Bill Text: NY S00820 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of agriculture and markets, in cooperation with NYSERDA, to produce and distribute guidance and educational materials for farmers on the use of agrivoltaics in farming no later than one year after chapter 629 of the laws of 2022 takes effect.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-18 - SUBSTITUTED BY A607 [S00820 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00820-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           820

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022, directing the  department
          of  agriculture  and  markets,  in cooperation with the New York state
          energy research and development  authority,  to  develop  and  produce
          guidance and educational materials on the use of agrivoltaics in farm-
          ing, relating to cooperative extension offices and New York state soil
          and water conservation districts

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 2 of a chapter of  the  laws  of
     2  2022 directing the department of agriculture and markets, in cooperation
     3  with  the  New  York state energy research and development authority, to
     4  develop and produce guidance and educational materials  on  the  use  of
     5  agrivoltaics  in  farming,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
     6  7861-A and A.  9336-A, is amended to read as follows:
     7    (b) No later than [one hundred twenty days] one year after the  effec-
     8  tive  date of this act, the guidance and educational materials developed
     9  pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section shall be produced and distrib-
    10  uted to cooperative extension offices located in the state  and  to  New
    11  York  state soil and water conservation districts, and made available on
    12  the websites of the department of agriculture and markets  and  the  New
    13  York state energy research and development authority.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    15  manner as a chapter of the laws of  2022  directing  the  department  of
    16  agriculture  and  markets, in cooperation with the New York state energy
    17  research and development authority, to develop and produce guidance  and
    18  educational materials on the use of agrivoltaics in farming, as proposed
    19  in legislative bills numbers S. 7861-A and A. 9336-A, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03993-01-3