Bill Text: NY S01748 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to an initiative to provide surplus New York agricultural products to populations in need; includes in the powers of the department of agriculture and markets an initiative to provide surplus New York agricultural products to populations in need through a network of food banks and other emergency food providers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S01748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01748-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1748

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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  an
          initiative  to provide surplus New York agricultural products to popu-
          lations in need

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 52 to read as follows:
     3    52.  Facilitate  and  expand, with financial and technical support, an
     4  initiative to provide surplus New York agricultural  products  to  popu-
     5  lations in need through a network of food banks and other emergency food
     6  providers.  A  report shall be provided annually to the governor and the
     7  legislature detailing information including, but limited to, the type of
     8  initiatives undertaken, the funding distributed by region, and the vari-
     9  ous products distributed to and from each region.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04819-01-1
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