Establishes the Corinth and Warren railroad authority to improve and operate a 56 mile section of railroad in the counties of Saratoga and Warren; provides for such authority's powers and duties. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Prohibits the state from gaining any interest in forest land other than a conservation easement. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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

Directs the department of environmental conservation, and any successor agency thereto, to establish a reasonable number of forest preserve management areas upon state lands, acquired on or after the effective date of this amendment to the constitution, which are made a part of the state forest preserve; authorizes the cutting, sale and removal of timber on such lands, and the use of motorized equipment for such purposes. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: JUDICIARY

Directs each board of cooperative educational services to adopt and implement a school year calendar for classes at such board and the component school districts thereof. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: EDUCATION

Requires the commissioner of correctional services to provide notice by certified mail, at least 24 months prior to a correctional facility's closure, to certain local governments, employee labor organizations and employees employed within such correctional facility. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Prohibits candidates for public office to be voted upon in an election district from being a poll watcher in such district; also prohibits the spouse, parent or child of such candidate from so serving. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: ELECTIONS

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

Relates to the provision of municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal ambulance service. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Establishes the "tourism economic development fund" to be funded with revenue from the licensing of the "I Love NY" brand; moneys from such fund shall be appropriated for the promotion, attraction, stimulation, development and expansion of tourist travel, resort, vacation, culture and convention activities in this state. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Relates to consignments of works of art to art merchants by artists and their successors in interest. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Provides for mutual aid to and by member states of the Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact and states which are members of other regional forest fire protection compacts. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Authorizes the town of Salem, in the county of Washington, to extend the Salem fire protection district into the village of Salem. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Authorizes municipalities and districts thereof to contract for goods and services jointly with the state or other municipalities. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Extends from December 1, 2012 to December 1, 2015, the expiration of the authorization to the county of Essex to impose an additional mortgage recording tax. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Authorizes remote net metering by farm and non-residential customer-generators using micro-hydroelectric generating equipment. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Extends from December 1, 2012 until December 1, 2015, the expiration of the authority of the county of Hamilton to impose a mortgage tax. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Authorizes office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to lease and license the use of buildings and facilities within Knox Farm state park. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Requires the department of environmental conservation, in cooperation with the department of agriculture and markets, to take action with respect to nonnative animal and plant species. /
Sponsor: LITTLE

Extends through January 1, 2015, provisions authorizing the operation of certain leased personal watercraft and prop-craft without a boating safety certificate. /
Sponsor: LITTLE