Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution.
Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.
Requires notice to unemployment applicants of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC).
Directs the commissioner of housing and community renewal, in consultation with the director of the budget and the commissioner of taxation and finance, to conduct a study to examine the efficacy of the creation of a statewide affordable housing agency whose sole mission is to directly build affordable housing utilizing state funds and employing residents of the state to accomplish such construction of affordable housing.
Requires the New York City Housing Authority to create policies regarding administrative procedures that conform with Title 42 Sections 13661-13662 of the United States Code and any relevant guidance developed by the Office of Public and Indian Housing of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development with respect to proceedings involving decisions of the Authority.
Requires that the siting, construction and establishment of methadone program facilities in cities with a population of one million or more be dispersed in the boroughs of such cities in proportion to the population of each such borough.
Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a grant program to provide funding to emergency food providers to purchase prepared meals from New York restaurants and deliver them to families in need.
Reports the number of women employed in each office and/or position in the service of the state and the race, ethnicity and salary range of each such employee.
Establishes a housing succession rights task force to conduct a state-wide assessment of succession rights in rent stabilized, public housing and city or municipal owned buildings.
Establishes a private right of action for tenants alleging a failure to keep and maintain self-closing doors; allows for a court to award compensatory damages, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs and issue an order to the owner of the building to remedy any issue with such doors.
Allows any enrollee of the New York State common retirement fund to request a list of investment managers on contract with the office of state comptroller to make investment contracts for the office of state comptroller division of pensions, investment, and cash management and the contents of any contracts and opportunistic investment contracts made by such investment manager.