Bill Text: NY A10572 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and markets to establish and administer an online farm portal to advertise farm employment opportunities and to permit persons to apply for such employment through the portal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-03 - referred to agriculture [A10572 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10572-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10572

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lupardo) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and  markets  law,  in  relation  to  an
          online farm portal to advertise farm employment opportunities

          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 51 to read as follows:
     3    51. Establish and administer, in coordination with the  department  of
     4  labor, an online farm employment portal. Such portal shall be a location
     5  for  farmers  to  advertise  employment opportunities and for persons to
     6  apply for such employment opportunities. The department, in coordination
     7  with the department of labor and  any  other  appropriate  entities  and
     8  associations,  shall  advertise  the existence and use of such portal to
     9  farmers in the state, and shall provide assistance to any  farmer  using
    10  such portal. The department shall also post a link to such portal on its
    11  website.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16051-02-0