Senate Bill S7385

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Enacts the "food retail establishment subsidization for healthy communities act"

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S7385 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2359
Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
New York State Urban Development Corporation Act
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง16-m, UDC Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7975
2013-2014: S3819, A2483, A8674
2015-2016: S1498, A4960, A3157
2017-2018: S2783
2019-2020: S584
2021-2022: S6233
2023-2024: S3546

2011-S7385 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "food retail establishment subsidization for healthy communities act" (FRESH Communities); provides loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to businesses, municipalities, not-for-profit corporations or local development corporations for the purpose of attracting, maintaining or permitting the expansion of food retail establishments in underserved areas.

2011-S7385 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S7385 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7385

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 2, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
  and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
  relation  to  enacting the food retail establishment subsidization for
  healthy communities (FRESH Communities) act

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
the "food retail establishment  subsidization  for  healthy  communities
act".
  S 2. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that the lack of access
to  fresh  foods  is  a  problem  of growing concern in many communities
across the state. Substantial increases in urban land values and  rents,
limited  access to financing and other economic pressures have left many
lower-income residents in urban and rural areas underserved by supermar-
kets and other food retail establishments. The resulting lack of  access
to  a variety of fresh food retailers makes it more difficult and expen-
sive for these residents to maintain a nutritionally balanced  diet  and
leads  to  increased  public  health  costs, dilutes the value of public
assistance for food purchases, leads to greater travel times and  energy
expenditures  to  obtain fresh food, and deprives the state's farmers of
markets for their products. Providing access to financial assistance for
urban and rural supermarkets in  underserved  areas  will  remedy  these
adverse conditions, create employment opportunities and help to revital-
ize and stabilize currently underserved neighborhoods.
  S  3. Subdivision 1 of section 16-m of section 1 of chapter 174 of the
laws of 1968, constituting the New York state urban  development  corpo-
ration act, is amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows:
  (N)  LOANS,  LOAN  GUARANTEES,  INTEREST SUBSIDIES AND GRANTS TO BUSI-
NESSES, MUNICIPALITIES, NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS OR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ATTRACTING,  MAINTAINING  OR  PERMITTING
THE  EXPANSION  OF  FOOD RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS IN UNDERSERVED AREAS. FOR
PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, "UNDERSERVED AREAS"  SHALL  INCLUDE  LOW  OR

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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