Appropriates $5,550,000 for the purpose of establishing and expanding training programs for direct support professionals at boards of cooperative educational services.
Authorizes distinctive license plates for women veterans; directs that excess service charges collected be used to support programs that support women veterans at the direction of the commissioner of veterans' services.
Directs the commissioner of education, in consultation with the office of fire prevention and control, to develop model curriculum related to fire science for use by public high schools and boards of cooperative educational services throughout the state.
Requires at least one director on a board of directors of a residential cooperative housing corporation be a primary resident of such residential cooperative housing corporation; prohibits the charging of payments, fees or charges by cooperative housing corporations without thirty days written notice to such cooperative housing corporation's shareholders.
Requires at least one director on a board of directors of a residential cooperative housing corporation be a primary resident of such residential cooperative housing corporation; prohibits the charging of payments, fees or charges by cooperative housing corporations without thirty days written notice to such cooperative housing corporation's shareholders.
Directs the education department to study, review and report on the geographic cost variation of counties in the Hudson Valley labor force region to determine the appropriateness of the region cost index values for purposes of the public school foundation aid formula.
Provides for the employment of school nurses for the inspection of pupils attending certain public schools; relates to school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.
Renames an office of addiction services and supports scholarship program the "NYS Father Peter Young Memorial Addiction Professionals Scholarship Program"; codifies the purposes of such program as offering financial education assistance to individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in addiction studies or the education requirements for an office of addiction services and supports credential at Alfred State College, Stony Brook University or Empire State University.
Expands the purposes of the drug treatment and public education fund to include prevention and recovery programs; requires reporting to be made available on the office of addiction services and supports' website.
Expands the purposes of the drug treatment and public education fund to include prevention and recovery programs; requires reporting to be made available on the office of addiction services and supports' website.
Extends protections to tenants of cooperative housing entities by expanding the definition of landlord to include cooperative entities; defines cooperative entities.