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Requires rent reduction in cases of submetered utility service; directs the division of housing and community renewal to develop a standard reduction and an appeals process. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to preserve and maintain state historic sites that are closed for more than a month. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Authorizes the attorney general to commence a special proceeding in a court hearing jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of the environmental conservation law and the rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto in the name of the people of the state. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Exempts certain properties on Roosevelt Island in New York City from certain reporting requirements regarding the disposal of property by a public authority. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: FINANCE

Clarifies the appropriation and qualification of member items; authorizes the legislative ethics commission to review violations of the qualification of member items, and requires that all member items be fully itemized. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Requires the conducting of public hearings and reports thereon prior to the closure to public access of any real property by the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Requires tourism promotion agencies seeking matching economic development funds to have a program to encourage visitation of state parks and historic sites. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee:

Requires cities with a population of one million or more to collect discarded recyclable materials at city parks, playgrounds, historic sites and other recreational facilities; requires the posting of signs on facilities without trash receptacles stating that trash must be retained until you reach a trash can; provides state assistance for such programs. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CITIES

Relates to oil and gas drilling in Allegany State Park. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Prohibits persons, firms or corporations engaged in the retail business of selling firearms from selling, delivering or transferring child operated firearms; defines "child operated firearm" to mean a pistol or revolver manufactured 1 year after the effective date of these provisions which does not contain a childproofing device or mechanism incorporated into the design of such pistol or revolver to effectively preclude an average 5 year old from firing same; makes violations a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CODES

Requires public disclosure of certain state agency materials, and authorizes the office for technology to publish a technical standards manual for the publishing of records on the Internet by state agencies. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Amends chapter 576 of the laws of 1974 amending the emergency housing rent control law relating to the control of and stabilization of rent in certain cases; amends chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, constituting the emergency housing rent control law; amends chapter 329 of the laws of 1963 amending the emergency housing rent control law relating to recontrol of rents in certain cases; relates to chapter 555 of the laws of 1982 amending the general business law and the administrative code of the city of New York relating to conversion of residential property to cooperative or condominium ownership in the city of New York; also relates to chapter 402 of the laws of 1983 amending the general business law relating to conversions of residential property to cooperative or condominium ownership in certain municipalities in the counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland, in relation to extending the period of effectiveness thereof. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Provides that each county within the state may limit, restrict or prohibit trapping within its municipal limits; provides that municipalities may do so by local law or ordinance. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Enacts the New York State bicycle tourism promotion act; authorizes the issuance of grants for the purchase of equipment and operation of a bicycle tourism kiosk; authorizes the establishment of up to fifteen such kiosks. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

Authorizes and directs the New York state department of health, to conduct a study on the high incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in the city of New York and to prepare a remedial plan. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: HEALTH

Requires the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to acquire the mineral interests under all land acquired or received by the state for the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, unless the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation finds that the land is of great significance and importance to the state. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Allows veterans of the armed forces of the United States to fish for free in state parks under the jurisdiction of a state agency. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

Authorizes the commissioner of economic development together with the commissioner of agriculture and markets to devise a program to promote and distribute statewide and regional guides to farms, farmers markets and other agriculturally significant tourist destinations. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS