Bill Text: NY A09259 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definitions of surplus agricultural products and processed products for the purposes of the Nourish New York program to include certain milk and other non-alcoholic farm produced beverages.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09259 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09259-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9259

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
          definitions  of  surplus  agricultural products and processed products
          for the purposes of the Nourish New York program

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 451 of the agriculture and
     2  markets  law,  subdivision  2  as  amended and subdivision 3 as added by
     3  chapter 101 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
     4    2. "Surplus agricultural products" means consumable or edible agricul-
     5  tural products grown, produced or harvested in New York, including proc-
     6  essed products as defined pursuant to subdivision three of this section,
     7  but shall not include beverages containing  alcohol.  "Surplus  agricul-
     8  tural products" shall also include New York grown, produced or harvested
     9  whole  milk,  two  percent  fat milk, and other farm produced beverages,
    10  with the exception of beverages containing alcohol.
    11    3. "Processed products"  means  any  agricultural  commodity  that  is
    12  grown,  produced or harvested in New York state and further processed by
    13  butchering, freezing, canning, pasteurizing, boiling, altering its state
    14  and/or blending with other ingredients, so long  as  the  final  product
    15  contains  at  least  fifty-one  percent by weight or volume agricultural
    16  products that are grown,  produced  or  harvested  in  New  York  state,
    17  regardless of where processed.
    18    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.




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