(Effective Date / Chapter Number / Bill Number)
(Summary)
Removes the three-year exemption of mandatory continuing education for newly licensed Certified Public Accountants and public accountants.
Allows 16- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote.
Enacts the Comprehensive Contraception Coverage Act to require health insurance policies to cover all FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products, as well as voluntary sterilization procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related follow-up services. Prohibits cost-sharing requirements or other restrictions or delays.
Expands the types of medical professionals authorized to provide medical care and treatment to injured workers under the workers’ compensation system and expands the Workers’ Compensation Board’s authority to resolve medical bill disputes.
Provides for uniform polling hours of 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. during primary elections.
Ends detention of Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) and allows for limited pre-dispositional placement of PINS in foster care rather than detention facilities. Narrows the ability of family courts to order foster care placements at disposition of PINS cases with a limited post-placement timeframe. Adds Family Support Centers as a reimbursable option for preventive services for local social services districts.
Requires fiscal intermediaries for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program to contract with the Department of Health through a procurement process.
Codifies provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act, including the 10 categories of essential health benefits that health insurance plans must cover.
Requires health insurance companies to publish a complete list of all covered prescription drugs on their formulary drug list.
Prohibits health insurance companies from engaging in discrimination based on sex or gender identity.
Requires health insurance plans to cover fertility preservation treatments for those with iatrogenic infertility caused by radiation, medication or surgery. Also requires large-group insurers to cover three cycles of in-vitro fertilization.
Requires health insurance policies to cover reproductive health coverage, including voluntary sterilization procedures and over-the-counter contraceptive products.
1/1/2020 / Ch. 57 of 2019 Part J, Subpart A, Sec. 11, Subsec. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 / A.2007-C & S.1507-C
Codifies provisions of the federal Affordable Care Act that prohibit insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Requires power plants to file an annual report showing the inventory, revenue and expenses for the year.
Allows businesses to receive a tax credit for providing child care facilities for employees.
Allows businesses to receive a tax credit for hiring eligible individuals who are in recovery from a substance use disorder.
1/1/2020 / Ch. 59 of 2019 Part III, Sec. 20, Subsec. 13 & 19 / A.2009-C & S.1509-C
Establishes a combined single limit of $1.5 million liability bond or insurance coverage on motor vehicles carrying passengers for compensation which have a seating capacity of 8 or more passengers.
Eliminates cash bail for misdemeanors, excluding sex offense misdemeanors, and non-violent felonies, allowing individuals to be released on their own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions.
Enacts new judicial requirements that ensure defendants have access to a speedy trial.
Reforms discovery procedures to expedite disclosure of information and documents in criminal cases.
Removes the requirement that primary ballots be color coded by political party.
Enacts the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act, which provides farm workers with the following protections: collective bargaining rights, a day of rest, overtime pay, unemployment benefits, disability insurance, sanitary housing, and additional workers' compensation benefits.
Establishes the New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act to combat climate change by: reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 85% by 2050, requiring that 70% of electricity be produced by renewable energy systems by 2030 and requiring 100% of the state’s electricity to be produced without emissions by 2040.
Enacts Brianna’s Law, requiring all operators of mechanically propelled vessels to take a boating safety course. Starting in 2020, the law applies to those born in 1993 or later then will be phased in on an annual basis to include all operators by 2025.
Requires Industrial Development Agencies to live stream open meetings and public hearings and post the content on their websites for at least five years.
Extends the period to file the application for accidental death benefits to five years for members of the New York State and Local Retirement System.
Allows taxpayers to check off a box on tax returns to make contributions for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and treatment.
Allows a health care provider to diagnose or prescribe drugs for sexually transmitted infections to a sexual partner or partners without performing an examination.
Requires that all employees of programs and organizations providing care to runaway or homeless youth complete training in issues pertaining to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.
Clarifies the inclusion of property damage coverage in the combined single limit of $1.5 million coverage for bodily injury and death which is required for motor vehicles carrying passengers for compensation which have a seating capacity of 8 or more passengers.
Allows a board of elections to design an alternative poll site staffing plan to conduct an election.
Requires a "paid for by" disclosure statement for all political communications including printed, digital, visual and auditory communications.
Allows filings with a local board of elections to meet state filing requirements in order to eliminate duplicative filings.
Establishes an electronic open auction public bond sale pilot program so municipalities can conduct open auction public bond sales through nationally recognized securities bidding services.
Authorizes Medicaid coverage for lactation counseling services without a referral from a physician, registered physician assistant, registered nurse practitioner or licensed midwife.
Creates a tax credit for the hiring of women and minority television writers and directors by companies participating in New York's film tax credit program.
Provides for the synchronization of multiple prescriptions in order to allow patients to pick up medications for chronic illness on the same date each month.
Provides that the employer which pays an individual must make unemployment insurance contributions even if the work is performed for a different entity.
Allows municipalities to reduce the tax redemption period of vacant and abandoned properties from two years to one year and expedites the foreclosure process.
Requires hospitals to establish domestic violence training policies and coordinate services for survivors.
Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group and interagency coordinating council to develop equitable environmental policies.
Requires the State Liquor Authority to make available to the public information pertaining to any conditions it imposes on a licensed premises.
Extends the property tax exemption for disabled veterans to current members of the armed forces who are disabled and remain in active service.
Clarifies that petty offense charges are eligible and should be sealed.
Prohibits employers from asking an applicant’s wage or salary history as a requirement for job interviews, applications, promotions or job offers.
Provides for the establishment of a procedure and electronic system to process Mitchell-Lama housing applications and waiting lists.
Requires employers that provide employee handbooks to include notice of rights regarding reproductive health decision making by the employee or a dependent.
Directs the Division of Veterans' Services to maintain a discharge upgrade advisory board to provide written non-binding advisory opinions to veterans who are appealing their character of discharge.
Requires local veterans' service agencies to assist veterans in the process of submitting an application for a discharge upgrade to the discharge upgrade advisory board.
Expands and extends the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises program to promote employment and business opportunities in state contracts.
Requires Community Reinvestment Act reporting to include bank lending to Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises.
Authorizes firefighters and law enforcement officers outside of New York City to possess and administer epinephrine.
Ensures that residents of adult care facilities have a right to be informed about their condition, treatment and medications, as well as the right to consent or refuse care and be able to choose their own providers.
Establishes the right of adoptees to receive a certified copy of their birth certificate at the age of 18.
Increases the amount of barrels that a brew pub may produce to sell at retail or wholesale from 250 to 2,000 and requires a wholesaler to be used for distribution.
Requires the informational materials which accompany opioid antagonists for first aid or emergency treatment to include Good Samaritan liability protections.
Requires cooperatives to notify residents of changes in their by-laws within 10 days of adoption.
Criminalizes the manufacture, sale, transport and possession of firearms, rifles, shotguns and the major components of such weapons which are undetectable by an X-ray machine or metal detector.
Establishes the municipal gun buyback program by the Division of State Police to allow for the voluntary return of guns.
This was taken from Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz's Legislative Summary December 23 - January 4, 2019.