Excepts agricultural land defined as livestock and livestock products from the prohibition on salt licks made, set or used on land inhabited by deer or bear; prohibits hunting deer or bear with the aid of a salt lick. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee:

Allows for rifle hunting in that portion of Ontario County south of NYS route 20. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee:

Requires manufacturers of thermostats to collect mercury-containing thermostats; requires educational outreach; establishes collection goals; requires reporting of collection efforts. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Relates to selectively cutting timber and exclusion of current best management practices from regulated activities. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee:

Relates to exempting minimal risk pesticides from pesticide applicator certification requirements. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Enacts the "Rockland Bergen Bi-State Watershed Flood Prevention and Protection Act"; creates the twelve member Rockland Bergen Bi-State River Commission to identify and remediate the potential flood protection hazards along the tributaries and watersheds of the Hackensack River, Mahwah River, Ramapo River, Saddle River and Sparkill Brook/Creek that cross the interstate border region. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee:

Relates to brownfield site cleanup; establishes environmental covenants; repeals provisions of law relating to brownfield redevelopment tax credits. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Relates to responsible parties for petroleum contaminated sites and incentives to parties who are willing to remediate such sites; provides that a discharger may present evidence as to third party responsibility for petroleum discharge; provides for apportionment of liability; provides that parties willing to remediate such discharge shall be entitled to liability limitation. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Relates to the sale, by counties, of delinquent tax liens on brownfields property. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee:

Prohibits the possession, sale, offer for sale, trade or distribution of shark fins. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Permits hunting with crossbows in certain circumstances; makes permanent certain provisions permitting hunting with crossbows. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee:

Relates to natural gas production discharges from high-volume hydraulic fracturing and requires notification within two hours by any person causing such a discharge; requires the department to notify the general public within 48 hours via their website. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Creates the High-volume Hydraulic Fracturing Waste Tracking Program; requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to track the generation, transportation and receipt of liquid and solid waste associated with the production of oil and gas. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Prohibits publicly owned treatment works from accepting wastewater associated with the exploration, delineation, development, or production of natural gas from high-volume hydraulic fracturing; provides exceptions. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Authorizes the creation of a geographic information system-based display to provide high-volume hydraulic fracturing information to the public; indicates the locations of permitted wells for hydraulic fracturing, the location of public water supply wells and intakes, and the stage of the hydraulic fracturing operation for each permitted well. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Prohibits the use of wastewater from high-volume hydraulic fracturing for road and land spreading, for dust control or de-icing. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Eliminates the requirement that hunters wear back tags during hunting season in the state. / Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee:

Relates to wild and exotic animal protection; prohibits release of such animals; requires owners of exotic animals to pay for costs associated with animal recapture. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Expands acreage relating to the natural gas development habitat fragmentation protection. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee:

Requires that unredeemed container deposits shall be credited to the environmental protection fund. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: