Assembly Bill A6435

Vetoed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain commercial feed to include hemp seed

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Current Bill Status - Vetoed by Governor

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

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2023-A6435 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6326
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §128, Ag & Mkts L

2023-A6435 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes commercial feed for a pet, specialty pet, horse, or camelid to include hemp seed or a substance derived from hemp seed.

2023-A6435 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6435
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to allowing
   certain commercial feed to include hemp seed
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.    Subdivision  7  of  section  128 of the agriculture and
 markets law, as added by chapter 816 of the laws of 1974, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   7. "Commercial feed" means all materials except unmixed whole seeds or
 physically altered entire unmixed seeds, when not adulterated within the
 meaning  of  subdivision  one  of section one hundred thirty-two of this
 article, which are distributed for use as feed or for  mixing  in  feed,
 and  includes  pet  food  and specialty pet food. Provided, however, the
 commissioner by regulation may exempt  from  this  definition,  or  from
 specific  provisions  of  this  article, commodities such as hay, straw,
 stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls, and individual chemical compounds or
 substances when  such  commodities,  compounds  or  substances  are  not
 inter-mixed or mixed with other materials, and are not adulterated with-
 in  the  meaning of subdivision one of section one hundred thirty-two of
 this article.  PROVIDED  FURTHER,  HOWEVER,  THAT  COMMERCIAL  FEED  MAY
 INCLUDE  THE ADDITION OF HEMP SEED OR HEMP SEED PRODUCTS FOR USE AS FEED
 OR FOR MIXING IN FEED FOR A PET, SPECIALTY PET, HORSE, OR  CAMELID.  THE
 TERM  "HEMP"  SHALL  HAVE  THE  SAME  MEANING AS DEFINED IN SECTION FIVE
 HUNDRED FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10103-02-3

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