Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; relates to the waterfront commission act; makes amendments to change "applicant" to licensee or registrant (Part A); provides for mass transportation payments to the Central New York Regional Transportation District; adds Cortland county to such district (Part B); relates to extending the authorization for a pre-licensing course internet program (Part C); reduces the time required for certain vehicles to be considered abandoned; increases the value of a motor vehicle considered abandoned which can become property of the local authority the vehicle is abandoned in (Part D); relates to drugged and impaired driving and drug recognition evaluations (Part E); improves safety at certain elementary school intersections (Part F); defines a class three bicycle with electric assist weighing one-hundred pounds or more as a limited use motorcycle (Part G); relates to speed limits for bicycles, bicycles with electric assist, electric scooters and other devices (Part H); extends provisions of law relating to certain tax increment financing provisions (Part I); relates to certain provisions regarding labor disputes involving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Part J); relates to the acquisitions or transfers of property for certain transit projects; amends part VVV of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020 to extend the effectiveness of certain provisions of law relating thereto (Part K); relates to funding for net paratransit operating expenses for the city of New York and the metropolitan transportation authority; makes permanent certain provisions of law relating thereto (Part L); provides funding for the metropolitan transportation authority 2025-2029 capital program (Part M); authorizes covered agencies and authorities to use weigh-in-motion technology to automatically enforce vehicle weight limits on their facilities (Part N); adds obstructing traffic at intersection as a bus operation-related traffic regulation (Part O); authorizes and establishes a surcharge for the issuance of permits relating to the obstruction or closure of a street or pedestrian plaza for construction purposes in a city having a population of one million or more; makes related provisions (Part P); authorizes a photo monitoring program for the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority and New York state bridge authority; establishes a work zone speed camera administration fund; makes permanent provisions relating to certain notices of liability (Part Q); expands enhanced assault protection for motor vehicle license examiners, motor vehicle representatives, highway workers, motor carrier investigators, motor carrier inspectors, and triborough bridge and tunnel authority workers (Part R); relates to the effectiveness of the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project (Part S); authorizes the Olympic regional development authority to enter into agreements for membership of one or more of its ski venues in reciprocal ski pass programs where such members are required to guarantee contractual indemnity up to a capped amount (Part T); prohibits the provision of an artificial intelligence companion to a user unless such artificial intelligence companion contains a protocol for addressing possible suicidal ideation or self-harm expressed by a user; requires certain notifications to certain users regarding crisis service providers and the non-human nature of such companion models (Part U); relates to refund policies for retail sales (Part V); enhances disclosure requirements for automatic renewals (Part W); requires disclosure of algorithmically set prices for goods and services (Part X); relates to regulation of buy-now-pay-later lenders; requires such lenders to be licensed; establishes prohibited acts, limitations on loans, and consumer protections (Part Y); requires that a pharmacy benefit manager publish on its website the aggregate dollar amount of rebates, fees, price protection payments and any other payments received from drug manufacturers through a rebate contract (Part Z); requires broker-dealers, investment advisors, or qualified individuals who reasonably believe that financial exploitation of an eligible adult may have occurred, may have been attempted, or is being attempted, to place such transaction on hold; protects eligible adults from exploitation; defines terms; makes related provisions (Part AA); relates to insuring for hire motor vehicles (Part BB); provides for rate increases for for hire motor vehicle insurance (Part CC); relates to rates for livery insurance; provides that an insurer shall submit to the superintendent of financial services its rates, rating plans, rating rules and rate manuals applicable to motor vehicle insurance; makes related provisions (Part DD); extends the authority of the New York state urban development to administer the empire state economic development fund (Part EE); extends the power of the New York state urban development corporation to make loans (Part FF); extends the authority of the dormitory authority to enter into certain design and construction management agreements (Part GG); enacts the private activity bond allocation act of 2025 (Part HH); relates to the construction and financing of public libraries (Part II); authorizes the dormitory authority to provide additional services to local governments and the department of environmental conservation (Part JJ); extends certain provisions of the state finance law and the New York state infrastructure trust