Sponsored by:
Senator JIM WHELAN
District 2 (Atlantic)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Kyrillos
SYNOPSIS
Requires Department of Agriculture to publish on its website information concerning wineries and community supported agriculture entities in NJ.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Senate Economic Growth Committee on December 12, 2013, with amendments.
An Act concerning the Department of Agriculture website and supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Department of Agriculture shall publish on 1[the department's] its1 Internet website the location and contact information for every winery licensed in New Jersey. 1The department shall additionally post on its Internet website a link to any list of wineries that has been published on any other State agency Internet website, including, but not limited to, the website maintained by the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State.1
b. The Department of Agriculture shall publish on 1[the department's] its1 Internet website the location and contact information for any community supported agriculture entity in New Jersey that has provided such information to the department. A community supported agriculture entity may also provide the department with information concerning the agricultural output of the entity, and this information may be published on the department's Internet website at the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture.
c. In addition to publishing the information as required in subsections a. and b. of this section, the department may distribute 1[it] the information1 by any other method it deems best adapted to the efficient dissemination thereof.
1d.1 The department shall accept information, or changes thereto, from wineries and community supported agriculture entities through an electronic submission form made available by the department on its Internet website.
1[d.] e.1 As used in this section, "community supported agriculture entity" means a commercial farm from which a person may purchase a share in the agricultural or horticultural output of the farm.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.