Defines a "protected consumer" as an individual who is under the age of eighteen years.
Clarifies that only persons eighteen years of age and older may be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
Requires children under the age of eighteen to wear protective headgear while skiing or snowboarding; imposes civil fines for violations thereof; applies safety in skiing code requirements to snowboarders and snowboarding.
Requires one caregiver for every two children under eighteen months of age in group family day care homes and family day care homes.
Relates to dispositions in family offense cases and orders of protection against a child under eighteen alleged to be a person in need of supervision or to have committed a family offense; provides that no order of protection or temporary order of protection may be issued directing a respondent who resides with a parent, other person legally responsible or other party to stay away from the home of such individual if the effect of such order would leave the respondent without an appropriate alternative residence; relates to the right of a respondent under the age of eighteen to have a guardian ad litem appointed in a family offense proceeding in which the petitioner is a parent or other person legally responsible for the respondent.
Relates to certain rental vehicle protections; provides that the rate caps charged by rental vehicle companies shall be tied to the consumer price index of all urban consumers over the previous year as reported by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics; makes provisions of law permanent.
Requires the consumer protection division to establish a process by which any state agency or third party, pursuant to an interagency agreement with the division for the purposes of fraud prevention, identity verification, and ensuring the integrity or security of individual identities, to grant access to verify New York resident identities via a secure comparison process against state systems.
Increases personal needs allowance amounts for individuals who are deemed eligible; requires that payments be subject to an annual adjustment reflecting the latest consumer price index, all items-U.S. city average.
Enacts the "pediatric palliative care act" to establish pediatric palliative care centers to provide palliative care to individuals who are under twenty-one years of age, have been diagnosed with a chronic, complex, life-threatening illness that is expected to shorten their life expectancy, and is not expected to survive past twenty-one years of age.
Relates to action arising out of consumer debt; defines consumer debt and replaces consumer credit transaction with such term.