Vickie Paladino

This bill would remove the bus lane and bike lane quotas from the Streets Master Plan.

This bill would require the Department of Education to issue monthly reports on the implementation of mask mandates for the duration of such a mandates, regarding the criteria used to determine whether to implement or maintain the mask mandate. The reports will contain justification for such criteria and note whether mental health repercussions for students are on the list of criteria. If the list of criteria omits mental health factors, the report will be required to justify that omission.

This bill would amend traffic crash reporting requirements for both the Police Department (NYPD) and Department of Transportation (DOT) to include data on micromobility devices as opposed to just bicycles. NYPD would be required to regularly report data on the number of traffic crashes between micromobility devices, as well as between such devices and pedestrians and motor vehicles, and include further breakdowns by micromobility device type and class. DOT would be required to consult with NYPD as well as the Fire Department, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Health and Hospitals Corporation to compile data and provide an annual report on the number of micromobility device crashes reported to city agencies. DOT would also be required to maintain and update an interactive map of such data. The report and map would need to include further breakdowns of such data including by number of injuries and fatalities, location, time, and type and class of micromobility device involved.

Local Law 97 of 2019 establishes greenhouse gas emission limits for certain buildings in the City and imposes penalties for non-compliance with those limits. This bill would, for calendar years 2024 and 2025, exempt condominiums, cooperatives, and apartment buildings from emissions limits imposed by Local Law 97. The head of an office or agency designated by the Mayor, in collaboration with the Director of the Office of Building Energy and Emissions Performance, would be required to study and report to the Speaker and the Mayor on the projected financial impact of building emissions limits from 2026 to 2034 on these buildings, as well as to post the report on the City’s website. This bill would further require the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability to study and report to the Speaker and the Mayor on the impact of building emissions limits through 2050 on the City’s electrical grid, as well as to post the report on the City’s website.

This bill would repeal laws that limit the Department of Correction’s, Department of Probation’s, and the New York City Police Department’s cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”). This bill would also repeal a law that prohibits the City from partnering with ICE to enforce federal immigration law and that prohibits the use of City resources, property, and information obtained on behalf of the City in furtherance of federal immigration enforcement.

This bill would delay by 7 years all requirements and related penalties created by Local Law 97 pertaining to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by buildings.

This bill would ban the practice of giving live fish as a prize for any game, drawing, contest, sweepstakes, or other similar promotion. This ban would not prohibit food service establishments or retailers from providing live fish for human consumption at a reduced rate. The holder of a street activity permit sponsoring a street event would be required to prevent any person at that event from giving live fish as prizes in violation of this law. The Director of the Street Activity Permit Office would be required to notify event sponsors of their obligations under this law, and applicants would be required to certify that they understand these obligations when applying for a street activity permit. The Director of the Office of Animal Welfare would be required to create materials to inform the public of this ban, the harms posed by disposing live fish in the city’s waterways, and best practices for caring for pet fish.

This bill would eliminate the $340 fee for a license or permit to carry or possess a pistol or revolver in the city.

This bill would establish an office of quality of life. Such office would be headed by a director appointed by the Mayor. The office would have the power and duty to coordinate agencies in order to address quality of life issues.

This bill would prohibit the operation of electric scooters and bicycles with electric assist in any park under the jurisdiction of the department of parks and recreation.