Relates to special provisions for the operation of bicycles when approaching stop signs and traffic-control signals including steady circular red signals and red arrow signals.
Clarifies the application of the accountability standards, open meetings law and freedom of information requirements to local development corporations as defined in section two of the public authorities law.
Permits an application for an order that a witness or prospective witness who is over the age of seventy-five be examined conditionally under oath in order that such testimony may be received into evidence at subsequent proceedings in or related to the action.
Establishes an independent state monitorship to oversee containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup of the groundwater plume associated with the Northrop Grumman Bethpage Facility and Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant sites in the hamlet of Bethpage within the town of Oyster Bay and compliance by Northrop Grumman and any other parties responsible for such containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup with any operative consent decrees, consent judgments, settlements, or agreements.
Provides that any system for warning populations who are or may be endangered and for rapid and effective communication for any New York emergency alert notification shall occur within thirty minutes, or as soon as practicable thereafter.
Provides for a credit insurance policy for the indemnification of an intended parent for expenses disbursed when either the intended parent or a person acting as surrogate receives in-vitro fertilization or intrauterine insemination treatment that fails and does not result in the birth of a child.
Provides that the existence of an infestation of pests in a premises occupied for dwelling purposes is a breach of the warranty of habitability, and requires a landlord to keep premises occupied for dwelling purposes free from an infestation of pests, prevent the reasonably foreseeable occurrence of such a condition and expeditiously remediate such condition and any underlying defect.
Relates to requiring a medical facility or related service to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.
Establishes a mandated window of five business days for both Medicaid and private insurers to respond to pre-authorization claims for testing and/or treatments made by physicians on behalf of oncology patients.
Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.
Requires the New York state thruway authority to submit biannual reports to the legislature of all fiscal transactions, receipts and expenditures, with each report covering activity from the prior six months.