Authorizes every local municipal assessor to extend the renewal of certain provisions of the real property tax law for persons age sixty-five and older or for certain persons with disabilities and limited income for one year in the interest of public health and safety due to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic; makes related provisions.
Enacts the "patient privacy protection act"; prohibits ex-parte interviews of other party's treating physicians or health care providers in personal injury, medical, dental, or podiatric malpractice, or wrongful death actions.
Permits the rendering of an estimated bill from a utility corporation or municipality under certain circumstances; requires each utility corporation and municipality within six months to submit to the commission a model procedure for the calculation of estimated bills that incorporates best practices and technology and accounts for any barriers to the use of actual meter readings.
Requires a criminal court to release a defendant charged with certain offenses involving marihuana on his or her own recognizance upon ordering a case adjourned in contemplation of dismissal.
Prohibits pre-payment penalties for mortgages secured by real property owned in a cooperative form of ownership where over fifty percent of the units are shareholder occupied.
Relates to mortgage guaranty insurance; allows for withdrawals from the contingency reserve if the superintendent determines that such withdrawals will not be harmful to policy holders.
Creates a task force on affordable housing lotteries to review the affordable housing lotteries within New York state and determine the lotteries' effectiveness and recommend how the lotteries could be improved.
Changes the eligibility and criteria for awards of grants from the beginning farmers NY fund to enable more farmers to participate; requires that tiers be established for grants less than $15,000.
Relates to the approval of contracts awarded to owners of nuclear powered generating facilities; provides that certain exceptions to comptroller approval of contracts do not apply to a contract awarded by a public benefit corporation to the owner of a nuclear powered generating facility or facilities for the provision of zero-emissions attributes of generated electricity.