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A8494 Dinowitz 01/26/24 signed Amends §16, Multiple Residence Law; amends §15, Multiple Dwelling Law (as proposed in S.2294-A & A.2134-A) Requires owners and agents of multiple residences and multiple dwellings to update the list of names and contact information of residents provided to emergency personnel where such owner is an authority as such term is defined in section three of the public housing law, including all such authorities established after the first day of January, nineteen hundred thirty-nine, upon annual recertification. CHAPTER 2 A8495 Hunter 01/26/24 signed Amends §§1203 & 1200, Private Housing Finance Law (as proposed in S.3139-A & A.1686-A) Requires the division of housing and community renewal to provide an annual report on the New York access to home programs. CHAPTER 3 A8504 Meeks 01/26/24 signed Amends §3239, Insurance Law; amends §2, Chapter 2023 (as proposed in S.5890-A & A.2853-B) Relates to provisions for wellness programs under life and accident and health insurance policies; provides that a "wellness program" shall not include limited benefits health insurance; authorizes an insurer to contract with a third party for purposes of administering or operating a wellness program on such insurer's behalf. CHAPTER 4 A8507 Solages 01/26/24 signed Amends §162, Civil Service Law; amends §2, Chapter 2023 (as proposed in S.4097-B & A.5817-A) Directs the department of civil service to collect and analyze health care claims data from the Empire Plan or its successor to develop a New York state health benefit plan pricing report; provides that such report shall include a comparative analysis of actual hospital in-network allowed amounts and out-of-network allowed amounts for each hospital facility located in the state of New York; specifies service categories. CHAPTER 5 A8514 Pheffer Amato 01/26/24 signed Amends §63, Civil Service Law (as proposed in S.5494 & A.7155) Provides for crediting of probationary service when a person appointed provisionally receives a permanent appointment to the same title immediately following the provisional period. CHAPTER 6 A8532 Septimo 01/26/24 signed Amends §459-c, Real Property Tax Law (as proposed in S.2574 & A.7164) Allows municipalities to adopt a local law or resolution to establish an adjustment percentage to be applied to the exemption percentage schedule for certain exemptions based upon permanent partial disabilities, after a public hearing. CHAPTER 7 S8001 STEWART-COUSINS 01/26/24 signed Amends Village Law, generally; amends §10, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.7537 & A.7761); amends §96, Executive Law Relates to the village incorporation commission and makes conforming technical changes; amends the effectiveness of legislative bills numbers S. 7537 and A. 7761. CHAPTER 8 S8004 SKOUFIS 01/26/24 signed Amends §2618, Insurance Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.5201 & A.2078) Establishes standards for the prompt investigation and settlement of claims arising out of states of emergency and disasters; relates to the effectiveness thereof. CHAPTER 9 S8005 MAYER 01/26/24 signed Amends §3000-f, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.7424 & A.366-A) Requires camps and youth sports programs have at least one automated external defibrillator; requires camps and youth sports programs to use best efforts to have at least one person trained to use such defibrillators at camps, games and practices. CHAPTER 10 S8007 SKOUFIS 01/26/24 signed Amends §§2-200, 2-202 & 2-206, renumbers §2-260 to be §2-259, repealed §2-206 subchapter 1 g, Village Law; amends §5, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.7538 & A.7754) Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages containing one thousand five hundred persons or less; amends the effective date of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the village law relating to the incorporation of villages, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7538 and A.7754. CHAPTER 11 S8016 HOYLMAN-SIGAL 01/26/24 signed Amends §207, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.5399 & A.5627) Requires the department of health to conduct a public information and outreach campaign on medically unnecessary treatments on persons born with intersex traits. CHAPTER 12 S8026 WEBB 01/26/24 signed Repealed §1, renumbers §§2 & 3 to be §§1 & 2, amends §1, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.4266-A & A.5088-A) Directs the division of criminal justice services to establish a task force on missing women and girls who are black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). CHAPTER 13 S8036 THOMAS 01/26/24 signed Amends §390-e, General Business Law (as proposed in S.358-B & A.2258-B) Prohibits the installation of certain security devices used to control access to common areas of a residential building without the written permission of the owners, board of managers, board of directors, or authorized party of such property; requires notice to occupants of a residential building prior to