Relates to establishing a program for financial transitional living services for foster children; establishes independent development savings accounts for foster children over the age of 16; requires foster children to attend financial literacy and independent living classes.
Enacts the "Michael K. Williams law" to establish a grant program to incentivize counties and municipalities to reduce prison populations; makes an appropriation therefor.
Enacts the "omnibus renewable energy progress act"; requires state operations to use one hundred percent renewable electricity by two thousand thirty (Part A); exempts payment in lieu of taxes revenue from property tax cap calculations (Part B); requires the office of renewable energy siting to develop a procedure to process any financial security or letter of credit required by the office (Part C); relates to the recycling of solar photovoltaic panels (Part D); directs the New York power authority to propose a minimum of four priority transmission projects to address the areas of highest need on the bulk transmission system (Part E); relates to the endangered and threatened species mitigation bank fund (Part F); exempts renewable energy systems from certain requirements related to energy facilities (Part G); ensures the safe and efficient delivery of materials for the timely construction of major renewable energy facilities in furtherance of the goals mandated by the New York state climate leadership and community (Part H); defines land used in agricultural production for the purposes of an agricultural property tax exemption (Part I); updates climate law goals for energy storage and renewable generation (Part J); establishes a sales tax exemption for energy storage (Part K); relates to residential solar tax credits (Part L); enacts the "solar for all homes and businesses act" (Part M).
Relates to establishing an abatement and exemption from real property taxes for capital improvements to reduce carbon emissions; establishes an energy efficiency improvement board to approve the abatements and exemptions.
Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.
Requires school districts to establish a language assistance program for limited English proficient parents of students; requires record keeping and annual reporting; permits districts to jointly establish such programs.
Relates to instruction in food, agriculture and nutrition in elementary and high school; contents may be varied to meet the needs of particular school districts; need not be uniform throughout the state; school districts shall utilize either the curriculum for health education instruction regarding food, agriculture and nutrition prescribed by the commissioner or a course approved by the commissioner in accordance with criteria established by the commissioner.
Prohibits motor vehicle insurers from discrimination on the basis of socioeconomic factors in determining algorithms used to construct actuarial tables, coverage terms, premiums and/or rates.