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
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                                           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.
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     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.
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