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

Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit by the person or persons entitled to such benefit. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the distribution of circular advertisements; establishes the do not circulate registry. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Prohibits rental vehicle companies from charging exorbitant rates for unfueled vehicles returned by customers; provides that any refueling charge imposed as part of a rental agreement shall be no higher than a rate which exceeds the highest retail rate of gasoline within a one-half mile radius of such rental vehicle company; imposes a fine of five hundred dollars per violation. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

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

Provides that every insurance policy which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall insure that there is continuous coverage of a single source drug that is part of a prescribed therapy until such prescribed therapy is no longer medically necessary for the enrollee of such policy; defines "single source drug". / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: INSURANCE

Establishes the "New York city construction safety task force" to advise the city on issues related to safety in the construction industry in New York city and to propose changes in rules and regulations, licensing requirements, enforcement, training and any other issue concerning safety in the construction industry; provides for not less than thirty-eight members; requires that a report be issued annually to the mayor of the city of New York, the New York city council, governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly; requires such report to include, but not be limited to, statistics on accidents and injuries occurring on construction sites. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES

Relates to establishing the crime of illegal conversion or alteration of real property. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CODES

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 environmental impact statements to consider cumulative effects of an action for projects in communities already experiencing the impact by polluting facilities; defines "cumulative environmental impacts". / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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

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

Relates to permits for cellular antennas in the city of New York. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES

Relates to the rebuttable presumption relating to identifying information on an unsolicited advertisement in cities with a population of one million or more: provides that such presumption shall apply if the advertising materials are placed at any one premise. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

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

Prohibits vendors from vending on Hillside Avenue and Union Turnpike, in the area between 248th Street and the Nassau county border, and on 76th Avenue, in the area between 263rd Street and the Nassau county border, in Jamaica, county of Queens. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES

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

Relates to observance of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha by institutions within the state university and the city university of New York. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: HIGHER EDUCATION

Relates to the method of payment on delinquent real property taxes, sewer rents, sewer surcharges, water rents, or any other charges that are made a lien; requires certified check or money order. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES

Authorizes gambling on professional sporting events and athletic events sponsored by universities or colleges at betting facilities located at thoroughbred and harness racetracks operating in this state, in simulcast theaters operated by off-track betting corporations and in any constitutionally authorized casino facility; provides that the proceeds of such gambling be applied exclusively to or in aid or support of education. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: JUDICIARY