Rep. Jordan Wright

Maddy summaryThis bill permits individuals receiving hospice services to enroll in managed long-term care plans without being forced to disenroll. It specifically prevents Medicare or Medicaid hospice enrollment from making someone ineligible for these plans, ensuring continued access to coordinated care. The bill requires managed care plans and hospice programs to coordinate services through shared care planning, clear communication protocols, and information sharing (while respecting privacy laws). New standards for care coordination must be established by the health department, with guidance issued to providers. This directly affects hospice patients, managed care plans, and local social services districts in New York.

Enacts the accelerate solar for affordable power (ASAP) act to set a new target for distributed solar energy capacity and direct the public service commission to advance reforms to the utility interconnection process to ensure timely and cost-effective integration of new distributed energy resources.

Maddy summaryThis bill authorizes New York City to transfer ownership of a specific parcel of land at 2122 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem (Block 1932, Lot 29) to The Allah Youth Center in Mecca Inc. (The Allah School) at no cost. The land has been occupied by the organization since 1967, and the transfer recognizes its long-term service to the Harlem community. The bill requires the property be used exclusively for the school's educational, social, recreational, and community services, with a reverter clause that returns ownership to the city if the land is not used for these purposes. The conveyance is intended to help the organization establish a permanent facility for its community programs.

Establishes the managed long term care high acuity stabilization pool to support managed long term care plans that demonstrate high performance on quality measures established by the department and serve a disproportionately high share of members with complex long term care needs or high service utilization.

Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status; prohibits an educational agency, higher education agency, school employee, school safety personnel, or third-party contractor from collecting information about a person's citizenship, immigration status, nationality, or country of origin, unless required by law or necessary to administer a public program or benefit sought by such person.

Prohibits the sale of certain products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances; requires manufacturers of products containing PFAS to provide notice of such fact to persons that offer the products for sale or distribution; provides penalties for violations.

Requires training for teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of mental health response; requires office of mental health to assist in development of curriculum for training.

Establishes a twenty-four hour, toll-free hotline and website for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning plus (LGBTQ+) individuals who are experiencing emotional distress, suicidal ideation, or crisis-related challenges, which shall provide immediate support, referrals, resource lists, and other information.

Maddy summaryThis bill authorizes New York State to establish an electronic system for submitting marked absentee ballots, specifically for three groups: voters living outside the U.S. (while retaining NY voting eligibility), military voters, and voters with disabilities who cannot independently mark paper ballots. It requires the State Board of Elections to create a secure system for electronic submission via email or online, with ballots considered filed on the date transmitted. The system must meet accessibility standards (WCAG Level AA) and process ballots including digital signatures, while maintaining paper ballot submission as the default method for all other voters.

Requires the department of criminal justice services to develop, issue, and publish "race-blind charging" guidelines for a process whereby all prosecution agencies that prosecute criminal violations of the law as felonies or misdemeanors, shall implement a process by which an initial review of a case for potential charging is performed based on information, including police reports and criminal histories from the department of justice, from which direct means of identifying the race of the suspect, victim, or witness have been removed.