Bill Text: NY A06489 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to defraying costs of aggregating, processing and transporting agricultural products for producers and processors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-12-06 - VETOED MEMO.180 [A06489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06489-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6489
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 8, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  assist-
          ance   with  aggregating,  processing  and  transporting  agricultural
          products for producers and processors
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5-b  of  section  16  of the agriculture and
     2  markets law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d) Provide, in cooperation with Cornell  cooperative  extension,  the
     4  department  of  economic  development  and  other  resources,  technical
     5  assistance, to small scale  producers  and  processors  of  agricultural
     6  products  who  are  interested in coordinating with each other to aggre-
     7  gate, process and transport agricultural products with the goal of sell-
     8  ing such products in sufficient quantities to meet the demands  of  food
     9  businesses and institutional buyers, and identify and disseminate infor-
    10  mation to provide to such producers and processors on federal, state and
    11  private grant or other assistance programs with the purpose of assisting
    12  and  supporting  such  coordination.  The assistance provided under this
    13  paragraph may also be included  as  part  of  the  procurement  training
    14  programs authorized in subdivision two-d of this section.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10502-01-9
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