Relates to charter schools; clarifies the transparency and accountability of charter schools and provides fiscal relief to the school districts where charter schools are located.
Prohibits trustees and members of a board of education from voting on matters before the board which affect a family member of the trustee or board member who is either employed by the board of education or school district or who would be financially impacted by such vote.
Exempts volunteers in recreational activities, including but not limited to, little league coaches, managers, assistants and members of the board of directors from civil liability while providing services or rendering assistance to a player or participant as a result of his or her acts of commission or omission arising out of or in the course of his or her rendering such services or assistance during competitive games and practices.
Reduces the period of notice required to be given when a written demand for rent is served on a tenant after the tenant has defaulted in the payment of rent and the period of notice to be given serving a warrant issued pursuant to a final judgment of eviction from fourteen days to seven days.
Provides for information concerning services for human trafficking victims in transit facilities operated by the metropolitan transportation authority.
Authorizes a parking permit system for park-and-rides in the borough of Staten Island in the city of New York; requires residents of Staten Island to receive a permit free of charge and out-of-state residents to pay an annual fee for such permit.
Directs the board of standards and appeals in the city of New York to mail a copy of each application for a variance to property owners within 1 mile of the affected property.
Creates the non-partisan legislative budget office; directs such office shall provide information to legislative committees of the senate and assembly with respect to the state budget, appropriation bills and other bills providing budget authority or tax expenditures; requires such office to report to the temporary president of the senate, the senate minority leader, the speaker of the assembly and the assembly minority leader.
Requires certain public and nonpublic schools to provide transportation or reimburse costs incurred for such transportation for certain students residing in an area containing at least three hundred students within a one-mile radius.