New York Assembly Bill 6930 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Introduced on March 27 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-08 - referred to agriculture
Pending: Assembly Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establishes a dairy farmers' bill of rights; specifies prohibited unfair trade practices which have the purpose of intentionally impairing a producer's freedom to bargain collectively with other producers in the marketing of the producer's product; provides that the commissioner of the department of agriculture and markets shall take action to restrain such violations upon the application of an association of producers; increases the limit on damages for encouraging or permitting delivery of products in violation of marketing agreements.

Establishes a dairy farmers' bill of rights; specifies prohibited unfair trade practices which have the purpose of intentionally impairing a producer's freedom to bargain collectively with other producers in the marketing of the producer's product; provides that the commissioner of the department of agriculture and markets shall take action to restrain such violations upon the application of an association of producers; increases the limit on damages for encouraging or permitting delivery of products in violation of marketing agreements.

Asm. Gary Finch [R]	Asm. Clifford Crouch [R]	Asm. Brian Kolb [R]	Asm. Joseph Giglio [R]
Asm. Kenneth Blankenbush [R]	Asm. Stephen Hawley [R]	Asm. Christopher Tague [R]	Asm. William Barclay [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-08	Assembly	referred to agriculture
2019-03-27	Assembly	referred to agriculture

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/A6930
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A06930&term=2019&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A06930