Relates to enhanced eligibility requirements of STAR; bases income on retirement.

Grants peace officer status to certain employees of the department of public safety of the Syracuse city school district.

Permits political subdivisions and municipal corporations of the state to set the residency requirements for public officer positions.

Authorizes the Onondaga county sheriff's department, in the county of Onondaga, to offer the optional twenty year retirement plan to deputy sheriffs Brittany E. Dorn, Noah C. Hunt, Daniel D. Lorenzini, Gordon J. Lopez, Tre C. Fesinger, and Christopher L. Van Dusen.

Relates to party nominations for candidates for office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.

Allows for the hunting of deer by individuals age sixty and older with a crossbow in a special archery season.

Permits courts to remand a principal to the custody of the sheriff for felony offenses involving the possession of firearms and weapons.

Provides that the department of health shall make available to licensed home care services agencies all platforms, applications, software, forms and other documents necessary for the licensed home care services agency to submit statistical reports associated with required registration materials.

Relates to the powers of the Syracuse regional airport authority; provides that the Syracuse regional airport authority shall determine which positions, with the exception of all police positions, shall be in the exempt class of civil service.

Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for certain public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, 911 operators, communications officers, police communication technicians, emergency services operators and emergency services dispatchers employed by the state, or a county or municipal emergency services department.

Authorizes certain health care professionals licensed to practice in other jurisdictions to practice in this state in connection with the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games sliding sports competitions, Lake Placid 2026.

Extends the authorization of the city of Oswego to impose an additional one percent of sales and compensating use taxes.

Increases the civil penalties for violations of child labor laws.

Relates to Medicaid reimbursement rates for private duty nursing; requires DOH to publish a private duty rate schedule.

Relates to returnable beverage containers; amends certain definitions relating thereto; repeals a certain provision of law relating thereto; provides that a dealer whose place of business is less than ten thousand square feet and whose primary business is the sale of food or beverages for consumption off-premises may obtain an exemption from the obligation to accept empty beverage containers for redemption under certain conditions; provides for different handling fees for beverage containers accepter by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; provides that a deposit initiator shall have the right to conduct audits of containers presented for redemption by redemption centers or dealers subject to certain provisions; provides requirements for groups of deposit initiators and brands to form a commingling group; relates to provisions governing redemption centers.