Bill Text: NY S01810 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the department of agriculture and markets to evaluate their support of farmers age sixty years and older.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-08-13 - SIGNED CHAP.155 [S01810 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01810-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1810
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 14, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
ing the department of agriculture and markets to evaluate their
support of farmers age sixty years and older
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 47 of section 16 of the agriculture and markets
2 law, as added by chapter 497 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 47. Evaluate, in conjunction with the state office for the aging,
5 programs and services offered by the department to ensure that they
6 support the needs of farmers, and other individuals engaged in agricul-
7 ture, and the production, processing, marketing and distributing of
8 food, who are also seniors, which shall mean an individual [sixty-two]
9 SIXTY years of age or older.
10 S 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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