Enacts the "Give Kids a Chance - Carter's Law" mandating health insurance coverage for congenital anomalies including certain reconstructive services, habilitative services, and inpatient and outpatient services.
Requires fares for paratransit services providing public transportation for eligible individuals with disabilities or health conditions that prevent them from using public buses and subways for some or all of their trips, to be made available at the same fares for individuals with disabilities or health conditions who are able to utilize public buses and subways.
Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a grant program to provide funding to emergency food providers to purchase prepared meals from New York restaurants and deliver them to families in need.
Honoring Bob Poor upon the occasion of his designation for special recognition after 70 years of dedicated service to the Rensselaer Falls Fire and Rescue Department
Enacts Firefighter Joseph P. Spor Jr.'s Law; requires the commissioner of education to establish September eleventh awareness curriculum or instruction for school districts; requires the education department to make curriculum materials and other resources regarding September eleventh available on its website.
Dissolves the New York state thruway authority; transfers all functions, employees, records, authority, debts and obligations of such authority to the department of transportation.
Provides that when approving proposals to enhance the existing benefits provided by a wetland or to create and maintain new wetland benefits in order to increase the likelihood that a proposed activity will meet the applicable standard for permit issuance, the mitigation may occur within the same watershed as the proposed project.
Makes annual state reimbursement for expenditures for certain approved community service projects by counties to be proportional to such county's share of elderly persons living in the state.
Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of twenty years.
Establishes a private cause of action for certain violations regarding machine-guns, assault weapons, disguised guns, ghost guns, and unfinished frames or receivers.
Requires the state to pay for the delivery of the body of a deceased incarcerated individual to their next of kin when such incarcerated individual dies in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision.