Senator • Democrat

Neil Breslin

New York • District SD-044

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

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Nay: 12

Other: 213

Yea: 9895

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Neil Breslin

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Authorizes the lease of certain lands on the SUNY Albany campus for the Albany NanoTech Complex.

Authorizes the county of Albany to levy hotel and motel taxes on short-term rentals; expands the definitions of hotel and motel to include any facility consisting of rentable units that provides lodging on an overnight basis.

Provides for allowing patients to register in the "donate life registry" through their electronic health records.

Establishes the warehouse worker injury reduction program; requires employers to establish an injury reduction program designed to identify and minimize the risks of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders among workers involved in performing manual materials handling tasks.

Relates to providing information to patients and the public on policy-based exclusions; requires the commissioner of health to collect from each health care facility a list of its policy-based exclusions and publish such information on the department's website.

Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons; provides that if convicted of a felony, such person has completed all sentencing requirements to such conviction, including any required term of imprisonment, probation, or community supervision.

Increases the percentage of hotel and motel tax authorized to be collected by the county of Albany from 6% to 6.5%; extends the authority of the county of Albany to impose and collect such tax for an additional three years.

Requires public notice and public engagement when a general hospital seeks to close entirely or a unit that provides maternity, mental health or substance use care.

Provides that a caregiver shall be eligible for assistance for child care under the child care block grant regardless of the hours the parent actually works.

Provides that no policy of group accident, group health or group accident and health shall impose copayments for physical or occupational therapy greater than the copay for similar services provided by a physician.

Directs the department of financial services to conduct a study examining the increasing costs of insurance premiums, the lack of availability of insurance coverage for losses from flooding, and the possibility of supporting a private flood insurance market in the state.

Relates to increasing the membership of the special district operations and development committee; provides that the committee shall consist of no less than nine members and no more than fifteen.

Authorizes boards of elections to establish absentee ballot drop-off locations.

Relates to traffic-control signal indications in the city of Albany; extends provisions.

Authorizes the Praise Tabernacle Church of God to receive retroactive real property tax exempt status with respect to the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 assessment rolls.

Extends provisions relating to the health savings account pilot program to December 31, 2027.

Relates to wireless communications equipment protection plans offered for sale by wireless communication equipment vendors; defines terms; requires certain notices and consumer protections.

Authorizes the direct intrastate and interstate shipment of liquor, cider, mead, and braggot; relates to direct shipments of wine.

Allows direct descendants of a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer to access such patient's clinical records.

Provides for a working families tax credit; directs quarterly prepayment of the credit; provides for a sliding reduction in the credit for incomes which exceed a certain threshold.

Creates the Albany county pine hills land authority to transition the future use of facilities of the College of Saint Rose in a way to promote and stimulate economic development in the county of Albany and city of Albany; makes related provisions.

Extends provisions relating to requiring space for donate life registration on certain insurance forms.

Authorizes the imposition of late fees for failure to timely complete the on-line training course for lobbyists and clients.

Establishes the New York state museum partnership trust to serve as a focal point for the receipt and administration of private gifts, devises and bequests of real and personal property donated to further historic preservation, advance cultural education, and enhance the state museum.

Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.

Prohibits the operation of unmanned aircraft, including drones, over school grounds or critical infrastructure; provides penalties for violations.

Provides for the calculation and analysis of certain health center costs.

Permits a close friend to make an anatomical gift of a decedent's body.

Relates to requiring the use of project labor agreements for large scale construction projects under the state university construction fund; provides an exception to such requirement may be granted; provides that the fund may require every contractor become party to a project labor agreement.

Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to be eligible for child care assistance.

Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.

Enacts the "packaging reduction and recycling infrastructure act" to require companies selling, offering for sale, or distributing packaging materials and products to register with a packaging reduction organization to develop a packaging reduction and recycling plan.

Provides that the failure by the utilization review agent to make a determination within certain time periods shall be deemed to be an approval of the health care services.

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