Bill Text: NY A05154 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes technical corrections to chapter 525 of the laws of 2014 relating to encouraging community-based organizations to increase opportunities for seniors to participate in community gardens; adjusts the age of those who qualify as seniors.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-19 - substituted by s1809 [A05154 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05154-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5154
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 12, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  encour-
         aging  community-based  organizations  to  increase  opportunities for
         seniors to participate in community gardens
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 31-j of the agri-
    2  culture  and markets law, as amended by chapter 525 of the laws of 2014,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) The goals of the task force may include, but are not  limited  to,
    5  the study, evaluation and development of recommendations: (i) to encour-
    6  age  the establishment and expansion of community gardens by state agen-
    7  cies, municipal governments and private parties, (ii) to encourage coop-
    8  eration between the activities and operations of community  gardens  and
    9  provision  of  donated  food to local voluntary food assistance programs
   10  for the poor and disadvantaged, (iii)  to  increase  the  benefits  that
   11  community  gardens  may provide to the local community in which they are
   12  located, and (iv) to encourage cooperation with  community-based  organ-
   13  izations  to  increase the opportunities for seniors, those aged [sixty-
   14  two] SIXTY years of age or older, to participate in community gardens.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07349-01-5