the installation of keyless security devices; prohibits increasing rent for the purpose of installing keyless security devices. CHAPTER 14 S8053 WEBB 01/26/24 signed Amends §§311 & 370, Vehicle & Traffic Law; amends §§6 & 7, add §6-a, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.5959-B & A.5718-B) Authorizes certain policies issued by a risk retention group not chartered in this state; requires reporting by certain risk retention groups of other state's examinations, audits, or other investigations and their findings; amends the effective date of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law relating to owner's policies of liability insurance issued by a risk retention group not chartered within this state, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.5959-B and A.5718-B, to March 1, 2024. CHAPTER 15 S8057 RIVERA 01/26/24 signed Amends §4174, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.6815 & A.6180-A) Relates to the controlling disposition of a decedent's remains; adds domestic partners and removes grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces or nephews from having such controlling interest. CHAPTER 16 S8061 HARCKHAM 01/26/24 signed Amends §3309-b, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.2099-C & A.5200-B) Clarifies provisions relating to dispensing of drug adulterant testing supplies. CHAPTER 17 S8075 COMRIE 01/26/24 signed Amends §§1506-c & 1507, repealed §1506-d subchapter (d), Not for Profit Corporation Law (as proposed in S.490 & A.1477) Relates to the maintenance of abandoned cemeteries. CHAPTER 18 S8080 BROUK 01/26/24 signed Repealed Article 25 Title 6-A, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.1867-A & A.5435-A); add §365-p, Social Services Law Directs the state department of social services to establish and maintain a community doula directory for doulas for the purposes of Medicaid reimbursement and promoting doula services to Medicaid recipients. CHAPTER 19 S8086 ADDABBO 01/26/24 signed Amends §1351, Racing Pari-Mutuel Wagering Breeding Law (as proposed in S.4817-A & A.6144-A) Relates to the tax on gaming revenues in region five of zone two; requires any money realized from the decrease in their slot machine tax rate to only be used by the facility to offer childcare for employees, food and beverage conversion, any other project or use that improves the economic infrastructure of the facility, or for rehiring laid off workers, hiring new workers or retaining current workers at the facility. CHAPTER 20 S8087 GOUNARDES 01/26/24 signed Amends §§1300, 1301, 1303, 1304, 1309 & 1310, repealed §1310-a, General Business Law (as proposed in S.2399 & A.4529) Relates to enrollees in the New York state secure choice savings program. CHAPTER 21 S8090 CLEARE 01/26/24 signed Amends §103-b, State Technology Law; amends §3, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.208-A & A.1371-A) Relates to the use of gender-neutral terminology on state websites for website content that is created or modified after a certain date. CHAPTER 22 S8092 CHU 01/26/24 signed Amends §267, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.5913-A & A.113-A) Allows certain non-public schools to be exempt from being required to provide menstrual products in the restrooms of school buildings, upon a demonstration to the commissioner of education that the school does not serve students who need such products, and that such products are otherwise available to students who might need them. CHAPTER 23 S8008 HOYLMAN-SIGAL 01/30/24 SIGNED Amends Penal Law, generally; amends Criminal Procedure Law, generally; amends §168-a, Correction Law; amends §384-b, Social Service Law; amends §509-cc, Vehicle & Traffic Law; amends §§117, 308.1 & 1052, Family Court Act; amends §64, Civil Rights Law; amends §§213-c & 215, Civil Practice Law and Rules; amends §123, Agriculture & Markets Law; amends §4, Judiciary Law; §§65 & 66, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.3161 & A.3340) Relates to certain sex offenses; makes technical changes. CHAPTER 24 A8480 Bronson 02/07/24 signed Amends §§104, 101-b & 63, Alcoholic Beverage Control Law (as proposed in S.3567-A & A.6050-A) Permits the sale or promotional gifting of certain complementary products for wine and liquor by certain persons or businesses licensed to sell wine and liquor; defines the term "item" for purposes of such promotional gifting. CHAPTER 25 A8486 Hevesi 02/07/24 signed Amends §413, Social Services Law (as proposed in S.6463-A & A.7366) Extends time frame to two years to receive updated mandated reporter training to include guidance on identifying an abused or maltreated child when such child is an individual with an intellectual or developmental disability. CHAPTER 26 A8493 Bronson 02/07/24 signed Amends §101, Alcoholic Beverage Control Law (as proposed in S.7085 & A.7293) Authorizes the manufacture of beer, spirits, cider, wine and mead at the community college in Broome county and Cornell university, acting on behalf of the New York state college of agriculture and life sciences and the New York state agricultural experiment station. CHAPTER 27 A8497 Paulin 02/07/24 signed Amends §2828, Public Health Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.6897 & A.7328) Relates to a four-year demonstration project to reduce the use of temporary staffing agencies in residential healthcare facilities; removes provisions regarding a joint labor-management nursing home staffing workgroup to review and assess the impact of such demonstration project. CHAPTER 28 A8501 McDonald 02/07/24 signed Repealed §4902 subsection (a) 14, §4903 subsection (e-1), amends §§4902 & 4903, Insurance Law; repealed §4902 subsection 1(1), §4903 subsection 5-a, amends §§4902 & 4903, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.2677-A & A.463-A) Requires written notice of an adverse determination made by a utilization review agent in relation to a step therapy protocol override determination which includes the clinical review criteria relied upon to make such determination and any applicable alternative prescription drugs subject to the step therapy protocol of the utilization review agent. CHAPTER 29 A8502 Hunter 02/07/24 signed Amends §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Insurance Law; amends §365-a, Social Services Law; amends §5, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.1196-A & A.1673-A) Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate management of, or ongoing monitoring to guide treatment decisions for, a covered person's disease or condition when the test has recognized efficacy and appropriateness for such purposes. CHAPTER 30 A8503 Jacobson 02/07/24 signed Amends §3420, Insurance Law; amends §4, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed S.439 & A.1178) Relates to supplementary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies; removes provisions of law relating to self-insurance; amends the effective date to remove contracts. |
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A8515 Pheffer Amato 02/07/24 signed Amends §2795, Public Health Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.6521 & A.3089) Establishes the New York state adult cystic fibrosis program which consists of administrative support services for the provision of financial assistance for services such as prescription drug costs, device costs, medical care services, behavioral health services, and insurance premiums for the treatment of cystic fibrosis disease and its conditions. CHAPTER 32 A8519 Kim 02/07/24 signed Amends §§1 & 4, Chapter of 2023; amends §209, Elder Law (as proposed in S.5907 & A.5520) Makes clarifying changes to the study by the state office for the aging on the number of older adults residing in naturally occurring retirement communities or neighborhood naturally occurring retirement communities who are suffering from social isolation and loneliness; changes the effective date to September 1, 2024. CHAPTER 33 A8521 Dinowitz 02/07/24 signed Amends §307, State Technology Law Provides for the remote witnessing of health care proxies utilizing audio-video technology or telephone. CHAPTER 34 A8522 Paulin 02/07/24 signed Amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.6219 & A.2400) Relates to the effectiveness of a chapter of law relating to municipal limited health care service facilities. CHAPTER 35 A8523 Paulin 02/07/24 signed Amends §1114-b, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.5512 & A.6115) Relates to information on service lines to be reported by public water systems. CHAPTER 36 A8524 Paulin 02/07/24 signed Repealed §610, amends §3605, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.6641-A & A.7365) Authorizes certain core public health services to be provided in the home by local health departments without need for licensure; authorizes such services to be eligible to receive reimbursement under title XIX of the federal Social Security Act. CHAPTER 37 A8527 O'Donnell 02/07/24 signed Repealed §13.12, amends §13.10, Parks & Recreation Law (as proposed in S.809-A & A.5022-A) Clarifies what littering on state park lands includes; exempts the use of ash, sand and salt for the purpose of reducing hazards on roads caused by snow and ice. CHAPTER 38 A8531 Sayegh 02/07/24 signed Amends §66, Public Services Law (as proposed in S.7230 & A.237) Relates to emergency response plans relating to the notification of location of downed wires from a municipal emergency official and to plans to prioritize the securing of downed wires over routine maintenance or other work unrelated to a response to an emergency event. CHAPTER 39 A8533 Pretlow 02/07/24 signed Amends §334, repealed §334 subsection 3-a, Racing Pari-Mutuel Wagering Breeding Law (as proposed in S.2779 & A.3528) Allows New York sire stakes eligibility for foals sired by New York state stallions, either in-state or out-of-state and born in-state. CHAPTER 40 A8536 Gunther 02/07/24 signed Amends §§2994-b, 2994-c, 2994-l & 2994-cc, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.2930 & A.4332); amends §1750-b, Surrogate’s Court Procedure Act Changes the controlling law for orders not to resuscitate for residents of mental hygiene facilities. CHAPTER 41 A8537 Hunter 02/07/24 signed Amends §212, Banking Law; amends §16-k, Urban Development Corporation Act (as proposed in S.1690-A & A.6716-A) Relates to the capital access program; focuses on minority and women-owned business enterprises and small businesses located in highly distressed areas to assist them in processing and being approved for qualifying program loans; requires the engagement in outreach and marketing to financial institutions to increase awareness of the program. CHAPTER 42 A8546 Burdick 02/07/24 signed Renumbered §103-b to be §103-d, amends §§103-d & 103, State Technology Law (as proposed in S.3114-A & A.266-A) Requires state agencies to conform any of their websites to the most current version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines adopted by the World Wide Web Consortium for accessibility; requires the office of information technology services to provide training on such guidelines. CHAPTER 43 A8550 Rajkumar 02/07/24 signed Repealed §295-a, add §94-d, Executive Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.1051-A & A.3301-A) Establishes a 13 member New York Asian American and Pacific Islander commission to develop policies to improve the community, economic and social well-being, and the health and educational needs important to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the state; provides for the duties of the commission. CHAPTER 44 A8563 Bichotte Hermelyn 02/07/24 signed Amends §310, Executive Law (as proposed in S.1873-A & A.7295-A) Makes technical changes to provisions relating to maximum number of employees that a minority and women-owned business enterprise may have during a declared state disaster emergency. CHAPTER 45 A8564 Otis 02/07/24 signed Amends §210, State Technology Law (as proposed in S.5410 & A.6972) Relates to state agency websites required to offer a mobile friendly form; requires mobile friendly forms for state agency websites created or modified with changes to form or function after the effective date of this act and prior to January 1, 2027, and for all state agency websites thereafter; defines terms. CHAPTER 46 A8567 Palmesano 02/07/24 signed Amends §§1, 2, 5 & 6, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.7542 & A.7756) Relates to the metes and bounds of certain land to be conveyed by the state to the town of Romulus, county of Seneca; provides that such land shall revert to the state if not used for specific purposes; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. CHAPTER 47 A8570 Lee 02/07/24 signed Renumbered §§391-o, 391-r, 391-s & 399-hh to be Article 38-B §§831-834, §399-hhh to be §830, add Article 38-B Article Heading, amends §830, General Business Law (as proposed in S.582 & A.6798) Relates to the sale of certain products for human consumption; provides that the restriction on the sale or offer for sale of sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite to any person under the age of twenty-one shall not apply to foods containing sodium nitrate or sodium nitrite in compliance with the requirements of certain federal regulations. CHAPTER 48 A8604 Clark 02/07/24 signed Amends §858, Judiciary Law; amends §3, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.5935 & A.5040) Relates to the "hope card act" to provide that any protected party of a final order of protection shall be provided either a digital image of the final order of protection as issued in court, delivered via text message, email or other electronic communication; or a durable, wallet-sized physical card that contains a summary of information about a final order of protection; makes related provisions. CHAPTER 49 S8003 CLEARE 02/07/24 signed Amends §2803, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.7211 & A.7218) Requires reporting on the status of issues at residential health care facilities to the state long-term care ombudsman. CHAPTER 61 S8006 HOYLMAN-SIGAL 02/07/24 signed Amends §170-g, Executive Law (as proposed in S.3225 & A.358) Relates to the collection of certain demographic information about the sexual orientation and gender identity or expression of residents by certain state agencies, boards and commissions; requires a progress report by all agencies, boards and commissions who are unable to comply. CHAPTER 62 S8012 HINCHEY 02/07/24 signed Amends §§41, 66-w & 44, renumbered §41-a to be §66-w, Public Service Law; amends §4, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.4234-A & A.4055-A) Prohibits utility corporations from charging customers for gas or electric service which was rendered more than three months of the monthly billing period; requires utility corporations to provide a thirteen-month usage history in their bills. CHAPTER 63 S8013 THOMAS 02/07/24 signed Repealed & add §1408, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.3285-A & A.1256-A); amends §398-f, General Business Law Requires the department of health to establish and maintain a registry for the purpose of providing education and outreach to children's non-regulated camps. CHAPTER 64 