Prohibits officers and family members of such officers of public charities from receiving compensation; requires reasonable compensation when allowed; sets certain compensation; establishes the state board training consortium; establishes the state board training consortium fund; increases certain filing fees to fund the state board training consortium fund. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes the New York state foreign children tax inclusion act authorizing a tax deduction for support provided to children outside of the United States; defines "dependent children"; provides an exemption of $1,000 for each foreign dependent child. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates an agricultural crop loss personal income tax credit. / Sponsor: RITCHIE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes the "caregiver's assistance act"; allows a personal income tax credit equal to twenty percent of qualified care expenses in an amount equal to or less than two thousand four hundred dollars for the taxable year that are paid by the taxpayer for the care of a qualifying senior family member; authorizes a basic or an enhanced (STAR) exemption on a pro-rated basis to property where a senior citizen residing with a taxpayer would otherwise meet the eligibility requirements, except for ownership requirements, and where, in the case of an enhanced exemption, the income of the senior and the spouse of the senior considered separately from the remainder of the household would meet the applicable income requirements; provides that such basic or an enhanced exemption shall be on a pro-rated basis. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for an increase in federal itemized deduction for certain home improvements; a fifty percent tax exemption is provided to a residential property owner of a one, two or three family home for improvements that will promote environmental quality; limits the deduction to $1,000 in any one tax year. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee to conduct public hearings on the executive budget in certain areas of the state, after submission and prior to enactment of such budget. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to phasing out the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax; reduces the rate of tax imposed on certain counties beginning in 2013 and ends the imposition of all commuter taxes beginning in 2016; reduces additional supplemental fees imposed under the vehicle and traffic law; provides for limiting growth in the MTA operating budget. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires notification to certain federal and state agencies when certain persons with diplomatic immunity violate the law; requires a report by law enforcement or police agencies to include, but not be limited to, the name of the person protected by diplomatic immunity; the person's title, position and/or assignment in the United States; and the date, time, location and nature of the incident, including the potential penal law violations prompting such person having been arrested or who would have been arrested but for their diplomatic immunity. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Authorizes the retail sale of alcoholic beverages at stadiums, arenas or places of entertainment having a permanent seating capacity in excess of eighteen thousand persons, at eleven a.m. on Sunday. / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Makes seed purchased to grow food for personal consumption exempt from sales and use taxes. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates the New York state independent budget office to provide objective, non-partisan and timely analyses of state revenue, expenditures and management practices to members of the legislature for any legislation with fiscal impact or at the request of a leader or a committee. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Authorizes additional tax credits for certain costs incurred in film and television productions in a city having a population of one million or more. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes a working farmland property tax credit for owners of agricultural assessment land within agricultural districts. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Creates the New York state independent budget office with a director to be appointed by a special committee composed of the assembly speaker and minority leader, the temporary president and minority leader of the senate, and the state comptroller, upon the recommendations of the assembly ways and means committee and the senate finance committee; such office shall provide objective, non-partisan and timely analyses of state revenue, expenditures and management practices to members of the legislature for any legislation with fiscal impact or at the request of a leader or a committee. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Imposes a fine or duty to buy and use an identification scanner upon alcoholic beverage licensee found to have given such a beverage to a person under 21. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for an angel investor income tax credit for investments in qualified businesses that exceed $25,000. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Establishes a credit against the franchise tax on business corporations for the cost of replacing concord grapevines by a farm. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Enacts "Averyana's law"; provides a tax credit for the purchase and installation of smoke detectors. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Changes the definition of "employment number" with respect to empire zones to include employees of contract operators. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Exempts farm operations from limited liability filing fees and certain business franchise taxes. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS