Asm. Robert Smullen

Creates a tax credit for small businesses that sell a certain percentage of products produced in New York state; provides such small businesses include independently or privately-owned cafes, restaurants, eateries, bars, pubs, breweries, distilleries, orchards, food trucks, retail stores, farm stands, hotels, or motels.

Directs the division of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a study on the public safety implications of the electrification of buildings and transportation in the context of emergency response and to issue a report on the findings and recommendations as a result of such study; exempts emergency services vehicles and heavy equipment from the requirements of the climate leadership and community protection act of 2019; prohibits the use of battery packs which contain cobalt mined components for primary propulsion of emergency services vehicles.

Provides for insurance coverage of comprehensive annual medical examinations for firefighters due to their increased risk for cancer and cancer-related diseases.

Establishes the rural equity assistance program to promote and facilitate community and economic development in the small towns and rural areas of the state.

Eliminates state sales and compensating use taxes on motor fuels and diesel motor fuels; authorizes localities to eliminate such taxes at the local level; establishes various exemptions from New York's sales and use tax; provides for a sales tax exemption for housekeeping supplies and for ready-to-eat foods.

Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays with or adjacent to automated external defibrillator cabinets.

Enacts the New York state product promotion act; requires the commissioner of economic development to develop and implement the New York state product promotion program; further requires such commissioner to establish and maintain an internet registry to highlight businesses that manufacture or produce products in this state; allows the department of economic development to charge a reasonable fee to cover such administrative costs; requires the commissioner to create a product label with the registry address to help identify such products.

Relates to pistol permit applications for military personnel; requires the licensing officer to act on an application for any member of the active or reserve component of the armed forces within 90 days of presentment.

Directs the secretary of State to issue to the village of Nelliston in the Town of Palatine, Montgomery county, a certificate of incorporation verifying the status of the village of Nelliston as incorporated as a village since 1878.

Maddy summaryThis bill formally renames New York's Empire State Trail to the "Governor Malcolm Wilson Empire State Trail" for all state communications, publications, and websites. It directly affects how the trail is identified in official state materials but does not change trail operations, funding, or access. The renaming is a purely ceremonial designation with no associated policy changes or new funding mechanisms. The bill's text simply updates the trail's official name within existing state documentation.