Establishes the "Purple Star School Program" to assist military-connected students and to recognize the value of military service and civic responsibility.
Establishes the large projects historic rehabilitation tax credit and the "white elephant" housing historic rehabilitation projects tax credit program for qualified rehabilitation expenditures totaling fifty million dollars or more with respect to a certified historic structure that has been vacant, as determined by local code enforcement or other reasonable means, for at least ten of fifteen consecutive years preceding the date of the taxpayer's application for the rehabilitation credit.
Requires all public and private schools to provide financial literacy education to pupils in grade eleven; directs that certain topics be covered in such educational program.
Makes it a class B violent felony to fire a gun into a crowded space with the intent to harm or absent the intent to harm when such an act creates a great risk of death to one or more people within the crowded space; establishes the crime of criminal use of weapons; firing into a crowded space.
Continues the New York State Pathways in Technology Early College High School Program in this state; requires the commissioner to allocate funds for new P-TECH programs for the purposes of preparing eligible academically at-risk and/or economically disadvantaged students for high-skill jobs.
Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a maternal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; identifies underrepresented and vulnerable populations and risk factors in the state for maternal mental health disorders that may occur during pregnancy and through the first postpartum year.
Expands the monitoring of student incidents within the online occurrence reporting system to maintain and store data for the entirety of a student's elementary and secondary education, in order to allow school principals to identify repeated incidents of behavior and determine if additional support or intervention is needed.
Includes falsely reporting incidents in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of police officers to a particular address or location as a felony offense under the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree.