Relates to removing the residency requirement to hold the position of assistant district attorney in the county of Rensselaer, provided that such assistant district attorney resides in an adjoining county.
Provides clarification on certain requirements for a business to be considered a women-owned business enterprise; relates to the application process for certification as a minority or women-owned business enterprise.
Enacts the lead pipe right to know act requiring public water systems to take service line inventories and make such information available to the public.
Prohibits insurers from reducing disability benefits due to the actual or anticipated receipt of social security disability benefits unless certain conditions are met.
Provides the liquor authority the ability to set the duration of brewer's licenses, farm brewery licenses and restaurant-brewer licenses to three years.
Provides that the thruway authority shall issue permits for ambulances and fire vehicles exempting such vehicles from paying tolls on the thruway when engaged in an emergency operation.
Relates to including outpatient care provided by creative arts therapists in certain insurance policies covering care for other mental health services.
Relates to establishing the New York state grid modernization commission; provides the commission shall conduct a study of research, development and demonstrations of electric grid modernization and shall issue such report to the state energy planning board for consideration in the state energy plan.
Repeals the provision of law that volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers who receive a real property tax exemption for service may not receive the income tax credit for such service.
Prohibits medical debt from being collected by a consumer reporting agency or included in a consumer report and prohibits medical service providers from reporting medical debt directly or indirectly to a consumer reporting agency.
Directs the public service commission and the Long Island power authority to extend appropriate elements of the compensation under the "Value Stack" to resources located behind customer electric meters.
Establishes a program for eligible zero emissions energy systems to promote private sector investment for the purpose of meeting the target that by the year two thousand forty the statewide electrical demand system will be zero emissions.