S8014 MAY 02/07/24 signed Amends §741, Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (as proposed in S.3497 & A.3110) Makes a technical change to a provision requiring a petition in a summary proceeding to recover possession of real property in the city of Syracuse to allege proof of compliance with local laws requiring the registration or licensure of residential rental dwellings. CHAPTER 65 S8015 MAY 02/07/24 signed Amends §§11-0522, 11-0505, 11-0901 & 11-0931, Environmental Conservation Law; amends §5, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.2630 & A.783) Relates to establishing an urban deer management pilot program; authorizes the department of environmental conservation, after a review of the site-specific deer management plan, and upon a finding that deer have become a nuisance, destructive to public or private property or a threat to public health or welfare, to issue a deer cull permit. CHAPTER 66 S8025 BAILEY 02/07/24 signed Amends §397-b, General Business Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.1931-B & A.7456-A) Prohibits residential and commercial properties from erecting or installing digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing within a city with a population of one million or more; relates to the effectiveness thereof. CHAPTER 67 S8028 STEWART-COUSINS 02/07/24 signed Amends §378, Executive Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.264-A & A.6291-A) Establishes standards for the evacuation of individuals with disabilities from high-rise buildings during an emergency; provides factors to be considered in the development of such standards. CHAPTER 68 S8037 PERSAUD 02/07/24 signed Amends §1263, Public Authorities Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.5069-A & A.4504-A) Requires one voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a transit dependent individual; changes the effectiveness of such provisions to 270 days after it shall have become a law. CHAPTER 69 S8044 MYRIE 02/07/24 signed Amends §§835, 623 & 631-a, Executive Law (as proposed in S.6238-A & A.5791-A) Defines the term "mass shooting" for purposes of emergency response measures and access to emergency funding as a shooting incident in which at least four people are murdered with a firearm, rifle, or shotgun. CHAPTER 70 S8050 LIU 02/07/24 signed Amends §390-e, General Business Law (as proposed in S.6088 & A.4023-A); amends §152-d, Social Services Law Specifies information which is required to be contained in the notice to customers warning of possible electronic benefits transfer scams, including skimming; directs the office of temporary disability and assistance to create a model sign to comply with such notice provisions. CHAPTER 71 S8051 HARCKHAM 02/07/24 signed Amends §375, Vehicle & Traffic Law (as proposed in S.5397 & A.5604) Relates to the display of green lights on the vehicles of members of mobile crisis teams and the revocation of authorization to display such light. CHAPTER 72 S8064 SCARCELLA-SPANTON 02/07/24 signed Amends §399-k, General Business Law (as proposed in S.5444 & A.6978) Relates to access to certain restroom facilities by employees of a utility entity who is on duty providing utility-related services; provides that a place of business shall not be immune from certain liabilities resulting from such use; defines "employee of a utility entity". |
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S8066 HINCHEY 02/07/24 signed Amends §151-j, Agriculture & Markets Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.7081 & A.4911) Provides that funding for the agrivoltaics research program shall come from appropriations made to the New York state college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell university in chapter 53 of 2023 for the purpose of studying ecological impacts of agrivoltaics; places a sunset on such program of December 31, 2030. CHAPTER 74 S8073 JACKSON 02/07/24 signed Amends §50, Civil Services Law (as proposed in S.5486 & A.6855) Clarifies certain requirements for issuing civil service examination announcements. CHAPTER 75 S8078 SANDERS 02/07/24 signed Amends §27-1915, Environmental Conservation Law (as proposed in S.1688 & A.1630) Relates to the use of waste tire management and recycling fee funds; stops certain funds being used by the department of economic development for conducting analysis of waste tire reuse opportunities. CHAPTER 76 S8089 02/07/24 signed HOYLMAN-SIGAL Amends §§1 & 2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.2599 & A.133) Establishes a dyslexia and dysgraphia task force; implements the findings of such task force. CHAPTER 77 A8484 Epstein 02/13/24 signed Amends §17, Social Services Law; amends §3, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.5897 & A.2176) Relates to reporting of youth placed in foster care settings and recruitment of foster parents; requires information including the total number of youth placed in foster care, the reasons why such youth were placed and the efforts the state has taken to recruit and retain foster parents; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. CHAPTER 78 A8488 Solages 02/13/24 signed Amends §131-ss, Social Services Law (as proposed in S.4548 & A.4876) Relates to automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants; identifies entities to be defined as a "utility corporation"; requires utility corporations to administer secure transmission of participant data; requires utility corporations to conduct automated file matching with OTDA assistance program participant accounts; directs utility corporations to notify participants of automatic enrollment in utility corporation affordability program; makes related provisions. CHAPTER 79 A8491 Magnarelli 02/13/24 signed Amends §63-a, Railroad Law (as proposed in S.5775 & A.5639) Provides that no person operating or controlling any Class I railroad or Class II railroad shall allow the operation of any railroad train or locomotive for the movement of hazardous materials unless such railroad train or locomotive has a crew of not less than two individuals. CHAPTER 80 A8500 Weprin 02/13/24 signed Amends §2327, Insurance Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.5764-B & A.4668-B) Limits third party verification of an applicant's driving history when used as a rating or underwriting factor for private passenger motor vehicle insurance to such applicant's New York State driving history; limits application to policies issued on and after the effective date. CHAPTER 81 A8530 Magnarelli 02/13/24 signed Amends §65, Public Service Law (as proposed in S.6694 & A.3125-A) Provides that every public utility shall provide the public service commission an affidavit annually, that no call centers or other facilities providing customer service have been closed without notice and hearing before the commission; makes related provisions. CHAPTER 82 A8538 Sillitti 02/13/24 signed Amends §1, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.6309-A & A.6557-A) Authorizes the county of Nassau assessor to grant a property tax exemption for the Maritime Administration, a component of the United States Department of Transportation, without an application, if the assessor determines that the property is exempt from taxation due to being owned by the federal government. CHAPTER 83 A8559 Thiele 02/13/24 signed Renumbers §11-0522 to be §11-0522-a, amends §§11-0522-a, 11-0505, 11-0901 & 11-0931, Environmental Conservation Law; amends §5, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.4804-A & A.5542-A) Directs the department of environmental conservation to establish a Long Island deer management pilot program in the town of Southold. CHAPTER 84 A8566 Meeks 02/13/24 signed Amends §§631, 625 & 633, Executive Law; amends §7, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.214-A & A.2105-A) Relates to eligibility for victims and survivors of crime to access victim compensation funds; specifies when awards may be provided and the requirements for such. CHAPTER 85 A8626 Eichenstein 02/13/24 signed Amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.4748-B and A.5939) Changes the effectiveness of provisions relating to religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas to 270 days after such provisions become law. CHAPTER 86 S7689 WEBB 02/13/24 signed Amends §3-300, Village Law; amends §3, Public Officers Law Relates to residency requirements for village justice and/or associate justice of Cayuga Heights; allows the village board of trustees of Cayuga Heights to appoint a person who resides in the county of Tompkins. CHAPTER 87 S8060 HARCKHAM 02/13/24 signed Amends §1, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.6604 & A.6949); amends §§23-0305 & 23-1903, Environmental Conservation Law Directs regulation of closed-loop boreholes installed for the purpose of facilitating a geothermal heating or cooling system by December 31, 2024. CHAPTER 88 S8074 KRUEGER 02/13/24 signed Amends §22, General Obligation Law (as proposed in S.155 & A.1142) Makes technical corrections to a provision requiring the use of gender-neutral terms in law. CHAPTER 89 S8093 MAYER 02/13/24 signed Amends §837-x, Executive Law; amends §3119, Civil Procedure Law & Rules (as proposed in S.1066-B & A.1709-B) Permits the commissioner of health to share deidentified information as strictly necessary to respond to a public health emergency or an imminent threat to public health, or to consult and cooperate with the appropriate agencies of the federal government or of other states in accordance with the functions, powers, and duties of the department, and may share identified information in such circumstances only when strictly necessary and with the consent of the patient. CHAPTER 90 S8096 STAVISKY 02/13/24 signed Amends §6, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.1043-A & A.1060-A) Relates to the effectiveness of a chapter of the laws of 2023 relating to the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives; provides such provisions will take effect January 1, 2024. CHAPTER 91 S8638 MYRIE 02/28/24 SIGNED Amends §506, Civil Practice Law and Rules, amends §§1 & 5, Chapter 773 of 1911 Provides