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Jim Tedisco R

State Senator
New York Senate District 44
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
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On Record (102)

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Provides a tax credit for spay or neuter services.
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Establishes the offenses of aggravated endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death.
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Enacts the "utility ratepayer protection act"; requires legislative approval of increases in utility charges.
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Authorizes Kurt Nolan to receive certain credit under sections 384-d and 384-e of the retirement and social security law for prior employment with the New York state university police.
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Requires each violator of "Buster's Law" to register the violator's name and address with the division of criminal justice services; makes the registration available to the public, law enforcement entities, district attorneys, humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations, animal control officers, breeders of animals, animal rescues and pet stores.
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Establishes the bullet-proof vests for officers fund.
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Tedisco Honors Saratoga County West Point Cadet  The New York State Senate (.gov)
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Grants retroactive membership with Tier IV status in the New York state and local employees' retirement system to William Kerr.
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Waives metered parking fees for certain vehicles displaying a handicapped permit or with handicapped plates.
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Designates the colors blue and yellow as the official colors of the state of New York.
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Provides for the licensing, inspection and regulation of animal boarding kennels; authorizes the department of agriculture and markets to license, inspect and regulate animal boarding kennels.
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Provides for distinctive license plates for members of the Seabee Veterans of America.
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Dedicates all that portion of the state highway system constituting bridge number 1007069, located on Union Avenue, state route 9P, crossing interstate 87 in the city of Saratoga Springs, county of Saratoga, to Assembly Member Bobby D'Andrea.
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Allows victim impact statements to be submitted at parole revocation hearings.
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Authorizes the commissioner of general services to transfer and convey certain lands in the town of Wilton, county of Saratoga, to the Veterans and Community Housing Coalition.
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Authorizes a lengthier prison sentence for a person who commits aggravated cruelty to animals during an incident of domestic violence.
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Provides for recall of a statewide elective officer; empowers the citizens with the ability to remove elective officers.
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Establishes a school speed zone camera demonstration program in the city of Schenectady; repeals authorization of program December 31, 2030.
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Relates to adjudications and owner liability for a violation of traffic-control signal indications in the city of Schenectady.
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Incorporates legislative provisions regarding the conduct of special elections to fill vacancies in federal elected offices into the constitution.
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Provides judges with more discretion regarding securing orders and limiting the lengths of certain orders; establishes new criminal discovery rules.
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Increases the number of county court judges in Saratoga county by one justice.
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Increases the penalties for owners of dangerous dogs and subjects certain dangerous dog owners to further investigation.
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Authorizes the dissolution and discontinuance by the town of Ballston, in the county of Saratoga, of the Jenkins Park District.
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Provides for the governor to fill a vacancy for the offices of comptroller and attorney-general and for such person to serve until the next general election.
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Appropriates $5,550,000 for the purpose of establishing and expanding training programs for direct support professionals at boards of cooperative educational services.
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Requires that license plates be inspected during vehicle safety inspections and waives fees for the issuance of certain license plates.
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Relates to the penalty for the offense of predatory sexual assault against a child; provides for lifetime parole for such felons.
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Relates to aggravated neglect of a companion animal.
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Allows only citizens to vote at elections.
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Requires legislative approval for the closure of correctional facilities and institutions.
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Requires the estimated cost of mandated expenditures and appropriations within the body of the bill.
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Eliminates the registration fees charged for the issuance of volunteer firefighter distinctive license plates.
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Prohibits certain borrowing arrangements; relates to the authorization for the contracting of debt; relates to the manner by which payments are appropriated and paid.
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Requires police officers to attend annual diversity training seminars.
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Prohibits sex offenders who are on parole and in civil confinement from voting in certain elections.
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Limits ownership or possession of companion animals by "Buster's Law" violators; adds definition of equine companion while taking horses out of farm animal definition.
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Relates to eligibility to assume office for certain elected officials owing past-due tax liabilities.
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Requires that any bill which provides revenue to the state in a non-recurring manner shall pass by a two-thirds majority in order to become law.
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Relates to the failure to produce records in response to a FOIL request; criminalizes the failure to comply with the freedom of information law.
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Establishes the bullet-proof vests for officers fund.
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Enacts the "utility ratepayer protection act"; requires legislative approval of increases in utility charges.
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Establishes the crimes of harassment of a law enforcement officer or a member of the officer's family in the first degree and second degree.
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Enacts the "chronic criminal act"; establishes the crime of aggravated criminal conduct.
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Requires unsealing of court records of youthful offenders convicted of animal abuse offense; provides that such persons undergo a psychiatric evaluation and treatment where necessary.
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Establishes competitive paperwork reduction project grants; provides that such grants may be included for calculations of government efficiency plans.
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Requires the forfeiture by state officers or local officers of STAR exemption eligibility upon conviction of a felony related to public employment.
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Repeals the estate tax.
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Authorizes a distinctive "guardians for schools" license plate; establishes the guardians for schools fund.
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Establishes the bystander protection act which increases the punishment for an offense when a member of the public is harmed, but the intended target is a public official.
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Prohibits a person convicted of "Buster's Law" from owning or possessing a companion animal unless authorized by court order, after appropriate psychiatric or psychological testing.
