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

Relates to the sale or transfer of certain real property by the state or public authorities; requires mandatory review by the attorney general and comptroller of the sale of certain real property valued at over one hundred thousand dollars and not a part of a competitive bidding process by the state or a public authority; requires notice to members of the legislature and county executives in districts and counties in which land subject to transfer is located of the proposed transfer of state property between state departments, divisions, bureaus, agencies, state agencies, or to a public authority or public benefit corporation. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Assigns liability to a producer for actions leading to a public water system's failure to meet filtration avoidance criteria resulting in the loss of a filtration avoidance criteria waiver. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Establishes a moratorium on the acceptance, disposal and/or processing of any fluid which was used in and drill cuttings from a hydraulic fracturing process performed outside of the state until 120 days after federal Environmental Protection Agency issues a report on the effects of hydraulic fracturing on water quality and public health, and submission of proof to the governor and legislature that the department of environmental conservation is capable of effectively regulating hydraulic fracturing drilling fluids, drill cutting and soil disposal. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Grants concurrent jurisdiction to department of agriculture and markets and the city of New York department of health and mental hygiene over grocery stores and farmers' markets. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES

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: CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION

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

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: CITIES

Provides for a discount on driver's license renewal fees for senior citizens. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires written request, including environmental impact statement, and review by community boards, borough presidents and the council of proposed reductions in the level of fire services, including closure of firehouses or removal or relocation of fire fighting units. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES

Makes it unlawful to force feed birds, by hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty enlargement of such bird's liver. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: AGRICULTURE

Enacts the "homeowner mortgage refinance relief act"; exempts from a local mortgage tax or recording tax mortgagors who are refinancing real property; provides that the commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to establish grounds for qualifications, proof and procedure necessary for a mortgagor to obtain such an exemption. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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

Increases the number of traffic light cameras permitted in New York city to 250. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Relates to computing sales and compensating use tax in regard to retail sales of motor fuel and diesel motor fuel at a rate of cents per gallon in cities of one million or more. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Relates to the collection of mercury-containing thermostats. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Requires negotiation of fair terms between cable television franchisees and competing independent cable channels; requires the public service commission to conduct arbitration if such terms and conditions can not be reached; applies to all such agreements entered on or after January 1, 2013. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Requires reporting by the public service commission on consumer protections adopted by electric corporations and municipalities; the adequacy of the public service commissions assistance to customers facing disconnection of utility service. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Prohibits the operation of horse drawn cabs in the city of New York; defines the circumstances under which sale or disposal of a horse shall be deemed humane. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CITIES