This bill, known as the New York City School-Based Food Pantry Act, authorizes the establishment of food pantries within high-need schools in New York City to help address student hunger and food insecurity. The program would operate on school premises during designated times, such as before or after school, providing free nutritious food to enrolled students and their families without interfering with instructional time. To ensure successful implementation, the bill mandates partnerships with local food organizations for training and supply coordination, while requiring strict guidelines to protect student dignity, maintain food safety, and prioritize volunteer-led operations. The Chancellor of the Department of Education would be responsible for prioritizing schools with the highest levels of economic need and submitting annual reports on the program's progress to state and city officials.
Provides a performance of duty presumption for diseases of the heart for members who serve as an ambulance medical technician, ambulance medical coordinator, ambulance medical technician/supervisor or a member who performs ambulance medical technician related services, or a police medic, police medic coordinator, police medic supervisor, bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, assistant bureau director police emergency ambulance services - county, or a member who performs police medic or police emergency ambulance related services and is employed in the Nassau county police department.
Provides parity to durable medical equipment providers by requiring Medicaid managed care organizations to reimburse such providers at no less than one hundred percent of the medical assistance durable medical equipment fee schedule for the same service or item.
Prohibits falsely impersonating an employee organization or an employee representative with the intent to deceive the recipient and thereby cause harm to such recipient or employee organization by the use of fraud, misrepresentation, material omission, or other deception in making and disseminating a verbal, written or electronic communication; provides that the attorney general may bring an action or proceeding to enjoin such unlawful acts or practices.
Increases the term of office from two years to four years for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, and providing for the staggering of such terms of office.
Expands how applicants may qualify for a license to be a dentist to include postdoctoral specialty programs and advanced education programs in general dentistry.
Relates to appropriations to the Barker central school district following the cessation of operations of an electric generating facility located within such district; permits awards for a period of ten years for the loss of tax revenue.
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey real property at the former Buffalo psychiatric center to the Richardson Center Corporation for the purposes of constructing a mixed-use campus for the community benefit.
Authorizes the commissioner of general services to convey real property at the former Buffalo psychiatric center to the Richardson Center Corporation for the purposes of constructing a mixed-use campus for the community benefit.
Provides liability protections for health care providers who issue vaccines so long as such vaccination does not arise out of willful misconduct or gross negligence.
Enacts the "pediatric palliative care center act" to establish a demonstration program for pediatric palliative care centers for up to five not-for-profits 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; authorizes the establishment or approval of a rate methodology.
Authorizes insurers to collect social security account numbers solely for the purpose of effectuating, verifying, or amending an individual's donor registration status in the New York state donate life registry; prohibits use of such information other than for such purposes.
