We pass many important laws in the state Assembly. Please find highlights attached of legislation signed into law by the governor.

 

 

Effective Date Chapter Summary
11/1/2023 Ch. 773 of 2023
A.843-A
S.8145
Ch. 8 of 2023, §1

A.611

S.1328

Requires each state board to maintain a website that includes public information, including board membership, contact information and meeting minutes and agendas.
11/3/2023 Ch. 57 of 2023 Part HH

A.3007-C S.4007-C

Authorizes community behavioral health clinics to provide coordinated, comprehensive behavioral health care, including mental health and addiction services, primary care screening, and case management services.
11/10/2023 Ch. 585 of 2022

A.5278-B

S.6022-B

Allows veterans with qualifying conditions, including PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury and Military Sexual Trauma, and discharged LGBT veterans to receive credit for their military service.
11/10/2023 Ch. 588 of 2022

A.9590

S.8729

Ch. 14 of 2023

A.618

S.854

Directs the Department of Veterans’ Services to develop a searchable database of veterans memorials located within the state and authorizes public requests for information from any county, city, town, or village desiring to have a memorial located within their municipality listed within the veterans memorial registry.
11/11/2023 Ch. 134 of 2023

A.3076-A

S.447-C

Requires nursing certificate and degree education programs to include clinical education; allows for one-third of such clinical education to be completed through simulation experience.
11/12/2023 Ch. 522 of 2023

A.2902

S.3364-A

Permits a retail licensee for on-premises consumption to prepare and keep drinks containing alcoholic beverages in dispensing machines, having a capacity of not less than a gallon, utilizing a pressurized mixing and dispensing system.
11/13/2023 Ch. 366 of 2023

A.398-A

S.4878-A

Requires an employer to provide a written notice of the right to file for unemployment benefits to any employee whose employment has been terminated or whose scheduled working hours have been reduced.
11/22/2023 Ch. 642 of 2022 §1, 3

A.10457-A S.9403-A

Establishes an e-filing program for proceedings related to the Public Employment Relations Board as well as a publicly accessible index for principles of law.
11/24/2023 Ch. 540 of 2023

A.1153-A S.1144-A

 

Establishes additional penalties against unlicensed or unregistered mortgage brokers engaging in activities after receiving a cease-and-desist notice.
11/24/2023 Ch. 542 of 2023

A.1297-B

S.4981-B

Requires hospitals to adopt, implement and periodically update standard protocols for the management of fetal demise.
11/24/2023 Ch. 545 of 2023

A.3125-A

S.6694

 

Provides that every public utility shall provide the commissioner of public service an affidavit annually, that no call centers or other facilities providing customer service have been closed without notice and hearing before the commission.
11/26/2023 Ch. 490 of 2023

A.3227

S.4263

Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be posted in lactation rooms in Port of New York Authority terminals.
11/26/2023 Ch. 491 of 2023

A.3720

S.5527

Provides for information concerning services for human trafficking victims in transit facilities operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
11/26/2023 Ch. 492 of 2023

A.4264

S.6213

Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be posted in lactation rooms at truck stops.
11/26/2023 Ch. 493 of 2023

A.4265

S.6214

Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be made available in lactation rooms in commercial service airports.
11/26/2023 Ch. 494 of 2023

A.4586

S.5827

Provides that lactation rooms in service areas operated by the New York State Thruway Authority to display information for services related to human trafficking.
11/28/2023 Ch. 513 of 2023
A.3596-A
S.1042-A
Includes “deep fake” images created by digitization within the definition of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.