that a proceeding challenging apportionment by the legislature shall be brought in certain designated courts in a judicial department within which at least one petitioner resides. CHAPTER 92 S8653A GIANARIS 02/28/24 SIGNED Repealed & add Article 7 §§110 - 112, State Law Repeals and enacts new provisions creating congressional districts. CHAPTER 93 S8664 MYRIE 02/28/24 SIGNED Amends §§6-134 & 2-120, Election Law Relates to the dates to file a designating petition for Congress and party positions in 2024; provides that signatures for certain offices and party positions made earlier than February 29th made be counted. CHAPTER 94 S8010 BRISPORT 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §783, Family Court Act (as proposed in S.7444 & A.6544) Relates to the sealing and expungement of records in persons in need of supervision cases in family court; carves out certain foster care and preventive service records maintained by social services departments. CHAPTER 95 S8011 KAVANAGH 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §26-511, NYC Administrative Code; amends §§10-b & 5, Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974; amends Part B §§2 & 3, add §2-a, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.2980-C & A.6216-B) Establishes the legal regulated rent for the combination of two or more vacant apartments; relates to exemptions from rent stabilization on the basis of substantial rehabilitation; relates to clearly defining the scope of the fraud exception to the pre-HSTPA four-year rule for calculating rents and relates to the effectiveness thereof. CHAPTER 96 S8017 STAVISKY 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §13, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.2473-A & A.4189) Amends the effectiveness of a chapter of 2023 relating to allowing for non-CPA ownership of firms; provides that such act shall take effect in 6 months. CHAPTER 97 S8024 WEBB 03/01/24 SIGNED Repealed §264, Public Health Law (as proposed in S.4401-A & A.5985-A); add §6505-e, Education Law Relates to physician coursework or training in nutrition; moves such provisions from the public health law to the education law. CHAPTER 98 S8039 GOUNARDES 03/01/24 SIGNED Repealed §191-d, Labor Law (as proposed in S.5026 & A.6040); add Article 44-A §§1410 - 1415, General Business Law Relates to contracted compensation payments; provides for the payment of freelance workers as independent contractors, including requiring written contracts; timely payment of compensation and handling controversies relating to payment, complaint procedures, and penalties; excludes construction contracts. CHAPTER 99 S8043 PARKER 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §393-f, General Business Law (as proposed in S.406-A & A.1368-A) Authorizes cellular phone companies to provide notice of bills to third parties at the request of the customer. CHAPTER 100 S8048 HINCHEY 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §3, Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 (as proposed in S.1684-A & A.6843-A) Authorizes a municipality to impose a civil penalty when an owner or their agent refuses to participate in a vacancy survey or submits knowingly and intentionally false vacancy information. CHAPTER 101 S8058 HOYLMAN-SIGAL 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §659, Family Court Act; amends §837-x, Executive Law; amends §§3119 & 3102, Civil Practice Law and Rules; amends §§140.10 & 570.19, Criminal Procedure Law; amends §230, Public Health Law; amends §6505-d, Education Law; amends §3436-a, Insurance Law (as proposed in S.2475-B & A.6046-B) Defines gender-affirming care for the purposes of certain prohibitions regarding the legal system and gender-affirming care. CHAPTER 102 S8059 HOYLMAN-SIGAL 03/01/24 SIGNED Add §§1106 - 1108, repealed §102 subsections (ii) - (ll), §810, amends §§203, 211, 215, 802 & 804, Limited Liability Law; repealed §100-b, Executive Law; amends §10, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.995-B & A.3484-A) Relates to the disclosure of beneficial owners of limited liability companies and foreign limited liability companies and certain information about such beneficial owners. CHAPTER 103 S8067 SKOUFIS 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §13.19, Parks & Recreation Law (as proposed in S.3309-a & A.6084-a) Defines the term "veteran" and "member of a Gold Star family" for the free use of campsites. CHAPTER 104 S8072 BAILEY 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §8351, Education Law (as proposed in S.942-A & A.219-A) Relates to the scope of the work an athletic trainer is authorized to perform. CHAPTER 105 S8076 PARKER 03/01/24 SIGNED Amends §7.17, Mental Hygiene Law; amends §2, Chapter of 2023 (as proposed in S.7274 & A.793) Requires the office of mental health to identify information and training programs relating to the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder for military veterans; requires the office of mental health to publish on their website information and links to the identified relevant training programs. |