmental disabilities and the office of mental health.
Directs the New York thruway authority to develop and implement a toll discount program waiving additional costs for tolls related to travel on the New York state thruway for certain individuals who do not maintain an E-Z Pass account.
Establishes a tax credit for companies that employ New York national guard and reserve members in an amount equal to fifteen hundred dollars for each national guard or reserve member employed by such employer and twenty-five hundred dollars for each national guard or reserve member employed by such employer who has completed or returned from a deployment or activation.
Relates to affordable housing for persons with a disability or having attained the age of sixty-two; establishes a developmentally disabled and elderly adult accessory apartment loan program.
Requires that for hire vehicles with a chassis which was manufactured and then altered for the purpose of transporting ten or more occupants, including the driver, be equipped with an operable carbon monoxide detector.
Classifies military monuments and memorials as parkland; provides military monuments or memorials erected or constructed on property of a municipal corporation shall require authorization by an act of the legislature prior to any change in status including alienation, development, leasing, transfer, sale or discontinuance.
Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the office of mental health and other relevant stakeholders, to develop guidance and standards for routine maternal depression screenings, referrals, diagnosis and treatment, and to provide training and materials on issues related to maternal depression.