Requires the port authority of New York and New Jersey to conduct a noise and land use compatibility study. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RULES

Provides for forfeiture of a truck, tractor and/or tractor-trailer combination if a driver thereof has been convicted of three violations of a designated system of truck routes within eighteen months. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RULES

Does away with the legislative ethics commission and transfers certain duties to the joint commission on public ethics. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RULES

Authorizes the creation of the community group assistance lottery game and establishes the community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING

Authorizes a lottery game for a community grant fund, which fund shall be dedicated to community groups organized pursuant to paragraph three or four of subdivision (c) of section five hundred one of the internal revenue code of nineteen hundred eighty-six, as amended, administering educational, recreational, cultural, senior, veterans or social services programs or providing volunteer ambulance services. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: JUDICIARY

Mandates that all operators of mechanically propelled vessels obtain a boating safety certificate and prohibits children under the age of sixteen from operating such vessels unless accompanied by a certificated person sixteen or older except for the operation of certain vessels with small engines by persons between thirteen and fifteen years of age. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RULES

Requires public schools to incorporate instruction in Indian Subcontinent/Indo-Caribbean studies into their existing curriculum. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: EDUCATION

Relates to removal of raccoons in New York city; requires the New York city department of health and mental hygiene to remove any raccoon upon receiving notice from a member of the public that such a raccoon has created a nuisance on outdoor public or private property and to effectuate humane release thereof. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RULES

Enacts the "politician self-immortalization prevention act"; provides that no facility supported by state funds may be named after a living public official unless such person has been out of public service for at least ten years. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: RULES

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Relates to the timing of risk level determination hearings for certain convicted sex offenders who are expected to be, upon sentencing, released on probation or discharged upon payment of a fine, conditional discharge or unconditional discharge. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CORRECTION

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: FINANCE

Requires a seismological impact study related to hydrofracking. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Requires a health impact assessment for horizontal gas drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing; imposes a moratorium on such activities pending adoption and implementation of the final health impact assessment. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Prohibits the disposal in a solid waste facility of lamps containing mercury; requires manufacturers thereof to establish collection and recycling programs. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION