Subtracts from the federal adjusted gross income any income earned by election inspectors, poll clerks, or election coordinators earned while working in relation to a general, primary, run-off primary, or special election to the extent includable in gross income for federal tax purposes; exempts such income from being included in the calculation of the amount of benefits under public assistance programs.
This bill prohibits discrimination based on caste in employment, housing, and public accommodations. It adds "caste" to New York's existing anti-discrimination protections, defining caste as a hereditary social hierarchy that restricts mobility and rights. The law makes it unlawful for employers, housing providers, or public accommodations to deny services or opportunities based on caste, alongside other protected characteristics like race or gender. This directly affects individuals from communities where caste-based discrimination occurs, such as certain South Asian diaspora groups, by extending legal safeguards to these specific circumstances.
Bill A 8436 mandates that subsidiaries of specific transportation authorities, including the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), Niagara Frontier, Rochester-Genesee, Capital District, and Central New York regional transportation authorities, and their employees must submit unresolved contract negotiations to binding arbitration. This means if voluntary agreement cannot be reached, a dispute will be referred to a three-member public arbitration panel. Each party (employer and employee organization) appoints one member, and a neutral third public member is jointly chosen. The panel's decision would then be binding, providing a final resolution to contract disputes.
Directs the department of labor, in consultation with the division of human rights and the department of health to produce a model training program on neurodiversity awareness.
Provides that a plaintiff shall have up to twenty-one days to consider whether any resolution to a claim involving discrimination, harassment or retaliation shall include the underlying facts of the claim or whether such underlying facts shall be kept confidential.
Requires contracts for insurance and medical assistance to provide value-based care for maternity coverage; defines value-based care as an arrangement that financially rewards certain positive outcomes and financially penalizes certain negative outcomes.
Relates to obligations with respect to contracts with business enterprises which employ individuals with disabilities; defines qualified business enterprise as any business concern which employs a workforce consisting of at least fifteen percent employees with disabilities and has been certified under this section; sets goal of five percent of state contracts going to qualified business enterprises; establishes an office of statewide advocate, certification process, and enforcement mechanism.
Simplifies the procedure by which injured workers obtain treatment for injuries covered by the workers' compensation law; provides that the list of pre-authorized procedures is to be used only as a list of treatment that does not require insurance carrier approval.
Establishes a tax credit for individuals who serve or are employed as a direct support professional, or direct care worker, up to five thousand dollars for taxpayers who make less than fifty thousand dollars and phased out for individuals who make over one hundred thousand dollars.
Relates to eligibility for classification as permanent total disability; includes inability to perform the full range of sedentary work or approval for federal social security disability benefits as a result of a compensable accident or occupational disease as constituting permanent total disability.
