Rep. Ken Blankenbush

Maddy summaryThis bill increases the occupancy tax in St. Lawrence County from three percent to five percent. It directly affects guests staying in hotels, motels, and boarding houses within the county by raising the fee charged on their room rental rates. The legislation authorizes the county to collect this higher tax on a per-night basis for all lodging accommodations. The change takes effect immediately upon the bill's passage.

Dissolves the Clifton-Fine health care corporation and transfers any remaining records, property, rights, titles, and interest to the Clifton-Fine health care corporation d/b/a Clifton-Fine hospital, a New York not-for-profit corporation and its successors or assigns.

Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety.

Maddy summaryThis bill offers temporary relief on utility costs for one year and exempts fees related to green energy projects for two years. During the first year, customers will not pay sales tax, gross receipts tax, or specific surcharges on their utility bills, and utility companies must lower their rates to match the savings. The second part of the bill prevents utility companies from charging ratepayers for building renewable energy systems, electric vehicle infrastructure, or charging stations for two years. To cover the lost tax revenue, the state will transfer money from its general fund to the relevant accounts after the one-year holiday ends. These changes directly affect all utility customers and those involved in renewable energy or electric vehicle projects.

Permits licensed insurance agents, brokers, adjusters, consultants, and intermediaries to carryover up to five hours of continuing education credit per biennial licensing period.

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.

Maddy summaryThis bill would allow taxpayers to exclude overtime pay from their federal adjusted gross income for tax purposes. Specifically, it defines "overtime compensation" as wages earned beyond an individual's normal scheduled work hours and subtracts this amount from taxable income. The provision applies to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. It directly affects individual taxpayers who earn overtime wages, reducing their taxable income by the amount of qualifying overtime compensation.

Requires a pharmacy benefit manager to pay a participating pharmacy at minimum at the national average drug acquisition cost (NADAC) rate, or at the pharmacy acquisition cost rate if greater or there is not a NADAC rate, plus a professional dispensing fee that is at minimum the professional dispensing fee paid under the state medical assistance program.

Establishes a Mohawk River Basin district and Mohawk River Basin management program for management of such district to preserve, protect, restore and enhance the environmental quality of the Mohawk River.

Establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program.