NEW YORK STATE -- A new year means new laws in New York State. One of those is a law strengthening steroid rules in horse racing.

The law bans four types of anabolic steroids and affects all harness and thoroughbred tracks in the state.

Also, more New Yorkers will be able to start billing utility companies for surplus power. The law allows more residents and farmers to send the surplus energy produced by wind, solar or other onsite power generating systems to utilities for sale to other customers. If a customer sends more power than they use in a year, the utility pays them for the balance. The goal is to cut the utilities' cost of generating electricity and potentially reduce emissions from the plants.