| Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the financing of mass transportation by certain municipal corporations (Part A); provides for mass transportation payments to the Capital District Transportation District; adds Warren county to such district (Part E); extends provisions of law relating to the accident prevention course internet technology pilot program from April 1, 2024 until April 1, 2026 (Part F); extends certain provisions of law relating to certain motor vehicle transaction fees and costs of the department of motor vehicles (Part G); extends provisions of law relating to motor vehicles equipped with autonomous vehicle technology (Part J); enacts the stretch limousine passenger safety act (Part K); enacts the waterfront commission act to regulate the occupations of longshore workers, stevedores, pier superintendents, hiring agents and security officers to preserve the rights of such workers and the economic stability of the port of New York district; repeals provisions of law relating to waterfront employment and air freight industry regulation (Part L); extends provisions relating to the clean energy resources and development and incentives program until April 19, 2030; relates to renewable energy generation projects and qualified energy storage systems (Part M); authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to finance a portion of its research, development and demonstration, policy and planning, and Fuel NY program, as well as climate change related expenses of the department of environmental conservation from an assessment on gas and electric corporations; directs unused funds to be refunded on a pro-rata basis to such gas and electric corporations (Part N); enacts the "renewable action through project interconnection and deployment (RAPID) act" to timely achieve certain renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction targets; transfers the functions of the office of renewable energy siting to the department of public service and accelerating the permitting of electric utility transmission facilities; makes related provisions (Part O); authorizes utility and cable television assessments that provide funds to the department of health from cable television assessment revenues and to the department of agriculture and markets, department of environmental conservation, department of state, and the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation from utility assessment revenues (Part Q); authorizes state assistance payments toward climate smart community projects of up to eighty percent to municipalities that meet criteria relating to financial hardship or disadvantaged communities; provides that financial hardship is determined by whether a municipality has a median household income at or below eighty percent of the state median household income (Part S); relates to air quality control program fees and ozone non-attainment fee programs; establishes the air quality improvement fund (Part T); extends provisions of law relating to the powers and duties of the dormitory authority to establish subsidiaries (Part V); relates to the Battery Park city authority's authorization to issue bonds and notes (Part W); increases the cap on grants to entrepreneurship assistance centers (Part X); extends provisions of law relating to the New York state infrastructure trust fund to July 1, 2025 (Part Y); extends the authority of the New York state urban development corporation to administer the empire state economic development fund (Part Z); extends provisions of law relating to the powers of the New York state urban development corporation act to make loans (Part AA); extends provisions of the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project (Part BB); provides that covered prescription insulin drugs shall not be subject to deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost sharing requirements (Part EE); extends certain provisions relating to permitting videoconferencing and remote participation in public meetings (Part KK); relates to reinsurance, credits for assessments paid; relates to credit relating to life and health insurance guaranty corporation assessments (Part LL); enacts the "artificial intelligence deceptive practices act"; provides for privacy rights involving digitization (Subpart A); requires disclosure of the use of digitization in political communications (Subpart B) (Part MM); relates to rates for livery insurance (Part NN); allows regional economic development council awardees to certify that they offer youth internship opportunities (Part OO); establishes a sales tax exemption for residential energy storage systems equipment (Part PP); directs the New York state energy research and development authority to conduct a highway and depot charging needs evaluation (Part QQ); authorizes the state to consent to binding arbitration with respect to certain contracts adopted by the Gateway Development Commission (Part RR); establishes a local authorities searchable subsidy and economic development benefits database (Subpart A); provides for the applicability of open meetings and freedom of information laws to state and local authorities (Subpart B) (Part SS); establishes the New York state empire artificial intelligence research program and the empire AI consortium; sets forth the plan of operation and financial oversight of the empire AI consortium (Subpart A); authorizes the state university of New York at Buffalo to lease a portion of lands to the empire AI consortium to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center (Subpart B) (Part TT). |
