Representative • Democrat

Diane Richardson

New York • District HD-043

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

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Nay: 10

Other: 36

Yea: 1370

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Assesses an employer a civil penalty where an employer requires a nurse to work more than such nurse's regularly scheduled work hours; provides that the employee shall receive an additional fifteen percent of the overtime payment from the employer for each violation.

Ensures formerly incarcerated individuals have access to public housing.

Relates to setting a conservation goal for the state and including an effort to combat the biodiversity and climate crises in the state's land acquisition policy.

Relates to prohibiting insurance companies from imposing co-payments for treatment at an opioid treatment program.

Expands the definition of the offense of sexual conduct against a child in the third degree to include at least one act of specified types of sexual contact.

Requires the superintendent of financial services to conduct a review of the classification used by authorized insurers in this state issuing auto insurance coverage for commuter vans, ambulette or paratransit vehicles, including coverage in the assigned risk plan; makes related provisions.

Requires semiautomatic pistols sold in this state be verified as a microstamping-enabled pistol; establishes fines for violations of this requirement; requires the division of criminal justice services to certify the viability of microstamping-enabled pistols.

Provides for regulating immigration bail businesses including restrictions on who may operate such a business; provides for who may bring an action against an immigration bail business.

Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought.

Requires clinical experience for certain mental health practitioners and other mental health professionals; allows such practitioners to make assessment-based treatment plans; makes related provisions.

Requires a health care provider who administers an immunization to a person nineteen years of age or older to report such information to the department of health or to a regional health information organization unless such person objects to such reporting.

Relates to the closure of nursing homes; provides a process for notification and a proposed plan for closure.

Requires health insurers to provide an insurer or subscriber who is a victim of domestic violence, upon request of such insurer or subscriber, with the option to designate alternative contact information for the purpose of receiving specific claim information or for specific billing purposes.

Relates to tax exemptions for community land trusts and income-restricted homeownership property.

Authorizes a plea of guilty and the payment of fines or penalties electronically via the internet.

Relates to authorizing the payment of costs, up to eighty dollars, of diapers for an eligible child two years of age or younger for children receiving safety net assistance.

Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.

Enacts the safer consumption services act which provides for the establishment of a program to provide safe injection sites.

Clarifies the definition of imitation weapons.

Grants employees access to personnel records; requires notice of negative information in such records and an opportunity for a review; permits employee to include certain information in personnel records.

Relates to the purchase of zero-emission buses and the procurement of electric-powered buses, vehicles or other related equipment.

Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate sexual misconduct in state correctional facilities among inmates and employees; devises a reporting system for notification of such misconduct to appropriate authorities; establishes duties and membership of such commission.

Relates to criminal mischief in the third degree and criminal mischief in the second degree.

Prohibits the public health and health planning council and the commissioner of health from approving the establishment, incorporation, construction, or increase in capacity of for-profit nursing homes.

Relates to the use of psychotropic medications in nursing homes and adult care facilities; imposes limits as to time and documentation; requires informed consent under certain circumstances.

Enacts "the prison minimum wage act" relating to payment for labor performed by inmates.

Prohibits the operation of NYC transit authority subways or trains without at least one conductor on board; requires a conductor on any subway or train operated by such authority whenever the subway or train has more than two cars attached to the engine.

Requires a uniform process for considering applications to purchase condominiums or cooperatives.

Requires the submission of proof of personal liability insurance prior to the issuance or renewal of a license to carry a firearm.

Establishes the clean fuel standard of 2022; provides such standard is intended to reduce carbon intensity from the on-road transportation sector by 20% by 2030, with further reductions to be implemented based upon advances in technology.

Exempts certain retirement plan distributions for income tax purposes.

Prohibits the release of personnel or employees as a retaliatory action against employees who complain or assist in proceedings involving unlawful discriminatory practices by employers.

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