Provides that the "Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Flag" shall be the official state flag for the raising of awareness of veteran suicide; directs the commissioner of general services to establish a protocol for the flying of such flag.
Establishes the position of Catskill park coordinator within the department of environmental conservation to build partnerships between the department and other state agencies, municipal governments, businesses and nonprofit entities that will develop a community-based tourism strategy for the forest preserve to help fortify the regional economy and to coordinate implementation of the public access plan and other approved or adopted Catskill park-wide plans.
Exempts services provided to board an animal when rendered by a veterinarian licensed and registered as required by the education law or by a commercial horse boarding operation from sales and use taxes.
Requires the department of transportation to issue a notice of completed application upon receipt and following an initial review of the application and determining that the application is complete or identifying additional information required or to be submitted by the applicant and requires the commissioner of transportation to establish regulations regarding the time within which such application is processed.
Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2024; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
Directs the department of public service to prepare written reports on the effect the COVID-19 state of emergency has on certain utilities of electric, gas, water, wastewater, and telephone service to commercial and residential customers in the state and on the affordability of services.
Requires the boards of elections to provide a secure website or web portal through which voters can track their absentee application or absentee ballot.
Relates to requiring the establishment of utility customer arrears reporting; requires utilities to report to the public service commission on customers who are in arrears.
Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband services; provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
Directs the department of agriculture and markets to increase the number of regional farmers' markets for the direct marketing of foods and produce produced in the state.
Requires pre-trip safety briefings by drivers of stretch limousines; directs the commissioner of DMV to establish content for safety briefings to be made to passengers and requires drivers to demonstrate proficiency in providing briefings.
Requires stretch limousines to be equipped with roll-over protection devices such as cages or pillars and anti-intrusion bars for the purpose of protecting rear compartment passengers.
Provides for a fine of not less than ten thousand dollars for each offense committed, or by imprisonment for not more than one hundred eighty days or by both such fine and imprisonment for a class A misdemeanor where a stretch limousine has failed an inspection but an operator still operates such vehicle; provides for the seizure and redemption of unlawfully operated and unsafe commercial motor vehicles by an officer; requires such vehicle information to be entered into the New York statewide police information network as an impounded vehicle; makes related provisions.