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Gustavo Rivera D

State Senator
New York Senate District 32 — Seat 1
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
2 Total

Biography

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On Record (151)

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Establishes a specialized health home program to serve certain individuals with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible adults eighteen years of age or older with a diagnosis of a neurological, muscular, or neuromuscular condition, and a mobility impairment; provides that a specialized health home shall be reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis and shall receive enhanced rates of payment; makes related …
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Ensures services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.
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Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services; directs the commissioner of health to enact regulations imposing certain standards and restrictions.
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Expands protections regarding violations of safety conditions in adult care facilities; provides penalties for safety violations and operating without a valid license; prohibits reductions in fines in certain circumstances where a patient is endangered or harmed.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows an adult home, enriched housing facility, assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence to provide for nursing services in the facility that are not continual, either by arrangement with a provider of nursing services or by employment.
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Relates to including rescue inhaler prescriptions for asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases for individuals under age nineteen in the statewide immunization information system.
Jun 30, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards and authorizes such practices to operate a malpractice prevention program.
Jun 24, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the commissioner of health to establish nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region, once the federally approved capacity for the waiver is reached.
Jun 18, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to establishing the "340B prescription drug anti-discrimination act"; prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers from discriminating against covered entities and New York state pharmacies based on participation in the drug discount program authorized by section 340B of the federal public health service act.
Jun 08, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes conforming changes reflecting the previously authorized scope of practice of nurse practitioners; adds nurse practitioners as persons who can authorize or make certain determinations authorized to be made or determined by physicians.
Jun 08, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides that services provided to persons qualifying for nursing home diversion and transition services shall not be provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Increases the duration of special accidental death benefits paid to a deceased member's children.
May 29, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides that notices of non-renewal provided by a health care plan to a health care professional shall include an explanation of the reasons for such non-renewal and information for the health care professional to respond to such determination.
May 28, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires inspections of child day care homes, programs and facilities include the full premises; requires providers of a family day care home or group family day care home to disclose to the office of children and family services all persons who reside in the home where child day care is being provided; requires all providers of child day care to …
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Authorizes certain existing assisted living programs to expand capacity by nine or fewer beds under an expedited process.
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Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of medical services.
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Directs the commissioner of health shall promulgate regulations allowing for any electronic health records integration vendor to obtain state approval to facilitate interoperability between the prescription monitoring program registry and certified electronic health records systems that can connect with any national data sharing hub.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the safe access to care act requiring certain healthcare facilities to adopt and make public a statement of patient rights and healthcare facility obligations with regards to immigration enforcement; includes unlawful or non-judicially authorized immigration enforcement actions at a healthcare facility as a workplace threat or hazard for purpsoes of the violence prevention program.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the compensation to Catholic Guardian Services for fair and equitable holding expenses associated with lands transferred to Catholic Home Bureau which reverted to the state upon termination of their use for public purposes.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Expands the health department's review of correctional health services by including a biennial study of health care staffing at facilities operated by the department of corrections and community supervision.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes collaborative programs for community paramedicine services as part of the hospital-home care-physician collaboration program.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the lead pipe replacement act to require the replacement of all lead service lines by November 1, 2037.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the empire state licensing act to provide all New Yorkers with access to professional, occupational, commercial, or business licenses, permits, certificates, or related registrations regardless of an applicant's citizenship or immigration status.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Removes the requirement that consent for the payment of certain medical services must occur after such services are administered; requires the superintendent of financial services and the commissioner of health to develop a uniform form for consent for payment; provides that any non-conforming form shall be prohibited and unenforceable.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the department of taxation and finance to include an opportunity on certain personal income tax forms for individuals to provide written consent to be added to the donate life registry; makes related provisions.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Restores medical futility as a basis for DNR.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides that the submission of claims for services provided by home care agencies shall be done on forms approved by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment fee schedule for the same service or item.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Includes both the birth family and the foster family of children in foster care, and other families receiving child welfare services from the authorized agency or the local departments of social services in the case of authorized agencies in the definition of family for purposes of services provided by voluntary foster care agency health facilities.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities including hospitals, certain professionals, and insurers; requires insurance coverage for services or treatments for gender dysphoria or gender incongruence.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to utilization review program standards; requires use of evidence-based and peer reviewed clinical review criteria; relates to prescription drug formulary changes and pre-authorization for certain health care services.
May 21, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to utilization review program standards; requires use of evidence-based and peer reviewed clinical review criteria; relates to prescription drug formulary changes and pre-authorization for certain health care services.
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Provides for coverage for New Yorkers losing insurance due to the implementation of HR 1.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes the commissioner of health to establish nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region, once the federally approved capacity for the waiver is reached.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Enacts the oversight of health programs act to allow for certain members of the legislature to request records related to any vendor contracted with the state to facilitate in the administration or delivery of any publicly subsidized health program.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to excepting situations where a physician or other licensed health care provider is authorized to dispense certain medications and is practicing medicine in the oncology setting and is dispensing oncology drugs or drugs related to an approved course of treatment used to manage symptoms related to cancer or cancer therapies.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Directs the commissioner of health shall promulgate regulations allowing for any electronic health records integration vendor to obtain state approval to facilitate interoperability between the prescription monitoring program registry and certified electronic health records systems that can connect with any national data sharing hub.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.
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Ensures services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.
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Enacts the "New York state food rescue tax credit act" in relation to providing a tax credit for certain businesses that donate food to eligible nonprofit food assistance organizations.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows individuals to register in the "donate life registry" on any mandatory electronic personal income tax filing.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the effectiveness of provisions related to permitting a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body.
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Removes the 18 year old age limitation for the adoption of a foreign-born person.
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Prohibits hospitals, health systems, and health care providers from charging facility fees that are not covered by the patient's health insurance carrier.
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Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries under the consumer directed personal assistance program.
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Relates to improper practices relating to staff membership or professional privileges of a physician and such physician's board certification.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Repeals provisions concerning authorization to enroll and provide medical assistance.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes certain existing assisted living programs to expand capacity by nine or fewer beds under an expedited process.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to items of appropriation.
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Enacts the safer consumption services act which provides for the establishment of a program to provide safe injection sites.
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Directs the commissioner of health to establish at least 4 maternal-infant care centers in areas of need for infants suffering from drug withdrawal as a result of in utero exposure.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Allows individuals to register in the "donate life registry" on any mandatory electronic personal income tax filing.
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Enacts the lead pipe replacement act to require the replacement of all lead service lines by November 1, 2037.
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Extends the expiration date of free one day admission to the zoological park to December 31, 2030.
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Includes nurse practitioners as a provider of services for purposes of collaborative drug therapy management; makes the authorization for pharmacists to perform such management permanent.
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Provides training to staff members accepting registrations, issuing licenses or conducting inspections of child day care homes, programs or facilities on the detection of controlled substances.
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Provides presumptive eligibility for medical assistance benefits for individuals released from correctional facilities for at least sixty days following release.
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Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants to eligible applicants to provide certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions or diseases.
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Authorizes increased equity withdrawals by certain non-public residential health care facilities; establishes the nursing home worker recruitment and safety fund.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes collaborative programs for community paramedicine services as part of the hospital-home care-physician collaboration program.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for updates to rates for residential health care facilities.
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Permits midwives and physician assistants to certify the cause of death on a fetal death certificate if they are in attendance at or after a fetal death.
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Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Repeals the state Medicaid spending cap and related processes.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for the initiation of treatment for COVID-19, influenza, and pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection by a licensed pharmacist in certain circumstances.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to including rescue inhaler prescriptions for asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases for individuals under age nineteen in the statewide immunization information system.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the money deposited as bail by charitable bail organizations; removes maximum authorized amount of money allowed to be deposited by such organizations.
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Provides for the appointment of foreclosure receivers and managing agents in cities having a population of one million or more.
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Requires health insurance policies include coverage for anesthesia for the entire duration of a procedure for which a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for such anesthesia.
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Provides for children who were under the age of 25 when the death of the member occurred to receive an accidental death benefit for their lifetimes.
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Limits the amount of time to submit supporting documentation for major capital improvements; sets such time at one hundred and twenty days.
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Directs the department of labor to post on its internet website and annually update the names of employers who employ 50 or more employees who receive public assistance.
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Provides for coverage for certain individuals under the 1332 state innovation program.
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Ensures that temporary protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid benefits if the federal government ends the program.
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Allows certified dietitians and nutritionists to order therapeutic diets.
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Requires the commissioner of health to establish regional minimum hourly base reimbursement rates for home care aides.
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Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires all school districts to have a licensed physical education teacher.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Removes the cap on funds for teacher resource and computer training centers for the city school district for the city of New York.
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Ensures that commercial tenants receive a lease; defines terms within leases; establishes requirements for commercial lease contracts.
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Sets reimbursement rates for essential safety net hospitals at no less than regional average commercial rates for health care services provided by all hospitals in the same geographic region.
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Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance.
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Provides lead service line identification by a public water system that serves certain areas.
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Enacts the bucks for boilers act, which creates a program to aid in transition of housing units to electric heat pumps and other high energy efficiency upgrades.
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Relates to payment of claims submitted by healthcare agencies.
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Establishes an office of the state medical indemnity fund ombudsperson and a medical indemnity fund advisory panel to advocate for, assist and represent the interests of qualified plaintiffs.
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Grants authority to a hospice medical director or a physician designated by such director, to sign a death certificate.
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Repeals provisions requiring reporting of a patient's drug use.
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Requires medical evaluations for assisted living eligibility to be conducted within thirty days prior to the date of admission.
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Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body.
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Provides that the submission of claims for services provided by home care agencies shall be done on forms approved by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services.
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Enacts the lab services accessibility act.
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Includes digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency.
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Provides outpatient insurance coverage for non-opioid treatment of chronic pain including complementary and integrative treatments.
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Provides for coverage for the treatment of asthma.
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Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners.
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Provides for coverage of screenings for elevated lead levels exempting them from annual deductibles or coinsurance.
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Provides for restructuring unsustainable sovereign and subnational debt; provides a voluntary petition for relief may be filed with the state.
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Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
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Decriminalizes the possession of buprenorphine from certain crimes.
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Imposes an excise tax on sugary drinks; establishes a community health equity fund to utilize the revenues generated by such tax.
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Requires review of all motor vehicle repair shop applicants which includes community input; establishes a list of factors that shall be considered when making such decisions.
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Restores medical futility as a basis for DNR.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Conforms and improves the process for determining incapacity.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Authorizes retail clinics to provide certain services; directs the commissioner of health to enact regulations imposing certain standards and restrictions.
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Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.
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Establishes an emergency insulin program and corresponding emergency insulin program trust fund to facilitate emergency access to analog insulins.
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Amends certain definitions relating to tobacco products; changes the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for tobacco products.
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Requires medical assistance coverage for medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy for the purpose of disease management.
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Clarifies provisions regarding health care professional applications and terminations.
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Requires insurance coverage for one rescue and one maintenance inhaler at no cost.
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Provides for eligibility for medical assistance for personal care services for persons with traumatic brain injury, developmental disability, cognitive impairments, blindness or visual impairment.
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Requires health care plans and payors to have a minimum of twelve and one-half percent of their total expenditures on physical and mental health annually be for primary care services.
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Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests.
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Provides for automatic enrollment and recertification simplification for Medicaid managed care plans and long term care plans.
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Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain.
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Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.
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Requires periodic reviews of pending applications for material change in the coverage status of certain matters relative to new health technology assessment or medical evidence.
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Ensures services provided in school-based health centers are not provided to medical assistance recipients through managed care programs.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to licensure requirements for fiscal intermediaries.
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Establishes when services for traumatic brain injuries granted pursuant to a waiver shall begin.
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Provides for education and outreach for drug-induced movement disorders by the department of health through the health care and wellness education and outreach program.
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Amends the effectiveness of provisions related to the submission of physician profile information.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Clarifies provisions relating to certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Clarifies coverage requirements for epinephrine auto-injectors; specifies that such coverage may be subject to the plan's annual deductible.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Relates to the definition of medical debt; clarifies that such debt must be related to health care services, products or devices provided to a person by a hospital.
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Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.
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Prohibits state-operated hospitals from suing patients for medical debt; defines "medical debt".
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Removes certain restrictions on eligibility for personal and home care services under medicaid.
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Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Provides for the appointment of the state medicaid director by the governor subject to confirmation by the senate.
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Relates to the use of fluoroscopy by physician assistants.
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Adopts the solemn covenant of the states to award prizes for curing diseases interstate compact.
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Relates to life-sustaining treatment standards.
