Requires the department of health to establish and post signage outlining the importance of hand hygiene in the restrooms, gymnasiums and locker rooms in public and private schools. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HEALTH

Authorizes the department of health to establish medication and treatment compliance demonstration programs to assist persons with chronic health problems; provides that services provided as part of the program and related administrative expenses that are not otherwise eligible for coverage under funding sources shall be eligible for reimbursement under the medical assistance program as long as federal financial participation is available; requires interim report to the governor and legislature on or before 12/31/2014 and a final report on or before 12/31/2016; provides for expiration and repeal of act on 3/31/2017. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HEALTH

Provides homemaker services may be provided by private home aides, subject to certain requirements, not only certified home care agencies; includes homemaker services engaged through private home aides within the definition of "home health aide services"; and provides homemaker services shall be reimbursable through the New York state partnership for long term care. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HEALTH

Sponsor: Gibson Committee: HEALTH

Sponsor: Maisel Committee: HEALTH

Provides for a program of asthma disease management and control within the department of health; program shall provide various services to health care providers, patients, and others; authorizes the commissioner of health to make grants; provides for a study of asthma incidence and prevalence; provides for an annual report on the program; establishes an advisory panel. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: HEALTH

Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides that where death is caused by injuries relating to terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 the certificate of death shall indicate such information; also requires the coroner or medical examiner to provide such information. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: HEALTH

Requires parental notice prior to the performance of an abortion upon an unemancipated minor; defines unemancipated minor as person less than eighteen years of age; allows for waiver of such notice in limited instances; establishes circumstances and procedures for proceedings to obtain an order waiving such parental notification. / Sponsor: ZELDIN Committee: HEALTH

Provides pharmacists access to New York's prescription drug monitoring program resources and requires practitioners and pharmacists to check the controlled substance abuse registry before prescribing analgesics. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products; violation by any person other than manufacturer constitutes fine of $100 for each individual package sold or offered for sale; provides for a civil penalty up to $50,000 for violations within a thirty day period for manufacturers. / Sponsor: FUSCHILLO Committee: HEALTH

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to the living wage adjustment of personal care service workers; authorizes the commissioner to adjust personal care services medical assistance rates of payment for personal care service providers; provides for such adjustments to be subject to subsequent adjustment or reconciliation in accordance with the local living wage law or are located within a city with a population of over one million persons which has enacted a local living wage law that applies to such persons; defines local living wage law. / Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: HEALTH

Provides additional discharge planning for persons being released from civil confinement including supervision, electronic monitoring, appropriate clothing, transportation, medication and a service plan. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to home care worker wage parity. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Directs state agencies which apply for federal medical assistance waivers to post information relating thereto on the agency internet website. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: HEALTH

Prohibits the department of health from reducing reimbursement rates of the early intervention program below those rates in effect on March 1, 2010. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: HEALTH

Provides alternative pricing methods in the sale and offering of funeral merchandise and services; provides for repeal after one year; mandates a report by the consumer protection division on the effectiveness of alternative pricing methods. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: HEALTH

Creates mental health incident review panels. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES