Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Mandates comprehensive, medically accurate and age appropriate sex education be taught in all public schools, grades one through twelve; provides that the commissioner of education will create and establish a curriculum to accomplish such goal within one year of the effective date of this legislation. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: EDUCATION

Requires leases in cities with a population of one million or more to contain a rider describing the rights and duties with regards to the housing part of such city's housing part of civil court; directs the office of court administration to conduct a public information program informing tenants of their rights and of the right to utilize the housing of the civil court. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: JUDICIARY

Establishes a pilot program to provide job and vocational skills training to youth who have been adjudicated juvenile delinquents or juvenile offenders residing in a facility overseen by the office of children and family services. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Establishes the New York state justice reinvestment fund and program to provide not-for-profit and faith based entities with funding to improve communities with a higher than normal criminal offender and ex-offender population; appropriates $10,000,000 therefor. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: FINANCE

Relates to requiring first consideration of unemployed individuals, low-income individuals, dislocated workers, individuals training for nontraditional employment, as defined in the federal workforce investment act of nineteen hundred ninety-eight (P.L.105-220), veterans, and individuals with disabilities for hiring for positions created as a result of economic development assistance. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Prohibits school districts from entering into telecommunications contracts as delineated herein which grant exclusive rights or deals with exclusive advertising rights. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: EDUCATION

Requires that all students attending schools scheduled to be closed or to undergo a significant change be assigned to new schools prior to the implementation of the closing or change. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: EDUCATION

Provides inmates the opportunity to obtain a general equivalency diploma; instructs the department of corrections to ensure that academic education programs provide the appropriate curriculum and certified academic staff for GED instruction. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate issues affecting reentry of inmates released from correctional facilities; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof; appropriates $250,000 therefor. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: FINANCE

Establishes the sexual assault forensic examiner grant program to award grants to provide statewide access to services provided by sexual assault forensic examiners to victims of sexual assault. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: HEALTH

Alters the composition of the state board of parole to include members to be appointed upon the recommendation of the four legislative leaders. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to prohibiting colleges from denying formerly incarcerated individuals admittance to college based solely on their incarceration. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Establishes the New York calcium purchasing preference initiative by instructing the purchasing agent of any governmental entity to give preference to a product containing a higher level of calcium than products of the same type and quality which are equal to or lower in price than products of the same type and quality. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: AGRICULTURE

Authorizes academic performance awards for incarcerated persons making such persons eligible to receive awards from the tuition assistance program. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Clarifies that individuals have the ability to vote by absentee ballot in certain elections where their maximum sentence of imprisonment has expired. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: EDUCATION

Requires hotel, motel and inn keepers to offer, in the registration office, condoms or similar prophylactic devices for sale to registered guests of such hotel, motel or inn. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Establishes the foster care higher education scholarship pilot program; grants awards for the purpose of enhancing opportunities for higher education for children and young adults receiving foster care services in New York. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Establishes the youth in progress advisory board and regional teams for adolescents in foster care to provide mentorship of youths in foster care; requires reporting. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Requires schools to accept credits for educational programs at OCFS facilities as transfer credits. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: EDUCATION