Enacts the "STAR credit bill of rights"; establishes the office of STAR ombudsman.
Increases the amount of the farm workforce retention credit from $600 to $1,200 per farm employee.
Establishes the New York water authority for the purposes of purchasing, upgrading, and maintaining small private water companies; makes an appropriation therefor.
Enacts the local food, farms, and jobs act; relates to the procurement of locally grown farm and food products; creates the New York state council on food policy.
Establishes a one-stop farming hotline with the Cornell cooperative extension.
Establishes a procurement goal that at least fifteen percent of all food and food products purchased by state agencies shall be New York state food products in the first and second year after such law takes effect, at least twenty percent in the third year and twenty-five percent thereafter.
Prohibits proceeds from the auction or sale of carbon dioxide emission allowances pursuant to New York's participation in the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI) from being transferred into the state general fund; provides that if such proceeds are transferred to the state general fund, they shall be used for the purposes directed by the RGGI.
