Directs the superintendent of insurance to study the feasibility of developing and implementing a liability reform plan to protect private landowners who permit public recreational uses of their land. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INSURANCE

Includes moderate rehabilitation within the definition of project for the purposes of the low income housing trust fund program; defines moderate rehabilitation project as any occupied residential property or portion thereof which if vacant or underoccupied would qualify as a cooperative project, condominium project, homesteading project or rental project. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Provides for the regulation of aquaculture for the purpose of developing fish-farming businesses as an alternative cash crop for farms across the state and appoints a task force relating thereto. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Increases state assistance payments for county approved agricultural and farmland protection plans, from 75% to 85% of the cost thereof. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Extends until June 1, 2013, the deadline for local legislative action providing tax incentives for the rehabilitation or improvement of multiple dwellings. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: REAL PROPERTY TAXATION

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

Directs the power authority to conduct an analysis of the economic viability of load producing electric generating facilities for the purpose of determining the feasibility of entering into power purchasing agreements with such facilities. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

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: RULES

Grants a $100,000 real property tax exemption to conservation clubs and rod and gun clubs owning land acquired prior to January 1, 2011, having an assessed value of $500,000 or less. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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

Provides that dogs engaged in hunting and training as authorized by the environmental conservation law, shall not be deemed to be running at large in violation of any local law or ordinance. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: RULES

Establishes an affirmative defense for causes of actions related to violation of a patent, trademark or other intellectual property right on grounds that a party possessed or used seeds or plants that contained genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms without entering into an agreement or paying fees to the manufacturer or licensed distributor of such products. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: JUDICIARY

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

Provides that farmers shall receive an exemption from tolls when transporting product to NYC for consumption in the city. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Authorizes the establishment of the home equity protection insurance program directing the agency to issue a commitment to insure and insure the full value of certain residences which are owner-occupied by persons who meet certain income qualifications. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

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

Establishes a natural gas and oil well security fund to enable natural gas and oil producers to meet the financial security requirements in the environmental conservation law for the permitting, operation, maintenance and plugging of natural gas and oil wells. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Authorizes the employment of state and local work release inmates by not-for-profit organizations and public service projects; provides that inmates and prisoners may refuse to participate in employment by a not-for-profit organization when such employment is contrary to his or her religious or ideological beliefs. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CORRECTION

Extends the effectiveness of provisions until 2015 relating to new owners of buildings for which administrators have been appointed pursuant to article 7-A of the real property actions and proceedings law. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee:

Relates to asbestos project notification and associated fee. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: LABOR