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Permits a chief fiscal officer of a county or a public administrator, when having the right to control the disposition of the remains of a decedent and acting reasonably and in good faith, to, without civil liability, select cremation or natural organic reduction as the method of disposition for such decedent where the financial resources of such decedent are limited …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes a special needs assisted living program to serve residents of certified assisted living residences with neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia or Parkinson's disease, who are experiencing behavior disturbances.
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Prohibits lobbyists who are convicted of or plead guilty to class D felonies or higher level crimes from acting as a lobbyist for a period of three years from the date of the conviction; provides the authority to extend suspensions; entitles such lobbyist to a hearing upon application for suspension extension.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Makes various provisions regarding establishment of a hospital: provides that any person and various other listed entities (i.e., partnership, company, stockholder, member, corporation or other entity) with authority to operate a hospital, shall be subject to approval for establishment by the public health council (unless otherwise authorized to operate a hospital without such establishment approval); provides that any assignment or …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Establishes the category of "qualified group practice" for medical, dental and podiatric practices that comply with certain standards and authorizes such practices to operate a malpractice prevention program.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers; requires medical expert consultants involved in investigations disclose conflicts of interest and to not be under investigation, on warning, or on probation; requires a zero-tolerance policy to be adopted and training to be provided on sexual misconduct by the board for professional misconduct; includes provisions related to the right to …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million inhabitants.
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Expands the scope of the temporary operator program permitting the commissioner of health to appoint an operator if a facility experiences serious financial instability or conditions that seriously endanger the life, health or safety of residents or patients.
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Moves the date of the presidential primary to the first Tuesday in March, also known as Super Tuesday.
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Establishes the healthy and safe students act; requires comprehensive sexuality instruction for students in grades K-12 which includes a model curricula for comprehensive sexuality education and at a minimum conforms to the content and scope of national sexuality education standards.
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Establishes a task force to study aging in place in mental health housing; provides for the repeal of such task force upon expiration thereof.
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Establishes a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund.
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Relates to detaining persons for longer than twenty-four hours.
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Requires the department of education to report information regarding counselors, social workers and psychologists in schools and to implement a plan to increase the school counselor, school social worker and school psychologist to student ratio to nationally accepted standards and …
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Establishes the "reciprocal enforcement of claims on unpaid or reduced state entitlements act" which requires a report on delinquent funds owed to the state by the federal government as a result of the federal government's nonpayment in contravention of a …
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Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general as well as a private right of action.
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Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on …
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Creates statewide emergency and crisis response council to work in conjunction with the commissioners of mental health and addiction services to jointly approve emergency and crisis services plans submitted by local governments, and provide supports regarding the operation and financing …
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Requires child protective services to orally and in writing disclose certain information to parents and caretakers who are the subject of a child protective services investigation; requires such oral and written disclosure to contain certain information regarding the rights of …
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Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status; provides for process and sentencing requirements related to such statuses.
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Prohibits organized militias from another state, territory, or district from entering into New York for the purpose of doing military duty without the express permission of the governor unless such militia has been called into federal service and is acting …
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Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing is necessary for a medical emergency.
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Relates to providing information to patients and the public on hospital rule-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each hospital a list of its hospital rule-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.
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Requires cultural awareness and competence training for medical professionals, including two hours of course work or training encompassing minority healthcare issues; provides an exemption for certain individuals; requires hospitals and facilities to request documentation of the completion of training from …
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Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.
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Requires the commissioner to establish Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and civic impact curriculum or instructions for school districts.
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May 29, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to consumer warnings regarding rifles, shotguns, and firearms; provides that a graphic warning that depicts the nature of the health and safety risks of firearms be provided when any license or permit is issued or amended.
