Bill Text: NY S05941 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to a reduced food processing license fee for small-scale food processors; defines a small-scale processor as a processor which operates a food processing establishment that is not exempt from licensing, is not a chain store, and employs no more than ten full time employees; sets the license fee at one hundred seventy-five dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A823A [S05941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05941-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5941
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 8, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- 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  a
          reduced food processing license fee for small-scale food processors
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 251-z-3 of  the  agriculture  and  markets  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
     3    Notwithstanding    any  other  provision of this section, an applicant
     4  that is a "small-scale processor" shall pay a license fee of one hundred
     5  seventy-five dollars per facility. For the purposes of this  section,  a
     6  "small-scale processor" shall be defined as a processor which operates a
     7  food processing establishment that is not exempt from licensing pursuant
     8  to  section two hundred fifty-one-z-four of this article, is not a chain
     9  store, and employs no more than ten full time employees.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    11  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    12  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    13  tation  of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
    14  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04729-03-7