New York Assembly Bill 11638 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on July 6 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-07-06 - referred to agriculture
Pending: Assembly Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to provide dairy farmers with protection from milk dealers who engage in interference with the farmers' right to join or remain in an association of producers or to remain an independ- ent producer. This would be accomplished by two amendments to existing laws. First, the Agriculture and Markets Law would be amended in relation to the business relationships between milk dealers and farmers, to deline- ate what constitutes an unfair practice by a milk dealer. This bill also provides for the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Markets to take action to restrain such violations upon the application of an association of producers. Second, this bill strengthens the Cooperative Corporations Law by increasing the penalties to handlers per contract violation from $100 to a maximum of $10,000, while extending the law to also cover the employ- ees of these dealers (handlers) who are more likely to engage in these unfair practices.

Establishes a dairy farmers' bill of rights; specifies prohibited unfair trade practices which have the purpose of intentionally impairing a producer's freedom to bargain collectively with other producers in the marketing of the producer's product; provides that the commissioner of the department of agriculture and markets shall take action to restrain such violations upon the application of an association of producers; increases the limit on damages for encouraging or permitting delivery of products in violation of marketing agreements.

Asm. David Koon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-07-06		referred to agriculture

S08085 (Same As) 2010-06-10 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A11638&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A11638&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A11638