Requires approval of the commissioner for compromise of a fine or penalty relating to kosher violations. / Sponsor: KRUGER 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

Creates the strategic farm and food product development coordinating council. / Sponsor: VALESKY 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

Prohibits dangerous practices at companion animal grooming facilities; provides that no heating elements in cage or box dryers shall be turned on; provides that any violation shall be punishable of a fine between $250-$500. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGRICULTURE

Requires that individuals convicted of certain animal cruelty and animal fighting offenses reimburse the organizations caring for such animals. / Sponsor: BALL Committee: AGRICULTURE

Makes it unlawful to force feed birds, by hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty enlargement of such bird's liver. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to the failure to provide proper care to large numbers of animals in private facilities. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: AGRICULTURE

Relates to preemption of local law. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides that the information collected and maintained by the department of agriculture and markets relating to the registration and identification of premises and animals shall be confidential. / 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

Requires unsealing of court records of youthful offenders convicted of animal abuse offense; provides that such persons undergo a psychiatric evaluation and treatment where necessary. / Sponsor: BALL Committee: AGRICULTURE

Includes wildlife animals as those subject to the animal cruelty provisions of the agriculture and markets law. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Provides a tax incentive to domestic life insurance companies to invest up to 1% of admitted assets in the purchase of agricultural land to be kept in agricultural production for the cultivation of fruit or vegetables, or the processing of fruit products or vegetable products, which land is subject to a conservation easement and receives or is eligible to receive an agricultural assessment; enacts related provision relating to conservation easements. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: AGRICULTURE

Directs the commissioners of agriculture and markets and economic development to study and develop a long-term strategy for sustaining farming and food production in New York state; strategy shall be based on an analysis of land use and economic trends, soil and natural resources, food consumption needs and other factors necessary to develop a state-level blueprint for protecting farmland and strengthening food production in the state. / Sponsor: VALESKY 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

Increases the penalty for multiple convictions of torturing, killing or failing to provide sustenance to an animal to a class E felony, if convicted within five years from the date of a prior conviction. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Creates the crime of companion animal hoarding. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: AGRICULTURE

Enacts the "omnibus obesity and respiratory illness reduction act"; establishes a community gardens task force and provides for direct marketing of fresh vegetables and fruits in areas with a high incidence of adult and child obesity; provides for the screening for childhood obesity by elementary and secondary schools and promotes the availability of certain healthy foods and beverages; provides for the regulation of the use of trans fats and requires the provision of nutritional information by food service facilities; restricts the sale, lease, transfer or authorization of open-air schoolhouse playgrounds for certain uses; requires instruction in schools on good health practices; includes certain respiratory diseases and obesity in disease management demonstration programs; enacts provisions to reduce the incidence of certain respiratory diseases; enacts provisions to prevent in-utero exposure to tobacco smoke; provides for the use of inhalers and nebulizers by certain students; provides for residential real property smoking policies; adds weight control and schools to the health care and wellness education and outreach program; expands the collection and reporting of data on obesity in the state; directs the health research science board to study obesity and respiratory diseases; provides for expanded obesity prevention and screening; expands ease of breast feeding in child day care centers and at work; provides for nutrition counseling to pregnant teenagers; establishes the obesity and respiratory disease research and education fund; includes weight management and physical fitness in wellness programs; provides for health and nutritional education and services to teen parents; requires day care centers to provide healthy foods and exercise; directs cooperative extension to offer obesity and respiratory disease prevention programs. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGRICULTURE

Establishes a five percent surcharge on the sale of animals by pet dealers and the animal shelter and wildlife rehabilitator account to be administered by an animal protection organization to be chosen by the comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: AGRICULTURE