New Laws For New York State
This week New York state governor David Patterson signed a slew of bills into law on a myriad of subjects spanning agriculture, business, consumer protection, criminal justice, education, energy and environment, healthy, housing and property, judiciary, labor, veterans, local bills, and retroactive property tax exemptions. Here are a few of the highlights from the lengthy list:
- S.8297-A Fuschillo / A.11316-A Pheffer, Children’s Product Safety and Recall Effectiveness Act of 2008
- S.8673 Fuschillo / A.2140-D Paulin, which authorizes pharmacists to administer immunizing agents to adults. (more on that here)
- A.3520 Nolan / S.5874-A Sabini - Authorizes the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets to revoke the license of a slaughterhouse that fails three consecutive inspections
- S.7330 Fuschillo / A.11613 Rules Gottfried - Requires hotels that furnish drinking glasses, silverware or flatware in individual rooms to provide that such items are fully sanitized
- A.10622 Eddington / S.3680 Trunzo - Provides that the patients rights notification required to be given by hospitals include notice patient cannot be discriminated against because of age
- A.10741 Silver / S.8181 Padavan - Extends for an additional two years, the establishment of certain water charges for hospitals and charities in New York City
The entire list can be viewed on the state of New York website, linked above.
