This bill requires employers in covered workplaces (primarily businesses delivering goods/services to consumers or businesses) to create written heat illness prevention plans. These plans must include specific protections like providing potable water below 59°F, paid rest breaks in cool areas, monitoring heat exposure, and emergency response procedures for heat-related injuries. Employers must also provide annual training for all employees on heat risks, symptoms, prevention methods, and reporting procedures, with materials in workers' languages. The law applies to all employers, including contractors and temp agencies, and aims to prevent heat-related illnesses through concrete workplace safety measures.
This bill extends New York State's Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, which provides medical assistance to adults with cystic fibrosis, until March 31, 2030. It amends existing law to change the program's expiration date from 2025 to 2030, ensuring continued funding and support for eligible patients. The key provision is simply extending the program's operational period without altering its core eligibility or benefit structure. This directly affects New York adults diagnosed with cystic fibrosis who rely on state assistance for medical care.
Requires electric companies to provide alternative measures to ensure customers with documented need for essential electricity for medical needs have access to electricity during power outages; requires electric companies to provide generators or lodging for such individuals and transportation for medical devices.
This bill prohibits insurance companies in New York from charging different disability insurance premiums based on a person's gender. It directly affects individuals purchasing or renewing disability insurance policies, requiring insurers to use the same rates for all genders regardless of whether the policy is individual, group, or blanket coverage. The law adds a new provision to the insurance code, making it illegal for insurers to set rates based on gender. The policy change takes effect January 1st following the law's enactment, applying to all new or renewed policies issued on or after that date.
This bill (S 1515) changes how local governments in New York calculate property tax levies by removing costs for emergency medical services (EMS) from the tax levy cap. It directly affects cities, towns, and counties that provide EMS, allowing them to fund these services without counting those expenses toward their annual property tax limit. The key provision adds a new exemption (subparagraph v) to the tax levy calculation, explicitly excluding EMS expenditures from the cap. This is a technical adjustment to the tax formula, not a new funding source or policy shift for EMS services themselves.
This bill requires all children's overnight camps, summer day camps, and traveling summer day camps in New York to maintain epinephrine auto-injector devices on-site and have a collaborative agreement with an emergency healthcare provider. Camps must ensure staff complete approved training for device use, report each use to the healthcare provider, and follow department regulations for storage and disposal. The law clarifies that using epinephrine under this requirement is considered first aid, not unauthorized medical practice, and protects users from liability. It directly affects camp operators and staff who care for children with severe allergies. The bill takes effect 180 days after enactment.
Allows for unlicensed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and to perform certain nursing tasks during a state disaster emergency.
This bill provides emergency funding to keep state government operations running during a budget gap from April 1 to April 15, 2025. It directly affects all state employees (including executive branch staff, legislators, and judiciary personnel) by covering their payroll payments and related liabilities incurred during that period. Key provisions allocate $668 million for salaries, $32 million for non-personal service debts, and $516 million for employee benefits like health insurance and retirement contributions. The funding is temporary, designed to bridge the gap until the regular 2025-2026 budget is enacted under state law. As a procedural emergency appropriation, it focuses on maintaining essential services without altering long-term policy.
Prohibits correctional facilities from denying entry to peer support advocates who are certified or licensed and are participating in the provision of corrections-based substance use disorder treatment and transition services based on such advocates' prior history of incarceration.
Authorizes registered pharmacy technicians to administer the same immunizations as licensed pharmacists under direct supervision of such licensed pharmacist.
