Bill Text: NY S00883 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases state assistance payments for county approved agricultural and farmland protection plans, from 75% to 85% of the cost thereof.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-25 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S00883 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00883-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 883 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 state assistance payments for implementation of agricultural and farmland protection plans; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 325 of the agriculture and markets 2 law, as amended by chapter 150 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 1. Subject to the availability of funds, a program is hereby estab- 5 lished to finance through state assistance payments the state share of 6 the costs of locally-led agricultural and farmland protection activ- 7 ities. State assistance payments for planning activities shall not 8 exceed fifty thousand dollars to each county agricultural and farmland 9 protection board or one hundred thousand dollars to two such boards 10 applying jointly, and shall not exceed fifty percent of the cost of 11 preparing an agricultural and farmland protection plan. State assistance 12 payments for planning activities shall not exceed twenty-five thousand 13 dollars to each municipality other than a county or fifty thousand 14 dollars to two such municipalities applying jointly, and shall not 15 exceed seventy-five percent of the cost of preparing an agricultural and 16 farmland protection plan. A county which has an approved farmland 17 protection plan may after one hundred twenty months from the date of 18 such approval by the commissioner apply for additional state assistance 19 payments for planning activities related to the updating of their 20 current plan or development of a new farmland protection plan. Such 21 additional state assistance payments shall not exceed fifty thousand 22 dollars to each county agricultural and farmland protection board or one 23 hundred thousand dollars to two such boards applying jointly, and shall EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04126-01-9S. 883 2 1 not exceed fifty percent of the cost of preparing an agricultural and 2 farmland protection plan. State assistance payments for implementation 3 of approved agricultural and farmland protection plans may fund up to 4 [seventy-five] eighty-five percent of the cost of implementing the coun- 5 ty plan or portion of the plan for which state assistance payments are 6 requested. State assistance payments to such counties shall not exceed 7 [seventy-five] eighty-five percent of the cost of implementing the local 8 plan or portion of the plan for which state assistance has been 9 requested. Such maximum shall be increased by a percentage equal to the 10 percentage of the total eligible costs for such specified projects that 11 are contributed by the owner of the agricultural land for which the 12 project is being funded, provided, however, that in no event shall the 13 total of such state assistance payments exceed eighty-seven and one-half 14 percent of such eligible costs for any specified project. 15 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 325 of the agriculture 16 and markets law, as amended by chapter 234 of the laws of 2010, is 17 amended to read as follows: 18 (b) Within a county, a municipality which has in place a local farm- 19 land protection plan may apply and shall be eligible for agricultural 20 protection state assistance payments to implement its plan, or a portion 21 of its plan, provided the proposed project is endorsed for funding by 22 the agricultural and farmland protection board for the county in which 23 the municipality is located and that any plan developed on or after 24 January first, two thousand six complies with section three hundred 25 twenty-four-a of this article. State assistance payments to such munici- 26 palities shall not exceed [seventy-five] eighty-five percent of the cost 27 of implementing the local plan or portion of the plan for which state 28 assistance has been requested. Such maximum shall be increased by a 29 percentage equal to the percentage of the total eligible costs for such 30 specified projects that are contributed by the owner of the agricultural 31 land for which the project is being funded; provided, however, that in 32 no event shall the total of such state assistance payments exceed eight- 33 y-seven and one-half percent of such eligible costs for any specified 34 project. The commissioner may require such information or additional 35 planning as he or she deems necessary to evaluate such a request for 36 state assistance. 37 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 38 deemed repealed three years after such effective date.