Bill Text: NY S00251 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of agriculture and markets to increase the number of regional farmers' markets for the direct marketing of foods and produce produced in the state.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-02 - referred to agriculture [S00251 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00251-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           251
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          expansion of regional farmers' markets
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 284 of the agriculture and markets law  is  amended
     2  by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10.  Development  and  facilitation  of  the establishment of regional
     4  farmers' markets to promote  the  direct  marketing  of  farm  and  food
     5  products  on  a wholesale or bulk sales basis to large volume purchasers
     6  of farm and food products. Such regional  farmers'  markets  should  be,
     7  whenever  possible,  located  in areas that have poor consumer access to
     8  high quality and reasonably  priced  food  and  farm  products  or  food
     9  deserts;  or  which  would sell to or cater to the needs of retailers or
    10  bulk purchasers of food and farm products that are located in areas that
    11  have poor consumer access to high quality and reasonably priced food and
    12  farm products or food deserts. The department is authorized to  work  in
    13  cooperation  with  the  New York state urban development corporation and
    14  the empire state development corporation for the purposes of this subdi-
    15  vision, section sixteen-m of the New York state urban development corpo-
    16  ration act and article five-D of the economic development law.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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