Directs the commissioner of taxation and finance to conduct a study of assessments, fees and tax rates, and associated policies of the state of New York relating to providers of telecommunications services to ensure a more fair and proportional distribution of the assessments, fees and taxes imposed on telecommunications service providers and their end-use delivery customers.
Establishes a highway and depot charging needs evaluation to assist in achieving targets set forth by the climate leadership and community protection act, zero-emissions vehicle sales target and regulations, including the advanced clean truck, advanced clean cars II rules and the zero-emissions school bus mandate.
Establishes a uniform ambulance assessment fee on the annual revenues of certain ambulance services to be expended for increasing medical assistance payment rates for ambulance services.
Prohibits an employer, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring that a prospective employee disclose his or her age, date of birth or date of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona fide occupational qualification or need.
Provides a tax credit for small businesses employing a person previously convicted of a crime; provides a tax credit of one thousand five hundred dollars for each person employed.
Sets up rules and regulations for the operation of lease-hold retirement communities to provide adequate housing for senior citizens wishing to retire and locate in a lease-hold retirement community; grants owners of homes in lease-hold retirement communities the right to sell their homes by methods common to sales of residential property; requires that owners of lease-hold retirement communities offer owners of homes the option to sign a long-term ninety-nine year lease.
Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.
Provides that when informational cards or sheets about opioid antagonists are distributed, such information shall include information about fentanyl strips and their uses.
Prohibits certain financial institutions from charging a fee for periodic paper statements when such statements are required for an application for public assistance.
Expands the FreshConnect program, which provides rebates for the purchase of local produce to certain people, to include local produce sold in supermarkets and grocery stores.
Directs the commissioner of health to establish guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers; defines "community center".
Prohibits any person, corporation, association, or other entity from slaughtering a horse where such person, corporation, association, or other entity knows or has reason to know that such horse will be used for human or animal consumption; prohibits any person, corporation, association, or other entity from possessing, selling, importing, etc,, a horse or horseflesh if such person, corporation, association, or other entity knows or should have known that any part of such horse or horseflesh will be used for human or animal consumption; provides penalties for violation.