May 28, 2026 · details / share
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May 28, 2026 · details / share
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May 28, 2026 · details / share
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May 28, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a twenty-four hour, toll-free hotline and website for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning plus (LGBTQ+) individuals who are experiencing emotional distress, suicidal ideation, or crisis-related challenges, which shall provide immediate support, referrals, resource lists, and other information.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to conducting investigations into the administration and enforcement of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and the New York state energy conservation construction code by counties.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes uniform waiting list priorities for domestic violence survivors applying for public housing.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Ensures that library staff of free association, public, and hospital libraries, and with certain advice, Indian libraries, are able to develop collections, services, and programming that reflect the values and protections established under the human rights law and the equal …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "ceasing repeated and extremely egregious predatory (CREEP) behavior act"; provides for the issuance of anti-stalking orders.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires that any law enforcement agency in the state that encrypts any portion of its radio communications shall ensure that all of its radio communications, with the exception of sensitive information, may be monitored in real time by professional journalists, …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the Medicaid inspector general to comply with standards relating to the audit and review of medical assistance program funds.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases short-term disability benefits.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that certain persons shall not be deemed a distributor for certain sales of premium cigars; provides that the tax on premium cigars shall be at the rate of seventy-five percent of the wholesale price or fifty cents, whichever is …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires schools to include instruction on the prevention of eating disorders as an integral part of their health education programs.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Increases taxes imposed on alcoholic beverages; authorizes twenty percent of tax revenues to be allocated to the New York state drug treatment and public education fund.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires certain agencies and individuals to provide notice regarding the rent increase exemption for low income elderly persons and persons with disabilities programs to tenants upon the occurrence of certain events.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the recording of conveyances suspected of being fraudulent; requires the clerk or registrar to report transactions believed to be or suspected of being fraudulent to the office of the attorney general and to local law enforcement or sheriff's office.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a tax on video streaming services; provides that the revenue from the tax is to be used to ensure that every resident in the state has access to modern communications networks; establishes the media arts technology and education fund.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts "Francesco's law" which establishes violations for the failure to safely store rifles, shotguns, and firearms in the presence of a minor or a prohibited person; requires the office of gun violence prevention to collect and analyze statistical and other …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to motions to vacate judgment; authorizes filing motions to vacate judgment for a conviction that was subsequently decriminalized; authorizes motions to vacate judgment to be filed at any time after entry of a judgment obtained at trial or by …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "jobs and housing act"; directs the private housing finance agency to develop and administer a jobs and housing pilot program to construct and preserve housing, including workforce housing, that is affordable to low and moderate income persons, and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Includes implants, replacement dental prosthetic appliances, crowns and root canals as medically necessary dental care and services for coverage under the Medicaid program if a qualified dentist authorizes the procedures.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Amends procedures required for the custodial interrogation of children to provide additional protections and for taking juveniles and sixteen and seventeen year olds into custody.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes certain persons confined in institutions operated by the department of corrections and community supervision to apply for a sentence reduction.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits the use of surveillance pricing, directly or indirectly; prohibits the collection, use, retention, or sharing of data to facilitate surveillance pricing; provides exceptions; provides for enforcement by the attorney general; makes related provisions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish rules and regulations relating to conditions in institutions and correctional facilities and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires insurance coverage for early egg and peanut allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants at no cost.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan; makes related provisions.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Makes commissioners full time employees of boards outside the city of New York.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in New York city.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes a private right of action for deed theft; provides that victims of deed theft may maintain an action against a deed thief or a bank that provides a loan that assists in the commission of deed theft; authorizes victims …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Relates to the statute of limitations for certain deed theft actions; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations and states who may bring such actions; grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires practitioners to discuss certain risks with a patient who is being prescribed a schedule II controlled substance or an opioid analgesic; requires the department of health to develop practitioner guidelines.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Enacts the "deed theft: proof of sale price act" requiring a statement of the full sales price of real property being conveyed and proof of such sales price to be submitted to the recording officer in order for such officer …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety; requires …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits cases from being closed without a hearing or written stipulation; requires a stenographic record of all hearings held; requires minutes and decisions to be provided to the injured worker in their native language.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for findings of the state board of parole necessary for discretionary release of incarcerated individuals on parole.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Authorizes courts to hold evidentiary hearings for a temporary order of protection in certain circumstances; grants superior court judges the authority to issue a temporary order of protection when an action is pending in a local criminal court in certain …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Imposes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new data centers; requires the public service commission to issue an order or orders to minimize the impact of new data centers on electricity and gas rates for residential, commercial, and …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Provides for the use of restoration services when determining the capacity of a defendant to stand trial.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Permits courts to award punitive damages against an estate for sexual abuse.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits provided to Medicare-eligible retirees and their Medicare-eligible dependents or the contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such …
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Returns outpatient mental health, substance use disorder, residential and rehabilitation services to Medicaid fee-for-service.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share
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May 21, 2026 · details / share