Bill Text: NY S01608 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Encourages farmers' markets in state parks by posting related information, identifying opportunities and coordinating with other state agencies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-15 - PRINT NUMBER 1608A [S01608 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01608-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1608--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SERRANO, CHU, HELMING, HINCHEY, MAY, O'MARA -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recre-
          ation   in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law  and
          the  general  municipal  law, in relation to farmers' markets in state
          and local parks

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

     1    Section  1. Section 3.09 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
     2  vation law, is amended by  adding  a  new  subdivision  24  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    24.  Encourage  and promote farmers' markets which offer for sale farm
     5  and food products, as such terms are  defined  in  section  two  hundred
     6  sixty of the agriculture and markets law, at state parks when such farm-
     7  ers'  market  does  not harm the natural environment or integrity of the
     8  park.  Such promotion shall include but not be limited to:
     9    (a)  posting  information  on  the  office's  website  pertaining   to
    10  locations and times of operation for such farmers' markets held in state
    11  parks;
    12    (b) identifying opportunities to expand farmers' markets to additional
    13  state park locations; and
    14    (c)  coordinating with other state agencies, including but not limited
    15  to empire state  development  and  the  department  of  agriculture  and
    16  markets, to further the goals of this subdivision.
    17    § 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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