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Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act"; restricts prison privileges, including the wearing of civilian clothing, for certain incarcerated individuals.
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Relates to certain assault crimes wherein a person is aided or encouraged to strike the victim in the head and cause unconsciousness.
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Establishes the New York state commission on out-migration which examines why the state of New York is losing residents and offering recommendations to reverse such trend.
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Relates to implementing a dangerous dog owner alert system.
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Exempts lemonade stands operated by persons under sixteen years of age from department of health permitting requirements.
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Establishes the "Purple Star School Program" to assist military-connected students and to recognize the value of military service and civic responsibility.
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Relates to providing an exemption for drugs and medicines for companion and farm animals.
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Establishes a tax credit for the cost of veterinary services up to two thousand dollars per year.
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Enacts the "over-expenditure, under-expenditure, transfer notification (OUT) act" to provide for the use of surplus appropriated funds and over-expenditure approval.
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Provides for the recall power of the electors to remove an elective officer.
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Relates to vulnerable elderly or disabled persons; deletes references to caregiver to make any person who endangers the welfare of an elderly or disabled person guilty of provisions of the penal law.
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Provides a tax credit for spay or neuter services.
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Enacts the "truth in spending act"; creates disclosure requirements prior to the allocation of certain funds.
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Provides that crimes committed against a person on school grounds shall be deemed to be one category higher than the specified crime the person committed; enacts "Suzanne's Law".
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Enacts "Kirby and Quigley's Law"; expands the definition of aggravated cruelty to animals to include harm to a companion animal during the commission of a felony.
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Relates to the disposition of fetal remains.
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Establishes an elderly dental insurance coverage program; specifies eligibility requirements; specifies penalties for fraud and abuse; appropriates $20,000,000 therefor.
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Relates to requiring bills with a threshold level of co-sponsorship to be brought to the floor for a vote to be taken thereon.
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Includes aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree and aggravated cemetery desecration in the first degree as specified offenses for purposes of hate crimes.
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Expands a certain tax credit for farmers to include the cost of construction of housing for farm workers.
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Enacts Jacobe's Law requiring school administrators to contact the parents or guardians of students when bullying or harassment has occurred.
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Requires that each appointment to an office by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate shall be voted on individually by the senate; provides that nominations may not be considered, confirmed or rejected as a slate or group; requires that all votes be conducted with a roll call vote with each senator's vote noted on …
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Establishes a limitation on financial services assessments and appropriation suballocations; requires that money obtained from assessments shall only be used to defray operating expenses of the department of financial services.
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Directs the commissioner of health to conduct an investigation of the department's performance, compliance and enforcement of applicable state laws, rules, regulations, and directives or executive orders, with respect to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 in nursing homes, adult care facilities, and assisted living residences, and to propose a pandemic response plan for future disease outbreaks.
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Provides for a phased decrease of excise taxes and sales taxes and petroleum business taxes on diesel motor fuel and motor fuel when the average price of motor fuel in the state exceeds $2.25 per gallon; authorizes cities having a population of one million or more and counties to adopt local laws limiting taxes on diesel motor fuel and motor …
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Establishes a rental assistance loan-to-grant program to assist landlords of small rental properties who have lost rental income due to the inability of the landlords' tenants to pay rent during the COVID-19 state disaster emergency; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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Authorizes certain persons to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate training; requires the department of health to establish a registry of the names of lay persons trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.
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Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired.
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Prohibits the New York Department of State from issuing a certificate of dissolution and filing a judgment or final order of dissolution for the pension fund for employees of the former St. Clare's Hospital in the city of Schenectady, county of Schenectady, until an investigation and/or audit by the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Attorney …
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Requires each violator of "Buster's Law" to register the violator's name and address with the division of criminal justice services; makes the registration available to the public, law enforcement entities, district attorneys, humane societies, societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, dog or cat protective associations, animal control officers, breeders of animals, animal rescues and pet stores.
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Requires an equal distribution of legislative staff and appropriations to be made among all members of the legislature; provides for additional funds and staff for members in special capacities as long as such additional staff does not deal with constituent services.
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Ensures privacy protections for all emergency personnel present at a crime scene including ambulance services or advanced life support first response services, certified first responders, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians, who are employed by or enrolled members of any such service.
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Requires state agencies to submit proposed rules and regulations intended to implement legislation to the appropriate committee of the legislature for approval; provides that no such rule or regulation shall take effect unless it has been approved by a majority vote of such legislative committee.
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Makes the failure to provide food, water or appropriate shelter to a companion animal (dogs and cats) left outside a felony punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than 2 years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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Establishes the task force on pandemic learning loss in New York state to assess the impact of remote learning on children's progress in various disciplines; requires a report; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.
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Requires legislative approval of any increased fees, rental or charges for the use of the thruway; provides that any shortfalls in revenue resulting from a denied proposal shall be made whole by the general fund.
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Relates to providing a tax credit for qualified expenses relating to healthy living; provides such credit shall equal, up to one thousand dollars, the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified expenses relating to healthy living.
