Assembly Bill A1503

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to defraying costs of aggregating, processing and transporting agricultural products for producers and processors

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  • 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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2017-A1503 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9549
2019-2020: A6489

2017-A1503 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to defraying costs of aggregating, processing and transporting agricultural products for producers and processors.

2017-A1503 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1503
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LOPEZ --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  assist-
   ance   with  aggregating,  processing  and  transporting  agricultural
   products for producers and processors

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5-b  of  section  16  of the agriculture and
 markets law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   (D) PROVIDE, IN COOPERATION WITH CORNELL  COOPERATIVE  EXTENSION,  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF  ECONOMIC  DEVELOPMENT  AND  OTHER  RESOURCES,  TECHNICAL
 ASSISTANCE, TO SMALL SCALE  PRODUCERS  AND  PROCESSORS  OF  AGRICULTURAL
 PRODUCTS  WHO  ARE  INTERESTED IN COORDINATING WITH EACH OTHER TO AGGRE-
 GATE, PROCESS AND TRANSPORT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS WITH THE GOAL OF SELL-
 ING SUCH PRODUCTS IN SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES TO MEET THE DEMANDS  OF  FOOD
 BUSINESSES AND INSTITUTIONAL BUYERS, AND IDENTIFY AND DISSEMINATE INFOR-
 MATION TO PROVIDE TO SUCH PRODUCERS AND PROCESSORS ON FEDERAL, STATE AND
 PRIVATE GRANT OR OTHER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS WITH THE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING
 AND  SUPPORTING  SUCH  COORDINATION.  THE ASSISTANCE PROVIDED UNDER THIS
 PARAGRAPH MAY ALSO BE INCLUDED  AS  PART  OF  THE  PROCUREMENT  TRAINING
 PROGRAMS AUTHORIZED IN SUBDIVISION TWO-D OF THIS SECTION.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02543-01-7

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