Requires background checks for a person prior to employment in a position involving substantial contact with children while dressed as a children's character; provides certain penalties for violations.
Relates to certain information provided to incarcerated individuals upon their release, relating to the payment of funds required by section one hundred twenty-five of this article in the form of an electronic benefit transfer card.
Requires every person, corporation, association or partnership who rents helmets or provides helmets to customers as part of their business to ensure that such helmets are undamaged.
Requires that the state system for warning populations who are or may be endangered includes audible alerts for all announcements to ensure that information is accessible to visually impaired individuals.
Provides for the release on medical parole for incarcerated individuals who require the level of care typically provided in a nursing home setting or those who, because of their physical or cognitive condition, are limited in their ability to perform basic life activities.
Permits the use of portable electronic devices for making phone calls as part of the telephone service system made available to incarcerated individuals.
Relates to medical parole and determinations of whether a person released on medical parole is physically or cognitively incapable of presenting a danger to society.
Relates to confidential hearing records; authorizes attorney representing incarcerated individual in certain proceedings to obtain a copy of hearing record; prohibits redisclosure.
Directs the department of corrections and community supervision to conduct a comprehensive study on deaths in correctional facilities within New York state to provide data-driven insights and recommendations to improve prison conditions, healthcare, and policies to prevent future tragedies.
Provides for automatic issuance of identification cards to incarcerated individuals and assistance with obtaining copies of any documents needed to apply for identification cards, including, but not limited to, an incarcerated individual's social security card and birth certificate.
Requires the superintendent of state police to develop, maintain and disseminate to all members of the division of state police a critical incident leave policy requiring critical incident paid leave for any members directly involved in a critical incident; prohibits such superintendent from taking any punitive administrative action against any member of the division of state police granted critical incident leave solely on the basis of the provision of such leave.