Senate Bill S3546

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - Passed Senate & Assembly


  • 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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2023-S3546 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9069
Law Section:
New York State Urban Development Corporation Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §16-m, UDC Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7385
2013-2014: S3819
2015-2016: S1498
2017-2018: S2783
2019-2020: S584
2021-2022: S6233, A7859

2023-S3546 (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.

2023-S3546 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3546
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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".
   § 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.
   §  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 (p) to read as follows:
   (P)  LOANS,  LOAN  GUARANTEES,  INTEREST SUBSIDIES AND GRANTS TO BUSI-
 NESSES, MUNICIPALITIES, NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS OR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08542-01-3
              

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