Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; provides that if convicted of a felony, such person has completed all sentencing requirements to such conviction, including any required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.
Relates to providing more predictable and stable schedules for employees in low-wage occupations; provides that an employer shall pay an employee for at least 4 hours at the basic minimum hourly wage for each day an employee reports for work as instructed but is given less than four hours of work.
Relates to decreasing the length of the suspension period applicable to certain individuals who lose their jobs due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, and who seek to obtain unemployment insurance benefits; decreases the suspension period from two consecutive weeks to one week; provides that the waiting period and suspension period shall be served concurrently.
Provides that a full time elementary or secondary student shall not have capacity to consent to sexual conduct with a school employee at his or her school or a co-located school, including volunteers, when the employee is 18 or older and more than 4 years older than such student at the time of the act and knows or should reasonably have known that the student was a student at the school or a co-located school, and such employee is not a full time student at such school, nor married to such student.
Establishes the civil right to counsel in eviction proceedings in New York state; creates the New York state office of civil representation; requires that covered individuals be given notice of such right to counsel.
Expands the eligibility period for indigent legal service attorneys to receive certain loan forgiveness; increases loan reimbursement for certain attorneys who work in legal services with indigent clients.
Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker testing for diagnosis, treatment, appropriate management, or ongoing monitoring of a covered person's disease or condition when the test is supported by medical and scientific evidence.
Increases the penalties for leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting in the second degree and leaving the scene of an accident involving an electric scooter without reporting in the first degree.
Creates the crime of related use of a lethal or explosive device; provides for additional 10 years imprisonment for certain crimes where a lethal or explosive device is used; permits exemption from such additional sentence when the defendant provides court with the source of such lethal or explosive device.
Imposes an additional tax surcharge on certain non-primary residence class one and class two properties in a city with a population of one million or more.
Provides that a person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the second degree when a person pretends to be a servicemember or former servicemember, or a first responder, or as having received a decoration or medal; establishes a stolen valor fee.
Includes within the class D felony of assault in the second degree, the assault of a driver of a for-hire vehicle or transportation network company driver.