Bill Text: NY A02702 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to establish a Dine: Pride of New York program for restaurants which use ingredients produced in New York state.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-30 - substituted by s2146 [A02702 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02702-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2702
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 17, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGEE, BARRETT, ROBERTS, SKARTADOS, RUSSELL,
         BRINDISI, LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Agri-
         culture
       AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to estab-
         lishing the Dine: Pride of New York program for restaurants using  and
         serving New York state produced foods and food products
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
    2  section 156-j to read as follows:
    3    S  156-J.  DINE:  PRIDE  OF NEW YORK. 1. DEFINITIONS.  AS USED IN THIS
    4  SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL MEAN:
    5    (A) "NEW YORK PRODUCT" MEANS (I) NEW YORK  STATE  GROWN  FARM  PRODUCT
    6  PACKED  WITHIN  THIS  STATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH OFFICIAL STANDARDS ESTAB-
    7  LISHED AS PROVIDED BY THIS  ARTICLE,  ARTICLE  THIRTEEN,  ARTICLE  THIR-
    8  TEEN-A, ARTICLE THIRTEEN-B, ARTICLE THIRTEEN-C AND ARTICLE THIRTEEN-D OF
    9  THIS  CHAPTER  OR ANY NEW YORK STATE PRODUCED OR LANDED AQUATIC PRODUCT,
   10  SUBJECT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE PROMULGAT-
   11  ED BY THE COMMISSIONER; OR
   12    (II) ANY NEW YORK STATE PROCESSED FOOD  PRODUCT,  MANUFACTURED  WITHIN
   13  THIS  STATE  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  OFFICIAL STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THE