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Adds elderly persons to disaster preparedness registries; creates a state emergency assistance database; provides that the disaster preparedness commission shall establish the state emergency assistance database; provides that all records relating to SEAD shall be confidential and the commission shall not be liable for any claim based upon a good faith exercise or performance of duty.
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Enacts the graduate outreach assistance law to exempt from state income taxation the first two hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a fifty thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a four-year college graduate and the first one hundred fifty thousand dollars, with a twenty-five thousand dollar cap per year, earned by a two-year college graduate.
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Relates to setting bail for dangerous defendants who pose a threat to public safety; requires a court to make an individualized determination based on the principal's record of a prior felony conviction, failure to appear in court or arrest during the interim period while awaiting a preliminary hearing or trial.
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Increases the enhanced STAR property tax deduction for tax for final assessment rolls to be completed after two thousand twenty-six; provides a total exemption from school taxes for certain persons eighty years of age and older.
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Bars a person who is convicted of a hate crime from attending any SUNY or CUNY institution; provides for the expulsion of a student who is convicted of hate crimes; provides for reinstatement of such student if the conviction is subsequently overturned.
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Prohibits certain sex offenders from residing within 1,350 feet of school grounds, except that in cities having a population of one million or more, no such sex offender may reside within 500 feet of school grounds; establishes a violation thereof …
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Relates to payment of a supplemental empire state child tax credit for the tax year 2024 and thereafter equal to $1000 per qualified newborn.
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Adopts the interstate nurse licensure compact (Part A); adopts the advanced practice registered nurse compact (Part B).
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Reduces federal adjusted gross income by the amount of overtime compensation earned by an individual in certain circumstances; defines overtime compensation.
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Establishes an income tax deduction for cash and credit card tips received which are considered wages or compensation.
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Amends the definition of "carbon dioxide equivalent" to provide that such term be calculated based on a 100-year time frame after emission; provides for rules and regulations to amend the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit; repeals provisions of law relating …
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Establishes a one-year utility bill tax and surcharge holiday and a two-year green energy tax holiday.
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Establishes a supplemental household and dependent care credit payment for taxpayers who are eligible for certain household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment.
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Establishes the "clean fuel standard of 2026"; provides such standard is intended to reduce greenhouse gas intensity from the on-road transportation sector, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.
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Authorizes exemptions from school district real property taxes for volunteer firefighters residing in such school district.
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Increases the aggregate funds available for the child care tax credit for businesses that provide child care services.
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Establishes a child care program capital improvement tax credit program for child care programs to provide financial assistance to New York's child care providers to facilitate the enhancement, expansion, and improvement of access to quality child care.
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Allows school districts to permit home-schooled students to participate in district interscholastic sports.
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Increases the child and dependent care tax credit to reflect increases in the cost of child and dependent care.
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Enacts the "Affordable NY act"; increases the STAR exemptions; adjusts personal income tax rates.
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Establishes a temporary task force on the variable supplements fund program to make findings and recommendations.
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Establishes a real property tax freeze credit for taxpayers in certain eligible school districts.
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Requires age verification for internet pornography websites; imposes a $50,000 penalty per day for violations; provides exemptions for news organizations.
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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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Relates to the provision of financial assistance to museums, zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums and other cultural institutions located in low-income urban, suburban or rural communities, or that provide educational services to students from such communities.
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Relates to procedures relating to driving while ability impaired by drugs; defines impairment and intoxication; updates procedures for field testing of drivers suspected of being under the influence of drugs to include the use of oral/bodily fluid tests; provides that …
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Establishes an optional twenty-five year retirement plan for certain public safety dispatchers, public safety telecommunicators, 911 operators, communications officers, police communication technicians, emergency services operators and emergency services dispatchers employed by the state, or a county or municipal emergency services …
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Establishes the New York state park police under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation.
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Enacts the "New York wildlife crossing act"; directs the department of transportation and the New York state thruway authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and the department of motor vehicles, to identify sites along all highways, thruways …
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Enacts the "pretrial risk overview for threat evaluation, custody, and treatment (PROTECT) Act" to evaluate certain defendants; establishes a risk assessment instrument to aid judges in determining whether to release or detain a principal, where and when a release is …
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Requires law enforcement and courts to notify the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) when an arrested person or defendant is not a United States citizen; adjusts certain maximum sentences for class A misdemeanors and unclassified misdemeanors; requires …
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Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge …
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Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
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Establishes the nutrient inactivant application permit to allow for the use of products used for controlling phosphorus levels in lakes or ponds to prevent and inhibit harmful algal blooms.
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Provides that no person shall engage in the aquaculture of any species of octopus in the state for the purpose of human consumption.
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Requires a valid government issued photo identification card be presented when casting a ballot; provides for persons eligible for Medicaid to receive identification cards.
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Provides free use of state parks and campsites for volunteer firefighters and members of a volunteer ambulance service.
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Extends eligibility for real property tax exemptions to certain veterans.
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Creates a $1,500 wage tax credit for employers who employ New York national guard members, reservists, volunteer firefighters and EMS personnel.
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Prohibits the use of adhesive-based rodent traps in state-owned or state-leased buildings.
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