Allows for the education department to provide registration applications to licensees for each profession by means other than mail; requires the state education department to mail applications prior to the end date of such registration period.
Provides that the submission of claims for services provided by home care agencies shall be done on forms approved by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services.
Ensures that boards of elections provide adequate notice to each voter before and after a board cancels the voter's registration or places such voter in inactive status.
Updates the educational requirements for the practice of physical therapy; requires individuals to have received a doctoral degree or an education determined equivalent in physical therapy.
Provides additional benefits for certain county correction officers in Suffolk county; provides benefits to retirement system members with credited service of thirty years.
Provides for cost-of-living adjustments; provides that the base benefit amount shall be increased annually by reference to the consumer price index for each applicable calendar year beginning on September 1, 2024.
Relates to the retirement of Nassau county 911 operators; provides an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for the positions of county police communications operator, police communications operator supervisor, assistant bureau director (police 911 communications), bureau director (police 911 communications), fire tech I, fire tech II and fire tech III in the county of Nassau.
Provides additional benefits for certain county correction officers in Westchester county; provides benefits to retirement system members with credited service in excess of twenty-five years.
Modifies the retirement benefits for certain county correction officers, uniformed correction division personnel, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and undersheriffs in Nassau county to provide an additional retirement allowance for each year of creditable service in excess of twenty-five years but not in excess of thirty years.
Makes technical amendments relating to authorizing the city of New York to discontinue the use as parkland of a portion of real property in the county of New York and to grant easements to the metropolitan transportation authority so that it may make handicapped accessible improvements and upgrades to the New York city transit authority 168 Street transit station.