IT’S 2024 – HERE ARE THE NEW LAWS THAT NEW YORK SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
The minimum wage will increase:
New York's minimum wage will rise to $16 per hour in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County and to $15 an hour everywhere else in the state.
Medicaid will cover doula services:
A new law taking effect this summer will require Medicaid to cover doula services for New Yorkers. It also mandates that the state's Department of Health create and maintain a directory of doulas.
Discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q. residents at nursing homes will be prohibited.
Private schools will provide free menstrual products.
Schools have to make voter registration forms available.
Inmates must be told of their voting rights before release:
Those who have been previously convicted of a felony must be notified – both verbally and in writing – before they are released from a state correctional facility that their voting rights will be restored once they get out.
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