Bill Text: NY S01917 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a training program to foster awareness of laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the farming industry; provides for funding of such program from fines collected pursuant to certain violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01917 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01917-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1917--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          establishing a training program for owners and  employees  of  farming
          operations
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 17-0307 to read as follows:
     3  § 17-0307. Environmental regulations training program.
     4    The  commissioner  shall establish a training program to foster aware-
     5  ness among owners and employees of a farming operation of state environ-
     6  mental laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the farming industry.
     7    Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, all
     8  fines collected pursuant to violations of part seven  hundred  fifty  of
     9  title  six  of  the  New  York  code  of rules and regulations involving
    10  concentrated animal feeding operations shall be under the  sole  custody
    11  of  the  commissioner  and shall be used for the sole purpose of funding
    12  the training program established by this section.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07619-02-7