Requires all dogs and their owners to successfully complete obedience training. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires the micro-chipping of all dogs; creates a state registry to maintain the identification and contact information on all micro-chipped dogs; provides that such registry shall be available twenty-four hours a day. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to restrictions on non-therapeutic use of antimicrobial agents in animals in the absence of any clinical sign of disease in the animals. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to vaccination of egg-laying hens against salmonella. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires farm labor contractors to provide certified copies of payroll records to the commissioner of labor. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides that the department of agriculture and markets must order a retail food store failing three consecutive sanitary inspections to cease retail operations or suspend or revoke its license until it passes inspection; also provides for a five hundred dollar fine for stores failing to post inspection reports or make copies available to the public upon request. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGRICULTURE

Allows the department of transportation, in conjunction with the department of agriculture and markets, to investigate and resolve any barriers to bulk milk transportation; enables the state department of transportation and the NYC department of transportation to jointly establish weight standards for bulk milk haulers traveling within NYC. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Authorizes the production for retail sale and the retail sale of raw, untreated milk for human consumption. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Includes land used for processing or retail merchandising of agricultural products within the real property tax exemption for land used in agricultural production. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Allows livestock owners to purchase and possess rabies vaccine and to vaccinate their livestock against rabies during emergency rabies outbreak situations as determined by the commissioner of health; provides for the expiration and repeal of such provisions after two years; defines livestock for the purpose of this section. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Creates a real property tax exemption for land of a farm operation which is in the process of being certified for the production of organic crops. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Makes provisions relating to retail farm operations; defines retail farm operations as a seasonal or annual enterprise operated for the purpose of selling predominantly farm and food products which are in support of agricultural production; includes retail farm operations under the definition of farm operations and the provisions of sound agricultural practices necessary for on-farm production, preparation and marketing. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Establishes a real property tax abatement for the value of land used for replanting or crop expansion of woody biomass used for the production of ethanol or biodiesel, including willow. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Increases from 50 to 100 acres, the acreage of farm woodland that qualifies as land used in agricultural production for agricultural assessment purposes. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Directs the department of agriculture and markets and the state soil and water conservation committee to review and define farm conservation practices which are within the professions of engineering, land surveying and architecture. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Increases state assistance payments for county approved agricultural and farmland protection plans, from 75% to 85% of the cost thereof. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides that no dog shall be restrained by a tethering device attached to a fixed point or to a running cable trolley system for more than six hours per day. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to the sale of birds by pet dealers when such birds have not yet been fully weaned. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to the sale of birds by pet dealers. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides for regulation of pet dealers by municipalities; relates to preemption of local laws and pet dealers. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE