Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.
Relates to establishing the banking bill of rights; includes due process requirements regarding applications for or closure of credit and deposit accounts and penalties for noncompliance.
Provides an option for beneficiaries of NYC transit authority members to receive a lump sum equal to the pension reserve where a member who is eligible for a service retirement dies prior to filing for retirement.
Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: (i) identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; (ii) initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; (iii) identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; (iv) identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; (v) public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and (vi) any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.
Authorizes the office of court administration to pay certain judicial compensation to certain supreme court and appellate division justices for the period January 1, 2021 to June 14, 2021.
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; relates to penalties for certain wage violations.
Enacts the legislative oversight of automated decision-making in government act (LOADinG Act) to regulate the use of automated decision-making systems and artificial intelligence techniques by state agencies.
Provides for automatic sealing of certain convictions after a certain passage of time from either imposition of sentence, release from parole or probation, and if the defendant does not have a current charge pending; excludes certain offenses; permits access by certain persons.
Deems Anthony Varvaro to have died as the natural and proximate result of an accident sustained in the performance of duty so as to permit accidental death benefits to be awarded to his beneficiaries.
Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; enacts provisions relating to financing of New York Health, including a payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax; establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan; provides for collective negotiations by health care providers with New York Health.