Bill Text: NY S08066 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that funding for the agrivoltaics research program shall come from appropriations made to the New York state college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell university in chapter 53 of 2023 for the purpose of studying ecological impacts of agrivoltaics; places a sunset on such program of December 31, 2030.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - SIGNED CHAP.73 [S08066 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08066-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8066

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  funding
          for  the agrivoltaics research program; to amend a chapter of the laws
          of 2023 amending the agriculture and markets law  relating  to  estab-
          lishing  the agrivoltaics research program, as proposed in legislative
          bills numbers S. 7081 and A. 4911, in relation  to  the  effectiveness
          thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Section 151-j of the agriculture and markets law, as  added
     2  by  a  chapter  of the laws of 2023 amending the agriculture and markets
     3  law relating to  establishing  the  agrivoltaics  research  program,  as
     4  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and A. 4911, is amended by
     5  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     6    4.  Such  program  shall be funded by appropriations made available in
     7  chapter fifty-three of the laws of two thousand twenty-three to the  New
     8  York state college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell universi-
     9  ty  for  the purpose of studying the ecological impacts of agrivoltaics,
    10  and any future appropriation made thereafter for the same purpose.
    11    § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the  agricul-
    12  ture  and markets law relating to establishing the agrivoltaics research
    13  program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and  A.  4911,
    14  is amended to read as follows:
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    16  deemed repealed on December 31, 2030.
    17    § 3. This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately,  provided,  however,
    18  section  one  of  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
    19  same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023  amending  the  agriculture
    20  and  markets  law  relating  to  establishing  the agrivoltaics research
    21  program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and  A.  4911,
    22  takes effect.

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