   14  COMMISSIONER PURSUANT TO REGULATION, WHICH ARE ESSENTIALLY  COMPOSED  OF
   15  NEW YORK STATE GROWN FARM PRODUCTS, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WHENEVER THE
   16  COMMISSIONER  DETERMINES, AFTER PUBLIC HEARING, THAT THE USE OF INGREDI-
   17  ENTS NOT GROWN OR PRODUCED IN THIS STATE IS NECESSARY OR  BENEFICIAL  IN
   18  MANUFACTURING  A  PARTICULAR PRODUCT BECAUSE SUCH INGREDIENTS ARE EITHER
   19  NOT GROWN IN NEW YORK OR UNAVAILABLE IN  SUFFICIENT  QUANTITY  OR  AT  A
   20  REASONABLE  PRICE  TO  ALLOW THE PRODUCT TO BE COMPOSED OF ONLY NEW YORK
   21  STATE GROWN FARM PRODUCTS, THE STANDARD FOR SUCH PRODUCT  MAY  AUTHORIZE
   22  THE  INCLUSION OF INGREDIENTS NOT PRODUCED IN THIS STATE, EXCEPT THAT IN
   23  NO EVENT SHALL AN OFFICIAL BRAND OR MARK BE APPROVED FOR USE ON  A  FOOD
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04820-01-3
       A. 2702                             2
    1  PRODUCT UNLESS AT LEAST FIFTY-ONE PERCENT OF ITS CONTENT IS DERIVED FROM
    2  NEW YORK STATE GROWN FARM PRODUCTS.
    3    (B)  "RESTAURANT"  MEANS  A  PLACE WHICH IS REGULARLY OPERATED FOR THE
    4  SERVING OF MEALS, FOR CONSUMPTION  ON  PREMISES  OR  OFF  PREMISES,  FOR
    5  COMPENSATION.
    6    2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DESIGN, DETERMINE AND ADOPT AN OFFICIAL LOGO
    7  FOR  DINE: PRIDE OF NEW YORK RESTAURANTS WHICH MAY BE DISPLAYED UPON THE
    8  PREMISES OF RESTAURANTS DESIGNATED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.  SUCH LOGO,
    9  WHEN ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSIONER, MAY BE REGISTERED AS  A  TRADEMARK  IN
   10  THE  OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-FOUR OF
   11  THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW RELATING  TO  THE
   12  REGISTRATION  OF  TRADEMARKS.  SUCH TRADEMARK SHALL BE REGISTERED BY THE
   13  SECRETARY OF STATE WITHOUT EXTRACTION OF ANY FEE THEREFOR.  THE  COMMIS-
   14  SIONER MAY, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION, REGISTER SUCH MARK WITH THE UNITED
   15  STATES GOVERNMENT AND ANY OTHER STATE OR FOREIGN COUNTRY.
   16    3.  THE  OPERATOR OF ANY RESTAURANT, WHO OPERATES AT LEAST ONE RESTAU-
   17  RANT IN THIS STATE, MAY APPLY TO THE COMMISSIONER TO HAVE  A  RESTAURANT
   18  DESIGNATED  AS  A  DINE:  PRIDE  OF  NEW  YORK, IF NOT LESS THAN FIFTEEN
   19  PERCENT OF THE INGREDIENTS USED AND SERVED AT SUCH  RESTAURANT  ARE  NEW
   20  YORK  PRODUCTS. EVERY APPLICANT FOR DESIGNATION PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION
   21  SHALL INCLUDE IN HIS OR HER APPLICATION A LIST OF NEW YORK PRODUCTS USED
   22  AND SERVED ANNUALLY, THE NAMES OF THE NEW YORK  PRODUCT  PRODUCERS  FROM
   23  WHOM SUCH PRODUCTS WERE PURCHASED, AND A ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF THE
   24  FOOD  AND  MEALS  OFFERED  BY THE APPLICANT. THE COMMISSIONER MAY, BASED
   25  UPON THE PRODUCERS NAMED IN EACH APPLICATION, VERIFY THAT  THE  PRODUCTS
   26  AND/OR  INGREDIENTS  USED  AND  SERVED  BY  THE  APPLICANT  ARE NEW YORK
   27  PRODUCTS. IF THE COMMISSIONER  FINDS  THAT  THE  APPLICANT'S  RESTAURANT
   28  COMPLIES  WITH  THE STANDARDS ESTABLISHED IN THIS SUBDIVISION, HE OR SHE
   29  SHALL DESIGNATE THE APPLICANT'S RESTAURANT AS A DINE: PRIDE OF NEW  YORK
   30  RESTAURANT.    APPLICANTS  RECEIVING SUCH DESIGNATION WITHIN ONE YEAR OF
   31  THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH OFFICIAL DINE:
   32  PRIDE OF NEW YORK ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FREE OF  CHARGE.
   33  THEREAFTER,  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE SUCH MATERIALS, AS HE OR SHE
   34  DEEMS NECESSARY, TO FULFILL THE GOALS AND PURPOSES OF THE DINE: PRIDE OF
   35  NEW YORK PROGRAM.
   36    4. THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  ESTABLISH,  ON  ITS  DEPARTMENTAL  INTERNET
   37  WEBSITE,  A LINK DEDICATED TO THE DINE: PRIDE OF NEW YORK PROGRAM.  SUCH
   38  LINK SHALL INCLUDE THE NAME, LOCATION AND HOURS  OF  OPERATION  OF  EACH
   39  DINE:  PRIDE OF NEW YORK DESIGNATED RESTAURANT AND THE BRIEF DESCRIPTION
   40  OF THE FOODS AND MEALS OFFERED BY EACH SUCH RESTAURANT THAT WAS PROVIDED
   41  IN  THE  RESTAURANT'S  APPLICATION  FOR  DESIGNATION  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
   42  SECTION.    FURTHERMORE, THE DEPARTMENT, IN COOPERATION WITH THE DEPART-
   43  MENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE REGIONAL OFFICES  OF  SUCH  DEPART-
   44  MENT,  SHALL  ENGAGE  IN THE PROMOTION OF DINE: PRIDE OF NEW YORK DESIG-
   45  NATED RESTAURANTS.
   46    5. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS  HE
   47  OR SHE DEEMS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   48    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   49  ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided, that, effec-
   50  tive immediately, any rules and regulations necessary to  implement  the
   51  provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed
   52  to be promulgated on or before such date.