Assembly Bill A10675

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to funding for food banks to purchase food products from New York farmers and processors for distribution to New Yorkers experiencing hunger or food insecurity

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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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2019-A10675 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8504
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Appropriations
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S3582
2023-2024: S1385

2019-A10675 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing that monies from the CARES act be allocated to food banks or other participating entities to purchase food products from New York farmers and processors for distribution to New Yorkers experiencing hunger or food insecurity.

2019-A10675 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10675
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lupardo) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT relating to funding for food banks, emergency food providers,  or
   other  participating  entities to purchase food products from New York
   farmers and processors for distribution to  New  Yorkers  experiencing
   hunger or food insecurity

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1. For purposes of this act, "regional food hub" shall mean
 a business  or  organization  that  actively  manages  the  aggregation,
 distribution, and marketing of source-identified food products primarily
 from local and regional producers to strengthen their ability to satisfy
 wholesale, retail, and institutional demand.
   2.  $25,000,000 of monies that have been allocated to the state of New
 York by the federal  Coronavirus  Aid,  Relief,  and  Economic  Security
 (CARES) Act of 2020 (P.L. 116-136), or any future federal stimulus fund-
 ing,  that  have  not  otherwise been obligated, shall be allocated to a
 state program or initiative already in existence  or  established  after
 the  effective  date  of  this act, that provides funding to food banks,
 emergency food providers, or other  participating  entities  within  the
 state to purchase food products from New York farmers and processors for
 distribution to New Yorkers experiencing hunger or food insecurity.
   3. Such program or initiative shall, to the extent practicable, prior-
 itize  the  sourcing  of  food  products from producers, processors, and
 regional food hubs within the same geographic region as the food  banks,
 emergency  food  providers,  or  other  entities  participating  in such
 program or initiative.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16595-01-0

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