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NYS07954Intro
25%
Relates to enacting the "free resources for equitable education (FREE) act"; requires State University of New York higher education institutions to designate all general education and 25 percent of all major specific courses as low textbook cost (LTC...
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2024-01-04
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NYS07978Intro
25%
Relates to prohibiting colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration.
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2024-01-04
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NYS07980Intro
25%
Requires SUNY and CUNY to inform eligible high school seniors at NY public high schools of their college options and inform them of their acceptance to community college; and to invite them to apply to a state college and provide financial aid inform...
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2024-01-04
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NYS05914Engross
50%
Relates to the automated storage and dispensing of controlled substances using an automated dispensing device at licensed nursing homes, residential health care facilities and hospices.
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2024-01-04
[Hearing: May 7 @ 11:30 am]
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NYS04462Intro
25%
Extends scholarship eligibility for certain scholarships to students who have a certificate of graduation from a recognized high school within New York state from the two thousand thirteen--fourteen school year or after, or the recognized equivalent ...
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2024-01-03
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NYS07857Intro
25%
Directs the higher education services corporation to create a net price calculator center for colleges on its website.
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2024-01-03
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NYS05109Intro
25%
Relates to establishing student loan repayment accounts; authorizes employers to establish student loan repayment accounts and provide matching funds up to $5000 a year; establishes tax deductions for participating employers.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07773Intro
25%
Enacts the "dismantling student antisemitism act", or "DSA act"; requires mandatory sensitivity training that includes the topic of antisemitism; includes reporting requirements regarding antisemitism complaints and disciplinary processes.
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2024-01-03
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NYS05389Intro
25%
Requires clinical experience for certain mental health practitioners; allows such practitioners to make assessment-based treatment plans; makes related provisions.
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2024-01-03
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NYS05381Intro
25%
Relates to the institution of a screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment/evaluation (SBIRT/SBIRE) at colleges.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03490Intro
25%
Establishes the New York nurse expansion program which provides awards to undergraduate students who are matriculated in an approved undergraduate program leading to a career in nursing at a New York state public or private degree granting institutio...
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2024-01-03
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NYS01167Intro
25%
Establishes the rural teacher education loan repayment program in the education department which provides payment for the undergraduate and graduate education loans of teachers in rural school districts who agree to teach in rural areas for at least ...
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2024-01-03
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NYS01122Intro
25%
Relates to student financial aid programs; allows absence because of uniformed service, maternity/paternity, FMLA, or due to compensable injury to be creditable time.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03360Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state volunteer first responder loan forgiveness incentive program for the purpose of attracting and retaining volunteer ambulance workers and volunteer firefighters in the state.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01046Intro
25%
Establishes the Charles L. Reason fellowship for the purpose of increasing faculty diversity in higher education.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01667Intro
25%
Directs the state university trustees to promulgate and enforce a sweat-free code of conduct for the licensing and purchase of apparel at colleges and universities of the state university; requires provision in contracts with apparel manufacturers pr...
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2024-01-03
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NYS07257Intro
25%
Establishes a loan forgiveness program for licensed mental health professionals in jails and prisons for the purpose of increasing the number of mental health professionals rendering mental health services in correctional institutions; provides for e...
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2024-01-03
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NYS06650Intro
25%
Provides that where mandatory continuing education programs are offered through electronic or other remote means where the licensee must provide proof of attendance by responding to a visual or auditory prompt in the program, such program shall confo...
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2024-01-03
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NYS03213Intro
25%
Establishes a committee to study the feasibility of funding a kindergarten to college/career ready program and a universal college savings account.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04145Intro
25%
Authorizes tuition assistance program awards for students enrolled in short-term credential programs offered by certain public institutions.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04447Intro
25%
Relates to the substitution of brand name epinephrine auto-injectors with alternate epinephrine auto-injectors in certain cases.
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2024-01-03
[Hearing: May 7 @ 11:30 am]
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NYS02907Engross
50%
Provides for the licensing of vision impairment specialists.
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2024-01-03
[Hearing: May 7 @ 11:30 am]
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NYS01818Engross
50%
Relates to the practice of professional geology.
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2024-01-03
[Hearing: May 7 @ 11:30 am]
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NYS03361Intro
25%
Removes limits on the duration of treatment by a licensed physical therapist when a patient does not have a referral.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07711Intro
25%
Adopts the PA licensure compact to enhance the portability of a physician assistant license between participating states while safeguarding the safety of patients.
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2024-01-03
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NYS05520Intro
25%
Permits the performance of medical services by a physician assistant without the supervision of a physician as appropriate to the physician assistant's scope of practice, education and training where such physician assistant has practiced for more th...
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2024-01-03
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NYS03032Intro
25%
Requires pharmacies to keep in stock emergency contraception.
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2024-01-03
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NYS06466Intro
25%
Permits tuition assistance program awards to be made to part-time students enrolled in certain degree granting institutions chartered or authorized by the New York state board of regents.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04656Intro
25%
Establishes the John J. Marchi government studies scholarship program for CUNY students enrolled in government or government related studies.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03523Intro
25%
Relates to the practice of acupuncture and the exemption that a person who does not otherwise possess the credentials or qualifications required for the practice of acupuncture may be trained by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NA...
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2024-01-03
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NYS01098Intro
25%
Establishes the New York college debt repayment program.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03297Intro
25%
Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03036Engross
50%
Provides for the licensure of school psychologists; authorizes the use of the title "school psychologist" to licensed or exempt individuals; defines practice of school psychology; sets forth requirements for professional licensure (including educatio...
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2024-01-03
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NYS04050Intro
25%
Establishes the "New York patients' right to know act"; requires physicians and certain licensed professionals to disclose findings of certain misconduct to patients.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07030Intro
25%
Establishes an automatic application program for state high school students into SUNY and CUNY.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01287Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the New York state excelsior scholarship award to certain applicants enrolled on a part-time basis or in a BOCES or other approved vocational program; provides criteria for eligibility, and limits on amounts and durations for ...
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2024-01-03
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NYS01855Intro
25%
Provides for dispensing emergency contraception under certain conditions; defines emergency contraception.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07858Intro
25%
Requires colleges to publish responses to the survey created by the Common Data Set Initiative, relating to admissions and financial aid process, annual expenses, academic offerings, graduation rate, student demographics, instructional faculty and cl...
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2024-01-03
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NYS01587Intro
25%
Grants in-state tuition for community college for individuals who have received letters of acceptance to the military.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01452Intro
25%
Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to establish courses of study on ethnic studies, women's studies, and social justice; requires students to complete at least one three-credit course on ethnic studies, wome...
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2024-01-03
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NYS05447Intro
25%
Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.
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2024-01-03
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NYS02811Intro
25%
Increases the household threshold income cap on tuition assistance from $80,000 to $100,000.
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2024-01-03
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NYS02569Intro
25%
Prohibits publicly traded pharmacies with twenty or more stores in this state from establishing or enforcing quotas for duties performed by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, including evaluating or measuring the number of prescriptions filled, se...
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2024-01-03
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NYS05388Intro
25%
Requires SUNY and CUNY schools with at least twenty-five percent of its undergraduate students living on campus to establish substance use recovery housing programs which shall include on-site counseling, mentoring, and peer support.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07301Intro
25%
Establishes the New York state veteran student loan forgiveness program; awards up to $10,000 per year for five years, for eligible applicants.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04963Intro
25%
Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.
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2024-01-03
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NYS06883Intro
25%
Adopts the psychology interjurisdictional compact (Part A); adopts the recognition of emergency medical services personnel licensure interstate compact (Part B); adopts the interstate counseling compact (Part C).
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2024-01-03
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NYS03286Intro
25%
Prohibits drugs from being dispensed unless a licensed pharmacist has verified that: the package contains the drug to be dispensed, whether the drug is packaged in a child-resistant container, whether a stock container is open and the quantity of the...
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2024-01-03
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NYS00066Intro
25%
Allows a licensed psychologist to apply to the department of education for conditional prescribing certification if the psychologist meets certain requirements; allows the department of education to waive certain requirements for an applying psycholo...
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2024-01-03
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NYS04752Intro
25%
Permits the commissioner of education to include graduate programs as programs eligible for approval under the state tuition assistance program.
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2024-01-03
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