Rule Making Activitiess

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 delete positions from and to classify positions in the non- competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive 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 and to classify posi- tions in the non-competitive 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 positions in the exempt class.

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

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

Subject: Proposed major rate increase in gas delivery revenues. Purpose: To ensure safe and adequate service at just and reasonable rates charged to customers without undue preferences.

Subject: Waiver of 16 NYCRR Sections 86.3(a)(2), (b)(2) and 88.4(a)(4) Purpose: To consider a waiver of certain regulations relating to the content of an application for transmission line siting.

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

Subject: Prohibition on service to low-income customers by ESCOs. Purpose: To consider the petition for an extension of the waiver of the prohibition on service to low-income customers by ESCOs.

Subject: Applicable regulatory regime for the owner and operator of a solar-powered generating facility. Purpose: To determine whether a lightened regulatory regime for Bear Ridge is consistent with the PSL.

Subject: Proposed major rate increase in electric delivery revenues. Purpose: To ensure safe and adequate service at just and reasonable rates charged to customers without undue preferences.

Subject: Modifications of the Immediate Solutions Programs including less stringent data reporting requirements and modification process. Purpose: To consider modifications to the Immediate Solutions Programs to increase customer engagement and program flexibility.

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

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

Subject: Electric metering equipment. Purpose: To ensure that consumer bills are based on accurate measure- ments of electric usage.

Subject: Partnership for the Urban Revitalization in Western New York Program revisions. Purpose: To consider and review proposed program modifications.

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

Subject: Issuance of securities and other forms of indebtedness. Purpose: To provide funding for capital needs, including construction, and refinancing of maturing debt.

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

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

Subject: Provide programs the flexibility in the provisions of both medical and mental health services. Purpose: To raise the limitation on the total number of annual visits for which a program licensed solely under Article 31 may provide.

Subject: Violations, Hearings and Enforcement. Purpose: Establishes violations, hearings, and enforcement rules pursuant to the Cannabis Law to further protect public health, safety, and welfare by preventing unlawful cannabis or unsafe practices from permeating the marketplace.

Subject: Injury and Illness Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements. Purpose: To adopt updates to OSHA regulations regarding reporting and recordkeeping requirements as required by law.

Subject: General Hospital Medical Staff Recertification. Purpose: To change the medical staff recredentialing timeframe from every two years to every three years.

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

Subject: Adirondack Rail Trail. Purpose: To regulate speed on the Adirondack Rail Trail to ensure public safety.

Subject: Written informational material for the authorized use of epineph- rine auto-injectors. Purpose: To conform section 136.6 of the Commissioner’s regulations with chapter 422 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Execution by RNs of non-patient orders to provide certain emer- gency medical services and administer pregnancy tests. Purpose: To implement chapter 193 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Virtual and blended instruction. Purpose: To define the parameters under which a school district, BOCES, charter school, registered nonpublic school, school-age approved special education program (including approved private school for the education of students with disabilities, state-supported school, or state-operated school) or educational program administered or supervised by a state agency may provide virtual instruction.

Subject: Profession of physical therapy assistant. Purpose: To implement chapter 511 of the Laws of 2022 which updated the practice of physical therapy assistants from a credentialed to licensed profession and creating the new legally protected title of “licensed physi- cal therapist assistant.” Text or summary was published in the December 27, 2023 issue of the Register, I.D. No. EDU-52-23-00004-P.

Subject: Examination for a High School Equivalency Diploma. Purpose: Update section 100.7(d) to reflect 4 subject tests in the current GED; remove cumulative score requirement; repeal fee language.

Subject: Charter school financing. Purpose: To update the calculation of aid attributable to students with dis- abilities served in charter schools to reflect current statute; update the charter tuition calculation to reflect current statute; clarify that date utilized for the charter school tuition calculation is based on the electronic data filed produced as of May 15; expand the period during which charter schools must notify the Commissioner of the failure of a school district to fulfill its financial obligation under the Education Law and establish a firm deadline to submit all documentation required by the Commissioner to complete a state aid intercept; and make technical updates.

Subject: Fees for certificates of existence, copies of charter actions and consent to incorporation. Purpose: To require a fee for certificates of existence and copies of charter actions and to update regulatory provisions regarding consent to incorporation.

Subject: Emergency response definitions for school safety plans. Purpose: To standardize language and terminology related to emergency procedures.

Subject: Emergency response definitions for school safety plans. Purpose: To standardize language and terminology related to emergency procedures.

Subject: Supervisor requirements for wholesalers transfilling medical oxygen. Purpose: To implement chapter 590 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Provisions for mergers, consolidation, and membership with highly qualified out-of-state institutions of higher education (IHE). Purpose: To eliminate unnecessary hurdles for mergers, consolidation, and membership between in-state independent not-for-profit IHEs and highly qualified out-of-state independent/not-for-profit IHEs.

Subject: Expansion of eligibility for child care assistance program. Purpose: To implement changes to the child care assistance program set forth in chapter 56 of the Laws of 2023.

Subject: Trafficking Victims. Purpose: To conform regulations to Public Law 117-348, The Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022.

Subject: Fuel use tax on motor fuel and diesel motor fuel and 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, 2024 through March 31, 2024.