Bill Text: NY S01225 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the use of electronic benefit transfer technology at community supported agriculture markets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE [S01225 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01225-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1225
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  author-
          izing  electronic  benefit  transfer technology at community supported
          agriculture markets
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 262 of the agri-
     2  culture and markets law, as added by section 4 of part U of  chapter  60
     3  of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  equipment  costs  associated with improving farmers' market func-
     5  tions, including but not limited to expanding access to electronic bene-
     6  fit transfer technology for farmers' markets, community supported  agri-
     7  culture  markets  and  other  non-traditional food access points in food
     8  deserts in the state.
     9    § 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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