fund (Part KK); increases the cap on the amount of money authorized to be on deposit pursuant to the excelsior linked deposit program at any given time (Part LL); relates to purchasing thresholds for minority- or women-owned businesses or service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (Part MM); authorizes the Battery Park city authority, New York convention center operating corporation, New York state energy research and development authority, New York state Olympic region development authority, and Roosevelt Island operating corporation, individually or in some combination with each other, to establish either a pure or group captive insurance company (Part NN); relates to agricultural and farmland protections, including the use of farmland protection conservation easements and activities which support local and regional food systems (Part OO); extends the waste tire management fee for five years; relates to the exclusion for mail order sales (Part PP); extends provisions of the youth deer hunting program (Part QQ); relates to financial responsibility, recovery of response costs and natural resource damages, and abatement actions relating to disposal of inactive hazardous waste (Part RR); prohibits the sale and manufacturing of firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally added PFAS chemicals (Part SS); authorizes the commissioner of environmental conservation to acquire conservation easements without attorney general approval (Subpart A); exempts conveyances of real property for open space, parks, or historic preservation purposes to any not-for-profit corporation operated for conservation, environmental, parks or historic preservation purposes (Subpart B)(Part TT); extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation manage crabs of any kind, including horseshoe crabs (Part UU); authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to finance a portion of its research, development and demonstration, policy and planning, and Fuel NY program, as well as climate change related expenses of the department of environmental conservation from an assessment on gas and electric corporations; directs unused funds to be refunded on a pro-rata basis to such gas and electric corporations (Part VV); ensures energy services companies are subject to the same consumer protection regulations regarding unclaimed deposits and refunds currently facing utility companies (Part WW); relates to utility and cable television assessments that provide funds to the department of health from cable television assessment revenues and to the department of agriculture and markets, department of state, the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, and the department of environmental conservation from utility assessment revenues; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there of (Part XX); increases and redirects civil penalties for failing to comply with the department of public service's prescribed rules and regulations established for the protection of underground facilities (Part YY); authorizes the department of taxation and finance to disclose certain information to the department of environmental conservation or the New York state energy research and development authority for the purpose of implementing the New York state climate leadership and community protection act (Part ZZ).

Statutes affected:
S3008: 534-n executive law, 534-n(4) executive law, 1224 vehicle and traffic law, 1224(2) vehicle and traffic law, 114-a vehicle and traffic law, 102-c vehicle and traffic law, 121-b vehicle and traffic law, 1642 vehicle and traffic law, 1266 public authorities law, 1266(12-a) public authorities law, 87 public officers law, 87(2) public officers law, 1111-c-1 vehicle and traffic law, 120.05 penal law, 120.05(11) penal law, 2611 public authorities law, 2611(7) public authorities law, 218-a general business law, 36 banking law, 36(1) banking law, 36(10) banking law, 39 banking law, 42 banking law, 42(1) banking law, 42(2) banking law, 42(3) banking law, 42(4) banking law, 42(5) banking law, 42(6) banking law, 44 banking law, 44(1) banking law, 2911 insurance law, 473 social services law, 473(6) social services law, 3457 insurance law, 3457(a) insurance law, 2328 insurance law, 1676 public authorities law, 1676(32) public authorities law, 1676(2) public authorities law, 1680 public authorities law, 1680(1) public authorities law, 1678 public authorities law, 1678(26) public authorities law, 214 state finance law, 163 state finance law, 163(6) state finance law, 2879 public authorities law, 2879(3) public authorities law, 7005 insurance law, 7005(b) insurance law, 1500 tax law, 1502-b tax law, 321 agriculture and markets law, 322 agriculture and markets law, 322(1) agriculture and markets law, 27-1901 environmental conservation law, 27-1901(11) environmental conservation law, 27-1301 environmental conservation law, 1285-q public authorities law, 1285-q(3) public authorities law, 391-u general business law, 391-u(1) general business law, 391-u(4) general business law, 391-u(5) general business law, 3-0305 environmental conservation law, 3-0305(1) environmental conservation law, 1405 tax law, 13-0331 environmental conservation law, 13-0331(7) environmental conservation law, 103 abandoned property law, 402 abandoned property law, 402(1) abandoned property law, 402(3) abandoned property law, 402(4) abandoned property law, 403 abandoned property law, 765 general business law, 765(1) general business law, 92-s state finance law, 92-s(3) state finance law, 314 tax law