Bill Text: NY A11263 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to reduce the percentage of on-farm or estate produced grapes for farm wineries located outside of an American viticultural area and allows for such farm wineries to import grapes from New York state grape growers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-07-25 - referred to agriculture [A11263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11263-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11263
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      July 25, 2018
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stirpe) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT directing the commissioner of agriculture and markets  to  reduce
          the  percentage of on-farm or estate produced grapes for farm wineries
          located outside of an American viticultural area and  allow  for  such
          farm wineries to import grapes from New York state grape growers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The commissioner of agriculture and markets is directed  to
     2  reduce  the percentage of on-farm or estate produced grapes required for
     3  farm wineries located outside of an American viticultural area  to  meet
     4  the  predominance  standard.  Where  such  farm  wineries fall below the
     5  current 51  percent  threshold,  such  commissioner  shall  require  all
     6  imported grapes be purchased from New York state grape growers.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16276-01-8
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