Senate Bill S593

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to land used in agricultural production

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Agriculture 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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2025-S593 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §301, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S5955
2023-2024: S1056

2025-S593 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes certain land that is owned or rented as a farm operation for the production for sale of crops, livestock or livestock products as land used in agricultural production.

2025-S593 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    593
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  HINCHEY, BORRELLO, WEBB -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agricul-
   ture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law,  in  relation  to  land
   used in agricultural production

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets
 law is amended by adding two new paragraphs p and q to read as follows:
   P. LAND THAT IS OWNED OR RENTED AS A FARM OPERATION FOR THE  PRECEDING
 TWO  YEARS  FOR THE PRODUCTION FOR SALE OF CROPS, LIVESTOCK OR LIVESTOCK
 PRODUCTS, THAT CONSISTS OF (1) NOT LESS THAN SEVEN ACRES AND  AN  ANNUAL
 GROSS  SALES  VALUE  OF  FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OR MORE; OR (2) LESS THAN
 SEVEN ACRES AND AN ANNUAL GROSS  SALES  VALUE  OF  THIRTY-FIVE  THOUSAND
 DOLLARS  OR  MORE.  SUCH  FARM OPERATION SHALL ALSO BE ABLE TO ESTABLISH
 THAT THE FARM OPERATION WILL MEET THE  GROSS  SALES  VALUE  REQUIREMENTS
 DESCRIBED  IN  PARAGRAPH  F  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION WITHIN THREE YEARS OF
 ATTAINING AN AGRICULTURAL ASSESSMENT. THE COMMISSIONER OR  THE  ADVISORY
 BOARD ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINE-A OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE  SHALL  CREATE A SET OF METRICS AND CONSIDERATIONS USED BY ASSESSORS
 TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE FARM OPERATION WILL MEET SUCH GROSS SALES VALUE
 REQUIREMENT WITHIN THREE YEARS. ASSESSORS SHALL  USE  SUCH  METRICS  AND
 CONSIDERATIONS  AND  SHALL GIVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION TO FARM OPERATIONS
 THAT WERE AWARDED ANY STATE OR FEDERAL GRANTS, IN PARTICULAR GRANTS  FOR
 BEGINNING FARMERS AND GRANTS FOR ECONOMICALLY AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED
 FARMERS.  THE COMMISSIONER OR THE ADVISORY BOARD ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
 SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINE-A OF THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  MONITOR  THE  FARM
 OPERATION'S PROGRESS, AS WELL AS CONNECT TO RESOURCES TO ENSURE THE FARM
 OPERATION MEETS THE GROSS SALES VALUE REQUIREMENT WITHIN THE TIME ALLOT-
 TED. LAND THAT RECEIVES AN AGRICULTURAL ASSESSMENT AND IS UNABLE TO MEET
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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