Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.
Requires the creation of a database to track the issuance of contracts by public authorities and state agencies with minority and women-owned businesses.
Establishes a demonstration program extending the J-51 tax exemption to the conversion and rehabilitation of commercial and manufacturing space to co-located work space and residential units in certain high density areas in Kings county.
Authorizes the commissioner of education to contract with three public or independent institutions of higher education for the support of special summer programs established in order to increase the number of economically and educationally disadvantaged undergraduate students who are prepared for admission to graduate educational programs; establishes eligibility requirements in order to attend such special summer programs; appropriates $711,200 therefor.
Enacts the "Unemployment Insurance Liability Act"; requires that employers that have relocated out of New York State continue to contribute to the unemployment insurance fund when former employees of the employer are receiving benefits for two quarters; mandates that employers shall identify all employees being terminated as a result of the relocation and include the amount of weekly wages paid to such individuals as part of the final quarterly payroll report submitted to the department of insurance.
Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet from a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.