Includes information about bystander intervention training in the department of labor's model sexual harassment prevention policy that includes information and practical guidance on how to enable bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and to motivate bystanders to take action when such bystanders observe problematic behaviors.
Requires local child protective services to notify appropriate military personnel when a member of the armed forces is the subject of a report of child abuse or maltreatment; allows military law enforcement personnel to inquire of local child protective services whether any member of the armed forces is the subject of an indicated report on file with the statewide central register of child abuse and maltreatment.
Relates to qualifying offenses for pre-trial detention; adds class B felonies under article two hundred twenty of the penal law as qualifying offenses.
Provides additional credits to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members who died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.
Establishes the crime of forcible touching of a correction officer; increases criminal penalties for certain sexual offenses committed against correction officers when such correction officer is acting in the course of such correction officer's employment.
Includes retirement plans in the exemption for pensions and annuities for certain persons; increases such exemption to one hundred thousand dollars as adjusted by the consumer price index annually.
Relates to making contractors, subcontractors, and substantially owned-affiliated entities that have been debarred under the Davis-Bacon Act (40 U.S.C. 3144) ineligible to bid for or be awarded public works contracts.
Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
Authorizes school districts to submit an opt-out waiver to the commissioner of education authorizing such districts to opt-out of certain zero-emission school bus requirements.
Protects the identity of witnesses of hate crimes in discovery proceedings by requiring identifying information to be redacted, unless the court rules otherwise for good cause shown.
Prohibits the governor, the legislature and state agencies from imposing residential housing zoning requirements on local governments without approval from the local government.
Requires the office of children and family services implement a regional cost factor analysis for child care subsidies; requires social services districts implement such findings.