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 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

Authorizes certain counties to adopt and amend local laws imposing sales tax; relates to wireless surcharges in certain counties; relates to the fee charged for the issuance of birth and death records. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Permits boards of elections to allow election inspectors to work split shifts, their compensation shall be prorated accordingly. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: ELECTIONS

Prohibits assessors from increasing the assessments of forestland based on the stumpage value of the trees thereon; establishes the forestland taxation task force to study and make recommendations on the assessment and taxation of privately owned forestlands. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: FINANCE

Alters the definition of a qualified historic home for the purposes of the historic homeownership rehabilitation credit. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides for aquaculture and shellfish regulation. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Creates and provides for a tax increment financing program as a method of reducing the cost of affordable housing in NYS; authorizes issuance of general and special obligation bonds and temporary anticipation notes; authorizes division of housing and community renewal to provide technical services and assistance to municipalities with regard to site selection, financial packaging, and engineering and architectural services necessary for the preparation of project plans. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Grants Janice A. Riley a retroactive date of retirement in the New York state and local employees' retirement system. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Includes in class A misdemeanor of dissemination of an unlawful surveillance image in the second degree, the dissemination of an image of a person to a computer network internet website that is obscene, without the consent or knowledge of the person in the image. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CODES

Allows the department of transportation, in conjunction with the department of agriculture and markets, to investigate and resolve any barriers to bulk milk transportation; enables the state department of transportation and the NYC department of transportation to jointly establish weight standards for bulk milk haulers traveling within NYC. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Eliminates the requirement for parental consent to an adoption when one parent has an order of protection against him or her for the protection of the other parent, a person in lawful custody of the child or the child. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Makes provisions relating to retail farm operations; defines retail farm operations as a seasonal or annual enterprise operated for the purpose of selling predominantly farm and food products which are in support of agricultural production; includes retail farm operations under the definition of farm operations and the provisions of sound agricultural practices necessary for on-farm production, preparation and marketing. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGRICULTURE

Grants credit against personal income tax to purchasers of residential housing in the amount of any down payment made on such housing; provides that the maximum credit shall not exceed 5 percent of the purchase price of the residential housing; requires taxpayers to meet eligibility requirements imposed by the state of New York mortgage agency. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Authorizes Native American nations and tribes to make payments to municipal governments hosting tribal casinos; such payments shall be in lieu of payments that the state is otherwise required to make to the municipal government. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: FINANCE

Authorizes Native American nations and tribes to make payments to municipal governments hosting tribal casinos; such payments shall be in lieu of payments that the state is otherwise required to make to the municipal government. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: FINANCE

Relates to funding of contracts of neighborhood preservation companies and not-for-profit corporations. /
Sponsor: YOUNG

Permits two or more contiguous towns to jointly purchase highway equipment upon request of the highway and superintendents of such towns and by majority vote of each of the town boards. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Exempts domestic and imported animals harvested at a game hunting preserve from the sales and compensating use tax. /
Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS