Bill Text: NY A07970 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of agriculture and markets to develop and maintain a database on the impact of climate change on agriculture; requires farmers to report to the department on the impact of climate change on agriculture, including but not limited to crops grown, outcomes and yield.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A07970 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07970-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7970

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  requir-
          ing  the department of agriculture and markets to develop and maintain
          a database on the impact of climate change on agriculture

          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 53 to read as follows:
     3    53.  Develop and maintain a searchable, publicly available database of
     4  agricultural data received annually from farmers in the state.    Begin-
     5  ning  January  first, two thousand twenty-five, and annually thereafter,
     6  farmers in the state shall report to the department  on  the  impact  of
     7  climate change on agriculture, including but not limited to crops grown,
     8  outcomes  and  yield.  The  department shall conduct outreach efforts to
     9  farmers in the state to develop the database and to  inform  farmers  of
    10  the requirements of this subdivision.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13030-01-3