Amanda C. Farías

This bill would require any member of a board of directors of a business improvement district management association who intends to resign from such board to provide no fewer than 30 days’ notice prior to such resignation.

This bill would require the New York police department to report annually on the total number of domestic violence arrests and the total number of domestic incident reports filed by the department.

This bill would require agencies to conduct outreach and education tailored to businesses in minority- and women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) categories for which agencies fail to achieve M/WBE utilization goals. Agencies would utilize the Office of Ethnic and Community Media and community-based organizations to conduct the outreach and education, which would inform businesses about issues related to agency procurement. This bill would also make technical amendments related to the numbering and headings of certain sections of the contracts and purchases chapter of the Administrative Code.

This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, or another agency or entity designated by the mayor, to take all necessary steps to obtain any required licenses or approvals to establish and operate a human milk bank. The human milk bank would collect, process, store, and distribute breast milk for infants and children.

This bill would require the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to identify the areas of the city that commonly experience helicopter noise and install sound level meters in those areas on top of city buildings, streetlights and, upon request of the owner, private buildings. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection would also be required to reassess the identified areas every 2 years. The data collected by the sound level meters would be reported on the Department of Environmental Protection’s website monthly.

This bill would require the Department of Social Services (DSS) to establish a system to obtain employment and income information from a third-party for the City’s use in making determinations for benefits and services eligibility. Such a system would enable DSS to access current employment and income verifications through a real-time, automated verification service provided by a third-party. This service would streamline the secure transfer of information and benefit applicants by reducing administrative burdens and creating an accelerated decision process on whether an applicant is eligible for a particular benefit, with the goal of having faster application review times, reducing case backlogs, and detecting instances of fraud in real-time.

This bill would require the Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Small Business Services, the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, to study and report on the feasibility of siting new ferry service to City Island. The Commissioner of Transportation would be required to submit a report containing the findings of the study to the Mayor and Speaker of the Council within one year after the law takes effect. If the report determines that one or more sites are suitable, the Commissioner would then have to select a site and begin design and construction of a ferry landing there within one year of submitting the report, and begin ferry service to and from that landing once construction is complete.

This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to educate the public on a person’s ability to appoint a health care agent and a personal representative (executor) of their estate before that person undergoes a high-risk medical procedure. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would inform the public that a health care agent or personal representative of an estate need not be a relative, and can instead be a friend or other trusted individual. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would also encourage health care providers to share this information with patients before a high-risk medical procedure, and report on the actions taken to do so no later than one year after the effective date.

This bill would require pharmacies and food retail stores to staff self-service checkout areas with a ratio of one employee for every three self-service checkout kiosks, and to impose a 15-item maximum for self-service checkout purchases. Failure to do so would be punishable by a civil penalty of $100 employee of the pharmacy branch location or food retail store branch location present at the time of the violation of this section. Each day that such violation is not cured, the penalty would increase by an additional $100 employee of the pharmacy branch location or food retail store branch location present at the time of the original violation of this local law, up to a limit of $1,000 per employee per day for each day in which the violation remains uncured. This civil penalty is enforceable by the department of consumer and worker protection, who shall implement rules and regulations as necessary for the implementation and enforcement of this local law and shall provide on the website of the department educational information about this law.

Where a sanitary inspection results in a food service establishment receiving 14 or more points during such inspection pursuant to the requirements of the New York City (“NYC”) Health Code, this bill would require NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene food service establishment inspectors to include photographs or video documentation of each violation listed in the notices of violation that are provided to establishments during such inspections.