Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.
Prohibits the knowing sale of xylazine to persons under the age of 21 and without proof of the intended use for institutional, veterinary, or scientific purposes.
Protects employee freedom of speech and conscience by prohibiting employers from coercing employees into attending or participating in meetings sponsored by the employer concerning the employer's views on political or religious matters.
Prohibits all registered organizations, licensees, or permittees or other entities under the jurisdiction of the cannabis board from selling or delivering any edible cannabis products not in child resistant packaging.
Provides for universal newborn nurse home visiting services; requires health insurance coverage for universal newborn nurse home visiting services; authorizes the department of health to apply for certain waivers; directs the superintendent of financial services to require an insurer, health carrier or health benefit plan to notify enrollees annually of universal newborn nurse home visiting services.
Establishes a task force to conduct a comprehensive study on the presence of educator diversity in the state, state actions taken to promote educator diversity, and how the state can encourage new initiatives to enhance and promote educator diversity in New York; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
Authorizes the county comptroller to examine and audit all accounts, contracts, books and records of such county's respective industrial development agency.
Requires not-for-profit hospitals inform patients that low to moderate-income persons may qualify for help with medical bills through such hospitals' charitable programs by disclosing such information to patients, posting such information conspicuously, and through social workers.
Requires home health care professionals to use the adverse childhood experience questionnaire in assessing the patient's health risks; makes Medicaid reimbursement of primary care providers contingent upon such use; requires the department of social services to report to the senate and assembly health committees.
Provides grants to nonprofit organizations that provide eligible home reading programs that provide independent reading level books that are individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through fifth grade students on a weekly basis.
Directs municipalities to permit the construction and occupation of dwelling units with a density of at least twenty-five dwelling units per acre, on any land wherein residential construction and occupation is otherwise permitted if such land is within one-half mile of any covered transportation facility.