Relates to requiring local building and planning regulations to accommodate the use of renewable energy resources such as solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy, ocean thermal, and fuel cells using renewable fuels. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes a procedure whereby the chief executive officer of a municipal corporation in which there is located privately owned forest lands which are exempt from real property taxes to make application to the state for reimbursement for revenues lost as a result of such exemption. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Expands the products which may be purchased for public use by including renewable energy resources; increases the cost premium percentage for renewable energy generated in New York. / Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes the town board of any town, which does not have a fire district, to establish and operate a town fire department. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides that an officer may be suspended without pay for only thirty days pending a trial of disciplinary charges. / Sponsor: BALL Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to docketing of adjudications of violations of laws enforced by the New York city department of consumer affairs. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Extends for four years a real property tax abatement program for cooperative and condominium units in cities of one million or more, to address the inequitable tax treatment of co-op and condo owners. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to taxation of a designated electric generating facility located in the town of Haverstraw. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the taxation of property owned by a cooperative corporation. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Exempts a homeowner from any tax increases when installing a solar energy system on their home. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to procedures for the passage of local laws. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides a real property tax exemption for certain members of volunteer fire companies and ambulance services in any county, having a population of more than 155,000 and less than 160,000 as determined in accordance with the latest decennial census, and its municipalities to the extent of ten percent of assessed value of such property, upon the election of the county or municipality. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the validity of certificates attesting to the satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic training program. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Extends until June 1, 2015, the deadline for local legislative action providing tax incentives for the rehabilitation or improvement of multiple dwellings. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to limitations on expenditures from the insurance reserve fund and narrows the exclusions. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Requires market-based assessments of real property owned or leased by a cooperative corporation or on a condominium basis which is converted or constructed on or after January 1, 2014. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes the town of Ramapo to file an application for exemption from real property taxes for a certain parcels of land located in the town of Ramapo, county of Rockland. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the respective powers of the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton relating to the rights of ownership and regulation over certain waters. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Enacts the "sewage flooding prevention act"' authorizes certain homeowners and not-for-profit agencies in cities having a population of one million or more to receive a credit against real property taxes up to two thousand dollars for the cost of installing sewer improvement check valve devices in certain dwellings and buildings; directs the department of environmental protection of the city of New York to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides coverage for certain physical fitness programs to volunteer firefighters. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT