Bill Text: NY S01385 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing that monies from the CARES act be allocated to food banks or other participating entities to purchase food products from New York farmers and processors for distribution to New Yorkers experiencing hunger or food insecurity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S01385 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01385-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1385

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT relating to funding for food banks, emergency food providers,  or
          other  participating  entities to purchase food products from New York
          farmers and processors for distribution to  New  Yorkers  experiencing
          hunger or food insecurity

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

     1    Section 1. 1. For purposes of this act, "regional food hub" shall mean
     2  a business  or  organization  that  actively  manages  the  aggregation,
     3  distribution, and marketing of source-identified food products primarily
     4  from local and regional producers to strengthen their ability to satisfy
     5  wholesale, retail, and institutional demand.
     6    2.  $25,000,000 of monies that have been allocated to the state of New
     7  York by the federal  Coronavirus  Aid,  Relief,  and  Economic  Security
     8  (CARES) Act of 2020 (P.L. 116-136), or any future federal stimulus fund-
     9  ing,  that  have  not  otherwise been obligated, shall be allocated to a
    10  state program or initiative already in existence  or  established  after
    11  the  effective  date  of  this act, that provides funding to food banks,
    12  emergency food providers, or other  participating  entities  within  the
    13  state to purchase food products from New York farmers and processors for
    14  distribution to New Yorkers experiencing hunger or food insecurity.
    15    3. Such program or initiative shall, to the extent practicable, prior-
    16  itize  the  sourcing  of  food  products from producers, processors, and
    17  regional food hubs within the same geographic region as the food  banks,
    18  emergency  food  providers,  or  other  entities  participating  in such
    19  program or initiative.
    20    § 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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