Provides for the rate of employer contributions to the unemployment insurance fund in the 2026 fiscal year; establishes the unemployment insurance solvency reserve fund.
Creates a service learning program for students serving as active volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers; mandates certain features of such program.
Directs the New York state energy research and development authority to establish a ride clean rebate program for electric assist bicycles and electric scooters; defines terms; provides a fifty percent rebate for eligible purchases.
Authorizes imposition of life imprisonment without parole sentence for persistent violent felony offenders upon conviction of a violent felony offense when such person has previously been subjected to two or more predicate violent felony convictions.
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.
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.