Rule Making Activitiess

Subject: Tariff amendments modifying the pole attachment rates. Purpose: To approve, with modifications, O&R’s tariff amendments.

Subject: Listing process, jurisdiction determination and permit procedures pertaining to endangered and threatened species. Purpose: To repromulgate previous amendments made in 2010 and 2021 in accordance with court decision requiring public hearing.

Subject: Minimum Standards for the Form, Content and Sale of Health In- surance, Including Standards of Full and Fair Disclosure. Purpose: To identify disparities in quality and utilization of care experi- enced by underrepresented populations.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jail staffing requirements. Purpose: To provide county governments and the City of New York an increased role and flexibility in determining officer staffing levels.

Subject: Fuel use tax on motor fuel and diesel motor fuel and the art. 13-A carrier tax jointly administered therewith. Purpose: To set the sales tax component and the composite rate per gallon for the period January 1, 2025 through March 31, 2025.

Subject: Fuel use tax on motor fuel and diesel motor fuel and the art. 13-A carrier tax jointly administered therewith. Purpose: To set the sales tax component and the composite rate per gallon for the period October 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024.

Subject: Westchester Power Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Program. Purpose: To consider integration of Opt-out Community Distributed Gen- eration into the Westchester Power CCA program.

Subject: Notice of intent to submeter electricity. Purpose: To ensure adequate submetering equipment and consumer protections are in place.

Subject: Electric metering equipment. Purpose: To consider use of electric metering equipment and ensure that consumer bills are based on accurate measurements of usage.

Subject: Petition for termination of temporary operator role. Purpose: To determine if termination of a termporary operator is in the public interest.

Subject: Electric metering equipment. Purpose: To consider use of electric metering equipment and ensure that consumer bills are based on accurate measurements of usage.

Subject: 2024 Settlement Agreement. Purpose: To adopt the emergency rule on a permanent basis.

Subject: Transportation of radioactive materials. Purpose: Establish regulations consistent with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations adopted in 2012, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Subject: Definitions, licensing of PBMs, contracting with network pharmacies, acquisition of PBMs, consumer protections, and audits. Purpose: Establish definitions, licensing, contracting with pharmacies, acquisition of PBMs, consumer protections, and audit regulations.

Subject: Proposed amendments to the traffic and parking regulations at State University of New York at Canton. Purpose: Amend existing regulations to update traffic and parking regulations.

Subject: Use of NYSBA property and rights-of-way. Purpose: To regulate the use of NYSBA property and roadway rights of way for utility location and routing.

Subject: Clean Energy Standard’s Zero Emission by 2024 target. Purpose: To establish definitions of key terms and an evaluation process for achieving the zero emissions by 2040 target.

Subject: Notice of intent to submeter electricity. Purpose: To ensure adequate submetering equipment and consumer protections are in place.

Subject: Modernizing SDMC Hearings. Purpose: To clarify and modernize the venue of Surrogate Decision Mak- ing Committee hearings to use current technologies.

Subject: Forest Tax Law. Purpose: Improving and sustainably managing New York’s forest re- sources and lessening the administrative burden on participants/DEC staff.

Subject: Ethics Training for Lobbyists and Clients. Purpose: To eliminate the need for an organization’s Responsible Party to retain a completed and executed affidavit of training completion and instead require the Responsible Party to retain an executed training completion form.

Subject: CWSRF program co-administered by DEC and the NYS Environ- mental Facilities Corporation (EFC). Purpose: To update and modernize the priority ranking system scoring criteria for projects receiving financial assistance from CWSRF.

Subject: Evaluation of Classroom Teachers and Building Principals. Purpose: Implement chapter 143 of the Laws of 2024 which, among other things, establishes a new evaluation system.

Subject: Extending the validity period of Emergency COVID-19 certificates. Purpose: To extend the expiration date of any currently valid Emergency COVID-19 certificates by one additional year to August 31, 2025, allow- ing candidates extra time to complete the examination requirement(s) for their certificate and progress to the next level certificate.

Subject: Flexibilities for supplementary certificate/supplementary bilin- gual education extension requirements. Purpose: To extend flexibility for the Supplementary Bilingual Education Extension requirements in response to the influx of recently arrived and asylum-seeking students through August 31, 2025.

Subject: Extending Flexibility for Incidental Teaching. Purpose: To increase the amount of incidental teaching permitted in schools from up to five classroom hours a week to up to 10 classroom hours a week. This amendment helped school districts address staffing challenges related to and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Subject: Completion of the free application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by seniors enrolled in school districts. Purpose: To implement section 1 of Part C of chapter 56 of the Laws of 2024.

Subject: Network Adequacy and Access Standards for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services. Purpose: To establish network adequacy and access standards and other protections to improve access to behavioral health services.

Subject: ‘‘12-6’’ Elbow Strikes. Purpose: To repeal ‘‘12-6’’ elbow strikes as an enumerated foul to conform to the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.

Subject: Physical/Occupational Therapy Assistants. Purpose: To provide guidance about treatment by PT/OT assistants and implement amendment to section 13-b of the Workers’ Compensation Law.

Subject: BES programs. Purpose: To consider the outline of program goals and implementation strategies for the BES programs.

Subject: Electric metering equipment. Purpose: To approve Pfiffner’s petition to use electric metering equipment.

Subject: Electric metering equipment. Purpose: To approve Con Edison’s petition to use electric metering equipment.

Subject: Gas metering equipment. Purpose: To grant Landis+Gyr conditional approval to use updated gas metering equipment.

Subject: Submetering of electricity. Purpose: To authorize Global 1845’s notice of intent to submeter electricity.

Subject: Electric metering equipment. Purpose: To approve Con Edison’s petition to use electric metering equipment.

Subject: Waiver of individual metering requirments. Purpose: To grant NoW’s petition for waiver of individual metering requirments.